crazy how if the architect neglected to put that bird access port in the wall God would have shot that laser into an angel. much to think about.
it would hit the damn zucchini
does the lazer pass freely though angels, is that a rule
Canonically angels don't have holes so I think pregnancy could be bad for them
revised and attached, let me know if you need anything else.
Okay so by inspection elaborately staged photography can be art, great art, but I feel kind of skeptical about unstaged photography. Like. I mean it can be beautiful. But it's not beautiful in a different way than just like, seeing the thing. A window (or maybe a better metaphor is a periscope) isn't art. I'm not denying that photography requires skill, making a good periscope is hard! But like. Art qua art is richer than that, I think
well, maybe it's not art, but it's really hard to do well and can be practiced and cultivated and is possible to do in original ways and when somebody cultivates the skill and finds an original way of doing it, i might want to walk around in a room where their work is displayed so i can see and appreciate it. Honestly i can't blame someone if they mistake it for an art gallery but you and I know better, it's not really art
??? They saw something and told me about it, that’s art.
My take is that anything you can attain skill in can be art. So: "Seeing", and Composition(how you CHOOSE and frame you unstaged photography), and obvsl photo-editing(what you do to the pics after taking them), are all things you can get more skillful at, so yes unstaged photography can be art.
...and not just in the taking/production! You could, presumably, take unstaged automated photographs(like: you set it up somewhere with an infrared detector to snap pictures) and arrange them in an artistic way, which would ALSO make them "a work of art" even if the art was arrangement(and I guess the same would apply to collage).
okay so cucking as like pure humiliation obv doesnt have a lot of conceptual depth but the REALITY of cucking as like. a thing orchestrated by the pair, gives it a weird depth. its like that anon argumate got that lives in my head
if this dude has a wife, and he is arranging to have you fuck her, for the pleasure of watching, that makes him less cucked than you, right?
feudal wardship grindset tbh
kudzu has such a reputation as an inevitable threat, like its common in near-future sci fi for kudzu to have become massively out of control and grown everywhere but its been around for a long time now, and its like. obviously fine. i mean its not GREAT but its not like a *huge deal*. anyway i wanted to see if i was right about this and i am:
its like. its fine
In news media and scientific accounts and on some government websites, kudzu is typically said to cover seven million to nine million acres across the United States. But scientists reassessing kudzu’s spread have found that it’s nothing like that. In the latest careful sampling, the U.S. Forest Service reports that kudzu occupies, to some degree, about 227,000 acres of forestland, an area about the size of a small county and about one-sixth the size of Atlanta. That’s about one-tenth of 1 percent of the South’s 200 million acres of forest. By way of comparison, the same report estimates that Asian privet had invaded some 3.2 million acres—14 times kudzu’s territory. Invasive roses had covered more than three times as much forestland as kudzu.
And though many sources continue to repeat the unsupported claim that kudzu is spreading at the rate of 150,000 acres a year—an area larger than most major American cities—the Forest Service expects an increase of no more than 2,500 acres a year.
The hype didn’t come out of nowhere. Kudzu has appeared larger than life because it’s most aggressive when planted along road cuts and railroad embankments—habitats that became front and center in the age of the automobile. As trees grew in the cleared lands near roadsides, kudzu rose with them. It appeared not to stop because there were no grazers to eat it back. But, in fact, it rarely penetrates deeply into a forest; it climbs well only in sunny areas on the forest edge and suffers in shade.
kind of a painfully on the nose metaphor for the way the appearance of things swamps the actual truth of thing in "common knowledge". the growth pattern of kudzu is *literally* superficial
It'd be so funny if it turns out advertising doesn't work and we've made our public spaces incredibly ugly for no reason
as soon as you take a vegetable out of the ground it DESPERATELY wants to become slime and running a vegetable farm is just desperately trying to get somebody else to take the vegetables before the timer runs out
we will not have achieved our biotech dreams until every spice has an anti-spice that you can add when youve used too much which binds to it and renders it tasteless
putting the pepper shaker and the pepperase shaker out on the table before serving dinner
The concept of superfetation, a second conception during pregnancy, has been controversial for a long time. In this paper we use an experimental approach to demonstrate that female European brown hares (Lepus europaeus) frequently develop a second pregnancy while already pregnant and thereby increase their reproductive success. After a new, successful copulation, we confirmed additional ovulations before parturition in living, late-pregnant females by detecting a second set of fresh corpora lutea using high-resolution ultrasonography. The presence of early embryonic stages in the oviduct, demonstrated by oviduct flushing, next to fully developed fetuses in the uterus is best explained by passage of semen through the late-pregnant uterus; this was confirmed by paternity analysis using microsatellite profiling. Subsequent implantation occurred after parturition. This superfetation, categorized as superconception, significantly increased litter size and permitted females to produce up to 35.4% more offspring per breeding season. It is therefore most likely an evolutionary adaptation.
when i heard that rabbits can be double pregnant i thought for sure that had to be wrong because like. they only have one uterus. how do you get second pregnant in the same uterus. turns out you dont, you store the zygote in the oviduct until the uterus clears out and then you get a new pregnancy right after your old one! semen travels THROUGH the pregnant uterus (somehow??? do they not have an amniotic sac? or does it go...around?)
Really enjoying conceiving of drinking electrolytes as recieving the Gator's aid
dunmeshi is funny bc chilchuck is exactly the same as every other 'looks like a child but is an adult' anime character, people just don't recognize that because of his gender + the story tone. eventually someone somewhere will be called out for making porn of him though
"Is Chilchuck A Shota" - the greatest thread in the history of forums, locked by a moderator after 12,239 pages of heated debate,
I wonder what percent of people know about the indo European language family. Like that Hindi is probably related to almost every European language, but not to Arabic or Chinese. 40%?
Based on my anecdotal experience talking to non-linguists: less than 1% in the US, almost certainly. In fact, tumblr is the only place I have ever encountered non-linguists who know about the Indo-Eurpoean family. Globally I'd wager it's <<1%, like less than 0.1% or 0.01%. It is not even remotely common knowledge.
This is fucked up. Maybe I should start talking about this on every first date. To spread the word
I’ve heard “Indo-European” before, but never made the connection that that actually meant Hindi.
so quick googles suggest tigers kill something like 50 people a year and there are about 4500 tigers left. both of these numbers are uncertain but the upshot is that about 1% of tigers kill a person every year. thats insane right. i mean i guess theyre the only large predator that lives in places with high population densities? most of the large predators do super sparse areas, the ocean or the savannah or the mountains. also theyre good at hiding. nonetheless. insane
"there aren't any clear immediate alternatives to carbon-based fuel for cargo ships"
put nuclear reactors on them 👍
I wonder if it's possible to make fossil fuels expensive enough for this to be viable. I feel like probably not, but I'm not certain. Im not sure what would happen to shipping if you made fossil fuels way way more expensive. Like it would go down but would there just be less international trade? Or could it find new routes. Presumably far more electrified trains for stuff that can go by land instead. Could you make sails viable?
I don't think nuclear reactors are *that* expensive? Apparently a submarine reactor costs about $150 million, and it has an output of 30MW, so for a super-big "triple-E ship" you would need two of them.
The current fuel usage of a triple-E ship is 150 tonnes/day, at around $700/tonne it uses up $300 millon worth of fuel in 8 years, while the reactor is designed to work for 33 years before refueling.
huh, yeah, 150 tons of gasoline per hour is about 70 MW (wolframalpha)
and if it was gasoline at current prices that would be over a thousand dollars per ton (wolframalpha), not sure if it's higher than your number because ship fuel is cheaper or because your number is older, but either way they're about the same
i wonder how expensive gasoline is compared to natural gas, which is what we use in power plants...
im getting gasoline is three cents per megajoule (wolframalpha)
using residential natural gas prices (not sure how much of this is just paying for the cost of getting it to your house, but that's what I have) i'm getting one cent per megajoule, but it can get up to 2.5 cents in the winter (wolframalpha)
fossil fuels are the same I guess?
so why don't we just run the country on submarine reactors... well obviously a major expense in terrestrial nuclear power plants is the cooling water loop, I imagine being in the ocean makes that easier, but still...
OK, supposedly Vogtle Unit 3 cost 34 billion dollars, and is 1.1 GW. Just googling numbers. THat's 1.1 GW of generation. Is that the right number? Well whether it's a submarine or a power plant, we're asking how much energy goes into spinning the turbine right?
How much would 1.1 GW of submarine reactors cost?
5.5 billion (wolframalpha)
... what...
diseconomies of scale? expenses of scale?
The cooling thing being Handled by being in the sea is super neat, but I guess having a bunch of ships all come in to unload cargo would heat up the dockside water too much maybe. I mean that’s not Why it isn’t done, but I would assume that would become a problem.
Beats offloading all the problems into the air, still, imo. Though afaik shipping is still already pretty efficient and worthwhile versus alternatives.
Eh. They should do it. Just Waterworld it up out there and have the giant cargo ships all have nuclear reactors in them.
I like to rag on physicists but in their defense they created the very useful concept entropy and then mathematicians drove the word into the ground by using it for a million different things
Sounds like the meaning of the word just naturally spread out over as many microstates as possible.
love that period in the late 2000s and early 10s when being able to competently use google was considered arcane nerd knowledge
This vanished not because everyone learned how to use google competently, but because google degraded so badly using it competently is no longer possible.
I truly cannot get that worked up about plagiarism. Like you need rules and norms against it for basic incentive reasons but its such a minor crime. Maybe if I was more invested in the notion of the Artist
Actually I think in general "it's good to have rules against it, but it's only arguably immoral" is a very useful concept to have. This is a very common thing
im on some "capitalist industrial society is based on ideas creating wealth and people who create wealth getting to keep it, credit for ideas is the basic necessary concept which stuff like property law only loosely approximates, to disrespect this is to hate the roof over your head" thing but i don't really expect anyone else to care without a pretty fundamental shift in perspective
Plagiarism’s a big fucking deal bcs of how we leave people to die in the street if they fail to make their own way, yeah. I mean this does also color the plagiarist’s perspective… truly I will not be able to hate people online properly until UBI
Yeah, and I think unpacking that helps clarify the issue, because who exactly is going to be doing the plagiarizing? Like: as with everything, people with more resources and a higher social position can and will do more plagiarizing, simply because they have more chances to do it and are less likely to be punished for it. As hbomb points out repeatedly in the video they're ALREADY the people who do most of it; ltrl the first anecdote he covers, that of ABC ripping off Ellison's Brillo story, is an example of this. Plagiarism, like almost anything, is a systemic problem.
And, when your society is a hierarchical one like ours where Fame(Credit for doing a thing) grants Success and Success grants Authority, tolerating it makes everything in your society shittier. Again, as hbomb repeatedly shows, it's much easier to steal someone's work than to do similar work so, in a society where plagiarism isn't considered a big deal(or is seen as proof of one's laudable Cleverness/Ruthlessness), you're going to naturally see less interested, less ethical, less careful, less attentive, and less exacting people rise to the top through their plagiarism(and the personal and class abuse it fundamentally is since higher status people steal from lower status ones), which is in itself going to cause problems. They'll be less able to handle the responsibilities they've gained; they'll be less able to actually do the job and more prone to fucking it up; they'll be more likely to abuse those they've been given authority over because they fundamentally do not care about being ethical people. A person who cares more about wealth and status than doing a good job will be bad at their job. In professions like journalism and academia you might see fabricated and inaccurate information passed off as the truth(again, something hbomb shows these plagiarists repeatedly doing), which just basically negates their purpose. In professions like law and politics, the opportunities for misrule open to unethical people are even more destructive. The social convention against plagiarism(and it really must be understood that this IS a Social Convention; plagiarism needs to rise to the level of copyright theft before courts will even touch it and they'll rarely punish anyone even then as hbomb notes at the beginning of the video) acts as a stopgap; to incompetents breaking something that hurts THOUSANDS, and to abusers gaining the authority to commit worse abuses.
But the thing is: even WITH that social convention, we ALREADY SEE Examples of these problems because too many people with a say in how our institutions are staffed and managed care MORE about hierarchy and nepotism(rewarding their friends and punishing people they dislike) than they do honesty, fairness, competence, and justice. Full Professors leveraging the precarity of their grad students' situation to extort their work from them was an open secret in USian academia through the 90s and 00s(probably still IS given the academic jobs situation has worsened since then), and particularly bad with "Celebrity" academics(ie: profs who are also tv talking heads). Male bosses stealing the work of their female secretaries(and white bosses stealing the work of their non-white employees) was so common it was a running joke in US society from the 50s to the 00s, as was their leveraging of it to extort wages, work, and sex. Plagiarism, fundamentally, is a gamble of power; a roll of the dice that your theft won't be noticed or punished because the ones you steal from are too lowly or obscure for anyone to know or care about. To plagiarize is to say "the person who did this doesn't matter as much as me" and, no surprise, a society built on the idea that some people matter more than others like ours implicitly encourages it. Is that something we shouldn't care about?
And I guess that really gets to the heart of it because, fundamentally, the question of plagiarism is a question of justice. To say you don't care about plagiarism is to say you don't care about justice, or fairness, or honesty; to say that injustice doesn't bother you, nor does being lied to by authorities. And if that's how you feel Fine, but just know that ALLOT of people aren't going to trust you after that.
theres a scene in blue eye samurai where a character lights an incense stick by hitting a metal rod on thge ground with a hammer until its red hot and then using that to light it. genuinely confusing scene. is that like... a thing you can do? i feel like surely not. compressing can heat stuff up but they dont heat up that much. and also that would make the effect like, "consumable". i think its implied it may be heating up from the sparks?
