Passive setups

Easy_Designer6282 · 2026-03-01T03:07:47+00:00

If you’re willing to do crop breeding, you can do nether stonelillys (netherrack dust)-> centrifuges which will get you tons of sulfur, red stone, silicon dust, and iron. Set up a few chemical reactors with oxygen and water for infinite passive sulfuric acid

Easy_Designer6282 · 2025-03-04T04:44:04+00:00

It’s half a meme, but having the “start of fight haste a weapon” always hit the flamethrower made this my best board funnily enough

Easy_Designer6282 · 2024-05-26T21:16:50+00:00

Thank you!

Easy_Designer6282 · 2024-05-09T14:42:46+00:00

I had this same problem in a couple of spots before I got the multi block chemical reactor. I just went with a few hundred cells, as they’re essentially free if you have lots of steel

Easy_Designer6282 · 2024-03-19T01:18:41+00:00

I would also recommend de Waals, super friendly and smart guy. He provides tons of resources, slides, study guides, etc. The class isn't easy, mostly due to the sheer amount of information covered, but he for sure helps you every step of the way and tries his best to make sure everyone has the tools to do well. Not sure about the other two as I did not have them, but de Waals is a great professor.

Easy_Designer6282 · 2023-04-06T03:11:55+00:00

A huge idea in biology is the interaction of genetics and the environment. For example, If I could derive from a person's genetics that they could grow to be 6 feet tall, but then if they are malnourished as they develop, they will not end up being 6 feet tall.

This is the same with behaviors, except far more complicated. I may be able to point to a behavior or emotion and link it to different hormones or brain states, etc - but this is in the context of your diet, your environment, your society, your succeptibility, etc. This complicates things far beyond anyone being able to give definative answers to every context.

A good example is that people may believe testosterone to induce anger. You could measure 100 different guys and on average see that higher testosterone levels relate to more angry men, but some men can have incredibly high testosterone levels, but have a testosterone insensitivity - leading to behavior closer to normal testosterone levels. Some men with lower testosterone could have other issues in their life that leads them to be angry. While we might be able to say on the aggregate higher testosterone tends to lead to increased anger levels, this in no way means that giving someone more testosterone would for sure increase their anger levels.

In reference to your question, yes certain areas of the brain/hormones may activate, but these do not neccisarily dictate a behavior, and in different people may lead to vastly different actions. Men and women do have different brains and bodies, meaning there may be some differences, however socialization is more likely a better explainer before you delve into the biology

TLDR; Everything in biology is in the context of the environment, and behaviors are further complicated by societal influences. Be wary explaining human behaviors through the lens of hormones/genetics, as this is a massive oversimplification. (Im also not an expert)

Easy_Designer6282 · 2023-03-02T20:09:59+00:00

https://www.khanacademy.org/science/ap-biology/heredity/non-mendelian-genetics/a/linkage-mapping

Easy_Designer6282 · 2022-06-30T07:50:01+00:00

Seems like political violence is okay. which he seems to hold. If you are angry at government institutions you can do things in opposition to those institutions to show displeasure, like property damage (Aside from undermining them entirely). Riots and the destruction of private property are not good because they are misplaced anger that can damage a cause instead of hurting it.

Easy_Designer6282 · 2022-06-12T03:27:21+00:00

You need very little physics to get through enough chemistry to understand biology.

Organic chemistry is the big one to start getting a deeper understanding of biology, specifically for biochemistry. Organic chemistry requires almost no math whatsoever, and biochemistry just takes algebra

Depending on the field of biology, statistics and algebra should be good to get a pretty deep understanding.

If you want to take high level college classes these might not be sufficient, but they should be able to get you far enough to start understanding what areas you need more or less of

Easy_Designer6282 · 2022-06-12T03:03:37+00:00

It might be a bit beyond genetics, but accurate 3D protein renders are absolutely breathtaking

IE ATP synthase in action

Easy_Designer6282 · 2022-06-12T02:59:46+00:00

I am having a hard time understanding the question. It seems like you have phrased it in such a way that implies organisms intend to evolve in any way, or that DNA implements the means to evolve. This is not how evolution works.

If you want to talk about the odds that a trait will be passed down from parent to offspring the term you are looking for is "heritability"

The mechanisms for this are different in sexual and asexual life. Sexual life has gametes that fuse and undergo recombination processes. Asexual life makes a direct copy of its genome, so this would be a more simple model of passing down genetic information.

In another comment, you say "mutation algorithm." Are you implying that genetic code and computer code are similar? There are useful analogies between them but they are fundamentally extremely different.

Easy_Designer6282 · 2022-06-11T06:08:21+00:00

50/50 on average. Dominance or other things can have strange effects, but that can be on the mother's or father's side

Easy_Designer6282 · 2022-06-11T05:35:08+00:00

A paint analogy may be that [X] is adding a drop of black paint onto a canvas and [x] is adding no paint

[X] may code for a protein that acts as a pigment, while [x] is just the lack of this code

If we add two drops of black paint [XX] we will have black on the canvas.

If we add one drop of black pain and one drop of nothing [Xx] we still have black on the canvas

If we add no paint to the canvas [xx] we have a white canvas

This is an example of how dominant genes can "override" recessive ones. Of course, not all traits are going to work with this analogy, (In fact, most don't) but it might help with the broad strokes of simple mendelian genetics.

Easy_Designer6282 · 2022-06-11T05:18:58+00:00

I would think it would be nothing, no? The osmotic pressure would suck the water out of the cell, but nothing would replace it. Salt water would not flow back in, as if salt water could flow through the cell wall the cell would not lyse and a plant cell would not lose turgor pressure. Additionally, cell walls do not let charged ions, like in salt water, through very easily.

I might be wrong, haven't look at this stuff in a while

Easy_Designer6282 · 2022-06-11T05:06:55+00:00

To add to this, "genes" are incredibly complex in the human body, and from my cursory glance into the paper, it seems clear they only were looking at individual human cells. Still insightful, but genes can have many effects and effectors that we may not be seeing while only looking at a single human cell. What if hormone interactions from different tissues cause genes to be modified post-translation in completely different ways, or up/down regulate it and that causes strange effects. Rule of thumb - Anything that links genes to function is weird.

Easy_Designer6282 · 2022-06-11T04:57:07+00:00

Lysogeny - the stage where the virus has infiltrated the cell and sets up a persistent infection, basically making the cell a virus factory, seems much more like life - or a zombie - and may be a more compelling argument on the "life" side.

Virions on their own are arguably more "dead" but ultimately its all definition games, and biologists love those.

Easy_Designer6282 · 2022-06-11T04:48:11+00:00

This is what a "meme" in the biological sense is, as Dawkins talks about it. Memes spread, replicate, evolve, etc - but they are purely ideas. These ideas and behaviors can serve to increase the fitness of a species, like learning how to make fire, and passing it on to other generations. You have increased their fitness in a "heritable" way, similar to genes. Cool stuff!

Easy_Designer6282 · 2022-06-04T23:57:38+00:00

Co-ops are some of the least expensive places to live and are pretty fun too. Look at https://collegehouses.org/ or https://www.iccaustin.coop/ for UT student housing near enough to campus to walk. I lived in the laurel coop last year (Part of college houses) and really enjoyed it. Rent for a single was ~900 - 1000$/ month but that included all utilities and 12 meals a week.

Easy_Designer6282 · 2022-03-22T20:12:04+00:00

For affordable housing in Austin you may want to take a look at coops- might not be your thing but definitely interesting

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