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- Comment on Anon is a fighter 2 weeks ago:
I recently saw a gorilla skull. Note how small the brain is and how much extra bone there is to protect it. Punching this would hurt you more than the gorilla.Image
- Comment on Getting mixed signals from Reddit. Furthermore I shall henceforth be on Lemmy full time. 3 weeks ago:
Just for posterity in case this follows us here, there is a genocide going on in Palestine.
- Comment on can't stop won't stop 4 weeks ago:
As your annoying communist I’ll also point out that if you’re a scientist developing novel methods to detect endotoxins your grant funding is currently being eviscerated by the US federal government and you’re likely to find a much more lucrative career path working for a pharmaceutical company that lacks your research ethics. And if you make it up to the admin level you can go lobby the government too!
- Comment on nature is music 5 weeks ago:
Look, you can do the same thing with any religious document. See for instance Jeremy England’s Every Life is on Fire in which he equates passages in the Torah about Moses to the thermodynamical necessity of the emergence of life as an autocatalytic process. The metaphor is tortured and the whole enterprise comes off as awkward and unnecessary. Scientific principles are entirely nihilistic; it’s our interpretations of them that make them magical. And those interpretations aren’t captured by any holy document.
- Comment on America is fucked 5 weeks ago:
Manhattan has gridlock that prevents this. There’s no space to move into.
- Comment on Anon makes life choices 1 month ago:
Tried this with geology. Then quit and went to get a PhD. Now as a postdoc finding out that even the $50 million grant to “sustainably extract critical elements” is mostly bullshit. The system can’t self-correct.
- Comment on [deleted] 1 month ago:
Although several people in the replies have pointed out the actual truth behind this post, (…wikipedia.org/…/Energetically_Autonomous_Tactica…)
I do think this qualifies as misinformation. Given what happened on most other social networks, I can’t help feeling uneasy even though it’s a stupid joke post.
- Comment on modern psychiatry be like 2 months ago:
Real quick the appendix might have an evolutionary function. When you have a gut infection and your intestine flushes out everything (good and bad bacteria), the appendix might be a cache for good bacteria that avoids both the infection and flushing. The good bacteria then repopulate your gut from your appendix.
- Comment on nets 2 months ago:
But please put your plastic in the bin marked plastic.
- Comment on Real 2 months ago:
Science: Please stop using the word believe, it’s making me nervous.
- Comment on guys... :( 3 months ago:
Looks like queso, so maybe this was at a Chipotle or Qdoba.
- Comment on Yep, you did. 3 months ago:
There are some exceptions of egalitarian societies here and there over the past 6000 years but more or less yes.
- Comment on Do you want the murderer of the UnitHealthcare CEO prosecuted? 5 months ago:
I’d like him to be evetually prosecuted, but chronologically. So prosecute every corporate murderer, every war criminal former president, every judge who sentenced innocent people to their deaths, etc. Prosecute all of the murderers who are currently free, and when you’re done with all of them, you can prosecute this guy.
- Comment on billions & billions 5 months ago:
I think this is true of US presidents too.
- Comment on flouride 5 months ago:
Does it though? Did they really do XCT on enough brains in areas with different F in their water to show this over time? And correct for the fact that it calcifies with age anyway? And probably does so variably across individuals and populations (2023 meta-analysis says old white men are the most likely to have calcified pineal glands).
- Comment on Why people consistently vote against their own interests to benefit the rich? 5 months ago:
A lot of people have aspirations of themselves being rich and if they can vote like rich people they participate in the rich aesthetic.
- Comment on "The American experiment endures," Biden said. "We're going to be OK." 6 months ago:
Thanks, Joe von Hindenbiden
- Comment on She-Ra Lives! 6 months ago:
What I find interesting about this article is that it critiques heavily about the first 200 pages, says almost nothing about the next 600, and then says the conclusion is unsatisfactory because it didn’t quote the book the author wrote in 1991. It’s transparently personal.
Academics write books. Get over it.
- Comment on She-Ra Lives! 6 months ago:
Yeah it’s a summary work that draws on decades of research. Both of these authors are extremely well-published in their respective fields. I’m like a third of the way through Dawn of Everything and it’s just as academic as “Debt” was, and neither are mass-market pulp. But work like this always draws hit pieces because it’s a way for critics to get their name out there.
- Comment on She-Ra Lives! 6 months ago:
Check out “The Dawn of Everything” by Wengrow and Graeber
- Comment on Is martial arts really that useful? 7 months ago:
Not enough data for language scrape
- Comment on People warn about culture shock, but nothing prepared ne for this solid toilet paper roll in Vietnam 8 months ago:
Legitimately curious about the stockings. I get all the other jokes in this thread but that one went over my head.
- Comment on Flowchart for STEM 9 months ago:
Not this one. Environmental scientists end up cleaning up after them.
- Comment on Flowchart for STEM 9 months ago:
Then when you go to grad school you realize you have to like all of them.
- Comment on The Code 10 months ago:
Scientist here. I encourage everyone to use a shadow library like Scihub to break the stranglehold that Elsevier and Wiley have on the free availability of knowledge. These are financialized corporations that add nothing to society and leach off of scientists’ hard work.
- Comment on Irresistible 10 months ago:
A schwarschild radius of 0.5 meters corresponds to about 56 Earth masses. So Richard must have accreted a bunch of mass before he collapsed.
- Comment on Tea Time 10 months ago:
An AI would give a generic definition of Saturn and a generic definition of tea and then say something irrelevant like “scientists disagree about the exact composition of Saturn’s core”
- Comment on Tea Time 10 months ago:
Saturn is a mixture of gases. It has a solid rocky/hydrogen core surrounded by a layer of liquid hydrogen/helium. You could argue that this intermediate liquid layer might have solid particulates, and this would agree with the definition, but overall Saturn is too complicated to be classified this way. A better extreme example would be something like Earth’s oceans.
- Comment on It is very therapeutic to garden, though. 11 months ago:
Haber will obviously continue to be used and work but as long as there’s a fossil fuel price to make it happen expect more extreme storms, fires, droughts, floods, ocean acidification, and possibly methane clathrate release triggering a runaway greenhouse effect like during the Paleocene-Eocene thermal maximum.
- Comment on Hero 11 months ago:
I think it’s the degree. To speak from experience, when you are a grad student you get a feeling like there’s corruption but overall your project seems like it’s important and making a real contribution (hopefully). You also don’t have to worry about where the money is coming from. Sometimes the grant as a whole is total bullshit but there is enough discretionary spending included that great science comes out of it. But you don’t realize this until you’re writing grants, and by then you’re maybe too deep in the game to pull out. Essentially, you end up becoming a manager once you get tenure. There is no epiphany; it’s more like a slow creep.
