StinkyFingerItchyBum

  • 0 Posts
  • 147 Comments
Joined 1 year ago
cake
Cake day: February 26th, 2025

help-circle





  • Ok hear me out. There is a real local fishing technique for carp when you wade into the water near the end of a dock and hold your fist underwater with worms sticking out between your fingers. You just sit very very still, holing your wormy fist a few inches off the bottom. A carp will eventually try to gobble your fist whole. Then you quickly lift the fish out of water and slam it on the dock to stun/kill it.

    They have no teeth to speak of, so no injury to you.










  • StinkyFingerItchyBum@lemmy.catoScience Memes@mander.xyzGreat Mug
    link
    fedilink
    English
    arrow-up
    5
    ·
    edit-2
    4 months ago

    If we look at the way the universe behaves, quantum mechanics gives us fundamental, unavoidable indeterminacy, so that alternative histories of the universe can be assigned probability.

    • Murray Gell-Mann

    “it posits that the universe functions according to predictable rules”

    • you

    Not quite. Cosmologists accept a certain distribution of predictable phenomena within known parameters while leaving the door open to chaos, outliers, the as of yet unknown and unknowable.

    Complexity theory is a model that posits components interact in multiple ways and behave according to local rules. From quantum physics to cosmology and the aspirational yet elusive grand theory of everything, science is prepared for a world weirder than we understand, and possibly weirder than we can understand.

    Just because empirical evidence and the development of predictable rules are a very fruitful line of inquiry doesn’t mean we believe that is truth.

    Philosophers of Science have rather lengthy volumes of work on the subject. I’m just a novice on the topic, but my take on the state of the subject is that we don’t accept science and even it’s laws as absolute truth, just a very practical, reliable, utilitarian form of inquiry and understanding which includes uncertainty (Heisenberg), probability, complexity and chaos. Scientists are prepared to abandon everything in exchange for something better.

    Look at newtonian physics. No one thinks it’s the truth, it’s just simpler and useful for everyday engineering.


  • There is a point burried in there that is drowned out by all the fallacious added baggage. Its disingenuous bullshit.

    Indigenous Chinese or Indians or Nigerians are not protectors of the earth, just like every other industrial nation. The picture meant to frame “Indigenous” as what Canada calls the indigenous First Nations peoples. It’s relying on the racist trope of the noble savage, forgetting that First Nations aren’t against industrializing their lands, as long as they are included as partner beneficiaries and they don’t maximize returns via egregious environmental destruction on their lands. They also generally want industrialization and trade including water treatment, sanitation and all the other goodies like internet, tv, playstations and the like.

    It also targets “capitalist” without looking at the eco-horrors of every other 'ism on earth. Go have a cool tall glass of Ganges, Nile or Yellow river water and tell me how refreshing it is.

    This is a shitpost carefully designed to be a lopsided attack.