pelespirit
@pelespirit@sh.itjust.works
- Comment on MY BODY IS READY 1 week ago:
As detailed in the complaint, the defendants’ alleged scheme has three main components. First, an agreement to fix the price of peer review services at zero that includes an agreement to coerce scholars into providing their labor for nothing by expressly linking their unpaid labor with their ability to get their manuscripts published in the defendants’ preeminent journals.
Second, the publisher defendants agreed not to compete with each other for manuscripts by requiring scholars to submit their manuscripts to only one journal at a time, which substantially reduces competition by removing incentives to review manuscripts promptly and publish meritorious research quickly.
Third, the publisher defendants agreed to prohibit scholars from freely sharing the scientific advancements described in submitted manuscripts while those manuscripts are under peer review, a process that often takes over a year. As the complaint notes, “From the moment scholars submit manuscripts for publication, the Publisher Defendants behave as though the scientific advancements set forth in the manuscripts are their property, to be shared only if the Publisher Defendant grants permission. Moreover, when the Publisher
- Comment on Francis Ford Coppola: ‘Megalopolis’ cast purposefully includes ‘canceled’ actors 4 weeks ago:
Treating everyone equally as well as accepting people for who they are, which are both antithetical to the progressive worldview, are core tenets of the Christian faith, and I’ve been a Christian for nearly as long as I can remember
Not sure I understand what you’re saying, I think you’re implying that you’re more Christian than anyone because you’re antiwoke? Woke just means that you honor everyone’s history. That seems pretty old school Christian to me. Ya know, the golden rule and all.
- Comment on Francis Ford Coppola: ‘Megalopolis’ cast purposefully includes ‘canceled’ actors 4 weeks ago:
Yikes man, when did you go antiwoke? That’s a weird space I don’t get. I’ve never met an antiwoke person that wasn’t really, really racist. I’m not around them long.
- Comment on Francis Ford Coppola: ‘Megalopolis’ cast purposefully includes ‘canceled’ actors 4 weeks ago:
But I think it’s also fair to point out that most anti-woke people don’t use slurs at all.
Hmmm, do you know a lot of antiwoke people or you just don’t use slurs? That’s a weird statement.
- Comment on Crystals 5 weeks ago:
Well this is kind of funny that this came up soon after our convo:
- Comment on Crystals 1 month ago:
If you know it’s a process, then why would you criticize science for changing theories in response to new evidence?
Why aren’t you open to not knowing everything and that our knowledge could change?
- Comment on Crystals 1 month ago:
The “God particle” is the Higgs boson. They found it with the LHC.
Right, the fermi lab peeps were skeptical about ever finding it. LHC proved it. You’re making my case.
This tells me you don’t just not know how science works; you don’t understand what science is.
Do you? It’s a process of finding out. Have you proven that that stones don’t have an energy that we don’t have the equipment to measure? The black and white in this thread is now becoming funny while spouting that you believe in the process.
- Comment on Crystals 1 month ago:
I’m having a hard time with this. We don’t know what we don’t know and it takes a lot of undeserved confidence to say anything is for sure. Fermilab never found the god particle and we’re pretty sure that exists. I’m not saying it’s true, but you guys are being a little over confident. Think about all of the theories and hypothesis that have been altered or completely changed over time.
- Comment on Mattel reportedly in talks with Illumination for an animated "Barbie" movie - Warner Bros. not involved, Greta Gerwig and Margot Robbie are "not thrilled". 1 month ago:
I think it’s like Avatar the Last Airbender, they don’t want the movie being made without the original creators. The live action on Netflix did a great job with the mood of the locations and hiring the actors, everything else is pretty bad. They don’t want to see all their work bastardized. I get it.
- Comment on Science is Magic 1 month ago:
I appreciate you. imgur.com/gallery/new-favorite-gif-EkO9uj8
- Comment on Science is Magic 1 month ago:
If I watch too much fantasy world or read about it too immersively , I think about how all of their powers are normal to them. Light, fire, storms, electricity, the states of water, tides, giraffes, etc., they’re all magical. We’ve just named them and have ways to describe how they work in an orderly, understandable, format.
- Comment on this one goes out to the urban planning nerds 1 month ago:
Also for your urban planning nerds, this was posted a few days ago and looks great:
As a young graduate student in the late 1950s, Akira Miyawaki learned about the emergent concept of potential natural vegetation (PNV). This, along with his studies in phytosociology—the way plant species interact with each other—guided his explorations of the vegetation growing throughout his native Japan. Eventually, he began visiting Shinto sites and observing their chinju no mori, or “sacred shrine forests.” Miyawaki determined that these were time capsules, showing how indigenous forest was layered together from four categories of native plantings: main tree species, sub-species, shrubs, and ground-covering herbs.
Using this four-category system, along with his surveys of these sites and his knowledge of PNV and phytosociology, Miyawaki designed his own system for planting forests.
It works like this: the soil of a future forest site is analyzed and then improved, using locally available sustainable amendments—for example, rice husks from a nearby mill. About 50 to 100 local plant species from the above four categories are selected and planted in clumps as seedlings in a mix like you would find growing naturally in the wild. The seedlings are planted very densely—30,000 to 50,000 per hectares as opposed to 1,000 per hectare in commercial forestry. For a period of two to three years, the site is monitored, watered, and weeded, to give the nascent forest every chance to establish itself.
- Comment on Palms 2 months ago:
I see a fight coming your way in the talk section, lol. Good luck.
- Comment on Palms 2 months ago:
It’s probably going to be political since it’s wrong.
The coconut tree (Cocos nucifera) is a member of the palm tree family (Arecaceae) and the only living species of the genus Cocos. The term “coconut” (or the archaic “cocoanut”) can refer to the whole coconut palm, the seed, or the fruit, which botanically is a drupe, not a nut. They are ubiquitous in coastal tropical regions and are a cultural icon of the tropics.
- Comment on Copper Nanotubes 2 months ago:
It’s an old family name, for real.
- Comment on YouTube's eraser tool removes copyrighted music without impacting other audio 2 months ago:
I think I like this? Sometimes you don’t realize and then you can’t get copyright strikes. Of course, there still is the issue of people going after you maliciously and then your videos suck for no reason.
- Comment on I feel betrayed... 2 months ago:
So you’re saying one hp = one DAY of horse power. How is that even a measurement? How old is your horse and how hard can it work in a day? Lmao, this is turning into a comedy bit.
- Comment on I feel betrayed... 2 months ago:
Then call it a 1 Horse Team Power. It would be so easy to make it clear, lol. It’s not that serious, I just don’t get it.
- Comment on I feel betrayed... 2 months ago:
Yes, but why not make it one horse=1hp? That sounds like early marketing.
- Comment on On the House Floor, Republicans Gag Mentions of Trump’s Conviction 3 months ago:
Or both, both is cool too.
- Comment on On the House Floor, Republicans Gag Mentions of Trump’s Conviction 3 months ago:
That’s what inuendo is for! So many to choose from and they make better headlines. Not from me, but from articles about him at the time.
- Free Father Teresa
- The “innocent” man running against Biden
- The guy who got busted for 34 crimes, or at least 34 crimes so far.
- We’ll always have the courtroom sketches
- Dark Brandon sends out L
- Orange diva down!
Etc., etc.
- Comment on Judge Orders Bannon to Surrender for Prison Term by July 1 3 months ago:
So true. And in the case of his, Roger Stone’s, Gulliani’s, etc., annoying and they want to destroy our democracy.
- Comment on Judge Orders Bannon to Surrender for Prison Term by July 1 3 months ago:
Bannon needs to excuse his behavior by explaining that the amount of cocaine he uses tends to give him some false confidence.
- Comment on Ant smell 3 months ago:
After the giant one, the smaller ones aren’t as bad to me. Still not worth it, lol. I was bit by a recluse, so that also makes me weary.
I quickly read the article, It was rounder than that, it looked more like a video game spider. I’ve seen the wolf spiders too and they weren’t nearly as big, aggressive or scary looking. It was lighter in color as well.
- Comment on Ant smell 3 months ago:
Light clicking, sort of ti, ti, ti, ti, ti. A friend of mine’s kid makes that sound in my ear and it’s very funny to him. It takes a lot of strength not to hurt him while I get him away form my ear.
- Comment on He came with receipts 3 months ago:
I think it’s because people have grown up with or are the people who were lied to by the smart people with credentials. And now that a lot of that information has been disproved, don’t trust the system. If you’ve tasted the credentials system, it’s known that a lot of that is nepo, wealth, political, etc., it casts a doubt on everything. Now you have to weed through everything to find out if it’s right regardless of credentials. Who do you trust? Also, new information comes along and theories change, so who’s to say that those theories are going to stick around. Basically, it’s complicated.
- Comment on Ant smell 3 months ago:
There are so many quirky things about humans, I would never tell you you’re wrong. I want your sound thing and to keep my visual thing, lol. I was hoping we could learn like that guy who went blind and learned echo location.
- Comment on Ant smell 3 months ago:
Thanks for explaining so clearly. I hope someone does their thesis on this stuff, it really is fascinating.
I don’t know if you’re familiar with drafting, but when you draw elevations, it’s a flat version of 3d objects. I couldn’t really read a map until after I learned how to read elevations. You’re sort of pushing through and bringing forward objects from a flat drawing. It’s also a section, so it’s cut through a certain point of a floor plan. I could understand floor plans easily for some reason, but elevations and details were super hard. Then something clicked and I could read maps and all of the different types of drawings. I even remember where I was. Our brains are wild.
- Comment on Ant smell 3 months ago:
Someone with aphantasia might be able to learn how to conceptualize in a different way, but I don’t think you can train what’s not there, any more than a blind person could train themselves to see. There isn’t a lot of study into it though, and I’ve found it difficult to get solid information on my condition, so perhaps there’s more to learn. Why, for example, do I have a very vivid imagination of sounds? I can imagine an entire song in all of its different instruments as if I could hear it, but I can’t even conceive even a little bit of what it means to see something in my head.
That is so fascinating. I think I understand now, I probably couldn’t train myself to do the sound thing. I asked a friend with what you have to tell me what his home looked like growing up and he said it was white. I asked him if he could picture that home when he said it and he told me that no, it was like memorizing times tables, it’s just a fact. It blows my mind how our brains work.
As far as collaborating on the art, don’t discount the sounds, you could focus on that and your fiance could focus on the visuals. What a cool blend of talents.
- Comment on Ant smell 3 months ago:
spider horror
I came across a huge spider that I could hear. That is still one the most terrifying sounds of my existence. This spider had a 2 inch body which made it like 5 inches across and charged me. It made me less afraid of normal spiders though, so there’s that.