there is also a causation question. I’m similar to you, I don’t get sick much so I don’t have much reason to be obsessive about cleanliness (of course I am hygienic and practice normal food safety). but my wife gets sick often and that causes her to be extra super careful about foods she eats, cleaning, hand sanitizing, etc.

jfc I hope you reported that app.

yeah regulation enforcing something like this domestically would be nice, but obviously you can’t enforce it internationally. Adversarial states probably have their own GenAI platforms already.

to me this is just ex-post-facto justification for motivational reasoning or confirmation bias. people just look for the easiest possible way to resolve cognitive dissonance.

yeah and I’ve done a lot of chatting about amazon products online at reddit, forums, etc over the last 20 years or whatever and never once seen people get different prices on the same amazon link.

sign #8 that you might be a fascist.

Marjorie Taylor Greene

So far this is just a hypothesis, with no empirical evidence to back it up. On the other hand the standard model is supported by lots of evidence. It says this pretty clearly at the bottom of the article.

It’s possible this guy is right but he has a long way to go to prove it. Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence, as Carl Sagan would say.

I think you’re conflating dark matter and dark energy, they are two different things. Dark Energy is what’s accelerating universal expansion. Dark Matter slows it down.

and I would actually classify them as “known unknowns” since they are holes in our understanding of physics that we’re aware of. A true unknown unknown wouldn’t be in scientific discussion at all or have even been given a name; it would be completely off our radar.

Red ochre use has been happening for like 300k years, we just don’t have any examples of the art that survived.

that was my first thought as well, but it’s actually just an altered image. I believe the top image in the first link is natural color. they just look dark gray/black even next to the orange regolith.

according to NASA:

Figure A: In this enhanced-color version of the mosaic, the color bands of the image have been processed to improve visual contrast and accentuate color differences.

I believe the top image on that page is natural color.

If you look at nasa’s pages about this site (mount Washburn), the word “blue” never comes up. In fact they were more interested in a single white boulder that stood out to them. Another page for example.

we need classes in high school or maybe even earlier that teach general media/social media/political literacy, that teach kids about technology, rhetorical techniques, fallacies, etc that are used to prey on emotions and biases. what does a (political) Dog whistle sound like? what are some red flags you might encounter while watching a conspiracist on Tik Tok? what can you do to prevent yourself from being radicalized by youtube’s algorithm? what can AI currently do, and how can you identify it?

the problem is all this stuff moves so much faster than education does, so it’s going to be a constant uphill battle.

I legitimately don’t understand your question. If you’re asking if the cost to improve safety may be too great in some cases, yes that is true in some cases. But you haven’t made that case in this specific instance yet.

so by your logic since nothing is as bad as [choose any cause of death], we should just… give up on improving safety?

I was giving them the chance to clarify their point, because they didn’t say anything beyond “nothing is safe” as a justification for poo-pooing an attempt to improve safety. Hence the question, which they have so far declined to answer themselves.

The point ContrarianTrail was making is that there is some risk in nearly everything. People have died as a result of garden tools, cars, house pets, shaving, buckets, toothpicks, baseball, etc. Here’s a list.

Yes, we all know “nothing is safe”. it’s a trivial point to make, and if that’s the only part of the situation you mention (as the person above did) you’re either not thinking very hard or are being deliberately misleading.

I prefer pull cords on my blinds, and I find the new regulations annoying. But I guess some federal agency decided they aren’t so useful that it’s worth the risk to children. And it would be selfish to be all upset about it if it saves some child’s life.

Exactly, it’s not that hard to understand. Pull-cord blinds cause deaths, and other reasonable alternatives do not. Framing the discussion to “100%” and dismissing accidents/deaths as anecdotes, to me, seems deliberately misleading. Yet you accuse me of being inflammatory by asking a follow up question. okay.

contextualize how?

Are you saying we should not have safety regulations just because we can’t make everything 100% safe?

yes I think you are reading into things a BIT too much.

just having to go into an MRI tube every couple weeks without it turned on would probably rewire your brain a little bit. that’s not a comfortable place to be mentally.