Rhaedas
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- Comment on Off the Rails 4 hours ago:
Dawkins' book "Climbing Mount Improbable" is a great and easy read to introduce the idea of making something complex and seemingly designed for its purpose a much more probable thing to happen if broken into small changes over huge amounts of time. And it's like 30 years old, so probably outdated with more and better evidence now.
There is an old Youtube video by cdk007 (that's still up!) that tackles a related fallacy, where finding a watch on the beach implies a watchmaker because nothing complex can evolve. He created a simulation using watch parts and evolutionary rules to show complexity does arise with the right conditions and enough time. Image
- Comment on Off the Rails 17 hours ago:
"Intelligent design"
Oh, I don't think so.
Is that phrase even used anymore, or did it run its course of insanity and die off?
- Comment on Andor was such a clever show 19 hours ago:
Only one minor flaw with this - Syril may have had a brief second of awareness that he was on the wrong side and had been deluded his whole life. I can't say I've seen examples of this in reality.
- Comment on Is there an endgame to Trump he is trying to obtain? Or is he making it up along the way at the cost of Americans? 4 days ago:
In addition to what's been mentioned, he has certain protections as long as he's President.
- Comment on A swing and a miss 1 week ago:
"Some of those that work forces..." is a bad metaphor too then, I guess.
- Comment on SIMPLE CHALLANGE 1 week ago:
A person of culture.
- Comment on Sea Level 1 week ago:
Like other elements, just a bit farther reach with their fields. Fun fact, nothing is solid. When you try and touch something, it's actually just forces against forces. Atoms are primarily made of nothing.
- Comment on Do you ever watch old classic TV shows and realize that they are all dead 1 week ago:
Do you research everything you watch beforehand? That's a very interesting and restricting filter for yourself.
Mind blowing realization - any media you watch, even live stream, is from a past that's gone by the time you see it.
The next level is - how real is anything that you perceive? "What is... real?" - Morpheus
- Comment on Battle Bun 2 weeks ago:
- Comment on Longing, Rusted, Seventeen, Daybreak, Furnace, Nine, Benign, Homecoming, One, Boxcar 2 weeks ago:
I was thinking Beakman's World. Apparently it's just such a common phrasing in high school science that it became a meme without anyone's particular influence.
- Comment on Battle Bun 2 weeks ago:
And Overgrowth. Some incredible programming.
- Comment on THIS is a real test of how old you are. If you score 20 your future is short 2 weeks ago:
And if you were lucky you'd have a higher end stereo system that could fade in the sounds too. Combine that with a pause, you could avoid that jarring noise of starting and stopping recording between songs. Just had to find the stations that didn't have the DJs who talked halfway through the song intro.
I'm a solid 20. Those of you who didn't get very high scores, you don't know what you missed.
- Comment on Education is important. 2 weeks ago:
Trick question, it's not a country. That's the island in Lost, and one of the locations it pops up.
- Comment on fine dining 2 weeks ago:
Regional, or maybe the local town zoning won't allow that kind of traffic.
- Comment on fine dining 2 weeks ago:
Yes. Not sure why I didn't use that. Technically Flying J is a brand/chain, but not what's typically thought of.
- Comment on SPhotonix 5D memory crystal: cold storage lasts 14B years 2 weeks ago:
The real annoying part of CDs was the failure rate. It could be the medium, the burner, or the software, but it always seemed you'd spend time waiting for the data to be saved to a more "permanent" source, and it would finally pop up with an error and the whole disk is now trash. Kind of glad that tech is now obsolete. I think you could redo a read/write a few times, but they had similar issues and it was a pain.
- Comment on fine dining 2 weeks ago:
It was years ago, but I've eaten at one of the major truck stop brands (Flying J) and it was higher level than any brand restaurant as far as service and what they offered.
- Comment on Barn Spiders 2 weeks ago:
That wasn't in the book. Only in the extended director's cut of the movie.
- Comment on It was completely lost on me, at first. 2 weeks ago:
That is my response, every damn time.
- Comment on Look at this. Or don't. 2 weeks ago:
NOT HOW ANY OF IT WORKS
- Comment on 🌽🌽🌽🌽🌽🌽🌽🌽🌽🌽 2 weeks ago:
A bit 🌽y to me
- Comment on why is fossil fuel still used? 2 weeks ago:
Yes, it's on the list too at 33 MJ/L. Lower than conventional, but still higher than ethanol. The usual mix for drop in use with typical diesel engines is 10% bio/90% conventional. It's a good use of recycled material vs. just disposal.
- Comment on why is fossil fuel still used? 2 weeks ago:
Than gasoline or diesel? No, they don't. Wikipedia has a large chart on their article for energy density of various sources. Some things are harder to directly compare with each other, but diesel has 38 MJ/L, with jet fuel/kerosene and gasoline at 36/35. Adding ethanol dilutes the energy output some, while pure ethanol is 24. It's still a potent source (but with its own costs and effects that need to be included in the net equation). Chemically petroleum simply has more bonds to break and get energy from.
- Comment on A bear, exhausted from abuse, attacks its trainer— Hangzhou Safari Park, China 3 weeks ago:
I don't even have sympathy for people who put themselves in situations in the wild and get attacked, but for an animal that's been abused for someone's profit and enjoyment, I'm totally on the animal's side. Their life is ruined - they probably can't go back into the wild, and an attack like this will result in their death. So suffer or die? Hell of a way to live.
- Comment on Hey look, a giant sign telling you to find a different job 3 weeks ago:
I've learned that's either a sign or a requirement of middle management. I like to go through and correct the errors on posted messages.
- Comment on Make me feel like a man 3 weeks ago:
The "I have a flag" of being manly.
- Comment on Make me feel like a man 3 weeks ago:
MAGA, when Nazis were fringe groups, and got punched when showing up in public.
- Comment on Trump wants the NFL to change its name so that soccer is the only sport called football: ‘We have to come up with another name for the NFL stuff’ 3 weeks ago:
Calvin Ball. Since he's so prone to making up rules as he goes.
- Comment on My Religion 3 weeks ago:
Are you talking about murder? Because if anything legal morality is far better than most religious when it comes to killing people. And that's even with capital punishment still practiced.
- Comment on qt π 3 weeks ago:
I doubt such a law is a linear function, and probably plateaus at some point. I wouldn't consider large birds even outside raptors as weak because they are big, and dinosaurs? Maybe clarify what you mean as "less powerful".
Even outside the bird family, what about huge animals like orca, elephants, rhinos?
