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  • dream_weasel@sh.itjust.workstoScience Memes@mander.xyzOnLy tWo eLemEnTs
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    14 days ago

    It is UNUSUAL for an element to not be either hydrogen or helium. There is nothing wrong with it. It is simultaneously totally OK, an ABSOLUTE MINORITY position, and notably UNUSUAL considering statistical evaluation.

    You can ascribe whatever meaning to that you want, but it is not a statistically typical position to be an element that is not hydrogen, not helium, and… Well… It’s also pretty unusual to have extra neutrons or something and be BETWEEN hydrogen and helium.

    Again, this is TOTALLY FINE. And it is accurate in other hypothetical contexts which are in no way being referenced here. These group sizes are still, of course, in no way the same.

    It’s not super uncommon to change from hydrogen to helium, but in other contexts… Yes it is. Still totally fine.

    Everybody is just getting along the best he/she/they can, but PEOPLE have rights, we don’t need to argue for rights by common-washing. It ain’t common.



  • Now enjoy a little bit of coasting before the next level drudgery begins!

    I miss the pre deposit days sometimes, but there was like 6 or 8 weeks after submitting where it just seemed like things were done and accounted for and that was kind of the best IMO.

    Edit:

    Oh shoot you said submitted and I was thinking deposited. Yeah you’re in for the shitty part next 😂. Just remember that your committee doesn’t know where the bodies are buried, only you do and it all still counts!


  • I seem to remember a not very fun regression for both my kids around that time.

    We used one of these from basically infant:

    https://a.co/d/cW41YpQ

    Sit in a comfy chair and bounce the kid until they pass out. Wait about 5 minutes to get solidly asleep, then transplant. One kid liked to have her brains scrambled with a pretty hard bounce, my son preferred a faster and shallower bounce.

    We went back and forth between that and just holding kids across our lap in the rocking chair until one of the positions knocked them out.

    Once they switched to toddler bed it was a simple matter of sitting by the bed and repeatedly laying them down until they got the point of bedtime. Consistency really matters though, every time you fight and fight and give in, the next time they fight even longer.

    Last bit of advice where I differ from my wife:

    If sleep isnt working, don’t force it. You’ll be an hour and a half into MAKING the kid go to sleep at 7p or 8p. Instead I prefer the same approach I used for my own sleep hygiene. If it isnt working in 20 minutes or half an hour but the time is not just an active yelling fight, go back to some quiet activities outside the bedroom for 15 or 20 mins and then try again. You can control when a kid wakes up, but you can’t force them to fall asleep.






  • I don’t think you can argue that it’s mathematically equivalent. Just because space and time become so spread that they are effectively meaningless is not the same as them having not meaningfully existed and then existing. Neither can you really say that since any baryons that have not decayed are so far apart none of them interact that they behave like the concentration of all matter in the known universe. At those scales of time I’m not even sure that there are any left.

    It’s like arguing that one tiny piece of something in one place is the same as all the matter and all of space and time being in one place: it’s I guess analogous but not equivalent. I will of course caveat and say that my undergrad physics degree did not cover end of the universe timelines lol. Kurzgesagt does have a video though.

    The cyclical universe approach as I understand it is predicated on an eventual big crunch which I don’t think is being argued anymore.







  • dream_weasel@sh.itjust.workstoScience Memes@mander.xyzCause and Effect
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    2 months ago

    Bro, come down out of your own asshole.

    Your real, no kidding argument is that this meme template best explains that people believe windmills cause cancer / vaccines cause autism / XYZ crazy thing is that the current state of education is * checks notes * “slave conditioning” and patents are being conspiratorially hidden for “emancipating technologies”? Really?

    This to you is a rational following of the discussion and context, not itself a wild non sequitur (note the spelling)?

    I don’t care what branch of philosophy you’re studying or what argument logic piques your interest because it just isnt relevant here. You’ve shoehorned an unrequested and unsubstantiated conspiracy theory into a post about people believing improbable and/or deranged things. And no, making your own footnote isnt a substantiation.

    You can’t “I am very smart” this into making sense, even by miscounting logical fallacies or trying to couch it as an epistemological discussion which this is not.

    Just… yikes.

    Edit: To save my own brain cells, I’m just going to laugh and block you. Considering you are having similar discussions with others in this thread, don’t take it from me, let me recommend “Fantasyland” by Kurt Andersen. I would specifically the middle and later chapters. Even if you don’t read it in a particularly introspective way, it’s a pretty interesting read / listen.

    Cheers


  • dream_weasel@sh.itjust.workstoScience Memes@mander.xyzCause and Effect
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    2 months ago

    Total sidetrack and total missing the point.

    I didn’t say “taxes are good” or “current education is good”.

    The problem I posed is that knowledge transfer is an essential skill and people who are bad at it are–I would suppose–both oblivious to it and easier to take advantage of.

    Edit: TBH your comment is so whacky and on your own terms I didn’t even read to the end section. It’s not even left field, it’s 2 counties over.

    Edit 2: Now I read it in full and, bro, that’s a bunch of potentially well meaning conspiratorial retardation. Just no.

    You are unfortunately, literally pictured in the OP meme with a veneer of “I’m 14 and this is deep”.