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- Comment on The least problematic early black metal band 2 days ago:
Oh, right. I meant it as in "I hate that there are so many fascists in the genre that checking for them becomes a necessary evil of listening to the genre". I do check because I don't want fascists in my playlists
- Comment on The least problematic early black metal band 2 days ago:
There is definitely plenty of non-Nazi black metal. It's just that there's also a lot of actual Nazi BM, including some of the foundational figures of the genre. The general themes of the genre being very misanthropic and usually interested in the various kinds of paganism that Nazis cribbed a bunch of their symbolism from can also make it difficult to spot the Nazis at a glance if they're not being overt about it
- Comment on The least problematic early black metal band 3 days ago:
"Do they hate all of humanity or just specific colours of humanity? Please be the first one"
- Comment on The least problematic early black metal band 3 days ago:
I'm pretty certain it's a joke
- Comment on The least problematic early black metal band 3 days ago:
I enjoy black metal, I enjoy much less having to become a freelance investigative journalist each time I find a new band that sounds cool
- Comment on Everytime i come across a 3d printing post 5 days ago:
In my defence they had not posted the replies to others when I had started typing
- Comment on Everytime i come across a 3d printing post 5 days ago:
Rubber, including natural rubber, is a hydrocarbon polymer and should probably count as a plastic in any useful definition of the word for this context. Normally natural rubber is biodegradable, of course, but we vulcanise it for usage in tyres, and that makes it much less so. As such, tyres are a huge source of either microplastic pollution or, if you want to call it something else, functionally-identical microrubber pollution
- Comment on ‘They stole my face’: Streamer claims The First Descendant ads used AI to make it look like he’s promoting it 6 days ago:
I'm going with "they absolutely did see it coming and are confident that they can make it go away for less money than an actual marketing campaign that gets the same amount of attention would cost"
They've got a veneer of plausible deniability, basically no need to expend any money on the material, and just enough of a chance to filter out anything that uses the image of someone that could actually afford to fight them in court about it
- Comment on They'd just appear out of nowhere 6 days ago:
Near-sightedness makes you more likely to notice them, but I don't think it's a serious sign of anything unless you're seeing them so much that it's a problem. They're always there in healthy eyes, your brain just tunes them out most of the time. I would assume that changes in the way your eye focusses - either because of a change in the actual eye like the person above describes or because of a change in the prescription of glasses changing the light that enters your eye - just makes it more likely for your brain to not tune them out because they suddenly look a bit different to what your brain got used to
- Comment on They'd just appear out of nowhere 6 days ago:
For some reason this comment is what made me finally realise that I haven't seen floaters since I stopped needing glasses
- Comment on Just a reminder of how many out there are completely clueless 1 week ago:
The shortest distance between Moscow and anywhere in the US is actually just to go straight over the north pole, which is of course not particularly intuitive when looking at a flat map. Since that's the case, the farther south in the US you are aiming for, the longer it takes
- Comment on [deleted] 1 week ago:
I've personally never been to Texas and it's a long time since I went to Bavaria, but doesn't that description of Munich vs the surrounding countryside more or less work for Houston vs the surrounding countryside?
I don't think it's even necessarily a left vs right political thing either, both regions also just have quite distinct and independent cultural traditions from the rest of the country
- Comment on China's green energy boom could spell the end of the fossil fuel age 1 week ago:
Do you have actual data for that? Here are some comparisons of population density and emissions per capita:
The first image is every country and territory that wikipedia had numbers for on both population density and emissions per capita.
The second has outliers with the highest densities and emissions per capita removed in order to make the rest visible (removed entries are Bahrain, Bangladesh, Barbados, Bermuda, Brunei, Gibraltar, Hong Kong, Kuwait, Macau, Maldives, Moldova, New Caledonia, Palau, Qatar, and Singapore. I hope you agree that these are not particularly comparable to the US or China for a variety of reasons and are okay to exclude).
The third cuts it down to only countries that have a "very high" rating (at least 0.8) on the Human Development Index, as a proxy for advanced economies. As you can see, there is not a strong correlation between high densities and low emissions. Chile, Sweden, Argentina, and Norway all actually have both significantly lower densities than the US and significantly lower emissions (and there are more, I'm just counting some with populations of at least ten million). Same goes for NZ, there are several countries with comparable or lower densities and also lower emissions. The densest countries are not particularly low emitters, and the sparsest cover the full range.
I can think of a few potential factors explaining it. Yes, high density makes transport easier, but it also means less access to land for clean energy (which is generally much less compact than fossil fuels). Additionally, even in very sparsely-populated countries, most of the population actually tends to be fairly concentrated around a few cities anyway. Consider Australia; it's not like Australians are evenly distributed across the continent, so the very low population density isn't particularly representative of the infrastructure challenges for most people there
- Comment on China's green energy boom could spell the end of the fossil fuel age 1 week ago:
Germany is worse than average for Europe, but it's far better than America and about on par with China. Per capita emissions are a little lower than China's, but China is a bit better if you look at consumption-based emissions instead
- Comment on China's green energy boom could spell the end of the fossil fuel age 1 week ago:
National emissions should be approached per capita. It'd be silly to expect that Luxembourg and France should have the same total emissions
- Comment on Caption this. 1 week ago:
Fig 6. Under the influence of various different psychoactive substances, four adult male Homo sapiens demonstrate a wide range of responses to being presented with a few strands of brightly-coloured string. Depicted, from left to right, are the subjects under the influence of ethanol, lysergic acid diethylamide, Brugmansia suaveolens, and cannabis.
- Comment on Black Holes 2 weeks ago:
Non-classical mechanics includes things like quantum physics and (depending on who you ask) special relativity. They feel extremely counterintuitive but they provide pretty reliable explanations for how things work. That infinite density doesn't make sense in our regular understanding of the world doesn't necessarily mean it's not a useful model. That doesn't mean it's necessarily true, of course, but the fact that it seems weird isn't really important. It might just be that physics inside a black hole permit for something that we can best describe as infinitely dense
- Comment on Black Holes 2 weeks ago:
The comment above was about the singularity, so "the rest" clearly does not include the singularity
I don't think "no interpretable meaning in physics" is a reasonable description, though. In classical mechanics, sure, but we've got plenty of physics that doesn't work in classical mechanics
- Comment on Black Holes 2 weeks ago:
The theories on why are a fair bit beyond my knowledge of physics, but I do know that they're not necessarily the same kind of singularity. Inside a black hole (assuming our models are correct), spacetime curvature goes towards infinity. At the big bang, there may not have even been spacetime as we see it in our current universe, or whatever causes the expansion of spacetime may have been so powerful that it caused the earliest spacetime to not curve despite all the gravity
- Comment on One Angry Man 2 weeks ago:
Crocodile Dundee in El Angel
- Comment on Black Holes 2 weeks ago:
I suppose cosmic horror elder gods like Cthulhu and such are not all that far removed from the idea of a black hole. Particularly the ones that are less involved with Earth than Cthulhu is. Nobody is ramming a black hole with a fishing boat. But the early writing on them was done at about the same time as a lot of the foundational theoretical work on black holes (not the earliest stuff but I can believe that the writers didn't know about it)
- Comment on Black Holes 2 weeks ago:
Well, what exactly is inside the event horizon is unproven because we cannot possibly look. All of the rest of the physics seems to check out, though, and we know that there are things out there that behave just like our models of black holes predict. It's an incomplete understanding rather than a necessarily incorrect one. If it is something else, it'd have to be something that looks more or less exactly like a black hole to an outside observer
- Comment on So glad I suck dick 2 weeks ago:
- Comment on Feeling insecure about going to a 'girlie pop' concert as a 30 year old man, am i overthinking it? 2 weeks ago:
You'll be fine! Especially since you're there with your wife, you've got good company to distract you from whatever anyone else is doing is the show isn't already doing that. All sorts of people show up at concerts, even if they don't always show up in the photos and videos of those concerts as much
I went to a Heilung gig a few years back (incredible experience, by the way) and it was really funny in a lovely way to look at the crowd. It was like a straight 50/50 split of people that looked like the very stereotype of 60s hippies and equally stereotypical metalheads. We all had a great time together
I'm quite a tall guy and a not the most outgoing a lot of the time, so I do understand how it's easy to feel like you're sticking out in a crowd. Thing is though, everyone is there to see the act, not to people-wstch the audience
- Comment on Feeling insecure about going to a 'girlie pop' concert as a 30 year old man, am i overthinking it? 2 weeks ago:
That's largely limited by ticket sales nowadays, right? Responsible / law-abiding venues (in countries with good regulation on it) don't sell so many standing tickets that the risk gets too high
The wiki page you linked in the other reply has a link to a list page https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_fatal_crowd_crushes
You'll notice that very few recent ones are at concerts, and those that are consistently involve serious mismanagement of the event and usually something inciting large-scale fear responses
You are right that it's less safe that being seated, and you do need to watch out for your surroundings and be ready to get yourself out if you think it's too much. It is a problem that we know how to handle for the most part without banning all standing areas, though
- Comment on Feeling insecure about going to a 'girlie pop' concert as a 30 year old man, am i overthinking it? 2 weeks ago:
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- Comment on Feeling insecure about going to a 'girlie pop' concert as a 30 year old man, am i overthinking it? 2 weeks ago:
I'm surprised to someone say that they don't think standing tickets are allowed any more, what gave you that impression?
Regardless, being in the standing section is exciting and usually a very good view. It's not necessarily the right atmosphere for every person or every show, but if you enjoy the feeling of being in the crowd as everyone moves together it's great
- Comment on Wikipedia editors adopt a policy giving admins the authority to quickly delete AI-generated articles that meet certain criteria, like incorrect citations 2 weeks ago:
Reddit seems to be a substantial source if the many bits of questionable advice that google famously offered are any indication
- Comment on A whole bunch of racing games are cheap at the moment, and there are so many that it's difficult to look through them all. What are your recommendations? 2 weeks ago:
I would love to see a screenshot of this creation if you have one
- Comment on A whole bunch of racing games are cheap at the moment, and there are so many that it's difficult to look through them all. What are your recommendations? 2 weeks ago:
That's good to hear! I'm looking forward ot trying it. I used to love mountain biking when I was younger and I was reeeaaasonably good at it, but I've had enough sports injuries in my life so that's at the wayside by now