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- Comment on Scientific unprogress... 7 hours ago:
I know that I was completely wrong in this regard. You know, like how Mark Twain said something like travel was anathema to bigotry.
So, I thought that the reason bigotry existed was that people are afraid of the unknown, so if you forced people together, they’d have to realize that we’re all the same.
But now I realize that the main reason bigotry exists is that people are staying in contact with other bigots. The part about meeting diverse people is important, but far less important than pulling people out of their comfort zone to combat bigotry. So, the internet amplifies bigotry, because they’ll never be out-of-contact with their local bigots, even if they travel away from them.
- Comment on The Woofstream 3 days ago:
I hate, hate, hate when a reporter interviews a scientist about something, and the interview is going fine, then the reporter inevitably asks, “How could this be used?” And suddenly, the scientist has to start bullshitting. You get to hear a completely respectable scientist start making all sorts of dubious claims, because they aren’t allowed to tell the truth, that its use is up to the future. There have been uncountable experimental results that didn’t seem to have a use at the time, only to be regarded as essential in the future.
If they were trying to invent some product, they’d be called an engineer instead of a scientist.
But in this case, the scientist wouldn’t even have to bullshit. “We’ve already learned a lot about aerodynamics by looking at other animals in wind tunnels. There’s no reason to think we might not learn anything useful here about aerodynamic shapes.”
In my book, that makes this guy who said “absolutely no one” in the meme an anti-intellectual.
- Comment on Vampire Survivors - Open beta test for Online mode, with free roaming! 1 week ago:
Is this the release where they add vampires?
- Comment on redwoods 1 week ago:
I have this strange suspicion that this will not be the last time I am told this joke.
- Comment on 2hot2handle 1 week ago:
“Autistic” doesn’t mean what you think it means. I’d characterize your use of the word as discriminatory and offensive.
- Comment on 2hot2handle 1 week ago:
One of the things that “spontaneous” doesn’t mean is “without cause”. Also, the astronaut doesn’t mention the water in the picture. She mentions water generally.
- Comment on how do you slice it?? 1 week ago:
Then again, do they know how large a giraffe is?
Just today, I learned a handy way of visualizing the size of a giraffe. If you took that asteroid that struck off the coast of Iceland, and made a copy of it and put the two of them together, that’s about the size of a giraffe.
- Comment on makes more sense than this shit 2 weeks ago:
Also, this says it was in 2016. We were already super fucked by then. I’d be more inclined to believe that we live in a giant simulation that got fucked by the millennium bug.
Not that things were great in 2000, but the point is that 2016 is way too late. It’s like looking at water that’s just starting to boil, and then being surprised when it becomes a rolling boil.
- Comment on 🤡 We've all been played for fools. 🤡 2 weeks ago:
I’ve said it before, but one reason I didn’t pursue a PhD is that there appeared to be an element of hazing in the entire thing.
Several of the PhD students I knew were languishing for years trying to get their thesis together, in what can only be described as poverty.
Meanwhile, half of the professors were miserable, and if they made good money, it was because they were very focused on how to make money. The happiest postgrad I knew was a senior lecturer who had given up on becoming a professor.
The best you can hope for is that your personal area of interest happens to have a lot of funding.
Yet these people almost universally seemed to think, “Well, that’s just how it is. The nice thing is that if you can get an academic position, it sucks less than being a PhD student.”
- Comment on I am serious, and don't call me Shirley 2 weeks ago:
Did you know that, individually, under close examination, polar bear fur is made of tiny little clear, not white hairs. Each hair is an empty tube. It actually only appears white because each tube contains a white colored neurotoxin. That’s why you should never get close to a polar bear.
- Comment on i just think they're neat 2 weeks ago:
“As you can see, this hat is felted from my own body hair, and the decorative bits? My toenails.”
- Comment on PSA: WASH YOUR HANDS 3 weeks ago:
- Comment on off to learn themrodynamics and statistcial mechanics 4 weeks ago:
Fuck me, I haven’t thought about bessel functions since college, but I still remember when they were introduced, for me, not in graduate physics, but in one of my earlier undergrad programming classes, the assignment went so poorly that the professor added a gimme question on the final exam, something like, “True or false: Simply mentioning the bessel function will raise my blood pressure.”
- Comment on I wonder what this tree did to get that name. 4 weeks ago:
It appears that “poon” has been used as a plant name since the 1690s. It looks like its other use was first recorded in the 1960s.
- Comment on Nexon-owned game studio enters “indefinite strike” over employee bonuses allegedly being slashed while executive bonuses increased - AUTOMATON WEST 4 weeks ago:
I actually wasn’t that invested since I couldn’t have gotten a bonus. The bonus required a certain amount of hours worked, but I always finished my work early.
- Comment on Nexon-owned game studio enters “indefinite strike” over employee bonuses allegedly being slashed while executive bonuses increased - AUTOMATON WEST 4 weeks ago:
I was on a team, not in the game industry, where they promised bonuses if the team worked hard and met certain milestones, but then they reneged on the promise after the work was done.
I have never seen a team implode so quickly. Nobody did work anymore. People were actively searching for other jobs at their desks.
Everybody good left the company. Everyone who was at least mediocre switched teams. The only people left on that team were the absolute dregs. And the product wasn’t actually even finished at the time. This was a mid development bonus.
- Comment on stupid sexy apples 4 weeks ago:
I assume this “bee-free honey” is more about veganism than about ecology.
- Comment on i c u p 5 weeks ago:
alphabet enthusiasts
- Comment on functional 5 weeks ago:
More specifically, the power series proof of Euler’s identity.
- Comment on functional 5 weeks ago:
I thought the magic that makes rotations work intuitively in games was quaternions.
- Comment on Don't we all? 5 weeks ago:
Even if we assume that he’s wearing a ladies shirt for a moment… Why does he have that stethoscope? Is this what doctors do when the patient is waiting in the exam room?
- Comment on SNAIL PRO TIPS 5 weeks ago:
French people eat the snails. Acromantulas eat the French people.
- Comment on SNAIL PRO TIPS 5 weeks ago:
How do snails “maintain the wildlife balance in our gardens”?
- Comment on get sum 5 weeks ago:
They could have just removed the word “female.”
- Comment on RPGs that are optionally pacifist? 1 month ago:
Is pacifism ever about practicality, though? The issues you describe sound like the normal issues that always accompany pacifism.
- Comment on oof 1 month ago:
I remember the distinct feeling of hazing from my professors. You know, “The reason you have to suffer now is that I suffered when I went through the same thing. If we fix the problem and stop the suffering, then all of my suffering would be meaningless, and that wouldn’t feel fair to me.”
- Comment on sharks are older than polaris 1 month ago:
Also from Wikipedia:
Although appearing to the naked eye as a single point of light, Polaris is a triple star system, composed of the primary, a yellow supergiant designated Polaris Aa, in orbit with a smaller companion, Polaris Ab; the pair is in a wider orbit with Polaris B. The outer pair AB were discovered in August 1779 by William Herschel, where the ‘A’ refers to what is now known to be the Aa/Ab pair.
I learned something new today. And if I’m reading the details section correctly, while the outer pair of stars are actually older than sharks, it’s the bright star that you can actually see that’s younger than sharks.
- Comment on well? 1 month ago:
I suddenly feel something trickling down from above. Is this what they were talking about all these years? Is this a good thing? It smells bad, like really bad. Like somebody is cooking meth while they have a near fatal case of diarrhea. What am I supposed to do?
- Comment on So THAT'S where it is 1 month ago:
He’s paid in Space Bucks.
- Comment on Steam is cracking down on porn games, to keep Payment Processors happy. 1 month ago:
Seem like an easy solution would be to have certain transactions be nonrefundable.
I say easy, but I guess it would involve quite a bit of software changes, and then you’d also have to deal with angry customers who ignored numerous warnings that a purchase would be final.