Ashy

It’s pretty neat.

Perfect example of why awards are useless.

I would stop using lemmy.

How can you forget that the hose is still connected to your car when you drive off?

I think the key step here is to not remember it.

Something not defined as a chicken would have to lay an egg that hatched something defined as a chicken at some point. Otherwise we couldn’t have chickens.

Yep. But at least with our current definition of what a “species” (roughly a group of organism that can interbreed and have fertile offspring), that’s not possible.

If some not-chicken would lay an egg that hatches a chicken, that chicken would have nothing to breed with. It would basically be a genetic defect that makes it infertile.

So set it to only display results from X past years.

Yes!

how would we measure a never ending number?

You’re talking about maths, maths is theoretical. Measuring is physics.

In the real world you eventually would have to measure the atoms of the ink on your paper, and it would get really complicated. Basically … you can’t exactly meassure how long it is because physics gets in the way (There is an entire BBC documentary called “How Long is a Piece of String” it’s quite interesting).

That has been suggested for at least 2 decades now …

None of these crafts can go to mars … so all these langauges are bad? Or what is this trying to say? I don’t get it.

No, they pronounce it correctly.

But the political positions aren’t even coloured at all? It’s blue for men and red for women.

Tim Minchin is amazing.

but we can say that at some point some proto-chicken ancestor laid an egg that was different enough genetically that it counts as a chicken

This is not correct. At no point can the offspring in a single generation be differnet enough to be called a different species.

What we call “species” are just current snapshots of time. Species only make sense in a narrow timeframe. In reality things change very slowley over a large amount of time and there a no clear transition points.

If we count it as a chicken egg only, then it depends on if you describe a chicken egg as “an egg laid by a chicken” or “an egg that could hatch into a chicken”.

I think we watched the same youtube video on the topic!

The concept of “eggs” is way, way older then chickens. Fish lay eggs. So in this case, it’s definitly the egg that came first.

You can dig deeper, but eventually you end up on the what is a “chicken egg” and a “chicken” … which means you have to deal with taxonomy. And well, it’s just made up… so that doesn’t really lead anywhere.

So I say it’s the egg. final answer.

you can hear it muddled in water

Because you’re ears evolved to hear sound in air. It’s an interface problem, not a transmission problem. Same with speakers and microphones, they are designed to be used in air.

So if you want to actually hear the sound, stick with air.

If you just want to transmit some information via sound, a dense solid like a metal will give you the best speed and distance.

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When did they give up? Lemmy is literally crawling with people that won’t shut up about linux.

That’s not an argument for banning nicotine in general. That’s an argument for banning smoking in public indoor places, which I think is already the case in most countries.