spiderwort
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- Comment on Ascended to Spanish 6 months ago:
All form is interpretation.
So is interpretation just physics? Like, mass and inertia?
- Comment on Ascended to Spanish 6 months ago:
The entire universe is beige
(Says a man facing a beige wall)
- Comment on research 6 months ago:
I researched the spelling of “research” for this reply.
- Comment on No Tech for Apartheid: Google Workers Arrested for Protesting Company’s $1.2B Contract with Israel 6 months ago:
What’s up with all the masks? Do they want to be anonymous?
- Submitted 7 months ago to showerthoughts@lemmy.world | 11 comments
- Comment on Identity politics and universal pseudonymity arose at the same time. 7 months ago:
hey look the monkeys are upvoting you
- Comment on Identity politics and universal pseudonymity arose at the same time. 7 months ago:
Nope, I mean identity politics. IE concern for the details and ramifications of identity, so great that it rises into the political realm.
- Comment on Identity politics and universal pseudonymity arose at the same time. 7 months ago:
But it didn’t become a big thing till the last decade, IE when we all got on social media
- Submitted 7 months ago to showerthoughts@lemmy.world | 13 comments
- Submitted 7 months ago to nostupidquestions@lemmy.world | 4 comments
- Comment on Complete this sentence 7 months ago:
Meditate more
- Comment on 1000 years from now physics is forgotten and all that remains is the legend of two hobbits, Charm and Spin, and their quest for the Higgyboson. At this point, is physics true? 7 months ago:
It’s a conversation, not a fight.
- Comment on 1000 years from now physics is forgotten and all that remains is the legend of two hobbits, Charm and Spin, and their quest for the Higgyboson. At this point, is physics true? 7 months ago:
We think and talk about what we observe in terms of rules because rules are a convenient way to think and talk about it. That is the long and short of it.
- Comment on 1000 years from now physics is forgotten and all that remains is the legend of two hobbits, Charm and Spin, and their quest for the Higgyboson. At this point, is physics true? 7 months ago:
Maybe you just don’t understand.
- Comment on 1000 years from now physics is forgotten and all that remains is the legend of two hobbits, Charm and Spin, and their quest for the Higgyboson. At this point, is physics true? 7 months ago:
I’m pointing out a degradation of knowledge and exploring the point at which it is considered false.
For example : a man examines a phenomenon, performs a complex experiment relating to it. Comes up with a nice model. Communicates the model to you. You understand the model but your understanding of the actual phenomenon, maybe less so. So when you discuss the phenomenon withh your friends, refer to the model, there’s a bit of bs there.
And another example : A blind man is told that the sky is blue. But his understanding of that is not like the understanding of one who actually observed the blue of the sky, obviously.
Call it what, an unavoidable corruption?
- Comment on 1000 years from now physics is forgotten and all that remains is the legend of two hobbits, Charm and Spin, and their quest for the Higgyboson. At this point, is physics true? 7 months ago:
Well it’s a relative thing of course.
- Comment on 1000 years from now physics is forgotten and all that remains is the legend of two hobbits, Charm and Spin, and their quest for the Higgyboson. At this point, is physics true? 7 months ago:
Hmm. I think of “physics” as a collection of models. What do you think of it as?
- Comment on 1000 years from now physics is forgotten and all that remains is the legend of two hobbits, Charm and Spin, and their quest for the Higgyboson. At this point, is physics true? 7 months ago:
It would depend on my relationship with the body of knowledge I suppose. Are we married or just good friends.
- Comment on 1000 years from now physics is forgotten and all that remains is the legend of two hobbits, Charm and Spin, and their quest for the Higgyboson. At this point, is physics true? 7 months ago:
But there’s no such thing as hobbits.
- Comment on 1000 years from now physics is forgotten and all that remains is the legend of two hobbits, Charm and Spin, and their quest for the Higgyboson. At this point, is physics true? 7 months ago:
No, haven’t. Thanks. Also consider “A Canticle for Leibowitz”.
My point is that, over time, knowledge gets corrupted. Especially esoteric knowledge. And it might not even take much time.
So you gotta wonder what myths we’ve got now that started as sincere attempts at a model.
And even today. When a guy who made the observation and crafted the model tells you the model, your understanding and his are probably not the same.
So there’s that corruption to consider.
- Submitted 7 months ago to nostupidquestions@lemmy.world | 27 comments
- Comment on In movies a strong woman is manly. (big muscles, aggressive, punches people, etc.) Is that really the way it is? 7 months ago:
Your bar on what constitutes stupid might be … stupid.
- Comment on In movies a strong woman is manly. (big muscles, aggressive, punches people, etc.) Is that really the way it is? 7 months ago:
It’s like they took arnold schwartzenegger’s jaw and transplanted it onto a supermodel/kickboxer.
- Comment on In movies a strong woman is manly. (big muscles, aggressive, punches people, etc.) Is that really the way it is? 7 months ago:
Ah, nature vs nurture. I’m with nature here.
- Comment on What characterizes feminine strength? 7 months ago:
Nice. Thanks.
- Comment on In movies a strong woman is manly. (big muscles, aggressive, punches people, etc.) Is that really the way it is? 7 months ago:
Talking and listening. “Sensitivity”. “Receptivity”. Those could be called feminine strengths.
- Comment on In movies a strong woman is manly. (big muscles, aggressive, punches people, etc.) Is that really the way it is? 7 months ago:
Will do. Thanks.
What would you call feminine strengths?
- Comment on In movies a strong woman is manly. (big muscles, aggressive, punches people, etc.) Is that really the way it is? 7 months ago:
I have not seen either of those.
But you see what I mean, right? A strong female character invariably starts looking like a man. Which is, of course, a cheap shortcut on the part of the writer.
What are feminine expressions of strength?
- Submitted 7 months ago to nostupidquestions@lemmy.world | 28 comments
- Comment on In movies a strong woman is manly. (big muscles, aggressive, punches people, etc.) Is that really the way it is? 7 months ago:
Stong in character. Not powerlifter. I added a note to clarify.
I honestly thought my meaning was obvious.