I mean... That is not really what was puzzling about mercury. Its elliptical orbit, as predicted by Newtonian physics, was shifting a little each orbit. It was not a trick of the light bending, it actually moves "wrong" according to newtonian physics. He could have just read wikipedia instead of making stuff up to try and sound smart. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tests_of_general_relativity

Saw a guy in italy almost ram a cop car atan intersection. I think the driver was running a red light, but could have been the cop running a red. Anyhow, the driver breaks just before the cop car, and the cop on the passanger side just gesticulates his discontent but they just keep rolling on anyway. They could not be bothered.

In Sweden a TV news station exposed a troll farm run by the far right party. I'd say that counts.

I Sweden a liberal lobby group suggested "build apartments without kitchens" for poor people. It is so fucking dystopian.

Where is Linux?! Surely it must be on the top, I be reading (manuals), "foregin" language (bash), writing (scripts). Right?

For everyone who has not already, this is so worth a read: https://www.gnu.org/fun/jokes/ed-msg.html

This is how I handle code at work, almost. Program not working? Who has the last commit on the code? You get the question!

Now do ξ

Earth's surface is 71% water, otherwise this seems to assume some flooded hollow earth conspiracy theory too.

Adam Smith: if you make a profit, others will see it and start a company that will take part of that profit by competing, and so on and so on, util all companies are perfectly streamlined to satisfy demand efficiently.

Neoliberals: so what you are saying is we should avoid competing at all cost? Sure! No efficency! Only profits!

Same trick will work next year too!

Don't forget that sometimes you also do work for that journal, telling them if a paper is good enough or not for them, and also basically don't get payed.