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Wow what kind of rookie kids were they surveying?

Hmm, I'm not sure how to correctly word my question.

It was really just aimed at the implication in the comment I replied to that if this were true, we should have seen evidence for it in telescopes already. So my question was, what phenomena would we expect to see because of these topological defects that we don't already see and have attributed to dark matter.

As far as I'm aware (which really isn't that far tbh) gravitational lensing is explained without needing any new hypotheses. But if dark matter was implicated in it to heighten the effect, that would still be something we have seen in our telescopes which could be explained by this so it still would answer the comment to which I replied as being something we have observed.

Edit: OK I looked it up and yeah dark matter (or another explanation) is required to account for the amount of lensing we see. But still, that's a thing we have observed so I guess my question would be, does this new idea not account for the same effect? If it does, that should answer the comment I was replying to.

Isn't the point of this that it explains the phenomena that is commonly attributed to dark matter? Therefore wouldn't the things we observe that would point to this be the same things that we observe that point to dark matter? I guess the thing I don't understand is why we would expect to observe something different because of this than what we attribute to dark matter.

I don't understand any of this so this question isn't snarky but something I'm actually wondering. How would we be able to see "topological defects" in space with telescopes?

It doesn't matter if it looked like a real gun, or even if it WAS a real gun. He had a real gun too, should he also have been shot for having a real gun that looked like a real gun?

Where did they say the government handed out credit scores? The meme was pointing out a double standard, not saying the government hands out credit scores.

This entire comment is just you admitting you have below average reading comprehension.

But without evolution we wouldn't have bears!

And you explained all of that WITHOUT THE OBNOXIOUS GODDAMNS and FUCKIN SCIENCE AMIRITEs

I'm not sure if that was supposed to be in agreement or countering what I said.

Over the past few decades, some people have noticed and commented on the enormous death toll that our reliance on driving and the vast amount of driving hours spent on our roads and said that that amount of death is unacceptable. Nothing has ever been able to come of it because of that aforementioned reliance on driving that our society has. Human nature cannot be the thing that changes, we can't expect humans to behave differently all of a sudden nor change their ability to focus and drive safely.

But this moment in time, when the shift from human to machine drivers is happening, the time when we shift from beings incapable of performing better on a global scale, to machines able to avoid the current death tolls due to their ability to be vastly more precise than humans, this is the time to reduce that death toll.

If we allow companies to get away with removing sensors from their cars which results in lower safety just so that said company can increase their bottom line, I consider that unacceptable even if the death toll is slightly lower than human driven cars if it could be greatly lower than human driven cars.

Humans are extremely flawed beings and if your standard for leaving companies alone to make as much money as possible is that they are at least minimally better than extremely flawed, I don't want to live in the same world as you want to live in.

Your comment is about looking down on people... tongue in cheek or not, this is always the kind of stuff people post before complaining that the big mean vegans are alienating them... victim complex much?

"They have to suffer or else they would be extinct" is a very easy argument to make about other beings when you're not the one doing the suffering. Personally, I would rather not exist than have a few short years of abysmal suffering and no chance to have a meaningful life.

I consider pain to be of negative utility

maybe try getting a professional to look into that psychopathy of yours

I'm in the same boat with a lot of commenters here, of trying to reduce my consumption for ethical reasons. Throughout my life I've tried being vegan and I've tried being vegetarian and always failed and now am just minimizing and it's working very well for me.

Nonetheless, that picture gave me a chuckle. Life's a ride, might as well have as good a time as possible and that usually coincides with being uptight as little as possible.

Home is a state of being in addition to a location.

Some people got upset that I let the microwave stop on it's own because then it beeps 3 times. Well it beeps once to stop it manually and again to reset the time so it's not like stopping it early is doing anyone a lot of favors. Opening and closing the door is way louder than the beeps anyways.

Really? You don't think that building solid foundations for people to get on their feet and start making more money themselves, money that they can turn around and spend on more products, would have a fantastic return? The benefit for the economy would be immense but corporations can't write that into their spreadsheets changing their bottom line so it "doesn't count"

Yeah. Come back in 10-15 years when half the world is using it or a successive product and people will be posting articles like these laughing at them like they do with the ones saying the internet or cell phones will never catch on and surprisingly no one will open up and admit they were the ones denying it would come. Meta has the money, they don't care how much they spend, as long as they can get in and corner the market early they will make it back many times over in the years to come... assuming climate change or nukes don't make it impossible of course.

If you look at the people in advertisements, you see the demographic that the company is targeting to buy their product. If you think that's what the new captain looks like, maybe it will be a successful change for the company, even if the loud voices on the internet don't like it.

My cat also has two lap settings. Morning brush? OK, I sit. Any other time? "Hell no I'm not sitting on you! You come down to the floor and pet me where you belong!"