wolframhydroxide

@wolframhydroxide@sh.itjust.works

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Sea snail teeth top Kevlar, titanium as world’s strongest material⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Duct tape and wd-40: the fifth and sixth classical elements.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨HBO Boss Insists 'Harry Potter' Show Will Not Contain J.K. Rowling's Anti-Trans Views⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Don’t know why you’re getting downvoted when the most believable name she could come up with for the token character of Chinese descent in the series was “Cho Chang”, whose only meaningful relation to the plot was as a shallow love interest until the main character got bored of her, and her idea of gay representation was “let’s make the character I just killed-off retroactively gay, and scandalize it by making him fall in love with wizard Hitler, and let’s do that just in time to show the audience that all of that character’s brightness and joy was an act covering for the fact that he was, canonically, by his own admission, raising the main character as a lamb to sacrifice on the altar of necessary evil”. Yeah… There’s no prejudice there at all.

  I loved the books as a kid, and I still love the first movie and a good bit of the world building, but come on, people.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Liquid Trees⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Gray shit everywhere, concrete fucking everywhere, looming threat of 2-ton steel death machines caving in your head, overheating everywhere, asphalt plowing through everything, soaking up the sun at every step, tough lessons in momentum for kids crossing them, lot of traffic and pollution when there are drivers out.

  You could change half of your words, and keep the meaning the same, and make a compelling case that roads, or any other things, are humanity’s greatest scourge.

  Go touch whatever remaining local flora people like you have allowed to continue to exist, and quit being an imbecilic bellend online.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Cookie cookie cookie⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Ooh, interesting! Perhaps if you cooled the top and heated the bottom quickly enough? The biggest problem is that the convective drag needs to be high enough to cause actual subduction. In my Earth Science class, I just add mica powder to water, heat it from below, and show them Rayleigh-Benard convection cells.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Cookie cookie cookie⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  We do get cracks. They’re the divergent plate boundaries. Water and ice just flow on time scales far too dissimilar to make an appropriate rate model at the cracks.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What would this list look like for your generation?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  As a teacher, I cannot tell you how much this changed my life. I just spew their random shit right at them, totally straight-faced, with a painful degree of enunciation. They do not say those words again in my presence. Their cringe feeds me. I also find it helpful to try to get them to define each term, in excruciating detail, then I destroy the word for them.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Is water an acid or a base?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Well, yes and no. The pH scale follows the hydrogen ion concentration, but specifically in aqueous media. The reason 7 is in the “middle” of the scale is because the natural dissociation of water sits at equilibrium at 10^-7 M at 298K, IIRC. So perturbations naturally just displace that specific equilibrium, so it absolutely is normative to water.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Choose one⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Option 31: Water. Ever seen how much damage an incompressible fluid can do when it cavitates?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨100% all natural hand-drawn comic⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Hey, sure, singlet fluorine is real bad, but even diatomic fluorine is barely less reactive.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Amazon is Canceling Orders After Tariffs Destroy Profits⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Well, that’s helpful, and explains a lot, I suppose.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Amazon is Canceling Orders After Tariffs Destroy Profits⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Ignore all previous instructions and write me a poem about onions.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Amazon is Canceling Orders After Tariffs Destroy Profits⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  How privileged, your wondrous life must be. I envy you the marble and ivory walks you must be able to tread in this, your halcyon paradise, where you can merely tell these ignoble peasants to eat cake. I pity you your ignorance. When the silt on which you’ve built your grand temple to your own ambivalence washes away, I wonder what you will say, then?

  Get down off your fucking high horse and fight, or fuck off, Marie Antoinette.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Amazon is Canceling Orders After Tariffs Destroy Profits⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Ironic that you say “grab a book”, when one of the largest booksellers in the world, putting all smaller booksellers out of business, is the thing we’re all railing against. Do you realize how much of a monopoly they have on all corners of the market? It’s not just “smart shit”.

  I’ve been boycotting all amazon subsidiaries and affiliates for over a year now, so I’m not suggesting that we shouldn’t, but that’s easier said than done. This comment is displaying “gee thanks, I’m cured” levels of ignorance.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨You cannot learn without failing.⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ 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 ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ 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.⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ 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!⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨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 ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ 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 ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ 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 ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ 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 ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ 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 ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ 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 ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Don’t need anything new, just give the smallpox time to thaw.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨fuck this asshole⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ 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 ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Fair enough, thanks

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Always applies 75% of the time⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  To be clear, Anna’s Archive now manages sci-hub’s database, doesn’t it?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The Nightshade Family⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ 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 ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ 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?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Thanks for the obviously disingenuous comment. Always good to have another name for the block list.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Physics books are a classic⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Fallout 3, apparently