You are right, however, it’s worth noting most of these materials are highly complex and contain exotic elements. Basically these compounds are not suitable for any real life application in long range energy transfer

Both the Bose and Sony are considered top but Sony is more expensive.I have the Bose and like them but a known defect is the earpad that will break very quickly (buy Chinese replacement for those)

That’s impossible in a generalized way. That would be the same as having an algorithm for truth

Open hardware?

It’s likely someone born in Kiribati on Jan 1st in the year 2000. Given the small population of the island, it probably isn’t even too hard to find out.

If you have trouble finding a functioning mirror for the crow, you can get scihub links also from Library Genesis and Anna’s Archive

Spacebar is supposed to be a 1 to 1 discord alternative

I’m no expert but 1 in 50 donors doesn’t even seem too bad

Where does the leash go?

Yep, there’s a ton of great Foss projects that have a shitty logo. Look at Octave, looks like something 10yo me made in MS paint in 5 min

Needs a better logo as well

As far as I know Telegram is the only one with piracy-oriented channels. Maybe we could start one on Signal

One that hasn’t been named yet is SolveSpace. There is also CAD sketcher, a free CAD add-on for Blender

I worked in academia for 10 years. I do not recommend it.

The marvels of intellectual property

Plant sensing is well established scientific fact, but that’s not all. Experiments show they can learn from experience and remember things. Their intelligence is mostly hormonal so their reaction times is about 1 or 2 orders of magnitude lower than animals. Information processing happens in their system of root apexes, so that’s their “brain”

Very funny

Generally speaking, I am attracted to things that are non-conforming/taboo

Plants can think and likely feel pain. There’s a whole field of research on it.

they can be confident in their social power and openly admit that they don’t know. However, you’ll really only see this with high ranking people that have security in their social rank (e.g. executives, famous professors, etc.) , those that are so low in their rank that not knowing isn’t going to affect them, or people that are visiting temporarily so their long-term position doesn’t matter or they have an excuse to not know.

I very much agree with everything you said, except for the above sentence. Being high ranking in a formal institution doesn’t automatically translate to being high social status and it certainly doesn’t translate to being confident.

Many people in high ranking positions are extremely insecure and will cling to their position in a desperate attempt to increase their status. Being ignorant may not affect a high ranker position but it will affect their status (especially if the ignorance is displayed in a social setting). Because of this, how a person respond will be heavily affected by the status of the asker.