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- Comment on mmm... tastes like chimkin 14 hours ago:
Everyone eats baby birds. They’re full of delicious little bones, which plants are famous for lacking.
- Comment on I dunno 1 day ago:
- Comment on I dunno 1 day ago:
But there is logic behind them.
1+2+3=6 and 2+3+1=6 also.
But 1+23 and 23+1 won’t come out the same if you do the calculations in just any order. It’s not always possible to order them left to right like in the second version, and if we use parentheses for everything we can end up with an illegible mess. I actually tried to type an example of how silly it could look and lost track of my own parentheses nesting before I got very far.
Do you have any other suggestion for how to notate an equation which would make memorization of PEMDAS unnecessary?
- Comment on I dunno 1 day ago:
I sometimes like to add unnecessary parentheses or brackets to section things off and improve legibility, but I don’t do any math stuff collaboratively, so I have no idea whether others would find that disruptive or helpful.
- Comment on OnLy tWo eLemEnTs 3 days ago:
I’m pretty sure they have an agenda, yeah. I just wanted to think about the premise on its own terms, like how one might think about the definition of a fish? I feel like it’s both personally enriching and better equips me to respond to such arguments. Even though I don’t think they’ll listen to anyone, I don’t think anyone’s responses to them were a waste of time because I really feel like I’ve learned a lot from reading them, and I’m sure plenty of other people did too, so thank you for your labor.
- Comment on OnLy tWo eLemEnTs 3 days ago:
You are misunderstanding, but I don’t blame you in the slightest. I don’t seem to have communicated very clearly. Someone else in this post has a comment making the argument that there are two sexes and that all humans either produce one of two gametes or have the potential to based on their body’s design, and at the time I thought it would be very obvious what I was referring to and why I would make a separate post instead of replying in that chain. I’m sorry for the confusion and any offense.
What I’m thinking about with my question is whether any humans can truly be considered as capable of producing eggs if they must be present at birth, if even people who already have eggs can’t make more.
- Comment on OnLy tWo eLemEnTs 4 days ago:
Okay, thank you.
When you say other methods, do you mean like in a lab somewhere? I was restricting my idea of egg production to what’s naturally capable by a human body (which I feel is in the spirit of powerstruggle’s definition of a sexual binary), but I figure probably anyone can produce any gametes they like through the magic of science.
- Comment on OnLy tWo eLemEnTs 4 days ago:
There’s a comment chain in this thread focused on the definition of sex as producing one of two gametes, which leads to pointing out that some people produce no gametes, which is countered by saying they could potentially produce them in the future or if they didn’t have a particular condition, etc. Normally I would post this kind of question directly to someone, but the same stuff is being said so many times that I’m not sure which one to reply to, hence creating a new comment chain.
Basically I’m thinking that defining the female sex by ability (or potential ability) to produce eggs might be faulty on the grounds that no one produces eggs. Or that only a person pregnant with a child who will be born with eggs can be said to have achieved femaleness by this definition. Or maybe the baby is the one making the eggs, so the only way to be female is to have produced eggs prior to birth. I’m not really sure of the details regarding when the eggs develop or who’s really responsible for them, I’m just pretty sure they’re there at birth and it’s interesting to think about.
- Comment on OnLy tWo eLemEnTs 4 days ago:
I have a question for kind of the whole thread in general, regarding the gametes discussion. Isn’t it the case that a human is born with all the eggs they’ll ever have? So like if you aren’t both with any, you’ll never make any later? And if so, isn’t the only way to produce eggs to become pregnant with a child and make their eggs for them?
- Comment on Pioneer species 5 days ago:
Knowing full well it’s a mistake, I prefer to interpret it as meaning “here-bringer”, not as one who simply goes ahead as a sign, but one who actively summons. Alternatively, the “bring” could derive from “brísingr”, as in “I’m going to burn this fucking place to the ground.”
- Comment on Labcoat! 6 days ago:
Yeah, I’m hoping the image is just a cute joke and that the lab is actually not dealing with anything hazardous.
- Comment on Labcoat! 6 days ago:
doggles
- Comment on The ‘Great Meme Reset’ Is Coming: From Jack Dorsey to Gen Alpha, everyone seemingly wants to go back to the internet of a decade ago. But is it possible to reverse AI slop and brain rot? 6 days ago:
Acting like 2010 is when memes were invented?? WAZZUP was 1999 and Viking Kittens were 2002. Remember FWD: FWD: FWD:?
- Comment on Ahead of her time 1 week ago:
I think the meme is good either way. I think we’ll eventually have the capability to do such testing simply and quickly, and she’ll still be a loser for having lied about it and scammed people.
- Comment on Ahead of her time 1 week ago:
Molecular profiling includes genetic testing.
- Comment on Ahead of her time 1 week ago:
I recently watched an educational video for young students where they said something like “Journalists are usually sources you can trust because if a journalist lies they will lose credibility and their job,” and I don’t think we’re living in the same reality. Just because a particular news source doesn’t publish blatant falsehoods doesn’t mean they don’t lie by omission or use manipulative wording, and that’s not even getting into the ones that make money expressly off lying. I think maybe they don’t want to teach people to question state propaganda.
- Comment on Ahead of her time 1 week ago:
I think the study they reference is the UK Biobank itself, which is ongoing.
- Comment on Ahead of her time 1 week ago:
The article doesn’t seem to be selling any particular technology, but rather sharing information on the fact that the research is currently in progress.
The concept of identifying risk factors via blood sample has always been a good one. I’m not a scientist or medical professional, so I just assume the reason we’re not sequencing everyone’s genome is that it’s not currently a good use of medical resources. I can’t recall the name of this woman or her product, but my recollection is that she was claiming something currently impossible, not theoretically impossible.
- Comment on 1 week ago:
I can’t relate to being disturbed by the idea that other creatures remember their own lives.
- Comment on Anon sees through the lies 1 week ago:
The outcome of your typo ended up being really interesting though!
- Comment on Anon sees through the lies 1 week ago:
I think you may be thinking of the LD50 for rats. People have died from much less than 3g/kg.
The lethal dose was estimated to be less than 10 g of sodium (<5 teaspoons of salt) in two children, and less than 25 g sodium in four adults (<4 tablespoons of salt).
pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC5537768/
An acute toxicity from excess sodium intake with the possibility of fatal outcome has been reported in relation to the ingestion of huge amounts of sodium, such as 0.5–1 g of salt/kg body weight.
- Comment on Anon sees through the lies 1 week ago:
35g of salt can be a lethal dose for a human of about 70kg, so no one’s going to last too long on this diet.
- Comment on Not impressed 1 week ago:
“Organ meats” is definitely a phrase used for offal, but I think the “organ” qualifier is doing work there. Offal is certainly meat in the sense that if ordered a dish with no meat and got liver, I’d be upset. But I’d also be upset if I said I want meat for dinner and my partner made liver. I guess it really depends on context.
- Comment on Not impressed 2 weeks ago:
Cats and dogs aren’t even species; they’re vague categories. I tried to find the actual answer to this question, but trying to nail down individual species is proving impossible. Every source is like “copepods” or “ants” like that isn’t incredibly broad. ChatGPT says it’s the Antarctic krill with 5x10^14 individuals. Going from there, the WWF says there’s over 7x10^14, and Wikipedia only says they’re one of the most abundant species, but not the most. I’m not going to get an answer to this question, and I’m going to be mildly annoyed about it infrequently for the rest of time.
- Comment on Not impressed 2 weeks ago:
That’s pretty normal, historically-speaking. The modern classification system isn’t really very old compared to how long we’ve been talking about animals.
- Comment on Not impressed 2 weeks ago:
I think you mean fish don’t express themselves in a way you understand. Some are lone hunters who have to rely on their wits to survive, while some have complex social interactions. Some even pass the mirror test.
I don’t think you should make excuses for why some things deserve life or kindness and others don’t. I think it’s better to just be honest with yourself about your personal biases and say you like dogs too much to hurt them, but that you don’t care as much about fish.
- Comment on Not impressed 2 weeks ago:
I’m able to understand conceptually that “meat” doesn’t literally mean any animal’s muscle tissue in every language. Sometimes it’s a more vague concept of a large mammal’s meat and excludes fish, poultry, etc. And that’s okay. But I also hate it.
- Comment on So much... 2 weeks ago:
If you learn just a little bit of math you can realize that no one else is getting anywhere near them either.
- Comment on The oldest Minecraft server, MinecraftOnline, is being shut down by Microsoft 3 weeks ago:
What part of the EULA would that violate? And why would that matter when the goal is to join an EULA-violating server in the first place?
- Comment on The oldest Minecraft server, MinecraftOnline, is being shut down by Microsoft 3 weeks ago:
Microsoft does not have the ability to stop you from running a Minecraft server. They can block you from using their authentication server, but all you have to do is edit a setting to false and then even people with pirated copies can join the server.
