Nat (she/they)

It’s normal where I live for students to say that. You can argue with that, but then I’d say it’s not worth singling out one person.

You sure you’re not just oversensitized to it? This feels like a false positive.

I didn’t get the impression reading that that they’re presenting themselves as an intellectual or a researcher, just that they’re a nerd going down rabbit holes.

omg it’s my personality 🤩

Everyone I argue online with is a Smurf?

Can it find my level? I lost it 🥺

per capita wealth: 👋

Actually, the distance doesn’t do weird things. If you traveled at slow speeds (up to like several thousand kilometers per second) time dilation and length contraction would still be negligible and your timing of how long the journey took would mostly line up with someone on Earth.

But if you’re traveling a significant fraction of the speed of light those effects become non-negligible. That’s where our normal understanding of a universal notion of objective time and distance breaks down.

The equations of special relativity are actually very approachable if you know algebra, you should play around with them and plug in some numbers!

100000 years from an outside perspective, but because of time dilation you could make it take arbitrarily little time from your reference frame.

You can’t see water either, only its effects on light that goes to your eyes

Point 2 is covered by having a control group and point 3 seems to be missing the point: well yeah, don’t take the conclusion too far, but that doesn’t mean measuring arousal is bad science.

Bigger issues are low sample size (as you mentioned) and the fact that it’s a correlational study that hasn’t done any work to causally link them.

I’ve seen e^{d/dx}

More than agricorps

The message I got was that the system’s to blame for making this the equilibrium point

Negative temperatures are actually hotter than all positive temperatures, you’re experiencing population inversion

We still have jokes and common knowledge about being sent to the psych ward if you reveal anything weird about your mind. I’ve heard stories only a few years old of doctors refusing to refer trans patients to gender clinics, which quite often means either needing to circumvent the system or death. Only last year I had the revelation that doctors are supposed to help me, not just tell me what I must do.

You can’t expect and accept that power is distributed unequally if you’re dead, I guess

“hitting yourself” is referring to self interactions I think

100 billion transistors

I don’t even live near any of my relatives, and anyone I would help would be about as related to me as any other human (so, not related). Perhaps in another time period I would’ve helped my tribe, but that is not the society I live in today.

Not that it really matters here, because I have no obligation to help genes.