AmidFuror
@AmidFuror@fedia.io
- Comment on Does different parts of the world use different standards for water pressure similar to voltages? 3 hours ago:
A bar is 100,000 Pa or 100.000 Pa. Why not use KPa? Why set a separate unit to be 1E+05?
- Comment on Is there any real physical proof that Jesus christ ever existed? 6 days ago:
Agreed.
- Comment on Is there any real physical proof that Jesus christ ever existed? 6 days ago:
They've never been able to find Jesus's bones, which is itself strong evidence for the Biblical story that he was resurrected.
- Comment on Avowed's Creators On Why Romance Was Considered, But Ultimately Not Included And Skyrim Comparisons 1 week ago:
Don't forget "get the girl."
- Comment on Why not serve fried chicken on Juneteenth? How is it different from serving corned beef on St. Patrick’s day? 1 week ago:
Can you work in a reference to manufactured consent?
- Comment on How do I verbally say 2.1 ng/kg 2 weeks ago:
- Comment on How do I verbally say 2.1 ng/kg 2 weeks ago:
You can say "nanograms per kilogram." You could shorten it to "nanograms per kilo."
If it were mg/kg, you could say "migs per kig." You won't trick me into saying the equivalent for nanograms, though.
- Comment on Why do teeth don't regenerate? 2 weeks ago:
There are no stupid questions. But there are grammatically flawed questions.
- Comment on Why do teeth don't regenerate? 2 weeks ago:
It's way easier to start new life after selecting amongst gametes than it is to keep an aging body alive forever.
- Comment on Why isn't jerking off more valorized as an easy dopamine hit that's also literally good for you? 2 weeks ago:
Practice safe sex, kids.
- Comment on What's the rule for which 'national identity adjective' suffix to use? 3 weeks ago:
Nothing sounds good in those accents, so it's anything goes.
- Comment on What's the rule for which 'national identity adjective' suffix to use? 3 weeks ago:
It's based on what sounds best.
- Comment on Is there any significance to people using emojis that match their skin tone? 3 weeks ago:
Is it considered poor taste to use darker emoji colors if you are white?
- Comment on The full video from the famous "Tank Man" photo 3 weeks ago:
Can't win them all.
- Comment on The full video from the famous "Tank Man" photo 3 weeks ago:
I thought the reference to clearly marked police was the icing on the cake, but people may not have read that far.
I don't think anyone who has been to Tiananmen Square can do anything but laugh at my comment.
- Comment on The full video from the famous "Tank Man" photo 3 weeks ago:
At least the CCP is open to criticism and debate about their actions back then.
If you go to Tiananmen today, you will see and hear a lot of discussion of this troubling time in China's recent history. Sure, sometimes the debate about one party authoritarian rule vs the colonial nature of Western-style democracy can get heated, but there are police around in clearly marked uniforms to make sure it doesn't get out of hand. Never again!
- Comment on What is the absolute max level of ear protection you can get? 3 weeks ago:
...they locked that kid in a coffin and had an orgy outside....
You just named a practical use.
- Comment on What is the absolute max level of ear protection you can get? 3 weeks ago:
Wouldn't out of phase noise also cancel the pressure? The amplitudes combine to zero.
- Comment on Are shrunken heads a rights violation? 3 weeks ago:
I can get 8 shrunken heads on my mantle or just 5 regular heads. Seems like a no brainier.
- Comment on What is the equivalent stereotype of 'women should all be homemakers,' for men? 4 weeks ago:
That's like getting tired of having sex.
- Comment on If we get two sets of chromosomes, how does our body decide which genes to use? 4 weeks ago:
We might have been classmates at word school.
- Comment on If we get two sets of chromosomes, how does our body decide which genes to use? 4 weeks ago:
Another side point not mentioned here otherwise: genomic imprinting.
As a general rule, genes are expressed whether they came from the mother or father. Understanding just that general rule will give one a good grasp of the principles. But bill often has exceptions. There are a few genes which are "imprinted" in sperm or eggs and are not equally expressed during development. The imprinting tends to favor paternal gene copy expression and typically involves epigenetic modification of the chromosome structure. The sequence of the nucleotides in the genes doesn't change, but the DNA itself may be chemically modified, e.g. with methyl groups added to cytosines. Those modifications recruit proteins which tend to suppress gene expression and maintain the methylation patterns over time.
- Comment on If we get two sets of chromosomes, how does our body decide which genes to use? 4 weeks ago:
Best explanation so far. Nice work.
A couple of side points. OP's X chromosome is definitely expressed. It has many genes that are essential to both men and women. It's genes are not exclusively relating to sex differences. In fact, far from it.
Sex determination in humans is due (mostly) to a few genes on the Y chromosome. These both determine which sex organs will develop and also are critical for male fertility.
One of the major consequences of having a Y chromosome that doesn't recombine with it's partner X chromosome is that the Y chromosome has a tendency to lose genes and shrink over evolutionary times. This is prevented on chrX because it can recombine in females. It happens on chrY because there is little mechanistically to prevent it, and mutations resulting in loss are more common than those resulting in gain.
- Comment on Best Buy Membership "discount" 4 weeks ago:
Reminder that Best Buy used to serve up a different Best Buy website if you were accessing it from their store kiosks. You would see a deal advertised on their site from home, drive to the store, and then they'd feign ignorance and have you try to find the deal again while there.
- Comment on Why does being tall make your belly more vulnerable in case of an attack? 5 weeks ago:
So he was wondering in two other posts about belly wounds from swords and asked if being tall and him more vulnerable. And then by coincidence a coworker told him that being tall made him vulnerable to being stabbed in the belly by a pocket knife? And he didn't know what she meant by that but had asked others the same question a month earlier?
- Comment on Salt :) 5 weeks ago:
It's the OH- and H+ (or H3O+) ions that make the acid and base react the way we think about them. You don't need salt for those to form spontaneously in water. Pure water will do it too. But there are many molecules in even a small volume of water, and the average behavior at pH 7 is such that you won't get acid or alkaline burns.
- Comment on Why does being tall make your belly more vulnerable in case of an attack? 5 weeks ago:
A month ago he was asking people in the comments if his height makes his belly more vulnerable to attacks. Definitely this post is disingenuous, even if we can't figure out the motive.
- Comment on [deleted] 1 month ago:
I read the title, looked at your picture, and read your three comments. I still don't understand why you posted a picture of cleaning supplies.
- Comment on What is the longest discontinuous marriage? 1 month ago:
Let's say he was 18 at the end of the war on 1865. That was 159 years ago they have to split between his remaining lifetime and all of hers. It's possible they both lived to 90.
Less plausible is that his pension would go to a spouse he married after he retired from the service. Anyone know anything about that in modern times?
- Comment on Suicide Squad Cost Warner Bros. $200 Million In Revenue 1 month ago:
“Starting with Studios, the $400 million+ year-over-year decline during Q1 was primarily due to the very tough comp we faced in games against the success of Hogwart’s Legacy last year in the first quarter, in conjunction with the disappointing Suicide Squad release this past quarter, which we impaired, leading to a $200 million impact to EBITDA (earnings before interest, taxes, depreciation, and amortisation) during the first quarter,” CFO Gunnar Wiedenfels said during the investor call after the report was published.
This doesn't line up at all with what Insider Gaming wrote. I don't think they know how to interpret company financials.
Costing revenue itself is a questionable phrase. A game can miss its revenue target, but that's not the same thing. Here it looks like earnings were lower by $200M due in part to more than $400M lower revenue comparing to a Q1 2023, which had the Hogwarts Legacy release.