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lagilogi

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May Sky Challenge 6 years ago

I cannot see the sky from my apartment. So If have to wait until I leave for work or other reasons.

I don't remember my parents having this problem with their newspaper. They did look at the newspaper before the sky every morning.

That is not how science advents, not currently. Collaboration takes a backseat in science when your name, reputation, career prospects are in the line.

If you advance an argument that lack proper and vigorous proof, I have no reason to hear you. I will however tear your work to pieces. As many pieces as I can, so I can ride that train as long as I can.

That's how science advents currently. Otherwise all of us academics would be building our work on top of each others' collaboratively and productively. Minorities and women would not have been shunned out; graduate slave labor, and adjunct faculty would have been unthinkable.

I informed my supervisor that a lockdown was imminent and that we should prepare for it, e.g. set up users' VPNs, do a test run to identify needs, etc. My supervisor told me to mind my own business and not encroach on her authority, in writing.

The stay at home orders came in two days later.

She violated the order a number of times because she had no readiness for remote working. She forced a number of staff to violate it as well.

My employer is not an essential business.

This allows for the legal argument to seize the house of corrupt politicians and police officers. It also allows for the seizing of businesses from their owners and boards when their practices lead to economic crises.

It will however not going to be interpreted by lawyers and regulators as such. Because a politician, police officer, businessman, corporation all are more of a person in the eyes of law, compared to a simpleton woman charged with distribution.

The rule of the law does not exist.

From the abstract at source, which is written better:

Even under our assumptions, which would tend to minimize evidence of an incipient mass extinction, the average rate of vertebrate species loss over the last century is up to 100 times higher than the background rate. Under the 2 E/MSY background rate, the number of species that have gone extinct in the last century would have taken, depending on the vertebrate taxon, between 800 and 10,000 years to disappear. These estimates reveal an exceptionally rapid loss of biodiversity over the last few centuries, indicating that a sixth mass extinction is already under way.

https://advances.sciencemag.org/content/1/5/e1400253

tldr; everyone except the human species is getting extinct.