wolframhydroxide
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- Comment on Can you see magic eye pictures? 1 hour ago:
You’re doing “wall eyed” viewing. These are for “cross-eyed” viewing. “Wall-eyed” means your eyes are focusing at a point behind the image. You need to cross your eyes for these. Try putting your finger in between your screen and your eyes, varying the distance until the dots merge. Then, remove your finger, focusing on the image itself. That should allow for cross-eyed viewing.
- Comment on Can you see magic eye pictures? 5 hours ago:
- Comment on Microplastics will be the "boomers all have lead poisoning" of millennials 5 hours ago:
Bold of you to think that the micro plastic is going to go away after one generation…
- Comment on 🥒 5 hours ago:
I feel like Nichijou isn’t exactly a new anime…
- Comment on Pop it in your calendars 2 days ago:
I dunno, dwarf fortress seems to be doing alright for itself so far. Tarn and Zach really needed some more help and some graphic design backup. I don’t agree with the total abandonment of the keybindings system in favor of mouse clicks, but I understand that it was necessary to make the game’s learning curve less precipitous.
- Comment on [deleted] 2 days ago:
“Truth is singular. Its ‘versions’ are mistruths” Sonmi-451, Cloud Atlas
- Comment on coping 2 days ago:
Except that there’s no incentive for a moderation team to implement that policy, and anyone with enough access can make a workaround to censor whatever they want without allowing people to view anyway, right?
- Comment on Christ the Redeemer vs. Christ the Knock Off Brand 1 week ago:
No, this is supply-side Jesus, and he’s barrel-chested because he wants to be like his idol, Melon Husk.
- Comment on hmmmmm 1 week ago:
And the whole reason they’re evil is because the most powerful person who has one gets to choose what all the others see. I’m sure there’s no metaphor there.
- Comment on hmmmmm 1 week ago:
And not one of them is going through the public terminal.
- Comment on Cheeto devouring his nation 2 weeks ago:
Just worth pointing out: three of the five children eastern were women, and the very first was Vesta.
- Comment on It is what it is 2 weeks ago:
You’re doing God’s work in an abandoned universe.
- Comment on Recycled Plastic is a Toxic Cocktail: Over 80 Chemicals Found in a Single Pellet 2 weeks ago:
So are sucrose and cellulose, but that doesn’t mean they’re the same. Also, all of the additives in the many different types of melted-together plastic would beg to differ with your assessment.
- Comment on Recycled Plastic is a Toxic Cocktail: Over 80 Chemicals Found in a Single Pellet 2 weeks ago:
As a chemist, but without organics specialization (my specialty is rocks), I think that what we’re seeing here is a collection of three main things, aside from polyethylene:
- decomposition byproducts: plastics break down under heat, stress and in light. It’s not surprising that some of their breakdown byproducts might be found in plastic that has been melted into a new shape.
- dyes: plastic is dyed with different additives, and there are a LOT of different colors of plastic being recycled. They usually try to keep the colors generally consistent among batches for recycling, but the dyes that make a sprite bottle green are different from the ones that make a dasani bottle teal.
- Plasticizers: the things the corporations add to their plastics just to eke out that 1 cent of savings from thinner, more durable plastic, or to get the texture just right, are insane. These are things like BPA. There are loads of them, and every plastic has different types. Some of them also have different heat tolerances, but it’s not like the recyclers are keeping track.
So, yeah, be afraid. There’s a metric fuckton of shit in there, and literally no one knows what it all is, let alone how much of it made it through the manufacturing, use, recycling and manufacturing process without becoming prone to leaching. Virtually all plastic recycling is a scam perpetrated by the corporations to get us to blithely ignore how they are destroying the planet to save money, all while convincing us to blame ourselves.
- Comment on Elon Musk wants to rewrite "the entire corpus of human knowledge" with Grok 2 weeks ago:
Have some more comfort
- Comment on Elon Musk wants to rewrite "the entire corpus of human knowledge" with Grok 2 weeks ago:
SHH!! Yes you can, Elon! recursively training your model on itself definitely has NO DOWNSIDES
- Comment on Elon Musk wants to rewrite "the entire corpus of human knowledge" with Grok 2 weeks ago:
Yes! We should all wholeheartedly support this GREAT INNOVATION! There is NOTHING THAT COULD GO WRONG, so this will be an excellent step to PERMANENTLY PERFECT this WONDERFUL AI.
- Comment on make fantasy great again! 3 weeks ago:
Silly L. Ron Hubbard, trying to convince people to follow in your footsteps again?
- Comment on YouTube’s new anti-adblock measures 3 weeks ago:
Nebula has some of the best educational content, especially ever since Tom Scott went on to other things. There are definitely some weird ones on there, as well as a couple which I’m convinced are right-wing shills, but by and large many of the best edutainment channels have collected over there, especially if you’re into writing/world building. HAI/Wendover, Minutephysics, legaleagle, extracredits, nilered, and hellofutureme are the big ones I’m aware of that are also popular on YouTube which publish their videos over on Nebula. It’s well worth it to know that you’re supporting them more directly, and no ads.
- Comment on Just lost internship at general electric 3 weeks ago:
The reason it’s still held up is because Edison was a genius at precisely one thing: marketing. He was an incredibly efficient venture capitalist. That’s it.
This, and people have a tendency to hear a story, then integrate that story into their entire worldview, until the only four scientists ever to live were Einstein, Edison, Newton, and maybe Galileo.
Thus it has always been, and thus it shall remain.
- Comment on Protip: 4 weeks ago:
Withdrawn!
- Comment on Protip: 4 weeks ago:
Daring to call linoleum “tile work” is like calling a Walmart a “home”
- Comment on That's not how any of this works. 4 weeks ago:
That’s impossible. I distinctly recall a news article from my childhood which reported that the moon’s spoon was stolen by a dish after a cow distracted it. Did it get the spoon back?
- Comment on If you have used this you are immune to all disease. 4 weeks ago:
I’m 30, and I’ve seen them twice in my life in-person. However, I believe that they were in very old buildings. Can’t remember exactly where, though, since they were both over ten years ago.
- Comment on It's a mysteria 1 month ago:
I am confused. You are not the OP?
- Comment on Plex now will SELL your personal data 1 month ago:
Perhaps. The issue I perceive is that, for corporations, evil deeds are only illegal if you get caught and the government actually pursues you. Then, the most the corpos face is a fine, and remember: if the penalty for doing something illegal is a flat fine, then it isn’t a punishment, it’s a price.
Thus, this corporation has indicated its clear intent to sell me to the highest bidder. I would not give them a chance to do so. A “do not agree” button is just that: a “do not agree button”.
- Comment on On trees... 1 month ago:
AH, I see. So, it already existed, but until trees evolved, it wasn’t used to such an extreme extent.
- Comment on [deleted] 1 month ago:
Right, and they need to know what the process is, because the ACTUAL interview is at the BEGINNING, without the machine, like I SAID. That is the part that they need to focus on.
- Comment on respect dandelions! 1 month ago:
No, they are saying that they would be interested to see the archeological evidence that backs up the oral tradition, because oral tradition is a great way to start your research, but is insufficient as evidence for a scientific claim. Just like how I can say that there’s oral tradition that St. Brendan landed in america in the 6th century. However, since there’s fuck all to support it, that’s not a very convincing claim, but it sure would be interesting if someone discovered archeological evidence for it. The Icelanders claimed to have landed in america for hundreds of years with oral tradition, and few believed them because there was fuck all to support the claim. Then, all of a sudden, they find remnants of viking settlements in Canada, and now its very interesting.
You specifically cited DNA evidence. Then, when someone asked about it, you immediately accused them of European exceptionalism in a ridiculous strawman. So, either your claim can be very interesting, or I can treat it with the same amount of credibility as St. Brendan over there in his leather raft.
- Comment on [deleted] 1 month ago:
Did you actually read my comment? Again, I am not saying that it works, but that it doesn’t MATTER whether it works, because they are going to do the polygraph anyway, and this person needs to know the actual procedure, not useless navel-gazing about how, surprising nobody, the US government uses ridiculous tests, spends obscene amounts of time and money, and all of it amounts to a fucking vibe check.
YES, it’s WORTHLESS, but that isn’t going stop the fucking fascist across the table from you from judging you by it, and arguing over it is PRECISELY as worthless as the test itself.
