[-] Spuddaccino@reddthat.com 8 points 1 year ago

Neither count thou two.

[-] Spuddaccino@reddthat.com 7 points 1 year ago

chicken would also be able to defined as it’s ancestor

This isn't the case, and there's a mathematical theorem describing this called the Intermediate Value Theorem. Basically, if you have a function describing a line you can draw without picking up your pencil, at some point along that line the value takes on every value on that line. Makes sense, right?

If I draw a line separating Chicken-birds from Not-chicken-birds, and show the evolutionary path leading from non-chicken to chicken, at some point it crosses that line. We don't have to know where that point is, we just know it crosses the line at some point.

At that point, wherever it is, we have a bird that meets the criteria of "chicken" hatching from an egg laid by a bird that doesn't.

Besides, this is all pretty moot. We actually know when and where chickens originated. They originated about 3000 years ago in China and India after being domesticated from Southeast Asian Red Junglefowl.

[-] Spuddaccino@reddthat.com 6 points 1 year ago

I started cradling him when he was just old enough to be adopted. Every time we crossed paths, I would say "Scoop!", scoop him up with a hand under his chest, roll him over backwards with my other hand on his butt, and lay him down on my arm like that. Then I'd scratch his tummy and give him kisses, then let him go after a little bit.

[-] Spuddaccino@reddthat.com 9 points 1 year ago

The best part is, while researching that rupture point, I found an academic paper comparing the relative squishiness of various animal eyeballs. Science!

[-] Spuddaccino@reddthat.com 9 points 1 year ago

This is a terrible position to take. Anyone can be educated.

The thing is, nobody likes being flat-out told they're wrong, and with the way arguments on the internet go, that's all that will ever happen.

Most of my friends are heavily conservative, but I've learned how to have productive conversations with them about issues, and it's almost always "This is how it benefits you if it were different."

It's difficult sometimes, but it's worth doing, and it's important to understand that the guy you're talking to isn't the enemy. He's just another dude.

[-] Spuddaccino@reddthat.com 8 points 1 year ago

Colors are a perception, true, which is why we don't really talk about colors, we talk about wavelengths and temperature. 5800K is not white (relatively equal amounts of all visible light wavelengths), it's light blue (decent amounts of most visible light wavelengths, but a significant peak in the 450-500nm wavelength band, which looks blue to us). Lightbulbs use color temperature because filament and halogen lights generate light the same way the sun does: by getting hot, and how hot it is determines the light wavelengths emitted. That's why I included the chart, it's a good analogue.

If you look at the graph provided in the OP, you can see for yourself that there's significantly more blue than anything else being emitted.

[-] Spuddaccino@reddthat.com 8 points 1 year ago

If a country ever implements true communism it will experience extreme brain drain and be left with only the most unskilled people.

I'm not sure where you got this idea from. I'm not particularly informed on the subject, but when I look up the dictionary definition of communism, I get this:

a political theory derived from Karl Marx, advocating class war and leading to a society in which all property is publicly owned and each person works and is paid according to their abilities and needs.

Emphasis mine. If people with more ability are paid more, then they shouldn't be flocking out of the country, right?

[-] Spuddaccino@reddthat.com 7 points 1 year ago

This isn't what showed that, it's been clear from the beginning that he had no idea how anything about it worked.

[-] Spuddaccino@reddthat.com 8 points 1 year ago

This is blatantly false. Chuck Norris wasn't born, he got tired of wearing his mother.

[-] Spuddaccino@reddthat.com 8 points 1 year ago

Gotta watch for bears on the way to the moon, yo.

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