Facts, by definition, are true
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There are no alternative facts. Only additional facts.
Alternatively there are lies.
You don’t need to trust facts.
That’s what makes them facts.Additionally, facts don’t tell you anything about anything, outside the fact itself. The sun rose yesterday. It rose today. It doesn’t automatically follow the sun will rise again tomorrow. That’s speculation, based on interpretative pattern recognition. Or to put it another way: “That’s just, like, your opinion man.”
On what?
Different people have different bodies of knowledge and experience. Their expertise on one question doesn’t transfer to another.
Steve@communick.newsto
Showerthoughts@lemmy.world•The concept "time" is the cause of lots of irritation, anger and regret.English
19 hoursSee I think you have that flipped.
What I describe is that everything stops. By everything I mean everything. Electrons orbiting their nuclei would be frozen in place. As a result the time stop is completely booring. Literally nothing happens. Nobody can even tell time stopped. When it starts again nobody noticed it happened. While I’m typing this response time could have stopped completely, and restarted, dozens of times.Even if your conciseness somehow continued, you couldn’t see anything because light itself would stop traveling to your eyes.
What you’re talking about is more like what you see in media. Where time doesn’t literally stop. But someone, something, or someplace, gets frozen in time; But time keeps going outside of what’s frozen. But yah that’s not stopping time. That’s freezing select things as time continues around them.
Imagine falling from the Empire State building and landing on the ground safely because you had no velocity?
If you had no velocity you’d just stop falling. You wouldn’t reach the ground. You’d hover in whatever spot you were when velocity stopped.
That’s assuming you maintained velocity you had with the Earth. Really if literally all your velocity absolutely stopped, you’d appear to instantly gain amazing velocity relative to the ground. Because the earth is moving incredibly fast itself. Traveling around the sun, that’s traveling around the galaxy, that’s traveling in the cosmos. The direction you move relative to the Earth would depend on exactly when it happened.
Steve@communick.newsto
Showerthoughts@lemmy.world•The concept "time" is the cause of lots of irritation, anger and regret.English
1 dayTime is what allows the next thing to happen.
Think of a row of falling dominos. If time stops, they stop falling. Literally everything else would be effected the same way. Even light itself would stop.
Steve@communick.newsto
Showerthoughts@lemmy.world•The concept "time" is the cause of lots of irritation, anger and regret.English
1 dayIf time stopped altogether, the neurons in your brain wouldn’t fire and you wouldn’t be able to think, or even notice it stopped.
Steve@communick.newsto
Movies@lemmy.world•Movies with deliberately anachronistic endings/scenes?English
1 dayBlazing Saddles
The Lego Movie
Steve@communick.newsto
No Stupid Questions@lemmy.world•Do black people actually want to be called Black with capital B?English
1 dayHaven’t been to a meeting in years.
I know, they’re “mandatory”. But it’s not like anyone takes a head count. And nobody’s even noticed I wasn’t going anymore.Becides, they’re always the same bullshit. Anything actually important will be in the newsletter. It’s fine.
Steve@communick.newsto
No Stupid Questions@lemmy.world•Do you think that sitcoms today are horribly unfunny? Compared to older shows?English
2 daysIt’s a kind of nostalgic survivorship bias.
You remember the dozen or so old ones that were good, and forget the hundreds that were not.
Steve@communick.newsto
No Stupid Questions@lemmy.world•Do black people actually want to be called Black with capital B?English
3 daysWho are you?
How do we know each other?
Steve@communick.newsto
No Stupid Questions@lemmy.world•Why doesn't the reflecting pool just use an automated strainer on it, that would run about every six hours, like a mechanical pool cleaner? Instead of paying 15 mil just for a bunch to clean?English
4 daysI don’t have a problem with you.
As I said, you’re doing the only thing you can. I can’t fault you for that. Nothing I wrote was in anger, or meant to be combative. I expect that offline you’re a perfectly kind and decent person. I wish you all the best. Truly.You are right. There is no debating the meaning behind things built by people who are long dead. Because as I said, what they mean to us today is whatever we want. It perfectly represents one thing to you, and another entirely different thing to me, and something neither of us imagined to someone else. There is no debate there.
Steve@communick.newsto
No Stupid Questions@lemmy.world•Why doesn't the reflecting pool just use an automated strainer on it, that would run about every six hours, like a mechanical pool cleaner? Instead of paying 15 mil just for a bunch to clean?English
4 daysI just want people to understand what the thing they’re liking actually represents,
It doesn’t actually represent anything. It’s a public pool.
You just imagine it represents something. Something specific to you.
Just as anyone else could imagine it represents anything else.And what you really want, is to convince others your imagining is real. Because you believe it is. And since you can’t choose what you believe or don’t, all you can do is try to convince others to believe what you do.
Steve@communick.newsto
No Stupid Questions@lemmy.world•Why doesn't the reflecting pool just use an automated strainer on it, that would run about every six hours, like a mechanical pool cleaner? Instead of paying 15 mil just for a bunch to clean?English
4 daysI think that slavers don’t deserve monuments […]
Lincoln himself did not personally own slaves, but [yada, yada, yada]You’re just making a different shift here.
Shifting the definition of slaver, from one commonly understood usage, to your own personal version.But that doesn’t even matter, as you admit that’s not the reason you don’t like it.
The reason you don’t like it, isn’t any rational practical reason. It’s an ideological dogmatism. A decree. Because you don’t like it, other’s shouldn’t be allowed to. Which is kind of funny coming from “an outspoken anarchist”.
Steve@communick.newsto
No Stupid Questions@lemmy.world•Why doesn't the reflecting pool just use an automated strainer on it, that would run about every six hours, like a mechanical pool cleaner? Instead of paying 15 mil just for a bunch to clean?English
5 daysThat’s called Shifting the Goalpost.
“I don’t like it for this reason!”
Shown that reason doesn’t apply.
“Doesn’t matter, I’m still right because I have a whole other reason!”
I’m sure that’s also not the reason you don’t like it. But it doesn’t matter because, whatever anyone says you’ll have another
excusereason right behind that. Not worth playing that game.
Steve@communick.newsto
No Stupid Questions@lemmy.world•Why doesn't the reflecting pool just use an automated strainer on it, that would run about every six hours, like a mechanical pool cleaner? Instead of paying 15 mil just for a bunch to clean?English
5 daysThe reflecting pool is part of the Lincoln Memorial.
Yes, that Lincoln. The one who freed the slaves.
Steve@communick.newsto
science@lemmy.world•World's highest-consuming 10% cause up to $5.7 trillion in environmental damage a yearEnglish
6 daysestimates environmental damage at $1.7 to $5.7 trillion
That’s a very large range. But is has no context. Is this a lot or a little? What’s the total damage estimate? What the estimate for the other 90% of people?
Steve@communick.newsto
Gaming@beehaw.org•What was the last physical retail store game purchase you've made?English
2 months… Maybe EverQuest?
… Or Doom3?
I really don’t remember, it’s been so long.
Steve@communick.newsto
No Stupid Questions@lemmy.world•If A zombie is dead. Completely dead why does a shot to the Brain kill them? Is the brain keeping them semi alive? Also how do they keep sharp teeth to bite you and not rotting away?English
2 monthsKilling them is the wrong word. As you said, they already dead.
But setting aside where the energy comes from, the movement signals would still come from the brain. So destroy the brain, and the body stops.What’s really strange is when a hand gets severed but still moves. If that happens then we’re genuinely looking at some kind of magic, and all logical rules are up for grabs.









You don’t have to kill them. You could simply take their money. Then they wouldn’t be billionaires. It’s not like the money belongs to them. It belongs to the government. They’re just holding on to it for a while.