#Rant
Whenever you write something, you are (consciously or subconsciously) writing it for a target audience. The way you write to explain something to a pre-teen or to an adult is different, and both are different from how you would write if your target was a toddler etc etc
Scientific papers are no exception. There are of course well written and badly written scientific papers, but all of them have as their target audience other scientists, often only those in a specific subfield.
Expecting specialized scientific papers to be immediately understandable to everyone is completely missing the point of a scientific paper.
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ps
There is a reason why some people specialize in writing popular science, which is a damn difficult job.

@wolf @Trine_DK @tofticles og fjern Gud og guder fra Verdenshistorien og mennesker ville blot have fundet sammen i andre fællesskaber og føle sig berettigede til at slå andre mennesker ihjel - “de fremmede” - værende politiske eller ideologiske.
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I find it interesting when you tell someone that you have almost exhausted the RFC1918 space at work and the first thing they do is to questioning if you know how many addresses there are in the RFC1918 space.

You're assuming a lot of things if you're responding like that.
Why does the first reaction have to be to tell people that they don't know what they are talking about? Be curious instead and maybe..ask: Interesting, tell me more?

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Oh well, I guess the best revenge is getting it published elsewhere! #AcademicChatter #EndOfRant

#CanonFolly ENSEMBL/REFSEQ/MANE/APRIS canonize a sequence with 813 aa in 14 exons for human EPC1:p (enhancer of polycomb homolog 1); UNIPROT canonizes one with 836 aa in 15 exons. UNIPROT 's version has 1 exon too many (red highlight). #EndOfRant

I quite dislike the term "everyday people" or "everyday Canadians" etc. It's a garbage term. What are the other people? Weekend people?

Is there an opposite usage such as: stop giving tax breaks to weekend people? No.

People are people all the time, not just on certain days or when they're working – eg the similar "nine-to-five people."

At worst it could be seen as dehumanizing, which is what the ultrawealthy try to do to the disadvantaged. Such language buys into that.

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Hey, #Dems here's some advice from the backwoods: When you're skiing through the trees, focus on the spaces between the trees, not on the trees.

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#parenting #rant unless i ask for advice don’t tell me how to raise my kid! Its rude! #EndOfRant

Man I hate July 4th. Reasons:

1. Nationalism
2. Environmentally damaging
3. Trauma for folks with PTSD
4. Trauma for animals

Fireworks are beautiful. No doubt. But they cause suffering.

I don’t hate anyone for celebrating. I just hate that it exists.

#July4th #IndependenceDay #America #Fireworks #EndOfRant

🧵3…so i called him out for being an arrogant person for trying to tell me that i needed to search my soul. That’s between me and dog (or god) and he had no way to “look into my soul.” Who dafuq are you to say that?

Please, don’t tell people that you’re going to pray for them or keep them in your prayers. That’s basically saying well I can’t or won’t help you so here’s a participation award. You pray to make yourself feel better. Period.
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I'm a tab guy too!
https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2024/04/linus-torvalds-reiterates-his-tabs-versus-spaces-stance-with-a-kernel-trap/

I figure that everyone should be able to set the tabs in an editor to whatever works for them.

small fonts on big screen need more space to see offsets.

Folks with old tired eyes need a different setting than folks with young rested eyes.

Computer should work the way I want, I should not have to work to make a computer's life easier:-)
If they dont work the way I want, then I fix it.
#floss #foss #computer #configure

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As a rule I've been ignoring pretty much everything "written" on GitHub because it has such a shitty UI.

But recently I came across some actual WEBSITES published on GitHub and they looked really nice.

I hope people stop wallowing in geeky stupidity and create some real Websites there because otherwise I'll continue to ignore whatever they have to say through the REALLY SHITTY USER INTERFACE ON GITHUB.

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@djpimpdaddy Milk in accepted parlance is specifically from a cow. "Alternative milk" is therefore milk from some other mammal, other than a cow. However, I have no objection to the term Oat substitute milk. I have no issue with healthy replacements. But I will mercilessly kill over the debasement of language and the iniquities of marketing departments. #EndOfRant

#dutch
#belgium
#telenet

Zijn er nog mensen die hun Telenet - aanrekening niet kunnen downloaden? Betalen lukt trouwens wel. Ik heb trouwens ook geen mail gehad. De website van Telenet is nog steeds een zootje. Ze werken er al maanden aan. En er werkt steeds minder. Betalen via de app? Heel vlot. Iets te toevallig. 🤢 #factuur #telenet.

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🥺 When I'm going to unsubscribe from your e-mail list, please don't…

1️⃣ Make the unsubscribe link super small with poor color contrast and a minuscule hit target
2️⃣ Make me sign into your service
3️⃣ Make the page wordy & complicated
4️⃣ E-mail me a confirmation

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Dear Disney Cruise Line an in-person muster drill in 2023 is D-U-M-B. #endofrant

The #DailyMass readings today include the story of Susanna from book of Daniel. The lady is falsely accused of adultery by two elders in retaliation for resisting their sexual advances. At first she is condemned, because of course everyone believes guys 🧐. Thankfully Daniel intervenes and the assembly reconsiders their verdict.
I find this a hard reading to sit through. But paradoxically, I'm always relieved when the lector actually reads the whole reading. Look it is long either way -- so just read the whole thing -- it makes so much more sense.
Plus, I particularly resent the fact that the short version starts at the end of verse 41 -- by snipping out the words "Because they were elders of the people and judges, the assembly believed them and condemned her to death."
Yup.
#MeToo has been going on for a looooong time, folks...
Don't cover it up.
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I get that many #bookbloggers don’t want to read self published works. That is fine. I’ve seen many that state they are unwilling to do so. I’ll just skip reaching out when I see that. What’s getting to me is the word “not capable.” If you are not capable to read my books that’s likely a deeper issue that either they don’t know how to use an app or don’t know how to turn a page. Which, in that case if you are “not capable” to read then why are you a book blogger? #endofrant #writingcommunity

Either they just don't care about these aspects - which to me makes a mockery of the sci in sci-fi - or they have no one with even a modicum of science knowledge or common sense consulting on plot and visual effects.

Of course such a person would probably say "Why not have a drone ship fire a tactical nuke at the monsters?" and there would be no movie then. That might have been better for everyone except kids and adult kids who love monster movies and giant freekin' robots. #endofrant