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Comment Re: Is anything actually on sale or cheap? (Score 1) 37

Here is the plain ASCII only version of the second, more provocative reply, ready to copy and paste:

If you want a concrete case: I have watched foam at the top of ocean waves spatter forward and become part of the next crest, apparently advancing faster than the underlying wave itself. Tesla would have used that kind of behavior as an analogy for longitudinal effects riding on a transverse carrier.

I know the textbook answer about phase versus signal velocity. My point is simply that even in mundane physical systems, "the speed of a wave" is not as simple or monolithic as we often pretend when making absolutist claims.

Comment WoT is fun, but there is a trap in there (Score 1) 4

Tanks have 10 levels. Playing for free is fine and fun until level 5 or so. Above that, you basically have to pay to win. You stop doing damage with the free ammunition. I stopped playing, but many people seem to be unable to and that is where all their money comes from.

Comment Re:The YouTuber Adam Something (Score -1) 35

A YouTuber? Seriously? We Americans trust the experts. For those who don't know, the rsilvergun account was recently exposed as being a Malaysian, complete with screenshots of zir other social media. Only foreigners think random YouTube channels are more trustworthy than experts. We Americans went through this during covid. People were eatating horse paste! And refusing life saving vaccinations. Oh, how we all laughed when Herman Cain died.

Comment Re:They're really aiming for that Ig-Nobel Prize (Score 1) 41

As whacky as the research sounds, theres precedents, albeit less funny ones.

Back in the 1980s where I lived, supermarkets used to always stick cardboard cutouts of policemen around the shop, cross-armed and staring. Apparently those where really effective.

Nobody actually thought it was a real policeman staring, but the psychological effect was enough that people felt too *observed* to actually go and do the crimes. I can only assume what this shows is it doesnt really matter what the authoritarian figure is , be he commissioner gordon, or batman, its enough to make people feel anxious about wanting to do good, or rather to be SEEN as doing good.

As the philosopher foucault observed, panopticon doesnt work by the prison guards doing the discipline, but the discontinuous sense of being observed made the prisoners discipline themselves.

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