wolframhydroxide

@wolframhydroxide@sh.itjust.works

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Dinner is ready! ⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Worse, they bundled it with the worse half of the USA.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Dinner is ready! ⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  This gate keeping of cuisine is ridiculous. It would logically follow that you have to throw out anything that’s made with something originally from a different zone. So no potatoes, tomatoes, corn or other new world crops… Well, anywhere but one of these sections. Anything that comes from cultural exchange is, apparently, right out. So good luck with whatever the fuck they were eating in mesopotamia and the India river valley civilisation. I hope you like your beer to be bread.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Dinner is ready! ⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Also, D even gets the entire bay of Naples.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Somebody call a doctor!⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Well, you have to include other possibilities, such as the likelihood that you are hallucinating, dreaming, or that your entire subjective experience is the result of a Brain-In-A-Vat scenario

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨IF YOU TAKE ENOUGH YOU CAN SEE *THE PATTERN* BRO⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Here, you want a mind fuck? I’ll let you have it for free:

  Bell’s Theorem: The universe is not locally real (either the speed of light is violable or properties of things do not exist until observed) Light simultaneously takes all paths, and so does everything else if given the right conditions. We just perceive “Location” as a property things have because of probability. “Everything” literally is “Everywhere, All At Once”. The world that we perceive is nothing more or less than a vast ocean of waves within overlapping fields. The interference between the waves, the troughs and crests, are the objects we perceive. Nothing is truly as you see it, even yourself. Also, gravity doesn’t exist. Time just passes slower near massive objects.

  That’s the best I can do for ya. First hit’s free.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨tall tails⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Thanks for the fascinating read! It seems like it’s still far from certain, by the study authors’ own admission, but I look forward to seeing validation studies by others! Do you know of any? I wasn’t able to find any from a cursory glance around the internet.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨tall tails⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  No, much like how brontosaurus was later discovered to be a mix of bones from various individuals, “Distanceraptor” is actually a conflation of multiple Displacemosaurids.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨tall tails⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Nah, you’re thinking of the much more dangerous “acceleraptors”. Velociraptors were very different from how they are commonly portrayed.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Ditto⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  If you don’t want people to eat your genitals, have you considered filling them with deadly alkaloids and neurotoxins? Alternatively, just make your genitals look deeply diseased and likely to kill anyone who breathes near them? These methods seem to work pretty well for most mushrooms.

  If you’re absolutely determined to make sure that no one eats your genitals, and you don’t want to learn from the mushrooms, I would recommend registering as a Republican.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨i 💚 animals.⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Yeah, and there was no explicit text that said “separate, but equal” was about racial purity and whites being the best race. But here, “separate, but equal sciences” is totally normal, right?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨i 💚 animals.⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I agree that there is not a difference, but this meme is claiming that there is

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨i 💚 animals.⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Given that the very definition of something that makes a meme is that it allows transmission of a specific idea in an encapsulated manner, there are inherent implications of using a meme, whether you explicitly say them or not. This meme is implicitly about a miscommunication between two interpretations of the same term:

  I Love Video Games / Me Too is a parody meme format based on an exploitable image macro in which a woman misinterprets a man saying “I love video games” as him expressing love for Lana Del Ray’s song of that name.

  This meme, since its earliest usage, has been used as a statement of purity, which you can clearly see if you look into the history of it. That attitudinal connotation is preserved in the use of this meme, whether you yourself are ignorant of its origins, or simply pretending that it isn’t some sort of purity statement. I don’t disagree with your sentiment, but you are definitively wrong about the implications of the original post.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨i 💚 animals.⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Though im told that Philosophy’s just math, sans rigor, sense and practicality.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨i 💚 animals.⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Except that the meme is very specifically used to highlight a distinct qualitative difference between the two “interpretations” of a term which leads to friction or miscommunication between the characters. This meme is doing precisely what you claim it is not.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨i 💚 animals.⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Wow, “Tell me you never took more than high school level chemistry without telling me you never took more than high school level chemistry”.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨do what you love⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Excellent points!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨do what you love⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Karl Popper, “The Logic of Scientific Discovery” is a seminal work in the modern philosophy of science. It led the way for modern statistical methodology in the form of null hypothesis rejection, proposes to solve the problem of induction, and his proposal of falsifiability is, to my knowledge, the most popular philosophical framework for modern scientific practice.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Pandering to conservative Americans⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Well, that’s because they literally turned religious persecution into a religious fetish (as in, the anthropological term “fetish”, definition 1).

  It’s ingrained in Christianity so deeply that the official doctrine of the catholic church is that only those that die from religious persecution can intercede with God.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨One Angry Man⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  The exclusive or killed me. Thank you.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Apart, low in cholesterine⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  That’s more like it.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Apart, low in cholesterine⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Story time! Courtesy of my 7th–grade Biotech teacher:

  Many years ago, he was working in a bio lab where they were studying the effects of drugs on the brain. Specifically, they were trying to isolate the specific paths and locations in the brain that these drugs would build up in the highest concentrations. That year, they were studying cocaine.

  Of course, you couldn’t be experimenting with cocaine on humans, because that would lead to everybody having too good a time, I guess, and the federal government wouldn’t stand for it. As such, they were injecting cocaine into rats. Now, giving these little guys the time of their lives was still not the purpose of the research, so they needed a way to easily find out where the cocaine was going in the rats’ brains. As such, they tagged the cocaine. In order to ensure the tagging didn’t affect the binding and distribution in the body, however, they had to tag it, not with a dye, but by making it radioactive, at which point they could use whatever Magical Machine™ to take a 3D scan of their heads and find the radiation (though It’s possible he was simply leaving out the bit where they dissected the rat brains to find where they were radioactive, which I now think far more likely)

  Unfortunately, aside from getting these rats literally blitzed out of their minds on a one-way-trip to the land of cheese and honey, no super-rats were created by what otherwise sounds like a plot straight out of an offbeat MCU movie.

  No, the practical upshot of this was that it was some poor sod’s job to actually mix radioactive cocaine into solution for injection. Since they needed to do it a LOT, they needed a lot of solution. So, in their infinite wisdom, they had the following setup:

  1. a refrigerator, where they kept the saline and radioactive cocaine (and whatever else they were using to make the solution)
  2. immediately to the right of the fridge, a fume hood, where they would actually do the mixing.
  3. atop the fridge, two unlabelled beakers: in one, the saline, ready for mixing, in the other, the radioactive cocaine solution, prepared and ready for injection.

  This was the point at which an entire crate of lab rats was toppled, releasing all of them onto the floor…

  Of course, the entire lab is suddenly in chaos. One person is trying to use a net they had prepared for such an occasion to catch the rats that are running around the desk area, while two more are trying to tag-team a rat that ran behind a bookshelf. My teacher, though, is chasing a rat. A rat that is running straight for the cozy space under the fridge. With all the alacrity of a wastrel postgraduate who has never heard the term “dexterity” outside the context of tabletop games, he runs headlong into the fridge, and suddenly feels a splash on his head and the shattering of glass.

  While it didn’t take too long for them to pull out the Geiger counter and determine that he was not going to get a supervillain backstory (with the high of his life and cancer on the side), you can bet they labeled those beakers after that, and kept them in the fume hood.

  And that, dear friends, is how we learned about Lab Safety in my school!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Apart, low in cholesterine⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  As a chemistry teacher who regularly ignites Hydrogen gas, I cannot even imagine how dangerous it would be to ignite a hydrogen belch. That shit POPS.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Apart, low in cholesterine⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Chemistry teacher here! Hydrogen would only acidify it if it dissociated. Much like how you can dissolve oxygen or nitrogen gas into water, any gas can be dissolved into water. They don’t break apart, they just float as molecules inside the water. It’s just like when sugar dissolves. Salt breaks apart, because it’s ionic. Sugar, most organics, and diatomic gases like H~2~, N~2~, and O~2~ don’t have enough affinity with the water molecules to dissociate (or, at least, not sufficient to dissociate appreciably)

  When you get something gnarly is if you have a molecule containing something that does have stronger affinity with the water. Carbon Dioxide, Sulfur Di- and Trioxide, Nitrogen Oxides, and other oxygen-bearing covalent gases react with water because the central atoms attract the oxygen in the H~2~O, while the oxygens surrounding them have partial negative charges from the unpaired electrons, attracting the hydrogens in the water. This causes the water to be ripped apart, creates oxyanions such as CO~3~^2-^, SO~3~^2-^, SO~4~^2-^, NO~2~^-^, or NO~3~^-^. Same goes for elemental Chlorine, Fluorine and Bromine. All of these rip the water apart and create the hypo- oxyacid and the hydroacid of the specie (e.g. Cl~2~ + H~2~O --> HClO + HCl)

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Apart, low in cholesterine⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Chemistry teacher here. No way do those hydrogen molecules ionize. If they ionize, that would require making the entire solution positively charged, or filled with singlet hydrogen. Just like dissolving oxygen of nitrogen in water, the gas will dissolve, but not dissociate.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Anon witnesses excellent security⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Hence why I tell my employers that I’m good with h That option (see the last bit of the comment to which you replied) the problem is that this method of 2FA is not implemented commonly, and so most systems I’ve encountered bug out when trying to set it up.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Anon witnesses excellent security⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  And don’t forget required 2-factor authentication, in an age where that becomes 1-factor authentication as soon as someone has your phone, because both factors are accessible there!

  2FA is utterly worthless in the age of smartphones, and whenever my employer tries to implement it, I refuse and tell them that, if they want me to do 2FA, they can either provide me with a work phone, or they can give me a USB key that is just going to sit in my desk drawer.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Everybody gets one [choose wisely]⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  You find yourself suddenly 3 meters up in the air, which is sufficient to change your personal gravitational acceleration by 0.00001 m/s^2. As you can imagine, it is not fun to fall 3 meters. You do anyway.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Everybody gets one [choose wisely]⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  That is, canonically, almost exactly what Saruman’s robes are supposed to look like:

  “I looked then and saw that his robes, which had seemed white, were not so, but were woven of all colours…” - Gandalf the Grey, The Fellowship of the Ring

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Everybody gets one [choose wisely]⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Yes, unlimited access to universal truth, with error reporting.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Everybody gets one [choose wisely]⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Fair. I would argue that “many people going insane” would be covered under the sacrifice clause, but hey, this seems like the best of all possible outcomes from mucking about with reality.