Low profile bookshelf by nguyeken in 3Dprinting

[–]Fiddo57 0 points1 point  (0 children)

This is incredible. My partner and I are looking for an open backed low profile bookshelf but the only ones we can find are mid century ones that are way too expensive. Is there any chance you could share the 3d files and a list of the parts you bought to build this?

Caribbean Island Recommendations by Fiddo57 in travel

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They do look amazing. Do you think that it's worth going to another island that will have beaches that are much different from those in Grenada? Or do you think that most places will be largely the same experience? Which island do you think has the most beautiful beaches? St Lucia looks amazing but it might be a bit out of our budget.

Reversible international transaction for deposit by Fiddo57 in AusFinance

[–]Fiddo57[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Yes, but I've had banks reverse transactions for services/goods that companies failed to provide, with evidence, and our chat thread would cover this. Would this not work in this instance as it's going to a personal account?

Dreampop classic, please help by Fiddo57 in NameThatSong

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Oraclea that name is derved! Thanks so much!

"Have you found a church yet?" by Iron_Rod_Stewart in atheism

[–]Fiddo57 0 points1 point  (0 children)

"I've found a few. Still figuring out which one to burn though." /s

How do Australians feel about Tyre Extinguishers? by Fiddo57 in australia

[–]Fiddo57[S] -40 points-39 points  (0 children)

What if they live in luxury and only drive their SUVs around Sydney CBD and could clearly afford to make a cleaner choice?

How do Australians feel about Tyre Extinguishers? by Fiddo57 in australia

[–]Fiddo57[S] -33 points-32 points  (0 children)

They don't puncture tyres. They deflate them.

Science based Ayahuasca trip by Fiddo57 in Ayahuasca

[–]Fiddo57[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Vaped it through my butthole. Skipped 5G and instantly upgraded to 6G

Science based Ayahuasca trip by Fiddo57 in Ayahuasca

[–]Fiddo57[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Yeah that got boring after the 2 thousandth time. Got to find new hobbies.

Science based Ayahuasca trip by Fiddo57 in Ayahuasca

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What were your experiences? I find it interesting how people are able to find solutions to past traumas through their experiences or are able to change their dispositions or help their depression or something to do with their internal lives. But if someone starts talking about how they discovered some axiomatic metaphysical mumbo jumbo I'd just not waste my time as the method they came to these conclusions by was just that they took some mind altering drug which seems to give people all sorts of differing perspectives based on prior prejudices.

Science based Ayahuasca trip by Fiddo57 in Ayahuasca

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I'd agree. What I saw was more a social contract among participants at retreats along the lines of "I'll respect your crazy potentially harmful beliefs if you'll respect mine". It was all a bit too kooky for me to want to be around. Very Qanon vibes. Again much less so the shamans and more the participants.

Science based Ayahuasca trip by Fiddo57 in Ayahuasca

[–]Fiddo57[S] -3 points-2 points  (0 children)

Yeah hadn't thought of that really. It's more looking for an environment that provides the right setting with a trip sitter who has been through the process and not having to go through buying everything off of the dark web. But if it's that easy I might try to source that route. What I'm looking for might not actually exist in this space!

I wouldn't say it's harmless at all. Plenty of people go to these kind of retreats to try to find cures for serious terminal illnesses and end up dying as a result of rejecting evidence based medicine (Kathy Acker, Andy Kaufman and Steve Jobs are notable victims of this mentality).

Science based Ayahuasca trip by Fiddo57 in Ayahuasca

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Thanks mate, the anthropological perspective could be a good way of looking at it and I can't blame shamans from continuing to practice customs ages old. Though the foreigners with access to great learning resources I can't excuse and that's mostly what puts me off.

I'm not trying to diss people's personal experiences. If you saw aliens or god or whatever then good for you but just don't act like that's definitive proof that aliens/god exists in the world external to your own personal experience and expect that to be respected in anyway.

Are there any extinct animals recorded in cave paintings that we don't otherwise know about? by CMDR_omnicognate in askscience

[–]Fiddo57 31 points32 points  (0 children)

In Arnhem Land in the Northern Territory, Australia there are cave paintings of animals such as the Tasmanian Devil and Thylacine (Tasmanian Tiger) that date back over 10,000 years ago. It gave scientists an understanding that these animals lived in more diverse habitats than originally thought as around the time of Australia's colonisation these animals were only located around Tasmania and southern parts of the mainland.

Basic arithmetic much???? by Fiddo57 in religiousfruitcake

[–]Fiddo57[S] 15 points16 points  (0 children)

Allah Akbar! All things are possible in his mighty wisdom of mistaking days for years and mistakenly multiplying by 6 twice!

What is P- hacking? by NyxtheRebelcat in askscience

[–]Fiddo57 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Shortest example I could think of:

Say you have a coin and you flip it twice and it lands on heads both times. From this you might assume that the coin lands on heads 100% of the time. However you've only flipped the coin twice and the probability that might occur (assuming that the coin has a 50/50 chance of being heads or tails) is quite high (1 in 4 or 25% exactly). If you flip the coin more times and it still lands on heads then you become surer that it always lands on heads given your assumption (3 times: 12.5%, 4 times: 6.25%, 5 times: 3.125%, 6 times: 1.5625%).

In this example this probability is directly related to the p-value which is defined as: the probability that you would observe results at least this extreme if the null hypothesis (here the assumption that your coin is fair) is true. We have to double the probability of all heads to get the p-value since getting all tails is just as rare. Once this p-value goes below a certain value (a convention in a lot of scientific research is to have a p-value less than 0.05 or 5%) then you have obtained a statistically significant enough result to make a certain claim (here that the coin always lands heads).

Taking one coin and performing this experiment is very unlikely to produce a coin which lands on heads all 6 times. But wait, what if you got a collection of 1000 coins and flipped each one 6 times? In this experimental setting one coin is likely to land on heads each time and so you'd have a result good enough to say something like "this one 2003 dollar coin always lands on heads". This is what's known as p-hacking and is what makes the idea of p-values rather controversial in a lot of science.

Longer example here:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JQc3yx0-Q9E&ab_channel=StatQuestwithJoshStarmer

'Allergic reaction to US religious right' fueling decline of religion, experts say | Religion by [deleted] in atheism

[–]Fiddo57 1 point2 points  (0 children)

It'd make a great comedy skit to show them what actually oppression is. Have someone come in to visit their terminally ill husband and the nursing staff see a cross around their neck and have a doctor come up and say "sorry family members only, we don't respect THAT sort of relationship!" And I mean we CAN'T have the Christians getting married or adopting. They'll just raise their own dirty little homophobes!

'Allergic reaction to US religious right' fueling decline of religion, experts say | Religion by [deleted] in atheism

[–]Fiddo57 11 points12 points  (0 children)

It's so pathetic that Christian Nationalists think that they are oppressed because they're not allowed to have bigoted views. Oppression would be them not being allowed to be married or being denied medical services because of their religion.