Zacryon
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- Comment on I was handed this lovely flyer while grocery shopping 6 months ago:
I see. Thanks for clarifying that! I already thought you were joking, but wasn’t so sure. Seems a lot of people didn’t get it as you intended.
You could consider adding a flag like /j, /i or /s (depending on context) to such comments to avoid confusion. - Comment on I was handed this lovely flyer while grocery shopping 6 months ago:
Please provide an explanation, preferrably with sources, if you think my explanation is wrong.
- Comment on I was handed this lovely flyer while grocery shopping 6 months ago:
In case you are serious or someone else is serious about this:
Masks, just like underwear, are permeable. If they wouldn’t be, you would suffocate as no air would be able to reach your lungs. So gas molecules are usually not stopped to pass through your underwear or masks.The main difference between, e.g. FFP2/3, masks and your underwear is the size of particles that are able to pass through. Your underwear will be able to catch some moisture of a juicy fart and probably some shit particles. However, most of the gases and smaller particles can pass through. Filter masks are able to stop most particles down to a certain size. For FFP 2 masks at least 94% of particles down to a size of 0,6 micrometers can be stopped. Particles smaller than that are likely to pass through. FFP 3 masks block at least 99% of particles down to the same size.
The thing with viruses like Covid-19 is, that they are usually expelled from an infected person via the respiratory system, that means, your mouth and nose. There, the virus cells are mostly soluted within the moist air you breathe out. Moist air means: there are very tiny (mainly) water particles which are spread over a certain volume of gas. And they are floating with the currents of the gas. That’s what basically constitutes an aerosol. Particles, tiny and lightweight enough to float with a gas (for a while).
You can see that clearly with spray cans. With breathing air it’s not so good to see with the naked eye.
Those moist particles, loaded with virus cells, are usually large enough to be filtered out by FFP masks. It’s not perfect of course, but it can help a great deal and contribute to prevention measures.The stinky stuff in farts is afaik a pure gas and not an aerosol. (Did you know that in terms of gas volume, just about 2 % of a single fart contains the smelly chemicals?) Which is why neither masks, nor underwear help so much against stinky farts.
FFP masks are mandatory in jobs where dangerous smaller particles can enter your body. They help against dust, smoke and a lot of aerosols. But they don’t filter out pure gases. That’s what gas masks are for.
In terms of infection spreading, a neat side-effect of masks is that they can slow down the velocity of exhaled air, which helps to reduce how far the aersol spreads around a person. Trying to blow out a candle while wearing a mask isn’t as easy as without a mask, which demonstrates this effect.
Futhermore, there has been a study suggesting that wearing a mask for a while or wearing it during rainy weather can - up to a certain point - further improve the filter capabilities of such face masks, since the moisture accumulates on the surface of the mask (in- and/or outside) and by this forms another protective barrier.
Thanks for coming to my TED talk.
- Comment on Progress! 6 months ago:
While that would indeed be awesome, that’s not the route they proposed. It’s more about slowing down the perception of time, rather than being able to actually do something peoductive during that.
Philosopher Rebecca Roache, who leads a team of scholars, explains two methods to this madness. The first involves psychotic drugs that distort a person’s sense of time.
With a simple pill or injection, prisoners may believe they’ve been incarcerated for much longer than any natural human life could allow.
The second approach Roach explains is a bit more complex. Option number two involves uploading human minds to computers (da f*ck?), and speeding up the rate at which the brain functions. On her blog, Roach writes: "[…] This would, obviously, be much cheaper for the taxpayer than extending criminals’ lifespans to enable them to serve 1,000 years in real time.” goodmenproject.com/…/new-technology-could-make-in…
Despite thinking, “wow that’s a disgusting way to see and treat humans”, and some obvious moral concerns (like, social isolation for what feels like 1000 years, which will fuck up most people badly), which make this feel like a black mirror episode, the mind-upload issue is technically extremely tricky. Even if we had the technology to “upload” the human mind, it will be a copy, a clone, not you individually. And if we don’t have an option to download the copy back into your brain, it will just be a waste of energy.
More importantly, an intriguing question is raised: After such a download, will this be you? Or just a copy of a copy and thereby another being which just replaces another one.
Another thing I find important to ask here: what’s the point of penalties? These suggestions seem to me like psychological torture rather than measures to “correct” social behaviour. In no way resocialisation seems to matter here. So we just fuck people up by that and unleash them onto society afterwards. Doesn’t sound good to me.
Sorry for not keeping my reply focused on your idea. I had some time to spare and this kept me busy.
- Comment on Return to monkey then? 6 months ago:
And that’s the problem, because everyone is coerced to do that if they want to survive. And those, who own the means of production, the capital, the companies, are those who have the power to exploit those who don’t. And they do.
- Comment on Intrusive thoughts 6 months ago:
Thank you. ❤️
- Comment on Intrusive thoughts 6 months ago:
Was it satisfying? How did it feel? Don’t be shy about details.
I’m… err… asking for friend.
- Comment on Facebook now wants to write your posts for you with AI. 6 months ago:
Your relatives should stop using facebook.
- Comment on 3 days 🤯 7 months ago:
Hahahaha absolutely. :D The difference is, that they come from a 3D printer and that’s cool.
- Comment on 3 days 🤯 7 months ago:
To be fair, you don’t need a very huge 3D printer for that, if you divide it into a lot of smaller parts which can be assembled later.
Idk, if we can already print steel though and whether we can make it structually sufficiently stable.
- Comment on Windows users don't want copilot on their taskbar 7 months ago:
It’s not just text generating AI, like those transformer models, but also image classificators and generators, time series predictors, and a bunch of other stuff you get.
But yes, even though you seem not to like it, it is AI.
Copilot is no more “intelligent” than Clippy from Microsoft Bob in 1995.
I can’t share that experience.
It just appears to be to people who also have low intelligence.
That’s a bit condescending, don’t you think?
- Comment on Windows users don't want copilot on their taskbar 7 months ago:
You get AI tools shoved down your throat everywhere nowadays. Whether you want it and it’s useful or not.
- Comment on I have attempted science. 7 months ago:
Oh shit. My pollen allergy in spring is a death trap.
- Comment on How Long It Takes the Largest Companies in America to Make One Employee's Average Annual Salary 11 months ago:
Original source (yes, it has more pixels):
- Comment on How Long It Takes the Largest Companies in America to Make One Employee's Average Annual Salary 11 months ago:
Here you go, the original sauce: llcattorney.com/…/us-companies-salaries-vs-revenu…
- Comment on A psychopath getting 3 wishes from a genie would be a great horror movie. 11 months ago:
Disclaimer: I’m not an expert. I invite you to correct me if you know better. Sources are at the end.
If you see taste receptors as chemosensors, then yes. We have those all over the place. In the lungs, brain, kidneys, the gastrointestinal system etc… Even in sperm. Although a lot of those are not well studied yet, it has been found that - depending on the cells and region - they can serve specific purposes, like metabolic regulation, or airway relaxation. Basically a way for you body to react to chemical signals. However, afaik they do not contribute to the taste sensation when you’re eating. So you don’t need to go all Cartman style.
But(t), a lot of those findings have limited validity, e.g. because of investigations using cell cultures instead of in vivo studies, or because several animals have a different (or even completely lacking) set of those receptors than humans.
Sources, which I skimmed for this:
- en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Taste_receptor (Tissue distribution section)
- www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3321208/
- www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6413048/
- www.spektrum.de/news/…/1351478 (German)
- Comment on Panik 1 year ago:
I guess I was one of the lucky few who learned this in elementary school. And later again.
- Comment on Panik 1 year ago:
One of the reasons why I love the number 3. There are other neat digit sum tricks, see for example for the numbers 1 to 30 here: en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Divisibility_rule
- Comment on Roman numerals, man... so close! 1 year ago:
Saw Mill.
- Comment on Roman numerals, man... so close! 1 year ago:
Weird plex, but okay.
- Comment on 5 feet apart = Not gay 1 year ago:
Note to self: It’s 2023. Men still have a big fear of being labeled gay.
- Comment on You teleport into the last game world you played. What happens next? 1 year ago:
I die. Then I wake up in my fancy coffin again just to die again a bit later. But at least I have a nice house and some servants.
- Comment on An £8 sandwich in Starbucks 1 year ago:
No. Steal the shit out of Reddirt. Idgaf.
- Comment on Unity adding a fee for devs for each time a game is installed, after certain thresholds 1 year ago:
Not arguing with that. I totally agree with you. Just wanted to correct the comment.
- Comment on Unity adding a fee for devs for each time a game is installed, after certain thresholds 1 year ago:
According to the article only installs on new devices are counted.
Furthermore this only takes efrect after a certain threshold of income revenue and installs.
- Comment on Always 1 year ago:
I’m notoriously good at avoiding parties. But if I were at one, I would be the kind of person who would ask to unwrap the foil if I’m told thefe was a cyst in it.
- Comment on Deutschlandticket: Germany’s €49 ticket pushes passenger numbers up 25% 1 year ago:
Meanwhile the public transportation system, especially the “Deutsche Bahn” (German Railway), is led into ruin, i.a., because of significant lacks in public funding. It is “Autobahn first”. Highways and streets for cars have a much higher priority, sadly. However, it’s good to see that the Deutschlandticket is attracting more people to switch to public transportation. I wonder how long this effect will last, since the state and quality of public transport is degrading.