More like someone who has been smoking too many illegal substances I'd say..........

Yeah, I'm a boomer too.

Still paying my ungrateful millennials' bills

so shurrup until you can pay your own

Mac

Something like 70% of scientific papers these days are just garbage, Dumb subject, fudged figures, misleading statistics and just plain lies. Probably rises to 95% in Medical studies.

Couple'a years ago I bet my pals I could get any old crap published. I took a commonsense idea for positioning of patients during a particularly uncommon surgical procedure, Clare wrote it up, full of the most amazing references and bingo, there it was in the Eur*** Journal of ***** Surgery. We pissed ourselves laughing.

The paper referred to by the OP has so many errors, assumptions and plain whako ideas, "backed up" by largely irrelevant and even more dubious references that it ain't funny.

Mac

Drove an automatic shift for the first time in years recently. Really weird experience. Car always downshifted or upshifted a few milliseconds before or after I would have (and a _lot_ of milliseconds in a couple of corners!). Didn't know what to do with my free hand (ya, ya ya!) [or my spare foot]. Felt like I was only partly in control - didn't like it.

Back to my 5-on-the-floor that keeps me awake and involved.

Mac

Good question

My HOSTS files are pretty large.
Helps me avoid all sorts of trash and malware.

Mac

It is such a pity that scientists doing research very often do not publish their negative results.
They design an experiment in order to gain knowledge about a hypothesis, in the expectation that their results will support their hypothesis.
All too often, after a few months of negative results, they give up and move onto something else, leaving the work unpublished.

Negative results are often as interesting as positive results, in fact, often more so!
And that info needs to get out there, before some other poor schmuck comes up with a similar experiment and gets the same results.
Rinse and repeat.

A lot of our work ends in blind-alleys and it is just as important to know about these (if only to revisit them and get a different result)!
Maybe under different experimental conditions the expected WILL happen (and maybe not).

Mac

I forwarded the article to a couple of scientist friends - they though it was hilarious.

Then I forwarded it to a few Eng.Lit./Biz.Sci acquaintances - none of then got the wry joke and one was absolutely furious.

Americans are very literal minded and usually have difficulties with English jokes.

Mac

Yeah, except when HAL decides that the input from a defective angle-of-attack sensor is real, that you are trying to nose-up into a stall and trims the elevator nose-down, nose-down, nose-down, nose-down and you end up diving into the ground at 7,688 fpm {Flight JT 610 recently}.

So much for, "...helping, guiding, nudging and smoothing your inputs..."
Doubt whether the defunct pilots & passengers would agree.

Mac

Does any sensible person actually care whether it is 2436x1125 or 2438x1120?
(apart from some nerd in his mom's basement counting pixels (1,2,3,4,5,6, etc.)

Jeez, the are more important things in this world than a few pixels more or less.
I mean, it's not like you're gonna notice... Really, some folks ought to get out more.

Mac

China won't have fusion and neither will we.

Sustained fusion that releases significantly more useable energy than it
takes to get and keep going on the surface of this planet ain't gonna happen.
Even with room-temperature superconductors (which we almost certainly WILL see).

The oil, coal and gas that supply our baseline load will eventually run out.
Solar, wind and wave will never be enough for the world's expanding population.

Fission is the only answer and it can be made as safe as we want it to be.
All the fusion wastes since 1945 wouldn't even _begin_ to fill 1 cubic kilometer.

The sooner we realize this and get started the better.
Wasting precious chemical feedstocks like coal and oil just to boil water is dumb.

Mac

"Nuclear power can displace large amounts of coal and natural gas very quickly and needs no new technology. Any claims of problems on deploying nuclear power is either a lie, mere politics, or far more easily solved compared to global warming."

Abandoning nuclear is the stupidest thing ever. Modern reactors can be made effectively totally safe.
Most of the high-level waste is gone after a few years and the volume of low-level waste is far less than the mountains of (also toxic) waste from other processes. 1 cubic kilometre would hold it all.

Most of my son's pals work fast-food joint in the vacations. He got a job wrapping packets in a high-class fromagerie. And every vacation his pals went back to the fast-food joints and he went back to the fromagerie.

What did they gain? A little money and how to flip a burger. What did he gain? A little money and an encyclopedic knowledge of French cheeses. Except by now he earns a lot more than they do and has a Maitre Fromagier qualification to go with the Masters in Physics that he is funding himself.

The moral of the story is clear. Fast-food work is a little bit of money and no gain.
Get a real skill (welder, machinist, fromagier) but don't expect it to come easy.

Mac

I wish you guys would stop talking about the "rich" and the "minimum-wage" as thought it was some sort of binary thing.

You need everybody with _some_ money to spend, you do _not_ need multi-multi-billionaires. You need _some_ millionaires, more who are _"pretty well-off"_, even more who are _"reasonably well-off"_ and as many as you can get of people who manage OK and sometimes have a bit over for something extra.

The fabulously rich just tie up money that mostly does nothing useful to society, the "minimum-wagers+" are the _core_ of your economy.

Mac

Give Trump another term and we will be.

Mac