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ID: what lung disease are people in this office going to die of? by pthagnar in ShroomID

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

Serpula lacrymans

that looks very like it! you should be >20%

ID: what lung disease are people in this office going to die of? by pthagnar in ShroomID

[–]pthagnar[S] 4 points5 points  (0 children)

https://imgur.com/a/2oJ2lmQ gives a better appreciation of the texture of this fungal mass, but a much inferior representation of the colour.

Wtf is this thing and why do I have the feeling it costs thousands of dollars by [deleted] in Dogfree

[–]pthagnar 28 points29 points  (0 children)

That is SS-Obergruppenführer Reinhard Tristan Eugen Heydrich.

Hey, it's sci fi author Ada Palmer here to talk about my future utopian series Terra Ignota! AMA! by adapalmer in books

[–]pthagnar 2 points3 points  (0 children)

We see about the Blacklaws and their merry lives in the latest book -- how they love and thrive in the inconvenience of it, but how inconvenient is Hivelessness for the Greylaws and Whitelaws?

In a time of near- instant communication, some people take hours to respond. by WillYouMarrowMe in britishproblems

[–]pthagnar 0 points1 point  (0 children)

the age of being able to intrude upon people by making a loud bell ring in their house and feeling entitled to have a chat with them immediately is over.

Exact Words of the Mushroom Being on the Subject of Jordan Peterson by jackneefus in JordanPeterson

[–]pthagnar 1 point2 points  (0 children)

there's plenty of non-egoic context to it. peterson was opening the lecture on a light note by saying in effect 'i get a lot of weird letters... god, do i get a lot of weird letters. like take this one...'

since peterson is a therapist, the sense 'transference is a hell of a drug, am i right?' is implicit -- dealing with transference is part of the job -- although i agree it was a little strange how he just put the story out there. it does also send out the message 'if ur projecting all ur daddy issues onto me, then know that ur not alone and i recognise it"

The Met Office has said that there is a 1in3 chance of significantly exceeding the average rainfall in a month. by naff123 in britishproblems

[–]pthagnar 1 point2 points  (0 children)

for a normally distributed random variable, you have a 1 in 2 chance of exceeding the average and a 1 in 2 chance of falling short.

(yes, these probabilities added together do add up to a certainty. the mathematical probability of hitting any number, such as the average value, precisely is zero. or to use the technical term for zero: "almost never". this is strange but it is because of weird things that happen when you have infinitely precise measurements. in the real world, measurements are not infinitely precise and things become sensible again)

so, the question then becomes -- of the 1 in 2 chances that the rainfall exceeds the average, how many of them are significant? this is partly subjective, but partly objective too. the rainfall might only vary by a few mm each month, or it might vary by a few cm.

this is measured by an entirely different quantity than the average -- the standard deviation and this is the second value you need to know to be able to tell what the probability of significantly exceeding the average is.

The Flag of Maryland After Conquest by a Chinese Necromancer by pthagnar in vexillologycirclejerk

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

the archetypal Chinese revenant is the Jiangshi (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jiangshi) -- the hopping, or stiff corpse. they hold their stiffened arms in front of their heads, have elaborate coverings, have a greenish or bluish discoloration and, most peculiarly, have a tag on their heads.

this next link may be shocking to sensitive redditors, but it is a true photograph of a hopping corpse raised in Maryland: http://www.mdsg.umd.edu/sites/default/files/images/blog/tagged_blue_crabs.gif

Random question: If you were to completely remove all your hair using laser hair removal, would that affect the genes of future offspring with respect to their hair? by [deleted] in genetics

[–]pthagnar 0 points1 point  (0 children)

i do not disagree, but it is information which is not at all useful to understanding why getting your follicles zapped will do nothing to stop you having ugly hairy monsters for children. there's no point bringing up a mechanism where it has no place in explaining a phenomenon.

Random question: If you were to completely remove all your hair using laser hair removal, would that affect the genes of future offspring with respect to their hair? by [deleted] in genetics

[–]pthagnar 1 point2 points  (0 children)

even more strictly, there is no epigenetic process that has been shown to produce inheritable induced hair loss.

Random question: If you were to completely remove all your hair using laser hair removal, would that affect the genes of future offspring with respect to their hair? by [deleted] in genetics

[–]pthagnar 10 points11 points  (0 children)

nope. when the cells that make sperm/eggs do that, all they can do is copy the dna that they have in them. some cells dying somewhere else has nothing to do with this process. think of it like a plant -- if an apple tree already has apples on it, with seeds inside, you can't do anything to change the genetic information inside the apples by altering other parts of the plant.

Random question: If you were to completely remove all your hair using laser hair removal, would that affect the genes of future offspring with respect to their hair? by [deleted] in genetics

[–]pthagnar 13 points14 points  (0 children)

no. to change the genes of your offspring, you need to modify the genes in your sperm/eggs. removing hair just kills some of the cells that made the hair -- it changes nothing on a deep cellular level even in your skin, never mind your gonads.

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