From what I can tell, et al. is not about socio-political power*. It’s just a necessity for ease and efficiency. In-text citations need to be short to limit wasted space. Otherwise, we’d have lots of text dedicated to unnecessary names. An in-text citation that reads (Perez et al., 2023) is much more efficient than (Perez, Washington, Smith, Iwukuni, Johnson, Patel, Boofy, Yamirez, Tate, Hendrix, Apple, Man, & Gargamel, 2023).

Using 7th ed. APA, the citation entries in the bibliography/references include upto the first 20 authors, so contributors are rarely omitted.

• Perhaps being the first author is in many situations, but APA format can’t really address that.

I’m no STEM major, so I may be way off, but this is how I see it.

V = IR isn’t math. It’s a way of defining the relationship and outcome of two specific physical qualities. It says that we combine the resistance of a medium ( R) with the current flowing through it (I) into another joint emergent quality we call voltage (V). We do this because it makes our understanding of the physical world easier to manage since this relationship has helpful applications.

Math is simply patterns in the relationships of quantities. It excludes any physical units or qualities. In other words, math is the art of counting.

In social science, theory requires application. Otherwise, it’s just a cool story, bro.

The test to know if anything is an absolute truth is if it is called an absolute truth. If it is called an absolute truth, then it isn’t an absolute truth. If it isn’t called an absolute truth, then it isn’t an absolute truth. Absolute truths don’t exist. If someone tells you something is an absolute truth, stop listening to them.

https://fedia.io/m/adhd@lemmy.world/t/1122937 🤔

Wwaaaaoooowwwww! I forgot about tfe 00s obsession with reality TV. I hated it. Also, I forgot about Road Rules! Now I have to go watch an episode.

Ah, thank you. I was concerned that I couldn’t distinguish AI from real people.

how can you tell that it’s AI?

I appreciate her openness, but it’s a confusing report to me. I’m wondering the intent/purpose of sharing that info because this seems like one of those things that I would likely misunderstand, then repeat and get into trouble fordoing so. What would likely be the point of the post? Relate with others, seek validation for her appearance, be funny, or something else?

Yeah, that’s a weird thing to make a press release about. Who tells the press that they were asked if they have a secret family? And why is the weird part, according to him, of this that he was asked with his wife present? I think the weirdest part of all this is that they thought that was weird. But actually, this whole thing is weird. Something about this is off. Weird af 😬

Ah, that makes sense. Thanks for explaining. What’s the relevant story with JK Rowling?

Honest question: Why does it matter if he’s a transphobe when choosing which Fediverse software to use? The software is FOSS and anyone can make their own instance. I don’t understand why his social views outside of sharing the software and protecting it from becoming proprietary matters when deciding what Fediverse software to use.

I’m not arguing my stance. I really want to understand what I might be missing.

No way, especially not in the past ~4 years. There is only one ex that I consider, and she’s specifically on my to don’t list because it will end in disaster. But damnnn, she’s on the list for a reason. She wasn’t particularly gorgeous, sweet, caring,… particularly anything except physical intimacy.

The best description I can give is to imagine if before we are born, we all are given a certain amount of points that we can spend on building our character. Our souls can spread points on a spectrum of traits: intelligence, speed, love, charisma, agility, physical beauty, openness, fine motor skills, music production, etc. Al “Tico” Einstein dropped a majority on intelligence. Leo The Vinchi put a bunch on ingenuity and painting. Great Alex put a bunch on military strategy. This girl, my ex, put a few on looks, a few on being annoying, and dumped the rest on sex. She then used a cheat code to get more points and put those on sex too.

Tho she is quite skilled with certain intimate behaviors, she doesn’t do any one thing mind-blowingly well. Her strengths are her attitude, disposition, and desire paired with a body physically fit enough to actualize them. It’s like imagine your favorite adult actress, but she’s not acting. She is really like that all the time. She could be mad, sleepy, hot, hungry, whatever, it doesn’t matter. You could be in the outside pool of some hotel in downtown Tampa during a lightning storm while she is in the middle of one those passionate borderline PD fights with you where you are seriously asking the universe, “Wtf is happeningggg‽😫” It.doesn’t.matter. She will flip like a switch and be ready to go Riley-Ried-on-ecstasy wild. That’s what this girl is like.

She’s kind of ruined sex for me since I keep pointlessly comparing everyone else to her. It’s like having a Ferrari for a while, then going back to regular cars. Most of the time you get an Accord, sometimes a Carolla, and when lucky, you get a Nissan Z. Sometimes you get a Mustang, and you can slowly mod it to ride better than the Z. They’re all cool and get you there, but no matter what, it’ll never be anything like the Ferrari. Even when you’re with the Nissan Z and you open the throttle wide, you’ll still wish it rode like the Ferrari.

Despite that, I still don’t engage (even tho she hits me up ~once/6 months) because all the points she dumped on sex left no points for sanity. She is crazy. Call-the-cops crazy. Use-furniture-to-barricade-yourself-in-a-room crazy. Flinch-when-you-hear-her-open-a-door-followed-by-her-foot-steps crazy. That’s why I have her on the to don’t list. So yeah, I’m prolly going to capitulate sometime soon and meet up with her to “catch up”.

What was it??

How so? What was the change and how did it affect you?

After the way that DeSantis went after Disney just to prove a point that he’s in charge, I don’t think corporations would let him become POTUS. He’d be too dangerous to their bottom line.

Unplug it