JayDee

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[–] JayDee 1 points 4 days ago

'Twink! Educational Publishing'

(I know it says 'twinkl' but it's too good as twink to leave alone)

[–] JayDee 1 points 4 days ago

Bruh, I still haven't gotten over oblivion. Skyrim never scratched that itch.

[–] JayDee 2 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago)

Nobel had his brother exploded by the nitroglycerine ~~formula he created~~, so for certain disgustingly wealthy folks, it really do be just 'a random person dies' matter.

EDIT: sorry, not one of Nobel's later formulations, it was actually just straight nitroglycerine. Alfred Nobel would later stabilize it with diatomaceous earth and then, much later, with cotton.

[–] JayDee 24 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago) (1 children)

It's a heuristic that says 'most often the simplest solution is the best solution'. It's supposed to be used to shorten the path of finding a viable solution to a question or problem.

Basically, you find the simplest possible solutions, the ones with the fewest variables to account for, and you test them. They usually take the least amount of time to test, and they usually yield a solution faster because of that.

This heuristic is often misused by concluding that very simple answers are immediately correct without actually verifying. Its best application is for selecting possible solutions to test only.

[–] JayDee 2 points 6 days ago (1 children)

Quite a few of the photos taken are shot around the base of oil rigs, so we do actually have a scale for some of them.

[–] JayDee 9 points 6 days ago

Additionally, if an AI is advertised as 'safe for medical guidance', that should open that AI company to lawsuits.

[–] JayDee 1 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

Wouldn't the word just be 'defeminize'? It's in the dictionary right their, either divestment or robbing of feminine qualities. Been around as a word since the late 1700s.

EDIT: also as mentioned, emasculate originally meant 'castrate', and we've just used it as a figure of speech so much that it means the same as 'feminize'.

If we want a word for giving someone a penis, I'm sure I we can come up with it easily. we could make it sound old-fashioned like 'enphallize' or something, or we could be modern and worldly and use something like 'futanize'

[–] JayDee 10 points 1 week ago

Oh no, you wouldn't even have time to get cancer. That shit'll just straight up kill your cells then and there.

[–] JayDee 3 points 1 week ago (1 children)

I'm a huge fan of Kid A, though I can also accept that experimental music isn't everyone's bag.

Thom Yorke had something of a mental break and made Kid A, which was fueled by a feeling that rock 'was dead', just a formulaic and commodified product now.

I still like Creep, it's a great-sounding song. I do get why they don't like it, based on their statements about why they want to leave it behind.

Yorke told Rolling Stone in 1993: "It's like it's not our song any more ... It feels like we're doing a cover."[13] During Radiohead's first American tour, audience members would scream for "Creep", then leave after it was performed.[7] Yorke said the success "gagged" them and almost caused them to break up; they felt they were being judged on a single song.

[–] JayDee 42 points 10 months ago (1 children)

First, wildcat strikes, and strikes in general, were never legal per-say. They became legal when the US finally concluded that they could not stop unions from forming and strikes from disrupting production.

Second, the NLRB's existence was specifically for the purposes of reducing interruptions in industrial production. The NLRB were never an efficient means of getting what you wanted/needed at work, they were mostly just a low-risk means of applying fines to an abusive employer.

The labor wars are coming back in style, most likely. It'll only be a matter of time before armed strikes and similar matters start happening again.

[–] JayDee 6 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Gotta make sure it's the right one. Even ones from the 2000's that are below college-level are a trash shoot when it comes to slavery.

[–] JayDee 1 points 10 months ago

The average american reads at a 7th grade level. That's the second-to-last year of middle school, which then goes onto highschool, then college.

 

Found at a gas station.

 

A video briefly summarizing what 'shorthand' is, why it exists, and giving a brief description of Pitman shorthand and Gregg shorthand.

 

Description of video: "This is a Gregg shorthand tutorial that gives you an overview of the alphabet, and eases you into the system in a low pressure environment."

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Gregg shorthand resource github page (greggshorthand.github.io)
 

A webpage detailing the workings of Gregg shorthand and providing various resources and reading materials.

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submitted 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) by JayDee to c/shorthand@lemm.ee
 

'A Phonographic and Pronouncing Vocabulary of the English Language' by Isaac Pitman, public domain and preserved by Google's book-scanning program.

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Banned over fish joke (lemmy.sdf.org)
submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by JayDee to c/yepowertrippinbastards@lemmy.dbzer0.com
 

UPDATE: The Unbans are showing up on modlog now.:

unban log screenshot

~~I have traded the month-long ban in the many communities for a 6-day ban in vegan@lemmy.dbzero.com, which is a more reasonable ban~~. this ban has also been lifted now. I appreciate the cooperation from the mod over this misunderstanding.


So it seems i've gotten a month-long ban in..... over 30 communities across lemmy.dbzer0.com, sopuli.xyz, lemmy.ca, programming.dev, and several others, for this comment here.

Screen cap of comment for posterity:

It's directly replying to a comment saying they can't imagine why anyone thought otherwise about fish feeling pain, which is reasonable. You might notice the quotation marks, because it's satirizing people's mental gymnastics about fishes' pain perception. It was meant in jest, exclusively.

It seems likely that a single mod took this joke wrong and chose to ban me on every community they have control over.

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Nice Rock (www.youtube.com)
 

It's actually a boulder, BTW.

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Mark trusted you (www.youtube.com)
 

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Answer:

Tap for spoilerTHIS TOO SHALL PASS

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submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by JayDee to c/science@lemmy.world
 

This is a question regarding atomic and quantum physics, and any academic input would be appreciated. I am wanting some input on what level of trust I should put into this "Quicycle" group. It's a think tank comprised of supposed Doctors from CERN and research groups, and states their names. alot of their stuff raises red flags for me, though.

To preface, I was working on understanding how exactly, in 3d space, electron orbitals affect the magnetic field of their atoms. I'm wanting to better understand why atoms like Iron are more magnetic than others. I am not heavily plugged into the physics community, though - I'm mostly just learning out of personal curiosity.

I stumbled upon this group's periodic table of atomic orbitals, and it seems accurate on its face to a layman like myself. However, I start trying to research some of the terms and they're proposing things I've never heard of like pd-hybridization (where the p and d electron orbitals merge(?) to produce a hybrid orbital(?)).

I decided to look over their site with more rigor and I'm seeing things like Vivian Robinson: The Common Sense Universe (talking about 'common sense' when talking about quantum and "sub-quantum" mechanics seems really screwy) and M.A.R.T. (yet another theory of everything attempt) and I get a sinking feeling that nothing in this website is trustworthy for learning more in-depth physics.

Does any of this stuff look right to any Lemmy physicists?

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