Robust_Mirror
@Robust_Mirror@aussie.zone
- Comment on Is there an Australian equivalent for boycotting american products ? 4 weeks ago:
What’s your use case? I haven’t used it to give/receive money ever since payid became a thing, instant and secure.
For more secure payments than giving out your card details you have options like Revolut that can create temporary digital cards, and bank of Melbourne has a digital card with a cvv that changes automatically every 24 hours, but still let’s you set up subscriptions/recurring payments that don’t break like Revoluts temp card would.
- Comment on That explains a lot 5 weeks ago:
Sure, but it won’t sustain itself at any mass. A black hole with a mass of 500,000kg lasts about 10 seconds and is harmless. If you managed to compress 300,000,000kg into a black hole you’d have it last about 100 years and it would still be too small to do any damage to the earth during that time.
You’re correct there’s enough mass in the solar system to create a self sustaining black hole though. Anything around the mass of the moon or larger we should worry. A black hole the mass of the earth would definitely be self sustaining.
- Comment on Infinite Hotel Paradox 1 month ago:
The rooms are all full by definition. You’re literally telling him to walk until he dies. Just kick him out at that point, hell shooting him on the spot would be more merciful.
But the weird thing about infinite sets is they don’t process over time as we perceive it. Things happen all at once. There’s a classic situation where an infinite tub is filled with an infinite amount of numbered balls, and for every number that goes in, it’s square root is taken out. So when 1 goes in, 1 goes out, when 2 goes in nothing happens, same with 3, when 4 goes in, 2 gets taken out, when 9 goes in, 3 gets taken out.
How many balls are in it at the end?
Intuitively it seems there must be infinite balls, as balls are being taken out at a slower rate than they’re entering. But the actual answer is 0. Because the process happens all at once. So the question becomes, which balls get removed in this process? Well, the numbers that can be squared. Which is every number. If every number can be squared, every number gets removed. So if this infinite process were to play out, there would be no balls left in it.
But if we were to try to physically do this, it’s impossible for it to actually play out. Infinity isn’t a number at the end of a line, it’s the concept of an entire unbound set. That’s why things like the hotel are good to try to explain and visualise the concept, but break down if you try to imagine them as real world places that follow time and physics.
- Comment on Infinite Hotel Paradox 1 month ago:
There are infinite types of infinity. Crazy right?
- Comment on trump puts 25% tariffs on Aussie steel and aluminium 1 month ago:
- Comment on trump puts 25% tariffs on Aussie steel and aluminium 1 month ago:
If anyone wants advice on how to ditch Netflix VERY painlessly look into stremio+torrentio addon. Optionally pay a minuscule amount (<$5/month) to real Debrid to make it faster and more private (if you’re worried about torrenting) but I find it perfectly fine as is myself.
- Comment on imagine 1 month ago:
Yeah they weren’t banned in the 90s. They were developed in the mid 90s with a patent filed in 1998. The UN Convention on Biological Diversity adopted a moratorium in 2000, recommending that governments block field testing and commercial use of terminator seeds, but didn’t yet ban research. In 2006 they expanded the moratorium, explicitly prohibiting field trials and emphasizing risks to biodiversity and farmers rights.
- Comment on Accused killer of US insurance CEO pleads not guilty to 'terrorist' murder 3 months ago:
Well the thing is if you plead guilty you’re immediately at the mercy of the judge. They simply decide on your sentence based on the provided information and give you a penalty in line with the laws around it.
Even if your the most guilty of the guilty, you’re generally better off having a jury trial to determine how guilty, as if you appear sympathetic you could get the minimum penalty rather than the maximum. The exception would be if you had an exceptionally good plea bargain for pleading guilty.
- Comment on Accused killer of US insurance CEO pleads not guilty to 'terrorist' murder 3 months ago:
For criminal cases yes it has to be unanimous. They might have heard about civil cases sometimes allowing majority/supermajority vote verdicts (allowed in more than half the states).
- Comment on Same Same But Different 3 months ago:
Mushi-Shi.
- Comment on Bluesky boom worries Chinese media 4 months ago:
X was the perfect name for the platform everyone’s leaving.
- Comment on flouride 4 months ago:
…spokanecity.org/…/city-council-information-on-fl…
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Water fluoridation reaches over 13 million Europeans through programs in England, Ireland, Poland, Serbia and Spain
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Children in deprived areas benefit most from water fluoridation according to 2018 English health agency report
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Over 70 million Europeans receive fluoridated salt through programs in Austria, France, Germany, Switzerland and other countries. Salt fluoridation is recommended when water fluoridation is not feasible
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European Academy of Pediatric Dentistry endorses water fluoridation as “core component of oral health policy”
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Fluoridated milk programs have operated in Bulgaria, England, Hungary, Russia and Scotland
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Several European countries provide free or subsidized fluoride treatments through national healthcare:
- Sweden: free dental care through age 23
- Denmark: free dental care until age 18
- Finland: public dental clinic access for all legal residents
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Scandinavian schools offer fluoride varnish, tablets and rinse programs
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Some regions in Europe have naturally fluoridated water, such as parts of Italy. Italian health officials support water fluoridation but don’t implement additional programs due to naturally optimal fluoride levels in some areas
cdc.gov/…/statement-on-the-evidence-supporting-th…
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Evidence shows that water fluoridation prevents tooth decay by providing frequent and consistent contact with low levels of fluoride, ultimately reducing tooth decay by about 25% in children and adults.
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evidence shows that schoolchildren living in communities where water is fluoridated have, on average, 2.25 fewer decayed teeth compared to similar children not living in fluoridated communities.
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A study to compare costs associated with community water fluoridation with treatment savings achieved through reduced tooth decay, which included 172 public water systems, each serving populations of 1,000 individuals or more, found that 1 year of exposure to fluoridated water yielded an average savings of $60 per person when the lifetime costs of maintaining a restoration were included.
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Analyses of Medicaid claims data in 3 other states (Louisiana, New York, and Texas), have also found that children living in fluoridated communities have lower caries related treatment costs than do similar children living in non-fluoridated communities; the difference in annual per child treatment costs ranged from $28 to $67.
pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC9544072/
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community water fluoridation continues to decrease cavities by 25% at the population level.
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Even with fluoridated products such as toothpaste and mouth rinses, this public health practice can reduce an additional 25% of tooth decay in children and adults
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In 1945, Grand Rapids, Michigan became the first U.S. city to fluoridate its public water supply. Five years later, Grand Rapids schoolchildren were found to have significantly fewer cavities than children from the control community of Muskegon, and additional water districts, including Muskegon began fluoridating and seeing similar results
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Studies have shown that populations from lower socioeconomic groups within fluoridated communities have less tooth decay when compared to peers in nonfluoridated communities
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The cost of a lifetime of water fluoridation for one person is less than the cost of one filling
More info: www.ada.org/resources/…/fluoride-in-water
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- Comment on flouride 4 months ago:
Well look at the statistics:
Fluoride: Water fluoridation in the United States began in the 1940s By 1949, nearly 1 million Americans were receiving fluoridated tap water In 1951, the number jumped dramatically to 4.85 million people By 1952, the number nearly tripled again to 13.3 million Americans In 1954, the number exceeded 20 million people In 1965 an additional 13.5 million Americans gained access to fluoridated water. By 1969, 43.7% of Americans had access to fluoridated tap water. In 2000, approximately 162 million Americans (65.8% of the population served by public water systems) received optimally fluoridated water 2006: 69.2% of people on public water systems (61.5% of total population) 2012: 74.6% of people on public water systems (67.1% of total population)
Autism: First recognised in the 1940s During the 1960s and 1970s, prevalence estimates were approximately 0.5 cases per 1,000 children. Prevalence rates increased to about 1 case per 1,000 children in the 1980s. 2000: 1 in 150 children 2006: 1 in 110 children 2014: 1 in 59 children 2016: 1 in 54 children 2020: 1 in 36 children
Seems pretty clear cut to me.
- Comment on wooly bears 4 months ago:
In the 3rd panel read all the bugs then all the humans.
- Comment on But yes. 4 months ago:
- Carbon monoxide
- Comment on But yes. 4 months ago:
Geothermal: Incredibly old sky-spiciness from far, far away that Earth collected to slowly release.
- Comment on But yes. 4 months ago:
- Solar panels: Direct sky-spiciness to electricity conversion
- Wind: Sky-spiciness made the air move
- Hydroelectric: Sky-spiciness lifted the water up, gravity brings it down
- Fossil fuels: Really old stored sky-spiciness from ancient plants
- Comment on same as it ever was 4 months ago:
Thing is, unless we first found it way later, people would just think they’re referencing the runes.
- Comment on fuckery 4 months ago:
Unholy fuck.
- Comment on Leeches! 4 months ago:
I knew someone that had some as pets, they would literally put their hand into the tank and let them bite it to feed them.
- Comment on Optimisation is a Slow Process 4 months ago:
Yes but how much heat are those hairs actually saving? In real terms I doubt it’s a number that’s meaningful at all. Like if you had 2 clones and one had their hair shaved and one didn’t, I’m not convinced you could even measure the difference without super sensitive tools and even then it would be a fraction of a degree.
I also doubt there’s any situation where, all else being equal, one would survive and one wouldn’t purely on the basis of having those hairs.
- Comment on Optimisation is a Slow Process 4 months ago:
It’s either cold enough that I’m gonna die or it’s not. Those tiny hairs aren’t going to save me in a situation where it would matter.
- Comment on your mom falls significantly faster than g 4 months ago:
But if you’re dropping them at the same time right next to each other, the earth is so large they would functionally be one object and pull the earth at the same combined acceleration.
- Comment on Honey 5 months ago:
I mean I think it can be boiled down pretty simply: cause the least harm to living things that you can personally manage. Having impossible goals isn’t necessarily a bad thing. If your impossible goal is to make a billion dollars ethically, and you get to 50 million being 95% ethical, you could still consider that a win, even though you didn’t reach your impossible goal.
Even the simple goal of “always being a good person 100% of the time” is probably impossible to achieve over an entire lifetime while meeting every person’s definition of it. That doesn’t mean it’s useless for someone to strive for that within their definition of “good person”.
In fact I’d say the vast majority of meaningful, non trivial goals could be considered “impossible”.
- Comment on AI Slop 5 months ago:
Oh, I should’ve guessed.