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  • More importantly, the evil people running the petroleum industry are in fact old, but that is not why they are evil.

    Evil people in positions of power tend to be old because a) it takes time to accumulate power, and b) folks with power tend to keep it till they’re dead. It’s just statistics - it doesn’t mean oldness causes evil.











  • Come on people, fuck! I almost never complain about bad headline gramnar, though it is rampant. It seems to be just something you have to live with these days.

    The sentence has two subject/predicate pairs: “beekeeper loses,” and “neighbor has.” So when it comes time for the possessive pronoun “his”… who the fuck is that?

    Many would say you should avoid this pronoun altogether. But if you are determined to use it, please at least make it refer to the last mentioned subject!

    This story would be very different (and not much of a story at all) if the neighbor had beehives removed from the neighbor’s own property, which is what the headline literally says.





  • tatetoPhysics@mander.xyzThe most famous thought experiment
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    OK, yes, but that is over simplifying Einstein’s “thought experiment.” Or perhaps he’s the one who oversimplified it?

    He should have said there is no experiment which can distinguish between an acceleration and a uniform gravitational field.

    Of course, the latter doesn’t exist in nature. So,…