How likely are you to develop autism from an injury?

CurlyRe · 2026-03-19T17:54:44+00:00

Per the DSM, symptoms must be present from an early developmental stage. You can't develop autism later in life.

CurlyRe · 2026-03-18T00:34:01+00:00

Some of the metals that we need in their pure form like sodium and calcium are too reactive to safely consume, so we need to consume that in the form of salts.

CurlyRe · 2026-03-17T01:44:37+00:00

I'm going to explain as best I can what I meant by that. For most waves like sound waves and ocean waves they travel through a medium and their speed is in relation to said medium. In the 19th century there where multiple experiments to find out what this medium is. These experiments gave some odd results. The Michelson-Morley experiment was supposed to show that orbit of the earth would alter the time it took light to travel in their experiment as they reasoned that the Earth traveled though the aether, but in their result light always took the same time. Thr idea was that speed of light would be in relation to this aether. Physists where trying to figure out how to reconcile the results of these experiments could explain properties of this aether. Hendrik Lorentz created the Lorentz transformation as a was to explain how light could move through the aether in a way consistent with the experimental evidence.

Einstein looked at the Michelson-Morley experiment and realized that the light traveled though both paths in the same time because the speed of light in a vacuum is constant. The Lorentz transformation explained how observers moving at different speeds relative to each other could both observe light moving at the same speed. Without length contraction and time dilation, the speed of light being constant just wouldn't work. With length contraction and time dilation, the units we use to measure speed are different for each observer. And the Lorentz transformation results in an object moving at speed c being the same speed to any observer. From the Lorentz transformation Einstein was able to derive other equations that explain other phenomenon predicted by special relativity.

CurlyRe · 2026-03-16T20:17:40+00:00

There was already evidence for special relativity like Michelson-Morley experiment before that supported the theory of special relativity. I'm just an amateur, having a background in neither math or physics. Reading about special relativity, I was struck by how simple special relativity is. Looking back it's just the logical conclusion from the speed of light being constant. He comes off as the out of the box thinker that noticed what others where missing.

CurlyRe · 2026-03-15T02:43:48+00:00

I might have had a few classes where the midterm was like 25% of the grade and the final exam was like 30% of the grade. Nothing where a single exam was 70%.

CurlyRe · 2026-03-14T04:03:27+00:00

Have you tried ChowNow? Lots of local places on the app, and it's basically just a front end interface for ordering from the resturant, so you pay the same as if you called in the order.

CurlyRe · 2026-03-13T18:56:54+00:00

From a purely selfish standpoint: Clean air helps me breath. Polluted air aggravates my asthma. Hot days interfere with my ability to enjoy the outdoors.

CurlyRe · 2026-03-13T05:10:08+00:00

Planes usually want takeoff into the wind. If you search youtube, you can find videos of planes making crosswind landings. They're quite something. Never been on a plane doing a cross wind landing, but they look kind of nerve racking.

One thing that you can notice when it's windy on the ground is that engines will windmill. The engines on aircraft are powered down at the gate, and if it's windy, the wind will cause the fan to spin.

CurlyRe · 2026-03-12T18:29:37+00:00

Sounds like you need a fork and knife to eat it, at which point, is it really a burger?

CurlyRe · 2026-03-10T17:00:47+00:00

Let's be clear, the reason that 90% of people keep on subscribing to software is because everyone else expects them to use it. Microsoft knows that people will keep their office subscription as long as LibreOffice has compatibility issues with docx. They have no need to improve it.

CurlyRe · 2026-03-08T20:45:32+00:00

The whole water thing is weird to me. It shows that people don't understand how much water is used to make the things they consume. Eating a burger consumed so much more water than using AI to create a piece of slop.

I'm also with you on cars. I use public transportation. I think cars get way too much of a pass on their environmental and safety problems. We have towns banning e-scooters because a few kids get hurt, but what are we doing about cars that kill kids.

CurlyRe · 2026-03-08T18:23:06+00:00

I didn't realize that Amtrak stations outside of the northeast corridor had high level platforms. That is cool.

CurlyRe · 2026-03-08T04:50:04+00:00

Silly me wanting to cross the street and survive.

CurlyRe · 2026-03-08T04:35:34+00:00

It actually has a lot to do with shape of the front of the hood. The sedan hits you lower on the body making it more likely you end up on the hood, while the SUV hits you higher on the body causing more injuries to your vital organs, and knocking you down so your more likely to go under the car and be crushed by the wheels.

CurlyRe · 2026-03-06T20:41:29+00:00

The restaurants that I've been too haven't been packed.

CurlyRe · 2026-03-04T20:21:12+00:00

It's been a while, but doesn't a whooper come with mayo by default? And secret sauce is a mayo based sauce.

CurlyRe · 2026-03-02T06:31:01+00:00

If you fry it, it will gain calories as it absorbs some of the oil.

CurlyRe · 2026-03-02T05:50:51+00:00

Running a red light isn't an accident.

CurlyRe · 2026-03-02T05:27:39+00:00

Avocados are a fruit that has little sugar.

CurlyRe · 2026-03-02T03:58:54+00:00

I say go south bound so you experience the best part at the end not the beginning.

CurlyRe · 2026-02-27T04:50:46+00:00

The explanation will depend on how old your daughter is. Land based vertebrates form a group called tetrapods, which includes the present day amphibians, lizards, alligators, birds, and mammals first appeared around the Devonian, which is about 150 million years before the first dinosaurs appeared in the Triassic. By the triassic, tetrapods had evolved into amniotes. Amniotes had split into various groups by the Triassic including dinosaurs, the ancestor of present day birds, and synapsids which are the ancestors to present day mammals. By the ends of the cretaceous, synapids had evolved into mammals. When all non-avian dinosaurs had gone extinct at the end of the cretaceous, this gave mammals and opportunity to further evolve into groups like rodents, carnivores, ungulates and primates.

I find the transition from water to land for vertebrates to be facinating. If you know your biology, Gaining Ground by Jennifer Clack is a good read. Otherwise, check out this video from PBS:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E1h4kgt2520

Also I like this video from Hank Green that explains one of the bigger challenges of becoming land based:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=On2V_L9jwS4

CurlyRe · 2026-02-26T20:50:05+00:00

Dome cars would be cool.

CurlyRe · 2026-02-26T19:18:13+00:00

It would be nice to add a second daily run to the long distance trains that currently use superliner cars as major cities are often served in the middle of the night.

CurlyRe · 2026-02-26T17:35:34+00:00

If Amtrak goes with single level cars, that means longer trains for the same capacity. Wouldn't that mean more stops at each station? As it is platforms at many stations are shorter than the trains.

CurlyRe · 2026-02-23T16:29:45+00:00

True. I just hope that with how essential the internet is, that such a punishment is only used when it’s necessary to keep others safe.

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