Nice punchline
Neutron stars have 'starquakes' around 32 on the (logarithmic) Richter scale, releasing about 90 million trillion trillion trillion times the energy of a Richter scale 10 earthquake. Or, almost twice the energy of all virtue-signaling on Twitter! http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/badastronomy/2009/06/18/ok-so-maybe-we-can-be-a-little-frightened/ …pic.twitter.com/Ec8zEcZvmK
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When you think you are reading a cool science tweet and it turns out to be savage af
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I trillion Virtue signaling tweets equals a new unit, the Virtue
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This begs the question of how many SJWs does it take to make a starquake?
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Depends on what type of star identifies as neutron I suppose.
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Almost. I'm a good boy.
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#TFW you think you're reading a science tweet only to learn it's a dig at virtue-signaling that is itself (at least arguably partially) virtue-signaling the author's science-affinity
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WoW 10 earthquake
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Why is virtue signaling evil?
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It's not evil; it's a deep part of human nature. There's good virtue-signaling (e.g. talking about giving to @Give_Directly to reduce global poverty), and there's bad virtue-signaling. Here's a short talk I did on the topic:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PWlK8GvqdT0 …
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