JayDee
@JayDee@lemmy.sdf.org
- Comment on trolling 2 days ago:
As an update, I am now able to see the post as of 19:33 UTC today. Odd. I guess they may have fixed the issue?
- Comment on trolling 2 days ago:
Hey, I’m on voyager and this post failed to load. What file format is this so i can inform the dev of this?
- Comment on if H₂O is so great why isn’t there H₂O₂ 1 week ago:
It’s a diddle to the toon of the Oscar Myer jingle.
- Comment on I try to spice it up with some VB Macros but it's still ultimately just a spreadsheet. 1 week ago:
Is this really the path of mathematicians? I would at least assume they’d learn matrixes and linear algebra, and at least dip their toes into one of the adjacent tangential maths like discrete maths.
- Comment on Anon breaks up 1 week ago:
It seems MLK was exhausted by how ineffective peaceful protest throughout his campaigning, and communicated his doubts of whether peaceful means would actually work in his letter from Birmingham Jail. He stuck with peaceful means till he was assassinated, which is commendable.
After King’s death, the violent Holy Week Uprising occurred in response. At the end of that week, the Civil Rights Act had been passed. It sure seems like the Holy Week Uprising got some of what it wanted much faster than King’s years of peaceful protest. What King absolutely brought about, though, was a strong alignment for members of the Civil rights movement, which made the Uprising possible in the first place.
- Comment on Anon breaks up 1 week ago:
That is a very controversial take for Americans, and not just from a gun-toter’s perspective. The US has a long history of gun violence, yes, but the US also has a long history of state corruption which only ended by guns driving that corruption back.
In 1946, Veterans in the town of Athens used their firearms to fight against a corrupt police department helping the standing state rig the elections.
In 1921 The Battle of Blair Mountain occurred, where West Virginia miners who’d been stuck in the exploitive company town employment model, battled along the ridges of Blair Mountain against Police. In the company towns you could be fired from your job and evicted from your home without trial - since the mining company owned the houses and only let employees use them - and being in a Union was a fireable offense. This was the largest labor uprising in US history, mine workers fighting deputy sheriffs and strike breakers, with the police actually using biplanes to drop bombs overtop the heads of the miners. This was apart of the Coal Wars of the US, and apart of the broader Labor Wars in the US, which eventually led to the pro-labor regulations we now have in place within the US (which are now being dismantled despite a massive rise in peaceful protests).
In 1968, the Holy Week Uprising occurred in response to Rev. Martin Luther King Junior’s assassination, and fueled by the massive inequality that the black community still faced.
All of these were cases of a overhead government, whether state, town, or federal, failing to provide for it citizens, and those citizens helping change that governments’ behaviour through violent armed uprising. It is a regular occurrence in American history for us to have corrupt officials who start setting inhumane policies, and it’s also been a regular occurrence for that corruption to need violent intervention in order for changes for the better to occur.
- Comment on Anon breaks up 1 week ago:
Gandhi was a piece of shit. I wouldn’t quote him for the most part.
- Comment on He'll realize one day 1 week ago:
In past times, you would have several generations of family adults all under the same roof. If you go even further back, the homes were made with a single sleeping area. During those times, it was pretty likely that you would hear or see a family getting it on in some fashion - in fact, it was likely unavoidable to some extent. These kinds of living situations still exist in various parts of the world, too.
We’ve gotten very accustomed to the extreme privacy that private chambers provide, and it’s made us prudes over sex - even though it’s something the vast majority of us do in some fashion.
This image is still pretty funny though.
- Comment on High quality sticker though 1 week ago:
For this missing context, this is what the Klansman ceremony outfit looks like.
- Comment on Predators 2 weeks ago:
For reference, your average spotted hyena weighs 68kg, putting this cave hyena 20kg higher, or nearly 30% bigger.
- Comment on Since we're doing magic eyes now... 2 weeks ago:
These ones are… different. When I use these ones the mountain ridges appear to dip inwards? Away from the screen. This was not the case for the ones in the main post
- Comment on the field of frolickology is very vast 3 weeks ago:
Is this that whole immortality thing keep seeing?
- Comment on Gorgeous Alien-style space horror Routine is finally nearing "the finish line", despite a key departure 3 weeks ago:
Direct link to the team update on steam.
Mick Gordon leaving the project is a bummer, but I can’t wait to hear the stuff he made so far for it.
- Comment on Fun!!!! :) 3 weeks ago:
Idea!
Carbonize the remains and then woodchipper those! They’re basically charcoal so it’s less messy, and they can be caught in a net NP!
- Comment on Oatmeal 3 weeks ago:
Meat stick.
- Comment on Literal interpretation 3 weeks ago:
- Comment on How did these 2 things interact? 3 weeks ago:
It goes in the round hole!
OK so for better conveyance, I will say the pencil rewound the tape, and leave this handy image:
- Comment on THIS describes too many people today 3 weeks ago:
Yer in it baby!
- Comment on EVERYBODY IS DOING SOMETHING 4 weeks ago:
Not so. There are those that believe objectivism is the true way of viewing the world. They view that we are on the way to understanding the universe as it truly is, that human perception will not pose an obstacle to that pursuit, and that there will eventually be one true method of viewing the universe in its entirety that is yet to be discovered. Constructivist beliefs directly oppose that idea, since all science is a man-made construct that can only approximate reality in their view. Constructivism also, then, leaves room for multiple theories coexisting because they provide better utility and insights in different circumstances. In the example of Einstein’s Relativity vs Newton’s Physics, we are talking about an older theory and the theory which usurped it because it was more accurate, and the general expectation is that another theory will be accepted down the line which will be better than both. That expectation is fairly objectivist, since it assumes there is a true model which we just haven’t discovered yet. Constructivism does not make that assumption, since the universe likely does not fit neatly into our constructions in its image.
The other thing, is that constructivism challenges realism to some extent, in that it challenges the existence of many things which we cannot directly observe, such as quarks, proteins, particles, etc… because “how can we actually confirm these things exist, when we physically can’t observe them, and the things we’re using to show their existence are constructs made up by us?”
This topic is still very much in a state of debate that has very strong implications around the philosophy of how science works and how it should be conducted. That’s also just talking about constructivism’s implications in the physical sciences. Things get much hairier when you start looking at the social sciences, where biases and perception are extremely influential on what we discover. Constructivism directly challenges the attainability of scientific objectivity, which has serious implications across all fields of science.
- Comment on EVERYBODY IS DOING SOMETHING 4 weeks ago:
That’s fair. Language changed for accuracy.
- Comment on EVERYBODY IS DOING SOMETHING 4 weeks ago:
This guy should learn to view science more like a constructivist. Pretty much everything in science is just something we made up that mostly aligns with the natural world, and just because one model is less accurate than another does not mean it’s no longer useful.
We didn’t abandon Newtonion physics when Einstein’s model was proven for instance, since Newtonian physics is still very useful, and much easier to use compared to others.
- Comment on Average Landlord/Tenant interaction 4 weeks ago:
No pet!
- Comment on Geneticists 4 weeks ago:
Geneticists are like AI devs IMO. Sitting on the cutting edge of human capabilities, hoping to make the world a better place, while careening humanity into an even worse dystopia.
- Comment on Anon loves The Lord of the Rings 5 weeks ago:
Minecraft. Star Fox 64. Pokemon Stadium.
- Comment on Hottie without a body 5 weeks ago:
What a hilarious name to give it. Granted ‘Man-o-war’ is also very funny for a thing that mostly just floats around and stings you if you swim into it.
- Comment on Liar 1 month ago:
- Comment on You can't boss me around you're not my real dad 1 month ago:
It’s a hand-crank drill.
- Comment on p is for pHunky 1 month ago:
That’s actually an interesting one.
The ‘p’ could have a different meaning for a variety of languages. ‘Puissance’ in French, ‘Potenz’ in German, ‘potential’ or ‘power’ in English, ‘pondus’ or ‘potentia’ in Latin, or ‘Potens’ in Danish (probably the Danish one originally, since it was a Danish chemist who first introduced the measurement).
It’s very fun that because of the vagueness, various languages can have its meaning directly translated to their own.
- Comment on PLASTICMAXXING 1 month ago:
That is my bad, not explaining this clearly.
Our formations of plastics usually utilizes petroleum products being formed into long polymeric chains. That’s what provides the pliable, even stretchy nature of many plastics. However, we don’t make all plastics out of petroleum - we also use resin mixtures and various other chemical processes for specialized plastics - PLA, for instance, is synthesized from plant starch, for instance. So, when we’re talking about ‘plastics’, we’re usually talking about petroleum products, but it includes other long-polymer-chain materials we artificially synthesize.
Having covered that, Teflon is often called a forever chemical, but it’s a chemical which we synthesize into long prouder chains so we can attach it to the surface of things. It’s how pans are non-stick, gore-tex is waterproof, and how many food containers are grease-proof. I am of the view that perflourochemicals classify as plastics because of that. And the reason it’s so pervasive everywhere is the same reason all other microplastics are everywhere: it chips off. You use a metal spatula on a nonstick pan - bam, stray Perflourochemicals, as tiny little solid microplastic flecks. And everything points to them not being inert to human health.
- Comment on PLASTICMAXXING 1 month ago:
Another link talking about the case. It was confirmed that the chemical at high concentration in the water was PFOA, which is the percursor to Teflon, and which was leaking from the factory site. It has the same effects as other perfluorinated carbines (PFCs). It is also the exact chemical group that we’ve been testing peoples’ blood for, PFOA and other PFCs. It’s the group of chemicals we’ve found strong links to various types of cancers. Research communicates that it is not inert in the body as a microplastic.
It is 100% the reason those cows withered and died like they did. it directly lines up with everything else we know about PFOA. The concentrations were higher than anywhere else, which explains why the cows died so rapidly. The only reason we don’t have complete confirmation is from DuPont meddling to try and downplay this, the same way the meddled by witholding their research on the health risks of PFCs, and the same way they stayed silent and didn’t act when the alarm was sounded by that Parkersburg farmer.
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