Liz
@Liz@midwest.social
- Comment on Can't get that metallic taste out of my mouth 2 days ago:
I’m not really sure who likes them other than the people who like them
…What?
- Comment on Rock Eagle Flag 3 days ago:
Yeah, it’s a social problem. Recognize that mass shooters are almost exclusively white males. The book Angry White Men by Michael Kimmel does a great job of profiling the person who does this sort of thing and why.
- Comment on Is there any real physical proof that Jesus christ ever existed? 3 days ago:
The explanation I heard was that it was likely Mary and Peter hallucinated Jesus only a few days after he died. That’s a very common timeframe for when people hallucinate seeing dead loved ones, and the early descriptions in Bible match the flavor of dead loved-one hallucinations people typically have, with the figure assuring the person everything will be all right and whatnot. Other descriptions (like Jesus appearing to all twelve disciples or crowds of people) seem to have been written later more as persuasive arguments, with doubting Tomas acting as the stand-in for the skeptical listener. This is all from “How Jesus Became God” and I have no idea how mainstream or fringe the author’s views are.
- Comment on Study: Congress literally doesn’t care what you think. The preferences of the average American appear to have only a miniscule, near-zero, statistically non-significant impact upon public policy. 4 days ago:
Quintuple the number of seats in each district, use Sequential Proportional Approval Voting to elect the five members of each district.
- Comment on Is there any real physical proof that Jesus christ ever existed? 4 days ago:
I’ve heard theories that key people probably had hallucinations of Jesus a few days after he was killed, which was the big thing that helped launch him from yet-another-apocalyptic-preacher to (eventually) God himself. I don’t know how well these are accepted, though.
- Comment on It's like a more challenging version of the trolley problem 5 days ago:
Well then clearly you’re not used to the idea yet.
- Comment on OP: "This is my most advance moon photograph EVER it consist of 81000 images and over 708GB of data." (see comments.) 5 days ago:
Yeah when you get into “proper” photography you quickly realize a “real” image is somewhat subjective. This moon is cracked to 1000%, though.
- Comment on OP: "This is my most advance moon photograph EVER it consist of 81000 images and over 708GB of data." (see comments.) 5 days ago:
Not even Huble can see them. The moon is HUGE and the remains on the moon are tiny.
- Comment on OP: "This is my most advance moon photograph EVER it consist of 81000 images and over 708GB of data." (see comments.) 5 days ago:
The Samsung moon actually just makes up a plausible looking moon, which is hilarious given that the moon essentially doesn’t change, so they could have just overlayed reference images. Instead, you get features on the moon that don’t exist.
- Comment on It's like a more challenging version of the trolley problem 5 days ago:
Once you get used to the idea of chick dick, well, it’s just a dick on a chick.
- Comment on Cats 5 days ago:
Yeah I got zero context when I learned linear algebra and it seems everyone here that loves it is pointing to something outside the math itself for why. My brain only knows it as a bunch of nonsense matrix rules you gotta memorize.
- Comment on Why we don't have 128-bit CPUs 5 days ago:
See here’s where this analogy is perfect. Sometimes a bicycle is the best solution, just like how sometimes a microcontroller is the best solution. You use the tool you need for the job, and American product design is creating way too many “smart” products just like how American town planning demands too many cars. Bring back the microcontroller! Bring back the bike!
- Comment on It's like a more challenging version of the trolley problem 5 days ago:
Hey now, I made no comment on the offer to suck the girl’s dick. It’s girl dick, there isn’t much interesting to say about it.
- Comment on Science memes 6 days ago:
What? If it’s geometric it needs to be less than 1, that’s all. 9/10 + 81/100 + 729/1000 + … = 10
C•(1-r)^-1^ = C•x
Where r is the ratio between successive terms.
- Comment on It's like a more challenging version of the trolley problem 6 days ago:
A donkey is ill-equipped to give even a passable blowjob.
- Comment on Cats 6 days ago:
Calculus is intuitive and sexy. Linear algebra, on the other hand…
- Comment on Shrimps 5 weeks ago:
Yeah I mean, you gotta be something special to think light green polka dots on a medium green background is a good look for a curtain.
- Comment on Motivation 5 weeks ago:
You get a dagger in Europe, but their PhD programs are generally shorter and less difficult, so you need the knife to get back to parity with American PhDs. (Personally I think the entire concept is borderline a scam, but whatever.)
- Comment on Hearing is be-leafing: Students invent quieter leaf blower 1 month ago:
The fucking DREAM.
- Comment on xkcd #2933: Elementary Physics Paths 1 month ago:
I mean in the case of the comic, yeah the reason for the behavior actually is tied to pretty much the same principles, but the generalized statement you made isn’t, well, generalizable.
- Comment on xkcd #2933: Elementary Physics Paths 1 month ago:
One of my great regrets in high school chemistry was that I was born too late to discover some pattern and have it called Liz 's Formula or whatever.
- Comment on xkcd #2933: Elementary Physics Paths 1 month ago:
When you section off a small part of the universe and try to model it, there’s little reason your model should look like a model for a completely different small part of the universe. Not unless they share fundamental characteristics that you’re trying to model. The math that describes permanent deformation looks nothing like fluid dynamics.
- Comment on US to impose tariffs on Chinese EVs next week 1 month ago:
They fucking should have. I’m not gonna give China a pass just because Walmart got one.
- Comment on We can do all three things at once 1 month ago:
No worries, it was a good link. I was under the impression that the main obstacle to breeder reactors was political.
- Comment on That's Life 1 month ago:
Well he stole that money and immediately burned it, but still, he’s got to have money to fund his shenanigans.
- Comment on FCC explicitly prohibits fast lanes, closing possible net neutrality loophole 1 month ago:
QOS?
- Comment on PSA: Don't eat cicadas if you're allergic to shellfish... or at all 1 month ago:
They are not. Bugs taste like bugs.
- Comment on Stack Overflow bans users en masse for rebelling against OpenAI partnership — users banned for deleting answers to prevent them being used to train ChatGPT 1 month ago:
I mean, sure but in the context of individual websites I don’t see it being a big deal. There will be replacements, and relatively quickly. Accelerationism applied to major societal structures is a terrible idea though.
- Comment on Stack Overflow bans users en masse for rebelling against OpenAI partnership — users banned for deleting answers to prevent them being used to train ChatGPT 1 month ago:
They have been un-deleting after they ban.
- Comment on We can do all three things at once 1 month ago:
That link you shared does a much better job of not implying the reader is an idiot.