TropicalDingdong
@TropicalDingdong@lemmy.world
- Comment on "Sad thing to be, nonsensical thing to want to be" 💔🥀💔🥀 5 hours ago:
like… were a nation of immigrants. it’s part of your identity in the US.
- Comment on Strawberries are nuts 🍓 9 hours ago:
you havent ‘done’ anything here other than jerk yourself off.
- Comment on Strawberries are nuts 🍓 10 hours ago:
You are delusional if you think you “won” anything.
The only thing you did was demonstrate that you are a vapid waste of time.
- Comment on Strawberries are nuts 🍓 11 hours ago:
Im not being anti intellectual. I simply have no patience for frauds masquerading their metaphysics as philosophy.
In the end you can’t argue the point on its merits and are just engaging in sophistry. So we’ll come back to the first: you don’t actually know what the periodic table of the elements is. You should stop pretending you have a point if you can’t make make it.
If you don’t understand the difference between metaphysics and philosophy, its probably best you did neither.
- Comment on Strawberries are nuts 🍓 12 hours ago:
Neither of the two constructions you listed would result in a periodic table. You don’t this because you don’t actually know what a periodic table is. Try again.
To help you along, please explain to me: why the elements in the periodic table are ordered as they are? Or more readily, what determines the ordering of the periodic table? I’ll give you two huge hints, and a name to help you. Search the name Mendeleev, and orbital and proton.
Keep in mind, this argument I had was several proxy-arguments downstream of whether or not transwomen are women. So, be aware of what waters you’re treading into.
So your telling me that I need to be cautious of you derailing the conversation away from it’s original premise?
Isn’t the rejection of post-modernism like a very Jordan-Peterson–like thing to do?
And there we are.
No it’s a very Noam Chomskey thing to do. Jordon Peterson, like most fascists, draws largely on the principles of post-modernists. For all intents and purposes, he is one, in that he relies on the idea that truth and reality are relative to justify his arguments. I agree with Chomskey in his critiques of both post modernism and fascism, especially in their arbitrary use of language and sophistry to disguise the hollowness of their arguments.
That being said, i’ll be keeping you to the premise and the periodic table for this discussion. It need not go further.
If the ordering of the periodic table were arbitrary, it couldn’t be a periodic table. It is only a periodic table by this very reason. When ordering by orbital and atomic weight, Mendeleev not only came up with a diagram that effectively predicted all of the observable properties of the elements, but also predicted elements which were not yet known to human kind.
And therein lay the difference.
Imagine a person is coming up with a dictionary for English. And in a dream they came up with some alternative ordering. And in that alternative ordering, suddenly, they not only had a dictionary for English, cut also Farsi, and Cantonese. Every language became interpretable through this reordering. In fact, the ordering even predicted languages that were not yet known to the person who developed the order. But the order stated that they should be there, or at least be possible.
This is the difference.
- Comment on Strawberries are nuts 🍓 13 hours ago:
Dude I understand what you think you are saying and you are quite simply wrong. You don’t understand what the periodic table is if you think it could be constructed in some other way or that it’s organization is arbitrary or subjective.
No wonder you got the piss taken out of your in that other place.
- Comment on Strawberries are nuts 🍓 13 hours ago:
yeah. you don’t understand the periodic table.
- Comment on Strawberries are nuts 🍓 15 hours ago:
I mean that’s a pretty big difference right?
Like, the periodic tables mapping isn’t arbitrary or alternate.
Like you can’t actually map the periodic a different way and it’s in a sense “self evident” in a way arbitrary mappings aren’t.
The periodic table itself is a kind of proof of quantum theory, or at least, strong supporting evidence. While it can be displayed differently, actually couldn’t be arranged differently and the things we know about physics hold true.
- Comment on The computer is making that noise again 17 hours ago:
I put on do not disturb last November.
- Comment on Sony will be releasing "Krull" on 4K Ultra HD on September 16. 1 day ago:
this could be us
- Comment on Sony will be releasing "Krull" on 4K Ultra HD on September 16. 1 day ago:
I still want a spinny blade thing I can control with my mind.
- Comment on Uhh... 2 days ago:
You may not like it but this is what peak uh… performance …looks like.
- Comment on British passenger in seat 11A survives India plane crash, reports say 2 days ago:
Man of steel.
- Comment on Peak male form 3 days ago:
#2 is packing.
- Comment on Newsom Says Trump Is Destroying U.S. Democracy in Speech on L.A. Protests 4 days ago:
I mean look, I would shit in Newsoms mouth given the chance.
But all hands on deck.
- Comment on Newsom Says Trump Is Destroying U.S. Democracy in Speech on L.A. Protests 4 days ago:
I mean, the stream I was watching, once it cut away to the anchor, she accidentally called him President Newsom.
For the worthless color commentary that it is, his speech was very “presidential”.
- Comment on p is for pHunky 4 days ago:
Oh we’re going to pHight today, is that it?
- Comment on ABC Says Terry Moran, Suspended for Social Media Posts, Will Not Return 4 days ago:
In-spite of your cuckolding of yourself to fascism ABC, you will not survive.
- Comment on I've hated donald trump since day one but then I saw this and thought.... 5 days ago:
headed down south past north carolin’
- Comment on It's where you put the shit posts 5 days ago:
see how windows gets thrown in the bin in the year 2000…
yeah…
- Comment on kiwis! 6 days ago:
Also, they tear up the forest floor like mad. It looks like the most destructive chicken has come through after a kiwi has been there.
- Comment on Leaves have evolved at least twice 🤔 6 days ago:
Somewhat, but keep in mind, its a half decade of study to develop the understanding. Also, trying to create parallels between how plants do sex and how animals do sex, thats going to throw you off. Plants do sex in a fundamentally different way than how animals do sex.
The basic trajectory in the evolution of land plants has between towards additional layers around the gametophytic generation, and additional investment in that generation. Animals, like us, have a unicellular gametic generation (sperm and eggs). Plants, well, its complicated… Basically, when plants first came onto land, the haploid, gametic generation was the “big obvious plant” thing, but that switched at a certain point.
PLANT EVOLUTIONARY TIMELINE FOR SEED COMPONENTS | MYA | Evolutionary Step | Seed Component | Definition | Dominant Plant Body | |-------|----------------------------------|------------------------|------------------------------------------------------------------|----------------------| | ~470 | Earliest land plants | — | Non-vascular; liverwort-like | N (haploid) | | ~430 | Vascular tissue appears | — | Enables upright growth, fluid transport | 2N (diploid) | | ~420 | Sporangia | Megasporangium begins | Spore-producing structures (seen in Rhyniophytes, Lycophytes) | 2N | | ~410 | Heterospory | Functional megaspore | Plants make large (mega) and small (micro) spores | 2N | | ~385 | Runcaria | Integument precursor | Fossil shows integumented megasporangium, no fertilization yet | 2N | | ~365 | Seed ferns (Pteridosperms) | Ovule (true seed) | Integumented, indehiscent megasporangium with 1 megaspore | 2N | | ~360 | Early gymnosperms | Full seed | Retained embryo + full protective tissue | 2N | | ~320 | Gymnosperm radiation | — | Conifers, cycads diversify | 2N | | ~140 | Angiosperms (flowering plants) | — | Double fertilization, fruit, enclosed ovules | 2N |
- Comment on Leaves have evolved at least twice 🤔 6 days ago:
A seed is an integumented indehiscent mega sporangium with one functional megaspore.
It doesn’t have an ambiguous definition, and we know, without any uncertainty, that it evolved precisely once.
- Comment on Leaves have evolved at least twice 🤔 1 week ago:
Integumented indehiscent mega sporangium with one functional megaspore?
Once.
But once is all you need.
- Comment on This fell off my car, can I just rip it off and not care? 1 week ago:
I had that thing fall off my leaf. Just left it off and have had no issues.
- Comment on Neuralink competitor Paradromics completes first human implant 1 week ago:
I’m all for bodily autonomy, and the 100% freedom to choose to do with your body whatever thou whilst.
That being said, I really am not interested in the future like I once was.
- Comment on The city is so lively 2 weeks ago:
- Comment on Realistically 2 weeks ago:
might have hit the ground and bounced
- Comment on The Witcher 3 dev says "one of the longest email threads in our company history" was about "how naked Geralt should be" in the iconic bath scene: "When he gets up, how much butt should we show?" 2 weeks ago:
- Comment on The longer I look the less I can tell them apart 2 weeks ago:
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