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- Comment on You cannot learn without failing. 4 days ago:
“When a measure becomes a target, it ceases to be a good measure.”
This is why p-hacking and searching huge databases for anything with a correlation to a desirable (or undesirable) trait ate simultaneously so prevalent, and so damaging.
- Comment on lab equipment 1 week ago:
I’d personally prefer the 50’s governments supplied housing for scientists, but sure, the grant would be nice too.
- Comment on Maybe it's just a human thing. 1 week ago:
Not all beliefs are equal. If you hold by a holy text that says that women can (and should) be bought and sold or are otherwise ‘lesser’ than men, or you revere an imbecilic demagogue who claims that all immigrants are rapists, murderers and gang members, then yes, the “culture” of your group will have a higher probability of any given person being an asshole than a group of randomly-selected Humanists, for example. To equivocate that all belief systems are equal from a moral perspective is deeply naive.
- Comment on THE CLASS WAR IS BACK, BABY! 2 weeks ago:
Don’t do my man Schrödinger dirty like that. I’m sure he had a perfectly normal, non-fascist asshole
- Comment on Enshittification 3 weeks ago:
I always appreciate another name to add to the block list. Get thee gone, thou vitriolic waste of bytes, thou fallacy-made-manifest, born of what can only be an unloving and deeply stupid progenitor.
- Comment on That's why it's called science fiction duh 5 weeks ago:
Totally fair. As a student of ancient languages, I primarily think of it in terms of language development and archeology, so I can certainly see why its modern connotation would be spurned. I personally think it’s just hilarious that the term for “white, blonde, and blue-eyed” among racial purists literally refers to a heritage that virtually cannot be further from their supposed “ideal”. It us for this reason that I correct people, because it is just another case of Nazis and White Supremacists showing that not only do they know nothing, they actively look less intelligent with every word they spew.
- Comment on That's why it's called science fiction duh 5 weeks ago:
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Agree with your sarcasm, but Poe’s Law applies. Always close your sarcasm HTML tag.
- Comment on That's why it's called science fiction duh 5 weeks ago:
Not disagreeing with you, but we really need to stop letting “Aryan” mean what the Nazis decided it should mean. Aryan is, and always has been, a term for the Indo-Iranian cultures. As scientists, we need to be the first to take it back to its actual meaning.
- Comment on I ❤️ birbs 1 month ago:
Still can’t compete with geology
It took me a full week in GEOL 0220 to figure out that the word my teacher kept saying was not “Erogeny”
- Comment on goofy goober 1 month ago:
Don’t need anything new, just give the smallpox time to thaw.
- Comment on fuck this asshole 1 month ago:
Let the record reflect that, while this has not yet occurred, the fact that you have to ask , is concerning enough to warrant treatment as if it has occurred. Furthermore, college campuses are one of the primary places that protest movements begin in recent years. Declaring protest illegal in nebulous terms like this is a HUGE swing toward breaking open the full fascism piñata.
- Comment on Always applies 75% of the time 1 month ago:
Fair enough, thanks
- Comment on Always applies 75% of the time 1 month ago:
To be clear, Anna’s Archive now manages sci-hub’s database, doesn’t it?
- Comment on The Nightshade Family 1 month ago:
There is more to a plant than just the fruit, you know. It just happens that the species (cultivar?) of nightshade that we grow for potatoes has tasty, starchy roots, while others have tasty, zesty fruits, and then so.a of them are eggplant.
- Comment on The Nightshade Family 1 month ago:
Many parts of the tomato plant are deadly to pets. Same goes for all nightshade members.
- Comment on Sooo, where did the blatant Nazism suddenly come from? 1 month ago:
Thanks for the obviously disingenuous comment. Always good to have another name for the block list.
- Comment on Physics books are a classic 1 month ago:
Fallout 3, apparently
- Comment on fck yea 2 months ago:
Suppose you are trying to determine the concentration of a solution. You could try to boil off the water and figure out how much solid stuff is left over, but what if it’s a mixture, and you just want to know how much, for instance, “Hydrochloric Acid” is in the water. Or, alternatively, some chemicals (such as Hydrochloric acid) evaporate with the water. We’ll call this chemical of interest “Chemical X”
So, you need to know how much Chemical X is in your solution, but you can’t really easily separate it from the solution. What do you do? You Titrate! You find some other chemical that reacts with Chemical X, so that this new chemical (which we will call Chemical Y) will get instantly destroyed as long as there is still more Chemical X in solution. So, as long as there is more Chemical X in solution, the Chemical Y will get eaten up instantaneously, reacting with Chemical Y.
Finally, you just need to have some way of detecting whether any Chemical Y exists in the solution, since the moment you see it in solution, you know there’s no more Chemical X.
Now, you titrate: take a specific volume of your sample solution, and add a known concentration of Chemical Y, drop by drop. Once there is any chemical Y left over, you know you have found how much Chemical X was in the solution to start. Congratulations, you now know the concentration of Chemical X in the sample solution.
- Comment on idijt 2 months ago:
I considered that, though the play of prismatic colors which defines the diamond’s unique lustre, in addition to that same tendency toward internal reflection, are both ultimately caused by the extraordinary refractory properties of the crystal structure, and the refracted light coming out of the diamond after internal reflection is the constituent of the “shine”
- Comment on idijt 2 months ago:
Yet another way this is wrong: the primary cause of the adamantine lustre of diamonds is refraction. Any old hunk of metal can reflect light.
- Comment on Unionized 2 months ago:
Am a chemist in your group. I read it the plumber way too. Took me five seconds to get it.
- Comment on Unionized 2 months ago:
As a leftist chemistry teacher, I read it as “having attained union”, rather than “not ionized”, so YMMV with this heuristic
- Comment on Boss Mode 2 months ago:
Since an observer traveling at the speed of light experiences no time from the beginning of their journey until they decelerate, photon’s don’t just arrive precisely when they mean to, from the moment they are emitted, they have already arrived.
- Comment on Wobble Wobble 2 months ago:
I mean, you could think of it like rain. Imagine that you have a bucket, and it’s out in a rainstorm. There’s a plant in the bucket with some soil, and a tiny little pinhole in the bottom that let’s out a couple of drips at any given time. Now, let’s say you want to make sure that the plant gets just the right amount of water, so that it still gets the right amount of rain, but it doesn’t flood and overpower the leak out of the bottom. What’s the simplest solution? Figure out how quickly the rain is coming down, and then cover part of the bucket so you only get the right amount of rain, right? Now imagine that some hooligan comes by and decides to muck with your bucket, because for the slightest moment, it will bring their sad, shriveled heart some measure of joy to make your life worse. They decide to move the cover. Maybe they take it off entirely, and that would guarantee the plant would die, but they’re a sick, evil little gobshite, so they only move it off when you’re out for the day, and then they out it back when you get home. When you go into your house, they take off the cover again, letting in the full torrent of rain. You look at the bucket, and wonder why the plant is getting flooded. Why isn’t the cover working anymore? Because it’s only there to help some of the time
- Comment on Wobble Wobble 2 months ago:
The problem here is that the snow will melt at some point. The reason this is happening is because the sea ice that existed year-round until now is nearly gone each summer. The lack of consistent ice covering means that there is a greater amount of energy being absorbed by the ocean, perhaps not year-round, but that it’s happening so much more in the summer is sufficient to utterly outweigh any amount of temporary snowfall anywhere else on the globe.
- Comment on Horrific monsters! 3 months ago:
It’s more likely a reference to the Black-footed cat. See direct reply to commenter above.
- Comment on Horrific monsters! 3 months ago:
TheTux is close, but this is almost certainly specifically referencing the black-footed cat and the fact that it has the greatest hunting success rate of any felid.
- Comment on Hey is Sharing Luigi’s Manifesto on Social Media Actually "Glorifying Violence"? Because Reddit Said So 😭 3 months ago:
But when a long train of abuses and usurpations, pursuing invariably the same object, evinces a design to reduce them under absolute despotism, it is their right, it is their duty, to throw off such government and provide new guards for their future security.
- Comment on Am I a bad person if (as left as they come) I invest in American Private Prison contractors on the assumption that Trump will go through with his deportation scheme at least to some extent? 4 months ago:
Oh, that was you? Good call, though I’d prefer to simultaneously splinch into a thousand fragments, each simultaneously teleporting into the carotids of each person with a warrant from the Hague, as well as the next 500 most-wealthy people, followed by the boards of any fossil fuel companies I can fit into the thousand. I don’t think it was specified that it was single-location or in-one-piece teleportation.
- Comment on Shiny 4 months ago:
Hard disagree: they exhibit 4 perfect octahedral cleavage planes in addition to their adamantine lustre, diamond is one of the most useful materials in existence, and their petrological origins speak to incredibly interesting conditions of formation! In fact, a mineral inclusion within a diamond gave us our first solid evidence of the existence of liquid water at equilibrium with mantle rock, which was previously thought impossible!
But yeah, fuck De Beers.