Maybe beaver teeth go from orange to brown when they die due to further iron oxidation

Facebook sucks and has for quite some time.

In Canada we passed a regulation that social media sites have to pay our media companies to link to their articles. Google is paying up, but Facebook said no, and has banned news. It has made Facebook here much less terrible.

I really like that the 3d preview has a scale!

I think the establishment is actually quite sensitive to unemployment figures because people that are unemployed have time to demonstrate.

Just like how the law equally prevents the rich and the poor from sleeping under bridges.

I think the irreducible complexity debate is over. Creationist scientists will continue to publish “but maybe” arguments because defending creationism is part of their identity, but its just a “but maybe this gap in human knowledge proves XYZ”. They are starting with a conclusion and looking for arguments that it isn’t impossible.

In the video where he’s shooting antique guns (or something) with his son, his son always calls him “sir”. Is that a regional thing? It seemed super weird to me.

I’m a different person weighing in here:

When you said:

The T3SS is one of the most complex bacterial molecular machines, incorporating one to over a hundred copies of more than 15 different proteins into a multi-MDa transmembrane complex (Table 1). The system, especially the flagellum, has, therefore often been quoted as an example for “irreducible complexity,” based on the argument that the evolution of such a complex system with no beneficial intermediates would be exceedingly unlikely. However, it is now clear that, far from having evolved as independent entities, many secretion systems share components between each other and with other cellular machineries (Egelman, 2010; Pallen and Gophna, 2007).

I ofc am just a layman reading this, I agree it seems better understood that how I interpreted what he was saying, but it also doesn’t seem nearly as well understood as you’re saying.

IMO it’s a problem with the article. The article says that T3SS is cited as an example as something that’s “irreducibly complex”. I suppose that it’s true that it is cited as that. But the second part of the paragraph explains why it isn’t true that it’s “irreducibly complex”. The paragraph isn’t explicit enough because the paragraph has probably evolved to be something that’s true and equally dissatisfying to both sides.

The printer I had in the 90s wouldn’t print black and white without color ink either.

So if I’m in Vancouver BC it would go from Friday to Saturday in the mid afternoon? Is Friday night the first night of the weekend or the last night of the work week?

I could be convinced that there is a part of Paris that is like that. It doesn’t look like a part of Paris anyone would want to spend much time in though.

I think that is just how monotheists prefer to translate it, I believe “before” is more impartial.

I’m a person that saw this and thought “YES!”.

It’s a way to make my mindless scrolling a little bit less mindless. It’s not a Wikipedia alternative it’s a tiktok alternative (I don’t use tiktok, but I understand why people do, my attention span is also shattered). Obviously it’s not going to replace looking things up on Wikipedia, and I love exploring links in Wikipedia articles, but you don’t know what you don’t know so this seems like a good way to learn about things you didn’t know you were interested in.

Putting something you need to see where you can’t see it actually does have a short of efficiency logic to it.

Like save the fusible storage locations for things you’ll be able to see

Yeah I think if you go back to Genesis you’ll see that God pretty clearly wanted a naive vegan nudist roommate.

I went to China on a business trip about 10 years ago. I was gobsmacked by how good they are at flattery. I was totally unprepared for it, and they didn’t even want anything from me.

Yeah I don’t think there’s any basis to the quote.

Interestingly the earliest composed Christian document that has been recovered (the didache, the copy we have is from Ca. 1000 CE, but seems to be in the original Greek) condemns infanticide, specifically including by exposure to the elements. It also prohibits private property so the document is not taken authoritatively by many modern christians.

Wait, so people can choose whether or not they’re subjected to hate speech? What tyranny!

If you don’t like the way communities are being moderated, maybe you should find/start a server that more aligns with your values.

And the new one is NORTH American.

People using “American” to refer to anyone from the western continent (from a euro centric perspective) is conventional in some parts or the world. It’s not the convention in Canada, we bristle at the thought of being labeled Americans.