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- Comment on Euro bottles are so much better now 4 days ago:
There definitely is an element of people just not liking it because it’s new, but there’s also an element of not getting any say in it whatsoever.
Also, they really do get in the way. They make it harder to get a good seal between your mouth and the bottle at any angle, and at the top they hit your nose. They are slightly harder to use, especially if you’re using one hand for any reason, including if you only have one hand. Removing them without tools results in a sharp bit of plastic which pokes and irritates your skin.
Finally, this is another patronising effort which makes consumers lives more difficult (by whatever amount) while not doing enough to combat plastic waste. - Comment on [Serious] Why do so many people seem to hate veganism? 1 week ago:
Eggs is a different topic
~again you, saying that eggs are separate from veganism.
You appear to be disagreeing with yourself, never mind me.
- Comment on [Serious] Why do so many people seem to hate veganism? 1 week ago:
Veganism IS morally correct
~that’s you. That’s you talking about veganism.
- Comment on [Serious] Why do so many people seem to hate veganism? 1 week ago:
You’re proving my point quite nicely
- Comment on [Serious] Why do so many people seem to hate veganism? 1 week ago:
Veganism is the topic. Vegans don’t eat eggs.
- Comment on [Serious] Why do so many people seem to hate veganism? 1 week ago:
I don’t think you get to make a black and white, general argument about this. How about this: if a person raises and cares for a chicken, giving it a charmed live it would have otherwise never have, but takes and eats its unfertilised eggs, then that’s not morally wrong.
It’s just not as obvious as people think, and your first sentence is a naive oversimplification and a great example of the kind of lazy argument I’m talking about. But I don’t want to get into it with my friends since it’s such a touchy subject, and I’ll never get a decent conversation about it online. - Comment on [Serious] Why do so many people seem to hate veganism? 1 week ago:
I love vegans. A few of my friends are vegan. There are two things some vegans will say which boil my piss, however. First is that they have a moral high ground because they don’t eat animals. This isn’t a given, it’s a complex and nuanced argument I’d happily partake in if the other party weren’t approaching it with a top-down belief that they’re already in the right. Second is the notion that we should all be vegan to save the planet from climate apocalypse. I don’t want this comment to get too long, but I have multiple problems with this faulty line of reasoning, and it muddies the waters. The only likely effect of it is that less progress is made on stopping global heating. So the upshot is that these people are literally sacrificing the ecosystem they purport to care about in order to bang their drum. Fuck that.
- Comment on Hades II is now available in Steam Early Access! 1 week ago:
Time you enjoy wasting is not wasted time.
- Comment on Count Binface Celebrates beating Britain First 1 week ago:
The BBC’s Teletext service, discontinued October 23rd 2012.
- Comment on puns 2 months ago:
The time derivative of position is velocity. The derivative of velocity is acceleration. Derive again and you get jerk. Then it’s snap, crackle and pop.
(For those too young, these are the names of those characters they use to sell Rice Krispies)
- Comment on Anon doesn't know how to respond 3 months ago:
Thank you. I think this is a really important point to make re: inequality and social system.
- Comment on Anon doesn't know how to respond 3 months ago:
A society where only a few entities are in total control of space exploration is literally where we live, right now.
Space is hard. You need incredibly long supply chains and tons of bespoke parts, materials, infrastructure and experience just to get a few kg to a low orbit. All of those things, and the means and contacts to procure those things, are in the hands of the elite, and they’re not letting go.
For a person or small collective to be able to independently carry out space missions would need a complete overhaul of our society to the point where it’s semi-utopian. - Comment on Anon doesn't know how to respond 3 months ago:
Not op but I would very much like to know the figure and the source, because I want as many people to know about this as possible
- Comment on How will I find financial stability if I live in a third world country with a toxic sociopathic/narcissistic mother, I have no skills (at least I think so), no time and therefore no money? 3 months ago:
Skills are just a development of a thing you practice. Get good at something you have some love for. Things like programming, mathematics, interpretation are very valuable things to be competent with, and can develop into many useful skills. But anything can be useful, if you practice it enough. Some things, usually art-centric skills tend to be a lot more difficult to use to earn money in my experience.
But take this advice from a former slacker: apply yourself to something and you’ll be rewarded.
- Comment on Pretty cool fan made intro to a non-existent show 3 months ago:
The Expanse, but with Avery Brooks hyperventilating whenever the stakes get above the level of a self-checkout.
Would watch - Comment on I'm 99% sure it's not real 3 months ago:
Solution: give employee 7 projects
- Comment on I'm 99% sure it's not real 3 months ago:
That’s a pretty good run down. There’s all sorts of soft skills required for that as well, and hard skills specific to the industry they’re in, but I think you’ve got the essence of it.
- Comment on I'm 99% sure it's not real 3 months ago:
And then they point the finger six months later when the fan is covered in shite, am I right? An engineer is just an “I-fucken-told-you-so” generator.
- Comment on Starmer warns apathy could keep Tories in power in pitch to disillusioned voters 4 months ago:
This is exactly right IMO. The system is obviously broken. Well done for manipulating it so you win, but if you don’t fix it we’ll be here again in no time, probably in an even worse situation.
- Comment on 1.1 History 5 months ago:
Absolutely. I am completely convinced of the fact that there is knowledge that we can never possess simply because our minds aren’t capable of understanding it. I mean nobody understands quantum theory. Some people can do the maths and make the right predictions etc, but they have absolutely no idea what’s really going on. I think that’s at the boundary of our understanding. Which means there’s other stuff being the boundary, and other stuff way way beyond the boundary. But, I think that in the same way you can explain general relativity to a child in simple terms, if we produce AI that can grasp higher concepts, it could explain it to us.
- Comment on 1.1 History 5 months ago:
It’s the same for the beginnings of life. We know loads about the conditions before in happened and after it happened, but nothing about that all important instant when it happened.
I like the thinking that small pockets of potential started to form, since a pair of opposed charges is sort of the same as nothing. But that does go along the lines of “nature abhors a vacuum” type of thinking, which has been comprehensively proven wrong since it was popular. Also it doesn’t explain one of physics greatest mysteries: why is there so much matter and no antimatter. If things came into existence in opposing pairs, we should see equal amounts of both
- Comment on 1.1 History 5 months ago:
The Wikipedia page is a good start. In a nutshell:
Since the surface area of a sphere (which is 4πr2) is proportional to the square of the radius, as the emitted radiation gets farther from the source, it is spread out over an area that is increasing in proportion to the square of the distance from the source. Hence, the intensity of radiation passing through any unit area (directly facing the point source) is inversely proportional to the square of the distance from the point source.
There’s a good visualisation of that explanation which is the banner picture on the Wikipedia page.
I don’t have any better theories than the existing ones, for sure! But there is an underlying pattern that goes deeper even than that law - the principle that physical objects follow the path of least resistance links these laws and many many others.
- Comment on 1.1 History 5 months ago:
You’re absolutely right, I see that. It’s why I used to lecture all of my friends about physics when I was studying it, but now I pretty much never really talk about it except on clear nights when I can name stars and talk a bit about them.
- Comment on 1.1 History 5 months ago:
What’s nothing like? Before the big bang, there was nothing. What the fuck colour was it? How does that even work?
- Comment on 1.1 History 5 months ago:
Well that’s lovely, thank you 😊 So Newton’s law of universal gravitation is: F= G×M×m/r^2 which is simple enough to be able to say it in a sentence: "the force of gravity F on two masses M and m is proportional to their masses and square of the distance between them, r " so the heavier and closer planets/suns/black holes are, the greater the gravitationnel pull.
Coulomb’s law is: F= k×Q×q/r^2 which is pretty much exactly the same as you have probably noticed: "the force of electrical attraction F on two charged particles Q and q is proportional to their charges and the square of the distance between them, r "
So the exact same rule applies to planets and atoms. Their behaviour can be explained in the same way. It’s called an “inverse square law”, it’s got a name because they happen everywhere. And it’s just, like… Why? Why does the universe work that way? You’re not really encouraged to ask that sort of question as a science student, because it “goes nowhere” and doesn’t lead to actionable results. But I give it quite spooky. There are loads of weird results like that in science and maths (see quantum theory for abundant examples!) but it’s unusual to be able to sit and think about it. There is, in the car of the inverse square law, a pretty elegant mathematical explanation for why they’re so common, but it doesn’t quite scratch the itch for me, it just raises more questions - Comment on 1.1 History 5 months ago:
The sad reason for that is that it’s a conversation killer. I would love to go back and forth for hours on things like the uncanny similarity between universal gravitation and Coulomb’s law. But, when I speak to someone with a similar background to mine it’s all…work-work-work-how-is-it-applied??, and when I speak to someone without that background it’s all yawns. It’s a shame because in either case I think science is the most interesting topic. It’s just as edifying to dive casually into the philosophy as it is to dive rigourously into the maths. I learn more per unit time from either type of conversation than from studying papers. And, it’s a passion, but one whose expression is stymied either by explaining it in terms of football fields per dolphin or by making it marketable. Interaction with other minds is the most valuable type of learning.
I feel like I may come off as a bit of an elitist writing this, but the problem really is the opposite: I wish more people would get involved! - Comment on Ex-commissioner for facial recognition tech joins Facewatch firm he approved 5 months ago:
Now-corrupt UK Government Continues to be Corrupt.
The UK government continues to be a corrupt version of itself, maintaining the veneer of honest public service only through blatant, continuous and disheartening lies. The British public are no longer surprised by these revelations, having become desensitised to this sort of thing over the past decade. The surprising situations would now be cases where an elected official were to resign if caught with their hands in the biscuit tin, rather than claiming that:
- it wasn’t me
- the biscuits are for me to take
- there is no biscuit tin
- my stealing biscuits is in the public interest
- it’s your fault I had to take biscuits Or some such bollocks, all while continuing to stuff their faces with hob nobs in front of our eyes.
Politicians have always been awful, but the lot we’ve got now are worse than any in living memory.
- Comment on Why doesn't the United Kingdom rejoin the European Union? 8 months ago:
Because there are about 4 billion other women in the planet you could date, and according to my emails, at least hundreds in your local area.
There are no other global trading blocs in Britain’s local area. - Comment on Starmer promotes Blairites as Labour thoughts turn to governing 8 months ago:
Fully agree
- Comment on Starmer promotes Blairites as Labour thoughts turn to governing 8 months ago:
It shouldn’t be, no. But it looks like we either get to choose between this (gestures broadly) or revenge of the Blair years, so I suppose it does.
If you’re asking specifically about financing, then no it doesn’t. I believe our economy has shifted way too fast over to the free market side since Thatcher and we need to undo what she did so we can have a common sense mixed economy. The landscape would be so different in this situation that PFI wouldn’t be feasible, let alone necessary. In the current landscape, or as it was in the Blair years, I don’t think I can propose a better way to pay, though I’m sure there was one.