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  • Maybe he's got a finer point, but it actually just looks like an argument against categorization. It's like saying I don't trust math about "triangles" or "scalene triangles" or "rhombuses" when you find out about the special properties of the equilateral triangle or the square.

    The fact that there are differences between elements of a category does not eliminate the utility of the commonalities shared by elements of a category. It does limit that utility, yes.

    For example, just because you are getting plenty of protein, if you somehow completely avoid one of the amino acids that the human body uses but can't synthesize, then eventually you will have some fairly specific health problems. That's not strong evidence that it's worth micromanaging your macronutrients by tracking your intake of all amino acids individually. (It might be; I haven't seen it studies either way.)

    Maybe I'm missing some context, but I also get the "anti-science" vibe from the image.

  • Oh hell yeah

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  • Popular and profitable things do way more damage no matter how "uncool" they are. Boomers making minion images will only worsen the problem.

  • Oh hell yeah

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  • There's no option for me to choose a copyright-free world. But, I can choose to not use (or promote or propagate) works made by "AI" owned my MASSIVE corporations in violation of the copyrights of millions of independent, often non-profit-driven content creators (including myself).

  • White actress sues San Diego County Library for not allowing her to portray Black civil rights icons

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  • Employment is a necessity under Capitalism. Performance is not.

  • White actress sues San Diego County Library for not allowing her to portray Black civil rights icons

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  • I agree. I don't really see any problem with her performing the play.

    BUT, I'm not sure the library should be forced to let her use the space (or be assessed civil penalties). So, I don't think she should sue or that the suit should go her way.

    I could be convinced if the library is supposed to be providing performing space to the public and the library is controlled/funded by the government. Then, I think she might have free speech protections, especially after they had done some scheduling. Asking her to change the characters definitely seems like content policing, not mere "time and manner" control.

  • Study Finds Water Isn't the Best Drink for Hydration

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  • Living in the sauna that is Arkansas, I don't usually think about dry air, but I think you are correct. If you've dehydrated yourself through breathing, plain water is fine for hydration.

  • Study Finds Water Isn't the Best Drink for Hydration

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  • If you can have food that is an electrolyte source with your water, that's fine.

    If you consumed the food prior to the dehydrating events, it won't assist in restoring electrolytic balance.

  • Study Finds Water Isn't the Best Drink for Hydration

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  • Tap water has too few electrolytes to restore your electrolytic balance after losing water (via sweating or urination). But yeah, it does technically contain electrolytes.

  • Study Finds Water Isn't the Best Drink for Hydration

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  • Yes, all the ways in which human lose water they also lose electrolytes ("salts"). More with sweat, but still some with urine. So, re-hydrating should include at least some of those. This has been known for decades, tho ravers often forget it and have died from hyponatremia.

  • Engineering mathemagics

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  • Nah, it's just new and improved: with Wings! (to stay in the right place all night long)

  • Engineering mathemagics

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  • Clarke's Maxim: Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic.

    Corollary / Contrapositive: Any technology distinguishable from magic is insufficiently advanced.

  • Engineering mathemagics

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  • When the environment is energetic enough, the electromagnetic force and the weak force unify into the electroweak force. The weak interaction controls radioactive decay.

    We can control electromagnetic force "at scale", IMO. It's not freely, but we have networks of electromagnetic systems that span continents.

    If we could control the weak force at the same scale... I'm not sure what wonders we might unlock. At the very least, I imagine we could "clean" instead of just "contain" radioactive waste, at least low-level stuff.

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  • When we figure out how to manipulate elctro-weak at scale, it will be magic.

    Electro-mag is pretty crazy already, I agree. The ICP can't even figure out how they work.

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  • Not every error bar represents a Gaussian, if for no other reason that most error bars aren't symmetric.

    The error bars for small sample size relative to population size are Gaussian.

    Error due to a non-representative sample can have a variety of shapes, but their distribution might also be unknown. We do frequently, almost implicitly, assume unknown distributions to be Gaussian, but we should recognize that's not necessarily a true fact about the universe.

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  • It's a very non-representative, very small sample. The error bars in the statistical inference to the whole population includes both "very common" and "one-in-a-million".

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    How many of you use Lemmy and ONLY use Lemmy vs Reddit?

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  • Honestly, since I found Lemmy, I mostly ignore (or don't even see) Reddit news. Rarely it still shows up when I search things, but I just view those without logging in and don't vote / comment.

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    How many of you use Lemmy and ONLY use Lemmy vs Reddit?

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  • I think my Reddit account still exists, but I haven't logged in since 3rd party apps stopped working. It took me a bit to find Lemmy, and I'm still not on it was frequently as I was on Reddit.

    I deleted my Twitter account when they announced they would be training grok on my tweets. I hadn't logged into it since Elmu mass-banned a bunch of journalists for retweeting the "Elon's Jet" account. I decided Mastodon was more likely to not get between me and the journalists I wanted to see microblogs from.

    I'm not hardcore. I an still well-entrenched in the Google ecosystem (primarily YT). I still have a Facebook account, and occasionally login to un-tag myself. I use Amazon Pay / Paypal whenever I can, tho I at least stopped paying for Prime when they decided to start putting ads in Prime Video stuff.

  • I mean I love Constantine...

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  • I think the Catholic Church does Latin because that was the language the first pope (Saul/Paul) was given his revelation in.

    Omniscient being(s) would, of course, understand any language.

    The weave/astral is manipulated by intelligence/will and the somatic component if any is just to provide caster focus.

  • Who remembers this?

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  • I wonder if could be an age component, too? Artificial lighting used to be a lot more yellow. "Party" lighting tends to be more blue.