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- Comment on Kohler Can Access Data and Pictures from Toilet Camera It Describes as “End-to-End Encrypted” 2 days ago:
end-to-end
- Comment on 2 days ago:
Ferengi females have smaller lobes, implying that this is a sexually-selected trait and that the small ears of other species’ females might be a huge turn-on. We already make art of alien species that have massive dump trucks and extra boobs.
Teratophilia and furries also exist. What people are attracted to isn’t necessarily what God intended.
- Comment on mmm... tastes like chimkin 1 week ago:
Everyone eats baby birds. They’re full of delicious little bones, which plants are famous for lacking.
- Comment on I dunno 1 week ago:
- Comment on I dunno 1 week ago:
But there is logic behind them.
1+2+3=6 and 2+3+1=6 also.
But 1+23 and 23+1 won’t come out the same if you do the calculations in just any order. It’s not always possible to order them left to right like in the second version, and if we use parentheses for everything we can end up with an illegible mess. I actually tried to type an example of how silly it could look and lost track of my own parentheses nesting before I got very far.
Do you have any other suggestion for how to notate an equation which would make memorization of PEMDAS unnecessary?
- Comment on I dunno 1 week ago:
I sometimes like to add unnecessary parentheses or brackets to section things off and improve legibility, but I don’t do any math stuff collaboratively, so I have no idea whether others would find that disruptive or helpful.
- Comment on Scientists identify five ages of the human brain over a lifetime— Four major turning points around ages nine, 32, 66 and 83 create five broad eras of neural wiring over the average human lifespan. 1 week ago:
I’m not sure that they do. The description sounds related to how the brain is growing and organizing rather than its actual contents.
I think as a baby you can’t be sure what environment you’ll end up in, so evolution has packed lots of clothes for every occasion. Then by 9 you realize it’s much too warm here, so we can trade away these winter jackets and collect more appropriate clothing and work out to best sort them all. Then by your 30’s you’ve assembled a very appropriate wardrobe and organized it the way you like. Then by your 60’s the clothes are beginning to wear a bit, but we can’t buy any more clothes in this analogy, so we’ll have to make do. And then around 80 some things have become unusable, so we have to rely on whichever clothes proved most durable.
Exact clothes and how they’re organized will vary by individual situation, but the stages of collection and sorting will be a more universal experience. At least that’s how I read it.
- Comment on OnLy tWo eLemEnTs 1 week ago:
I’m pretty sure they have an agenda, yeah. I just wanted to think about the premise on its own terms, like how one might think about the definition of a fish? I feel like it’s both personally enriching and better equips me to respond to such arguments. Even though I don’t think they’ll listen to anyone, I don’t think anyone’s responses to them were a waste of time because I really feel like I’ve learned a lot from reading them, and I’m sure plenty of other people did too, so thank you for your labor.
- Comment on OnLy tWo eLemEnTs 1 week ago:
You are misunderstanding, but I don’t blame you in the slightest. I don’t seem to have communicated very clearly. Someone else in this post has a comment making the argument that there are two sexes and that all humans either produce one of two gametes or have the potential to based on their body’s design, and at the time I thought it would be very obvious what I was referring to and why I would make a separate post instead of replying in that chain. I’m sorry for the confusion and any offense.
What I’m thinking about with my question is whether any humans can truly be considered as capable of producing eggs if they must be present at birth, if even people who already have eggs can’t make more.
- Comment on OnLy tWo eLemEnTs 1 week ago:
Okay, thank you.
When you say other methods, do you mean like in a lab somewhere? I was restricting my idea of egg production to what’s naturally capable by a human body (which I feel is in the spirit of powerstruggle’s definition of a sexual binary), but I figure probably anyone can produce any gametes they like through the magic of science.
- Comment on OnLy tWo eLemEnTs 1 week ago:
There’s a comment chain in this thread focused on the definition of sex as producing one of two gametes, which leads to pointing out that some people produce no gametes, which is countered by saying they could potentially produce them in the future or if they didn’t have a particular condition, etc. Normally I would post this kind of question directly to someone, but the same stuff is being said so many times that I’m not sure which one to reply to, hence creating a new comment chain.
Basically I’m thinking that defining the female sex by ability (or potential ability) to produce eggs might be faulty on the grounds that no one produces eggs. Or that only a person pregnant with a child who will be born with eggs can be said to have achieved femaleness by this definition. Or maybe the baby is the one making the eggs, so the only way to be female is to have produced eggs prior to birth. I’m not really sure of the details regarding when the eggs develop or who’s really responsible for them, I’m just pretty sure they’re there at birth and it’s interesting to think about.
- Comment on OnLy tWo eLemEnTs 1 week ago:
I have a question for kind of the whole thread in general, regarding the gametes discussion. Isn’t it the case that a human is born with all the eggs they’ll ever have? So like if you aren’t both with any, you’ll never make any later? And if so, isn’t the only way to produce eggs to become pregnant with a child and make their eggs for them?
- Comment on Pioneer species 1 week ago:
Knowing full well it’s a mistake, I prefer to interpret it as meaning “here-bringer”, not as one who simply goes ahead as a sign, but one who actively summons. Alternatively, the “bring” could derive from “brísingr”, as in “I’m going to burn this fucking place to the ground.”
- Comment on Labcoat! 1 week ago:
Yeah, I’m hoping the image is just a cute joke and that the lab is actually not dealing with anything hazardous.
- Comment on Labcoat! 1 week ago:
doggles
- Comment on Ahead of her time 2 weeks ago:
I think the meme is good either way. I think we’ll eventually have the capability to do such testing simply and quickly, and she’ll still be a loser for having lied about it and scammed people.
- Comment on Ahead of her time 2 weeks ago:
Molecular profiling includes genetic testing.
- Comment on Ahead of her time 2 weeks ago:
I think the study they reference is the UK Biobank itself, which is ongoing.
- Comment on Ahead of her time 2 weeks ago:
The article doesn’t seem to be selling any particular technology, but rather sharing information on the fact that the research is currently in progress.
The concept of identifying risk factors via blood sample has always been a good one. I’m not a scientist or medical professional, so I just assume the reason we’re not sequencing everyone’s genome is that it’s not currently a good use of medical resources. I can’t recall the name of this woman or her product, but my recollection is that she was claiming something currently impossible, not theoretically impossible.
- Comment on I wonder 2 weeks ago:
I can’t relate to being disturbed by the idea that other creatures remember their own lives.
- Comment on Microsoft detail 'agentic AI' plan for Windows 11, immediately admit it might install malware on your PC 2 weeks ago:
Christ, maybe I will just buy the damn Steam Cube.
- Comment on Crime gangs in UK start making own branded weight-loss drugs 3 weeks ago:
Yeah, I for reals thought there was an underground market for bathroom scales and was very confused.
- Comment on So much... 3 weeks ago:
If you learn just a little bit of math you can realize that no one else is getting anywhere near them either.
- Comment on CNC 5 weeks ago:
It’s not necessarily role play of assault, though it can be that. It can also mean that blanket consent has been given ahead of time, and so the subject is unaware of what may happen to them or when, and by the nature of it can’t give specific consent for any particular action. It can have to do with pushing/exploring boundaries, a power dynamic kink, or just enjoying the element of surprise, among others.
If you’re doing it right, consent can be withdrawn at any time via a pre-established non-verbal signal and/or safeword, and any bondage equipment will have safety releases.
- Comment on I'm fine with being stupid 5 weeks ago:
You know where to put it.
- Comment on Better safe than sorry 5 weeks ago:
Difficulty performing mental arithmetic doesn’t necessarily correlate with poor overall intelligence or inability to grasp higher math concepts. In a world where we all have calculators in our pockets, there is no reason to bar someone from studies or a career involving higher mathematics simply for being neurologically atypical, nor to shame them for whichever coping strategies allow them to perform.
- Comment on mercy merci 5 weeks ago:
I had to try to get a silverfish out of a sink not long ago and I’m pretty sure I ended up killing the poor thing anyway. They’re so hard to handle.
- Comment on mercy merci 5 weeks ago:
Maybe it depends on where you live, but I always find the same spiders living in gardens or on the side of a shed or something, so I’ve never been worried about that except in winter.
- Comment on mercy merci 5 weeks ago:
I’m sorry, spider, but it’s this or the mercy of the cats.
- Comment on Jurassic Park 5 weeks ago:
I wasn’t able to find a reference to the park’s inaccurate name in either book or film, but this Reddit post explains my feelings about it:
Okay, you’ve noticed that the name given to the theme park by the arrogant old man who thinks he can harness the forces of nature for fun and profit does not accurately reflect the animals bred to live in the park. Now take that next interpretive step.
Everything that goes wrong is entirely the fault of a billionaire doing billionaire things.
