Gustephan
@Gustephan@lemmy.world
- Comment on spidermanpointing.jpg 1 day ago:
(Sorry if this was a joke that went over my head and not an earnest question)
Afaik its a strategy to scare off predators. The general idea goes like… predators dont want to get stung --> predators less likely to eat wasps --> fly pretends to be wasp --> predator less likely to eat fly for fear of being stung. en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mimicry here is a Wikipedia page if you feel like reading a much better longer description written by people who know a whole shitload more about biology than I do.
- Comment on 5 tomatoes 2 days ago:
You count up in incremental numbers until you reach 5280 and then finally increment from 0 to 1 miles. That’s base 5280. Just because we didnt invent more symbols to easily represent that does not mean its not a different numeric base.
- Comment on 5 tomatoes 2 days ago:
Did you read the words I wrote? It looks like youre responding to a “imperial units are better than metric” strawman which you may notice I didnt say or even allude to
- Comment on 5 tomatoes 2 days ago:
This comment brought to you by a complete and fundamental misunderstanding of what it means to use a different base numeral
- Comment on 5 tomatoes 2 days ago:
Imagine being so close minded and bad at math that you can only think in base 10 and feel the constant need to degrade people who are good at math in different bases
- Comment on The planet still belongs to the dinosaurs. 1 week ago:
Idk about yall but I am better than a stegosauraus. Im social (allegedly), intelligent (allegedly), and my thagomizer is magnificent (undeniably)
- Comment on i 💚 animals. 1 week ago:
This is a shit take. The meme is showing two different stereotypes of college freshman. There is not a qualitative difference between the “hard” sciences and the others; the biologists climatologists and psychologists I’ve known all adhere to the same scientific method and mathematical rigor I learned getting my handful of grad and postgrad degrees in physics math and compsci. The only real difference I’ve seen is that “soft” sciences tend to work on problems with more stochastic moving parts, making them harder to understand on average. They’re not easier, you’re just ignorant of the complexity and too arrogant to consider the expertise and accomplishments of others.
- Comment on i 💚 animals. 1 week ago:
I have literally designed and implemented aircraft parts based on inspiration I got listening to somebody infodump about an animal they were studying. Learn the things other people care about. It will make you better at what you care about and probably a better person in the process
- Comment on Gotta Smash 1 week ago:
I still vote we do it. Guaranteed Nature publication for whoever figures out the infrastructure required to pull it off
- Comment on Finish the story, chat. 1 week ago:
(…) of uniform density in a neutral vacuum.
- Comment on What strategy would you use to estimate the number of hazelnuts 1 week ago:
Vibes. I look at it and try to guess and submit a number within 5 or 10 seconds. It may not be as accurate but I feel like I get more benefit training my ability to estimate at a glance than I do training my ability to do math and spatial reasoning assisted by math. Im already really good at math and math assisted spatial reasoning
- Comment on YOLO 2 weeks ago:
“Unsolvable” integral? Analytical math in shambles
- Comment on irl shiny 2 weeks ago:
Context tells me that was probably a joke, but if youre actually having trouble spraying palmetto bugs try spraying them with windex. They actually breath through their carapace, and the surface tension of windex makes it so they almost immediately stop getting oxygen --> stop moving. Gruesome, but you stop thinking about that the first time you wake up to one of those fuckers in your bed
- Comment on Make it make sense 2 weeks ago:
www.mdpi.com/2076-3417/11/9/4278
TLDR: modeling traffic as a gas leads to fairly accurate predictions. If that doesnt mean anything to you, here’s a decent visualization of how gasses move around in a system. In this analogy, each of the gas particles models a car on the road. youtu.be/Hr5Baj3lXFA
- Comment on 2hot2handle 2 weeks ago:
Indeed, the behaviour does need to be examined. You are actively confusing that examination if you are inaccurate when calling out the behaviour (again, with no intention of defending the situation in the OP, purely disagreeing with your “I dont care about being accurate when calling people out” statements)
- Comment on 2hot2handle 2 weeks ago:
It’s not about making a value judgement on a person, its about calling out a specific behaviour. As a thought experiment, would you have engaged with me if I came at you like “you’re an idiot” (making a value judgement on you as a person) rather than specifically addressing the behaviour you exhibited that I disagree with?
To be clear, I have no negative opinions of you and I absolutely do not think you’re an idiot. That was posed purely as a hypothetical to illustrate the difference in communication effectiveness between making a value judgement about a person and addressing a specific behaviour.
- Comment on 2hot2handle 2 weeks ago:
Yes, it would. It’s also not related to the comment I replied to, in which you stated that you dont care about being accurate when calling somebody out. My point is that you should care about accuracy when youre calling out bad behaviour, I’m not trying to defend Mr “actually it would be spontaneous” from the image
- Comment on 2hot2handle 2 weeks ago:
You kinda should. The entire value of shaming people is to show a person that somebody else or a group of somebody elses do not approve of their behaviour. If you dont care about being accurate in calling out antisocial behaviour, how do you think the person expressing said antisocial behaviour will understand that interaction? Do you think they’ll be able to understand what they did wrong? Obviously thats not always relevant, some people just want to mudwrestle and they’ll never hear you no matter what you say. It’s worth it to be accurate in case they are the type of person who might remotely consider your words though
- Comment on I'll take care of it Alfred 2 weeks ago:
- Comment on Let's put ice in the wine and chocolate in the hummus 2 weeks ago:
Image both sides of the original meme are wrong, cmv
- Comment on These gender reveals are getting rather ridiculous.. 2 weeks ago:
If this thing is emitting light that appears blue to you, you’re about to have a monumentally bad time
- Comment on BECOME THE INTELLECTUAL BLADE 2 weeks ago:
What’s the difference between a phd mathematician and a large pizza?
The pizza can feed a family of four.
- Comment on Let's hear it, little lemmings. 2 weeks ago:
Curie three times. Her work was so groundbreaking that she got name recognition on the same level as the rest of them as a woman in the late 1800s. Based on my experiences with modern women in stem, I’d expect she worked way harder to get where she did than any of the rest of them and as such I’d expect her insight to hold a lot more value. I’d pick Pierre too if he was also on the list
- Comment on W̶̊ͅe̴͔̕ ̵̬̇à̵͙ř̷̥e̸̛̬ ̵̯̓t̸̛̩h̴̗͑ę̴͌ ̸̭͊s̴̼̆i̸̠͐m̴̩̄ũ̴ͅḻ̵͛ä̴͎́ṱ̶͛í̶̢ö̴͎ň̶̺.̴̗̄ ̷͔͛ 4 weeks ago:
This is what happens when you use regex to parse [X]HTML
- Comment on Caption this. 4 weeks ago:
Beware! Refracted sunlight causes the nefarious gay agenda to appear. Always stares directly into the sun when outside to minimize your chances of viewing EVIL GAY REFRACTED SATANLIGHT
- Comment on Every year, sanctions kill more people than wars 5 weeks ago:
You went further than I did haha. I formed my opinion after reading the title of post and the “Between 2010 and 2021” at the beginning of the preview, then skimmed the article to see if I was off base. I’ve spent enough of my life trying to get/maintain grant funding from fascists to know what it means when the data is that blatantly cherrypicked.
- Comment on Every year, sanctions kill more people than wars 5 weeks ago:
Notice how the study conveniently cuts off right before the meat grinder that is the Russia Ukraine war started. I’d imagine the methodology of the study disproves the conclusion they made if you don’t cherrypick the data. I wonder who would benefit from doing an obviously bunk study to convince people think that sanctions are worse than wars?
- Comment on Nine out of 10 nurses in England, Wales and Northern Ireland reject pay award 1 month ago:
Yeah turns out two years of above inflation pay rises dont make up for 40 or 50 years of wage stagnation. Fucking wankers
- Comment on [deleted] 1 month ago:
I just block that community. Not like out of malice or anything but it prevents me from commenting on a post without looking at the comm name. I try to make a habit of not spending time in places where I am not welcome
- Comment on bad board games 1 month ago:
My first speeding ticket happened during college. I had to take a few weeks driving course, cut luxuries out of my life for a month, and pick up extra shifts at my job for a month to handle it. It was an overall miserable experience.
My next speeding ticket happened while I was an engineer. I literally paid it off on my phone while the officer was doing paperwork on the side of the road AND gave them an extra $100 because I could do that instead of any kind of driving course. I stopped caring about it at all 10 minutes later. It was fucking wild to see “laws are only for the poors” in action like that
