AppleTea

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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What's it going to take to truly stop the US?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:

  Euro bonds, the EU needs to start issuing bonds

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Anon catches a glimpse of his own mortality⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  I mean, sure, an inheritance tax curtails the most egregious aspect of an informal aristocracy. But it’s a pernicious thing. Creeps in. Who your parents know, the school you go to, the district you grew up in, the jobs available after you graduate. I’m pretty damn skeptical of any claim to true meritocracy.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Internet picture of a monkey⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  also, tf2 hats

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨if I ever have grandkids that is⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  www.youtube.com/watch?v=gplA6pq9cOs

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Anon catches a glimpse of his own mortality⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Is it that Japan doesn’t have people born into obscene wealth or is it that, being english speakers, we just don’t hear about them?

  Also, maybe we should be careful about increasing the mass of the planet. I’m sure a little here and there wouldn’t be too much of a problem… but you know… the same is true of combustion engines…

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Anon catches a glimpse of his own mortality⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Kessler syndrome […] less than 3 days way

  Fuckin’ ace. Actually colonizing space would be a centuries long endeavor of fostering an ecosystem from scratch. So until we start propping up the ecosystem we’re living in, nobody has any business wasting resources on space boondoggles.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Humid Acid⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  is… isn’t most soil full of bacteria and fungi? what’s with the “vs”?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Anon gets enemy zoned⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  I too don’t trust Russians who aren’t open about hating their government and wanting their government to retreat from invading sovereign nations.

  That’s a fair position to take, but I know far to many Americans who hold this view while being silent about our occupations and the constant drone strikes.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Sea Level⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  www.youtube.com/watch?v=95gsOrr36II

  Sunlight moves in from the East, that’s how I remember. (tried to find a gif, but the video is close enough)

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Sea Level⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  East and west?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Anon lives on a budget⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s kinda both. The ACA was based on Heritage Foundation work that was done for the benefit of insurance companies. Not much consideration was put into the behaviors it would incentivize in employers.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Anon lives on a budget⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s Korea that typically gets ignored in the US. In fact, that war does fall under the time-frame we’re looking at and wikipedia says about 1.5 million were drafted for it.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Look at this. Or don't.⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Huh. Maybe there is no dragging quantum up to human scale comprehension. Like, we can only really describe this stuff with math equations.

  Probably gonnna keep repeating my dumbed down summary though, cus I think for us laymen it helps more than it hinders.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Look at this. Or don't.⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  “Photon touching” was a somewhat glib way of putting it on my part.

  What does your friend think of this statement:

  When physicists say “observe”, they actually mean “measure”. And to measure a photon of light, you have to interact with it somehow, there is no passive way to do so.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Look at this. Or don't.⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  oh boy, here I go banging this drum again:

  When physicists say “observe”, they actually mean “measure”. And to measure a photon of light, you have to interact with it somehow, there is no passive way to do so.

  The post’s header image implies that the interference pattern goes away just by looking at it. If that were the case, we would never see the interference pattern, never know it was there in the first place! In the actual experiment, they put a sensor at one or both of the slits. But to “sense” a single photon, you have to interact with it in some way. Otherwise you wouldn’t know it was there.

  Again, this is where the language trips us up. Rather than “sensor”, would really be more accurate to say they put a photon-touch-er at the slits.

  So, what we actually get is “Touching the photon changes the photon’s behavior.” The universe doesn’t magically infer when we happen to be looking at it, there is no spooky action-at-a-distance!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Scientific Exposure⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Nah, science has always worked like that. This is what peer review is for.

  What’s better than finding evidence that proves your own preconceived notions? Finding evidence that contradicts someone else’s. Schadenfreude is the great engine of scientific progress.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Anti-masturbation DLC⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  glowing?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Amazing⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Actually, because of Caesar and Augustus adding months, the 25th month is only Vigintitrisember

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨spongebob big guy pants okay⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  is this the biologist’s equivalent of “assume a flat, frictionless plane”

  Assume A Perfectly Homogeneous Liquid Mouse

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Stupid sexy raft⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Except everyone hates on the politician instead.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The existence of billionaires is a policy failure⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Sorry, do you think a business failing is only possible with government coercion?

  And what government coercion gave Google near monopolies on web search and video? Microsoft Windows accounts for 70% of desktop computers, did a government give them that? Whom did the government coerce for Amazon to have such domination of server hosting and online retail?

  I don’t think you’ve been paying close attention to whats been happening in your lifetime.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Valve's new hardware will NOT be loss leaders⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Ok, but R&D on a given product eventually stops. Over the lifetime of a good, it becomes a smaller and smaller proportion of overall costs.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The existence of billionaires is a policy failure⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  In a free market, competition has end results. Buisnes don’t just keep competing with one another ad infinitum. One of them eventually cant keep up and closes shop. It’s competitors expand into the space it previously filled. This process repeats until you have fewer and fewer firms that account for more and more of their sector of the economy. New business do not have resources to eke out space in an already filled niche.

  Under a long enough time frame, a free market creates less competition.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Anon travels overseas⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  vowels tend to be spoken with a flatter, wider mouth/tongue shape

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Scientists of Lemmy, explain:⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  I heard somewhere that the adult starfish is just the head. Imagine being a face and only a face, scrunching along the seafloor.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Our first look at the Steam Machine, Valve’s ambitious new game console⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  everything else is just sitting there waiting to be obsolete in a couple years

  a bit out from the cutting edge, sure, but obsolete? This aint the 90s or the Aughts any more.

  A machine put together 10 years ago will still run most things fine. Not at the fanciest settings, but fine. This is essentially the same criticism PC gaming has been lobbing at consoles for years, and now we have essentially a PC masquerading it’s way into the console wing of the market – of course the same criticism still apply! It’s not incredibly beefy because it doesn’t need to be. Different audience, different requirements.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Part of the reason the show works is that we never really see Federation life outside of Starfleet. Mostly this is for practical budget reasons; what does a post-scarcity egalitarian society actually look like? That’s difficult to depict in a show designed to recycle the same set every episode and only very occasionally go outside to film.

  So what little we see of the civilian federation looks… a lot like the US. There’s a president. Member states planets. Constant references to US history. A military that operates how Americans like to think their military works, rather than what it actually historically has done.

  Newer shows take this even further. Section 31, as it was first introduced, was supposed to be a highly illegal, unsanctioned conspiracy acting in the shadow of the proper Federation. Now they’re presented as the ultra official, coolest badasses who are the only reason any of the egalitarian principals are able to survive.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨AWS crash causes $2,000 Smart Beds to overheat and get stuck upright⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I feel like if I was gonna put a computer attached to a motor & heater inside a bed, the very first step would be making sure that if the software goes wrong, it always defaults to staying bed shaped and not catching fire.

  I know I know hindsight is 20/20, I’m sure I’m just missing something. Venture capitalists would just give their money to any random idiot with a pitch, right?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  lol

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  the Sun does the same thing but also with a profit motive