If you are extra lucky, you'll hear back for following the requirements incorrectly, "You used your academic email in the title page but your personal email in Editorial Manager. That's not allowed for reasons. Please resubmit."

To be fair, the Manchester-London route is fucking awful anywhere near peak. Sweaty sardine cans that are more likely than not to miss your connection. This is putting a train worth of riders out of their misery.

Too bad no one has put forward a plan to increase capacity on the route.

I try not to think about how much scholarship I could have accomplished over the last 24 months if I hadn't spent it fruitlessly applying for things

Speaking from my experience, I guess we are working harder and trying to be novel, but only when the despair doesn't become overwhelming

American politics _has_ gotten a bit feral...

This was intended to be a junior-friendly conference, too. The acceptance rate was at least 70%. There were just some abstracts we weren't particularly confident about.

The time I organized flash talks into a conference, we did it with the intention of giving people interested in attending access to their institution's travel funds (that is, they could tell their department they were speakers).

Laser tag is towards the top of my list of things I wish wasn't sadly weird and creepy to go to alone as a mid-30s male

I hate polling questions like this because there is a fundamental ambiguity in "America" between the government and the people.

Very possible that the 30% who view America favorably are interpreting the question as being about Americans. And speaking as one, we are ... fine.

I'm as much a fan of ollama as the next guy, but given Sora prompts cost OpenAI a reported $5 per prompt, there's a very funny accelerationist case to use Sora as much as possible

I've noticed that too, especially among video game streamers.

The enemy isn't in "the red room", the enemy is in "Red Room".

It's worse than a decade:

Meanwhile, people holding on to unopened Lego sets and Pokemon card packs are CLEANING UP

I will not get angry arguing over the artistic merit of Rogue One.

I will not get angry arguing over the artistic merit of Rogue One.

I will not get angry arguing over the artistic merit of Rogue One.

I will not get angry arguing over the artistic merit of Rogue One.

This only took me until the last chapter of my second read to realize this. The first time I read it was, very naturally, in high school.