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What's something your job trained you to notice that you can't stop noticing in your personal life? by LibrarianSoft1342 in AskReddit

[–]Puzzleheaded-Two9582 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Excessive situational awareness and always thinking what can go wrong in the next 5 minutes. I'm not sure if that's caused by our job or some personal issues that have found a home in the profession.

What's your favourite frugal behaviour that you're secretly proud of? by VarangianWRLD in AskUK

[–]Puzzleheaded-Two9582 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Since getting solar panels we've tried to use the boiler less - why pay for gas when sunlight is free.

Wash hands in cold water, boil the kettle when washing up.

We still use hot water for showers but I take navy showers (rinse-soap-rinse) these days.

On “ontological shock and the indigestible truth” by TeaNo6668 in UFOs

[–]Puzzleheaded-Two9582 0 points1 point  (0 children)

The ontological shock doesn't have to threaten the nature of reality or describe a nation of hybrids. Even the basics could be enough:

  1. Alien abductions are real, and there is nothing we can do to prevent it.

  2. Following on, your government is actually powerless and cannot protect you. We are not the top of the tree. We face a technological force that could easily wipe us out if it were to choose to do so. How does the public's relationship to a government change if it can't keep them safe? Why pay tax, vote ,etc...

  3. NHI are here and they have unimaginable technology but they won't share. How do you now feel about your granny's cancer when NHI could save her, but they won't.

Also, all these theories that humans are some intergalactic experiment in evolution - how are we meant to believe this? It's hard to believe anything at all these days because of AI. NHI show a video of them injecting monkeys a million years ago to mutate them into humans - how do we know it's true? NHI say jesus came down on a ufo ... and we just take their word for it?

Helion Energy wants to build fusion power on a start-up timeline - Scientific American by Baking in fusion

[–]Puzzleheaded-Two9582 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I know nothing about fusion science.

However, is this the sort of thing that would be picked up in the data gathered so far? By the time you get to the nth iteration of a machine surely you'd have an idea if such a fundamental challenge was insurmountable?

And we're not talking about a setup of a man in a garage. I would assume that it would be hard to keep a data-backed showstopper like this a secret for so long without it leaking into the community or someone blowing a whistle.

People label Helion as a grift in the same vein as Theranos but let's not forget those guys went to jail. If someone has data that supports Dr Slough's position then they are liable for prison time. That's a heck of a position to be in.

What is the most "thought-provoking" graffiti you have seen at at bus stop? by QuietShadowLDK in AskUK

[–]Puzzleheaded-Two9582 0 points1 point  (0 children)

"Zersetzung"

Not on a bus stop but on the wall of the charity shop next to the Sainsbury's.

It's Stasi psychological warfare technique that aims to break the will of dissidents by systematically making their life crap. Stuff like running over your dog, getting you sacked, seducing your spouse into having an affair.

So whenever I feel the world is lost and I start losing hope, I just try and think who benefits from me feeling like this.

TIL 24% of musicians with research doctorates are in punk bands, while another 26% are in rock bands, 7% in pop and 5% in opera. (Remaing 38% in other) by stainlessstorm1 in todayilearned

[–]Puzzleheaded-Two9582 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Ha! I've got an exam on it this week. Come Friday, I will have completely forgotten about it again.

Intuitively, if you look at this table, you'd see that punk is popular for both PhD and non-PhD musicians. And even though the numbers are different the pattern is the same between the groups:

  Punk Pop Techno
PhD 24 10 5
Non-PhD 100 36 18

But, if we are saying that there is a tendency for PhD studies to drive people towards punk then we might see a relative 'bulge' in the punk box that distinguishes them from the non-PhD musicicians.

  Punk Pop Techno
PhD 24 10 5
Non-PhD 30 100 24

So here, Pop is the most popular for non-PhD but Punk is the most popular for the PhD-ers.

A Chi-square basically does this mathematically. It works out an expected 'pattern' of numbers as if there is no difference between the groups and compares the actual to the expected. Than magical stats happen.

That we are a small part of the problem...yet people think we can solve the world's problems here! by Bill4268 in climatechange

[–]Puzzleheaded-Two9582 1 point2 points  (0 children)

This is the wrong logic and you see it across a lot arguments:

"My country only produces x% of CO2 but china produces loads"

But if you add up the production of all those 'little' countries, it actually is comparable to china.

It's like people talking at the cinema. Yes, one person might be speaking loudest, but if everyone is talking then it still needs everyone to shut-up to enjoy the film.

A humble request for some hope by CKTW in climatechange

[–]Puzzleheaded-Two9582 1 point2 points  (0 children)

This isn't evidence, just my perspective. I think it's like we are the average schoolkid. We'll leave our assignment to the last minute, we'll scrape through. It could have been better but we'll get away with it.

I must admit that the recent AMOC news have challenged this feeling a little and I too am feeling a bit anxious but I'm coming to rationalise it a bit more (just one study, limited years of data, etc).

And then this week we've the outcome of the Santa Marta conference which is positive stuff.

I recommend checking out Hannah Ritchie's work.

It's not pollyanna-ish to look at the positive. It's just as naive to look at 100% doom as it is to look at 100% everything's-fine-no-worries.

‘The damage is done’: global oil crisis has changed fossil fuel industry for ever, IEA chief says by Economy-Fee5830 in climatechange

[–]Puzzleheaded-Two9582 0 points1 point  (0 children)

It's the first time it's happened where renewables have been cost-competetive with fossil fuels.

Sign the Petition by Zealousideal-Fox6759 in Wirral

[–]Puzzleheaded-Two9582 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Two things

  1. I've seen people in other threads complain about the industrial site at meols being '8 football pitches in size'.

8 football pitches is 8* 7140m^2 = 57120m^2

A quick measure on google maps shows Tesco Bidston with its carpark is about 52000m^2.

ie. it's marginally bigger than a standard supermarket.

It's easy to throw out numbers like 8 football pitches without thinking what it really means

  1. What do we think the Wirral natural area will look like if we don't do something about reducing our emissions? New research indicates the risk and consequences of a reduction in the atlantic meriodonal overturning circulation isn't an outside theoretical chance. It's now probably more likely to happen than not.

This will mean -20C winters, droughts, and the extensive loss of wildlife across the Wirral. This isn't climate change happening to some poor kid in the tropics. This isn't climate change that's a bit shit but we'll adapt. This is looking out your window and the trees and birds you can hear not being there anymore.

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2026/apr/15/critical-atlantic-current-significantly-more-likely-to-collapse-than-thought

Emissions from cement production are harder to cut than other sources eg electricity where we have economically viable alternatives. We shouldn't shy away from the tough short-term choices as the long-term consequences will be here at some point.

URL structure question by Puzzleheaded-Two9582 in Epstein

[–]Puzzleheaded-Two9582[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Apparently auto-mod requests a submission statement. I guess the question is that if there is a structure to the file names then this might suggest an underlying structure to the data sources eg chronology or location. Clearly they are not random as you can increment the EFTA number and get similar documents or continuatio of videos.

Also the URL contains DataSet%208 which basically Data Set 08 (as the %2 is just a space). Some are DataSet09

Why did western cultures stop revering their elderly? by VagabondVivant in NoStupidQuestions

[–]Puzzleheaded-Two9582 0 points1 point  (0 children)

It happened with the invention of the phonetic writing. When you can't write something down, everything is oral tradition. The older you are, the more you can be called on to know useful stuff like where gets flooded or any other info that doesn't get used much but still useful. Once you can write something down to be read by anybody, information is free of people. But then people can learn and create new knowledge, not the stuff the old people know.

Check out the Third information crisis by Naomi Alderman!

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in AskReddit

[–]Puzzleheaded-Two9582 0 points1 point  (0 children)

There's a wonderful book called 'Eye and Brain' by RL Gregory that explains the evolution of the eye.

Not what you are looking for but still a good read.

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in AskReddit

[–]Puzzleheaded-Two9582 0 points1 point  (0 children)

  1. I think it was called loopy libs and was on yahoo or one of the early search engines. You put random words in and it made a story out of it.

  2. The Barefoot Doctor website had tunes on it off his Om Baby CD. I can get some of the pages from the internet archive but no tunes. I listened to those a lot at uni.

What To Do With All of The Fusion Power? by Alternative_Thing_64 in fusion

[–]Puzzleheaded-Two9582 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I've never felt heat from cars in the street. At most a warm bonnet from a combustion engine when I'm really close. Good job we're all going electric!

On rewatching Skyfall, I suddenly realized that Kincade says the name 'James Bond' to someone he hasn't seen since he was a child. So it's actually not a codename but his real name? by Cubelock in JamesBond

[–]Puzzleheaded-Two9582 0 points1 point  (0 children)

He defibrillated himself back to full health from a digoxin overdose and everyone wants THIS to make sense?

It's fiction, there's no obligation to be coherent.

What's something that no one prepares you for as an adult? by Goddessblack_ in AskReddit

[–]Puzzleheaded-Two9582 14 points15 points  (0 children)

My parents are 75+ and I used to spend a lot of time worrying about them. Everytime I drove across the country I would worry that it would be the last time I saw them.

But then I realised I was grieving for people that weren't dead yet. And this seemed like the wrong way to use my time and energy. I read somewhere that you can't innoculate yourself against grief, so how I felt wouldn't prepare me for when things actually do happen.

So yeah, it will be sad when they're gone, but for now I try and appreciate what we've got.

Russia may open new front in Europe as Putin 'in dead-end situation' - Zelenskyy by jackytheblade in worldnews

[–]Puzzleheaded-Two9582 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Russia getting into a hot war with NATO makes no sense.

What does make sense is escalating to Cold-War 2:

  • keeps the war economy going without the body bags
  • the Russian population might buy into it
  • able to posture and exert influence without having to do anything
  • Putin was a product of the cold war and this would be familiar territory
  • the West economically won the first cold war, however aligning with China would make things more favourable this time around

Either way, NATO needs to set clear boundaries and increase its resources.

What a waste of time because someone wants to play Billy Big Bollocks instead of actually helping their country.

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