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Probius

@ Probius @sopuli.xyz

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  • If I snapped you back in time 650 years right this very second, how would you use your current knowledge to succeed?

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  • My point was that using the Sun, Earth, or really any object as a reference is arbitrary and the "same position" at two different points in time is completely undefined.

  • If I snapped you back in time 650 years right this very second, how would you use your current knowledge to succeed?

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  • Actually 🤓, position and velocity are relative, so that's a nonsensical statement without defining a reference object for the Earth's position. If we're not assuming you end up safely on dry land, you could just as easily end up light-years away as wherever you were relative to the sun.

  • Wholesome sharks

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  • I don't see how it could be scumbag. Fear of sharks != fear of people in very obvious and unrealistic shark costumes. People who are afraid of ghosts don't have panic attacks from seeing people in ghost costumes on Halloween.

  • Astronomy Facts

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  • This comment deserves its own meme.

  • Woman says United Airlines crew tried to make her remove son's ventilator

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  • The people responsible for doing that should be in prison or dead.

  • The DM is railroading this entire campaign, first the ridiculous delta quadrant thing, and now this.

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  • If they needed more energy to grow food than to replicate it, replication would be so dirt-cheap that nothing would make any sense.

  • Dad demands OpenAI delete ChatGPT’s false claim that he murdered his kids

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  • Even nerf bullets can hurt you if they're shot at you in sufficient quantities.

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  • I don't mind them adding ads.

    I'm gonna stop you right there.

  • Least extreme biophysics phd

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  • Why did you self censor by saying "dot"?

  • Human Intelligence Sharply Declining

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  • What stood out to you as particularly bad on your rewatch?

  • Human Intelligence Sharply Declining

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  • You're absolutely right that access to education can greatly improve intelligence. Critical thinking skills are just that - skills that must be learned. Genetics are just one of countless factors involved in how intelligent someone ends up being.

    I saw Idiocracy a while ago, so I can't remember every detail to bring up examples, but I think the characters surrounding the main character did show growth and a willingness to try to learn things. I don't think we see much of an education system in that movie's portrayal of the future either.

    It's also worth noting that while your genetics absolutely affects your brain structure and chemistry, parents can pass on stupidity or intelligence to their children in more ways than just genetically. After all, most people learn more from their parents than from anyone else.

  • Human Intelligence Sharply Declining

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  • If one believes the accuracy of film’s central premise—that the dumb are reproducing at a higher rate than the smart, which will lower the world’s intelligence until idiocy reigns supreme—it’s only natural to want to stop that from happening. From there, it’s not at all that great a leap to begin believing that maybe there should be some kind of policy only allowing intelligent people to reproduce—in other words, sterilize the dumb.

    This is just the author asserting their own absurd leaps in logic as the intended message behind the movie, which it clearly isn't.

    A 2015 Pew study looked at how many kids that women with postgraduate degrees have given birth to over the past half-century. In 1994, 30 percent of women with a master’s degree or higher were childless, a number that’s since dropped to 22 percent. In 1976, 10 percent of said women had one child, while in 2014 that numbers up to 18 percent; those with two kids rose even more dramatically, from 22 to 35 percent.

    The author draws the wrong conclusion from this data. Just because women with degrees are having more kids now than in the past doesn't mean that women without degrees haven't always had more kids than women with degrees. It's very telling that they never bring those numbers up.

  • Human Intelligence Sharply Declining

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  • If you automatically assumed that intelligence having a hereditary component to it meant that I was trying to say that all dumb people's children were also dumb 100% of the time, you might not be as smart as you think.

  • Human Intelligence Sharply Declining

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  • I don't think it ever actually promoted eugenics. It just explored the natural consequences of two facts in a comedic way:

    • Intelligence has a hereditary component to it.
    • Stupid people have more kids.

    It never tries to push any eugenics-based agenda. It would have if they tried to say that dumb people shouldn't be allowed to have kids, but they never went anywhere near that.

  • You're breaking my heart...

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  • Maybe, but there's also a more long-term force in the other direction. Bringing content from other platforms to Lemmy means that Lemmy has more content and people are less likely to go elsewhere to get their fill. If the best of Reddit is available on Lemmy, why bother going to Reddit? It's the same thing as how Reddit used to have lots of Twitter screenshots on it back when Twitter was worth screenshotting. The people taking the screenshots likely use both anyway and wouldn't stop if they weren't allowed to post Reddit stuff here.

  • You're breaking my heart...

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  • A screenshot doesn't give them traffic. A link does.

  • New £200m train station will boast 1,000 bike spaces – but no car park

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  • Ohhh okay, I didn't know that.

  • New £200m train station will boast 1,000 bike spaces – but no car park

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  • I appreciate your nuanced view. I'd love to live in a world where personal cars were obsolete. It just needs a lot of infrastructure.

  • New £200m train station will boast 1,000 bike spaces – but no car park

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  • While I would like to avoid divulging too much personal information, there are disabled people I know for whom not being able to get there by car would make it a non-starter. Public transit isn't great where I live (US) and the nearest bus stop is outside of their walking distance. Maybe it's different in the UK.