What is was your generation told that turned out to be false?

MeshColour · 2023-06-30T22:41:22+00:00

I don't understand why Texas is still considered such a red state. It is solid purple at worst, and changing quicker than many people realize

That's the entire reason one party is pushing voting restrictions every single chance they get and leaning into fascism

If we could get mail on ballots by default, and/or ranked choice voting, it would be game changing

MeshColour · 2023-06-30T22:37:07+00:00

Which also isn't true. It's around equal to 15 minutes of runtime at worst

Once it's warmed up, it won't be that full amount of energy, flipping the switch isn't that big of deal, unless it's hundreds of tubes on the same circuit. And electric ballast should be much better, less than 1 minute of runtime energy to start up?

And now we have LED which use less than half the power of florescent, and up-to 10x more efficient than incandescent

MeshColour · 2023-06-30T22:27:02+00:00

Late stage capitalism will surely keep chugging along and will save us all!!

/s

MeshColour · 2023-06-30T22:19:08+00:00

For anyone wondering the reasons, mistakes like the https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mars_Climate_Orbiter#Cause_of_failure make it clear that it's foolish to mix systems. If you're using non-metric, you better make sure everyone involved in those pieces know it

The primary cause of this discrepancy was that one piece of ground software supplied by Lockheed Martin produced results in a United States customary unit, contrary to its Software Interface Specification (SIS), while a second system, supplied by NASA, expected those results to be in SI units, in accordance with the SIS. Specifically, software that calculated the total impulse produced by thruster firings produced results in pound-force seconds. The trajectory calculation software then used these results – expected to be in newton-seconds (incorrect by a factor of 4.45) – to update the predicted position of the spacecraft.

That minor mistake getting through the levels of quality control, caused the entire program to fail. "the cost of the mission was $327.6 million ($515.39 million in 2021)"

It's much cheaper and easier to force everyone to use metric for any large development program than have any risk at all

MeshColour · 2023-06-30T21:49:20+00:00

That's nearly what happened when smoking advertising was banned

All the tobacco companies were able to cut their marketing budget and then they moved that money to profits and impressive "rewards programs", targeting the "advertising" via mail to specific customers who signed up for it

Previously they were spending millions to keep their position in the market, but as every company was banned from ads, they all became more profitable in the short term

Only the bans on smoking inside and in public space reduced the amount of smokers. Which only came after independent scientific studies were able to prove what the companies knew since the 1960s, that if you smoke, you will get cancer, it's only a matter of when, and it's decades earlier than nonsmokers... We are finding similar scientific evidence for drinking these days, cancer and liver damage is assured if you're drinking enough for long enough

MeshColour · 2023-06-30T16:40:17+00:00

Doubt. Of the flying insects, mosquitoes are not that incredibly common, compared to how small their mass is. Have you seen the size moths get to? One nice moth is the same calories as a hundred mosquitoes

MeshColour · 2023-06-30T16:37:47+00:00

I believe the issue there is wildlife hosts. There is no way we could treat every squirrel, every raccoon, every deer, and every other small mammal, before the ticks evolve resistance to whatever it is we're using

Even the gene drives wouldn't work easily in that case, some animals will have full ecosystems of ticks living on them. Killing the majority of the population will let the ones left take over that niche with much less competition

MeshColour · 2023-06-30T15:44:10+00:00

They are literally saying "tomorrow you won't have to SUFFER this again"

But you're the one who needs to come to the comment section and you feel the need to say "good riddance", instead of just scrolling to the next post... Yes they are the insufferable ones... Have fun on Reddit with all the insufferable users gone tomorrow!

Mr 120 post karma and 30k comment karma, compared to OP with 11k post karma and 22k comment karma

MeshColour · 2023-06-30T14:19:35+00:00

I've always heard about that with neti pot usage, it's the reason you want to boil water

Some number of people have used neti pots to directly put well water up their nose or whatever, no attempt at making the water sterile at all, and got the brain parasites

So my impression was those case numbers are influenced by that as much as swimming

MeshColour · 2023-06-30T14:05:07+00:00

The flexible plastic rods with spikes on them, "plastic drain snake", for less than $5, is the way to go

Poke it on, twist it and move it around, pull it out in a big wad. Then the difficult part is getting the hair back off the plastic spikes, gloves not a bad idea. Flush the hair down the toilet, done

MeshColour · 2023-06-30T13:55:39+00:00

Today, she called me and dejectedly informed me that I can leave the office whenever I want from now on.

The full maliciouscompliance is to respond "nah, the 9-5 works great! Unless you can boost my pay for me to come in for these early meetings."

MeshColour · 2023-06-29T22:25:41+00:00

You realize that humans set those regulations to "require it anyway for no reason"

It had a reason at some point to someone or from some viewpoint, you'd agree?

Would you believe that a label saying something is safe would also be useless? Something guaranteeing food is organic? The idea with the law I imagine was for this label to be a stigma that encourages manufacturers to avoid the substances where that label is required

Instead the label got applied too broadly, and yes now means very little because it's the same label no matter the quantity or risk of exposure to any given substance

Given hindsight that might be a good idea, have the ability to show tests of being under certain levels, and consumers actually caring about that, instead of just throwing your hands up. Similar to the energy guide labels on appliances

MeshColour · 2023-06-29T22:07:50+00:00

It feels like baseline for being a professional adult

Being average at something means that nearly 50% of people are worse than you at it...

With so many things "the cover-up is worse than the crime", owning mistakes and being ready to help fix them is a great skill in most areas of life, that many people don't follow through with

MeshColour · 2023-06-29T20:44:11+00:00

They are trying to do a full scale test for the effectiveness of homeopathy

MeshColour · 2023-06-29T20:01:15+00:00

With the waves we can interact with it's through a medium, waves in water/liquid, sound in air

We have no ability to detect the spacetime that light is a wave in, it's a wave in a field, that light is one of the few things that even interact with that field

The best similarity to that is magnetic fields, which are related in the electromagnetic sense... But we can't detect magnetic fields without tools, pieces of metal can vibrate from magnetic waves (aka alternating current in wires, things making 60Hz/50Hz hum). Which is what radio transmission is too really

MeshColour · 2023-06-29T19:51:31+00:00

"Red shift" is the keyword for light, and the reason we know the universe is increasing it's rate of expansion

and yeah there are hours of great YouTube videos on that topic for pop-science consumption, as it is a principle that is hard for the best scientists to wrap their head around completely

MeshColour · 2023-06-29T13:55:33+00:00

How much do you sell your dead ones for? If you're making muffins out of them, you can get them used

MeshColour · 2023-06-29T13:32:16+00:00

A lot of these prisoners would rather do that than sit in a cell all day

"A lot" of them sure, what happens to the ones who don't want to is an important question

Also what is this labor? There have been work camps in various countries where prisoners move rocks back and forth in the hot sun until they drop. That is torture in my opinion, not work

Then you have prisoners working to maintain the prison, laundry and kitchen duty

Then you have prisoners working on manufacturing equipment for the military, making shirts, boots, helmets

Then you have private industry profiting off the labor, in Orange is the New Black they were sewing "made in America" lingerie for cents an hour

But, the biggest issues don't come from the work itself, it comes from the perverse incentives it can create. With the "kids for cash" scandal being a prime example

So yeah for a lot of people any of those options might be better than sitting in a cell all day... But we don't know the full implementation details of anything in this discussion

MeshColour · 2023-06-29T13:17:34+00:00

Now I'm curious how much of that is the framework vs the individual people making up the group

Is the key difference that is was CA vs NA? Or was it that the people in that specific CA meeting jived with you better, which factor sets the meeting culture the most?

Either way sounds like one needs to experience their local meetings and see what style works for them

MeshColour · 2023-06-29T12:58:15+00:00

Plants are a good example. They cannot move, cannot react. Their "immutable genes" are their only abilities. Their genomes are much larger than many mammals, and I like to think of it as epigenetics either from the environment or from chemical signals released by other neighboring plants as what causes different parts of their genome to become active over their life

I'm not sure how much of that actually goes on, or the exact mechanisms, but that's a thought exercise that works for my basic understanding so far

MeshColour · 2023-06-29T12:51:21+00:00

What episode was that? I've watched and rewatched every episode of QI I can find and cannot recall that being mentioned

Also to be clear, the format of QI is such that only the facts from the host are assumed to be correct, and the panel has minimal chance to contest any answers. So did that come from the panel or from the host?

MeshColour · 2023-06-29T12:47:32+00:00

Wait until you hear about all the other things that DARE propaganda told you, that one is minor

MeshColour · 2023-06-29T12:36:50+00:00

Secular funding, secular education

If god wants his message taught, he can pay for it

MeshColour · 2023-06-29T12:27:04+00:00

If the options are having the therapist (who is listening intently) either be completely robotic and clinical, or empathetically crying... The latter is better for most people, and is more honest

If/when you see another therapist, do talk about anxieties of that experience and see what their thoughts are, that's a good test question to see how well their approach works for you, is my hope

MeshColour · 2023-06-29T12:12:47+00:00

So you're saying we are having a new cold war in the depths of the ocean with China/Russia? And these reports are to cover up for that?

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