You got the joke just fine. Just replace “wins” with “loses” in your own sentence.
You got the joke just fine. Just replace “wins” with “loses” in your own sentence.
Yeah don’t wake me up until after WWIII, but early enough that I can still witness the invention of warp drive and first contact with the Vulcans. #bozeman2063 hell yeah baby
Hm, I think South Africa might be a contender. Apartheid was ended by a white prime minister and then Nelson Mandela was peacefully allowed to be elected.
No, the old demented dude is going to lose
The best kind of picking!!
Jokes aside though, where do you draw the line between calling out a misconception, and nitpicking?
I think the question of the extinction of an entire clade of animals is a reasonably significant misconception, personally.
I predict that Europeans will look upon the drawn-out and comedic campaign with smug disdain and self-satisfaction… and proceed to explain away their own increased support for right-wing nationalism and fascism. One day, we will all wake up and realize that we dun goofed but it’s too late.
I was actually kind of confused at first about the liquid and bar soap thing. I’ve used bar soap to wash my hands all my life, and for nothing else. To wash the whole body during a shower, I use liquid soap (called shower gel) and I would find bar soap unwieldy. Moral of the story: your insistence on using one vs the other is entirely cultural.
Fun fact: even washing-up liquid (dish soap) can be used to wash your hands in a pinch.
This isn’t contributing to the conversation, but I just wanted to thank you for reiterating the part about being paralyzed. When I read the post I read it as simply a paralysis of choice due to lack of experience in the matter. I feel terrible and I should have taken the phrase more seriously. Thank you for opening my eyes to this.
Another related misconception is that the pterodactyl is a dinosaur. In fact, it is a pterosaur which is a separate clade from the dinosaurs. Unlike the dinosaurs, the pterosaurs really are extinct. When science videos refer to “the asteroid that killed the dinosaurs” they should really say “pterosaurs” instead, it would be more educational on multiple levels.
Almost all dinosaur-centric film/TV of the 90s-2000s imply (or state outright) that the dinosaurs are now extinct. As a result, this remains a deeply held and ubiquitously perpetuated misconception. Paleontologists have suspected since the 70s, and known for sure since at least the 2000s, that the avian theropod dinosaurs survived and became modern-day birds. Therefore, birds are dinosaurs. Wikipedia is pretty clear on this.
she wants to be seen as a person, not for her disability
… Entire article is about her disability
Even in the 2000s I never understood that fascination for uptime and how it has somehow come to be seen as a badge of honor. What’s the purpose of bragging with how much power you’re wasting?
I do agree with your probability assessment; I too think that the Prime Directive is a more plausible answer to the Fermi paradox, as is “we’re just alone”.
However, it is not necessarily the case that everyone suddenly gets talking as soon as one of them breaks radio silence. If everyone is silent because of a perceived possible threat, then it stands to reason they will continue to be silent even when they receive a message.
Humans have shown time and time again in their history that they are expansionist, imperialistic assholes. For aliens to be spooked, we only need to show that tendency on a cosmic scale. If we start sending out probes or even manned missions to far away places that are barely likely to support life, we will instantly label ourselves as greedy conquerors. As soon as a colony of ours starts sending out new missions to create even more colonies, that’s when all civilizations, even the less advanced, realize that we’re the first stage of a cosmic cancer that must be nipped in the bud at all costs.
The oppressive existential threat you reference doesn’t need to exist for the universe to be a dark forest universe. It’s enough for every sufficiently advanced civilization to realize that such a threat could exist and remain quiet and hidden just in case.
What’s weird is that you can still use ad blockers just fine while you’re logged out. So I just open the videos in a private browsing tab to watch them, but in a regular tab to rate or comment.
What IRC servers still exist that allow random people like me to just join but have interesting people and channels and not just trolls and spam?
YouTube should just be government-run. No ads. Content creators can make money from sponsorships and Patreon. Which, incidentally, should also be government-run. And Twitter. These modern technologies should simply be public goods.
Driving at a leisurely 47 attoparsecs per nanocentury
It can still easily take hours if it’s a whole movie you’re copying and you’re transcoding it into a more space-efficient codec.