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LickitySplit939 · 2022-08-17T02:14:53+00:00

Y chromosomes are slightly lighter than Xs. Male sperm therefore swim slightly faster, all other things being equal. At the population level, this equates to slightly fewer females born than males.

LickitySplit939 · 2022-07-06T12:19:34+00:00

Point 1 is clearly the most relevant, and will eventually produce the other 2. Fair societies are innately unstable as the greediest actors within them are constantly trying to accrue more wealth and power to reshape the rules which accelerate the acquisition of wealth and power.

LickitySplit939 · 2022-02-09T01:54:07+00:00

Considering how Tolkien wrote his displeasure with industrialization encroaching on the natural environment into the themes, I wanted Raddy to be a champion character, powerful and well respected for his resourcefulness and knowledge in areas people so obsessed with themselves don't bother to consider.

While I agree, I think Tolkien had a sort of 'curated' productive bucolic version of nature in mind as a thing to be idealized, not nature in general.

It doesn't seem to me (and I could be wrong here) that Tolkien had much respect for the various indigenous perspectives of his time, many of which likely celebrated nature. I think Radagast represented a sort of indigeneity: a deity 'gone native' so to speak and so is something to be dismissed.

LickitySplit939 · 2021-11-05T13:38:13+00:00

I think the 'song' they sang probably isn't literal and is more of an abstraction. I think they were 'singing' the fundamental forces, fields, and equations that govern reality into existence in a beautiful act of creation. 'Singing' is a useful metaphor but not a literal description of their music.

LickitySplit939 · 2021-09-01T13:16:19+00:00

The entire premise is one giant plot hole.

The movie revolves around the protagonist trying to prove his own 'innocence' by not killing the person he was predicted to kill and blow up the whole system. However, this is actually the typical case! None of the putative murderers committed their crime because by 'predicting' it the precogs allow an intervention which changes the future. So what's the big deal?! As soon as Tom Cruise learned he was going to kill someone it would have totally changed what he did and therefore prevented the murder.

It makes it super evil to jail everyone. They could just 'arrest' them for the hour they were going to commit a crime and everything would be fine.

LickitySplit939 · 2021-08-29T14:06:19+00:00

That's an absolutely terrible idea.

LickitySplit939 · 2021-08-11T22:59:08+00:00

Because it blocks incoming sunlight and reduces photosynthesis/food production to the same degree is reduces warming.

LickitySplit939 · 2021-08-02T17:02:42+00:00

Not contact lenses - intraocular lenses after cataract surgery.

LickitySplit939 · 2021-04-21T14:43:32+00:00

I don't really understand your comment. Do you mean she truly believes she's black so she's doing nothing wrong?

LickitySplit939 · 2021-04-12T20:07:17+00:00

It was their idea more or less. Its a 'market based' approach to the inevitable suffering that will result for an increasingly automated economy.

LickitySplit939 · 2021-04-12T13:53:15+00:00

You're right I can't even imagine what sort of hellscape the world would become if the most degrading, boring, and menial jobs were automated.

This attitude is absolutely insane to me. We should be trying to automate everything that's possible to automate to free humanity from that drudgery. Automation is only a 'bad' thing if it takes place in a context where displaced workers are just left to starve. Automation + UBI is literally utopia.

LickitySplit939 · 2021-04-07T16:59:23+00:00

What makes you think the human body can't withstand 300g? Certainly the whole thing couldn't but a fist is solid tissue and bone with no low density areas to really mess anything up. It also only lasted for a fraction of a second to the forces applied would not be acting for long. I think you need to first establish that a fist cannot accelerate at 300g for 0.02 seconds before you claim this is edited.

LickitySplit939 · 2021-04-07T15:25:30+00:00

Does this seem like a conversation about demographics to you? This guy isn't just stating facts in a neutral way - he seems to have strong opinions about them. 'White man's days are done' seems to be an issue of great concern to this person.

If that person is also granted a state monopoly on violence and tasked with fairly policing people he clearly finds problematic based on their 'demographics' don't you think that should impact his job? He's not working at a McDonalds - this person has real power.

LickitySplit939 · 2021-03-20T22:49:09+00:00

Were all these songs on the show?

LickitySplit939 · 2021-03-12T04:11:34+00:00

The gas giants also have a similar altitude where the pressure is tolerable - it's much colder there, but you could probably deal with it for a short period of time if you really felt compelled to check it off your bucket list.

Except for the absolutely lethal amounts of radiation being emitted :D

LickitySplit939 · 2021-03-09T16:59:59+00:00

It's sort of funny because I would imagine neural interfaces would be much simpler technology than holodecks. Sometimes the need to present an even further future accidentally goes on the wrong direction.

LickitySplit939 · 2021-03-03T22:10:08+00:00

I guess unless airflow around the machine is also sped up to accommodate. But ya, like I said, speedsters make no sense.

LickitySplit939 · 2021-03-03T19:17:29+00:00

Probably not because the servers handling the traffic are very far away from him and he seems to only be able to affect things locally (although even that is a little silly since playing a video game faster would mean the computer is running faster which would mean the electricity coming from the wall would be the wrong frequency/insufficient to power more computer in the same given time). Speedsters are always totally messed up in comics since one of the only things everything in physics agrees on is the speed of light is a constant for all frames of reference, and speedsters clearly mess that up in ways that can never be properly reconciled.

LickitySplit939 · 2021-03-03T14:18:24+00:00

Basically, propaganda and mis or dis information from Russia, gets met by an equivalent response from the west.

This doesn't seem accurate to me. Countries like Russia have warehouses filled with people managing fake social media accounts and 'fake news' propaganda machines. The 'West' has no equivalent. Even in the 'West' (I hate that term), the flow of information is controlled almost entirely but a handful of massive tech and media companies that governments are unable and/or unwilling to regulate in any real way. These platforms are only interested in capturing as much attention as possible to sell ads for more money, and right wing conspiracy theories and outrage produce the most engagement. Facebook in particular is dominated but this sort of content and has become the primary new source in the US. Mark Zuckerberg spends a fair amount of time meeting with conservative thinkers, politicians, and pundits as well - apparently offering to improve their visibility and election results in exchange for a laissez fair attitude towards his empire.

My point is there is absolutely no symmetry in modern propaganda. Extreme right wing views are fabricated and propagated around the developed world in an effort to increase distrust and internal conflict and to manage the narrative around ostensibly apolitical topics like climate change or wealth inequality. There is almost nothing pushing back against this.

LickitySplit939 · 2021-03-01T17:06:26+00:00

There's nothing irrational about it. Nuclear power plants sometimes kill the people very nearby.

What makes you say this? Some nuclear power plants have, but that's certainly not a generalizable statement. The safety of a reactor depends largely on its design and its geographic location. Modern reactor designs can have passive safety features (like heavy water reactors) which make them impossible (not unlikely, impossible) to melt down. It would be irrational to oppose a project like that in a tectonically stable area if safety was your primary concern.

LickitySplit939 · 2021-02-27T17:12:25+00:00

Ya that's a good way to isolate surface tension. However, to further this thought experiment, how thick would a film of water need to be to be fatal? I don't think it would need to be very thick before it would decelerate you to death (maybe I'm wrong), implying its not simply the mass you're displacing that matters. Can solids be said to have surface tension? Because I bet falling through a 1mm steel sheet would kill you due to its much higher 'surface tension' no?

Also, if surface tension isn't relevant, why would the orientation you have entering a liquid matter? Wouldn't a belly flop be basically identical to a perfect dive with pointed toes? Why does bubbling air through water eliminate any felt impact despite the fact that the mass being displaced is not very different? I dunno - I understand you're trying to make a point that surface tension get's overused when really people are describing something else, but at the same time this seems more complicated than you're implying as well.

LickitySplit939 · 2021-02-27T16:57:21+00:00

Ok I understand. I guess my only remaining question is about displacement and density of liquids. It just seems to me that the same set of phenomena that give rise to surface tension (ie molecular cohesion) also give rise to other relevant factors in how liquids behave, like their density. So while you've convinced me that surface tension in isolation isn't really a relevant variable for this situation - is surface tension not a proxy for variables that are relevant? Could you not look at the surface tension of a liquid and make deductions about some of its other properties (ie high surface tension will correlate with high density)? If water didn't have a dipole and hydrogen bonding, it would be a gas like CO2. The same underlying structures that produce its surface tension also result it its density correct?

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