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- Comment on Why did Thanos, with the power of all the infinity stones, never think to try doubling the amount of resources in the world? 5 days ago:
Because his original motivation was to impress a girl he liked. Death is a hot chick that he was in to but she wasn’t interested in him. So he figured killing half of all life would impress her.
They decided to make his motivation more sympathetic for the movie. They didn’t think through how his new goal could be better served with the godlike powers he gets.
- Comment on Doing the same thing over and over again expecting different results is not the definition of insanity. It's the definition of practice. 4 weeks ago:
It’s terrible, wrong, and out of context. Einstein was talking about quantum mechanics not mental health. He really didn’t like that at the quantum level results are random but follow a very spefic probability curve.
He though quantum mechanics would be able to achive classical physics like results. Where the only uncertainty was because of measurement error.
quantum uncertainty is the most experimentaly proven theory in physics. So even in the context Einstein made the statement he was wrong.
- Comment on Kinky 5 weeks ago:
Wait till you learn about lobsters.
- Comment on Why doesn't Food Network do product placement in there shows? Would they not earn more money by a host saying I use this hot sauce name drop but you can use whatever? 1 month ago:
Product placement are the commercials in movies.
- Comment on Why doesn't Food Network do product placement in there shows? Would they not earn more money by a host saying I use this hot sauce name drop but you can use whatever? 1 month ago:
Because they don’t want to do anything to make brands not buy the spots during the episode.
So if an episode has product placement for pasta sauce A then pasta sauce B, C, and D don’t want to buy commercial spots for usually the entire run of the show.
It’s not set in stone but having it be that way for all your shows makes it easy to sell big blocks of commercial spots spread across the network.
- Comment on Why is the human body so incredibly bad at responding to colds? 1 month ago:
It’s rough but the other option is death. The cold would kill you if your immune system wasn’t doing this to you.
- Comment on Is there or has there ever been information illegal to possess or have? 1 month ago:
Or accessing it if you have a security clearance. I’m not allowed the look at any of the documents Snowden leaked. Because even though they are easily obtained they have not been declasified. I don’t have a need to know or the necessary SC.
- Comment on Too soon? 1 month ago:
He did say kids should see public executions.
“Death penalties should be public, should be quick, it should be televised. I think at a certain age, its an initiation…What age should you start to see public executions?” -Kirk
- Comment on What are some franchises with characters that personify countries? 1 month ago:
Hetalia: Axis Powers is this during WWII.
France (フランス, Furansu) is an overly-romantic, carefree man. In the series, he is shown to have a long-held rivalry with England. He makes sexual passes at many characters. France explains away his long history of military defeats as a joke from God, but he believes he is gifted with his “charms” and his supreme cooking skills.
- Comment on Linux Mint 22.2 “Zara” Is Now Available for Download 1 month ago:
At the time of myhardware upgrade it was only arch and nix that supported 6.14.
I’ve got mixed feelings about Fedora. I spent 10 years using a mix of Fedora, Red Hat, CEntOS, and Red Hawk at work so I’m very used to it.
However some of the decisions Red Hat the company have been making make me hesitant about it’s future. It also makes me feel like I’m at work when I use it at home.
It’s not a bad linux family at all and if I was setting up a production server CEntOS would probably be my choice.
- Comment on Linux Mint 22.2 “Zara” Is Now Available for Download 1 month ago:
Woohoo. After a hardware upgrade that requires kernel 6.14 or newer I’ve been stuck on arch. Time to breakout the old drive and try an upgrade.
- Comment on Use this science wisely. 1 month ago:
I spent way to much time thinking that was a pink slipper. The first two made sense but then I was lost.
- Comment on China turns on giant neutrino detector that took a decade to build 1 month ago:
Neutrinos are so hard to detect we don’t know much about them. So this can give us more information about how they act and interact. That leads to a better understand of physics in general.
For example the first solar neutrino detector only detected about 1/3 of what it should have based on how many the sun should be producing.
That in part lead to the discovery of neutrino oscillation. They change flavor between the three types. The sun produces one flavor but they have changed into all 3 by the time they get to Earth.
This may show us for example if there is any flavor asymmetry. Plus a general improvement in cosmology.
- Comment on Stranger Things Season 5 will be set in 1987 2 months ago:
Sure but that’s usually adult actors who are selected to look like a teenager. Not kids who look like adults now.
- Comment on Informative review 2 months ago:
It varies a lot. From sweet banana, to tomato based, to the original fish sauce.
- Comment on 👁️🐽👁️ 2 months ago:
Quit using up all the oxygen.
- Comment on YOU HAVE NO POWER HERE 2 months ago:
Not a dumb question. I think it’s because the Occipital lobe is an evolutionary old part of the brain. It’s right on top of the brain stem the oldest part.
The newer parts developed between the eyes and the older parts of the brain. Pushing the eyes forward. That’s my understanding but I might be wrong.
Hopefully if I am wrong someone jumps in and provides a correction.
- Comment on YOU HAVE NO POWER HERE 2 months ago:
No blind spot and better light detection. The light having to pass through the nerves causes a lot to be lost.
- Comment on YOU HAVE NO POWER HERE 2 months ago:
Cephalopod precursors evolved eyes and then brains developed from the eye so their eye is structured correctly.
Vertebrate precursors evolved the brian first and the eye evolved out the brain as a sensory stub. So it’s upside down and inside out like in picture.
The nerve cluster goes through the back of the eye splits and folds back to end in light receptors. Light hase to go through the nerves before hitting the sensor.
There is even a reflective layer after the sensors that gives the sensors a second chance at picking up the light. This is what causes the red eye or green eye you sometimes see in flash photography.
It would require a genetic rebuild to fix this and the intermediate steps evolution usually use would be so disadvantageous they are selected against. So the right combo of mutations to give us a working octopus eye is VERY unlikely to happen.
- Comment on The nuclear-powered submarine crisis 2 months ago:
The scrubber absorbs the CO2 it doesn’t break the O2 from the C. So H2O to H and O2 to CO2 to storage in the scrubber.
Here is a link to the various methods used for the steps. www.marineinsight.com/…/submarines-get-oxygen/
- Comment on The nuclear-powered submarine crisis 2 months ago:
Any sub could but only nuclear bother. They have the power generation to run the process and stay down long enough to need it.
Other subs run on batteries and need to surface to recharge. So making oxygen would reduce how long you can stay down not extend it.
- Comment on The nuclear-powered submarine crisis 2 months ago:
Subs have a big advantage in that they make their own oxygen from all the water around them.
- Comment on Why It's OK to Block Ads (2015) 2 months ago:
I remember the add that made me install my first add blocker. It stated playing the sound of knocking on glass and a voice going “Hey You!”. With a looped videoof some guy waving at me.
Every so often one gets through my blocker and they have only gotten more annoying.
- Comment on [Discussion] What is the most niche genre that you like? 2 months ago:
Truly strange other. For anime Blame (the city), and Knights of Sidonia (Gauna). Same author for both. Live action / novel Solaris. Babel-17 for some of the side aliens.
- Comment on [Discussion] What is the most niche genre that you like? 2 months ago:
Not anime but Rustlers Rhapsody is worth checking out.
- Comment on True art is polarizing 2 months ago:
It’s a companion piece to Fountain by Marcel Duchamp.
- Comment on About Star Trek Starfleet Academy blacklash 2 months ago:
It’s not that diversity is a negative. It’s a plus and a core part of Star Trek from the beginning. NuTrek has great diversity and terrible story telling that feels like it’s using the diversity as a crutch.
It’s like Ben and Arthur. I totally support the message that gay marriage should be allowed. However the movie is complete garbage because of how bad the story is told.
- Comment on About Star Trek Starfleet Academy blacklash 2 months ago:
Kurtzman is by all accounts a good person. He is however terrible at making good entertainment and a specially good Startrek.
- Comment on Makes sense 2 months ago:
I know of one instance. Pirate plundered a ship ruining a false flag. It was actually from a nation he was friendly with. Buried the treasurer in the hope they wouldn’t find out.
- Comment on Larry Ellison Just Quietly Became the Most Powerful Man in America 2 months ago:
Founder of ORACLE (one rich asshole called Larry Ellison). They are make the most used commercial database software.