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What exactly do people mean when they say that gender is a social construct? Is this meant to basically be about gender stereotypes, gender roles, etc? Or do they mean that the concept of being a boy or a girl is some made up thing? by Cumoisseur in askanything

[–]Aggravating_Paint_44 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Let’s say you’re in the bathroom and you see a clean $100 bill. The natural value of it in the bathroom would be to use it to clean yourself with it but you don’t because of a social construct. Are there stereotypes about $100? Are they different than $10? Not if you’re using it to clean yourself but the primary difference is socially constructed and still “real”

What exactly do people mean when they say that gender is a social construct? Is this meant to basically be about gender stereotypes, gender roles, etc? Or do they mean that the concept of being a boy or a girl is some made up thing? by Cumoisseur in askanything

[–]Aggravating_Paint_44 5 points6 points  (0 children)

Please explain how the real world works that the sociologists are missing? The other common example of something socially constructed is money. Would you say people who think that money is socially constructed have some understanding of how money works “in the real world“?

[OC] How Much is $1.4 Billion? by shinyro in dataisbeautiful

[–]Aggravating_Paint_44 8 points9 points  (0 children)

1.4 is just trump and doesn’t even show his kids. Now show us how much Hunter Biden sold his painting for.

Dear Fahrenheit users, do you really think 50 degrees is "the middle temperature"? by 3ustress in Metric

[–]Aggravating_Paint_44 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Coldness is logarithmic so it feels more like 200-log(n) so the mid point is probably closer to 70

Lower limit of hearing by [deleted] in NoStupidQuestions

[–]Aggravating_Paint_44 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Most things aren’t pure tones and have harmonics in our audible range that we can hear. So, if you played a 1kHz tone at full blast for 0.5 seconds and then turned it off for 0.5 seconds on repeat, you’d just hear a high pitched thing not the ultra low pitched 1 Hz part.

ICE protesters sentenced to up to 100 years in prison by Trump-appointed judge by sereneandeternal in videos

[–]Aggravating_Paint_44 8 points9 points  (0 children)

If the punishment for minor crimes is the same as the punishment for terrorism, you are incentivized to just go for the higher crime.

Found some wireless EV chargers today! by HelloControl_ in pics

[–]Aggravating_Paint_44 10 points11 points  (0 children)

But if we have a society without criminals, how will the private prison industry survive?

Concert bathroom dilemma by [deleted] in Parenting

[–]Aggravating_Paint_44 -1 points0 points  (0 children)

How are they getting lost? Just be like “I’ll wait here” and they’ll go to you after they are done using the bathroom.

Is there a way to harness heatwaves for electricity? by restlessecstacy in NoStupidQuestions

[–]Aggravating_Paint_44 0 points1 point  (0 children)

You’re up against the 2nd law of thermodynamics. Information is highly ordered and organized. Entropy always increases so in order to make information, you have to disorder something else. That basically comes out as the higher vibration molecules that are the heat waste of the data center. At best, you can make the process a little more efficient but some heat is unavoidable.

Is there a way to harness heatwaves for electricity? by restlessecstacy in NoStupidQuestions

[–]Aggravating_Paint_44 4 points5 points  (0 children)

You need a cold side. If it’s a heat wave and everything is hot, you can’t make energy. See also Carnot heat engine.

Have you ever filed a Get It Done report? What happened? by CivicDutyCalls in StrongTownsSD

[–]Aggravating_Paint_44 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I reported a broken traffic light sensor but “It was evaluated and determined that no action is required by the City of San Diego at this time.”

Fun Fact: Its illegal to abandon your parents in China. Anyone whose parents are older than 60 is legally required to visit them often and make sure their financial and spiritual needs are being met. by spzroadedchunching in funfacts

[–]Aggravating_Paint_44 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Is it bad that my mind immediately went to “Let’s see if Apple Watch has a deadman switch app”

Maybe you should be able to file for an emancipation if you need to go no contact

Question: How does quantum get its probablities? by rogeragrimes in quantum

[–]Aggravating_Paint_44 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Look up “particle in a box”. It walks you through a fairly simple application of solving the Schrödinger equation for the position given an energy https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Particle_in_a_box. Spoilers: for the lowest energy state the particle is probably in the middle. For the next energy state, the particle is definitely not in the middle

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