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Anonymous at Tue, 14 May 2024 15:15:08 UTC No. 16175572
My wife just told me that it is impossible for single-cell organisms to evolve into multi-cell organisms because it defies the laws of entropy.
>the universe is headed towards a heat death
>meaning that all the atoms in the universe are gradually disorganizing
>therefore it is impossible for simple life to become more complex over time
Is she right?
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Αnonymous at Tue, 14 May 2024 14:57:03 UTC No. 16175555
How do you use the percentage button on literally any calculator? It never does anything in person or on my computer. AI advice:
What does the % button do on a calculator? How do you use it? Example?
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The % button on a calculator is typically used to calculate a percentage of a given number. Here's how it works:
Enter the number you want to calculate the percentage for.
Press the % button.
Enter the percentage you want to calculate (e.g., 25%).
Press the equals button (=) to calculate the result.
For example, let's say you want to calculate 25% of $100.
Enter 100 on your calculator.
Press the % button.
Enter 25.
Press the equals button (=).
The result will be:
100 × 0.25 = 25
So, 25% of $100 is $25.
You can also use the % button to find a percentage of a given number by using the following formula:
(number) × (percentage/100) = result
For example, if you want to find 15% of $200, you can use the following formula:
200 × (15/100) = 30
This would give you the same result as calculating 15% of $200 using the % button on your calculator.
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The example given doesn't work. It behaves inconsistently. In one window, the % sign invariably turns any input into a zero. In another window,
Hitting 12 and "%" gets me 9.6, so in trying to find out what 12% of 100 is, I type "12" "%" "100" and the output is "100-20=80"
What the fuck?
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🧵 Meta-analysis of all sleep aids (read every research and tried them too)
Anonymous at Tue, 14 May 2024 14:54:08 UTC No. 16175554
Super:
- Sleeping less
- Placebo
Great:
- Exercise
- Muscle relaxants
- Nitrous oxide mask
- A good old whack in the head
Good if you don’t text:
- Ambien etc. (z-drugs)
Good if they work:
- Benadryl etc. (first-generation antihistamines) (work for me)
- SNRIs/SSRIs (don’t work for me)
Good for short term:
- Benzodiazepines
- Weed
Ok but questionable effects:
- Lyrica/Neurontin etc.
- Opioids
- Barbiturates
Bad (disturb sleep):
- Antipsychotics
- Alcohol
- Levodopa etc.
Placebo (don't read if you want these to work):
[spoiler]
- Melatonin
- 5-HTP
- Camomile
- Passion flower
- Valerian root
- Ginseng
- Calea ternifolia
- Kanna
- Sakae naa
- Muira puma
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🧵 Does early access to digital media actually make kids stupid?
Anonymous at Tue, 14 May 2024 14:22:44 UTC No. 16175516
> Have a group of friends, all with kids 3-5 years old
> One of them does not allow access to any digital media. The kids just have books, arts/crafts at home, and go to daycare without access to a TV.
> Family is constantly made fun of for being the weird ones.
> These kids are basically little geniuses. Speaking well above their age level, writing, and starting to read by themselves. Cognitively much more advanced than their peers and it's obvious as fuck.
> Everyone else let their babies and toddlers watch shit like Cocomelon and Blippi on YouTube all day. Access to iPads since birth. Never went to daycare or Pre-K, just stayed at home while moms fucked around on social media all day.
> Their kids are all basically retarded. One cannot talk at 5 years old. One of them just screeches at people and can't sit still. Another one just stands there and shits in his pants whenever he wants. One is in kindergarten and cannot count to 10. Parents about to pull her out and homeschool because they don't "trust the system"
> What the hell is going on? I was raised on TV and always made fun of parents who were anti-tech, but this is making me reconsider all that.
> Are modern parents just lazier and stupider than previous generations, or has tech gotten more dangerous for little minds?
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Anonymous at Tue, 14 May 2024 14:17:54 UTC No. 16175511
Big they/thems get to come out of the shed and enjoy some epic science-sauce!
With bacon and narwhal! WOAOW
🧵 MYTH DEBUNKED: STEM doesn’t actually pay more than any other old degree
Anonymous at Tue, 14 May 2024 14:08:10 UTC No. 16175505
All those listicle bullshit articles that show engineering at the top and liberal arts at the bottom of the payscale?
Complete bullshit.
When proper controls are applied, namely gender, educational status, and full time work status, the value of an engineering degree over any other generic degree is a few thousand dollars a year at the median. Lmfao. A generic liberal arts degree holder that’s a dude makes just as much as a generic dude with an engineering degree. All that struggling…for nothing. Engineering also has DRAMATICALLY lower pay ceilings, so even if you start out slightly higher, all other degrees pass you up in just a handful of years while you’re capped out at your 103k Mechanical Engineering job. Lmfao.
This also fails to mention that engineering grads often take an extra semester or two to even get their degree, so they’re instantly starting in more debt and they’ve missed a year of earning.
Maybe all you super start “STEM geniuses” shouldn’t have trusted CNN articles to tell you what degrees are good and what degrees aren’t.
🧵 How do you define a shadow?
Anonymous at Tue, 14 May 2024 13:28:54 UTC No. 16175459
>A shadow is the result of the absence of light in a certain area due to the interposition of an opaque object. Therefore, a shadow does not have a physical composition of its own, since it is not composed of matter or energy itself.
>It is important to note that a shadow has no mass or substance, since it is not composed of material particles. Furthermore, it does not have its own energy, since the light energy that generates it comes from the light source that illuminates the object.
So it is not physical? It's not real? Should we talk about "no-light" instead of shadow?
What about ideas or abstract concepts? Are those physical or real?
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Anonymous at Tue, 14 May 2024 13:26:10 UTC No. 16175457
Is this scientifically accurate?
🗑️ 🧵 Scientifically speaking
Anonymous at Tue, 14 May 2024 12:51:46 UTC No. 16175417
Can you die from a knee on your neck/shoulder? It seems like the police actually do this quite a lot, and people don’t normally die from it.
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Anonymous at Tue, 14 May 2024 12:19:22 UTC No. 16175377
give me some trvthnvkes about msg. i am trying to research it, but the fact that even the FDA incorrectly says that foods naturally contain msg makes me think that there is a lot of money involved with making msg have a good reputation
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Anonymous at Tue, 14 May 2024 11:49:07 UTC No. 16175350
You better not know what a determinant is, goy. You don't want to know what I'll do to you if I find out you've been studying them.
🧵 To all cryptography enthusiasts
Anonymous at Tue, 14 May 2024 11:31:43 UTC No. 16175340
A new trailer for the film Megalopolis has released and there is what seems like a potential ciphered message at the end. Can anyone tell what cipher it might be (if it even is that) and how it could be solved?
The extracted text:
D R R N RL SP T T L M L
BR Z H LB NV T
S S W TZ N L R R ND W
L CF N K RY HT n DS H M
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Anonymous at Tue, 14 May 2024 10:48:11 UTC No. 16175311
How do ADHD drugs affect autism (Asperger's)?
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Anonymous at Tue, 14 May 2024 08:10:40 UTC No. 16175191
Considering that cloning techniques have reached a high level quite successfully, using examples of vegetables and animals, I want to ask if anyone has data on human cloning? (yes, this is possible with a very, very probability, it was banned due to ethical standards) maybe videos or articles?
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Anonymous at Tue, 14 May 2024 07:53:43 UTC No. 16175180
>potential energy
Yeah no... this is actual bullshit
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Anonymous at Tue, 14 May 2024 06:53:58 UTC No. 16175138
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所在地: 京都府
As of 24 March 2024, 00:00: I'm doing fine.
Location: Kyoto Prefecture, Japan
🧵 Dachshund General #1
Anonymous at Tue, 14 May 2024 06:25:36 UTC No. 16175110
A thread for the scientific discussion of the Dachshund breed.
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Anonymous at Tue, 14 May 2024 06:08:25 UTC No. 16175091
I was thinking earlier, and how come there's absolutely no attempt or research on using biological metamorphosis as a medical tool?
Now, I'm not saying it's a simple matter, but think with me here. If we understood all the genes and metabolic pathways involved in the process we could, arguably, use it as a medical tool. That's a monumental task, mind you, but I have never seen anyone talking about it.
Since other animals are capable of it naturally, there's no reason we wouldn't be able to induce it in an artificial manner. Hell, amphibians don't even go through the pupa stage, and they suffer a complete change to their morphology. Can you imagine the applications?
So why the hell no one ever talks about this?
🗑️ 🧵 Psychopathic Geniuses
Anonymous at Tue, 14 May 2024 05:16:29 UTC No. 16175015
A server for rare individuals who possess both a psychopathic personality and high intelligence.
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🧵 Lev Landau
Anonymous at Tue, 14 May 2024 05:10:23 UTC No. 16175012
Are people from Azerbaijan typically high IQ, or was he just a rare exception?
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Anonymous at Tue, 14 May 2024 04:59:47 UTC No. 16175004
why don't they ever discover anything like their neighbours up north?
🧵 Who should I cite?
Anonymous at Tue, 14 May 2024 04:43:38 UTC No. 16174993
I don't know a thing about citation and each person I ask gives a different answer
Should I cite the author, both him and his sources, or just him and [17]? I want to write the highlighted text in my article (I will use a single paragraph to sum up this ideas) but don't know who to properly cite
🧵 Nuclear?
Anonymous at Tue, 14 May 2024 04:17:17 UTC No. 16174975
I’m thinking of pursuing a career in nuclear engineering as an electrical engineer. I’m worried that nuclear won’t ever take off given the regulations that severely inhibit it; but I believe it’s the best way to replace fossil fuels. Am I cucking myself by not going into something like renewable energy systems or smart grid instead?