Isoprenoid

joined 2 years ago
[–] Isoprenoid@programming.dev 17 points 1 month ago (3 children)

December is peak holiday season. When people relax, and have time on their hands ...

[–] Isoprenoid@programming.dev 34 points 1 month ago (5 children)

All analogies have flaws. If they didn't, they wouldn't be an analogy, they would be describing the very thing itself.

[–] Isoprenoid@programming.dev 13 points 1 month ago (3 children)

What’s not cool is shitting on a movie just because you didn’t like it or it didn’t make sense to you.

If you don't like or don't get a work of art, it is entirely reasonable to shit on it.

The emperor has no clothes.

[–] Isoprenoid@programming.dev 3 points 1 month ago

I wanted to give people a chance at remembering the reference before seeing the answer. The URL gives the answer.

[–] Isoprenoid@programming.dev 12 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (4 children)

I was confused for a moment.

Click to see the reason why Notre Dame had much higher pollution for brief period of time in 2019.https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Notre-Dame_fire

[–] Isoprenoid@programming.dev 6 points 2 months ago

Her friend that made the comment was a woman. See the edit.

[–] Isoprenoid@programming.dev 6 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Not all knowledge is inherently useful; some knowledge may lack practical application, relevance, or purpose, especially within certain contexts or timeframes.

Not all knowledge has application, the human mind has bandwidth limitations (ignoring capacity), knowledge is contextually sensitive, and some knowledge is actively harmful (e.g. misinformation, distraction).

[–] Isoprenoid@programming.dev 11 points 2 months ago (3 children)

More like: I crave useless knowledge.

[–] Isoprenoid@programming.dev 17 points 2 months ago (4 children)

Wait, is it the boat that ignores the spherical attribute or the entity that commands the boat?

Can an elf sail to the undying lands commanding a human built vessel?

[–] Isoprenoid@programming.dev 2 points 3 months ago

they want to have opinions expressed, usually not the norm, so you can have a better formed option about the subject

You can't a better formed opinion on a subject by reading trash.

GIGO

[–] Isoprenoid@programming.dev 17 points 3 months ago

It's not that it was a satisfying theory, it's that it was misinformation spread by the propaganda machine at the time.

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/carrots-cant-help-you-see-in-the-dark-heres-how-world-war-ii-propaganda-campaign-popularized-the-myth-28812484/

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