TropicalDingdong
@TropicalDingdong@lemmy.world
- Comment on Science has gone too far 7 hours ago:
How do I order tiddy dog
- Comment on Oranges? In this economy? 2 days ago:
Right here
- Comment on Oranges? In this economy? 2 days ago:
That reminds me, if any ones needs more oranges, I’ve got a good deal:
- Comment on The Cosmic Owl: Astronomers discover a peculiar galaxy merger 2 days ago:
bipolar radio jet us stored in the balls
- Comment on Always there 2 days ago:
World War: The animated series
- Comment on “The models were right”: astronomers find ‘missing’ matter 2 days ago:
- Comment on America’s drone 9/11 is coming — and just like on 9/11, we aren’t ready 4 days ago:
I think you are misunderstanding the point. Swap out 9-11 moment with “watershed moment”.
A drone doesn’t need to be able to carry more than 500-1000g to be an incredibly effective tool of war, and it absolutely was, basically, consumer grade drones that Ukraine used.
And all in all, probably, the whole operation cost less than a single tomahawk cruise missile.
I made this point that the article is making here, a few months ago. The US military industrial complex has completely missed the mark on where modern warfare is going., and the US has spent trillions to build a system that can be challenged for billions.
- Comment on MIT researchers crack 3D printing with glass — new technique enables inorganic composite glass printed at low temperatures 5 days ago:
#JustMITthings
- Comment on And you can thank me for it 6 days ago:
- Comment on Why does Dairy Queen sell food? 6 days ago:
french fries and a blizzard is fucking fire
- Comment on Gen X and millennials three times more likely to be diagnosed with appendix cancer than their parents, study finds 1 week ago:
Isnt that kinda whats happening? Its on its way out and misbehaving along the way.
- Comment on Can you clear a straight line of malfunctioning pixels on a phone with a lighter? 1 week ago:
Obviously this won’t work.
But please try it anyway and report back.
- Comment on "Sad thing to be, nonsensical thing to want to be" 💔🥀💔🥀 1 week ago:
like… were a nation of immigrants. it’s part of your identity in the US.
- Comment on Strawberries are nuts 🍓 1 week ago:
Im not being anti intellectual. I simply have no patience for frauds masquerading their metaphysics as philosophy.
In the end you can’t argue the point on its merits and are just engaging in sophistry. So we’ll come back to the first: you don’t actually know what the periodic table of the elements is. You should stop pretending you have a point if you can’t make make it.
If you don’t understand the difference between metaphysics and philosophy, its probably best you did neither.
- Comment on Strawberries are nuts 🍓 1 week ago:
Neither of the two constructions you listed would result in a periodic table. You don’t this because you don’t actually know what a periodic table is. Try again.
To help you along, please explain to me: why the elements in the periodic table are ordered as they are? Or more readily, what determines the ordering of the periodic table? I’ll give you two huge hints, and a name to help you. Search the name Mendeleev, and orbital and proton.
Keep in mind, this argument I had was several proxy-arguments downstream of whether or not transwomen are women. So, be aware of what waters you’re treading into.
So your telling me that I need to be cautious of you derailing the conversation away from it’s original premise?
Isn’t the rejection of post-modernism like a very Jordan-Peterson–like thing to do?
And there we are.
No it’s a very Noam Chomskey thing to do. Jordon Peterson, like most fascists, draws largely on the principles of post-modernists. For all intents and purposes, he is one, in that he relies on the idea that truth and reality are relative to justify his arguments. I agree with Chomskey in his critiques of both post modernism and fascism, especially in their arbitrary use of language and sophistry to disguise the hollowness of their arguments.
That being said, i’ll be keeping you to the premise and the periodic table for this discussion. It need not go further.
If the ordering of the periodic table were arbitrary, it couldn’t be a periodic table. It is only a periodic table by this very reason. When ordering by orbital and atomic weight, Mendeleev not only came up with a diagram that effectively predicted all of the observable properties of the elements, but also predicted elements which were not yet known to human kind.
And therein lay the difference.
Imagine a person is coming up with a dictionary for English. And in a dream they came up with some alternative ordering. And in that alternative ordering, suddenly, they not only had a dictionary for English, cut also Farsi, and Cantonese. Every language became interpretable through this reordering. In fact, the ordering even predicted languages that were not yet known to the person who developed the order. But the order stated that they should be there, or at least be possible.
This is the difference.
- Comment on Strawberries are nuts 🍓 1 week ago:
Dude I understand what you think you are saying and you are quite simply wrong. You don’t understand what the periodic table is if you think it could be constructed in some other way or that it’s organization is arbitrary or subjective.
No wonder you got the piss taken out of your in that other place.
- Comment on Strawberries are nuts 🍓 1 week ago:
yeah. you don’t understand the periodic table.
- Comment on Strawberries are nuts 🍓 1 week ago:
I mean that’s a pretty big difference right?
Like, the periodic tables mapping isn’t arbitrary or alternate.
Like you can’t actually map the periodic a different way and it’s in a sense “self evident” in a way arbitrary mappings aren’t.
The periodic table itself is a kind of proof of quantum theory, or at least, strong supporting evidence. While it can be displayed differently, actually couldn’t be arranged differently and the things we know about physics hold true.
- Comment on NO KINGS! Tomorrow on Trump's birthday, we protest across the entire nation. Check the website for No Kings events near you! 1 week ago:
I think these are going to be far bigger than planned. Trumps lil’ crackdown in LA put a spotlight on it. Trumps obviously in the wrong. I would expect these to be 10-15 x bigger than the hands off protests.
I think we had maybe 2k in Honolulu?
I expect SIGNIFICANTLY more
- Comment on Uhh... 1 week ago:
You may not like it but this is what peak uh… performance …looks like.
- Comment on One major issue with social media is that it operates on a first come, first served basis. This essentially rules out the possibility of well-considered, well-researched content being successful. 1 week ago:
Instructions unclear, upvoted without reading.
- Comment on British passenger in seat 11A survives India plane crash, reports say 1 week ago:
Man of steel.
- Comment on Liberate Yourself 1 week ago:
- Comment on Peak male form 1 week ago:
#2 is packing.
- Comment on Wikipedia Pauses AI-Generated Summaries After Editor Backlash 1 week ago:
The wikipedia is already the processed food of more complex topics.
- Comment on p is for pHunky 1 week ago:
Oh we’re going to pHight today, is that it?
- Comment on I've hated donald trump since day one but then I saw this and thought.... 1 week ago:
headed down south past north carolin’
- Comment on It's where you put the shit posts 2 weeks ago:
see how windows gets thrown in the bin in the year 2000…
yeah…
- Comment on kiwis! 2 weeks ago:
Also, they tear up the forest floor like mad. It looks like the most destructive chicken has come through after a kiwi has been there.
- Comment on Trump bill set to add trillions to US debt pile – can America stop it climbing? 2 weeks ago:
The perpetual search for coherence in narratives that are basically fictional is a signal of worthless journalism.
The right and the Republicans have used this nonsense fiscal conservatism narrative as a cudgel for decades, while doing precisely the opposite. To engage with them seriously as if their words have merit makes you either a) a useful idiot, or b) controlled opposition, if not an outright cheerleader.
