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@stux Taht gif is sigificantly sped up. The entire animation for this gif takes place over a 20 minute period.

@namark

Not everything that is definable need be definable by mathematical principles.

Two important points here.

1) There are universally accepted definitions for what constitutes the left

2) Even if we accepted the definition of the left as arbitrary the fact remains that the vast majority of people self identify as left or right, so we can also use ones self-identification as the left as its own metric.

@bonifartius

@johnabs
Feel better soon.
@General

@pganssle certainly possible, but non trivial, nothing that does it out of the box i know of

@mur2501 @stux

Nice video that shows a close up of the hair kicking

https://youtu.be/1cPxqjSG6HU

@mur2501

Its a common theme in the animal kingdom, if you cant eat it, just scare it, save your resources, run if you can.

@stux

@stux Indeed, typically tarantulas never (well very rarely) use their venom for defense. Even if they bite with their fangs in defense it is typically a dry bite. Their venom is used for feeding.

Kicking hairs is in fact the primary defense of almost all tarantula species. To a human it will just mean a really irritated arm. But to an animal it is usually going to get their face as they are trying to bite, as such it tends to get in their eyes and can be blinding.

@stux The hair thing is true of amost all terantula btw

Since I posted it this comic keeps bugging me as I realize refraction is a universal property of waves and has nothing to do with Quantum Mechanics...

@funny
@Science

@bonifartius

I live in europe and the USA, it is 100x worse in the us but you are right that to a lesser extent it is creeping into europe. Depends where though, in the UK its almost as bad as the USA, the Netherlands on the other hand seems to be fairing pretty well.

@namark

@ccc

> This is a level of care above and beyond the care a doctor will give to a routine consultation.

While that is true, if you as a patient are particularly scared of getting COVID you still have the right to demand it and ask a doctor if they will take that level of precautions before you see them. Only go to doctors that say yes, if there is enough people out there who fear coronavirus then this would become the norm.

Either way your asking the law and the norms to be changed, either you want to compromise a doctors/nurses right to their own medical privacy, or you want to demand they take stronger precautions in treating you to ensure safety. Personally of the two I would find ita better solution to simply demand a greater level of safety and pay whatever the added price for that may be.

So yea we have two solutions here, my vote is going to go for the one that doesn't require medical professionals to forfeit their personal right to doctor patient confidentiality with their own doctors or their medical history.

As for any evidence I have for doctors and nurses not getting the vaccine... I dont have much.. What I know is 1) there are countless medical journals warning of the fears of the vaccine, professionals saying, demanding, or petitioning that the vaccine not be released without further testing. I also personally know atleast half a dozen medical professionals who do not intend to get the vaccine (people I know personally). I am also rather close with my own doctor who is a family friend and she told me she wont be getting the vaccine until its been out for at least a year and suggests I do the same.

@bonifartius

I agree with and understand your perspective. All I was saying is that it appeared Namark was interpreting your language in a more liteal way than you were implying. Your fundamental argument isnt one I disagree with though.

I will add this though, you are describing the left mostly in america and while a majority of those on the left it isnt all of the left even there. In europe and the rest of the world the left, by in large, doesnt act that way.

All that said from an american perspective your perception is fair and one I agree with once you get past the literally language and realize your talking about "most of the left in america" and not "all left everywhere and all people on the left"

@namark

@funny

Finally Quantum Mechanics explained.

#funny #Humor #Humour #joke #jokes #meme #physics #science @Science

@FloatingGhost

1) You could eliminate all of those false positives with word-stemming

2) Even then i agree with you that it should be done by a human and not automatic

3) from now on I am calling my watches "Smar-TWAT-ch"

@bonifartius

I think namarks point, and it is a valid one is ...

shitty left people are shitty, and
most left people are shitty

these are very different than

left people are shitty

With that said I took what you said (and I tend to voice a similar opinion) to just be more of an implied meaning. If I (and I presume you) say the left is shitty we arent trying to say 100% of the left, only that it is a pervasive problem with **most** of the left.

Similarly "McDonalds is shitty, they have trouble getting orders right" I dont think someone should or would imply that I am claiming that there is no well run mcdonalds anywhere on the earth that tends to get orders correct, only that most of the time with most mcdonalds it is and will be an issue.

@namark

@matrix Is that the UN for women or the unwomen?

@ccc I am indeed proposing that a person not be allowed to ask a doctor if they are vaccinated. In fact I'd go a step farther and say that a persons medical history should always be a legally protected right and no person should ever be put in a situation where they have to say or do anything that might reveal what medications they have taken or their medical history.

I do agree people might get so paranoid they may avoid going to the doctor all together. But I'd argue that is likely to be a small minority of the population. Moreover because, as I stated, doctors are able to successfully see and treat immunicompromized patients in clean rooms. They could easily transmit diseases that wouldnt get a normal person sick but would kill the patient, and likewise even just a cold would kill them. Despite this doctors are able to treat them safely and routinely by use of proper protective measures (full body cloth steralized and new for each patient, fresh gloves, and face mask and shield, and steralized room)..

So while some particularly hyochondriac oriented patients might refuse treatment without knowledge of a vaccine I think most patients are more likely to demand property safety procedures from their doctor, and so long as that is in place, would find the risk minimal.

As a side note remember being vaccinated doesnt prevent you from transmitting the disease, it only prevents you from getting sick. So any reasonable person would be focused on the doctors safety precautions and not their vaccination status anyway.

@Wetrix Ark is really close to be cool, and maybe if i played it more I'd have a different opinion. But I lost interest when i learned there were lots of little "servers", no main server. I also couldnt transfer between servers though you are supposed to be able to.. The servers also reset periodically. So seemed to defeat the whole purpose of world building to me