AppleTea
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- Comment on ..? 1 week ago:
Genuine political change has to come from the people who live under it. If Trump got blown up tomorrow, it would no more change US politics than this is gonna do anything for Iranians. If you want a people to rise up against their “dictator” give them space to decide the best course of actions for themselves.
Why should Iranian citizens look on this as a good thing when the country that bombed and ransacked their neighbors for 20+ years is looming like a vulture?
- Comment on big facts 1 week ago:
People who grew up around the same time and geography have the same historical pressures on what behaviors they learn. Obviously outcome varies a lot individual to individual, but it creates broad trends among large groups. Sorting chronologically brings those trends to the forefront.
- Comment on big facts 1 week ago:
You might enjoy Terry Pratchett’s witches series. There’s magic, but the real trick is solving your problems without ever using it. Wyrd Systers or Wee Free Men are good places to start.
- Comment on big facts 1 week ago:
To put on my obnoxious skeptic hat, it sounds like you are analyzing how the historical conditions of people’s upbringing affects each generations’ behaviors and mannerisms. Just, with an astrological chart rather than with a calendar.
- Comment on Stubborn, maybe, but if it ain't broke 1 week ago:
“Ain’t broke” is a lot better of a description than “fittest”.
Evolution selects for the first thing that happens to work. It’ doesn’t have to work particularly well, only well enough to not die from it.
- Comment on We're just scanning for the bear... 2 weeks ago:
whaaaat surely BYU, the school that claimed to have done cold fusion, is an upstanding pillar of academic research
- Comment on Hopefully, he will be 6 underground by that time. 2 weeks ago:
I have pointed to the history, and your response is to say “nuh huh read more”
- Comment on Hopefully, he will be 6 underground by that time. 2 weeks ago:
Convince them that your priorities is minorities and foregin policy and they will tell you that it’s all good and well but they are about to lose their job and the cost of living is going up so they are just going to vote for the other guy that promises to fix that.
I recall a damn lot of the Biden administration was spent saying “no no the economy is really really good look at the NASDAQ and the S&P and stop talking about groceries!” and not promising to fix anything.
Does that sound like effective campaigning to you?
- Comment on Hopefully, he will be 6 underground by that time. 2 weeks ago:
“There’s always never-ending conflict in the middle east” is a rather convenient position to take for the globe-spanning military super-power that’s been meddling in the region for more than half a century.
- Comment on Follow me for more shitty diet tips 3 weeks ago:
when your nutrition app has a contract with Suntory
- Comment on ESL homework 3 weeks ago:
Damn, these look kinda fun…
- Comment on What's it going to take to truly stop the US? 2 months ago:
Euro bonds, the EU needs to start issuing bonds
- Comment on Anon catches a glimpse of his own mortality 2 months 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 2 months ago:
also, tf2 hats
- Comment on if I ever have grandkids that is 2 months ago:
- Comment on Anon catches a glimpse of his own mortality 2 months 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 2 months 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 2 months ago:
is… isn’t most soil full of bacteria and fungi? what’s with the “vs”?
- Comment on Anon gets enemy zoned 2 months 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 months 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 months ago:
East and west?
- Comment on Anon lives on a budget 2 months 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 2 months 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. 2 months 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. 2 months 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. 2 months 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 3 months 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 3 months ago:
glowing?
- Comment on Amazing 3 months ago:
- Comment on spongebob big guy pants okay 3 months ago:
is this the biologist’s equivalent of “assume a flat, frictionless plane”
Assume A Perfectly Homogeneous Liquid Mouse
