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cleansingfire commented on What Did Medieval Peasants Know? (2022)   theatlantic.com/health/ar... · Posted by u/thinkingemote
cleansingfire · a month ago
The medieval period was called the dark ages largely because of our ignorance of it. The Medieval spans about 1,000 years. There were plagues which made labor immensely more valuable, & wars that lasted generations. Any blanket statement about it is bound to be somewhere between false and meaningless. Including this one.
cleansingfire commented on Bull markets make you feel smarter than you are   awealthofcommonsense.com/... · Posted by u/raw_anon_1111
cleansingfire · a month ago
Day Traders only exist because of this. Bull markets allow them to exist.
cleansingfire commented on A Scientific American bolt puzzle   leancrew.com/all-this/202... · Posted by u/zdw
cleansingfire · 10 months ago
When you twiddle your thumbs, your thumbnails always point the same direction relative to each other. So the bolts relative rotation will maintain that. Imagine a stripe on the face towards us of the bolts, and twiddling action will not rotate the stripe in an absolute or relative sense.

For the two bolts, this is equivalent to rotating both bolts so the stripe stays in the same relative position, as if one were rotated around the other or they were twisted in the same absolute direction. If you are concerned about symmetry violation because of the direction of the threads, you can reverse the threads on both bolts, with the same result. You can try this with a couple of bolts and a couple of rubber bands to keep them in the same relative position. The illustration is a hint that the motion is equivalent to rotating both in the same absolute direction (near side moving up.) Then view that system from the head and note the direction each would be moving, away or towards you.

If you have to undo a bolt or nut from behind, the bolt head moves in a reverse direction from your viewpoint, just as if you were to view a glass clock from behind.

cleansingfire commented on Zinc prevents vaginal candidiasis by inhibiting expression of fungal protein   science.org/doi/10.1126/s... · Posted by u/bookofjoe
cleansingfire · 2 years ago
I'm concerned about the same mechanism that causes permanent loss of taste with zinc lozenges, and if it applies here. I don't want to poison the nerves in my genitals. It isn't a common or widespread effect, but it is severe.
cleansingfire commented on A Matter of Millimeters: The story of Qantas flight 32   admiralcloudberg.medium.c... · Posted by u/xenophonf
olex · 2 years ago
I like the pragmatic engineering point of view described in the article:

> For engineering purposes, disk fragments are assumed to have infinite energy at the moment of release; they will cut through any reasonable material and cannot be contained.

cleansingfire · 2 years ago
Also demonstrated by the picture in the op of the brick wall. Note that it wasn't smashed or knocked down, but looks as if it was cut.
cleansingfire commented on Shane MacGowan has died   bbc.com/news/entertainmen... · Posted by u/acdanger
justinator · 2 years ago
I love Shane, I love the Pogues, but I think it's well overdue for us as a culture to stop romanticizing chronic alcoholism. It destroys people, it destroys families.
cleansingfire · 2 years ago
He claimed alcohol was a mystic sacrament, in an interview I read long ago. That's an awfully destructive spirituality, but it was very much his choice, whether rationalized addiction or not. Personally, I've seen that destruction too closely to find it anything but tragic, but I'm grateful for his poetry.
cleansingfire commented on Why I always hit the crosswalk button (2015)   klittlepage.com/2015/01/2... · Posted by u/costco
cleansingfire · 2 years ago
The button has no downside, with a possible benefit, so always push it. Also refers to discredited Bystander effect nonsense regarding Kitty Genocese murder: "there is no evidence for the presence of 38 witnesses, or that witnesses observed the murder, or that witnesses remained inactive." https://psycnet.apa.org/doiLanding?doi=10.1037%2F0003-066X.6...
cleansingfire commented on macOS Sonoma Boot Failures   github.com/AsahiLinux/doc... · Posted by u/_susn
cleansingfire · 2 years ago
Only affects Apple silicon chips (intel unaffected) with ProMotion display. Just a quick Exit clause for people with older machines.
cleansingfire commented on Toyota’s advanced battery technology roadmap   newsroom.toyota.eu/toyota... · Posted by u/t4h4
barkingcat · 2 years ago
only in imperial does it look suspicious.
cleansingfire · 2 years ago
If they understood significant figures, it would be less suspicious. Besides, when a vendor uses their own special metric, instead of a well known standard, I lose respect for them.

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