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- Comment on idk which would be worse tbh 15 hours ago:
That was fascinating.
Why “sitting is the new smoking”
Oh, I’ve been warned about this by a doctor, but I can’t do much apart than keeping my legs raised when I can. (My work involves both sitting and standing in one place. My veins are so dead.)
Almost worth the thousands of dollars it cost
:-(
- Comment on Three dinosaurs in a trenchcoat 1 day ago:
Also evolution (common genetic pool) and ecology (common niche, environmental pressures and behaviour).
- Comment on Taste the flavor 1 day ago:
I believe it’s a European thing. I’ve cried after eating Andhra food (more spicy than most Indian styles) but my stomach doesn’t seem to mind. European visitors get indigestion.
- Comment on idk which would be worse tbh 1 day ago:
The Aryans are a steppe (modern day south Russia) people who migrated to India four thousand years ago. Depending on who you ask, they mixed with / drove out the native people from India’s north and west.
Modern Indians speak Indo-European languages (often seen as being of Aryan origin) in the north and west, Dravidian languages (supposedly the native languages) in the south and Austroasiatic and other languages (from China and southeast Asia) in the northeast. In the 1950s, after India became independent, the Indo-European majority wanted Hindi, an IE language, to be the national language of India. There was opposition in the south and northeast, and the result is that India today has no national language, with the union (=federal) government using both English and Hindi, and states free to choose their own language(s). In Tamil Nadu, India’s southernmost state, opposition to Hindi was strongest, and it gradually extended to other aspects of ‘Aryan’ culture. So the names Arya / Aryan would be considered a bit ‘culturally insensitive’. They would also be rare in the northeast, but more strange than rude.
- Comment on idk which would be worse tbh 1 day ago:
Arya / Aryan is a valid name in many* parts of India. (* It would be rude in Tamil Nadu and rare in the northeast.)
- Comment on Would the United States actually risk a Tiananmen Square incident? 1 week ago:
Do they send in the tanks?
You don’t use tanks in a city. You use machine guns.
Do they kill 1,000,000 people?
If they can, probably
Would republican civilians see empathy for the dead americans who were democrats?
Ask yourself how many people in the US showed empathy for the Gazans.
Or would it unite the nation like 9/11 did, except this time against the government?
Lol no, the US is a terminally propagandised country. Iraq has WMDs, Venezuela has drugs, free healthcare is bad somehow, Israel is not genociding the Palestinians, etc. etc.
- Comment on Meet the Vitalists: the hardcore longevity enthusiasts who believe death is “wrong” 1 week ago:
I don’t think there’s anything wrong in wanting to live forever / very long.
But it shouldn’t come at the cost of others, and it should be available for everyone, not just the rich.
- Comment on Bears or no bears? 1 week ago:
but lions and tigers… guess they were harder to spot among the foliage
Lions live in the savanna and grassland. They can hide among the grass, but they generally hunt by chasing prey in turns until the prey tires. Tigers are ambush predators and excellent at hiding.
Healthy lions and tigers do not hunt humans. They can kill humans pretty easily, but prefer meatier prey. But when they get too old / sick to hunt wild animals, they might hunt humans out of desperation.
Also Asian lions have become used to humans since their protected area has tribal settlements and is surrounded by villages. Local people sometimes feed the lions, and on youtube you can find videos of people even touching them. (This is dangerous, messes with the lions’ ecology and is illegal, but people do it and stopping them now might cause new problems.)
- Comment on I've wondered since I was a youngin 2 weeks ago:
It’s the fair thing to do. They get a choice. Best case they learn to live like everyone else, and maybe do something good. In which case, great! Worst case they show they can’t be let out in society, and are sent to prison. In which case, hey at least they got a second chance, which is more than what their victims got.
- Comment on Influencers 2 months ago:
And wtf is Neptune doing in second place.
Pluto and the Kuiper belt.
Note that Saturn is relatively close to Jupiter, while Neptune is far from any other large planets. So while it is smaller, it dominates a much larger part of the solar system.
- Comment on Shout out to my engineering homies. 2 months ago:
Doctors don’t get to turn their patients off during repairs.
- Comment on Shout out to my engineering homies. 2 months ago:
If an army is dumb enough to offer me a permanent position when I’m 60, I’d take it too (then immediately retire and live off the pension).
- Comment on Insulin 2 months ago:
Sectors like pharma require enormous R&D budgets. If you have a free market with many companies, each company will have only a tiny marketshare, and therefore only a tiny budget. So you can’t do without the megacorps. The solution is for the megacorps to be run by the government / non-profits / trusts, or, if that is not possible, for prices to be fixed by an independent regulatory body.
- Comment on It's OK to just like lemon water. 2 months ago:
They said:
- Alkaline water won’t change your body’s pH.
- Changing your body’s pH would kill you.
Since alkaline water does not change body pH, it would not necessarily kill the drinker.
- Comment on Pow-- 3 months ago:
What a terrible day to have eyes.
- Comment on Snow Kitty 3 months ago:
They live in areas that are covered by snow for at least part of the year, such as the Himalayas, Tibet and parts of Central Asia and Mongolia. The animal itself can vary in colour from cream to grey or tan.
- Comment on Scientific explanation 3 months ago:
So that’s why they’re called voids.
- Comment on Who's your favorite female protagonist in a video game? (Add pic of character in response) 3 months ago:
Gameplay? Xiangling (Genshin) - She does more damage.
Story? Focalors / Furina - peak character and peak storytelling
This silly meme tells you everything you need to know about Xiangling (apart from ‘every team becomes 10x better with XL in it’) and everything Furina wants you to know about her.
- Comment on 4 months ago:
There is one kind of prison where the man is behind bars, and everything that he desires is outside; and there is another kind where the things are behind the bars, and the man is outside.
Upton Sinclair
- Comment on In this essay... 4 months ago:
you cannot prove a system using the system.
Doesn’t that only apply for sufficiently complicated systems? Very simple systems could be provably self-consistent.
- Comment on PUT THE TRAINS IN THE BAG 4 months ago:
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If you build infrastructure people will come
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A 15-hour journey sounds perfect for an overnight service.
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- Comment on PUT THE TRAINS IN THE BAG 4 months ago:
Why is there no connection between Niigata and Onezawa?
- Comment on oh cool 4 months ago:
Adding more hydrogen will make the sun burn faster, so I guess spraying water will extinguish the sun a little earlier than it otherwise would.
- Comment on We keep the entomologists in the basement. 4 months ago:
Many insects get infected by bacteria of the genus Wolbachia, which modify their behaviour to make them go towards their predators. The Wolbachia complete their life-cycle in the guts of the predator.
Nature being nature, some insects have also evolved symbiotic relationships with Wolbachia.
- Comment on Funerary Engineering 4 months ago:
“I’m not dead yet.”
- Comment on Meme. 4 months ago:
Always has been.
- Comment on "ok, imagine a gun." 5 months ago:
Bonus fun fact: part of the reason for their success might be that one of the local police informants was … Stalin.
- Comment on Water Snek 5 months ago:
Okay but why are the oscillations bigger on the English side than on the French?
- Comment on I 🖤 LaTeX 6 months ago:
standard English pronunciation rules
Lol. Lmao even.
- Comment on be gay, do computers 6 months ago:
Isn’t the abacus a mechanical computer?