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.

Yeah, the enslaving states actually wanted to count them as full people, for that purpose. 3/5 was a compromise with the free states. It really shows the power of motivated reasoning.

I mean they probably throttle upload to 1/10th the bandwidth as download…

I remember learning about the denial of the denial of the anti Muslim comments years ago. It’s offensive that America would send this troglodyte to us.

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.

Have you discovered any hobbies that middle class people could reasonably pursue?

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.

The wheel of time turns and ages come and pass. There is no end to the turning of the wheel of time but this is an end.

They did actually sue someone for the exclusive right to call themselves “crappy tire”:

IIRC someone was hosting a Canadian Tire complaint website “crappytire.com” and in trying to get it shut down Canadian Tire used the legal argument that this person was infringing Canadian Tire’s identity (“We are the legitimate Crappy Tire, and this person is an imposter”) and the domain should be surrendered to them. They won. edit: They lost.

This winter I frequently met American tourists on on the chair lift while skiing. I would always just say: “thank you for supporting our independence with your tourism dollars”.

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.

I don’t think anyone can actually do fusion power in the lab either. The only energy positive way to do fusion power is within a nuclear fission explosion isn’t it?

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