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fubbernuckin@lemmy.dbzer0.comto Showerthoughts@lemmy.world•Time travel doesn't work unless you also have teleportation. If you travel to the past/future, Earth will be in a different position in its orbit, and you'll die in space.English3·2 days agoI’m using the microwave background as a reference
fubbernuckin@lemmy.dbzer0.comto Showerthoughts@lemmy.world•Without the precursor of Spirituality and Religion, there can be no morality.English331·4 days agoIncorrect
fubbernuckin@lemmy.dbzer0.comto Today I Learned@lemmy.world•TIL a high school teacher used an electric chair as punishment for misbehaving students.English86·5 days agoClearly overblown. This isn’t like a lethal or dangerous shock he used, some of the students in the class went on it for fun. The article says it’s just enough to cause a tingling sensation. This whole thing was sent to the media by one parent throwing a tantrum.
fubbernuckin@lemmy.dbzer0.comto Showerthoughts@lemmy.world•It used to be just weird Christians, but now everyone's pretty much on board with burning Harry Potter books.English21·9 days agoA kids book owned by someone who is using the money and fame to campaign to destroy the lives of a bunch of my friends and millions of others.
You can like the book at whatever age idc, but please understand the sentiment that the author should not be getting revenue from those books because they are trying to legally define people out of existence. I’m not a fan of erasing media and, not having read the books, I have no way to be offended by their content, but I do not want Rowling profiting from their sale. Spread pirated digital copies in place of print until it ends up in public domain.
fubbernuckin@lemmy.dbzer0.comto No Stupid Questions@lemmy.world•What's the deal with gasping? Is it an inherent reflex? Is it learned? Did I desensitize myself to the point of not gasping anymore? Do you gasp? Do certain groups of people gasp less commonly?English9·10 days agoProbably not necessarily? Evolution does kind of a bad job at doing things that are beneficial, it just does things that half work some of the time, or does things at random that don’t really hurt us, or does things at random that do hurt us but don’t cause us to instantly drop dead as soon as we’re born.
This feels to me like a thing that half works some of the time. Raw speculation here, but gasping could be to get a bit of oxygen to deal with a dangerous situation, but evolution equated danger with the unexpected so some of us just reflexively gasp when there’s something unexpected. Or maybe it’s something else, who knows.
fubbernuckin@lemmy.dbzer0.comto Selfhosted@lemmy.world•PewDiePie: I'm DONE with GoogleEnglish73·12 days agoHey they said one of.
fubbernuckin@lemmy.dbzer0.comto Showerthoughts@lemmy.world•I have never in my 43 years heard of anyone else with the first name Sigourney.English3·14 days agoSo that’s what they meant by “fun for the whole family”
fubbernuckin@lemmy.dbzer0.comto Today I Learned@lemmy.world•TIL Y2K38 (Y2K is coming back in 13 years)English10·14 days agoLooks at every embedded system ever
fubbernuckin@lemmy.dbzer0.comto Uplifting News@lemmy.world•CRISPR used to remove extra chromosomes in Down syndrome and restore cell functionEnglish6·19 days agoAlso true, but where does that tie in to a comment saying this is a good thing? Like where did the Jesus freaks come in? We could just as easily be happy about a good thing happening.
fubbernuckin@lemmy.dbzer0.comto Uplifting News@lemmy.world•CRISPR used to remove extra chromosomes in Down syndrome and restore cell functionEnglish51·19 days agoYou’re not wrong, but why are you bringing that up in response to that?
Could be a tilt shift lens which can distort perspective and make a photo look as if it’s being taken from a slightly different angle. Not sure what to look for to disprove that hypothesis though.
fubbernuckin@lemmy.dbzer0.comto Showerthoughts@lemmy.world•Not only do we humans have a common ancestor with primates still living in trees, we have a common ancestor with the trees.English2·25 days agoAh, alright that’s a fair point. Once one of those splits happened then that single life form would have become the common ancestor for all other life. I’m satisfied with that explanation.
fubbernuckin@lemmy.dbzer0.comto No Stupid Questions@lemmy.world•If youre bi do you have to prove it?English12·25 days agoWhy? To who? How?
fubbernuckin@lemmy.dbzer0.comto Showerthoughts@lemmy.world•We went from LEARN TO CODE to NO ONE LEARN TO CODE GET A CONSTRUCTION JOB in about a 3 year span.English8·26 days agoWell it’s good to know my schooling might not be a complete waste at least
fubbernuckin@lemmy.dbzer0.comto Showerthoughts@lemmy.world•We went from LEARN TO CODE to NO ONE LEARN TO CODE GET A CONSTRUCTION JOB in about a 3 year span.English53·26 days agoWell the job market for developers is still pretty tight at the moment. I don’t have the insight to say for sure why (though I have some guesses), but I know that for me and every junior developer I know it’s rough out there.
fubbernuckin@lemmy.dbzer0.comto Showerthoughts@lemmy.world•Not only do we humans have a common ancestor with primates still living in trees, we have a common ancestor with the trees.English4·26 days agoWhat if a bunch of the earliest life spontaneously formed by the millions independently in different places? Would we all really have a true single common ancestor then?
Edit: I think there’s been a misunderstanding. I believe that all life on earth came from the same “species”, being the same kind of structure spontaneously generated in the primordial soup, but that there could’ve been a number of those structures that were generated and were all identical to each other. This would mean that any of them could evolve from the same starting point in terms of “design”, but not literally be the exact same object, meaning that we could have a number of origin ancestors that were all identical, and were potentially not an exact one singular living thing.
fubbernuckin@lemmy.dbzer0.comto Showerthoughts@lemmy.world•Not only do we humans have a common ancestor with primates still living in trees, we have a common ancestor with the trees.English81·27 days agoIt’ll be fine. Sharks are older than trees so we can switch to them.
fubbernuckin@lemmy.dbzer0.comto No Stupid Questions@lemmy.world•How good are amphetamines for brain fog?English2·29 days agoThe effects vary a lot from person to person. For me, amphetamines cause brain fog. I remember years ago when I was first prescribed them, they worked great to treat my ADHD. I never felt any addictive tendencies and could stop using them for extended periods without any cravings or even withdrawal symptoms. Around the end of high school they started to give me horrible brain fog though, it would take me a few seconds to even recognize my name, I had a hard time remembering where I was or how I got there, it was pretty bad. I stopped using them pretty shortly after I figured out the cause of my symptoms. Definitely best to talk to a doctor about it, don’t assume it’s going to work for you.
You can measure the Doppler shift relative to the cosmic microwave background though