My dog bit me earlier today. I won't bother explaining why because I know some mentally ill leftist is going to start shitting up this thread but do you guys think pic related warrants a trip to the hospital? It's a decently deep puncture wound and my finger tip is completely numb.
if you were beating your dog, dont go to the hospital, thanks.
>>9056412
>I won't bother explaining why because I know some mentally ill leftist is going to start shitting up this thread
Were you raping your dog or something?
Nah, just wipe it with rubbing alcohol once every two days and wrap it with bandage.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Smart_city
What do you think about smart cities and digitized/smart societies? Mainly interested in questions and thought about the balance between human influence over systems versus automated (AI/etc) influence over systems.
Should humanity be pushing harder to replace human-ran systems with more automated and non-human control? ex. Automated cars, automated dynamic taxes, automated police, automated mass surveillance, etc.
Should a layer above human control be erected across all societies that is "better" than us in every way or is there a risk?
gait recognition video (all humans have a unique gait for easy identification at all angles)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UI41RyHUako
Centralization can't exist in a digital world. It creates a massive point of failure.
>>9056287
This isn't true.
In fact its easier for the elites to centralize power if they know how to distract the masses properly
>>9056290
Your elites, sure, but what about those other guy's and their elites at odds with your elites? Or what about an insurgent selectorate that dosen't like your elites and their system and then acquires the means to deal with them?
>blacks are not intellectually inferior to whites
>algebra is racists since blacks can't into algebra
Pick one and only one
Racists are the dumbest of all whites.
>>9056255
algebra should be taught in middle school and you shouldn't graduate high school if you haven't mastered it. You shouldn't even be able to go to college if you don't know algebra.
>>9056255
California has a huge problem, 20%~ of hispanic and black students have proficiency in math at hs graduation. This is over 60% of the student population.
They have huge problems that will crush the state and united states soon. Anyone decently intelligent knows this already but liberals who refuse to accept reality are using libtard magic like this to come up with ways to ignore the problem.
aka no proficiency in math? remove math reqs
Thoughts?
http://www.univverse.org/science/if-youre-alive-in-30-years-its-likely-you-will-be-alive-in-1000-years/
>>9056252
clickbait article
something being possible doesn't mean probable. It's unknown and not something we can predict.
>>9056252
i think it is extremely unlikely any humans will be around in 1000 years
things will get worse and keep getting worse
we lack the biological complexity to rebound.
its the end and thats the truth that comes along with ecological literacy
We're one step close to CURING BALDNESS, boys!
https://www.newscientist.com/article/2140595-hairs-use-chemical-signals-to-tell-each-other-when-to-grow/
>>9055295
>https://elifesciences.org/articles/22772
actual article
reading now
>It's the year 2117
>We've cured aging and 99% of diseases
>Still no cure for balding
I've already given up hope of retaining my hairline.
>>9055328
>authors
>not a single white person
kek
also
>wnt
congrats on the cancer, dont fuck with that pathway
so can HAARP actually control the weather or is this just a meme?
They're all doing, except RSS which died last year
Is the dish at Camp Hero, Montauk, pointed directly west toward NYC, part of HAARP or something else?
>>9055293
memes aside, I find this very interesting, wonder what they have actually done in this facility. supposedly they use a shit ton of energy on those towers.
They control us like evil geniuses. We are their puppets. We are programmed to serve these... things. They make us breed, making more of them. They make us feel, think, act, everything on their behalf.. Everything is in function of DNA. This is like a parasite that takes control of its host and commands it. These scheming molecules, these manipulators. Your consciousness, everything about your life, it's all because of DNA. And they're inside you right now. Just what is DNA's endgame?
>>9055252
D.N.A
AKA
Do
Not
Ask
Ur dna is about to self destruct to preserve the conspiricy of dna everywhere. A better question is why did this dna malfunction, causing it to ponder its own motives?
>>9055252
>Everything is in function of DNA
go kill yourself dawkins
DNA is just on of many biosemiotic processes that life uses to interpret reality
>>9055252
why would you bite the hand that, er, keeps you alive? Shouldnt we be worshiping this highest level of biomolecule which gives you the ability to produce the proper proteins to even produce self-awareness? Bow down before your master pleb.
>Small college, one physics professor.
>Professor had great credentials. Carried hundreds of students through a small, but respectable degree program.
>Retires mid-semester due to leukemia.
>All physics courses except for "Physics for Biologists" are not offered temporarily.
>Incoming freshman are welcomed to a dead program. Some make plans to transfer the following semester, most drop-out in the first few months.
>Non-majors that need calculus-based physics (e.g., geology and chemistry students) are told to wait until a replacement has been hired.
>Wait a year. Told a replacement may not be hired due to low enrollment in the physics program (haha).
>Wait another year. "Physics for Biologists" is renamed "College Physics." College Physics I and II are the only physics classes offered. Geology and chemistry students are told to take college physics here or look for credit elsewhere.
>Mfw I was told to wait for two consecutive years just to receive a "fuck off."
>Mfw I have to pay for physics I and II out of pocket as single classes from other colleges do not qualify for financial aid. This will cost me $3000 out of pocket per semester and push me to 20 credits each semester.
>Mfw I fell for le "big fish in small pond," small college meme.
I have won every undergrad research fellowship in my department, received the best internships, and the best scholarships for the last three years, but it just doesn't seem worth it when I am unable to take the most basic classes to earn my degree. To anyone starting college, skip the small liberal arts/private schools and go to a university.
>>9055088
Damn, that is horrible OP. How come the administration waited so long to hire the guy an assistant or something. I mean, people die. They should have expected that one day the guy would need a replacement. That just sounds like bad management.
I think it is misguided of you to blame this on small departments. I am doing mathematics in a small college and here there are at least 50 different professors of mathematics.
You should blame this on management. Your university sounds like a private university just wants to make as much money as possible and the penny-pinching fucks didn't hire more physicists because the physicists did not make them money. So yeah
>Daily reminder that private colleges are a scam and a meme
>>9055088
>goes to a shitty school
>school turns out to be shit
you should have gone to a proper university, obviously.
>>9055088
>physics class required for other major
>told a replacement may not be hired due to low enrollment in the physics program
??
What is this board's consensus on faster than light speed travel again? I forgot.
its fast
Like sonic but slower
It's impossible to move faster than light, but you could move the space around you to go faster, it is still being debated if Warp drives could work or not as it would violate a lot of physic rules and our understanding on the universe.
Why is this retarded meme still taught in schools?
>>9054636
wait, what's wrong with it?
>>9054636
>brown
Is there anyone left that thinks BLM isn't antiwhite
>>9054637
It's the primary colours for paint. The most useful (and real) primary colour spectrum is red, green, blue, forming white in the centre.
The laws of thermodynamics prevents us from making super efficient engines to travel to space cheaply enough to make it profitable for commercial exploration.
We're still using rocket technology made by Nazis in the 1940s which has a 50% chance of exploding before even lift off.
The laws of physics has a speed of light limit which prevents us from exploring most of our own galaxy, let alone the universe.
The laws of quantum mechanics and Heisenberg principle prevents us from harnessing the unlimited potential of the vacuum energy.
So besides the advances in how to make electrons go a bit faster in apps and computers every year and cut thousands of jobs in the process by automating everything, has civilization reached a technological stagnation point?
>>9054629
>The laws of physics has a speed of light limit which prevents us from exploring most of our own galaxy, let alone the universe
Wrong. You age less if you travel at close to c velocities
Is there one manic depressive making all of these doomsayer threads or several?
We went from feudalism to television, rockets, and computers in less than 10 generations.
Chill the fuck out. We're going as fast as we can.
Patience
We have AI coming up, there are breakthroughs all the time, its just not in the news because society is full of degenerates.
There is so much we don't know.
IMO i feel like we are focusing on things that are too big like the colonisation of outer space (mars in particular).
What did you expect, afterall everything we know now has been found out in the past 200 years or so for the most part, so its no secret that we are currently in a neutral time without anything major.
But we have a few things coming up, like AI.
What's the best way to stimulate innovation?
If conflict stimulates innovation like the second world war - is war a good thing for science?
>>9054610
>What's the best way to stimulate innovation?
capitalism and an efficient economic system
war kills a lot of potential contributors to science
>>9054618
Not to mention that researchers where drawn out from fields that weren't useful for the war effort. I feel this is often overlooked.
if homosexuality is genetic, why do homosexuals still exist? since they cannot have offspring shouldn't evolution have wiped them out?
(not trolling, genuinely curious)
>>9054265
Some gays will suppress their gayness and get married and have kids and then have gay sex on the side
>>9054265
Homosexuality is spread through child rape
>>9054265
It's a false correlation in research.
Say this gene is responsible for increased amounts of estrogen being released, "ebin science" magazines and websites will politicize this as meaning it's a "gay" gene even though the increased estrogen only may contribute to gayness. There are so many more factors to this kind of thing so accepting hard "revolutionary" notions such as the existence of a gay gene is a really bad habit that leads you to believe things that aren't actually true.
Anyway there are a lot more sociological reasons for homosexuality than genetic, it's like saying being autistic makes you post on 4chan.
Computer science blown the fuck out::::
how will they ever recover...
https://www.wired.com/2017/01/move-coders-physicists-will-soon-rule-silicon-valley/
tldr. physicists are actually better suited to do research in cs subjetcs than literal computer science graduates.
>>9053257
>zero replies
/sci/ confirmed 90% code monkeys who can't deny the truth that cs is a scam
not surprising.
physicists are THE smartest of them all.
history of science is full of examples of physicists going to other fields and making major discoveries, embarrassing the brainlets who studied those fields their entire lives.
Hopefully I, as a computational chemist, can trend-hop this.
Growing up, should students be forced to learn an instrument?
Should schools (lets assume they could afford to) have mandatory music classes? Do you think it would have a significant impact on child development?
What other subjects should be given more/less focus?
Why learn an instrument? Seems pointless. Pretty much every school has optional music classes anyway if the kid is into that sort of thing.
>>9053112
I was forced to learn the recorder.
It didn't help me at all and I forgot how to play it
>>9053112
>piano
>math
>latin
>christiany
>physics/philosophy
>social engineering
>go