Sconrad122

@Sconrad122@lemmy.world

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Seconds⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  short distances in solar radii

  I think astrophycisists and I may have a difference of opinion on the meaning of the adjective short

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨You don't say⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s easier to read if you read it as a line spoken by the Silicon Valley TV character Jian Yang

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Anon rides a bike⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Respect to those folks. A miserable ride is often rewarding because it’s one of those lows that is eminently temporary and gives you an appreciation for the highs, especially if you are dressed appropriately so as not to catch a cold or some such. Kind of like shoveling snow for that sweet sweet mug of hot chocolate on the sofa afterwards. But yeah, also a good city will provide alternative options for its citizens, trains, buses, rideshare even. If a 30 mile bike ride is the only alternative to driving from place A to place B, your government doesn’t want you to have any kind of freedom to choose how you get from place A to place B, if there are no affordable housing options or good job opportunities that change that equation, your government is working on behalf of the big car manufacturers and dealers to keep you enslaved in debt to them, which is pretty fucked up

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨New unit of measurement⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Low key convinced this started out as “monster hail” and then got butchered by an AI or like 5 Google translate passes

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Implications⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Haha, I figured it was 50/50 on whether I would get this comment or something about the ASCII representation of the letter A

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Implications⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Pi is an infinite series of non-repeating digits, and yet you will never find the letter A in pi because there is a 0% chance of the letter A being a digit in a decimal system. By the same logic, infinite possibilities do not guarantee that every conceivable state occurs, if that conceivable state has a 0% probability. As finite beings, it is very difficult for us to accurately distinguish between a 0% probability and a infinitesimal probability, so we end up circling back to “we don’t know”

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨At Justice Alito’s House, a ‘Stop the Steal’ Symbol on Display as the Supreme Court was considering an election case.⁩ ⁨⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  30-40% is not a strong majority, they are just overrepresented thanks to a lot of those “safeguards” the founding fathers put in place. 2 senators per state, electoral college, first past the post, the concept of a supermajority needed for many things of note to even get done all mean that 30% of the electorate can hold the majority by the balls if they are rural landowners whose goals align well with obstructionism

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨doggos⁩ ⁨⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  New study suggests dogs capable of celestial navigation: “Columbus was a sucker for using an astrolabe when he could have just brought along a good boi and watched him shit”

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Or we could do metric time⁩ ⁨⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Oh god, converting imperial kHz to metric kHz sounds awful

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨mycology⁩ ⁨⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Based on the Wikipedia article on biological immortality referencing species that live for a couple hundred years and the Wikipedia page on armillaria ostoyae mentioning living specimens that are multiple millenia old (and thousands of acres large!), I’m guessing that may be what the prof is referring to?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Choose wisely!⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Congratulations, you now speak Khitan and only Khitan. Good luck finding one of the few researchers in the world who will understand that you are speaking an extinct language before being thrown in the looney bin for spouting nonsense Andreas Toma-style