loaExMachina
@loaExMachina@sh.itjust.works
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- Comment on I can feel it 2 days ago:
For all intents and purpose, I am neurotypical. Now, listen as I rant about how The End Of Evangelion makes perfect sense when considered as a mirror of the first episode, and the hospital scene has the reverse role as the strainer scene, making it completely logical and effecient in conveying th-
- Comment on Privacy: Breached 3 days ago:
With this many screens, I can watch all the Yu-Gi-Oh.
- Comment on nuclear 4 days ago:
Nuclear plant accidents have happened tho. Remember Fukushima? It was 13 years ago, not that long. It didn’t strait up explode like a nuclear bomb, and neither did Chernobyl, but still; contamination is a pretty big deal. You can argue that the risk isn’t that bad or that fossil energy plants also have risks; but you can’t just dismiss it as a superstition.
- Comment on Something's not adding up 1 week ago:
He couldn’t taste the colour of the sounds with his fingers.
- Comment on neotropical cockroaches 1 week ago:
I think I’ve read there where like 4000 cockroach species and only 30 that were ivansive, in human homes, mostly from just 3 genera. The rest only live in the wild, where they hardly bother anyone.
- Comment on Cozy socks and a little bit of self hosted raw-blogging 1 week ago:
Ah yes, the thriving Ergo Proxy fandom.
- Comment on Anon plays spin the bottle 2 weeks ago:
Anon didn’t make up the rules, and I wouldn’t wager that he was the one who decided to start that game. Everyone chose to play knowing they wouldn’t be comfortable getting anon. It doesn’t seem to me like anon made any advance at all. Rejecting someone’s advances for whatever reason is not morally incorrect, nor is denying them physical displays of affection. But going up to someone unprompted and telling them you find them unattractive and wouldn’t feel comfortable touching them is. This seem like an intermediate situation where they willingly and knowingly created a situation where they would have to do the latter. Refusing to kiss or touch anon wasn’t the fault here, initiating the game was.
- Comment on Middle coat is my grandma's 2 weeks ago:
These terrible crooks, so different in looks
- Comment on Smug Viruses 2 weeks ago:
But words have no utility aside from being understood, a word is good as long as there is a consensus as to what it means, and you can always create other words for things it doesn’t describe.
Light acting like a wave in some regards and like a particle in others is something we can see experimentally, not just a matter of semantics. It’s a conclusion that experience lead us towards. Calling light “continuous” wouldn’t work because there is already meaning assigned to that word, and that meaning clashes with observations. Unless we changed the whole word and redefined the continuity of everything, which would be absurd.
That “operating with unclean tools would be fine” clashes with the observation that it can lead to infections, coupled with the axiom that inflicting bodily harm to someone is bad. The axiom could still be changed, but the problem with observations is that they’re imposed by reality, they would still be true even if we didn’t believe they were. You could also change the word “fine” tho. If you make a language almost identical to English safe that the word “fine” means “an unreasonably dangerous practice” the sentence “Practicing surgery without disinfecting your tools is fine!” is true in that language.
Ceres not being a planet depends only on our definition of planet. It was considered a planet for a while, but what led people to reconsider that isn’t just that it was smaller than believed, but also that there were many similar objects in the asteroid belt. Referring to all these objects as “planets” could’ve been an acceptable truth, but since that would’ve meant most planets known at the time are small and in the asteroid belt (the Kuiper belt and Port cloud weren’t known yet, but now it’s just mean most planets are in a belt), and if the likes of Pallas and Juno were included (as was the case once) it also would’ve meant that most planets weren’t round.
Since the previously known planets would’ve been outliers in several ways, a new word should’ve been coined for them. It seemed more simple to let them be the only planets and coin the word “asteroid” for the rest (and much later the intermediate category “dwarf planet”).
If a different choice had been made, asteroids could be planets, what we now call planets could be called “big planets” and dwarf planets would be called “intermediate planets”. This would be an acceptable truth, it wouldn’t contradict itself or observations. If it was the consensus, it would be true, but it isn’t so it’s false, it’s as simple as that.
If in the future we find a different definition of life more useful, that definition will be true then. But that won’t change what definition is true now. Ceres was a planet. Now it isn’t. Something can change category either because it itself changed or because the category changed, like how substances can go from being legal to illegal or vice-versa.
- Comment on Smug Viruses 2 weeks ago:
True, I guess several definitions of life may coexist with different implications. But in the context of this debate, I think most would agree that the best definition would be the one that has the biggest consensus amongst biologists, and maybe more precisely microbiologists. And most such definitions you’d find would include “self-replication” as a necessary trait.
- Comment on Smug Viruses 2 weeks ago:
We invented the word “living”, we get to chose what it refers to. We are necessarily right, because this is a truth we create, not a transcendent one. If we collectively decide to change the definition of “living” to include viruses, we will still be right but it won’t mean we were wrong before.
- Comment on The beetles were heretics! 2 weeks ago:
MOTHMAN
there’s no need to feel down, I said
MOTHMAN
Pick that man from the ground
- Comment on Just one toke! 3 weeks ago:
But what I’d you’re a cockroach and you can’t go on?
- Comment on i fixed Chile issue 3 weeks ago:
Saddam be built like the Egyptian god Min.
- Comment on Anon's first job 4 weeks ago:
OP should take a statistical physics course to learn the difference between distinguishable and undistinguishable particles and it’s implications.
- Comment on rip frend 4 weeks ago:
But I can change, I can change!
I can learn to keep my promises I swear it! - Comment on They're called leaves for a reason. 4 weeks ago:
Since HOAs were mentioned, I assume the previous comment was about the US (unless there are countries in the Old World where they are as prevalent, but I know of none). Domestic honey bees aren’t native to the US, and many native bees are endangered for many different reasons. In the rest of the world as well, honey bees aren’t the only bees, or the only pollinating insects, and each pollinator has their plants of predilections, some species of plants depend entirely on some species of insect, so insect bioiversity is very important. Protecting native bees in the Americas has particular stakes, because they’re the most adept at pollinating the native plants which are the cornerstones of several ecosystems.
- Comment on What do zoos do with dead animals? 5 weeks ago:
…And then the gorilla’s hand held up one more finger.
- Comment on To deter predators... 5 weeks ago:
Mint is a pretty sturdy plant, it can grow in a variety of climates and even get a bit invasive at times. Among the domesticated plants, it might be one of those with the best chance to still strive after humans disappear.
- Comment on Anon takes the horsepill 5 weeks ago:
I feel hay and grass may end up more expensive than anon thinks… For grass, you need a big place where your horse can graze. Anon either is such a big landowner or intends to rent such land, but it won’t be cheap. Then the hay for when the horse is kept indoors… Gotta be a lot of hay. And the means of bringing and storing the hay may be of non-negligible price. Then there are vet bills, because horses can get sick or injured…
I knew someone who owned horses long ago. Well, more like someone whose parents owned horses since we were kids. They even had a coach that these horses could pull. But they didn’t use it as a means of transportation unless just doing a simple roundtrip for leisure, and there’s a simple reason for that: You can’t leave your horse for hours on a parking spot. You can tie it up somewhere maybe, but not for a long time, there aren’t many places fit for leaving horses nowadays.
- Comment on He protecc 5 weeks ago:
Does he attac tho? Whom? How? Does he have widdle weapons for assolt ?
- Comment on Total burn on West Africa! 1 month ago:
Maybe to avoid confusing it with the country.
- Comment on Nuclear Demonology 1 month ago:
Don’t forget Lise Meitner!
- Comment on Problem? 1 month ago:
Yep, except that in fundamental science, proving that things are more complex than previously thought can be an exciting outcome!
- Comment on Fedi machines 1 month ago:
I personally use Fedilab for Mastodon, but idk if that makes such a difference. There isn’t really a discover feature that I know off, but remember to follow not only people, but also hashtags! This’ll show you stuff you’re interested in, and then you can follow the people posting stuff you like.
You also have a local feed that shows stuff from the instance where your account is hosted, it turns handy especially if you’ve chosen an instanced themed around one of your centers of interest.
- Comment on The Divine Dick 1 month ago:
It’s also been mentioned in other parts of this thread, but the holy foreskin has been considered an important relic, and there are accounts of many kings like Charlemagne having owned it.
- Comment on The Divine Dick 1 month ago:
Then I guess this makes you an Arian heretic.
- Comment on Anon rizzes up a girl 1 month ago:
Why bring Donald Trump into this?
- Comment on The Divine Dick 1 month ago:
This is your kingdom come
- Comment on The Divine Dick 1 month ago:
Does Jesus have a gender tho? As stated above, Jesus has a fully human body and nature (or else you are deemed a heretic by the council of Chalcedon). He is described as a man and several churches and rulers have historically claimed to hold a piece of his foreskin, so he must’ve had a penis. Therefore:
- Either Jesus was agender despite having a penis, therefore penis doesn’t imply male gender or
- Jesus was male. So either:
- Jesus and God don’t have the same gender, so they aren’t the same entity, which the councils of Nicea and Chalcedon would deem a heresy, or
- God can manifest as male or agender, making Them genderfluid.