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Comment Data (Score 3, Interesting) 63

Here's a graph of the extinction data.

When I look at those spikes, it looks like there are a bunch of things that randomly want to kill us (like asteroids, gamma ray bursts, sudden changes in sea level, whatever, a bunch of other things), and they happen somewhat randomly with a normal distribution. Because of the way a normal distribution works, it will have some periodicity (ie, on average an asteroid will hit every X years, but with a deviation).

There is nothing special about 37 million years. That is the rough analysis, and I saw nothing in the paper to convince me that is wrong.

Comment Re:Life imitating art? (Score 2, Informative) 173

In Canada you have no right to remain silent.

The lawyer probably asked the guy, "Is this your account?" and he answered, "Yes" and that was the end of it. The jury and judge (and possibly even the defense lawyer) would assume he sent the messages.

This shows why the right to remain silent is so important. Hooray for the fifth amendment.

Comment Re:2 hours 53 minutes (Score 2) 66

You can get high fidelity earplugs that reduce the loudness without reducing the quality of audio. Rock performers often use them to protect their hearing.

It's kind of annoying that these earplugs are necessary, why not just turn down the volume? But anyway this is the situation we are in, and I recommend using earplugs to protect your hearing (whatever's left of it).

Comment Re:Weird World (Score 2) 103

Or do big brands like Secret Deodorant seek out and approach Tik Tokers with only 8k followers?

Yes, they do. Corporate marketing offices have departments (or people, if they are smaller) who do outreach to bloggers, podcasters, streamers. There are conventions where the marketers can meet the "talent." In my experience the talent will shill for anything without shame.

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