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  • I think any aliens advanced enough to visit Earth would probably understand it.

    Whether it’s horror movies or extreme sports, it is some kind of play, which is about creating a safe or controlled environment to explore things that either isn’t really happening (horror movies) or things that haven’t been tried before (extreme sports).

    A lot of extreme sports are actually relatively safe because it’s done by individuals in highly controlled environments. Statistically it’s a lot more dangerous to participate in other sports or everyday activities where there’s a larger risk from other participants or things that are unpredictable. Things like horse riding, traffic and trampolines are more dangerous because they’re more unpredictable. The consequences might be worse if it fails thoughm, making it “extreme”.

    Travelling through space to explore inhabited planets absolutely requires the same kind of desire and process of safely testing out things that are potentially dangerous.









  • I went to the doctor with something similar. Stress or whatever, right?

    I shit you not, his advice was: “if a whiskey doesn’t cure it, come back next week”. Then he gave me a book recommendation for some kind of weird male toxic pseudo psychology self help. I never bothered getting the book after reading the synopsis.

    The next time I went to the doctor, the doctor had been replaced with a woman who actually listened to me.

    I guess the whisky worked.


  • bstix@feddit.dktoLemmy Shitpost@lemmy.worldDust.
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    I’ve never seen sticky ash. I’ve seen completely beige and brown nicotine on walls, but never sticky.

    This is more likely due to cooking. If the cooking hood/extractor doesn’t work right or they just haven’t cleaned in a while, the fumes from cooking will cover everything in a thick layer of sticky fat, which is difficult to get rid of with normal cleaning products.


  • bstix@feddit.dktoScience Memes@mander.xyzIrrational
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    Let’s have a look.

    https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Irrational_number

    In mathematics, the irrational numbers (in- + rational) are all the real numbers that are not rational numbers. That is, irrational numbers cannot be expressed as the ratio of two integers. When the ratio of lengths of two line segments is an irrational number, the line segments are also described as being incommensurable, meaning that they share no “measure” in common, that is, there is no length (“the measure”), no matter how short, that could be used to express the lengths of both of the two given segments as integer multiples of itself.

    https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quantum_mechanics

    Quantum systems have bound states that are quantized to discrete values of energy, momentum, angular momentum, and other quantities, in contrast to classical systems where these quantities can be measured continuously.

    The conclusion is wrong, i agree. That’s the joke of the meme.

    (Keep down voting if it matters to you. I’m only trying to explain a joke. The top post is in agreement with my statement.)


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    The definition of irrational numbers is that they are the real numbers that are not rationel. So we need to look at the definition of real numbers. A real number is a number that can be used to measure a continuous one dimensional quantity.

    Quantum physics says that reality is not continuous. Particles make “discrete” jumps instead of moving continuously. So irrational numbers can’t exist.







  • No, it’s just one guy on a sit mower. It collects it as it goes or leaves it on the ground.

    On larger roads they use a “roadside mower” which is a tractor with a robot arm trimmer that leaves the grass in the ditch. Still just one guy.

    The latest development is to spread “wild” flowers instead of grass in the roadside. Supposedly to increase biodiversity, but I think it’s mostly virtue signalling. A roadside next to heavy traffic isn’t a great habitat for insects anyway. They also used one-season flower seeds, so they will have to seed it every year…which makes no sense for this purpose. On the positive side, it looks pretty and hopefully creates some awareness of the issue.