TranquilTurbulence

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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Bacteria may kill us entirely, but we will never kill bacteria entirely⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Even if we nuked the whole earth to oblivion, turn the surface of the earth into glass, and evaporate the seas, some microbes would still survive deep underground. What we need is an asteroid impact that turns the whole crust into molten lava and splatters it all over the solar system. Even that method might not work perfectly, but it’s our best chance.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Bacteria may kill us entirely, but we will never kill bacteria entirely⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  You could think of every cell of a human body sort of like a bacterial cell. In that sense, we already have joined the winning side.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why do we still joke about setting up old wooden guillotines?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  I propose we build a large paper cutter style contraption.

  Let’s make the blade 5 m long so that it’s big enough for everyone to see. Also, the blade should be so heavy that it will always chop reliably. You should also put some nice bearings in the pivot point so that it always swings very smoothly.

  Oh, but how do we lift a heavy blade like that? If electricity is available, you could have an electric motor to lift it up. If not, you would need some rope and pulleys.

  As the blade falls down, it would need to shear the target material to make a clean cut. This means that you can’t have a huge gap between the blade and the lower surface it shears against. Just like in paper cutters, the stationary blade needs to be made of steel, but it doesn’t have to be super sharp. The gap is important though. Think of the gap between scissor blades and you’ll get the idea.

  As the contraption will inevitably be contaminated with organic material, it could have an integrated Clean In Place system. After each cycle of operation, the CIP should spray the affected area with cold water and soap. If that doesn’t do the job, there would be a second program that uses hot water and soap, which would obviously require more energy.

  All that water needs to come from somewhere, so you’re going need like an IBC container. If you need more than 1000 l, you might need to use a lorry to deliver enough water. Ideally though, you would operate in an area where you can just connect the contraption to a nearby water outlet. Ask a local a firefighter to help you out.

  Also, all of that water needs to go somewhere too, so I would recommend operating it in a place where there’s a sewer near by.

  Hold on, what was the question again? Got carried away by the logistics of all of this.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Do you think The Boys is an accurate representation if real people had superpowers?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  I think people would still be people, but the monsters would be unstoppable. Psychopaths and corporations would be just as bad as depicted in the show.

  However, normal people would still be normal. See extraordinary for more info. In this series, people have their mundane problems on top of whatever problems the powers cause.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Never happened to me before. I would go back to the clinic to show that to a nurse.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Which timezone would win in a conflict?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  The rest of the world can use the new standard, and ignore the Brits. They can keep their Brexit while the rest of the world can move on. Everybody wins!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Which timezone would win in a conflict?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  It would result in the total collapse of the entire time zone system. Every location would switch to local solar time and the war would be over.

  When those areas need to communicate with each other, they would develop a new global time system that simply counts seconds from a particular moment in time. Sort of like unix time, but with the epoch set to the moment the new system was launched.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Superhero stories have become less about saving people and more about fighting villains.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Just watched the first episode, and this stuff is amazing! How come I never heard of this series before. Thanks for the tip!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Superhero stories have become less about saving people and more about fighting villains.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Well his personality and background aren’t anything compared to many other superheroes. The circumstances of gaining the powers is the only really exceptional thing about him. Other than that, he seems like a pretty average kid to me.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Superhero stories have become less about saving people and more about fighting villains.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  OK so these characters have been around for ages, but it seems that the modern iterations emphasize a very different side of them.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Superhero stories have become less about saving people and more about fighting villains.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Oh thanks. Now the following two weeks of my life will be consumed by binging a new TV series. Better start canceling those appointments and then switch my phone off.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Superhero stories have become less about saving people and more about fighting villains.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Hmm. So that’s where the exceptionalism argument comes from. Kinda makes sense too, since you have to be exceptional to have exceptional powers. Can’t really make a movie about usual people having exceptional powers.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Superhero stories have become less about saving people and more about fighting villains.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Oh wow. The whole superhero genre is really evolving in a strange direction.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Superhero stories have become less about saving people and more about fighting villains.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  At least Batman and iron man fit the description. What about the others then? I can’t think of many superheroes who happen to be wealthy.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Superhero stories have become less about saving people and more about fighting villains.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  What about villains then? Are they still all about bank heists or murdering everyone in the city, or have they shifted to hunting superheroes?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I've been alive for the entire narrative of the internet and it's crazy to think any of the newer generations will be able to sort it all out for themselves.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  But what about Friedrich Gustav Carl Emil von Internet and his contributions in 1784?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Doing the same thing over and over again expecting different results is not the definition of insanity. It's the definition of practice.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  If you’re expecting the same result (and getting a different result) you’re doing scientific research.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The Rapture could have happened, but nobody would know because everyone got left behind⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  That’s exactly what it feels like.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The Rapture could have happened, but nobody would know because everyone got left behind⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Isn’t there supposed to be like total destruction, war, famine and so on? Anyway, the world certainly has some of that, but the chaos hasn’t reached every place. It’s always tied to a particular place and time. It’s not happening everywhere.

  Anyway, that’s just my vague Hollywood style interpretation of what it might be. I don’t even know what Christians say about the Rupture.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨A broken clock is right twice a day, but a wrong clock is just wrong.⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  It might not align with any known time zone, but it will show you the solar time of some location somewhere.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Magic is real, we just know how it works and call it technology⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Psychopaths have figured out how to manipulate, or cast a charm spell on people. That’s pretty magical to me. Those are still words, so I’m going to count them as magic words.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Acids are basic chemistry⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Based!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How do you introduce the Fediverse to other people?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  That’s pretty much the approach I use. Most people already know how terrible Meta is, so building on that sentiment doesn’t take much.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What is the difference between pansexual, bisexual, and omnisexual? How do I know which one I am?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Yeah, me too. It’s such a handy word, because you don’t need to add anything to it. It already contains every minority that has something to do with sex, love and gender.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What is the difference between pansexual, bisexual, and omnisexual? How do I know which one I am?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Speaking of letters, what’s wrong with the term “queer”? Isn’t that inclusive enough?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Education doesn't increase intelligence by making people memorize things, but by constantly reminding people that they might be wrong.⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  IQ is just a number that tells you how good you’re at doing specific kinds of tests. It’s associated with intelligence, but it’s still a proxy metric. It doesn’t actually measure the thing we’re really interested in. We don’t even know what intelligence, or how to measure it properly.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Education doesn't increase intelligence by making people memorize things, but by constantly reminding people that they might be wrong.⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Yeah. Psychology is still largely qualitative at the moment, just like chemistry was in 1700s.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Education doesn't increase intelligence by making people memorize things, but by constantly reminding people that they might be wrong.⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Here’s the first one.

  Memorizing facts, dates, and formulas aren’t what necessarily makes someone intelligent. It’s the ability to second guess yourself and have an appropriate amount of confidence relative to your knowledge that is a sign of intelligence.

  This passage implies that you can increase your intelligence by getting educated, learning facts, gaining more knowledge, receiving feedback and getting a more realistic understanding on what you know and don’t know. Based on some of your clarifications, that doesn’t seem to be what you intended to say.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Education doesn't increase intelligence by making people memorize things, but by constantly reminding people that they might be wrong.⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  To me, they certainly are.

  However, many people seem to think that you can get smarter. There’s even a YT channel with a name like that, so I guess smart means something different.

  Fair enough, we can split that nebulous concept into innate intelligence which refers to your mental capacity, and being booksmart, i.e. having read many books and knowing stuff. In that sense, you can get smarter by learning more information or mastering new tools.

  Getting more intelligent happens naturally as children age, but eventually it’s all downhill. You can choose to drink alcohol and and reduce your intelligence that way, but I’m not aware of any method of increasing your intelligence. Many people seem to use this term in a very different way, so I might be in the minority here.

  Either way, I would still argue that, intelligence isn’t something you can simply increase.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Education doesn't increase intelligence by making people memorize things, but by constantly reminding people that they might be wrong.⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  That’s interesting, because the original post certainly didn’t sound like that. Thanks for the clarification anyway. I’m glad we’re on the same page here.