NielsBohron

@NielsBohron@lemmy.world

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨No phones, no emails, just living in the moment⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  I wouldn’t have characterized The Princess and the Frog that way. In that movie, the protagonists learn to be happy despite being frogs, not because they are frogs. Being frogs throws them together and forces them to get to know one another, but their happy ending comes once they become human again (and the point of the movie is about working tirelessly to achieve their dreams, not removing themselves from society)

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨No phones, no emails, just living in the moment⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Unbothered. Moisturized. Happy. In My Lane. Focused. Flourishing.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What's the best super nintendo game based on a movie? and why is it alien 3?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Aladdin is right up there, too

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Feral Science⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I do live the feeling of disorientation I got from the first book. The whole thing felt like I was in a fever dream and I was never sure if I was losing my mind or it was the book.

  Of course a big chunk of that could be the sleep deprivation that came with having 2 kids under two at the same time as reading the book.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Max Planck⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  That’s because you’re thinking of it like a distance, but matter at that scale actually behaves more like a standing wave that only has discrete solutions.

  Or at least that’s how I think about electrons and Schrodinger’s equation. I dunno, I only teach about stuff that’s as small as an electron, but it’s a useful tool for thinking about quantum numbers, so I assume it applies to smaller matter, too.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Stress⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I don’t know that you’re wrong, because those MD/PhD programs are exceptionally demanding (but are a good way to avoid med school debt for some). It’s more that even for pure MD’s, research is a very, very different career path than practicing physician. I think researchers still have to go through residency, but after that they’re mostly designing and arranging clinical trials, writing grants, interacting with related university departments, etc.

  So, you know, research stuff rather than patient stuff.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Stress⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  There are medical researchers that have MD’s, but they are not practicing physicians (usually). There are MD/PhD programs that are aimed toward medical research fields (usually with the PhD being in biology or chemistry as you mentioned), and lots of biological and biomedical engineers working on certain medical fields as well (especially using stem cells and other chemical cues to regrow tissues). So yeah, biology- and physiology-adjacent sciences are where most of the actual advances are happening.

  Actually practicing medicine is basically like being a mechanic that specializes in keeping one particularly poorly designed piece of equipment running.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Stress⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I’m aware of and support her current work and I agree that she’s much smarter than her public persona would lead people to believe. However, she still comes from a place of unbelievable privilege and telling people to “stop being desperate” is incredibly tone deaf, IMO.

  Two things can be true at the same time.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Stress⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  “Stop Being Desperate” has a real “Let them eat cake” feel, especially coming from her.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Stress⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  As someone who teaches chemistry to premeds, this is not surprising at all. To make a swing generalization, premeds, med students, and the MDs they become are done if the most entitled, condescending, and obvious people I’ve ever met.

  There are exceptions of course, but in general, I can’t stand most premeds or how our culture puts MDs on a pedestal.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨hard to argue with⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Believe me, I’m all for using religious imagery when it’s appropriate for getting the point across. However, the whole point of OP’s statement is lost if it’s not made clear that religion itself is the primary source of this evil. Otherwise, “It’s always the Devil who tries to convince everyone that he speaks for God,” could just as easily mean “my god is right and yours is the devil.”

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨hard to argue with⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Fair point, but using ambiguous religious language to convey the dangers of religion seems a bit open to misinterpretation, imo.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨hard to argue with⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I’d remove the religious implications and say “it’s always those who are most convinced they have a monopoly on Truth who are most dehumanizing to the out-group”

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Appropriate.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Smart⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Once I got past the first few paragraphs, all I learned from that is that I don’t understand the Poincare conjecture or really anything about topology

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Jack and Coke⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  In all honesty, I think it’s likely a simple mistake.

  The object that artists use to hold their paints is actually a third homophone, spelled palette.

  It could be that the word choice was intentional and is referencing the character’s bed, but I find it more likely that it was simply lost in translation from the original Japanese

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Jack and Coke⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  That’s just the synesthesia talking.

  … But you’re not wrong

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Jack and Coke⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s always worthwhile to be self-aware and to be conscious of the parts of your personality that others might be annoyed by or take offense to. I’m not going to change that part of my personality just to please others, but I don’t think it’s annoying to acknowledge that others might not appreciate that part of who I am.

  But hey, you do you. If being your authentic self means not caring about how your words affect the feelings of others, then that’s just who you are, I guess.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Jack and Coke⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  blown out pallet palate

  FTFY. A pallet is a small bed or an object used for carrying things, a palate is part of the mouth or one’s ability to taste things. Pretty pedantic,I know, but I have this compulsion to correct misused homophones, so… Sorry? You’re welcome? Either way, have a great day!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨A horse walks into a trial⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Don’t threaten me with a good time…

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Halen⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I’ve got a van, van, van…

  I’m hot for teacher

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Statistics⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Yes, thank you for making the same point the other poster had already made.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Statistics⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Gotcha. I knew they had spread from Alaska to Panama, so I thought they’d moved into Eurasia as well

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Statistics⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Where do you live that there are cows but not coyotes? I thought coyotes were more or less a worldwide nuisance anywhere rural enough to have cattle.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The lion is clearly an algorithm for Persia⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Maybe it’s because I’ve become a pretty outspoken anti-theist, but after growing up and being exposed to better theological and philosophical arguments, I’ve come to the conclusion that Lewis is an overrated hack.

  And yes, the Silent Planet books were absolute torture to get through.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Rover⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  On a Saturday morning, no less.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Images leak of Valve's next game, and it's an Overwatch-style hero shooter⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I’m inclined to agree with you, but Valve doesn’t often miss

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨After announcing increased prices, Spotify to Pay Songwriters About $150 Million Less Next Year⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I have tons of playlists and saved music on spotify; how is Tidal at importing data from other services? It’s not really a deal breaker, but I’m really picky about my music (so I don’t really care about “radio” features or curated playlists), so it’d be a real pain in the ass to start from scratch.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Academic Rizzlers⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Thank you. Let’s not forget that at it’s root, “meme” just means “imitated thing” and is just an idea that can be communicated from one consciousness to another. It’s a scientific concept, defined by a term coined by an evolutionary biologist to describe the way that ideas move through a culture/society. Memes are not new and have likely been around in some form since before spoken or written language existed

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Take-Two Interactive shuts down the Studios behind Kerbal Space Program and Rollerdrome⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s sad to see the sequel get abandoned like this.

  Especially when KSP has had such an active and vibrant community for a decade