Missile guidance in the Peace section - :yep:
Kissaki
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The/In short from Wikipedia:
The Ig Nobel Prize is a satiric prize awarded annually since 1991
- Anatomy: Roman Khonsari, for finding that there is a greater instance of scalp hair spiraling in a counter-clockwise direction in the Southern Hemisphere.
- Biology: Fordyce Ely and William Petersen, for finding that placing a cat on the back of cows and repeatedly exploding paper bags every 10 seconds for two minutes led to them producing less milk.
- Chemistry: Tess Heeremans, Antoine Deblais, Daniel Bonn and Sander Woutersen, for their use of chromatography to separate drunk and sober worms as part of their research into polymer science.
- Botany: Jacob White and Felipe Yamashita, for finding that the plant Boquila trifoliolata can mimic the leaves of plastic plants placed alongside it, leading them to conclude that “plant vision” is plausible.
- Demography: Saul Newman, for finding that many claims regarding the existence of supercentenarians and other extreme age-related records originate from areas with short life spans, no birth certificates, and rampant clerical errors and pension fraud.
- Medicine: Lieven Schenk, Tahmine Fadai and Christian Büchel, for finding that counterfeit medicine that induces painful side-effects can be more effective in patients than counterfeit medicine that does not cause painful side-effects.
- Peace: B. F. Skinner, for his study on housing live pigeons inside missiles to guide them to their targets.
- Physics: James Liao, for his long-running study on the ability of a dead trout to swim.
- Physiology: Takanori Takebe, for finding that several mammals can breathe through their intestines using their anus.
- Probability: A team of 50 researchers mostly based in the Netherlands, for supporting a prediction by Persi Diaconis that tossed coins are more likely to land the same way up as they started after they had flipped 350,757 coins.
lol
I felt strong aversion and irritation throughout, thinking they were unnecessarily making enemies.
They certainly have an extreme view and goal. And are personally invested to the point of seeing fellow collaborators on FOSS as enemies(?) now.
Putting up barriers through segmentation and alternative tech creates silos. To reach new people I don't think we can get around meeting users where they are and what they are familiar with.
Bring value through FOSS, and hint and nudge them. If you meet them where they are and bring them to your software it's already one more than none. You don't need to get them to make a huge leap into a whole ecosystem of alternative software at once.
Their categorical dismissal of other's opinions or priorities certainly felt irritating to me. Maybe they care more about FOSS license than UX or features, but why is that the only correct view in their eyes? Blind users may not even be able to use FOSS alternatives when they lack accessibility features or quality.
Even as a contributor to a project I don't want to use a supportive side platform only for that when it's annoying or cumbersome. I very well may just skip it, or leave as a contributor.
I would have been interested in the premise; why they think advocating and exclusively FOSS is the only correct view and thing to do. The lack of a strong basis also made all that followed more irritating.
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The webpage has additional filtering options etc.
JS query code 🧙♂️
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I changed it.
Firefox with uBlock Origin, Sponsorblock, YouTube Playback-Speed Control, and a Nyancat Seekbar (I guess the last part is not that important to me)
I've skipped signing up via email to be able to read articles because that, apparently, that also includes signing up for a newsletter.
it revealed a number of organs including blood vessels in the brain through the scalp
I'm confused. There's a skull between scalp skin and the brain, right? o.O
What does one have to do with the other?
Yes, I do. What info are you looking for? You didn't even say.
I know the Mumble and SoftEther VPN projects use them for hosting their website/project hosting.
In Sky: Children of the Light you can let yourself get taken by the hand, and the other player guides/plays for you and you barely need to do anything anymore.
Felt a bit absurd and funny, but interesting nonetheless. Certainly unique.
It was also very good to eat some snacks and watch yourself progress while doing so. 
Sky is an interesting and visually beautiful/well-crafted game. It has many things going for it. But also things I found frustrating and annoying.
I was also confused quite a bit, about quite a few things about what is happening and interacting in what way.
If only there weren't so many cutscenes blocking me from actually playing the game and feeling embedded in the world and atmosphere. I hate those disrupting cutscenes. Forced camera focus was also annoying at times.
Overall, I find Sky quite interesting, and can certainly recommend taking a look at and even into it.
Sky: Children of the Light is available on Steam for free, in Early Access. It has also been available on iOS since 2019, Android since 2020, Switch since 2021, PS4 since 2022.
Walking back and forth between sofa + controller + TV and my PC + keyboard to chat with people was a hassle though 🤡 (I was streaming PC to TV so it was the same thing. Chatting is entirely optional.)
(Sorry for the shitty ~~screenshot~~ photo of hand-holding.)
Have you played Sky? What did you think of the implementation of social systems and interactions with other players?
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Very interesting read.
Damn.