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[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 days ago

So when you call someone's point mindlessly repeated nonsense it's enlightened debate but when I point out that yours is as well it's pointless and vulgar. Do you happen to see what's happening here or do I really gotta break it down for you, hoss.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 days ago (2 children)

Pot:kettle. You think you are making an insightful point on any degree? You're yet another bleating sheep spouting nothing of value on the Internet like the rest of us. Welcome.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 3 days ago

And there's often no way to get a conclusive diagnosis until you're dead. So you keep getting things thrown at the wall, keep hoping, and keep getting it dashed. It gets to the point where it's obvious that's what it is, but you're generally quite advanced by then.

[–] [email protected] 50 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago) (2 children)

The mental gymnastics this guy does to justify his ideology. "California is prosperous despite not following my dumb pet economic theories and so is Saudi Arabia. They must be the same thing."

Like that's an aggressive form of terminal stupidity. Keep this up and he'll be eating glue before the years out.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago) (1 children)

Until we figure out just what dark energy and dark matter is, we can't throw out there being a fifth force that the LHC isn't even designed to detect in the first place but if you think that humans are affected by things we only tend to notice on the astronomical scale, you're putting the cart way before the horse. The whole reason we can't detect them is because they don't interact with us.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 5 days ago

Shit, if anything anybody popular would be costing themselves money through hosting.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 5 days ago

"I'm not being serious, I'm not being serious, you're being serious" I shout as I curl into the fetal position.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago) (1 children)

You're mixing up kids slang with code switching. I don't find them to be equivalent at all. That's the greater point I was making. We use the word slang pretty broadly, but in kids it's quite shallow. They rely heavily on context because they don't really have the vocabulary to do otherwise.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago) (3 children)

It's not about adapting to change. It's just as valid to tell a kid they can't use "good" and "bad" in whatever they're writing or discussing. The adaptation is understanding that those slang words essentially amount to the same things because that's how kid's slang works. You're not conveying any rich meaning by repeating sigma over and over for whatever you think is good and mid for bad.

On that list the only complex idea is mewing, but the fact that it's complex means the kids who didn't understand its complexity have stripped it out. That's because it's not, in of itself, an actual slang term.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago)

Alcohol and water are both polar and form hydrogen bonds, but of differing strength. You want those bonds to switch, which creates conformational changes and rips the structure of proteins apart. If you just replace all the bonds with alcohol you'll develop a new, although denatured, stable configuration which can keep the cell wall intact. Instead you want to keep developing new stresses on it until it breaks. Neither can really penetrate the phospholipid membrane of the cell because it's nonpolar, but those conformational changes create big holes where the surface proteins are.

[–] [email protected] 27 points 5 days ago

What I always love about it is that it's only outv of date in her age group social circles and it was out of date when she was using it too.

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