arctanthrope

@arctanthrope@lemmy.world

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Are people still fooled by this dumb quiz's?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  when I see people bragging about their high IQ it reminds me of those people who buy sports cars and then take them around to shows on a trailer with 5 miles on the odometer to talk about how it has 750 horsepower and a top speed of 300mph

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨who's gonna tell him?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  one of the most retroactively embarrassing moments in my life is in like 2015 or '16 I was doing some dumb team-building thing for some school-adjacent activity, and the task was to create a “new Mount Rushmore,” basically as a group nominate four people who are doing good and important work in the world. I suggested musk. at the time most people there hadn’t heard of him, so I gave a little spiel about how he was the “founder” (which I thought was true at the time) of PayPal, Tesla (which people were just becoming aware of), and SpaceX. every time I remember it I cringe and hope nobody else does. although most other people in the group suggested Beyonce as someone doing “important work for humanity” so idk if they have much of a leg to stand on to criticize my choice

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Anon watches Super Size Me⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  there’s the ortolan bunting, a small bird similar to a finch or sparrow, which in France is caught wild, fattened, drowned and marinated in brandy, plucked, roasted, and eaten whole, liver (and bones, and everything except the beak) included

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨ai will surely save us all⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  what do you call it when you put the seed in the pot if not “planting”?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨you're doing ReSeArCh rong!!⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I think equally important is letting students know when they’re being taught a simplified model, and that serious academic discourse of the subject is still evolving and/or involves much more nuance (which is pretty much always). some people who do pay attention in science classes nonetheless think that what they learned is gospel and never re-examine it, or stubbornly refuse to acknowledge when said nuance is relevant because it seems to contradict the simplified model they’ve cemented in their brain as the whole truth. the kind of people who say things like “I know there’s two genders because I learned it in high school biology” and apparently never considered why there would be collegiate and post-graduate studies on biology and gender (or why those are two entirely different fields of study) if we all already learned everything there is to know in high school.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨iPad babies grew up and are now finding psychs⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Saturn’s coming back around for older gen-z’s

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Longing, Rusted, Seventeen, Daybreak, Furnace, Nine, Benign, Homecoming, One, Boxcar⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  not necessarily. for example we say things like “the lion is the king of the jungle,” but that doesn’t mean there’s only one lion per jungle. sometimes we refer to an archetypal singular to convey something about every member of a group

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Longing, Rusted, Seventeen, Daybreak, Furnace, Nine, Benign, Homecoming, One, Boxcar⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  it always bugs me that this phrase isn’t even grammatically correct. mitochondria is plural. it should be “the mitochondrion is the powerhouse of the cell”

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Lol, lmao even.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  I do that and I have a BS in mathematics. and in 4th grade I literally used to write “I hate math” at the top of my math homework. as much as primary education systems want it to be, computation speed is not mathematical aptitude. you can memorize multiplication tables up to 20, that’s not gonna help you understand Cantor’s theorem

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Make me feel like a man⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  it’s not a joke, the National Socialist Party of America was headquartered in Chicago. there was a famous supreme court case about their right to hold a demonstration in the mostly-Jewish suburb of Skokie that took place in 1977, three years before the movie came out

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨qt π⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  the square-cube law is the fact that a larger object has a lower ratio of surface area to volume than a similarly-shaped smaller object; i.e. as the scale of an object increases linearly, its surface area increases as a square function, and its volume increases as a cubic function.

  thermodynamically, this means an object twice the size has 4 times the heat transfer (which occurs at the outer surface), but 8 times the heat capacity (since heat is stored throughout the volume). so it’s heat loss is by raw numbers greater, but lower as a percentage of the total, i.e. the internal temperature is more stable

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Anon asks out a girl⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  you are allowed to stumble on the first line. and it may come off poorly. and if it does the other person is perfectly valid for not wanting to engage further. therefore if you want the other person to continue to engage, you should try not to come off poorly. this isn’t some newfangled social phenomenon, it’s how basic human interaction has worked for millennia

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Power word: STUN!⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Netflix startup sound