Funnily enough, the fake aluminium sleeves slid off the accelerator pedals and their solution to that was bolting it.

https://www.inkl.com/news/tesla-cybertruck-s-pedal-fix-isn-t-pretty-but-deliveries-can-resume

They’re actually really cheap and flimsy pedals.

It’s like being subscribed to a toddler in the “why” phase.

When having a beer, I’ve always found it funny that one of the few imperial measurements metric nations kept around, the pint, America went and invented their own. Uncharacteristically a smaller version too.

Nah. It starts out like THUD! THUD! and then slowly after a couple minutes of warming up, that goes all muffled and it becomes that familiar high-pitched ringing noise.

And no insects!

Imagine if those missiles were literal.

Meanwhile in Russia, “Heeeey! My already shit vitamin D!”

No one wins arguments on the internet. There’s too many people that only use fallacies but have no idea that’s what they’re doing. It’s a black hole.

Ha, I have a friend called Rani

I swear the only people that call themselves “communists” these days are college kids complaining about the superpower they teet off. All the while obviously having no exposure to people of other social or cultural environments populating the rest of the planet.

Oh, shit… Sorry if that made anyone feel guilty.

I conject deez nuts aren’t nuts.

I hypothesise deez nuts will break apart entirely differently in a nutcracker to confirm this.

tests in nutcracker

I put forward the theory that deez nuts are a man’s testicles.

I think a lot of grown up adults out there forget that a child’s mind is oblivious and/or entirely disinterested in sex-related stuff—even to the point they may say it’s icky or funny. It just simply does not compute or click. To them, underwear is just a thing you have on like hats or shoes.

And then finally at some point they do show interest in it and the adults have zero control then anyway. They may think they do, but a kid showing interest in a statue’s underwear already has highly successful skills in accessing porn or has such imagination they can jerk off to almost anything.

I like to say, “Stastically you’re much more likely to die in a car accident on the way to the beach than be attacked by a shark once there.”

So people are less afraid of sharks and more afraid of each other, like it should be.

It depends on the country.

Here it is required for certain levels of “quality education to students” whereas those with lower tiers certainly are allowed to teach some units, especially lectures. But they’re not curating or a primary teacher in courses. If these aren’t met, your official recognition as a university is gone. It’s regulation protecting the quality of education in the nation.

Obviously research it’s entirely up to whoever’s putting the grant up. But most research journals these days are regulated by the academia version of a HoA, and such incidents as I mentioned are very dramatic.

Edit: Personally, I don’t agree with it and think it’s an archaic culture that holds back progressive and brilliant ideas. But it balances out in that a university can recognise an equivalent status. Any university or country that respects that system will recognise an “under qualified” person breaking such ground when an entire institute vouches for them. But that view isn’t shared around the world.

My personal opinion/experiences are that those that are the worst in their field are the ones that clutch onto their degrees the most and will think lowly of a mind that hasn’t amassed as much documentation; being officially recognised is more important than your hypothesis.

I certainly lean a certain way in my thinking, but it’s only because I believe the core of academia is meant to be for the advancement of knowledge and ideas. In modern academia, this no longer occurs as effectively as it once did, therefore it is failing at its core purpose. More and more younger generations are determining it’s not as valuable as it once was and are so far successfully proving that to be true.

Oh, I know. And I’m currently setting up audits on qualifications and alignment to our nation’s higher education standards…at a research university.

I’ve already had industry colleagues remind me of that time a major university here had a big grant puller non-chalantly say, “I never actually completed my PhD” thinking it was just gonna go down totally fine because of how much his reputation pulled research money in over the years.

Clearly a very smart human that contributed a lot, but that’s not how academia works and obviously an atomic bomb went off with fiends lined up for the scraps while the CFO weeps.

This is my big fear. If I stumble across something like this, I’m quitting for something less stressful like pest control, test piloting, or child care.

At least they showed up. Or was this after the fourth last-minute and/or late-minute reschedule?

“Sorry. I was busy trying to find research grants so I could dodge teaching activities for the semester.”

“We”? Who’s “we”?

All the other “experts” that failed to realise either option cannot occur indefinitely without a good limb clean out every now and then?

You can imply what you like, but the meme diagram is very clear and should be taken light-heartedly very seriously. Especially since it’s the Trolley Problem scenario.

Meanwhile, me assembling IKEA furniture…

Everyone overlooking the rigorous maintenance required on the trolley. There will need to be several seamless swap outs each day with cleaning and engineering crews to keep the trolley, tracks, and grounds around running in a fulfilling order. And probably some ovens.

may have weighed roughly 15 tonnes instead of 8.8, and measured 15 metres instead of 12.

I find that very hard to believe for a bipedal land animal. Hit age 3 and your knees and hips are just done.