Explosive decompression

Doubly backwards

This video by Steve Mould shows this with wavey acrylic designed to project an image using caustics:

https://youtu.be/wk67eGXtbIw

See? Homeopathy works

According to Bell’s Theorem, there can’t be any hidden variables causing quantum unpredictability, so there can be nothing “under the surface” controlling it.

Does that remove pfas, though?

Or plasma which you can donate more often

Veritassium ignores a bunch of stuff in that video and hand-waves it away.

I only hear about his videos from other, better channels that correct his mistakes. He’s dead to me ever since that “faster than light” electricity video where he didn’t once use the word induction and made it sound super mystical. Fuck that guy with a thousand meters of wire.

Here’s the video I saw on it. Anyone watching the Veritassium video should watch this after:

https://youtu.be/8Ks680LaL-Q

Or better yet, find a different video on the relativistic movement of electrons and electron holes in wires, and how it causes magnetism. I don’t have one handy.

It’s a really bad sign when half of his videos need corrections by other channels. Sure, you could say they’re just riding on his popularity, but the fact that he needs corrections is the problem.

If technology survived, it wasn’t a Carrington event.

mbappe effect

You read dozens of articles and aren’t even close to spelling his name right?

You just cut his name into a thousand pieces and there’s blood everywhere.

Yeah, I was focused on science questions since this is a science questions community. It’s not universal advice.

In English we can use “How”.

The answer to the question, “How did this evolve?”, is the same as the answer to a non-teleological “why”. People just need to learn to use “how” because “why” is such a loaded word.

When using “how” in this sense and “why” in the non-teleological sense, they have the exact same meaning (at least to my ear), but then the “how” version isn’t ambiguous.

If I say to myself, “How did this evolve?”, the question feels good. It feels clear, and my mind leaps into thinking about the function of the mineral in the body and the chain of evolutionary steps that could have caused it.

If I say to myself “Why did this evolve?”, I just can’t get the teleology sense of the word out of my head. If someone didn’t want a teleological answer, why did they say “why” when “how” is clearly better? So I assume they mean why.

I feel like even if I answered their question, the next one would be, “Yeah, but why?” Making me feel like I wasted my time explaining the “how”.

But that’s all that can be said. Life is random. There is no “why”. The body uses zinc because it can.

I’ve heard that it’s an impossible task. That to actual measure quantum gravity you’d need tiny masses closer than the Planck length to each other.

This is my favorite Sting interview.

https://youtu.be/gKFGK-ZE0HE

Damnit, that makes me sad. I was better off being ignorant.

Still, I guess they’re just dumb little insects. What should I care? It helps all the spiders that hang out near lights to catch them.

The cell isn’t a machine.

What do you mean by this? I feel like you think the meaning is obvious after everything you’ve said, but it’s not.

Even if we accept that everything you said is true, all it means is that the cell is a very, very complex machine. More complex than current models account for. It’s just chemistry, after all. The chemicals behave in predictable fashion or else life wouldn’t be possible at all. Molecules moving around, transforming, causing other molecules to transform, etc, etc, to turn food into shit and babies. You can always use the word “machine” to describe that, no matter how complex it is. Just like the word “algorithm” can be used to describe the function of code no matter how complex it is, whether it’s a simple path finding algorithm, or the newest machine learning one.

But I probably shouldn’t use the word “function” because that implies purpose, and, as you say, no part of the chemistry of life has purpose. I hope you can detect my snark. That’s a pretty lame argument that’s philosophical at best. The purpose of the machinations of the cell is to maintain life and reproduce. No mater how many times you say it, your words won’t change the fact that that is the purpose of the chemistry of life.

You’ve twisted around the word “purpose” in your head until it has no useful meaning. Nonsense. A molecule can many overlapping, hard to discern purposes. That does not mean it doesn’t have a purpose.

Your title is literally putting down commerce and you accuse me of projection? I don’t think you know what projection means.

You probably don’t even know what commerce means.

Wow. Good luck building your stick cabin in the woods all by yourself and growing and foraging all your food because you refuse to trade your labor for produce from a farmer because that would be evil commerce.

Prove it. :-P

Property mgmt company changed without our input

You think you deserve input on what property manager your landlord chooses to run their property? Know your place, peasant.

No, for real. It’s ridiculous to think you’d have any input on that.