InappropriateEmote
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- Comment on The Sensory Biology of Plants 2 weeks ago:
That could literally be an alternate title for the bingo card, and is almost certainly the motivation for like 90% of the people who wish plants were conscious. And even if their flawed logic were true, it’s just more testament to how morally bankrupt they are. Because all they’re saying is “since we might be causing suffering on an incomprehensibly massive scale in this hypothetical case, that means it’s perfectly fine to also keep causing suffering on an incomprehensibly massive scale in this other case where it for sure is happening undeniably. Gotcha, vegan!”
- Comment on A rogue object so strange, scientists aren’t sure what to call it. 2 weeks ago:
The picture is definitely just some artist’s conception, but it’s not claimed to be a photo or meant to be anything other than what it is, an artist’s conception. You’re right that for the most part, a star is needed for aurora, at least for the kind of aurora we have on Earth since it depends on the solar wind interacting with the planet’s magnetic field. But if there is anything that can be said about what we’ve discovered astronomically in the last century or so it’s that there are always exceptions to every supposed rule.
The authors attribute the auroras to SIMP-0136’s magnetic field being vastly more powerful than Jupiter’s (750 times stronger according to a previous study). Electrons (presumably stripped from atoms by internal processes) would flow with the field and hit atmospheric molecules fast enough to make them glow, they conclude.
Aside from the aurora part though, none of this is exceptional or rare (and maybe even the aurora part isn’t rare either). Rogue planets are probably extremely common, possibly even more common than planets that are gravitationally bound in a star system. And objects of this size, which is really around where we’d start calling it a brown dwarf, are also very common, with more of them than there are main sequence stars.
- Comment on Palestine Action ban coupled with Online Safety Act ‘a threat to public debate’ 4 months ago:
lol, “brigade”? What do you think a “brigade” is? When a person sees a post in their feed and clicks on it? Because that’s the only “brigading” I partook in. Even with all that aside, you still couldn’t tell a single person in this so-called “brigade” what the fuck you’re even talking about. Your refusal to explain your bullshit take has nothing to do with who you’re talking to, it is entirely because you did just pull it out of your ass with absolutely nothing substantial to back it up but are too chickenshit to admit that fact.
- Comment on Palestine Action ban coupled with Online Safety Act ‘a threat to public debate’ 4 months ago:
Are you not engaging with them because they insulted you or because you don’t actually have anything to back up that ridiculous “hot take”? Since I haven’t insulted you (yet), you can reply to me instead, providing any evidence you think you have that supports a such an out-there claim as “many of their actions have seemed to do little to affect Israel’s war but instead hinder Ukraine.” Because I’m genuinely curious to hear if this is a narrative being pushed. For now, we can even let alone the even more absurd part about Palestine Action being “lobbied or infiltrated” by Russian boogeymen.
- Comment on Ukraine rescues soldier via drone delivery of complete e-bike 4 months ago:
The side that press-gangs civilians on the street into unmarked white windowless vans to be shipped off as be cannon fodder on the front lines just pulled a gimmicky stunt for publicity in a losing war, yeah that sure does mean they care about their guys and gals! But the those bad guys the Russkies would never do something like that because they’re the bad guys.
- Comment on ‘Snow White’ Banned in Lebanon Due to Gal Gadot Being on Country’s ‘Israel Boycott List’ 8 months ago:
Upvoting for the edit. It’s rare to see people doing self crit and changing their position after having it explained to them why their initial position is wrong. I wish I saw it more often. rat-salute
- Comment on Make gravity your bitch 8 months ago:
The advantage gravity has is that it never quite goes away, no matter how far you are.
That’s true of all the fundamental forces, though. They all drop off over distance with inverse square laws. Like if you had two lone electrons in an otherwise empty universe, their electromagnetic repulsion would also persist indefinitely at 1/r^2 strength, just like gravity. The difference is that our universe has near-perfect charge neutrality at large scales.
- Comment on degree in bamf 1 year ago:
It’s not obvious? Because white males as a demographic are the most privileged people on the planet and not coincidentally also the ones most prone to petty, oblivious arrogance, tantrum-throwing, and egotistical man-splaining. The latter was demonstrated by the one in this NASA scientist’s anecdote.
