porous_grey_matter
@porous_grey_matter@lemmy.ml
- Comment on Are you not entertained? 3 days 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 3 days ago:
tag urself im dz²
- Comment on 2hot2handle 4 days ago:
Lol
- Comment on 2hot2handle 5 days 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 5 days ago:
Oh, good catch, thanks
- Comment on 2hot2handle 5 days ago:
Spontaneous is actually the thermodynamic jargon in this case though :)
- Comment on 2hot2handle 5 days 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 1 week ago:
It’s gunk scraped from the bottom of beer fermentation barrels. Tastes something like auto body filler putty with soy sauce.
- Comment on Anon crunches some numbers 3 weeks ago:
Oh we’re speeding up the problems alright
- Comment on Anon crunches some numbers 3 weeks ago:
We did that to quite s large degree even before we were modern humans, 2-400kya
- Comment on Surprise! 4 weeks ago:
It’s almost like there’s a spectrum
- Comment on And nothing of value was lost 4 weeks ago:
What those criteria are matters
- Comment on US education 4 weeks ago:
Ah but your nerves rely on electricity so actually you only feel electricity, checkmate athiests
- Comment on Silky Smooth 5 weeks ago:
I was on the train…
- Comment on 1 month ago:
That’s a queen
- Comment on Can I lick it? 1 month ago:
- Comment on My son got Nikes so he doesn't get teased. 1 month ago:
Do blame Nike, and all the other corps, they are the ones who force capitalism on us, they are the cause of this behaviour, they control the politics.
- Comment on Yellow from the egg! 1 month ago:
Yes that’s why they should be allowed
- Comment on Easy steezy 1 month ago:
That’s not naming species though
- Comment on Gravity 1 month ago:
Which is roughly the pay for a staff scientist or lecturer
- Comment on Gravity 1 month ago:
Postdocs are definitely not getting 55k in the UK except maybe if something like medicine is special? The range is like 36-45ish.
- Comment on EVERYBODY IS DOING SOMETHING 1 month ago:
Understandable
- Comment on EVERYBODY IS DOING SOMETHING 1 month ago:
It is, this guy is a known fraud and all-round bad dude
- Comment on A slow and painful death 1 month ago:
No it won’t, the thermal mass of the car is way higher than a few of its volumes of air, and it’s still sitting in the sun too
- Comment on You got it, buddy 2 months ago:
French remained influential in the courts, higher education, and elite society long after it stopped being the “official” language. That last part is totally right.
- Comment on You got it, buddy 2 months ago:
Sure, but many of those words for specialised doctors came to English through French, not directly from Latin or Greek. And I don’t think that you can reasonably argue that English words with French origins aren’t by now a native part of the language. We use many of the same names in Dutch too, coming from French loanwords.
- Comment on You got it, buddy 2 months ago:
“ear-nose-throat” is commonly used in English.
And it kind of is like the medical field popped into existence in the 1700s.
- Comment on yeey 2 months ago:
Only stuff that starts off heavier than lead, and even then not everything, some decay chains stop at thallium instead. Cobalt, with atomic number 27, won’t ever become lead, with 55 more protons.
- Comment on yeey 2 months ago:
Nickel is not extremely edible lol
- Comment on [deleted] 2 months ago:
Compute can be outsourced to the cloud (not that I think that’s good, but it does lift the limit on small devices)