wise_pancake
@wise_pancake@lemmy.ca
- Comment on Young Frankenstein is not available for streaming 1 day ago:
I’ve only ever seen this in the original VHS
- Comment on Eat lead 3 weeks ago:
I skimmed that link and it’s pretty interesting, I’ll have to spend more time on it. I definitely liked the part at the end about God being the observer in this context, so what’s a day to him.
- Comment on Eat lead 3 weeks ago:
Thanks for that
I don’t see why God must be incompatible with evolution or the Big Bang or really any of science. God created us to be clever, surely that includes using logic and science to learn about the world.
Personally I’m agnostic and I try not to judge people. I do judge people who dismiss science and decide faith alone is better.
- Comment on Eat lead 3 weeks ago:
Also this doesn’t say anything about the Earth.
Plus you can’t keep give a liberal reading of the bible to be:
- god created the heaven and the earth. God created the heavenly bodies.
- God created the sky - earths atmosphere and climate
- God separates oceans - creates continental forms, and plant based life
- God creates the moon and sun and stars. This one seems out of order to me… maybe just the earth and solar system stabilize. I don’t know how pll ok ants exist without the sun, so maybe it’s microbes or something.
- God creates birds and sea creatures. Maybe birds are dinosaurs.
- God creates modern land animals, then creates man and woman. That makes sense, mankind is certainly new with only a few hundred thousand years of records before civilization starts.
That doesn’t have to imply the earth is 4000 years old. Even the original wording could be read as eon instead of day.
- Comment on I'm a reasonably well educated human living on Earth. What's to stop me from replicating starship parts until I can make my own Starfleet? 4 weeks ago:
That would violate the laws of thermodynamics, you can’t create more energy in a closed system.
- Comment on I'm a reasonably well educated human living on Earth. What's to stop me from replicating starship parts until I can make my own Starfleet? 4 weeks ago:
I suspect they couldn’t replicate dilithium because they’d be consuming dilithium, converting it to energy, then converting that energy back to dilithium.
The laws of thermodynamics state that this would be inefficient.
- Comment on I'm a reasonably well educated human living on Earth. What's to stop me from replicating starship parts until I can make my own Starfleet? 4 weeks ago:
- Extreme amounts of energy needed for large items, but it seems like Earth has transporter quotas, so presumably they enforce energy budgets (based on DS9 Sisko using his transporter budget)
- Not all materials like latinum can be replicated
- Materials like dilithium are seemingly not viable to replicate, probably due to it being an incredibly wasteful process
- Many dilithium byproducts are unstable controlled substances, so at some point Starfleet would interfere to prevent the creation of trilithium or other unstable substances.
- I don’t know if you need antimatter, but I don’t think you could replicate it. You could replicate the machinery needed to produce it though.
- The Federation does have industrial replicators but they seem to be treated as controlled assets they rarely give out or provide access to. So they might meddle if you start building these.
- Comment on Is Lemmy an effective alternative to Reddit? 4 weeks ago:
Same here, was on Reddit since 2010.
I remade an account because some of my communities aren’t big enough here. But the quality of interaction through the fediverse is much much better.
For sports, Reddit has utterly ruined them because in the app they show the results for every F1 Grand Prix as soon as the race finishes in an unremovable “trends” tile. I often can’t watch live, and so I had almost every race this season spoiled.
- Comment on Is Lemmy an effective alternative to Reddit? 4 weeks ago:
I don’t agree, the longer I’ve been here the more familiar usernames I see, so to me it’s been improving.
- Comment on 10001 4 weeks ago:
It’s a great way to save on number boards
- Comment on Life imitates art? 5 weeks ago:
If it has an error it will keep asking you for more forever.
- Comment on Ok boomer 5 weeks ago:
I like keeping the unread count low, but I get so many junk notification emails at work I’ve given up on checking.
- Comment on US Dockworker Strike Wins 62% Raises 5 weeks ago:
Good for them!
- Comment on Taylor Swift Endorses Kamala Harris | Her Instagram post backing the vice president came shortly after Ms. Harris and former President Donald Trump had stepped off the debate stage. 2 months ago:
How does she keep the cat hair off that sweater?
- Comment on Disc market share for week ending in 2024-08-31: What a wonderful day as "Kingdom of the Planet of the Apes" is crowned first place. 2 months ago:
Thank you, that makes much more sense.
I was wondering what machinations had to happen in order for a 20 year old substandard animated movie to make #2 on the sales charts.
- Comment on Disc market share for week ending in 2024-08-31: What a wonderful day as "Kingdom of the Planet of the Apes" is crowned first place. 2 months ago:
The Garfield movie? The one from 20 years ago?
What?!
- Comment on Horror Sign 2 months ago:
Jesus that’s realistic
- Comment on "Now everyone will have an easy reference table at hand!" 2 months ago:
Do you guys have to memorize fluorine too?
It’s been a decade since I took chemistry, and I did not get very good marks in it, but it seems like the elements at the bottom of the table (with exception to Uranium and Plutonium) are just hanging out while the top elements do all the work.
- Comment on "Now everyone will have an easy reference table at hand!" 2 months ago:
In Canada even in university I don’t think it was expected to be memorized.
My prof did offer extra credit to anyone who could sing the entire element song in front of the whole class, which was very fun, and some people nailed it.
My highschool teachers did the same.
I’ve always liked those efforts to make bohring content engaging
- Comment on AAAAAAAAAA 2 months ago:
They also pee constantly
- Comment on “A simple calculation” 4 months ago:
I think that translates to only requiring one phd to understand
- Comment on “A simple calculation” 4 months ago:
Stochastic differential equations?
- Comment on Calculus made easy 6 months ago:
Math is never irrelevant
- Comment on Calculus made easy 6 months ago:
This is the nicest I’ve seen this info presented.
They didn’t even need to draw a chart of decreasing deltas and partitions, or talk about tangents and secants.
- Comment on What kind of institutional gaslighting is this? 6 months ago:
I could rematch it against The Cube and see which scenario is worse
- Comment on What kind of institutional gaslighting is this? 6 months ago:
It’s time to rematch office space
- Comment on [deleted] 6 months ago:
Fewer than one a month?
I guess a good heuristic is if you don’t watch one or two movies a month on Disney, you should drop Disney makes sense.
- Comment on Ubisoft Is Taking Away Your Games... 7 months ago:
I was going to try again assassins creed a few years ago but it needed an Ubisoft account and to accept tracking to just open the single player game, I haven’t touched Ubisoft since.
- Comment on Still wondering why people from Alaska didn't post about the eclipse 7 months ago:
Glad to see Alaska got it too!
- Comment on Homer 7 months ago:
It did a great job making me want to smack him