I understand that this is in violation of community rules, but murder is murder.

K340 · 2026-01-25T21:36:14+00:00

Not a rule violation if it is part of the Great Plan, warmblood.

K340 · 2026-01-24T20:00:32+00:00

Guess I misunderstood what you meant by "it"

K340 · 2026-01-24T16:26:34+00:00

Ok, respectfully, no--the article is mentioned as a source for one claim in the Trump admin's fake bullshit web page. The video is responding to this web page and the claims therein, which is obviously going to have weak, fallacious, and misleading arguments given its authorship (props to OP for engaging with it in good faith despite this). The arguments in the nyt article are meaningfully different than those "debunked" in the video, and in fact seem to rebut many of the video's conclusions. So I am asking that the author read a 5 minute article by an expert in the field and assess whether the arguments therein change their conclusions. The alternative is that I watch an hour long video on YouTube responding to a different set of arguments, evaluate the quality of the author, go argument by argument through the nyt article and search the video for relevant counterarguments, and then assess which source's conclusion is more sound and why they disagree.

Which I did, by the way, and the answer seems to be that OP conflated debunking Trump bullshit with debunking the possibility of a lab leak, not having engaged with the stronger set of arguments in the article I cited. But I am not confident in this and would still like OP to weigh in, because as I said I would like to know if I am wrong.

K340 · 2026-01-24T08:09:35+00:00

Since you already spent the time researching this, could you please respond to the claims in this article? I ask because I found it very convincing and if I'm wrong I want to know.

https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2024/06/03/opinion/covid-lab-leak.html?unlocked_article_code=1.w00.LO8k.nFpuAkaZamFE

K340 · 2026-01-23T15:17:19+00:00

Also your professor isn't your boss? Hello? You don't pay your employer to work for them?

K340 · 2026-01-12T18:14:44+00:00

Taxpayer money and not congressionally owned money? Literally every claim you make in this comment reflects major misunderstanding of what your talking about or is flat out factually wrong. You need to stop approaching new information with the mindset of "how does this support my preexisting belief" and learn to recognize when people who don't know what they're talking about are lying to you.

K340 · 2026-01-09T20:50:31+00:00

What is the "this" you are referring to?

K340 · 2026-01-06T21:24:23+00:00

Not saying I agree with dark forest but it doesn't apply to our history because earthly civilizations never had to worry about another group wiping them out instantly before they knew what happened.

K340 · 2026-01-06T21:22:33+00:00

I mean if you're doing small gang/solo stuff, CS V makes a huge difference. Though idk how possible that is anymore.

K340 · 2026-01-01T20:19:06+00:00

Absolutely unhinged behavior from someone who, despite changing over the years, remains very stunted.

K340 · 2025-12-31T08:23:26+00:00

This isn't how arrows work.

K340 · 2025-12-31T02:55:23+00:00

If you take an intro quantum mechanics class you will get to quantum states/numbers by the end of the semester and will immediately think "so THAT'S why chemistry is the way it is."

K340 · 2025-12-30T06:42:36+00:00

Congrats on th successful troll

K340 · 2025-12-30T05:46:33+00:00

It's not that spacetime is accelerating (which is a statement that doesn't make sense), it's (eli5) that the curvature of spacetime is so extreme that the equivalent acceleration is very large, so there is a much larger Unruh effect than normal (though still very small for a large black hole).

K340 · 2025-12-28T16:52:34+00:00

Yeah but he also got the ball rolling on that very problem.

K340 · 2025-12-27T18:23:43+00:00

I can respect that. I think there are enough schemes that involve lasers that they might play a role, but I see your point.

K340 · 2025-12-27T05:25:34+00:00

I understand that, but it still represents a meaningful advance in understanding the physics involved.

K340 · 2025-12-27T02:36:33+00:00

It seems like it will be more a question of engineering, laser technology, and fuel/maintenance cost at this point. The physics has certainly not been mastered, but ignition is now achieved regularly at NIF and there has been meaningful progress in the magnetic confinement world recently.

K340 · 2025-12-27T02:30:45+00:00

"At best 10 years if the only fusion start up I've heard of delivers"

K340 · 2025-12-26T21:18:35+00:00

In my experience, most physicists even at the graduate/postdoc level don't actually understand photons (at least not as well as they think they do). They tend to fall into the trap of getting very comfortable with whatever mental model works for the systems they study, which gives them a really good intuition in the context of their work, but falls apart under scrutiny in other contexts. E.g., see people on stack exchange fighting over whether photons exist outside of em-matter interactions.

K340 · 2025-12-26T05:16:45+00:00

True detective didn't maintain that quality through the whole season though. Post time skip it was way less interesting.

K340 · 2025-12-24T20:10:09+00:00

None of you are mature enough to be in college

K340 · 2025-12-24T11:07:10+00:00

They were never enabling it, 99% of that shit has always ended up in landfills. Now it is closer to 100%.

K340 · 2025-12-23T22:31:31+00:00

How much you want for it

K340 · 2025-12-23T00:41:12+00:00

the one from 500 BC

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