Xavienth

@Xavienth@lemmygrad.ml

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Finland prepares to leave Ottawa Treaty banning anti-personnel landmines⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  You want to leave large swaths of our own land uninhabitable without lengthy and expensive cleanup that, even after “cleaned up” can still maim and kill people decades after the last shot is fired?

  Landmines just straight up suck

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Canada PM Mark Carney says old relationship with US 'is over'⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Americans don’t get it

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Trump considers pulling troops out of Germany⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Y’know, because of the implication.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Patients with long Covid regain sense of smell and taste with pioneering surgery⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I think we should prescribe this instead

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Dogs may have domesticated themselves because they really liked snacks, model suggests⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Wouldn’t you?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Amazon boss Jeff Bezos could face prison over knife sales to children⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Billionaires are the law

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Canada | Delta jet flips upside down on a snowy Toronto runway and all 80 aboard survive⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Well, the way I see it, there’s a few possibilities, with different parties to blame.

  Mechanical error would be the fault of Delta/Endeavor. This is a tested plane with many many flight hours. A mechanical issue could only be a maintenance error. But so far there have been no confirmed reports to suggest this.

  Pilot error would be the fault of Endeavor’s training.

  It could possibly be some freak gust of wind right at the worst moment. Second-to-second weather can be hard to deal with, especially at 40 km/h.

  Or if ATC failed to adequately convey the conditions, that would be the fault of the GTA airport authority, but that doesn’t seem to be the case.

  TL;DR with the evidence we have so far, we’re looking at pilot error, or weather that was just wrong place wrong time.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Euclid reveals an Einstein ring around a nearby galaxy⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  The precise mechanism is beyond me, but suffice it to say that light is affected by gravity.

  If you imagine throwing a ball in space in a straight line near a massive body (like a planet), the ball will curve and its new straight path will now be permanently deviated from its original straight line.

  Now imagine instead of throwing a ball, you’re emitting rays of light in all directions near a black hole. Light you emit towards the black hole will be lost to it, but light you emitted at an angle to the black hole will swing around it, just like the ball. If you imagine all the light you emitted slightly to the right, left, up, and down doing this, you can imagine that an observer on the other side could see all that light, appearing as though you were slightly right, left, up, and down from the black hole at the same time. This is what creates the ring.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Asteroid’s chances of hitting Earth in 2032 just got higher – but don’t panic⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  I’m confused how they can be so certain where it will hit but not if. I would think basically that while side of the planet is within the region of uncertainty. I guess it’s probably because they can define the orbit in a plane rather precisely, but within that plane, other axes are more difficult to get precision numbers on.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Colombian president says cocaine 'no worse than whisky'⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Banning alcohol worked so well for the Americans in the early 20th century. Gangsters and dangerous black market businesses sold it with no legal oversight. It could be laced with anything.

  Banning narcotics worked so well for the Americans in the mid 20th century to today. Druglords and dangerous black market clubs sell it with no legal oversight. It could be laced with anything.

  Now the US has the largest prison population in the world. Those imprisoned on drug consumption or possession charges have to spend their whole lives with that over their heads. Job opportunities passed up, apartment applications, etc. Maybe it’s time to reconsider the approach?

  PS: Another drug, cannabis, was criminalized because it was used by black people and hippies, groups inclined against voting for Nixon.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨A 25-Year-Old Is Writing Backdoors Into The Treasury’s $6 Trillion Payment System. What Could Possibly Go Wrong?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  To stop it through the government

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Technology for lab-grown eggs or sperm on brink of viability, UK fertility watchdog finds⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  iirc the main issue with familial reproduction is that, since families are likely to share much of the same genes, they are likely to share much of the same recessive genes. Invisible in individuals with just one copy, the union of two such individuals can create an individual with two copies, which means the trait is expressed.

  If it is cloning, that is fine, but if it remixes the DNA, It could potentially cause expression of recessive traits? I think?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Canadian CEOs Want More Guns, Less Bread⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Secure against imagined threats from the Eastern hemisphere? lol

  Secure against very real threats from America? Definitely.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Brazil condemns US after deportees arrive handcuffed⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Which never actually stopped, just got rebranded and less media attention

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Sweden starts building 100,000 year storage site for spent nuclear fuel⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I mean, really the only thing that’s gonna expose them is plate tectonics. Just to give a sense of scale, America and Europe are diverging by 4 cm/yr, so will be 500 metres farther from each other, horizontally, in about 10,000 years. Geologically stable regions (called cratons) would not experience such motion vertically for much, much, much longer.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Mexicans offered $1,300 to hand in a machine gun⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Now I have no gun and $1,300 to lose in a mugging! :D

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨GenCast predicts weather and the risks of extreme conditions with state-of-the-art accuracy⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Yeah, they could certainly use more resolution in their data, I’m sure they wish for it all the time.

  But to pick on your example, they have certain requirements for specifically how they take the temperature which explains at least some of the discrepancy between them and your thermometer. For example, the thermometer must be in shade, must be iirc 2 metres off the ground, things like that.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨GenCast predicts weather and the risks of extreme conditions with state-of-the-art accuracy⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  One thing that always bothers me about weather forecasts is they are not very specific, 24 or even 12 hours into the future. Like, they are correct that it will rain, but then somehow that rain always just misses me, and goes a few miles to the south, or something. Or it stops just a few miles shy of me.

  If this can give more specific forecasts in the immediate future, that’ll be nice to see.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Swiss court recognises obesity as a disability under certain conditions⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  You are so brave for expressing your sense of superiority for checks notes not having a genetic predisposition to gain weight. Your body is less efficient at extracting calories from food that passes through you. Your hunger response is not as strong as other people’s which makes it easier to abstain from eating. Wow that’s so amazing, you have such impressive willpower. Calories in calories out amirite? /s

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu says he and Donald Trump 'see eye to eye' on Iran⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  See, this is the problem with liberals. Kamala made absolutely no indication she would check Israel’s aggression. It’s wishful thinking based on no evidence. But she lost so she can be whatever liberals want now, she’s full of endless possibilities.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Trigo-nom-etry⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  It rearranges to secant of c

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨your mom falls significantly faster than g⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  The difference in relative acceleration implied by the meme is on the order of tens of yoctometres (10⁻²³ m) per second per second.

  It’s a difference so small that it would be overshadowed by the fact that you’re holding one object femtometres higher or lower than the other in the gravitational field.

  Additional sources of error to consider at this scale might be the heat radiation from the surroundings providing radiation pressure on the object, the sloshing of Earth’s core causing time-dependent variations in the gravitational field, the location-dependent variations in the Earth’s gravitational field, and the difference in centrifugal (yes, centrifugal in this reference frame) force due to latitude differences of one micrometre, and also due to natural variations in the rate of Earth’s rotation over time.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Literally Nineteen Eighty-Four⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Euros count as a unit 😏

  3.5 G€

  Ok, while I’m being facetious, let’s do it for dollars too. G$3.5… oh that’s horrible!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Pick some unrelated lectures, they said.⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  “More recent research has produced a more precise emperical relation, -4.2x^3.761+√(sin(2x²/π))±erf(e²ˣ+37), which produces results which are 0.2% more accurate on average.”