AbouBenAdhem

@AbouBenAdhem@lemmy.world

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why does it feel like most art museums are for adults and most science museums are for kids?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Most art is referencing social and historical contexts that kids might not be aware of yet. Most science museums are geared toward teaching scientific principles that kids are also less likely to be aware of. So art museums build on previous knowledge, while science museums supply knowledge to those who don’t yet have it.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨When a judge tells the jury to ‘forget XYZ,’ how can the jury possibly do that?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  As individuals, they can’t. But as a group making a decision through verbal discussion, they can exclude the information from the deliberative process. At least to their own satisfaction, they need to construct a justification for their verdict that doesn’t rely on the forbidden evidence.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What character is the king of plot armor?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Candide.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What's the difference between a mythology vs a religion? Are they both mutual?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  A mythology is a set of shared stories that define a culture—its values, its productive metaphors, its identity. They may or may not be believed in as actually true—even when they are, they’re generally understood to have occurred in a place and time distinct from the culture’s current reality. But the point of a mythology is the relationship it establishes between community members, while the point of a religion is the relationship it establishes between its adherents and the god(s).

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Back in my day it was ok to receive a paddlin (simpson ref there) at school as a kid. But on the flip side it was against the law to beat a paddle a prisoner by a guard, why the rule difference?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Where did you grow up?

  It was definitely illegal for teachers to assault students in California when I was a kid in the 80s.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨When drawing up the middle east after WW1 and 2 how come the Kurds got the shit end of the stick?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  The Treaty of Sevres, which the Ottoman empire signed at the end of WWI, included an independent Kurdistan—but then Atatürk overthrew the Sultan and rejected the treaty.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How do you pronounce 'Niche'?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  niːʃ

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Maybe drowning in a canal is to the UK what falling out a window is to Russia.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨If something could rotate infinitely after being initially pushed, would the initial push disqualify it from being classed as perpetual motion?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  “Perpetual motion” is a bit of a misnomer—it’s only a violation of the second law of thermodynamics if the system is losing energy to friction (or if you try to extract energy from it).

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Explain Stalking to me. I have ex gf's I run into different times at the same stores. Some I keep running into store after store. Just coincidence. At what point is it stalking or something?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  If it seems like multiple unrelated people are doing the same thing, it’s more likely an issue with the way you’re perceiving or interpreting them.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What would the next pres of USA have to do to gain back trust for America? Hold a televised event saying the last person was just a fuck up?⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Those are things Congress and/or the states would need to do—the president can’t (and shouldn’t) make Constitutional amendments.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Random Choice in Newcomb's Paradox⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  You could go further: what if you used a weighted coin instead of a fair coin? That is, both you and the superintelligence know that you’ll pick the single box with probability p, but neither of you know the coin’s outcome until you flip it.

  What’s the ideal value of p in this case? Is it not arbitrarily close to 1?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Y'all ever have intrusive thoughts about accidentally dropping stuff in storm drains? (particulary when you have your phone out) And like if that happens, wtf is someone supposed to do?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  This is the fear that induced me to get a gravity hook.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The Road to the Dark Ridge⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Striking but physically inconsistent, since the grass appears to be lit by a second sun out of frame to the right.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How come some Corporation or some Business don't sponsor a protest? Like McDonald's sponsoring that No Kings protest. Or a hotel giving free room and board to protestors and so on?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Civil unrest is the one situation where corporations hope everyone forgets they exist.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Don't poor people split the bills on dates?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  When rich people dine, they bill it to the shareholders.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Are defense attorneys ‘good people’?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  They’re not breaking their clients out of jail, they”re just collecting and presenting any evidence that conflicts with the prosecution’s narrative. Juries and judges depend on someone performing this role so they can make an informed decision.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What’s the difference between anarchy and libertarianism?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  True—but it’s not “intervention” when it’s doing what they want.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What’s the difference between anarchy and libertarianism?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  (American) libertarians believe all the ills of modern capitalism ultimately stem from state intervention, while anarchists believe they stem from hierarchical relationships between people.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How come most celebs/influencers go broke with in a short amount of time earning a couple million? Why not invest in local stores or offer money for a percentage of said store why not perpetualy money⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Celebrities tend to have very unpredictable cash flows, but most things the wealthy spend money on (including local investments, etc.) come with loans that need to be paid regularly.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What Phone do you guys use?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I’d never use an iPhone if my phone were my main device—but I just want a phone/camera that I don’t have to think about beyond those specific functions, and for that an iPhone works fine.

• ⁨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?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Curing the side effects of the anti-cancer pill.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why am I not Irish⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  How hard have you tried?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨In the Movie Sinners, how are the vampires able to attack them without being invited in?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ 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 ⁨months⁩ 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?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ 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]⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ 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 ⁨months⁩ 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 ⁨months⁩ 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?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ 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.