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- Comment on Blacksky Is Nothing Like Black Twitter—and It Doesn’t Need to Be 1 week ago:
I don’t see them there.
Best thing about Mastodon is no insidious algorithm forcing stuff on you to specifically make you angry.
- Comment on I've noticed a lot of UK job applications use the American MM/DD/YYYY date format and some also say "resume" instead of CV. Does that annoy you if you're British? 1 week ago:
Dates written in a numbers only format are not about matching the spoken language. You also would not say, “let’s meet on twelve eleven twenty twentyfour.”
- Comment on In the US, is this actually the moment past the point of no return? 4 weeks ago:
Kinda makes “bye bye” seem a little weird, eh?
- Comment on In the US, is this actually the moment past the point of no return? 4 weeks ago:
The saying is really about asking god to remove obstacles from your path and facilitate faster travel. A little like “goodbye” is a very shortened “may god be with you.”
- Comment on If Orange Dickhead dies before taking his oath again will sucession still be applicable? Like Vance the new pres and Johnson the new VP? 4 weeks ago:
Others have explained that it depwnds on when, but I want to add this: when a VP becomes pres. through succession, the speaker does not become VP automatically. The new pres. picks whoever they want. Ford chose the governor of NY, for example.
- Comment on Yep, it's me 1 month ago:
The disorder can only increase, just like your toys on the living room floor.
- Comment on Square! 2 months ago:
This actually has six right angles if you include exterior ones.
- Comment on Citations 2 months ago:
Hah!
But really, anyone who continues along the same line of research for long enough is going to necessarily cite themselves rather than just listing all of the previous results in each paper.
- Comment on We are stardust. 3 months ago:
All of the hydrogen was created at the initial cooling of the big bang. In this case what I mean by primordial, is that it was never part of a larger composite object like a star.
- Comment on We are stardust. 3 months ago:
If that hydrogen was previously incorporated in a star, I think it’s fair to call it stardust. That’s very likely, since our solar system would have formed from a relatively dense cloud of the remnants of earlier stars, with just a smidge of primordial hydrogen mixed in.
- Comment on Misinformation: Baseless claim about U.S. presidential candidate Kamala Harris crash spread by mysterious website 3 months ago:
Electing someone who believes that we should have laws and enforce them is exactly what we should do.
When she was a prosecutor, it was not her job to change the laws or decide which ones to enforce. If we don’t want non-violent drug users and truants prosecuted, then we should change those laws. We have a process for that, and it doesn’t include prosecutors making those decisions for us.
- Comment on 👁️ 🌹 💨 💨 3 months ago:
“People of color.”
- Comment on 👁️ 🌹 💨 💨 3 months ago:
Chill, Spock.
- Comment on 👁️ 🌹 💨 💨 3 months ago:
I think they were alluding to a different use of the word color.
- Comment on If Biden died tomorrow and Harris took over? and she won the election also. Could she work full two terms or would it count as one when Biden died? 4 months ago:
Let’s give her large majorities in congress, then she can fix the court.
- Comment on What the fuck happened to YouTube!? 4 months ago:
Google breaks Newpipe regularly, and then Newpipe always fixes it very fast. Sometimes I’ve been unable to use it for about two days or so. Totally worth it to not support Google.
Check for updates within the app itself. Those are more current than the app stores.
- Comment on Anyone else feel like Trump has a much higher chance to win then Presidency than Kamala? 4 months ago:
Losing any one of those three throws it to Trump.
Unless she win NC or OH. She’s doing really well in both.
I think this is going to be a giant blowout win for Kamala. But, please, no one get cocky! Everyone has to actually vote!
- Comment on Chrome will block one of its biggest ad blockers 4 months ago:
I thought the situation was a little like Android. Google develops an open source version (along with as many independent developers who wish to contribute), then sticks on a bunch of proprietary BS and sells that version to phone companies. If chromium is to chrome like vanilla android is to android with g-services, then I guess my question really becomes: is google making this change in the underlying code base, or just in the BS they put on top?
Or am I confused about how the connection works between chrome and chromium?
- Comment on Chrome will block one of its biggest ad blockers 4 months ago:
Will this change be implemented in Chromium too? Or will it / should it finally become independent of Chrome?
- Comment on 8 Minutes 4 months ago:
Which two event are you talking about being simultaneous? The Sun going out and Earthers observing it? Those things will not be simultaneous in any reference frame, because they are “light-like” separated.
- Comment on 8 Minutes 4 months ago:
The moon might be on the daylight side, so we wouldn’t necessarily observe that.
- Comment on 8 Minutes 4 months ago:
If you can see the moon (if it is “up” at night).
- Comment on I definitely never unsubscribed from a YouTube channel just for that... 4 months ago:
Science can never answer “why.” In your example, the question why is just moved, from “why does it fall?” to “why does mass distort space-time?” In both cases physics just describes what happens.
- Comment on I definitely never unsubscribed from a YouTube channel just for that... 4 months ago:
You mean, as opposed to lemma? I’ve never been confident that I understand the difference between those. :(
- Comment on I definitely never unsubscribed from a YouTube channel just for that... 4 months ago:
In physics we call some results “laws” and some “theories.” The difference has absolutely nothing to do with our certainty in the validity of the results.
Newton’s Laws of motion are called that because they can be written as concise mathematical equations, and allof the content is there. Einstein’s Theory of special relativity is just as valid, and even contains Newton’s Laws as a special case, but the content of the theory can’t be written in simple, concise equations. There are several equations included in special relativity, but they do not represent the entire content. For example, the most important statement of the theory cannot be written in equation form at all: “The measured speed of light in a vacuum will be the same for all observers in inertial reference frames, regardless of the relative speed of their reference frame.”
Darwin’s Theory of Evolution likewise cannot be written in concise statements (mathematical or otherwise), but our certainty in its validity is no less than in Newton’s Laws.
Another important subtlety: I was careful to say that we are certain of the validity. People who don’t know better are fond of saying that Newton’s Laws are wrong. This is a fallacy. Scientific laws and theories can only be valid or not, they can never be true.
- Comment on Some subreddits could be paywalled, hints Reddit CEO - 9to5Mac 4 months ago:
“Unlock the door” is a really strange way to say “lock the door.” What a dolt.
- Comment on The Crooked Media Union Walked Off the Job in Strike for Fair Contract 4 months ago:
The CEOs can’t do that even if they thought it a good idea. They answer to shareholder boards.
- Comment on Octopi 4 months ago:
Thank you! I knew they were all correct, and I knew why, but I didn’t have an authoritative source to point folks to.
- Comment on Octopi 4 months ago:
Also, octopi. They’re all “correct” due to the multiple original languages’ grammar.
- Comment on Revenge is calamari 4 months ago:
When they turn around to bug out, they’re actually pointed towards the whale.