rowinxavier
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- Comment on FediForum Has Been Canceled 3 weeks ago:
none of these transphobic losers who use autism to attack trans people even gives a flip about people
Ftfy
- Comment on Job related: Am I being stupid? 2 months ago:
I would recommend looking for sources that scratch that learning itch independently of your doctors and other staff. Podcasts are a great option and can really deepen and broaden your knowledge without requiring lucky exposure to patients with a given issue.
One podcast family is the microbe.tv group, shows like This Week in Virology, Immune, and This Week in Paracitism.
I would also recommend This Podcast Will Kill You, this one is really fun and has very good deep dives into awesome medical topics.
Once you have your own educational material you can make your decision with no specific tie to your workplace for getting your education.
- Comment on [deleted] 2 months ago:
This is heavily medicalised but yes, this is better than basically anyone from a conservative background could hope for. There is a lot of misinformation out there and it is easy to find an echo chamber that would support rejecting you, so keeping in line with his current sources is a good idea.
- Comment on Is it possible to get/train a carrier pigeon today? 2 months ago:
So yes, they are still possible to train and use, are in active use (for example in photography for rafting), and there are RFC standards relating to internet over carrier pigeon. Also, they are actually favourable compared with ADSL so yeah, a legitimate possible option for some cases.
- Comment on I still don’t think companies serve you ads based on spying through your microphone 3 months ago:
And a much smaller footprint. It could even be binary data for tweaking your algorithmic profile, say the name of a branded product or in the case of a product with few options just the type of item. Audio runs in the megabytes per minute, transcripts in the kilobytes, but reducing to a conclusion of interest in a single specific item is really very small, hard to notice tbh.
- Comment on Solution for the Trolley Problem 4 months ago:
Or it rides along both rails, taking out everybody perfectly. Sick grind dude, such a THPS visual.
- Comment on [deleted] 5 months ago:
If you want a podcast about conservative approaches to food may I suggest
Perfectly Preserved Podcast
- Comment on Feds Say You Don’t Have a Right to Check Out Retro Video Games Like Library Books 5 months ago:
And the fashion, oh wow, such an aesthetic.
- Comment on Feds Say You Don’t Have a Right to Check Out Retro Video Games Like Library Books 5 months ago:
Trashing!
- Comment on If a planet was completely covered in water, wouldn't it all be freshwater? 5 months ago:
Well it depends too on how long things take to settle out. Salt is easily suspended in water, but silt is not, so the water would be salty but not muddy. The water would also probably have lots of photosynthetic bacteria/algae in it, so you would probably have blooms of green, blue, red, and brown all over. Those blooms would uptake light and carbon through that process then as they died drop the content down the long water column. All sorts of feeding below that would create a full eecological web. If there were deep sea vents, volcanic activity breaking through the sea floor, you would have a second source of energy and chemistry at the bottom. That said, the over level of life at the surface would be limited by things like iron, phosphorus, copper, and so on. Any heavier ions would be less available at the surface because there is no surface erosion bringing them in at the top so as they are bound up in dead algae they will drop to the floor.
The rate limiting at the sea floor will be based on energy but not too bad, you would likely see a lot of diverse life around vents and it would have a fairly large complexity over time. That said, the depth would make for less complex life due to the lack of light and associated vision. Some things would make light but it would be dangerous to make and would not be super common.
Another interesting consideration is the geography of the sea floor. Would there be fault lines? If there are continental plates but way under the ocean they would still have movement, so subduction and so on would play out, so you would probably have chains of vents along the diverging or merging plate boundaries. Life would spread along these lines, so life would be closely related at nearby vents but distant over the surface of the planet. I would anticipate a fairly heterogeneous population over the surface of the planet in the deep, but far less so at the surface.
- Comment on If a planet was completely covered in water, wouldn't it all be freshwater? 5 months ago:
It depends on the composition of the planet. If it is just a massive ball of water floating in space then it will be whatever purity that is, plus whatever space dust and impactors bring in.
If it is basically a terrestrial planet with water on top, say earth plus a lot of water, then it would be salty. The thing with salt water is contact between the water and rock. If there is sufficient heat it will circulate, so salty water from the bottom of the ocean may be heated by magma or similar and then it will be less dense, floating upwards to the surface. Along the way it will mix and cool, leading to dispersal of the dissolved salts.
The only way I can imagine a planet with a solid subsurface completely coated in freshwater would be if the planet snowballed hard, no radioactive materials left in the core making heat, no significant tidal pull on the core, and then after reaching a very cold temperature having slow addition of clean water from comets. That said, comets are dirty, they have lots of stuff, so you would need somehow clean comets. Still, at that point once sufficient water has hit the surface it could form a thick enough layer over the salty ocean below and start to melt, maybe from greenhouse effects. As soon as it runs away and keeps heating enough it will start to melt the core ice though, so you could have a short lived window in that freak occurrence but it will be very temporary and not at all likely.