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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What was the 'bear vs man' controversy?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  The major issue I had with this is that it plays into the alpha male misogynistic ideal of strength.

  Some of them will almost certainly see it as a badge of honour. That they are so dominant that some stupid women (their opinion) will misinterpret that and get into trouble with a bear.

  I was trying to come up with a way to rephrase it.

  Something like would you rather be alone with a man or separate but you both have to eat a bowl of dog shit.

  If women choose the bowl there are nasty consequences for both and it’s clearer they would rather deal with that than the man.

  Nowhere near as catchy though…

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Is using MicroSD cards a good way to store data that you can destroy quickly incase an adversary is about to seize control of it?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Snapping sounds like a real faff.

  Keep them all in a special plastic box that is inside a powerful electromagnet.

  Push button and a field that is strong enough to damage the cards almost instantly and over a short time would generate enough heat to physically damage the cards.

  With enough power and time you could turn them into one hot blob that wouldn’t even be recognisable.

  So near instant data damage and then physical destruction probably before someone can work out what’s going on.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨why dont we do this??? are we stupid??⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  This is what those woke liberals want!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Understandable, copy that.⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s fucking laminated as well!

  Must have needed to make sure no one defaced it and changed the meaning.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Actress Dame Maggie Smith dies at 89⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  That’s a shame. Although living in that van all those years probably didn’t help.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨ASA bans adverts for Nike and Sky for using ‘dark pattern’ tactics⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I’m trying to coin the phrase distopia.

  To make it clear we’re talking about this dystopia we’re living in now.

  I’m also open to it meaning a world where everyone’s disses are completely on point.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Launches⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Wouldn’t shooting them into Jupiter be the easiest?

  I’m sure I’ve read a few things about what an impact that big bugger has on trajectories in our solar system.

  Intuitively I feel like a push towards Jupiter would be easier than a push to get all the way out of the solar system avoiding Jupiter.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Lord of the Rings Characters: Screen Time vs. Mentions in the Books⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  The balance of this doesn’t surprise me. The shift between book and film is quite heavily based on gender.

  The books were certainly much more male character based and the films evened it up a bit more. Although obviously still not even.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Would it count in basketball, if a player found themselves directly under the hoop, threw the ball up through the hoop from underneath, and the ball fell back down, again through the hoop?⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I could be wrong but I seem to remember this is one of the reasons why the baskets have a net.

  You’re not allowed to do that but if the net wasn’t there then in pre-video games the refs might not be able to spot if the ball went up through the hoop.

  Think they were also to stop players reaching up through the hoop to defend as well.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨sweet dreams⁩ ⁨⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  You specifically said “electrons do not orbit with any kind of movement”

  So by your own argument they’re not moving. We know the mass. So if we find one by your logic we know everything about it.

  Yes that is the probability cloud model well done.

  However my point again. You seem to think saying this renders the simile of planetary orbit obsolete. It doesn’t it’s a simile. It’s a way of explaining something that doesn’t have to exactly explain it.

  If someone said “that fell on my head like a ton of bricks” would you go and examine the object and check it was exactly a ton of bricks or that it exactly exhibited the properties of a ton of bricks?

  Or perhaps would you understand something from that about what had happened to them.

  You may find this useful. en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Simile

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Dawkins⁩ ⁨⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Here’s an example. The thoughts of the 1966 world cup winning squad on the disappearance of Lord Lucan

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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Dawkins⁩ ⁨⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  This looks like something from Viz magazine. They’ll regularly have big one page jokes about something and then have these little made up side bits in.

  Whole thing was probably about illegal immigrants taking small boats to the hundred acre wood and then there’s this little bit in the bottom.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨sweet dreams⁩ ⁨⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  If they don’t orbit with any kind of movement then what does that say about Heisenberg’s uncertainty principle?

  We know their mass. So once observed we would know everything about them.

  Unless your saying they just some how jump from one random point in that probability cloud to another?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨sweet dreams⁩ ⁨⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Electrons do orbit like planets in the solar system however they’re also waves. Which is what gives the set radii they can orbit at and keeps it all stable. The orbits can and do change due to the emission or absorption of certain quanta of radiation.

  So saying like is fine. It’s not an exact description but more of a simile to help understanding. They do orbit like a solar system. Saying electrons orbit the same as a solar system would be incorrect. That’s when the maths doesn’t work and the electrons orbit would decay.