QuasiGiani's comments

On: The Weeds Are Winning

[QuasiGiani]

Profit motives... the very sickening sickness of The System.

[cyberax → QuasiGiani]

Why?

On: What Is a Particle? (2020)

[QuasiGiani]

And away we go!

On: L.A. County sheriff’s unit accused of targeting po...

[QuasiGiani]

> ...dressed in a sheriff’s uniform to pose as a deputy to sneak a McDonald’s Egg McMuffin and a cup of coffee in to an inmate at Men’s Central Jail

Such clear proof that the article of this debacle... is nothing more than a cynically crafted advertisement for Mickey D's.

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ETA (with, mind you, appropriate alarm & dismay at the downvote):

> “That’s what I’m telling you, dumb f—, is that clear?” Lillienfeld said. “I can’t make it any clearer than that.”

> Lillienfeld did not respond to a request for comment.

The guy is so clear(ly) nothing but a shill for McDonald's.

On: An empirical study of obsolete answers on Stack Ov...

[QuasiGiani]

This of course(!) sounds as if like it'll like be quite good.

But. I am more interested in the inevitable corollarial follow-up:

An Thorough & Ignominious Probing Investigation Into The Problematic Presentation Of Pseudo-Intellectual Wankery On Hacker News

On: First sighting of Majorana fermion on a common met...

[QuasiGiani]

> nanowires of gold grown atop a superconducting material, vanadium, and dotted with small, ferromagnetic "islands" of europium sulfide

It's about effing time _they_ finally got their dizzy asses around to trying this, eh? I've been so frustrated over the past few decades urging this approach!

[ianai → QuasiGiani]

It’s probably a funding and general engineering problem.

On: Public Health Responses to COVID-19 Outbreaks on C...

[QuasiGiani]

Yeah... Yeah! ...Yeah!

Take this (take that!) from someone interested in etiology... who then goes on to "proclaim":

"...they _may_ no longer be able to grow inside cells, _even if_..."

...maybe if...

As useless as maybe hands-down almost literally everything ev-aar-ruh said like literally possibly maybe before since and may be after even if (say it with me!) "they may".

[thatguy0900 → QuasiGiani]

I have no idea what you're trying to say

[me_me_me → QuasiGiani]

Are you feeling ok?

On: Spotted water hemlock is the most toxic plant in N...

[QuasiGiani]

Terrified?!?

Why? Simply because it'll cause you to "chew your tongue into ribbons" and "muscles start contracting so hard they can dislocate bones"?

Pussy.

On: A rectal surgeon says bidets are way healthier tha...

[QuasiGiani]

"Way?"

"Way!"

"Way??"

"Way!!"

... at least we get "rectal surgeon" rather than the almost ubiquitous "scientists"...