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China has achieved remarkable progress in controlling nuclear fusion by fusioning their nuclears better than ever before!

Never!

The heat is all being dumped into the living space either way, so you aren’t losing anything from the metal. It takes away from how much heat will be available in the earthen part after the stove is turned off, but it still warms the room. Plus I imagine it’s nice to have some heat immediately instead of having to start the fire hours before you actually want it.

You could adjust the design if you wanted to change the ratio of fast heat and slow heat, but you would always need to have some part with a high thermal conductivity.

The goal is to have the fire drive a high airflow, both to give itself oxygen, and to pass the exhaust through a long path of heat absorbing dirt. The metal drum does this by passing the hot exhaust up through its center, then rapidly cooling it as it falls back down along the metal surface. The difference in density drives the airflow. The drum needs a high thermal conductivity to be able to maintain this temperature and density difference, and this is also the primary way the heat is transferred to the living area. The earthen part gathers up the remaining heat to increase efficiency and retain heat for when the stove is off, but most of the heating is done immediately through the metal.

That’s optimistic. I think one of the more employable/profitable skills is going to be learning how ai works so you can get it to be full of shit in a way that’s useful to your boss.

There was one where the rock even came with a note telling them to write something nice on the rock and give it to another nurse.

“I’m supposed to appreciate the nurses? Ugh, that sounds awful, just make the nurses appreciate each other”

You’re talking about opposing racist pieces of shit. For that, absolutely, use bullying, punches, bullets, whatever works. But there you’re not trying to make them better people, the goal is to stop them from saying and doing racist shit.

My issue is when this gets applied to trying to get an okay to change their beliefs. It’s not going to work, and you can talk yourself into doing some fucked up stuff that way.

Not bullying someone doesn’t mean being nice and holding their hand, it means not trying to make their life hell. You can still be harsh, blunt, and forceful when calling things out. That’s different from bullying.

I think we should be aware of when it’s an appropriate tool to use, and not treat any criticism of bullying like it’s a call to give a klansman a hug.

I think this is where the problem is. You can’t bully someone into having better beliefs. You can bully them into shutting up and being scared to say their shitty opinions out loud. There’s a lot of people where achieving that would be great, and for them “bullying works”. But believing that “bullying works” to actually change people for the better leads to some awful behavior, and it’s an issue that a lot of people on this site accept it.

Remember when people called mike bloomberg an oligarch, and others were defending him by citing webster’s dictionary or whatever to say that an oligarch can only be from russia by definition.

An american billionaire has to be a sparkling entrepreneur.

My crabs are reproducing at an unregulated rate.

I think it’s something like “shaved with the national razor”. Maybe?

That means they also failed to desecrate a Navajo sacred space.

Getting in to the fine details of it is important for researchers or doctors who specifically work with the tongue, but the issue that we’re talking about here is how this was commonly taught as absolute fact to young children with no nuance and seemingly for no reason other than it being widely believed.

If anyone is specifically claiming that the tongue is completely uniform in taste reception then they’re it taking too far, sure. But generally when I see this brought up, the focus is on questioning the process of how some facts make it in to what schools teach as “common knowledge” even when they are both wrong and unimportant to daily life and general education.

When a teacher tells a 6-7 year old that flavors can only be tasted on certain parts of your tongue, the problem isn’t that they failed to call it a “spatial component to our experience of gustatory stimulus”. At that age, teachers have to strip out most nuance from any lesson, and the goal is to find a way to explain things that is true enough while still being understandable to young children.

So why, if stripping out the nuance makes it basically wrong, did teachers keep teaching it for a century? Even if it were true, it’s not really important information for most people. Necessarily even, because if it were important to daily life, it would be a lot easier to notice it’s mostly wrong.
I don’t know, and I don’t think there’s an exact reason. I had teachers tell us about this, then seem to realize they needed a reason for it to matter and try to turn it in to a lesson about scientific inquiry. They told us to go home and try putting flavors on the ‘wrong’ parts of the tongue and notice how we couldn’t taste anything. I tried it once, and it didn’t work, and it was never brought up again.

Feel free to educate people about the mechanics of our sense of taste, but I think this is a fine example of myths making it in to what’s taught in schools.

Exactly. Sometimes people will defend it with some supposed high-minded origin, like “it’s not saying being gay is wrong, it’s using trump’s homophobia and insecurity against him and turning it into a vulnerability that we’re using to trigger him”. And maybe some of the people repeating it actually believe that, but the images don’t come with a paragraph explaining the nuance. They’re just supposed to be an easy shot at trump, you’re supposed to laugh and keep scrolling. Most people liking or sharing them aren’t thinking about it any more than “haha, he’s owned cause he’s gay”.

You can spend all day convincing yourself that your specific way of thinking about it isn’t racist/homophobic, but when you share this shit online all that stuff stays in your head, and you’re just spreading bigotry.

Glad to hear it!