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[–] 77 points 4 months ago (4 children)

I've only had the confidence/anger to say it directly to soneone once, but I've decided in the future to reply to this with "and you didn't look like a judgemental piece of shit, yet here we are."

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  • [–] 57 points 4 months ago (3 children)

    The dangerous thing is that I would practice this until it’s a habit and then auto-deploy the script at the worst possible person.

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  • [–] 33 points 4 months ago (1 child)

    I'm not autistic, but this sounds like a good way to get out of a conversation. Would this be cultural appropriation?

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  • [–] 13 points 4 months ago

    This is one of the ways to handle someone saying you don't look disabled (whether autism or other). I think w can all share it when appropriately used against judgmental assholes. I personally have gone with a less aggressive "and you didn't look so rude".

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  • [–] 24 points 4 months ago (12 children)

    ... and then named all the dinosaurs, then cloud types, then helpfully pointed out there are actually 6 states of matter and named described each of them...

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  • [+] 14 points 4 months ago (3 children)
  • [–] 4 points 4 months ago (7 children)

    Wait, 6? Plasma, condensate... What's the sixth?

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  • [–] 10 points 4 months ago* (2 children)

    Okay, so, just like how the idea of there being "7 continents" is virtually meaningless under Plate Tectonics, so too do the traditional states of matter no longer apply under new understandings of astrophysics, high- and low- temperature physics, and advanced materials science. Consider: what most people think of as "solid" is really just "crystalline": repeating structures of atoms bound together in a lattice which act as a rigid body. However, glass is not crystalline. Shouldn't "glass" be a different state of matter, since it operates under some of the properties of solids, and some of the properties of liquids?Also, solids can flow, even crystalline solids (consider the mantle, or dislocation creep). Also, what about when salt dissolves into water, and the ions dissociate? Does "aqueous" count as a state of matter? How about what happens when you go above the curie temperature of a magnet? That phase transition completely changes the physical state of the material, and in a way that is arguably much more profound than going between the phases of minerals, such as between Andalusite and Kyanite.

    How about superconductors? Fermionic condensates are in a unique state, and are composed of matter, but are distinct from bose-einstein condensates.

    Neutronium is another excellent case. Neutron stars are made of matter, but they act closer to a single, multiple-mile-wide atomic nucleus, rather than just a bunch of neutrons. Degenerate matter is definitely its own thing.

    So, the point is: the very idea of "states of matter " is only useful for certain problems, but breaks down quickly upon advanced inspection. My guess would be that the original commenter is presumably counting "aqueous" as a state of matter, but really, once you get any further than "plasma, gas, liquid, solid", the categorical breakdown stops making sense, since you get too many exceptions.

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  • [–] 6 points 4 months ago (1 child)

    Solid

    Liquid

    Gas

    Plasma (normal)

    Bose-Einstein Condensate

    Quark-gluon plasma

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  • [–] 2 points 4 months ago

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/State_of_matter

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phase_(matter)

    Nonclassical States: Amorphous Solid, Plastic Crystal, Liquid Crystal, Copolymer

    Magnetically Ordered states: transition metal, quantum spin liquid.

    Superfluids and condensates: Bose-Einsteincondensate, fermionic condensate

    High-energy states: Degenerate matter, Quantum Chromodynamic (QCD) Matter, Color-glass condensate, very high energy states

    Proposed: Supersolid, String-net liquid, superglass, chain-melted state, quantum hall effect, photonic matter,

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  • [–] 18 points 4 months ago

    Today I was at catechesis talking to a boy who liked Roman history like me, and the teacher tried to "be nice" and join in the chat.

    Her eyes widened as I spent the next 5 minutes listing why should Marcus Aurelius be hated and why was Claudius the greatest dude.

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  • [–] 17 points 4 months ago (3 children)

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  • [–] 12 points 4 months ago (2 children)

    I like and am impressed by this, but feel sad that it didn't contain BR Classes 140-145.

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  • [–] 11 points 4 months ago (1 child)

    Entire trains, or just the locomotives that pull them? Usually the locomotives are the focus.

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  • [–] 9 points 4 months ago (6 children)

    I can tell you roughly where all the main roads from № 1-20 in my country lead

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  • [–] 10 points 4 months ago (5 children)

    Also I can count up to 1024 on my hands in binary

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  • [–] 5 points 4 months ago (2 children)

    Why not ternary? Your fingers have more than 1 joint. If you exclude the thumbs, you could even do quaternary or whatever it's called.

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  • [–] 2 points 4 months ago (1 child)

    If you can individually manipulate just the first joint on each of your fingers you're a mutant.

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  • [–] 1 point 4 months ago

    The first one from the tip I can't manipulate individually so you're right, base 4 is impossible. But 0/1/2 I could do an all 3 fingers and my thumbs. Technically that means the ability to count to 59049, though it'd be a painstaking process.

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  • [–] 5 points 4 months ago (2 children)

    I do the Hundred Hand Trick for them. Usually gets them off my back.

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