Had a project due date through which I procrastinated heavily

Pretty much all all-nighter I’ve pulled in my adult life have had this exact cause.

Romania too, but definitely better than a hamburger. It’s more like a sausage.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mititei

a person, group, idea, or object that “for better or for worse… has done the most to influence the events of the year”

More likely poorly written in the original language, then passed through Google Translate or other automated translator.

And also the conflating of eugenics and fixing birth defects is completely off base

It’s not off base and what you’re describing is called liberal eugenics, or new eugenics.

[…] some critics, such as UC Berkeley sociologist Troy Duster, have argued that modern genetics is a “back door to eugenics”.

I’m sure the laws set in place after the eugenics wars would be strict enough to not leave such wiggle room.

Ah, I was thinking of Bulgarian and wondering how it could fit in this graph.

Where do you see Bulgaria in the circle?

TIL Germany is in Eastern Europe

incredibly… useless… compared to sperm generated in space

That’s what I don’t get. Transporting fresh sperm is not an issue that anyone cares about in space colonization. Sperm will get there in two ways: frozen or made on the spot.

Unfortunately true

https://www.thetimes.com/world/europe/article/gisele-pelicot-rape-trial-accused-dead-france-mknqsjq96

One guy’s defense was “I thought she was dead”.

Do cops just routinely grab victim’s phones at traffic stops and demand they be unlocked so they can sit in their car and scroll through the photos? How the hell is this legal? Why ?

No, that’s not normal or legal. Which is why these guys are getting charged with deprivation of rights.

The sun and moon are tiny and relatively close. They rotate in circles above the surface at a constant distance (don’t ask why). From what I know they spend a lot more time “disproving” existing theories than finding new ones to explain their model.

It’s definitely one of the theories I’ve seen. Checking on The Flat Earth Society website I see it’s not their official position (but they acknowledge some groups do believe that). They don’t have a different theory though, just that “objects simply fall”.

A computer that can manage the TNG holodeck will have no problem handling all the complexities of a transporter.

Plus it needs to identify what creepy crawlies are a part of you and which were just randomly wandering by.

It does do that. It’s canon that transporters take care of removing any foreign organisms.

And how does it know what clothes are? If I’m wearing shoes, does it know where the shoes end and the floor starts? What if I’m wearing skies? What if I’m barefoot on a carpet? What if it’s a leather carpet? What if I’m wearing shoes made by folding carpet around my feet?

It understands all those scenarios and relays them to the operator, who decides what to lock on.

The flat earth is constantly accelerating “upwards”, which is what creates the equivalent of sane people gravity. So it’s not really falling over the edge as the Earth leaving you behind.

But is this cub the first time in history those types of features have been studied? We’ve known about saber-toothed cats for decades.

I’ve always done that. If it’s not a contact, I let it go to voicemail. If it was actually important, they leave a message.

You put whole beans in your French press?

It’s Jake from State Farm