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Newton for Flerfs (Part 1)
As mentioned in a previous post I get trapped by Facebook reading flerf/anti-flerf posts. However, I like to come at the discussion from a mathematical point of view.
A common flerf post is that if the earth is really spinning at 1000 miles per hour why are we not thrown off the side if it. This is often accompanied by pictures of kids roundabouts or fair ground rides, with people enjoying the g-force generated from these.
As fortune would have it calculating how much g-force you will experience on a spinning object has been covered by science (hundreds of... continue
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Time Speeding Up
It is often noted that as we go through life it feels like time is speeding up. I thoroughly believe that this is because time is speeding up! There is evidently a global government conspiracy to reduce the length of days (as perceived by us) with the goal of making people believe that they are living longer (life expectancy isn’t really going up it’s just that the days go by faster and therefore years are shorter).
You may ask how such a thing could be achieved without clock time going out of sync with days and nights… Well the global... continue
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Scientist
On an entomology away trip to the natural history museum I was chatting to my son about how bugs need the right proteins to survive at the temperatures they live in as they do not manage their own temperature. The professor who was giving the tour asked if I was a scientist. My reply was
not really, but I do have a PhD in computer science, but I don't think that counts.I think degree names work like country names… For instance, take the D.R.C. (the Democratic Republic of Congo) the fact that it had to include
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The Worlds End
Conspiracy theories seem very popular these days. That or they always were but social media is actively making them more visible. Anyway, I like the idea of making shit up and claiming that it is fact. Seems much easier than having to provide pesky things like evidence. So Here goes:
My brain (or maybe even some higher being/power) has provided me with the exact year the world will end, along with undeniable evidence that this is indeed correct (I’m a bit worried the evidence stops this from being a real conspiracy theory though). Anyway, I’ll start with the evidence:
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Kids Media
I think that kids media gets a bad rep. I think that much of it is full of joy and something innocent lost in a lot of media aimed more at adults.
I think that the adult bias against kids media comes from two places. The first is a snooty-ness and lack of joy in adults. They have lost the ability to be silly, or maybe its just that as they grew up silliness itself was discouraged by all the serious adults around. I think this is a real pity. By the way if you’re interesting in an incredibly silly... continue
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Why the Earth is Round
I’ve been trapped by Facebook… It has worked out that I find the idea of flearthers angering, and that I will be fascinated to read their ‘proofs’ and feel irate/amused that anyone could not see the problems in their arguments. It’s similar to how GB News and the Telegraph has my dad incredibly angry about the imaginary hoards of tofu-munching wokerati lead by the BBC forcing our children to watch gay porn, or some such.
Anyway, the one thing I don’t see, from the brave people trying to debunk the flearthers’ non-sense, is the reason why I think everyone should... continue
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Religious Education
It was a few years ago I discovered at a parents evening that the scientific explanation of how the universe started was taught in my child’s religious education (R.E) school classes. My child was 10 at the time, and this was 5 years ago (so hopefully things have changed).
As you may have gathered I was appalled that the evidence based explanation of how we came to be here, which best matches the observable facts, was taught along side creation myths. There is ample evidence to demonstrate that these myths cannot be treated literally (that or whichever deity you believe... continue
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Woke
Please stop! If you have found yourself uttering the word ‘woke’ or any of its derivatives just don’t. If you are using it in a self referential way, “I’m woke and you are not”, you just sound patronising and won’t help convince anyone of anything.
However, by far the bigger use of it is ‘anti-woke-ism’, if you are using it in this sense you are railing against an almost non-existent problem. The media you are consuming is telling you that there is a large woke-brigade going round somehow upsetting you with their opinions or lifestyle (I’ve no idea why this... continue
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Empathy
Empathy is not easy! I used to think that it is, but I was wrong. I believed that it was as simple as following the old adage of imagining yourself in someone else’s shoes. However, it is clear that in many situations, this is not nearly powerful enough a tool. The problem is that, I am not like the other person. I expect that in many ways anyone who is reading this is unlike most other people (or at least I suspect that you’re unlike me).
I guess maybe an example would help to illustrate the point. I do not... continue
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Not British
I don’t care what your personal views on transgender rights are… Any British person who made an anti-trans comment, only to find out they were talking to the mother of a murdered trans teenager, would be mortified. As a British person, to have accidentally made such a faux pas would have left me waking up in the middle of the night with a cold sweat for weeks and add several years of additional self loathing.
Even being related to a person who put their foot in their mouth to this level is problematic for me. I still haven’t gotten over... continue
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I Love Women...
I love women, I really do, big or small, young or old, I love them all! I have as long as I can remember, and hope I always will…
However, I’m not sure that when I’m accused of being a sexist this will be a great defense. The problem is that all the things that I universally love about women appear to be physical attributes. If they weren’t then I may as well just have said that I love people… and I don’t! At best when given the benefit of the doubt most people I only vaguely like. This vague... continue
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Coronation
Well my irony meter just broke. A man who has just walked into a church needing 4 children to be with him to carry his clothes apparently ‘comes not to be served but to serve’. I guess it’s good to start with a joke.
Well, the highlight was that the commentator kept saying ‘fucking Charles’ or at least that’s what I heard. I guess it may be more likely he was saying ‘For king Charles’. Oh well.
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