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- Comment on DNA 12 hours ago:
Well, I’m pretty sure bacteria and others aren’t thrilled by the blatant and offensive pro-prokaryote bias on that name.
- Comment on I'm literally a thinking lump of fat 2 days ago:
There’s a lot of water and ions (IONS!) besides that limp of fat.
- Comment on Is there a theoretical limit to profit? 3 days ago:
In case you want a serious treatment, for nominal profit:
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Keynesian_economics#The_Key…
For real profit, labor productivity must put some limit on it somewhere, but I have never seen anybody look at it.
Either way, “profit” is not something you squeeze out of society. The nominal one can’t be unbalanced, and the real one is hard to even track.
You may get some better answers if think in terms of wealth inequality. But that one won’t appear on the coarse level of the wikipedia article.
- Comment on Need those unit conversions 4 days ago:
That’s why they talk so easily about unities like “goalposts per supercarrier”, US people are used to the confusion.
- Comment on The torque better not be too strong with this one 5 days ago:
Torx is more resilient to over-torsion than Hex, but both of them will end near the end of the list on that one metric, with slot first, and way ahead of anything else.
Despite what the Torx publicity says, engineering is done over a multitude of dimensions, and that one dimension Torx wins may not be nearly as important as some other random one.
- Comment on The torque better not be too strong with this one 6 days ago:
What they don’t say is that the smaller the features on the contact, the easier it is to strip them. This almost reverses the order on your post depending on the way you tighten the screw.
- Comment on how badly could a pelican fuck me up in a fight? 1 week ago:
You might want to check that first source again.
About the second one… WTF? You’d wish to consult your Catholic traditions from some Catholic authority. Not whatever that is. But the first paragraph is almost normal, stick to it.
- Comment on how badly could a pelican fuck me up in a fight? 1 week ago:
but South Americans usually farm them if they’re a pest, rather than exterminating them, as they are very good meat animals
As a South American… Eww! Are you getting your facts from ChatGPT?
Catholics aren’t allowed to eat meat on friday
Again, as somebody that was grown catholic, where are you getting that from?
Mostly large snakes and jaguars eat them. Otherwise, nothing is really a danger.
- Comment on how badly could a pelican fuck me up in a fight? 1 week ago:
There aren’t many videos out there of creatures trying to eat a capybara.
It takes some ferocious kind of predator to even attempt it.
- Comment on Or Polio. Guess we should invest in iron lungs. 1 week ago:
Yes, and we know how to treat it (not cure, but we know how to make people not die) since, well, before the times depicted on the game. We have also knew how to avoid most of its infections since… hum, I don’t know that one, but Ancient Rome was full of structures made for that, and functional, so some time before them.
Still people didn’t use to be able to afford treatment (that is basically drinking large amounts of clean water with salt and sugar, and resting). And it takes a functional government to avoid it.
- Comment on If billionaires and CEOs feel like they need to start paying for large security details, would that be an example of trickle down economics? 1 week ago:
Well, ok, turns out I wrote a definition of the next line.
It’s a nonsensical economical theory, with no definition on the context of economics.
- Comment on If billionaires and CEOs feel like they need to start paying for large security details, would that be an example of trickle down economics? 1 week ago:
If it had a definition, it wouldn’t be nonsense, would it?
“Trickle down economics” is a rhetoric instrument by which people try to convince the public that taxing poor people and fiscally spending in rich people will increase the poor people’s quality of life.
- Comment on If billionaires and CEOs feel like they need to start paying for large security details, would that be an example of trickle down economics? 1 week ago:
If you are asking this seriously, trickle-down economics is an absurd nonsense theory, there are no examples of it.
Also, money changing hands is not what creates wealth, and those security details would be just an artificially maintained middle-class that can never be large.
- Comment on delicious 9pm coffee 2 weeks ago:
Lots and lots and lots of coffee
- Comment on Share holder value 2 weeks ago:
Well, explaining the noise is a game that can be played here too…
Everybody seems intent on doing it, why not us?
- Comment on conditional probability 2 weeks ago:
If vending machines ejected their beverage as vigorously as coconut trees, people wouldn’t put them on the same category on those statistics.
- Comment on Orcas so hot right now. 2 weeks ago:
Ugh! Look at that impostor wearing a mackerel!
- Comment on Makes more sense than the Imperial system 2 weeks ago:
Oh, ok. Now I understood it.
- Comment on Pterosaurs 2 weeks ago:
Apparently they were way more similar to bats than to birds.
- Comment on Makes more sense than the Imperial system 2 weeks ago:
Hum… You mean “deca”?
- Comment on Rust 2 weeks ago:
They’ve made a point to add seat-belts recently.
But people are still insisting they screw all the benches down. They already put an end on this discussion, saying that’s not an option, but people won’t shut-up about it…
- Comment on deez nuts 2 weeks ago:
Imagine you being so shallow that you think other people’s honest work makes them unworthy…
- Comment on Happy Thanksgiving, Yanks. 3 weeks ago:
The turkey is more than capable of stopping literally a house cat… And the dinos are not enough to stop the species the comics is really about.
- Comment on Brazilian's impression on Europe(i have never been there and this is based on nothing) 3 weeks ago:
Another Brazilian here.
The Iceberg is famous for using geothermal power. It’s hard to understand how. Except for that, no change.
- Comment on Fashion is cyclical 3 weeks ago:
That reminds me… Did they stop tagging boats on the Atlantic North?
- Comment on wtf Cambrian 3 weeks ago:
That guy with the mouth 30cm away from the face doesn’t care.
- Comment on Dyk, Bobby? 3 weeks ago:
There are things that kill grass. And not enough sunlight is one of them.
- Comment on ugh i wish 3 weeks ago:
The attitude doesn’t seem to be a problem here.
- Comment on sampling bias 3 weeks ago:
Yep, no survey get 0.2% of any kind of response.
- Comment on flouride 4 weeks ago:
Yes, irrigation with the minimum possible amount of water is known to destroy land for millennia at this point. But sodium will be a problem way before you notice any change in fluoride.