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- Comment on The Crussy 1 week ago:
It’s this photo, it’s as old as the hills. Lots of people used to have it as a profile pic because of exactly that reaction when it’s a thumbnail. I hunted for a while but couldn’t find the original source, maybe someone else knows or has better search-fu than me.
- Comment on Encouragement 2 weeks ago:
because the withdrawal also kills
Ah, you might be thinking of alcohol. Nicotine withdrawal just makes a very strong craving but there is no physical danger.
- Comment on [deleted] 2 weeks ago:
I think the US is the best place he could go, it’s already so bad even he will hardly make it worse, and more factions and intra-right tension might even be a good thing that could come out of it
- Comment on Is AI Facing a Trough of Disillusionment? 2 weeks ago:
We are the joke
- Comment on It's a whole genre! 2 weeks ago:
Nah punch drunk love is also really good
- Comment on Are you not entertained? 3 weeks ago:
I believe that the best for billionaires is to be relieved of the morally corrupting influence of their wealth, and I do wish that for them.
- Comment on the gang is all here 3 weeks ago:
tag urself im dz²
- Comment on 2hot2handle 3 weeks ago:
Lol
- Comment on 2hot2handle 4 weeks ago:
If it were, it wouldn’t be a good joke, because this exactly conforms to the thermodynamic definition of spontaneity. Saying it is spontaneous is, quite exactly, simple thermo.
- Comment on 2hot2handle 4 weeks ago:
Oh, good catch, thanks
- Comment on 2hot2handle 4 weeks ago:
Spontaneous is actually the thermodynamic jargon in this case though :)
- Comment on 2hot2handle 4 weeks ago:
Wrong, wrong, wrong.
Eh, it definitely has a cause. A known one.
Nothing to do with the physical definition of spontaneity. Spontaneity of a process just means that the ∆G is negative or total energy of the system is lower after the process, and additional energy isn’t required for the process to be thermodynamically allowed.
for the sole reason which specific molecules is nigh impossible to predict
Also unrelated, but it is fully impossible to predict, since in trying to predict it well enough you reach quantum scales where everything is probabilistic. That doesn’t at all mean everything is spontaneous.
So, who is correct depends entirely on the mental framing of what someone thinks of when they read “water”.
Nope, the first person is strictly correct and the second is strictly incorrect, as described above.
Water as an abstract idea of a specific type of fluid? Not spontaneous.
Nope, exactly spontaneous. You could even forget about water entirely and model this just as a bunch of nuclei and electrons in a box and derive that the lowest energy state has them being in a gas of atoms, and the initial state doesn’t, which is enough to demonstrate by our earlier statements that boiling is spontaneous.
Water as in what will literally happen to the bottle of water in the picture?
This is “not even wrong” territory.
This post isn’t showcasing mansplaining.
It absolutely is. We will define mansplaining here as the confidently correct dismissal of statements of women by men where we suspect that the genders of the participants may play a role.
The first part has been demonstrated above. It is also reasonable to assume the second given that we observe this happening to women at a far greater frequency than to men. Although, like with atoms, we cannot prove that this individual instance is a direct result, it is consistent with the probabilistic data and we would need additional evidence to conclude that this particular guy just goes around wrongly correcting everyone equally.
Nearly valid pedantry at that.
Once again, not remotely.
- Comment on Buying bread 4 weeks ago:
It’s gunk scraped from the bottom of beer fermentation barrels. Tastes something like auto body filler putty with soy sauce.
- Comment on Google Gemini struggles to write code, calls itself “a disgrace to my species” 1 month ago:
Anything is a normal thing for it to say, it will say basically whatever you want
- Comment on Surprise! 1 month ago:
It’s almost like there’s a spectrum
- Comment on And nothing of value was lost 1 month ago:
What those criteria are matters
- Comment on Polish Train Maker Is Suing the Hackers Who Exposed Its Anti-Repair Tricks 1 month ago:
CCC was collecting some money for them last year, not sure if this is still active www.ccc.de/en/updates/…/das-ist-vollig-entgleist
- Comment on Creepy find: German customs net tarantulas in cookie shipment 2 months ago:
Not to mention that farm animal welfare in Germany is extremely poor
- Comment on Yellow from the egg! 2 months ago:
Yes that’s why they should be allowed
- Comment on You got it, buddy 2 months ago:
French remained influential in the courts, higher education, and elite society long after it stopped being the “official” language. That last part is totally right.
- Comment on You got it, buddy 2 months ago:
Sure, but many of those words for specialised doctors came to English through French, not directly from Latin or Greek. And I don’t think that you can reasonably argue that English words with French origins aren’t by now a native part of the language. We use many of the same names in Dutch too, coming from French loanwords.
- Comment on You got it, buddy 2 months ago:
“ear-nose-throat” is commonly used in English.
And it kind of is like the medical field popped into existence in the 1700s.
- Comment on yeey 2 months ago:
Only stuff that starts off heavier than lead, and even then not everything, some decay chains stop at thallium instead. Cobalt, with atomic number 27, won’t ever become lead, with 55 more protons.
- Comment on yeey 2 months ago:
Nickel is not extremely edible lol
- Comment on [deleted] 2 months ago:
Compute can be outsourced to the cloud (not that I think that’s good, but it does lift the limit on small devices)
- Comment on Survey: More Than 1 In 4 Americans Feel They Need To Make $150,000 Or More To Live Comfortably 2 months ago:
Those are pretty low taxes
- Comment on Seriously, it was all the rage back when I joined my first instance. 2 months ago:
I miss orbs
- Comment on Perovskite-based image sensors promise higher sensitivity and resolution than silicon 2 months ago:
There have been some improvements but their poor stability is still the biggest problem yeah
- Comment on Perovskite-based image sensors promise higher sensitivity and resolution than silicon 2 months ago:
For many kinds of them, yes, but not literally all
- Comment on Who remembers alt.fan.tonya.harding.whack.whack.whack ? 2 months ago:
Really recommend listening to the “you’re wrong about” episode about her