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- Comment on Blobfish 1 hour ago:
Forget the aliens part and the vacuum of space part. “Blob apes” isn’t really a bad name for humans.
- Comment on Contributions 2 hours ago:
The biggest joke here is that he thinks his thesis will be worth something to other people at the time he’s writing it.
- Comment on is homophobia associated with homosexual arousal 1 day ago:
Don’t conflate promiscuity with homosexuality. There are plenty of gay people who are monogamous and who are no more likely to spread disease than anybody else. And there are plenty of promiscuous heterosexual people who are spreading diseases.
Also, you shouldn’t apologize for this bigotry by saying it’s subconscious. This is learned behavior.
- Comment on is homophobia associated with homosexual arousal 1 day ago:
It’s always important in science to do the experiment or study, even if you’re pretty sure you already know the answer.
Sometimes, the result will be surprisingly counter-intuitive. And other times, like in this study, it confirms what seems blatantly obvious.
What could it possibly mean when a man who identifies as heterosexual feels threatened by the mere existence of homosexual men? What could it mean???
- Comment on Wake up babe new shape just dropped 1 day ago:
Yeah, that pretty much sums it up. Wikipedia calls a square a “regular quadrilateral,” which seems like a decent enough definition.
Today I learned that when you make up your own inadequate definition, then it’s easy to match the definition with something inadequate.
- Comment on Dolph is prime human 5 days ago:
Dolph or Bill?
- Comment on "I made the PC I couldn't buy" 6 days ago:
The last time I built my computer, my storage was magnetic disk drives, and I moved to solid state, but I’d normally save my hard disks as secondary disks. Fans aren’t that expensive and I think it’s a good time to replace them, and I always end up hating my case by the time I need to upgrade.
I hate my current case because first, it didn’t perfectly fit my motherboard, so the metal plate where all the connectors go wouldn’t fit. I’ve lived with that part missing for over 5 years now. And second, it’s got a stupid plexiglass window in its side, and I hate the whole concept of RGB stuff inside a computer. So all I get to see is how messy my cabling is and how much dust has accumulated.
If I was upgrading today, I’d probably try to reuse my disks and my power supply.
- Comment on "I made the PC I couldn't buy" 6 days ago:
He gives one of the criteria as “upgradable”. I also always purchase my PCs with the intention of having them upgradable, but the problem is that I do a good enough job at choosing parts that I never feel the need to upgrade them.
So, I only “upgrade” stuff if it breaks sooner than I expected, and otherwise, I simply use the PC until it breaks and I get an entirely new one.
As a result, I always tell myself that next time, I won’t worry about whether something is upgradable. But then, I choose parts to be upgradable anyways, because I can’t pretend to be somebody that I’m not.
One good way to think about the budget for a PC is to break it down by expected lifetime. So, if he’s spending $700 on a PC, and he uses it for 7 years, then it’s $100 per year. (My PCs usually last about that long, but I’m sure I’m the exception.)
- Comment on Sadge 1 week ago:
The quote also mentioned Frédéric Joliot.
- Comment on Sadge 1 week ago:
Had Pierre Curie not died in an accident, he would most likely have eventually died of the effects of radiation, as did his wife, their daughter Irène, and her husband Frédéric Joliot.
- Comment on Let's gooooooooo! 1 week ago:
In that situation, is it called hydroxic acid, as OP says?
- Comment on Let's gooooooooo! 1 week ago:
Doesn’t an acid have to be an acid, though?
- Comment on Dots! 1 week ago:
I’m talking about thermally cooling it down. If you put it in a freezer it will cool down, but the nuclear process will not speed up.
- Comment on Dots! 1 week ago:
Isn’t it just that color because it’s hot? Like, if you cooled those off to room temperature, wouldn’t they be metallic gray?
- Comment on Deez peets 3 weeks ago:
They have even more cubic feet.
- Comment on Chemistry is weird 3 weeks ago:
Salt is scarier than the elements sodium or chlorine because, according to Wikipedia, “Salt is essential for life in general.” Without salt, there wouldn’t be humans creating things like chlorine gas. Life is scary.
- Comment on One for the wee Ones 4 weeks ago:
It also has an official music video, but it’s weird, because I could actually listen to this one as a normal song, but it’s not nearly as funny as the Countdown version.
- Comment on One for the wee Ones 4 weeks ago:
The concept reminds me of a song written by the Brett Domino Trio that exclusively uses “three letter words”.
- Comment on Well, he's...he's, ah...probably pining for the fjords. 1 month ago:
How to turn your dinner into a business expense
- Comment on Cookie cookie cookie 2 months ago:
It’s a little difficult to see the oreo cookie wafer on the dark background. I think it would work better with a white background. Something like milk.
- Comment on What if the sun suddenly went out? - xkcd's What If? 2 months ago:
Are there any downsides to this scenario? We would all freeze and die. (RIP Humans)
Sounds like somebody hasn’t been watching the news lately. But it would be sad that all of the other life on Earth would also die.
- Comment on Blobfish 3 months ago:
So blobfish != exclusively Psychrolutes marcidus, which makes OP’s post more accurate than your comment.
I never said what you’re accusing me of saying. When Y corrects X, it is possible to say that Y is wrong without saying that X is right.
Even when I referred to it once as “blobfish”, that was to state its binomial name, not to state that “blobfish” was correct. OP used the term “blobfish” in exactly the same way. It’s logically impossible for OP’s post to be “more accurate” than mine.
- Comment on Blobfish 3 months ago:
The name information is incorrect.
Psychrolutes is the genus, not the species.
Psychrolutes is a genus of marine ray-finned fishes belonging to the family Psychrolutidae, the fatheads and toadfishes. […] There are currently 11 recognized species in this genus
The binomial name of the blobfish is Psychrolutes marcidus. But realistically, “binomial name” is not always the same as “proper name”. There are a lot of animals whose common names include misconceptions, or even insults. Just look at the information about Psychrolutidae (that’s the Family) above. “Fatheads” sounds insulting, and “Toadfishes” aren’t toads.
I wouldn’t have even bothered looking this up, except that the artist wrote the “proper name” so poorly that I first read it as “Psychrd Lutes”. And the second reading, I misread as “Psychiro Lutes”, due to the weird “R” that looks like none of their other Rs. I read it correctly the third time, but I have to wonder at the wisdom of not writing it clearly when you’re trying to emphasize how it is spelled.
- Comment on S̵̢̡̠̣̜͍̘͍̈́̿͒̈̎̉͌͂̎̾̓Ḩ̶̡̛̯̰̤̻͖̹̝̼͍͔̰̃̅̋̍̈̆̋̋́̔͝Ǫ̴̺͔̫͈͉͎̤͎͗͂̅͒̀͒W̶̛͖̺̰̠̙̲̓͆̋̉̌̆̂͛̀̒̕͘ ̷̨̦̤̇̀̓̉́̅͒̄͝M̶͓̗͚̩̬͈͎͗̓̈́́͜͜Ẹ̵̢̢̺̞͓͓̤͙̙͖̈́̈̉͝ ̶̧̡̲̺͓̮̰̘̮͚͉̝͈̝̀͒́̎̾̓͜͝͝͠T̷̡̟̘̫͋͋̑͊̓͐̊̐̎H̸̪̋͛̓̀̍̂̐̂͐̾̈́̒̃É̵̛̾̅̀͛̃̄̏ 5 months ago:
I don’t know too much about HV, but I thought that even the crazy path shown in the picture was still the path of least resistance. Is that wrong?
- Comment on Plan B 5 months ago:
Some monks train their bodies either as part of their prayer or meditation, or train in order to be able to pray or meditate longer. They don’t usually end up with arms that look like that, though.
- Comment on Brent Spiner guest apperance in nightcourt 5 months ago:
He was a recurring character on the show. According to imdb, he was in 7 episodes.
- Comment on A job well done 5 months ago:
That guy Newton didn’t even know that inertial frames of reference weren’t absolute.
- Comment on FedEx has absolutely no clue what 'economy' means. 6 months ago:
It could, theoretically, be like this on purpose, not only due to things like cargo space on specific planes, but also because this sort of pricing can have a psychological effect.
People don’t really know what shipping is supposed to cost, so the way they decide whether a price is good is by comparing it to other prices.
90 seems like a lot, but if it’s cheaper than the “economy” rate, people might be more inclined to purchase it and feel like they got a good deal.
- Comment on hard to argue with 8 months ago:
If she really believes those breasts, ovaries, and wombs are so important, why was she telling women to think about things? You don’t think with breasts, ovaries, or wombs.
And what will she do when she hits menopause? How will that affect her beliefs?
- Comment on Treegasmic 8 months ago:
Boy it really makes those pictures of bees covered in pollen seem slightly less cute.