Except this analogy falls flat on its face because they could easily do a double-blind study like this. They just couldn't use humans. Everything about this study would be 100% applicable to humans if they used a dummy instead. We know this, because we understand how physics works at this scale.
That's not true in medicine, psychology, or sociology.
The dead fish fMRI study was far more insightful than this, because there, at least, it wasn't something that any 8 year old could test. It also didn't involve pretending to test something that we have 100% knowledge of at this point in history.
They would have been better served to design an actual medical study which would have horrific ethical concerns if done this way. That would have at least been topical, and not just stupid.
Yeah, they do. That's one of the primary reasons people trying to gain a lot of muscle mass use them. Anabolic steroids directly impact cell metabolism, allowing them to produce/use ATP more rapidly. This means they heal faster and recharge faster, allowing gym rats to work out more often and much more aggressively than they otherwise would be able to.
The responses here are hilarious. "Why don't the police just shoot the drone flying 400' up a mile away on the other side of the airport with a shotgun?" "Why don't they use their EMP weapons?" "Why don't they jam GPS?" "USE EAGLES!!!"
The lack of understanding of the size, scope, and both political and technical components of this problem are amazing.
You might want to learn what shotguns are and how they work before putting stupid comments like this on the internet. Here's a hint: Check the effective range of a shotgun and then check how high these drones are flying, and consider how large the airport is.
You'd have been less wrong if you'd said, "sounds like the Sussex Police force needs an AA battery".
All that productivity went into the pockets of the 1%. Had it stayed with the workers, we'd be living large while working shorter work weeks. Look at what's happened over the last 35 or so years. Productivity up something like 140%. Median family income up 40%.
The minute you say, "No", is the minute they back off. You work too much, because you're afraid they might decide they don't need you. But, if they needed you so much to force you to work that much, they need you too much to fire you.
Been there, done that. First job out of college I was asked to be on-call for the midnight to 8am shift. You know, "You'll only get called in like, once a month, if that." I gave a giant Nope to that. I was fresh out of undergraduate, but I wasn't an idiot. Salaried and underpaid, there wasn't a hit of either a raise or OT there.
My coworker? An idiot. He volunteered, and then ended up on call a day or two a week. Once in awhile I'd walk in to find him asleep at his desk.
Now granted, when the layoffs came I went before he did, but only by a couple of months. I'm not sure that a year or so of being on-call for midnight troubleshooting was worth 2 extra months of work before getting laid off.
And likely shitty, unproductive work too. It's amazing how many managers correlate hours at the desk with work getting done, when that's really not the case. Nothing like putting in hours more time than your brain has capacity, then coming in fresh the next day only to spend all that rested, productive morning time fixing the shit you (or someone else) fucked up the evening before.
There is definitely such thing as negatively productive work, and it's mindblowing to me how many managers do not get that.
Of course, delivery people ain't got time to put a package in a box, so most likely they'd just leave the package on top of or in front of the box.
Ding ding ding! We have a winner!
Our neighborhood has had some slight issues with package theft, and when we moved in our porch was one of the more exposed ones. There's nothing to hide anything behind. Expecting a fair number of packages for the holidays, we bought a couple big greenery displays, and also got a shitty plastic bit of porch furniture, which is a brown bench with a large storage area in it. We put the bench diagonally across the corner of the porch, so things can also be dropped behind it.
To date, a dozen packages have been delivered, and only 2 were hidden in any sort of way. I think we only lost one, and hopefully those thieves did something good with their $7 of birdseed.
Putting a note on the door doesn't seem to help, because ain't nobody got time for reading either!
Essentially you need "hooker in a bottle" to combine with the glitter. That's going to be a great one to explain to the GF. Toss in some long pink hairs, a fake nail, and and maybe a couple torn edges from a condom.
Better make sure you clean all that shit up and dispose of it carefully, before she shows up!
Because paying someone to make repeated attempts at delivery costs money....
That's like saying, "Because it hurts when I punch myself in the face."
If they didn't want to make repeated attempts at delivery, they wouldn't show up at 10am on a weekday 3 days in a row. The shipping companies seem to think that nobody in the entire fucking US has a job. I don't really understand where they got this notion, but somehow they did.
What's maddening is that they know damn well whether or not someone answered the door for every package that requires a signature. It would be fairly trivial to build a profile of when it's reasonable to expect someone to be home at every single house they've delivered to more than a few times. It would be harder, but not that hard, to design routes and organize shipments to hit the people most likely to be home at any given time.
But no. We'll just stick to trying 3 times in the middle of the work week, and then shipping it to a warehouse on the other side of town for us to drive to to pick up our "delivery".
Serious question here: Youtube has started to interrupt videos with ads now in a way that I don't seem to be able to block with NoScript/Ublock Origin. Can Pi-Hole catch and block these, or are they in-line enough with the video that it can't?
I haven't deployed Pi-Hole on my home network yet, but I'm starting to lean that way given these latest irritations.
Not sure how this is suddenly news. It's been called out since the very first IPCC report, and known long before that.
This is part of why nuclear power and hydroelectric power aren't exactly green. Far better than fossil fuels, sure, but much worse than an equivalent solar or wind farms in terms of CO2 release. The amount of concrete used in both nuclear plants and hydroelectric dams is massive. It dwarfs the pads for solar panels and wind turbines.
But like everything, it's complicated. Turns out that over decades, concrete actually absorbs a large amount of CO2. It seems to be close to half that released when making it. If carbon capture could be used during production, over its lifetime, concrete could become carbon negative. And alkali-activated cements seem to be on the horizon, taking industrial CO2 byproducts and making them into concrete-like structures.
Some people simply cannot handle the uncertainty and lack of defined purpose inherent in the random, infinite universe that the scientific worldview brings.
Bullshit. Most don't even want to try. As time goes on, it turns out that a very, very large percent of people can happily handle cold, hard reality. Look at all of the developed nations in the world. Religiosity is plummeting.
Trying to "reconcile religion and observable reality in byzantine and absurd ways" is very clearly a stupid thing to be doing. What baffles me is that as time goes on, it gets obviously more and more stupid. This is one great example.
As I noted, we've got better alternatives now. Humanity has advanced in the last couple thousand years. If you can't handle the cold, hard reality that science has revealed, you can wrap yourself in a nice warm secular humanist blanket, a philosophical worldview that can actually be reached by facts and reason. And as science continues its march forward, you'll have the psychological tools and philosophical viewpoint to deal with the new things that we find out about the universe and create for ourselves.
It's only going to get worse. If we ever discover life off the earth, there's going to have to be a ridiculous amount theological retrofitting and reinterpretation that goes on. At some point, when your tool doesn't work anymore, most sane people start looking for another tool, rather than continuing to bash away ineffectively with their current one while making excuses.
If your god didn't have the foresight to see this shit coming and provide some guidance, perhaps it's time to let go. In the last several hundred years, we've come up with a number of more modern, functional systems of understanding and ethics. We're well past the dusty myths of goat herders, as stories like these clearly illustrate. Time to let go, and catch up with modern times.
Do you even have the capacity to step back and look at yourself? Holy shit dude. I don't know what happened to you, but you need some serious help. What you're describing doesn't exist except in the rightwing echo chamber.
Get out once in awhile. I promise that the real world is nowhere as scary as Fox News and Breitbart tell you it is.
Just don't be an aggressive dick to everyone not like you, and it will all be fine. Even if you're still a paranoid conservative.
Yeah, but that doesn't drive clicks. Outrage does. Do you think they yelled about this shit from their front porch? No, they made videos about it. With advertisements in them.
...because the video was widely perceived as nodding to SJWs, the plague of our age.
Are you a conservative 12 year old? Why not get out of your parents' basement once in awhile and check out the real world? Every time I see some asshat like yourself moaning about SJWs and self-flagellating themselves I have to laugh. What happened to you that your precious snowflake of a self needs a boogie man to fear at all times? Could you please grow some balls and stop pissing and moaning about "SJWs"?
I live in a very liberal college town, and I never run into "SJWs". Maybe they exist on the college campus? I walk through pretty often, and I never see any signs of them.
I spend a lot of time on the internet. And the only time I hear a peep about the scary "SJWs" is from asshats like yourself, here. What shitty parts of the internet do you go to to get all riled up, so you can piss and moan in other places? Here's a pro-tip: Don't go there, if it pisses you off.
Seriously. Do you not have anything better to do with your time than being a victim of your imaginary "SJWs"?
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Except this analogy falls flat on its face because they could easily do a double-blind study like this. They just couldn't use humans. Everything about this study would be 100% applicable to humans if they used a dummy instead. We know this, because we understand how physics works at this scale.
That's not true in medicine, psychology, or sociology.
The dead fish fMRI study was far more insightful than this, because there, at least, it wasn't something that any 8 year old could test. It also didn't involve pretending to test something that we have 100% knowledge of at this point in history.
They would have been better served to design an actual medical study which would have horrific ethical concerns if done this way. That would have at least been topical, and not just stupid.
Yeah, they do. That's one of the primary reasons people trying to gain a lot of muscle mass use them. Anabolic steroids directly impact cell metabolism, allowing them to produce/use ATP more rapidly. This means they heal faster and recharge faster, allowing gym rats to work out more often and much more aggressively than they otherwise would be able to.
Don't feed the trolls, asshat.
Thanks for being an example!
The responses here are hilarious. "Why don't the police just shoot the drone flying 400' up a mile away on the other side of the airport with a shotgun?" "Why don't they use their EMP weapons?" "Why don't they jam GPS?" "USE EAGLES!!!"
The lack of understanding of the size, scope, and both political and technical components of this problem are amazing.
You might want to learn what shotguns are and how they work before putting stupid comments like this on the internet. Here's a hint: Check the effective range of a shotgun and then check how high these drones are flying, and consider how large the airport is.
You'd have been less wrong if you'd said, "sounds like the Sussex Police force needs an AA battery".
All that productivity went into the pockets of the 1%. Had it stayed with the workers, we'd be living large while working shorter work weeks. Look at what's happened over the last 35 or so years. Productivity up something like 140%. Median family income up 40%.
The minute you say, "No", is the minute they back off. You work too much, because you're afraid they might decide they don't need you. But, if they needed you so much to force you to work that much, they need you too much to fire you.
Been there, done that. First job out of college I was asked to be on-call for the midnight to 8am shift. You know, "You'll only get called in like, once a month, if that." I gave a giant Nope to that. I was fresh out of undergraduate, but I wasn't an idiot. Salaried and underpaid, there wasn't a hit of either a raise or OT there.
My coworker? An idiot. He volunteered, and then ended up on call a day or two a week. Once in awhile I'd walk in to find him asleep at his desk.
Now granted, when the layoffs came I went before he did, but only by a couple of months. I'm not sure that a year or so of being on-call for midnight troubleshooting was worth 2 extra months of work before getting laid off.
And likely shitty, unproductive work too. It's amazing how many managers correlate hours at the desk with work getting done, when that's really not the case. Nothing like putting in hours more time than your brain has capacity, then coming in fresh the next day only to spend all that rested, productive morning time fixing the shit you (or someone else) fucked up the evening before.
There is definitely such thing as negatively productive work, and it's mindblowing to me how many managers do not get that.
Why the focus on the armpit? We can all turn our head and sniff. Most of us can't check our other scent glands as easily.
Of course, delivery people ain't got time to put a package in a box, so most likely they'd just leave the package on top of or in front of the box.
Ding ding ding! We have a winner!
Our neighborhood has had some slight issues with package theft, and when we moved in our porch was one of the more exposed ones. There's nothing to hide anything behind. Expecting a fair number of packages for the holidays, we bought a couple big greenery displays, and also got a shitty plastic bit of porch furniture, which is a brown bench with a large storage area in it. We put the bench diagonally across the corner of the porch, so things can also be dropped behind it.
To date, a dozen packages have been delivered, and only 2 were hidden in any sort of way. I think we only lost one, and hopefully those thieves did something good with their $7 of birdseed.
Putting a note on the door doesn't seem to help, because ain't nobody got time for reading either!
Essentially you need "hooker in a bottle" to combine with the glitter. That's going to be a great one to explain to the GF. Toss in some long pink hairs, a fake nail, and and maybe a couple torn edges from a condom.
Better make sure you clean all that shit up and dispose of it carefully, before she shows up!
Because paying someone to make repeated attempts at delivery costs money....
That's like saying, "Because it hurts when I punch myself in the face."
If they didn't want to make repeated attempts at delivery, they wouldn't show up at 10am on a weekday 3 days in a row. The shipping companies seem to think that nobody in the entire fucking US has a job. I don't really understand where they got this notion, but somehow they did.
What's maddening is that they know damn well whether or not someone answered the door for every package that requires a signature. It would be fairly trivial to build a profile of when it's reasonable to expect someone to be home at every single house they've delivered to more than a few times. It would be harder, but not that hard, to design routes and organize shipments to hit the people most likely to be home at any given time.
But no. We'll just stick to trying 3 times in the middle of the work week, and then shipping it to a warehouse on the other side of town for us to drive to to pick up our "delivery".
Then we'd all appreciate you coming over here and explaining that to all the package delivery companies. They do not believe what you believe.
He should sell these on Amazon.
Serious question here: Youtube has started to interrupt videos with ads now in a way that I don't seem to be able to block with NoScript/Ublock Origin. Can Pi-Hole catch and block these, or are they in-line enough with the video that it can't?
I haven't deployed Pi-Hole on my home network yet, but I'm starting to lean that way given these latest irritations.
Not sure how this is suddenly news. It's been called out since the very first IPCC report, and known long before that.
This is part of why nuclear power and hydroelectric power aren't exactly green. Far better than fossil fuels, sure, but much worse than an equivalent solar or wind farms in terms of CO2 release. The amount of concrete used in both nuclear plants and hydroelectric dams is massive. It dwarfs the pads for solar panels and wind turbines.
But like everything, it's complicated. Turns out that over decades, concrete actually absorbs a large amount of CO2. It seems to be close to half that released when making it. If carbon capture could be used during production, over its lifetime, concrete could become carbon negative. And alkali-activated cements seem to be on the horizon, taking industrial CO2 byproducts and making them into concrete-like structures.
Some people simply cannot handle the uncertainty and lack of defined purpose inherent in the random, infinite universe that the scientific worldview brings.
Bullshit. Most don't even want to try. As time goes on, it turns out that a very, very large percent of people can happily handle cold, hard reality. Look at all of the developed nations in the world. Religiosity is plummeting.
Trying to "reconcile religion and observable reality in byzantine and absurd ways" is very clearly a stupid thing to be doing. What baffles me is that as time goes on, it gets obviously more and more stupid. This is one great example.
As I noted, we've got better alternatives now. Humanity has advanced in the last couple thousand years. If you can't handle the cold, hard reality that science has revealed, you can wrap yourself in a nice warm secular humanist blanket, a philosophical worldview that can actually be reached by facts and reason. And as science continues its march forward, you'll have the psychological tools and philosophical viewpoint to deal with the new things that we find out about the universe and create for ourselves.
It's only going to get worse. If we ever discover life off the earth, there's going to have to be a ridiculous amount theological retrofitting and reinterpretation that goes on. At some point, when your tool doesn't work anymore, most sane people start looking for another tool, rather than continuing to bash away ineffectively with their current one while making excuses.
If your god didn't have the foresight to see this shit coming and provide some guidance, perhaps it's time to let go. In the last several hundred years, we've come up with a number of more modern, functional systems of understanding and ethics. We're well past the dusty myths of goat herders, as stories like these clearly illustrate. Time to let go, and catch up with modern times.
It will be better for everyone.
Do you even have the capacity to step back and look at yourself? Holy shit dude. I don't know what happened to you, but you need some serious help. What you're describing doesn't exist except in the rightwing echo chamber.
Get out once in awhile. I promise that the real world is nowhere as scary as Fox News and Breitbart tell you it is.
Just don't be an aggressive dick to everyone not like you, and it will all be fine. Even if you're still a paranoid conservative.
Yeah, but that doesn't drive clicks. Outrage does. Do you think they yelled about this shit from their front porch? No, they made videos about it. With advertisements in them.
...because the video was widely perceived as nodding to SJWs, the plague of our age.
Are you a conservative 12 year old? Why not get out of your parents' basement once in awhile and check out the real world? Every time I see some asshat like yourself moaning about SJWs and self-flagellating themselves I have to laugh. What happened to you that your precious snowflake of a self needs a boogie man to fear at all times? Could you please grow some balls and stop pissing and moaning about "SJWs"?
I live in a very liberal college town, and I never run into "SJWs". Maybe they exist on the college campus? I walk through pretty often, and I never see any signs of them.
I spend a lot of time on the internet. And the only time I hear a peep about the scary "SJWs" is from asshats like yourself, here. What shitty parts of the internet do you go to to get all riled up, so you can piss and moan in other places? Here's a pro-tip: Don't go there, if it pisses you off.
Seriously. Do you not have anything better to do with your time than being a victim of your imaginary "SJWs"?
There are plenty of them. Here's the first one that google showed me: https://www.youtube.com/watch?...
This is the internet, after all. And if you had ever lived in the country, you'd know that this is a thing.
The number of youtube views.
Has anything changed from 6 months ago when we saw this story?