Pons_Aelius
@Pons_Aelius@kbin.social
- Comment on Ubisoft Wants You To Be Comfortable Not Owning Your Games 10 months ago:
I am very comfortable with never owning a ubisoft game ever again.
- Comment on I speak zero languages 10 months ago:
You don't have to worry about red eyes giving you away, the dank stench did that first.
- Comment on [deleted] 10 months ago:
The brace plate for a PNW (personal nuclear weapon).
- Comment on Question in Physics 10 months ago:
Junket.
Yogurt.
Frozen milk.
etc
etc
etc
- Comment on 'We have no rights.' Frustrated with California wage laws, Moonstone Bistro cuts lunch service | KRCR 10 months ago:
No business has a right to exist.
- Comment on The Downfall of Amazon: Dangerous Products, Fake Reviews & Vanishing Brands - Louis Rossman 11 months ago:
A mall-nija who upgraded to amazomprime-nija is all I can think of.
- Comment on Ouroboros 11 months ago:
Well, if the snake manages to reproduce, then eats itself, the genes for eating yourself after reproduction get passed on.
TLDR: you actions have a must smaller effect on evolution after you have reproduced successfully.
- Comment on What do mean things so small we can't see them with the human eye? Are you crazy? 11 months ago:
Environments suggesting an afterlife may be encountered via certain meditation techniques.
What is your control group for this?
Does people not experiencing this while mediating prove it does not exist. (I have been meditation for 20 years and have no indication of this)
Interviews with children who recall past lives suggests reincarnation.
Do interviews with children who do not recall pass lives invalidate this?
Something fitting description of a “creator of the universe” may be encountered via certain meditation techniques.
What is your control group for this?
Does people not experiencing this while mediating prove it does not exist. (I have been meditation for 20 years and have no indication of this)
Little people. Hmm. You got me there. But the literature is filled with reports.
Literature is filled with shit people made up, it proves nothing scientifically.
And of course, these methods unavoidably esoteric and depthy.
Exactly, none of what you wrote is based on the scientific method.
- Comment on What do mean things so small we can't see them with the human eye? Are you crazy? 11 months ago:
The doctors at the hospital were also doing autopsies and would go directly from an autopsies to the delivery ward without washing their hands.
The midwives did not perform autopsies.
It was not that the midwives' hands were especially clean, it was that the Dr's hands were very contaminated.
- Comment on What do mean things so small we can't see them with the human eye? Are you crazy? 11 months ago:
Give us your experimental designs to verify or falsify all the things you listed:
Afterlife
Reincarnation
A creator of the universe
Little people
Spirits
I personally believe none of it but show me how it can be proven using the scientific method.
- Comment on Was Jesus Christ a lich? 11 months ago:
You will always have issues with these sort of crossovers. Mixing characters from two different universes never really works as the rule sets always have conflicts.
You may as well ask if a Jedi would be able to resist turning into a Borg.
- Comment on Where do guns go when people are done using them? 11 months ago:
what happens to them at the end of their useful life.
When the gun buy back happened in Aus after the Port Arthur massacre they were just melted down and the steel was sold for scrap.
- Comment on Is the saying, "The internet's written in ink, not pencil" accurate? 11 months ago:
The problem is you don't know what is in ink and what is in pencil till years after the fact.
A forum I visited way back when, Kuro5hin, no longer exists but there is some snapshots on archive.org but I doubt that anything I wrote there is accessible (or traceable back to me either here of in real life.)
A blog I wrote for a couple of years back around '07 is definitely still online. But again, there is no way to connect it to current me.
TLDR: Be really sure before you put your real life name or identifying info to anything online.
- Comment on How can I stop my keyboard from saying help instead of hello? 11 months ago:
I'm struggling to understand what you are asking.
Can you expand/clarify?
- Comment on Lil snitch 11 months ago:
It's up to code, the Ron Swanson code.
If you can't avoid the lava, stay out of the room.
- Comment on Whatever I use 10 11 months ago:
Assume the pig is spherical, frictionless and ignore wind resistance.
- Comment on Mel Gibson’s The Passion of the Christ: Resurrection Part I To be Shot in Rome and Mexico 11 months ago:
Waiting for
GodotJesus. - Comment on Same?... Yes, Same 11 months ago:
Well, not with that attitude...
First step, get the blade of the shovel as sharp as possible.
- Comment on Same?... Yes, Same 11 months ago:
Well, once you are an adult...you can make your own decisions on both issues.
Until then I would suggest not doing either.
- Comment on [deleted] 11 months ago:
People tend to stick their chin out/lean forward when using laptops, even with a standing desk as the screen is too low compared to the keyboard height.
This can put a lot of strain on the muscles at the back of the neck as they as not designed to hold the weight of the head but stabilise it as the weight rests on the neck vertebrae.
This may be what caused the neck pain.
- Comment on [deleted] 11 months ago:
Having one morning of neck pain and lumping to ALS as a 20 year old (Usual onset 45–75 years and Prevalence: 4.4/100,000 living individuals) indicates more towards anxiety than anything else to me.
at first it was bad but then i felt better
Honestly?
It sounds like you slept in a weird position or strained it in some way in the previous 24 hours.
Are you active?
Do you plat any sports?
- Comment on YouTube comment deletion is out of control, can't say anything anymore even when completely sensible. Is there a text format (alternate characters) that allows you to bypass detection? 11 months ago:
I honestly don't get it.
I watch a ton of youtbe but I am there for the videos and that is it. I understand that you want something different but if you need to jump through this sort of bullshit to keep commenting, i just do not see what the attraction is.
- Comment on YouTube comment deletion is out of control, can't say anything anymore even when completely sensible. Is there a text format (alternate characters) that allows you to bypass detection? 11 months ago:
I have three questions.
1: Why would you want to post comments there?
2: If your comments are being deleted, why would you want to post comments there?
3: Seriously, why would you want to post comments there?
- Comment on He did NOT want to be filmed 😳 11 months ago:
It is also a private space that others pay to use. Their right to privacy outweighs your right to film.
- Comment on If there was an afterlife, how would it work? 11 months ago:
Reincarnation...the only thing I can imagine being remotely plausible.
Even that has a big issue.
By some estimates there are more humans alive now than have ever died in the past...
- Comment on What happens if flat Earthers go to space? 11 months ago:
My guess is they would not go in the first place.
or will they say that it’s fake and the windows on the space stations are monitors?
But if they did, this would be my guess. They have not used logic or accepted any proof that they are wrong so I doubt they would in space.
There is a video
- Comment on (This is not an endorsement of either.)PART 2: Andrew Tate Talks Palestine and Israel With Piers Morgan | Latest Interview [35:15 | Piers Morgan Uncensored] 11 months ago:
This is not an endorsement of either
But it is advertising its existence.
I wish I could go back 5 minutes to a time when I did not know these to shit stains think they have anything positive or useful to say about anything, let alone the topic they are discussing.
- Comment on Excuse my ignorance, but could someone explain why that tween Elon agreed with recently is considered antisemetic? 11 months ago:
For those out of the loop, here is the Guardian article on the matter.
- Comment on US Question. Will the people that have to wait until 70 to get Social Security ever get what they paid in to it back out before they die since men's life expectancy is only 77 now? 1 year ago:
Well, both of us are making assumptions without doing the research.
So. I respect your opinion but neither of us knows that we are actually correct.
- Comment on US Question. Will the people that have to wait until 70 to get Social Security ever get what they paid in to it back out before they die since men's life expectancy is only 77 now? 1 year ago:
average life expectancy
mean age of death?
To me mean = average, so the two statements are the same.
Are you talking about median age of death?
When child mortality was very high (pre- 20 century) that was definitely the case. I am not so sure that it is now. I feel that average life expectancy will be a lot closer to 50% survival rate (median age of death) than it was in the past.