"Two economists are walking in a forest" wasn't supposed to be an instruction manual
Here is the paper: Dutch courage? Effects of acute alcohol consumption on self-ratings and observer ratings of foreign language skills (sci-hub pdf link).
It was published in 2017 but only won the Ig Nobel prize this year.
Abstract
Aims: A popular belief is that alcohol improves the ability to speak in a foreign language. The effect of acute alcohol consumption on perceived foreign
language performance and actual foreign language performance in foreign language learners has not been investigated. The aim of the current study
was to test the effects of acute alcohol consumption on self-rated and observer-rated verbal foreign language performance in participants who have
recently learned this language.
Methods: Fifty native German speakers who had recently learned Dutch were randomized to receive either a low dose of alcohol or a control beverage that contained no alcohol. Following the experimental manipulation, participants took part in a standardized discussion in Dutch with a blinded experimenter. The discussion was audio-recorded and foreign language skills were subsequently rated by two native Dutch speakers who were blind to the experimental condition (observer-rating). Participants also rated their own individual Dutch language skills during the discussion (self-rating).
Results: Participants who consumed alcohol had significantly better observer-ratings for their Dutch language, specifically better pronunciation, compared with those who did not consume alcohol. However, alcohol had no effect on self-ratings of Dutch language skills.
Conclusions: Acute alcohol consumption may have beneficial effects on the pronunciation of a foreign language in people who have recently learned that language.
the guy in the middle is a pro at photobombing
'oh boy, nazis' - tldr it's about killing nazis
I don't know who the guy on the right is, but the robot is G.I. Robot so I assume this is a reference to this scene in Creature Commandos episode 3 "Cheers to the Tin Man" where (to the music of Amanda Palmer's Coin-Operated Boy) he kills a lot of neo-nazis.
(I've never seen the show besides that scene and only know about any of this from memes...)
Thanks for pointing this out. Looking closer I see that that "journal" was definitely not something I want to be sending traffic to, for a whole bunch of reasons - besides anti-vax they're also anti-trans, and they're gold bugs... and they're asking tough questions like "do viruses exist" 🤡
I edited the post to link to MIT instead, and added a note in the post body explaining why.
This blog post has some details about the bad reporting around this story (claiming they used paper maps, and that they were circling for an hour) but it ultimately does agree that the "some issue with the GPS" reported by the pilot (the post includes radio recordings from the air and again from the ground after landing where the pilot says "GPS issues") must in fact be some type of GPS interference.
Meanwhile flightradar24 says "Yes, and we’re also saying there is no evidence of spoofing. There are numerous issues that could have affected the crew’s ability to perform a GPS-based approach that aren’t related to jamming or spoofing."
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ADS-B is quite far away from GPS frequencies, so yeah.
ADS-B packets include coordinates from GPS as well as several values related to the estimated accuracy of said coordinates (which is how flightradar24 is reporting that they had good GPS signal throughout the flight).
i've gotten some cooked mp3s before. i don't know if they got that way through steaming or what but i did need to uncook them before i eventually burned them 🤔