naevaTheRat

naevaTheRat, 6 months ago

No they’re on plant based diets. you don’t stop using rabbit glue for health reasons, or not buy a leather couch for health reasons.

Veganism is not a diet, it is a philosophical and moral stance which necessarily includes making changes to one’s diet among other things.

naevaTheRat, 6 months ago

… people are vegan precisely because they don’t think we should derive our notions of morality from random observations of charismatic megafauna.

what on earth gave you the other idea? it’s always carnists that are like “see you have stubby little canines, eat meat” or “see lions eat the children of a pride when they take over so we should… wait fuck I mean lions eat gazelles alive sometimes so, wait sorry I’ll get it. Lions eat meat and are good role models as previously established so you should too”

naevaTheRat, 6 months ago

ok but the vegan society, the literal originator of the word, disagrees with that.

www.vegansociety.com/…/definition-veganism

I agree that many people view veganism as a diet, but they’re wrong. It’s a position of ignorance. you can probably find masses of people who understand feminism to be a superiority movement about oppressing men but that doesn’t make that true.

naevaTheRat, 6 months ago

Dictionaries are just someone’s attempt to record how people use words. They’re not authorities on meaning, just records of use.

If someone says they’re vegan you would expect them to use no animal products, including clothing, nail polish, colour pigments etc. That’s not controversial, you can find shampoo and jackets marked as vegan it is a common understanding. That is just incoherent with health motivations, and indeed many "vegan for health " people do use animal products and have cheat days and crap. They aren’t vegan, they’re just dieting.

People call themselves lots of crap, doesn’t make it true.

naevaTheRat, 6 months ago

it is the ideology that supports the use of other animals as raw material. The thing which means the idea of hitting a cat is probably horrifying to you but you’re completely comfortable gassing a pig in order to eat their stomach fat.

en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carnism

naevaTheRat, 6 months ago

but unless you’re scavenging carrion they do suffer.

naevaTheRat, 6 months ago

Yep. To be clear I don’t think you’re a bad person deliberately abusing them but it’s likely that several things are true:

• they’re a breed that emphasises egg laying at the expense of their health and wellbeing. Jungle fowls, the birds chickens are bred from, lay around 12-20 eggs a year. Most chicken breeds lay about 10x that. This is hard on their body and shortens their lifespan. It is cruel to breed them in the same way it is cruel to breed pugs.
• As the demand for hens is much higher than roosters it is highly likely many of their brothers were killed, often moments after being born in a hatchery by a putting them on a conveyor belt that feeds them, conscious, into a blender. I wish I was making that up. Or they were stuffed into trays and suffocated in co2, not a pleasant experience either way. The blender might even be less cruel there.
• Because you view them as a means to an end it is unlikely you avail them to medical care of a quality you would give a child or a pet. Also it is likely they could enjoy more life when they stop laying but you do not view them as whole beings deserving of dignity and respect, so you kill them when they are no longer productive.
• It is unlikely they are killed humanely, a humane killing is one we would be happy to use on another human as a way to die with dignity. Maybe I’m wrong but I doubt you do anything so peaceful, consentual, and gentle.

naevaTheRat, 6 months ago

you would be gripped by a giant with no explanation at a time not chosen by you, held down, and decapitated? I umm don’t think so.

Of course you can present the most sanitised and consentual version but that is not how you treat these animals. You admit that they aren’t real living beings with internal worlds like yours to you. They are things you own, machines to use up and break down.

They suffer, you might call it acceptable or natural or even noble but they suffer.

naevaTheRat, 6 months ago

be the change you want to see

naevaTheRat, 6 months ago

Hey uh I’m not happy having to explain this but you know how humans get treated when money comes into it? How barbaric practices have only been limited through violent uprisings and many still continue to this day?

well animal ag is like that, but they don’t have guns to fight back and they look much more different than humans ever do to each other.

naevaTheRat, 6 months ago

Durian you fools! King of fruit, a divine and complex flavour.

Toffee and onion and sour cream and mango and banana and custard and pineapple all dance together. Ah durian, the only fruit worth travelling for to eat fresh off the tree.

Durian my beloved.

naevaTheRat, 6 months ago

They smell amazing idk what’s wrong with people. Yes there are some chemicals in there commonly associated with noxious stuff, but that’s also true of like garlic and onions.

naevaTheRat, 6 months ago

ah but it is which is the delightful magic. A fruit with all the complexity of a good cheese and none of the horror. Woven from air with sunlight and gifted freely.

What a generous thing the durian! Mana from heaven.

naevaTheRat, 6 months ago

That not a cult quote strategically placed after all the cultish babble quotes mwah perfect journalism

naevaTheRat, 6 months ago

just go to one of the more tense instances and say capitalism good/capitalism bad and you’ll have more than enough.

Or if you’re feeling really brave write a comment about why veganism is correct literally anywhere.

naevaTheRat, 6 months ago

omfg it’s already happening.

naevaTheRat, 6 months ago

Physicists: I have spent several months of my life on top of years of study and I’m pretty confident I can now say what is going on at this surface site on a catalytic membrane!

Physics enthusiasts: Stuff rolls down energy wells so anyway here’s how we should structure all of society.

naevaTheRat, 6 months ago

Interesting. I find garlic delicious all of the time. Well except maybe when I’m feeling amorous and it’s on my beloved’s breath :p

I think I understand what you’re saying though. What is your experience of things like scented washing chemicals (deodorant/shampoo/soap/detergent) etc. Can you tolerate them? Or do you find them overwhelming?

what about vegetable decay, like compost. Aversive? or neutral?

naevaTheRat, 6 months ago

cop in a shop >:D

naevaTheRat, 6 months ago

Muscles, like everything else in your body, are always dying and being replaced. Growth will slow and overtime they will atrophy even with exercise as replacement growth is slower.

Individual genetics vary a lot but in general once everything has normalised in 5 years or so if you’re the soft of person that strength trains regularly you can be expected to be about as strong as a man who never does any manual work.

It is what it is.

naevaTheRat, 6 months ago

Well it was for me, but it does make you aware of more ways the world is built for men. E.g. mechanical advantage on bolt cutters.

I’m currently ~6 months into an estimated 2 year effort to be able to do a pullup and I do wish there were non masculinising T analoges haha.

naevaTheRat, 6 months ago

I like food too much to ever see my abs haha!

You don’t become a delicate wilting flower, if you work to mantain it and eat well. Keep hitting the dhal and the gym, do some running or whatever floats your boat and you’ll still be more than capable moving around the world. It just requires a bit more effort, but then that’s kinda typical for trans folk anyway :)

I’m in my 30s, transitioned in my early 20s. I’m not the strongest I’ve been but definitely the fittest. I may not look amazing but I can throw a brick at anyone who points that out and book it before the cops show up ;)

naevaTheRat, 7 months ago

I think you should go to the kitchen and count them

naevaTheRat, 7 months ago

Yes

naevaTheRat, 6 months ago

no comrade, this vessel is far too dimly lit. It makes shitposts

naevaTheRat, 6 months ago

photobleaching?

naevaTheRat, 7 months ago

Sagan. Feynman would insert several anecdotes about how clever he was an how much sex he had in there.

naevaTheRat, 7 months ago

and an unholsome one for the rest:

The rats in that experiment were likely decapitated at the end.

naevaTheRat, 7 months ago

2003: “You’re so edgy 🙄” 2023: “You’re so edgy 🥵”

naevaTheRat, 7 months ago

wait 100 F is only 38 degrees?

Wow that’s funny. I’ve seen so many people complain about extreme heat below 100 F.

I get that what you’re not used to is difficult but like 38 degrees is a relatively ordinary (now) summer day for me.

From how people spoke about it I thought 100 F was more lile 45

naevaTheRat, 7 months ago

yikes. My house is about 6 degrees in winter and that’s cold enough for me

naevaTheRat, 7 months ago

Oh yeah they open up libraries near me cause otherwise people might cark it.

I’m not trivialising anything, but outside of the tropics you don’t need AC to survive those temps. Just keep wetting yourself down and stay out of the sun and you’ll be right. Unless you’re not in a good state prior.

naevaTheRat, 7 months ago

If I had a choice mate I wouldn’t let it haha. I live in Australia, we make houses that don’t qualify as tents in the rest of the world.

No real insulation (tiny amount in roof but downlights punch a hole through it), single glazed windows, doors that don’t seal. Power costs too much to run heating :') it’s good shit.

naevaTheRat, 7 months ago

you could still survive by immersing yourself in cool water but yeah.

I think we had a 48 the other year with like 70% humidity and that was interesting. At one point I tried to get something done in the sun and almost immediately started experiencing heat stroke. I ended up going into the bush and lying down in a creek for a while. A surprising number of people had the same idea, it was almost nice except for the whole “wow the Apocalypse is starting” thing.

naevaTheRat, 7 months ago

I’m not from Europe. I’m from Australia.

ATM I live in temperate rainforest, have spent time in tropical heat up in northern QL.

Until the air gets saturated a lot of ability to cope is a combo of adaptation and conditioning. I wear jeans all year round pretty much and generally don’t run into problems as long as I’m drinking water. People less use to heat don’t move as much blood to their perpheries, probably don’t drink anywhere near enough water, and aren’t used to feeling comfortable in wet clothing (from sweat or from wetting yourself down).

I spent some time in Thailand and felt like I had found my people when it was a 30 degree day and I put on a jumper, went outside and saw many others doing the same!

naevaTheRat, 7 months ago

I have had friends from colder places come stay and say they’ve never felt as bitterly cold as winter in Sydney.

When I spent some time in the snowfields in aus I was actually warm. Turns out if you build houses properly you don’t even really need much heating. Residual heat from cooking and body heat hangs around for a long time, we’d only light the fire mornings and evenings.

naevaTheRat, 7 months ago

I have no more idea where those places are than you have about port Douglas and Jindabyne ;)

naevaTheRat, 7 months ago

Oh relax, it’s just funny. You’re welcome to have a giggle when I bitch about it being 18 and you’re like 18? that’s 64! I only heat my sauna to 66!

naevaTheRat, 7 months ago

There are like 1000 permanent residents :p

Nice place but, good lake, near good mountains, pleasant bushland around.

I stay sometimes, it’s very timeless. Doesn’t feel like it’s changed much from when I was a kid.

naevaTheRat, 7 months ago

Yeah there are good reasons to limit or prevent rainwater collection in order to preserve necessary river systems or agricultural areas etc.

However I highly highly doubt anything good faith is going on here.

naevaTheRat, 7 months ago

It always comes back to fucking children.

Why oh why does it always come back to fucking children?

naevaTheRat, 7 months ago

Ethical use for gpt 4?

naevaTheRat, 7 months ago

counterpoint: my GALY (giggle adjusted life year) would skyrocket

naevaTheRat, 7 months ago

🤣

naevaTheRat, 7 months ago

There is no need to be so hostile.

always on:

So the magnets in an MRI are electromagnets yes, however they’re not quite the same thing as a nail with some coils of wire and a 6 V battery. They’re super conductors cooled with liquid helium to get them below the critical point. Because of the extreme temperatures and magnetic fields cycling them up and down is a very involved process that shortens the life.

Hospitals basically never turn them off, and certainly by the time patients are being seem they’re on and remain on. They don’t quench them between scans. The pulsing heard during a scan is not the main magnet turning on and off, a common misconception.

strength:

Generally the magnets are powerful for magnets, but they are not that strong in terms of making a buttplug become a bone snapping projectile. Most are about 1 T inside the chamber which is around as strong as the field strength of powerful magnets in consumer devices. The field is larger, and consequently they have more time to accelerate things but you can remove buttplug sized ferromagnetic objects from them by hand. For instance see: www.youtube.com/watch?v=I6OHy3MipS4 playing with a keyring at the start. There is not enough force involved, a person would stop approaching when they felt extreme discomfort of buttplug moving and walk backwards.

danger with metal filings:

Safety assessments are absurdly cautious. read for example the SDS for conc. hydrochloric acid. you can pour it over your hand and get a mild itchy rash.

Blinding someone isn’t worth it so they’re very paranoid about largish (e.g. mm sized) filings in eyes. People with iron in their skin frequently get MRIs and report mild pulling and heat (see keyring example). They don’t experience the shards ripping out of their flesh or anything dramatic.

naevaTheRat, 7 months ago (edited 7 months ago)

Ah seeing your edits.

So the question about magnetic strength limits given zero resistance is very interesting! Glad to see interest as it’s an obvious question very few people ask.

All superconductors have a property we call critical field. Above this limit the material is no longer able to compensate for and exclude magnetic fields, and the superconducting properties collapse.

So if we made a coil of say YBCO (a common type 2 in lab examples) and we pumped more and more current through it, eventually it overwhelmed the material and suddenly resistance would skyrocket, generating heat causing a feedback cycle and it would probably melt to slag.