gandalf_der_12te
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- Comment on Shower. I hate the wet place 4 days ago:
it’s always public spaces. being among people gives me all kinds of weird thoughts. it’s not just public spaces either, it’s anywhere where there’s lots of people, including school, work, friends meetup.
- Comment on Fictional 1 week ago:
by the way i’m not a science denialist, i just cannot follow that one particular argument.
- Comment on Fictional 1 week ago:
i don’t like trusting “experts” in fact. trusting “experts” is how we got into this mess. people let themselves be manipulated by the media. people need to think for themselves. yes, that includes not believing certain scientific results, but IMO it’s better to discard a scientific result that i cannot follow myself instead of becoming an authoritarian (i.e. one who believes in authors, i.e. other people’s writing) dependent.
- Comment on Anon studies Organic Chemistry 1 week ago:
i think multiple-choice-exams are even better because they’re corrected by a machine by scanning the checkboxes and saying either “yes” or “no”. it’s 100% fair and also really effective.
- Comment on Fictional 1 week ago:
welllll i say that’s a reaaaly sketchy and irrational way to look at things.
like, even if you smallest ruler is 1 mm, that does not mean that smaller things don’t exist. they can still play a role, i.e. through chaotic behavior smaller perturbations could be up-amplified until they are measurable.
- Comment on Fictional 1 week ago:
If you take the smallest distance that exists and divide it by the shortest amount of time that can pass
btw that’s a nonsensical argument. there can be both space and time smaller than that.
- Comment on Fictional 1 week ago:
IMO it might be better to only look at natural units that don’t depend on the specific properties of matter (i.e. proton mass, electron charge, …)
arguably, there could be an alien civilization in our universe that is purely made of exotic matter somewhere really far away, we simply haven’t found it yet. It’s purely made of exons and kaions and yppsons and particles that don’t exist on earth, where an exon has a positive charge of 1.456… proton charges and an yppson has a negative charge of -4.132… proton charges and so on.
therefore i consider physical constants such as ħ and c and G more fundamental than e and such, because those numbers would be the same even for exotic matter, i claim.
then, is that reduced set of natural constants harmonizable?
- Comment on Better safe than sorry 1 week ago:
that’s why the true progress is made if we simplify our mental models so they’re easier to explain … because then the next generation can get running faster and therefore get farther.
- Comment on Did it really used to be common for guys to go to a bar every night like in Cheers or The Simpsons? 1 week ago:
yeah same. also i don’t drink alcohol anymore but it would be nice to have more places to hang out.
- Comment on I'm blue ba da ba da dee da ba dieee 1 week ago:
What most people don’t know is why Smurfs are blue. Well, the reason is because Smurfs only have sex once a year.
Face it: if you had sex only once a year, you’d be blue, too.
- Comment on snail lyfe 1 week ago:
tbf the sun is a planet if you define “planet” appropriately
- Comment on Banana 1 week ago:
- Comment on Bought to you by the central limit theorem society 1 week ago:
explosions are for barbars. civilized people do slow controlled combustion.
- Comment on Bought to you by the central limit theorem society 1 week ago:
“central limit theorem society” sounds like some futuristic af thing straight out of neon genesis evangelion, alongside the dead sea scrolls and the central dogma.
- Comment on Banana 1 week ago:
autism for the win yeah :)
- Comment on Banana 1 week ago:
ooh so that’s what that is
i heard an old man mysteriously whisper “enjoy your bananas while they still exist, young person” to me at the supermarket a while ago and i didn’t know what they were talking about but they sounded very serious so i didn’t doubt them.
- Comment on Banana 1 week ago:
you forgot
- delicious
- Comment on Mom they're fighting again 2 weeks ago:
yeah … plants have hybridization, yeah, i’m still reading into this.
- Comment on Mom they're fighting again 2 weeks ago:
ok then two comments:
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if nothing is strictly true, then that implies that the statement that “nothing is strictly true” is also not strictly true, i.e. there are exceptions which are strictly true …
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jokes aside, your comment reminds me of a funny story i once read where a biologist does research on clover (you might know this one). he investigates all clover he can find and finds that they all have 3 leaves. so he calls it a law of nature that clover has three leaves.
one faithful morning, he walks out of door and finds a 4-leaved clover in the garden (which is symbol of good luck in some cultures). however, he rebukes at that and tries to sue the clover for violating the law of nature …
kinda the same spirit as what you said above. people make observations, then make these observations into laws, and if somebody breaks them, that’s their fault. instead, the model was conceived inappropriately .
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- Comment on Mom they're fighting again 2 weeks ago:
While a little arbitrary
it’s not that arbitrary as you might think. genetics is literally all about mutating, mixing and recombining genes, and producing viable offspring together is a huge part of that. that is why the concept of species is so important.
- Comment on World would be a better place 2 weeks ago:
:P
- Comment on Why do so many boomers and even some gen x believe so peristently that if you dressup and show up in person anywhere you will get whatever you went there for? 2 weeks ago:
it is said that once every thousand years a buddha awakens spontaneously who understands the world intuitively, without being taught …
- Comment on Mom they're fighting again 2 weeks ago:
in that case we cannot ever be “right” about anything, as any thought we have is just a model that helps us get through life?
- Comment on World would be a better place 2 weeks ago:
i love me too :D
- Comment on Mom they're fighting again 2 weeks ago:
fun fact: i have the conspiracy theory that the USB symbol:
represents the phylogenetic tree of live. there’s a big node right at the beginning which are all the bacteria that aren’t really species (as i explained in another comment in this thread) but groups that can all exchange genes with each other and are therefore “one big species” and a lot of eukaryotic species that a long time ago developed out of them which only branch out, but don’t come back.
- Comment on Mom they're fighting again 2 weeks ago:
Is there such a thing as real taxonomy
in the unlikely case that this is a serious question: yes, there is, at least for eukaryotes.
for eukaryotes (things that have a cellular nucleus) there are “species” which are groups of organisms that can’t produce offspring with each other. The reasons are typically (i think?) that the genetic differences between two species are too great and any offspring would therefore have such a self-incompatible set of genes that they cannot live with.
for prokaryotes (bacteria) the situation is a bit different. due to horizontal gene transfer, they can exchange genes with practically ever other strain of bacteria, as long as the environmental circumstances are right. (and the result is often viable, i.e. the resulting bacteria can live that way). as a consequence, there are not so clearly defined “species” for bacteria. however, there are still groups of bacteria that have a higher similarity to each other, so we still group them together and give them names.
- Comment on Mom they're fighting again 2 weeks ago:
“taxonomy is a social construct”
i mean for bacteria it actually is because bacteria can exchange genes across “species” so it’s not really a species… at least not in the sense of eukaryotes (where species are defined such that different species cannot exchange genes with each other)
- Comment on Why do so many boomers and even some gen x believe so peristently that if you dressup and show up in person anywhere you will get whatever you went there for? 2 weeks ago:
ok, these two images explain a lot, thanks :D
yeah, the second one looks waay more comfy than the first one to me. and also i get your intention of wearing a complete, matching suit, like, stuff matches together. that’s better than just wearing random individual unmatching items.
the way i do it is to select all my clothing that i have/own depending on color schemes. almost all my clothing is green/brown/red, (the brown being similar to the second picture) so it all automatically matches because it all has a certain vibe to it.
- Comment on World would be a better place 2 weeks ago:
here. lemmy is already that.
- Comment on Why do so many boomers and even some gen x believe so peristently that if you dressup and show up in person anywhere you will get whatever you went there for? 2 weeks ago:
yep that is definitely happening. development is a slow progress.
