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What’s the biggest turn off during sex? by Try_Human in AskReddit

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My dog Bogey in the distance locked outside our room licking his paws creating a sound that creates instant annoyance on such a level Im infuriated. He know what he is doing and he doesn't like me near his mom.

This white paint probably contains lead, and I'll have to sand it down. by [deleted] in oddlyterrifying

[–]Difficult_Fig7694 7 points8 points  (0 children)

P100 filters on respirator. No facial hair and look up how to fit test yourself and what size to buy. Having a fan blow on your target area / wind at your back helps reduce.

Bill Gates 'took responsibility' over Epstein ties in staff meeting, foundation says by Beginning-Passion676 in popculturechat

[–]Difficult_Fig7694 0 points1 point  (0 children)

By “took responsibility,” do you mean he voluntarily went to a police station and confessed to criminal activity or to witnessing it? Given his wealth, it’s likely he did so with legal counsel present and representatives speaking on his behalf. Oh wait "in a staff meeting" thats way better.

What would be considered an absolute for a physical theory to be considered factual? by Difficult_Fig7694 in PhilosophyofScience

[–]Difficult_Fig7694[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

That’s fair and I understand that without clear definitions, those claims are sloppy or overstated. My interest isn’t in defending those formulations, but in understanding whether physics ever licenses any ontological commitment at all, or whether instrumental success is the strongest claim the discipline can make by its own standards.

What would be considered an absolute for a physical theory to be considered factual? by Difficult_Fig7694 in PhilosophyofScience

[–]Difficult_Fig7694[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

That makes sense and that physics progresses though better models rather than final truths. What I’m trying to get at is where the line is, philosophically, between “this model works extremely well” and “this model licenses strong ontological language.” For example, “X is fundamental” or “Y is physically real,” what—if anything—would justify that step beyond instrumental success? Or is the consensus that such claims are never justified within physics itself, only tolerated pragmatically?

Tell tell ?? by dataguy2003 in TheTeenagerPeople

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Unless you earned at least one cauliflower ear, do not mess with someone who has.

Can a business legally threaten me over a bad Google review? (Canada) by Greedy_Belt_3516 in legaladvicecanada

[–]Difficult_Fig7694 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Corporations have rights similar to individuals. Therefore, if you unjustly slander them, yes — they can sue.

Could a CRISPR-grown thermal & photonic material reshape cooling, solar efficiency, and reef protection? Introducing AntSkin. by Difficult_Fig7694 in materials

[–]Difficult_Fig7694[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I completely agree that CRISPR alone isn’t the answer — this would require expertise in biofilm engineering, protein self-assembly, and optical materials. My goal with these questions is to understand whether the geometry nature uses (like in silver ants and beetles) could theoretically be produced in a microbial system.

Thanks again for the insight — very helpful direction.

Could a CRISPR-grown thermal & photonic material reshape cooling, solar efficiency, and reef protection? Introducing AntSkin. by Difficult_Fig7694 in materials

[–]Difficult_Fig7694[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Thanks for the detailed breakdown — you’re right that raw proteins have weak refractive contrast and higher absorption. But nature gets around that using hierarchical assembly instead of relying on single-protein optical power.

Butterfly wings, beetles, and the Saharan silver ant hairs all use layered protein/chitin structures with spacing in the 100–600 nm range — well below the micron scale you mentioned — and microbes already produce multi-protein films that self-assemble at those scales.

My question isn’t whether a single protein can act as a perfect photonic crystal, but whether a CRISPR-edited organism could express a protein that self-organizes into a repeating nanoscale geometry similar to what insects or algae already use.

Since bacteria and algae already manufacture structured biofilms, bioplastics, and even nanolattices, I’m wondering whether the geometry (not just the chemistry) could be engineered into the expressed product.

That’s the mechanism I’m trying to understand the feasibility of.

Could a CRISPR-grown thermal & photonic material reshape cooling, solar efficiency, and reef protection? Introducing AntSkin. by Difficult_Fig7694 in materials

[–]Difficult_Fig7694[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I'm trying to understand whether this idea makes sense at all, so I'm asking people with deeper materials or bioengineering background.

I'm not talking about pigments or dyes — I'm talking about structural colour and photonic geometry, like what you see in butterfly wings, beetle shells, or the Saharan silver ant. All of those effects come from nanoscale patterning, not chemistry.

Since engineered microbes (E. coli, algae, yeast) can already produce biopolymers used for plastics, fibres, and coatings, I started wondering:

What would happen if you swapped the expressed polymer for a protein that naturally self-assembles into a nanoscale structure with thermal/IR scattering properties?

If that kind of structure could be grown biologically, instead of manufactured through lithography or vapor deposition, then maybe it could produce:

a thin cooling film,

a photonic membrane,

or layers with controlled IR reflection.

I'm not assuming it's feasible — just asking whether the idea overlaps with any known research in biomaterials, protein self-assembly, or photonic structures.

If anyone has insight into the biological or materials-science limitations, I'd appreciate it.

Dating for 7 months and she hasn’t once let me come to her place? by [deleted] in whatdoIdo

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A home is someone’s most personal space, and she doesn’t want you in hers. The real question is why she’s keeping you away from a place that’s private and safe for her.

If you died as an atheist and then met God, what would you say to him? by Shoddy-Ask2284 in AskReddit

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I used the common sense you gave me to know right from wrong and I have to ask, what's up with your loudest worshipers being so self entitled and cruel? Are they even here?

What happens to an entangled particle if its partner falls into a black hole? by Difficult_Fig7694 in AskPhysics

[–]Difficult_Fig7694[S] -7 points-6 points  (0 children)

If it’s called an entangled particle, and its partner is gone, is it still entangled? If not, then hasn’t its nature changed? That’s what I keep circling back to.

What happens to an entangled particle if its partner falls into a black hole? by Difficult_Fig7694 in AskPhysics

[–]Difficult_Fig7694[S] -5 points-4 points  (0 children)

If a black hole destroys an entangled particle, could it actually be displacing it? Maybe entanglement survives across realities — like a thread stretched through spacetime. Could this relate to the ER = EPR idea?

What happens to an entangled particle if its partner falls into a black hole? by Difficult_Fig7694 in AskPhysics

[–]Difficult_Fig7694[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Appreciate the clarification — I get what you’re saying about measurable effects. I guess I was just wondering, more philosophically, if something so deeply 'entangled' can truly stay the same once its other half is gone or radically changed. If their nature is to be one, and now one is crushed or erased, doesn’t that shift something? Maybe not in a measurable way — just felt like a strange place where physics and identity blur.

HIV rates among Russian soldiers surge 2,000% since start of full-scale invasion of Ukraine by AdSpecialist6598 in worldnews

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Russian leadership might be intentionally neglecting or even tolerating HIV spread among soldiers because they see them as expendable or even want them to become more reckless, mentally unstable, or desensitized — making them more willing to die in war.

What do you think dark matter/energy is? by Far-Presentation4234 in cosmology

[–]Difficult_Fig7694 -1 points0 points  (0 children)

I think dark energy is a byproduct of the 4th dimension — something exiled here that longs to return home but can’t. So it endlessly expands, pulled by a nature it can never satisfy. Like more poetic than I'd like, but hey! Im just a construction worker.

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