NielsBohron

I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again: in PF2, you can be any type of character you can imagine

Can I interest you in hearing the gospel of the Shoony?

I heard O’Brien’s been hanging out with degens. Bad gas travels fast in a small ship.

I heard it was a sick targ

Agreed, that’s my whole point. It was not the ideal way to get where we are, but it’s how it happened. There was a… I don’t want to say purpose, but “benefit,” might be the right word.

If we were designing things from scratch, then obviously religion would be left out. But it’s an unfortunate accident of the evolution of consciousness and evolution of civilization that certain societal benefits were included with the magical thinking. Just like the health of the human gut biome is tied to the existence of the appendix, even through the appendix doesn’t provide much in the way of direct benefits these days and can become inflamed and kill us.

The supernatural claims are just a byproduct of the mechanism that passed along the creation myths and cultural norms. It would be great if that wasn’t how it happened, but it did. Rational people can agree at this point that the magical thinking is a net negative for society, but IMO, to ignore that there were some positives to come along with religion is the same sort of blind denial that religious folks use.

It was a collective delusion to soothe ancient fears of a world we could not comprehend

Agreed, but can’t you see that that was an advantage during the formative ages of society and civilization?

I’ve said that, word for word. When I actually sit and think about it though, I think it’s more like appendicitis. Religion once served a purpose (passing on of useful cultural norms and expectations), has become vestigial, and is now inflamed and likely to kill us (as a society and individually, in some cases)

On the other hand, if you’re immortal and you can’t manage to build a fair bit of wealth, what are you even doing with your time?

We share a birthday! Here’s to one more trip around the sun

Autoionization and the reverse reaction are constantly happening in water, and when the reaction is happening at the same rate forward and backward the system is said to be “at dynamic equilibrium” (aka, stuff is happening, but there’s no net change)

In pure water, the equilibrium concentration of hydronium and hydroxide are equal, so it’s said to be neutral. At room temperature, that equilibrium concentration is approximately 1*10^-7 moles per liter, which gives a pH of 7 (since pH is defined as the negative log _10 of hydronium concentration)

Kinda, but not really. Deuterium exists naturally in more or less the ratio as it has since the solar system first coalesced.

Also, deuterium is a component of heavy water, but the term “deuterium” actually referred to the specific isotope of hydrogen where the nucleus consists of one proton and one neutron, as opposed to a single proton (which is the more common isotope)

Interestingly enough, in other solvents a neutral pH is going to be a different value. IIRC, ammonia has an autoionization constant of 10^-30, so a neutral pH would be 15

That’s why the meme works. It’s not because water autoionizes; it’s because water is amphoteric, meaning it can act as either a Brønsted-Lowry acid or BL base depending on what what it’s reacting with. Put water with ammonia, and water acts as an acid. Put water with acetic acid, and it acts as a base

Source: I teach college chemistry

Close, the standard IUPAC acid nomenclature would be “hydrohydroxic acid”

See, this doesn’t really work anymore, now that he convincingly won the popular vote in November.

He actually does have broad support from the racists, nihilists, and bigots that make up the conservative voting bloc (and apparently a sizeable portion of independents, as well).

November proved beyond a reasonable doubt that the US is still a bunch of racist assholes, and it bums me out.

Ibn Al-Haytham be with you

Edit: and I suppose the traditional response would be “and Popper with you”

Those people are strangely quiet when it’s a conservative-leaning meme, so I’ve learned to, as you say, tell them to get bent.

I can think of no better situation for the phrase “fuck you and the horse you rode in on”

That book… Was the Bible

Do people still use ratemyprofessor? The reviews at my school don’t seem terribly recent

Get this lizardposting outta here