porous_grey_matter
@porous_grey_matter@lemmy.ml
- Comment on i hate myself and i want to die lol 1 day ago:
In most places the defense is kind of just a formality. It’s an important part of the ritual and the process, it’s important to present your work, but nobody should be submitting unless they’re definitely going to pass the defense, or else their supervisor has really failed them
- Comment on Anon doesn't like the doors 1 day ago:
Sadly, he did have a few great songs on albums ~3-5ish.
- Comment on My friend got hacked and of course microsoft will not even try to help 1 day ago:
Because they just don’t write emails like this, it’s way more likely that some scammer fooled your friend.
- Comment on My friend got hacked and of course microsoft will not even try to help 1 day ago:
its from my friend so thats all I need personally
You think it’s literally impossible that your friend would be fooled into thinking the email was from Microsoft when it wasn’t?
- Comment on BA BA BA 1 day ago:
🎶tutira mai nga iwi🎶
- Comment on Fictional 5 days ago:
Yes, the Planck length
- Comment on Richest American to FAFO? 2 weeks ago:
The people doing the guillotining weren’t the state (at first anyway)
- Comment on 2 weeks ago:
This meme is not saying anything like it’s the average price? It’s suggesting that the aesthetic of the tater tots in the jar conjures feelings of those places you can find which are that expensive.
- Comment on 2 weeks ago:
Big change from your last comment
- Comment on 2 weeks ago:
20 dollars is about 16 CHF, that’s an extremely normal price for a cocktail. I live just outside Zurich, I’m not exaggerating for comedic or dramatic effect. In a fancy bar in district 1 or niedersorf it’s more like 25 CHF or 30 USD.
Just a random selection of a few bars in downtown:
www.oldcrow.ch/rare-cocktails/ widderhotel.com/…/barkarte_september_2025.pdf marea.bar/…/Menukarte_Marea_AUWI_2025.pdf barmuenster.ch/…/240617_WEB_Version.pdf
- Comment on 3 weeks ago:
Paris is not nearly one of the most expensive cities. For a huge cultural capital it’s really quite affordable. Try Zurich or San Francisco or Singapore.
- Comment on Which timezone would win in a conflict? 4 weeks ago:
Everybody wins!
Except the Brits, haha
- Comment on IT'S A TRAP 4 weeks ago:
If the train killed only left handed people, you should still be left with infinite train proof right handed people.
Well, infinite left-hand-killing-train proof people, we don’t know about other trains.
- Comment on IT'S A TRAP 4 weeks ago:
Great explanation, I’d just like to add to this bit because I think it’s fun and important
And you would continue to kill infinite people every time you reached a new whole number.
Or any new number at all. Between 0 and 0.0…01 there are already infinite people. And between 0.001 and 0.002.
- Comment on IT'S A TRAP 4 weeks ago:
with the extra requirement that the probability applies to the whole set I think it checks out, intuitively anyway the expected ~0.0…01 * ∞ is still ∞
- Comment on The Problem of Writing Poems in the Shape of Deciduous Trees 4 weeks ago:
I count three os on the bottom, from “common”, “problem”, and “poems”. Seems correct to me?
- Comment on The Crussy 1 month ago:
It’s this photo, it’s as old as the hills. Lots of people used to have it as a profile pic because of exactly that reaction when it’s a thumbnail. I hunted for a while but couldn’t find the original source, maybe someone else knows or has better search-fu than me.
- Comment on Encouragement 1 month ago:
because the withdrawal also kills
Ah, you might be thinking of alcohol. Nicotine withdrawal just makes a very strong craving but there is no physical danger.
- Comment on Anon doesn't like AI 1 month ago:
They were joking, they “went from 2-5 bugs per day to ten times that!”
- Comment on Anon doesn't like AI 1 month ago:
Well, idk about all men, but you certainly sound like an asshole
- Comment on [deleted] 1 month ago:
I think the US is the best place he could go, it’s already so bad even he will hardly make it worse, and more factions and intra-right tension might even be a good thing that could come out of it
- Comment on It's a whole genre! 1 month ago:
Nah punch drunk love is also really good
- Comment on Are you not entertained? 2 months ago:
I believe that the best for billionaires is to be relieved of the morally corrupting influence of their wealth, and I do wish that for them.
- Comment on the gang is all here 2 months ago:
tag urself im dz²
- Comment on 2hot2handle 2 months ago:
Lol
- Comment on 2hot2handle 2 months ago:
If it were, it wouldn’t be a good joke, because this exactly conforms to the thermodynamic definition of spontaneity. Saying it is spontaneous is, quite exactly, simple thermo.
- Comment on 2hot2handle 2 months ago:
Oh, good catch, thanks
- Comment on 2hot2handle 2 months ago:
Spontaneous is actually the thermodynamic jargon in this case though :)
- Comment on 2hot2handle 2 months ago:
Wrong, wrong, wrong.
Eh, it definitely has a cause. A known one.
Nothing to do with the physical definition of spontaneity. Spontaneity of a process just means that the ∆G is negative or total energy of the system is lower after the process, and additional energy isn’t required for the process to be thermodynamically allowed.
for the sole reason which specific molecules is nigh impossible to predict
Also unrelated, but it is fully impossible to predict, since in trying to predict it well enough you reach quantum scales where everything is probabilistic. That doesn’t at all mean everything is spontaneous.
So, who is correct depends entirely on the mental framing of what someone thinks of when they read “water”.
Nope, the first person is strictly correct and the second is strictly incorrect, as described above.
Water as an abstract idea of a specific type of fluid? Not spontaneous.
Nope, exactly spontaneous. You could even forget about water entirely and model this just as a bunch of nuclei and electrons in a box and derive that the lowest energy state has them being in a gas of atoms, and the initial state doesn’t, which is enough to demonstrate by our earlier statements that boiling is spontaneous.
Water as in what will literally happen to the bottle of water in the picture?
This is “not even wrong” territory.
This post isn’t showcasing mansplaining.
It absolutely is. We will define mansplaining here as the confidently correct dismissal of statements of women by men where we suspect that the genders of the participants may play a role.
The first part has been demonstrated above. It is also reasonable to assume the second given that we observe this happening to women at a far greater frequency than to men. Although, like with atoms, we cannot prove that this individual instance is a direct result, it is consistent with the probabilistic data and we would need additional evidence to conclude that this particular guy just goes around wrongly correcting everyone equally.
Nearly valid pedantry at that.
Once again, not remotely.
- Comment on Buying bread 2 months ago:
It’s gunk scraped from the bottom of beer fermentation barrels. Tastes something like auto body filler putty with soy sauce.