AbouBenAdhem

@AbouBenAdhem@lemmy.world

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨If we cured all forms of cancer with the ease of taking a pill, what would be the next thing medicine would put the biggest focus on?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:

  Curing the side effects of the anti-cancer pill.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why am I not Irish⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  How hard have you tried?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨In the Movie Sinners, how are the vampires able to attack them without being invited in?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Grace keeps pushing Smoke to take the vampires head on, before they go to her store and kill her daughter. When the others refuse, she forces it by inviting them in.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How to I prove to someone that the U.S. moon landing wasn't staged?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Explain why the US hasn’t gone back in so long, and why with modern technology it seems so difficult?

  The Apollo program took 4.5% of the US budget. NASA’s entire budget now—including space telescopes, earth satellites, and interplanetary probes—is less than half of one percent.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Are there regions of the world where local men and women have divergent accents?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  One of the many controversial claims about Pirahã is that female speakers can’t use the phoneme /h/, always substituting /s/ instead.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Why would OP’s mother bring up the ultrasound in the first place if she were deliberately trying to conceal anything?

  I could see the twin being stillborn and the doctors thinking it was easier to tell the mother it had “vanished”, though.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Westerners, what's your impression on the Chinese Diaspora? And what does the people around your area of residence think of the Chinese Diaspora?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I live on the edge of my city’s Chinatown (Oakland, California) and it’s an important part of the local culture. I’ve lived, worked, and studied with Chinese/Taiwanese nationals, and if they weren’t there I’d feel like something was missing.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What books have a lot of useful information should I get? (I mean like a Wikipedia thing with vast knowledge, but non-electronic.)⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Penguin publishes reference “dictionaries” of various subjects, that are more like mini-encyclopedias. I’ve got ones covering mathematics, philosophy, psychology, sociology, and literary theory.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why is #FFFFFF white, but mixing red green and blue paint is black?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I’m not sure I’m accurately visualizing exactly what you’re describing, but I know from experience working with a two-color offset press that the results are quite different if you print two colors in two passes vs one pass (in which the inks are combined on a “blanket” where they effectively mix together before being transferred to the paper all at once).

  In the first case, the result is exactly what you’d expect from a subtractive color model; but in the latter case, the mixed ink that ends up on the paper is no darker than the component inks. The hue is similar whether overprinted or mixed, but the saturation is reduced in the mixed example.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why is #FFFFFF white, but mixing red green and blue paint is black?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  In theory mixing a bunch of those 3 colors together, you can eventually get down to black, in practice your pigments aren’t perfect

  This is a common misconception, but it has nothing to do with imperfections in the pigments. The real issue is that you don’t want each of your primaries to block a full third of the visible spectrum—you want each to block a narrow band of frequencies that overlaps as little as possible with the sensitivity curves of the other cone cells in your eyes, in order to produce fully-saturated colors. The tradeoff is that intermediate frequencies aren’t blocked by any of the primaries, which is why we need to add black.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why is #FFFFFF white, but mixing red green and blue paint is black?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Other comments are discussing additive vs subtractive colors, but that’s not accurate if you’re talking about mixing paints. Subtractive printing (CMYK) works by overprinting transparent inks, where each ink removes a different part of the spectrum. But mixed paints differ in two critical ways:

  • Paints are opaque, not transparent. Unlike subtractive inks, paint doesn’t invariably darken the color it’s painted over—instead it completely or partially replaces the underlying color.
  • Subtractive inks are applied to the substrate one at a time—they’re not pre-mixed and applied in one pass. If you mix paints before appying them, you get more of an averaging than subtraction or addition.
• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How do you cut a cucumber so that the round slices don't roll all over and off of your cutting board?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Cut the slices at a slight angle so they tilt over if they roll.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why does most American's give shit to the French when if not for them we would have lost the revolution?⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  The Fall of France and the Vichy regime were pathetic, but the French Resistance was legendary.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨do most people really like the taste and smell of eggs?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  I think eggs, potatoes, and tofu are in a similar category: there are so many drastically different ways of preparing them that it’s impossible to generalize; and when someone does, I just suspect that they haven’t yet found the exceptions.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Am I financially enabling child labor in 3rd world countries by buying second hand fast fashion?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  It depends on what you would have bought otherwise—you presumably buy a limited amount of clothing, so what purchase is it replacing?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Before social media/internet/cell phones/landlines/payphones; how would 2 friends living across the same city arrange in person meetings and stay in touch?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Sending letters via post to friends in the same city wasn’t uncommon—but beyond that, you could leave messages at common locations. Like if you both go to the same shop once a week, you could leave messages for each other with the shopkeeper.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why there is no clock that displays time 4:20:69 ?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  They’ve made prototypes, but it never made it into production because the workers keep taking smoke breaks.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How does capitalism differ from crony capitalism?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  What you’re describing isn’t capitalism per se, but a free market. They tend to be correlated, but you can have either one without the other. Capitalism strictly speaking is about private ownership of production—when private investors control industry and reap all the profits after wages and taxes.

  Crony capitalism is when investors influence the state to reduce wages and taxes, and to manipulate the market at the expense of rival investors.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Is anyone else having a hard time sympathizing with Americans?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s fair to judge people for the collective actions of a group they’ve voluntarily joined—a political party, a military, an occupation, etc.

  But when you look at the behavior of a country (or any other group that people belong to by birth), you’re seeing what any other group of humans would do when raised in similar circumstances. You can judge their institutions and their leadership, but when you judge them as people you’re judging all of humanity.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨If the color of the Sun was orange, wouldn't the clouds and everything white also be orange? My friend is adamant that 30 years ago the "real" Sun was orange but got replaced with a white LED.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  30 years ago?

  So right about the time The Truman Show came out?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨If the color of the Sun was orange, wouldn't the clouds and everything white also be orange? My friend is adamant that 30 years ago the "real" Sun was orange but got replaced with a white LED.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Other comments are correctly stating that the sun is white, but appears yellow/orange due to the blue light being scattered—but that doesn’t fully address the issue, because objects seen under a white light with an orange filter in front would still have an orange cast.

  The difference with the sun is that the scattered blue light is still reaching objects via the light from the rest of the sky—it’s the orange light from the sun combining with the blue light from the sky that makes things appear white.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨We always seen/heard/read about dumb criminals. Has the opposite ever been true a smart criminal? Not including that white collar crap?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Getting people to dismiss their crimes as “white collar crap” is the primary trick of smart criminals.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Is geolibertarianism left wing or right wing?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Most of the underlying concepts are left wing, but the people using the label aren’t.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Is geolibertarianism left wing or right wing?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s basically a version of Georgism, rebranded to avoid Georgism’s left-wing association.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I should assume I'm not going tomorrow, right?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Is [contingency] something that may be contingent on other things that may take time to verify?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Lots of actors never get into drugs, and lots of other people do anyway. We’re just more aware of the actors because they’re living under a spotlight.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How long until we can start shorting years to 2 numbers again?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I guess it’ll be when the majority of the working population is Gen Z or younger.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨what was the worst enemy of feudalism?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  It was a ritual of social inversion (a fool was crowned king, personal status was ignored and identities concealed, religious and social rules were relaxed, etc.)

  There are differing views, but one theory is that it served as a reminder to both lords and commoners that the social order could be overthrown if the lords became too oppressive.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨what was the worst enemy of feudalism?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Carnival.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Does each country have a book/library of the laws of the land that a commoner can consult to check if they're about to do something illegal?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  From the article on Public.Resource.Org:

  Malamud called for increased awareness that Westlaw was a commercial broker of the United States Federal Reporter, Federal Supplement, and Federal Appendix. While Westlaw had been adding value to the content by indexing it with their proprietary West American Digest System and accompanying summaries, the purchase of their products was the only way to access much of the public domain material they hosted.