userflairoptional

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 months ago (1 children)

More of a "only speak in cultural memes" thing. We all speak in phrases mostly.

"I am feeling alarm at the moment of realization that every warrior I am commanding may be killed by the enemy who has prepared for our assault with deadly guile." This complex and specific meaning might be encoded as "Ackbar above Endor when the Death Star struggled."

The whole thing is a bit queationable with the whole "how can they say things without some sort of language independant of their cultural memes to encode those memes within." That part never made sense to me.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 5 months ago

A shallow angle from the sun give you that long shadow, but it also gives the light lots of extra air to pass through sideways on it's way down out of space. The extra air filters out more light, and without an intense enough light your skin won't make Vitamin D.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 8 months ago (4 children)

Black-body radiation is an interesting argument against 100% efficiency, but couldn't you just extrapolate and argue that the emission will be converted back to heat once it stops reflecting and becomes absorbed?

[–] [email protected] 29 points 9 months ago (18 children)

Cats survived before us by hunting small mammals and small birds, and they are very effective at getting fed.

The motivation at the core of naming owners of outdoor cats as irresponsible is a sharp decline in songbird populations in direct proportion to the increase in outdoor cat population.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

enough

I think you underestimate the extremes we could go to with the directive to keep adding money until it works.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

What was the other?