I think the number gives a false sense of accuracy. Like using fifteen digits of pi to calculate an orbital path even though you system can’t model every mass in the system and thus have way higher variance regardless.

I am numbers on, but only because I don’t care enough to turn it off.

That’s not being neurotypical. That’s just having poor communication skills.

Based on the actual women in my life, “blame partner for own communication failures” is the divergence rather than the norm. Regardless of what shallow media portrays.

If we’re mucking the alphabet, though, we really should bring back the thorn.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thorn_(letter)

(If for no other reason than to also bring back the you/thou formal/informal split so I get fewer stares when I point out that the best translation of Exodus 20:13 is really more like “hey, man, no murders!”)

There are few adjectives which are both homophones and homonyms for verbs.

I wonder if there are any such pairs not related to violence or sex…

As the guy who buys his own wine and isn’t that picky, I’d much rather open a $5 bottle than one ten times that price. Especially if it’s a sweet red; then I can get an order of magnitude more drink than the snob who likes sour grapes.

(And, honestly, $50 is way too much for a common bottle of wine. Even $30 is nearly in the realm of conspicuous consumption.)

Science is not a search for truth. It’s a search for provable falsehoods and useful theories.

The beauty about actual science, as opposed to the fanfic and bragging that scientists need to publish to get paid, is that we can resolve contradictory theorems through experimentation

Massachusetts and NY raised taxes on the rich, and yet their revenues did not plummet.

Is there any contrary instance we can find where taxes were raised on the rich specifically and revenues dropped?

(And if so, get the academics back to refine their theories, make more predictions, and let’s see who’s more accurate!)

1: what the frick are you doing in Excel that needs even 10^2 columns? Rows go up to 2^20 (~10^6), and the thing starts to run like ass way before that.

2: Excel does have a RXCX format, if you really do need to go out hundreds of columns.)

3: feel free to ignore. Bitching about being forced to use the wrong tool is definitely more stress than anyone needs.