frustratedphagocytosis

Bring them over to the US, we always have money for new prisons and are experimenting with new forms of state murder with horribly insufficient oversight

I leave the TV on all day for the cats, I’m sure they’re getting lots of useful data while they sleep in front of MASH reruns

My favorite is recursive bad citations in the method section. As in, citing a paper that cited a previous paper that itself cited a previous paper that cited an abstract with no detailed methodology whatsoever, leaving the true methods a mystery unless you get the senior author to reply to emails.

I call BS, there’s not enough room for this sort of detail, you’d get ‘as described previously in [1-4, 9, 84, 86, 150-160, unpublished observations]’ half of which are unaccessible journals, out of print book chapters, and abstracts in German

Back in the day, I’d be thrilled to read something like this, but now all I hear is ‘look at how many new ways the Google overlord can fuck humans up with protein mutations to eliminate fragile meat-based enemies’

It looks like a protection racket with extra steps. An unpleasant solution presented by the problem creator. Why is this not banned?

Not surprised that a company named after the god of war is an international war sponsor

I nearly missed a jury duty notice because of this habit. I only check if I know money or a specific bill is coming.