BrerChicken 3mo ago • 100%
It's made for people of a certain age, and those people don't go to the movies much I think.
BrerChicken 3mo ago • 100%
Paying 20% - 40% more for dumbed-down OS that limits what software I can use. I mean literally any one of those alone is a deal breaker. It was never gonna work.
BrerChicken 4mo ago • 100%
Better call Saul!
BrerChicken 4mo ago • 100%
I first used Linux in the late 90s, and it was just something that worked better on an older box. I installed Red Hat on an old 286 and the fun part was honestly getting it to work and learning about computers. Then one day I realized that I was spending all my free time working inside on this thing, but I was living on the water, in the Florida Keys, with access to boats and jet skis and pretty much anything. That had been my dream my whole life and all of a sudden I was living it. And I didn't even have to be at work, right next door, until 10am. I was on a break from school then, and that's actually what caused me to change my major from CS. I didn't think it would be helpful to spend my whole life indoors!
Now I'm a physics teacher and I sometimes teach my 9th graders how to use Python for simple things like graphing. I love my life and I'm really thankful I keot computers as a hobby rather than as my profession.
BrerChicken 4mo ago • 100%
Can you call it an observation if the lens you are using may be faulty?
If you use many lenses you can assure yourself that they are not all faulty in the same way. This is why we can safely say that dark matter is observed fact, because we observe it in so many different ways.
BrerChicken 4mo ago • 100%
The mass is definitely detectable--it's just not visible. And it's detectable in several different ways that all match, that's the key here. This is definitely an observation.
BrerChicken 4mo ago • 100%
I think it CAN be harmful to some dogs though!
BrerChicken 4mo ago • 100%
It's an interesting idea, but it assumes that physical forces are getting WEAKER over time, and that's a pretty big assumption. It's not very parsimonious.
BrerChicken 4mo ago • 100%
By being a life-long learner! Seriously, learning is an active thing, it's not something we have to be sitting in a room to receive. So as we read and learn more, we realize that some of the things we learned are different from what we thought. It's something we should all be doing as we learn and reflect.
BrerChicken 4mo ago • 100%
I'm not going to argue with astronomers about how they define planets. I do my job, they do theirs!
BrerChicken 4mo ago • 100%
You wouldn't call a person a dwarf, period. So don't do that. If you ever meet a little person, they'll probably refer to themselves as a little person. You should just follow their lead
A dwarf planet is not a category of planets. It is a category of sub-planetary objects. This is how the term "dwarf planet" was adopted by the IAU in 2006. It did used to mean "type of planet", but there are just too many of them, and they're really too different from planets, so it literally does not mean that anymore. At least to astronomers.
BrerChicken 4mo ago • 100%
I think you're getting confused with dark energy. There is very little debate about dark matter--it's an observation that many many many people have made.
Dark energy is the name for whatever is causing the explanation expansion rate of the universe to increase. There's quite a bit of debate about whether the expansion rate even IS increasing. And the amount of increase is different according to how you try to observe it. So yeah, there's a lot of debate about whether dark energy is actually a thing, but there is very little debate on whether there's more matter than we're able to observe, something that we call dark matter but which we don't really understand. Similar names, but totally different concepts!
BrerChicken 4mo ago • 100%
Some classics:
- lactic acid buildup makes your muscles hurt after a workout
- blood that's returning to the heart and lungs is blue, blood that's leaving your heart to go do it's thing is red
- sugar makes kids hyper
All three of those things have been thoroughly debunked, and are demonstrably false, and yet we teach them all the time. Sometimes it's even SCIENCE TEACHERS that are repeating these things, and sometimes it's right in the textbook!
BrerChicken 4mo ago • 58%
An even better idea: make your OWN list! Don't expect someone else to tell you the truth if you're not working to search for it yourself!
BrerChicken 4mo ago • 100%
This was heartbreaking to watch! I mean she's already an Olympic champion twice-over, and she's been hurt this year--she'll have some more chances. But it was just so shocking! I felt so bad for her watching her try to control her emotions at the end there.
BrerChicken 4mo ago • 100%
The kind of writing they do is it try to explain in English why their incorrect answers doing actually work. It's a really great way to get them thinking, and to get me some insight into how they understand the concepts.
But also kids just need to practice writing! It's a superpower! And it's an important part of gathering info and explaining it to yourself!
BrerChicken 4mo ago • 100%
It may not be intentional, not plenty of women feel harmed, belittled, and ignored by the use of language like that. So we should stop using it. It doesn't add anything, and it does, in fact, harm people.
And for the record, it's not the meme, it's the title of the post. I just think that making the explicit or implied assumption that you're talking to a bunch of dudes whenever you post online is just not helpful, that's all.
BrerChicken 4mo ago • 100%
I teach kids how to do physics, and how to write about doing physics.
BrerChicken 4mo ago • 100%
I mean we're not all fellas. No need to refer to a specific gender, right?
BrerChicken 4mo ago • 100%
Avoiding casual misogyny is also important. You should avoid using gendered language like that when there's really no need.
Definitely my favorite quote, by the CEO of Hydrogen Europe: >“Dung beetles spend hours rolling up balls of dung to attract females,” he said. “But there are some very smart dung beetles that just sit by the side and watch while others do hard work. Then they shoot in, take the dung ball, take the girl and run away with everything. That’s Joe Biden.”
I'm excited to see what this guy can do. He's been with the Bruins for 4 years, and they've made it to the sweet sixteen each time, and the final four twice. Let's Go Heat!!