AmidFuror
@AmidFuror@kbin.social
- Comment on I have an idea for a constitutional amendment that I want to post to lemmy, so people can read and comment on it. Where should I post it I guess I could post it as a "is this a good idea" and put it 9 months ago:
Should have used atwerdna, then.
- Comment on When somebody tells you something, sometimes it's something they personally experienced and sometimes it's something they heard from somebody else. How do you tell the difference? 9 months ago:
Yes, and sometimes you have to throw in a real curve ball!
By the way, as head of quality at a saltworks in Europe, I should point out that there are as many shapes and sizes to processed salt as there are subtleties to their trace mineral concentrations. So "a grain of salt" isn't a well defined quantity.
- Comment on Reason for high refresh rates? 9 months ago:
I just wanted to add to the useless comments saying they don't know and can't be bothered.
- Comment on Why are people begging for likes for their youtube comments ? I don't think they get anything do they ? 9 months ago:
Your link didn't work. Need to see babes.
- Comment on Why does incest result in birth defects? 9 months ago:
This guy does the math before mating with sis.
- Comment on What are your thoughts on photosynthesis ? 9 months ago:
Chloroplasts getting the shaft again, I see. Underrated organelles.
- Comment on How do you refer to the lgbtq+ "community" least excludingly? 9 months ago:
What about saying quee without the hard 'r'?
- Comment on Could plants/trees be an evil alien species that came to earth and made us dependent on them ? 9 months ago:
Plants don't appear to be of a different origin than animals on this planet. They share most of the genetic code* with all other life we know about. The simplest explanation is that we share a common origin, and furthermore that was a common ancestor that likely began from simpler materials on this planet.
*The genetic code is the translation of nucleotide triplets into amino acid sequences
- Comment on Why is 2010s movie Star Trek called the Kelvin timeline? 9 months ago:
I like what the original commenter did. Pointed to the resource and pasted the relevant answer. Now we can learn two things.
- Comment on Why does incest result in birth defects? 9 months ago:
That was the point. It can be like voluntarily giving up rights by joining the armed services.
- Comment on Why does incest result in birth defects? 9 months ago:
If you selectively inbreed for long enough, the deleterious alleles are weeded out by selection. This is true for strains of laboratory mice, but not for any royal families that I know about.
- Comment on Why does incest result in birth defects? 9 months ago:
Recessive alleles like the O blood type are preserved when paired with a dominant allele. So parents that are AO or BO can have children that are OO. The recessive allele's effects are suppressed, but it doesn't disappear. It keeps popping back up in future generations. That was one of Mendel's key discoveries.
The frequency of alleles circulating in a population is affected by drift and selection. Assuming no or very weak selection against type O, it's a matter of chance each generation if there are fewer or more children with type O alleles. The O allele could drift to 100% (also called being fixed) or to 0% by chance. This takes a very long time when the effective population is large but is faster for small, isolated populations. There are some variant alleles that are circulating in humans which have been there since before our split with chimps and gorillas.
The largely mathematical field that studies this is called population genetics.
- Comment on Why does incest result in birth defects? 9 months ago:
You're on the right track, and others have explained it. Mutations happen regardless. The important thing is that because of redundancy between two copies, the effects of many mutations can be masked. The mutated alleles circulate throughout the population and only face selection when combined with another loss-of-function allele in the same functional unit (gene).
Those recessive mutations are more likely to be matched with an identical partner allele if you reproduce with close relatives. Even if you don't do that, the odds are higher if you're in a closed community.
- Comment on What is the difference between album of the year and record of the year? 9 months ago:
The verb is pronounced one way and the noun another. Applies to storing audio information as well as to just writing something down to keep a "record" of it.
- Comment on What are your thoughts on photosynthesis ? 9 months ago:
I'm in favor. Helps fix carbon and ultimately release oxygen into the atmosphere. Essential for growing plants and blue algae, which are the basis of the global food chain.
Couldn't live without it.
- Comment on [deleted] 9 months ago:
This belongs more in !noquestionatall.
- Comment on How can I prove myself that my brain isn't just creating images so I can experience life? 9 months ago:
What's the point of me trying to prove something to a figment of my imagination? Nice try, brain image. You almost had me.
- Comment on How can I prove myself that my brain isn't just creating images so I can experience life? 9 months ago:
It seems to be connected with forming long term memories.
- Comment on Is "If A then B" equal to "B if and only if A"? 10 months ago:
It's important to stress the "full blown" modifier in any example.
- Comment on Is "If A then B" equal to "B if and only if A"? 10 months ago:
It's Cunningham's Fallacy.
- Comment on Is "If A then B" equal to "B if and only if A"? 10 months ago:
Not just HIV, but full blown AIDS?
- Comment on Why is the current temperature sometimes lower than today's low temperature? For example right now it 13F with a predicated low today of 16F! 10 months ago:
What a silly thing to get hung up over.
- Comment on Could you stay in the roundabout indefinitely? 10 months ago:
Because if you let one guy do it, you have to let everyone do it.
- Comment on Where do milsim video games occurs nowadays ? 10 months ago:
I recommend staying away from the island of Medici, although it has a great climate.
- Comment on Is there a difference between customers/consumers? 10 months ago:
In addition to all the answers here, a costumer is someone who creates and/or sells costumes. The term is often used as a synonym for customer by people who don't type/spell well.
- Comment on Is there a chart where particular cuneiform or hieroglyphics are actually matched with emojis? 10 months ago:
I don't agree with how you seem to be defining "advanced." You seem to be tying that to intelligence and resourcefulness, as opposed to culturally. I think most use it to talk about the sum of knowledge and technology that a civilization has.
While ancient cultures were able to learn a lot about the world around them, today we know what they knew and a shit ton more. They figured out how planets and stars move. We've figured out what they're made of, how they bend space and time, their distances. We've landed machines on some and put them in orbit around others.
They had some cool medical tricks. We have many complex but routine surgeries with high survival rates due to development of drugs, equipment, and sterile environments.
They could write down their learnings to share with others of their culture. We have a global network of scientists sharing massive data sets and inferences.
Their innate capabilities were probably no different than our own, but we have massively advanced the scale and scope of learning shared with each generation. We have a much greater degree of specialized knowledge advancing and branching out at a very high rate.
- Comment on What's with the 'Thanks' people? 10 months ago:
"Thanks" is a short form of "Thank you." Maybe it has developed a negative connotation for some because of "K, thanks, bye." But for others it is like saying "morning" instead of "good morning."
- Comment on What's with the 'Thanks' people? 10 months ago:
Have you ever done something that was difficult but you wanted to help someone out?
"No problem" implies to me that it was easy or simple. Regardless of difficulty, "you're welcome" means you would do it again.
- Comment on What's with the 'Thanks' people? 10 months ago:
I guess it's because people like the OP will scrutinize every word and associate some malicious intent to it.
- Comment on What is an average person living in the US supposed to do about corporations raising prices? 10 months ago:
If you had shit yourself looking at the prices you would have saved yourself $17-$40.