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"If man chooses oblivion, he can go right on leaving his fate to his political leaders. If he chooses Utopia, he must initiate an enormous education program - immediately, if not sooner."
-R B Fuiler
- Comment on Who is Jordan Peterson? 22 minutes ago:
He is also the world’s Wisest Human and he invented the Time Cube
- Comment on CMV 23 hours ago:
Pressing down on the little red button and very gently rocking
… can produce gushes
- Comment on Is It OK to Eat the Same Things Every Day? 2 days ago:
I have maybe half a dozen favorite meals. They have been probably 80%+ of my meals for 40+ years
I may or may not be ok but having a boring food routine does not particularly impair you
- Comment on What's the thing you're supposed to be doing right now instead of scrolling? 2 days ago:
Beach is dirty Ocean water is dirty Sun causes cancer
Never understood the draw
- Comment on What's the thing you're supposed to be doing right now instead of scrolling? 2 days ago:
“What are you doing honey?”
“Working”
“Looks like you’re playing nethack again”
“I’m waiting for the CICD pipeline”
- Comment on No Vaccines. No Weakness. Only Testosterone 1 week ago:
Still more coherent than Hegseth
- Comment on Once lunar colonies are established, would they attempt to break away? What would independent lunar republics look like? 1 week ago:
Nope, never read anything by Samuel R. Delany
I did read a lot of L Ron Hubbard, for a moment I thought you were referencing his short story collection
- Comment on Alternative medicine 1 week ago:
IRL or on Dreddit, I’d be happy to share some crazy stories
- Comment on Once lunar colonies are established, would they attempt to break away? What would independent lunar republics look like? 1 week ago:
Dammit, that’s what I get for going on 25-year old memory of last reading the book. In my defense, one of the main character narrators captains a space ship that goes between Earth and Mars and this provides insight into the two cultures.
Oh and BTW he’s got a wife on both worlds. Spicy
- Comment on The pinnacle of Commonwealth culture. The trifecta of kids entertainment. 🇨🇦🇦🇺🇬🇧 1 week ago:
Daddy Pig is a pompous fool who fails at everything and exists only to be a subject of ridicule.
Reminds me very much of the role of Fred Flintstone.
It always struck me as a kid what a dark, sick society demands we laugh along at the man kicked out of his house to sleep outside as he screams and begs.
Fuck the Flintstones. Stupid brainrot and morally reprehensible. Nice theme song & character drawings, tho.
- Comment on Alternative medicine 1 week ago:
it’s trial and error all the way down
Oh God LD50 is the craziest thing ever.
Here’s how it works:
Let’s just assume dose-response is linear. So, go find what concentration of chemical X (medicine, food additive, cosmetic, whatever) kills 50% of the bacteria/rodent/etc population. Draw a line from there down to 0% dead at 0 concentration.
Now decide what % of deaths is acceptable, given the benefit of chemical X. Use the line we just drew and that tells you what the regulations should set for max concentration under as-directed usage.
This ignores that - response curves are very often literally curves, sometimes with more than 1 minimum - response curves (and lines!) often depend heavily on all sorts of other chemicals’ presence in the environment, in varying mixtures & amounts
It’s a combinatorial explosion we can never meaningfully test against. We do what we can, with the tools that we have.
- Comment on Alternative medicine 1 week ago:
mebendezol
Never heard of it so probably not a great recreational drug. Oooh Wikipedia confirms
Mebendazole is a highly effective, broad-spectrum antihelmintic indicated for the treatment of nematode infestations
Mebendazole sometimes causes diarrhea, abdominal pain, and elevated liver enzymes. In rare cases, it has been associated with a dangerously low white blood cell count, low platelet count, and hair loss,[14][15] with a risk of agranulocytosis in rare cases.
- Comment on Alternative medicine 1 week ago:
Usually herbs found by ethnographers.
Aspirin, for example, IIRC discovered by a scientist investigating traditional therapeutics (tree bark)
- Comment on Once lunar colonies are established, would they attempt to break away? What would independent lunar republics look like? 1 week ago:
If you’re asking this question you may very much enjoy Isaac Arthur
Moon colony playlist: https://m.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLIIOUpOge0Lv5kr9vrX8DJjlF1A3QWJ3D&ra=m
- Comment on Once lunar colonies are established, would they attempt to break away? What would independent lunar republics look like? 1 week ago:
See also The Dispossessed by Ursula LeGuin
Granted it’s Mars not the Moon but the breakaway – and how it affects Earth politics – is a central plotnpoint
- Comment on The pinnacle of Commonwealth culture. The trifecta of kids entertainment. 🇨🇦🇦🇺🇬🇧 1 week ago:
Paw patrol is tripe.
Peppa Pig isn’t bad
Bluey is fuckin’ dope
- Comment on Sorry to burst your bubble 1 week ago:
Rookie numbers. There are over 4 billion women currently ignoring me, like they don’t even know I exist
- Comment on Me as a server 2 weeks ago:
500 Server Error - Submitted 2 weeks ago to nyt_gift_articles@sopuli.xyz | 0 comments
- Comment on How come not all people are organ donors? It's not like they will need them where ever they go. 2 weeks ago:
Primitive tribes and increasingly many modern Sky Daddy children think they will need the organs after they die
- Comment on WTF Alibaba! 2 weeks ago:
Seriously. We created Tor, Monero, and darknet marketplaces precisely to keep these buyers and sellers safe. And it’s all free to use open source.
Don’t be stupid. Don’t give law enforcement your network address and payment information
- Comment on Time For This Graham Cracker to Crumble 2 weeks ago:
Not defending these grifter perpetrators, but pointing out:
sure are a lot of people
in politicswho can’t keep their pants on - Comment on Heisenburger 2 weeks ago:
- Comment on Heisenburger 2 weeks ago:
Looks like a curvy Bra Ket
- Comment on Somewhere In NY A Village Is Missing It's Idiot 3 weeks ago:
Its. Possessive.
- Comment on 3 weeks ago:
… and remember, at 30 years old, you may well be only 1/3rd of the way through your life
- Comment on Sony 3 weeks ago:
There’s aso no reason physical copy can’t demand to get a validation token from Corporate every time it’s played
- Comment on 3 weeks ago:
USA -> Russia speed run
- Comment on Need a fact check if they actually do blur his neck scrotum 3 weeks ago:
Ussername checks out. We found the right person for the job.
- Comment on Are atoms, protons, electrons, neutrons, and cells (in a human body) in a constant state of flux? If so what is the measurement we have for them and do they at one point have a certain state of speed? 4 weeks ago:
Hell the air molecules in the room are moving near the speed of sound
If you want to extract useful work from that, the problem is they all go in random directions and for really short distances.
Same deal for subatomic particles.
Entropy and thermodynamics. Very much worth the investment of time and effort to learn.
