Morlark

@Morlark@feddit.uk

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Can you think of any now?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Eh, it’s not really similar though. Yes, a lot of what we think of as “taste” is actually perceived via smell. But separately from that, there is actually a phsyiological sensation of taste that is unrelated to smell, i.e. the five basic tastes: sweet, sour, salty, bitter, and savoury.

  Whereas there isn’t really any meaningful distinction between the sense of acceleration and balance. They’re exactly the same sensation, and the mind only knows which one you’re actually experiencing by cross-referencing what your other senses tell you. If you’re in a situation where these other senses are unavailable, people generally can’t distinguish whether they’re accelerating or off balance.

  This has led to a number of plane crashes in history, in situations where pilots are in dense cloud cover and can’t see the horizon. During stressful situations, if they forget to look at the artificial horizon display, they think the plane is pitching up, and therefore try to pitch down to correct, when in fact the plane is accelerating (due to already being pitched down), resulting in a crash.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Riding the bus to the underworld⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  No, it’s not you, the joke just doesn’t work.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Spelthorne restricts hoverboards, catapults and balaclavas⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Ah, sure, the youths these days are so violent, they’re always going about the place besieging castles and knocking down fortifications.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What quintessentially British images should go on the new banknotes? Our panel has some ideas⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Being a proud maritime nation, sure we should be celebrating this by having each denomination of note show a different famous vessel?

  £5 is Boaty McBoatface.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Welcome to the Labour police state⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  If someone damaged my property, I’d feel pretty aggrieved… and it still wouldn’t make them a terrorist. And the police wouldn’t do nothing, because damaging property is a crime. That property being a few planes doesn’t magically change the equation. Just like the government wouldn’t be doing nothing if they hadn’t designated PA as a terrorist organisation, because a whole raft of criminal charges would still apply.

  Literally, and I want to stress this, literally nobody has suggested that PA should not face appropriate and proportionate consequences for their actions. And you knew that. You knew damed well that people have no problem with the government taking action, as long as that action is legal and democratically responsible. Yet you deliberately chose to dishonestly equate opposition to terrorist designation with support for them getting off scot free, even though that’s an obviously false and mendacious equivalence.

  You are not very skilled at this dishonesty malarkey. Consider yourself called out.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨“Production” to describe multiplication?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  No. Everywhere uses the same terms, you just didn’t understand the question.

  The result of addition is the sum. The sum is calculated by summation of inputs.

  The result of multiplication is the product. The product is calculated by __________ of inputs.

  OP’s question is: why can’t the blank be “production”, by analogy with “summation”?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨“Production” to describe multiplication?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  “Summation” already means something else, and funnily enough words can have different meanings in different contexts without causing any confusion.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨“Production” to describe multiplication?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  OP literally emphasised the distinction between process and result in their post, specifically so that this exact confusion would not occur, and yet still everyone is talking about the word for the result instead of the process.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Wiltshire PCC supports calls to reclassify cannabis as Class A - BBC News⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  PCCs were a mistake. Never should we have let the ruling class impose a politicised police force upon us. It was inevitable that it would lead to ignorant nonsense like this.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Southport attack survivor calls for kitchen knives to be blunt tipped⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  There was certainly a ‘no-brain’ somewhere in her thought process, I’ll grant her that.