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Is it ok to say a trans women is technically a man?
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societally, yes, rationally, no
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>>9107085
This
I think at some point humanity will have reached a point in medicine and biology where they could completely change one's birth sex; but that's just speculation
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>>9107085
*genetically, no
Fixed
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>study Economics beacase my mathematics background would allow me to dominate the subject area over the majority of plebs that study Econ. at undergrad
>full of normies, brainlets, and chads
>14 (absolute maximum) of 70 that may be deemed non-brainlets after examining grade distribution across the exams
>able to blend in so exchange numbers with the aforementioned acrhtypes on course
>message me for help, so i help out of my kindness and sorrow for their brainletism and to maintain social connection
>now going into penultimate year
>revert back to my nihilistic view over the summer
>they still have my number and im part of group chats
>dont want the normies and people who i dont speak to succeed when i help them
>dont want anyone on my course to succeed but me
>how do i avoid helping people
Who else gets messaged for help? I dont mind aiding the few friends i have but anyone else is a waste of time. How do you deal with this?
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>>9107017
By stop helping them. Tell them to fuck off.
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if you weren't an autist looking for validation you would just stop responding to them. but you're clearly a narcissistic prick by the way you talk about yourself. seriously , fuck you you self absorbed brainlet.
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>>9107023
But these people also come in handy later on. I.e. certain information on a specific area that could come into play.
>>9107026
Not looking for validation, faggot. Yes, i am narcissistic ans i have schizoid. The main reason i talked excessive of myself here is to give better context.
Read above reply
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What is speed of light? It can't be just electromagnetical phenomena, because gravitation also obeys the speed of light.
Why is it called speed of light anyways? Should be called speed of information, or something
No tautology answers like "speed of light is the universal speed limit" or "speed of light is why all things don't happen at the same time"
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It is very fast.
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>>9106821
it's the fastest speed the universe can be rendered by a shitty neet alien
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>>9106826
Does their universe have speed of light then?
See how weak your philosophical argument was? Go back to philosophy class to discuss "what is the meaning of life" and "is your red my green?". We'll be talking about physics in this thread.
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Why does sci hate engineering? It's basically applied science
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>>9106804
I think you answered your own question.
also i think you know that yourself and that is why your name is sage.
>you might think I went for the bait,
This comment will be deleted after a while so you will lose this fishy
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>>9106818
Haha I'm gonna keep it alive so others get baited too :)
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>>9106818
Science is useless if it cannot be applied
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When will we go to Mars?
Is it even possible (low gravity, cosmic rays, no food for 6 months etc.)
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Mars is a lie made up by the government to steal our tax money for NASA.
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>>9106801
No, its not even the ambition of spaceX.
they just do this rocket gig to get things started,
once they have enough funds the aim is to shoot up a bunch of satelites that provide high speed internet.
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>>9106806
Degenerate
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This might be a stupid question but ok so theres no such thing as an unlimited source of energy right? If we need energy we have to get it from somewhere eg the sun or the wind or burning stuff.
Where does the heart get the energy to pump blood around the body? is it from food? what about before you were born and you couldnt eat, would it get the energy from the mother?
Also is the sun an unlimited source of energy? or is it just like a really big fire and will someday burn out
Thanks for the answers
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Yes, you get energy directly from food (ultimately from the Sun). You breathe since your body needs oxygen to release energy from food.
Obviously the Sun is a finite source of energy. It uses fusion to extract energy from elements. When fuel runs out the sun is going to stop being the source of local energy.
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>>9106519
oh wow so the sun is pretty much the energy source for everything then. Thanks for the info
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>>9106523
>the sun is pretty much the energy source for everything then
Yup, exactly
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I have a math question that I've been wondering about for a while and wondering even more now that I've started to read Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus and Wittgenstein beautifully brought it up. I'm not very smart so I may be misunderstanding it and completely wrong, but:
When you read mathematical proofs there are words, human language. This is a really big leap as Wittgenstein points out. Does mathematics, to be firmly and thoroughly proven true, need a language all of its own whose meaning is apparent to the reader with no background training, through pictorial illustrations perhaps or just a more intuitive syntax? Otherwise you're indoctrinated with predispositions to certain concepts that may exist very abstractly within your mind due to your, say, English, or German mental background. It will allow the elementary proof for instance in ZFC to use words like "is", "thus", "contradiction", "set", etc.
Is it okay to use human language in such math proofs at the very foundations of the field, or does it need to go a bit lower level, a bit more primitive where no human spoken language is used and instead it's all pictorial and intuitive to even humans who speak different languages?
This question may be retarded
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>>9106321
don't have an answer for you mate, just bumping out of interest. been wondering about the same thing lately.
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>>9106321
Isn't that what second order logic is?
I mean, I'm sure a pure maths proof could be understood without human input. However more applied maths like combinatorics would be a little more difficult(??)
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>>9106356
>second order logic
What I'm saying is, all of these math concepts require guides, teachers, and human spoken language instructions to comprehend. Nobody opens up a textbook on second order logic or any mathematical concept, and it becomes apparent that it is correct and what the meaning of the proofs are without human language explanations... Is this okay though?
What I'm asking, is:
Do we require a mathematical language that we could share with sufficiently advanced aliens who have vision, and they would be able to read it and comprehend it without much effort and realize that it is math and that we are correct, and quickly and just intuitively comprehend it? Is that something we need for mathematics to be well founded? Is it useful?
I'm having an asthma attack but I can't go to the hospital as I'll be diagnosed with asthma if I do.
I live next to a 24 hour grocery store is there anything in there that will help me?
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Chop a lime in half, pour egg white on it and take deep breathes on it.
The enzymes should provide sufficient relief for some time.
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>>9106254
>I'll be diagnosed with asthma if I do.
so?
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>>9106254
Ginger root, turmeric. Cacao possibly.
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Alright lets talk about the Fermi Paradox, and specifically, at what point in time, and what kind of challenge the Great Filter is?
For the uninitiated:
https://waitbutwhy.com/2014/05/fermi-paradox.html
I'll start by going on record that the explanation that seems to make the most sense to me is that the Great Filter lies ahead of us in the form of an advanced predatory species, similar to the reapers in Mass Effect. It seems to be logical that the first civilization to reach a type 3 civilization wouldn't tolerate others coming close, and before ever becoming anything close to a threat, they are wiped from the face of the galaxy with no trace of their existence left?
Or you could be a memeing faggot and disregard the Great Filter theory, and believe the "Government" is keeping extraterrestrial communication from the public.
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>>9106100
This universe is a game of Sburb; heat death is because the game has a time limit. We have reach type III within the time limit to claim our Ultimate Reward.
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>>9106111
Lol, and what are we rewarded with?
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>>9106116
creating our own pocket dimension so we escape the heat death completely and then start our own universe as a type IV civilization
Studying tips
1. Masturbate while studying so your brain associates studying with pleasure, having premature ejaculation helps.
2. Use a separate browser when studying on the computer so you don't get distracted by your history/bookmarks.
3. Use the Pomodoro technique when studying, to stop procrastinating. 25 minutes of uninterrupted studying, followed by a 5 minute break. Once you complete 3-4 sessions, you can take a longer break. Whenever you get distracted during each 25 minute session, reset the timer and do 3 pushups. I usually get distracted once per minute so I end up doing 75 pushups per 25 minute session and one 25 minute session can take up to 100 minutes for me.
4. Print out all your notes so you don't get distracted by your computer
5. Write down your study materials until you can remember everything by memory
6. When doing questions, change up the numbers so you can pretend that you're testing yourself rather than doing the same questions over and over again.
Share your tips with one another.
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>>9105936
sauce?
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unironically amphetamines because of place preference
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>>9105936
>not taking a vacation all year and studying all subjects 1 month before all tests
wew
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Best online resources for reviewing trig/precalc shit? I took Calc I in highschool a few years ago but haven't really done any math since then and now I need to relearn some shit before the semester starts.
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Anyone here studying molecular biology? What am I looking forward to?
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Its an amazing field desu. But you need to be highly interested in it to survive
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fun
>>9106505
this too
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You'll learn how organisms use genetic information to do things, and also how this process can fuck up. That's the most overarching description of the field I can think of. Lots of pipetting small volumes of clear liquids together and making gels. You will fuck up your experiments constantly. If you're like me you'll enjoy all of it
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If the Earth is spherical, then why has no one ever taken on any monetary flat Earth challenges?
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If there were winnable prizes for disproving flat earth they would have been claimed already.
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>>9105651
people who believe in flat earth tend to not have a lot of money
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>>9105651
faggot
What is time?
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It's what makes clocks go.
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Time is a spectrum
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motion and energy
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Hey, mycologists. Identify this mushroom for me.
They're growing all over my lawn and I've tried to identify them through internet references, but it's not helping.
So far I think I've narrowed it down to two... One is delicious and has recipes I can try. The other is deadly poisonous.
If it's edible I'm gonna eat it.
Don't lead me astray, /sci/.
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Further information: The biggest one is friggin' huge. It's wider across than my hand. I tried to shake some of the spores onto some paper to identify the color and I THINK it's brown, but it could very well be dark green.
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>>9105590
Do it fagget
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Pic of the underside.