Haagel

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Haagel ,

My family has been doing this for several generations. My race is so ambiguous and I love it because I can jive with so many ethnic groups.

Haagel ,

What are some of the harmful things that he's attached his name to? I'm out of the loop...

Haagel ,

Kinky

Haagel ,

TIL that Charles Darwin hated everybody and everything!

Haagel ,

One historian described him as an "anxiety-ridden nerd".

Haagel ,

Scientists may have solved the mystery behind transporting some of the materials to the pyramid site: a dried-up a river

Fixed the title for you.

The construction of the Giza pyramids is still baffling. Some of the stones are purported to weigh 80 tons. That's four or five times more weight than what modern trucks can pull on paved roads.

It's not so farfetched to presume that this ancient civilization employed technology that is lost to time. I'm not talking about aliens and laser beams, but good ol' fashioned mathematics. They could have exploited a principle of leverage and incline that we simply don't understand or recognize. Or perhaps something entirely different from our six simple machines...

The problem with this theory, of course, is that we like to believe that humanity is always progressing and that we are superior to our forebears by default. That is ultimately a subjective opinion.

Haagel ,

Yeah, I remember this guy. He claimed that Stonehenge in England could have been built like this. The pyramids of Giza are much more complex, of course. Still, I think it's entirely possible that the pyramids were built using very clever engineering principles that were forgotten and that we don't need because we have cranes and power tools and hydraulics, etc.

Haagel ,

Y'all are too obsessed with coffee. It's unhealthy.

Downvote me all you want...

Haagel ,

Is dark matter still a thing?

Haagel ,

The discovery of horizontal gene transfer implies that it's more like a web than a tree.

"Biologist Johann Peter Gogarten suggests "the original metaphor of a tree no longer fits the data from recent genome research" therefore "biologists should use the metaphor of a mosaic to describe the different histories combined in individual genomes and use the metaphor of a net to visualize the rich exchange and cooperative effects of HGT among microbes".

I look forward to this dinosaur = chicken colloquialism being inevitably discarded.

Haagel ,

Not just microbes. HGT has been observed in carnivorous plants as well. It could be much more prevalent than we think.

Haagel ,

Serious question: is x = my + b also a slope intercept? Why is it only calculated via the y axis?

Haagel ,

And then bomb them

Haagel ,

I never trusted the stuff. We use to say this matter-of-factly when I was a kid, about thirty years ago. I'm glad to see that my unfounded confidence and speculation turned out to be right!

Haagel ,

Damn. I've got the Mountain Dew drinkers riled up.

"Possibly causes cancer" is sufficient for me to never the touch the stuff. Please stop drinking these things. They're literally addictive.

Haagel ,

Probably stepping down to sit on the board instead.

Haagel ,

There was a time when Muslim empires were powerful. Their so-called "golden age" from about 750 to 1250 ad produced so much of the culture, science and philosophy that we benefit from today.

Obviously there has been a dangerously conservative shift in recent centuries, and especially during the reform in the 70s.

I wish that "returning to former glory" meant reviving their intellectual prowess.

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    Haagel ,

    Probably because of Hitler. He was very inspired by eugenics and Darwin's recently published seminal work on evolution. In his writings and speeches he frequently referred to Darwinism and human engineering via eugenics. Here's a quote from Hitler's Mein Kampf:

    "In the struggle for daily bread all those who are weak and sickly or less determined succumb, while the struggle of the males for the female grants the right or opportunity to propagate only to the healthiest. And struggle is always a means for improving a species' health and power of resistance and, therefore, a cause of its higher evolution."

    Not just Hitler, the whole of the Nazi party and their public propaganda was based on extreme Darwinism.

    An important official Nazi Party publication, "Nationalsozialistische Monatshefte", edited by Alfred Rosenberg, occasionally featured articles promoting evolution. In a 1935 article Heinz Brücher praised German biologist Ernst Haeckel for paving the way for the Nazi regime. In addition to mentioning Haeckel's advocacy of eugenics and euthanasia, Brücher highlighted Haeckel's role in promoting human evolution. Brücher reminded his readers that Haeckel's view of human evolution led him to reject human equality and socialism. In 1941 Brücher published another article in "Nationalsozialistische Monatshefte" on evolution through natural selection. Several times he stressed that the principles of evolution were just as valid for humans as for other organisms. He closed the essay by explaining the practical application of evolutionary theory:

    "The hereditary health of the German Volk and of the Nordic-Germanic race that unites it must under all circumstances remain intact. Through an appropriate compliance with the laws of nature, through selection and planned racial care it can even be increased. The racial superiority achieved thereby secures for our Volk in the harsh struggle for existence an advantage, which will make us unconquerable."

    In Brücher's view human evolution is an essential ingredient of racial ideology, not a hindrance to it. In 1936 another author named Heberer launched an attack on antievolutionists in Nationalsozialistische Monatshefte. He praised Haeckel and stressed the affinities of Darwinism and human evolution with Nazi ideology.

    The history is really quite fascinating and it's rarely taught in your state-mandated evolutionary biology classes!

    Haagel ,

    Yes. It wasn't a uniquely German trend, although they applied it the most and thereby killed millions. The Americans also have their own gruesome history of human eugenics.

    Haagel ,

    Just look at this bullshit that they're advertising on Facebook. This will be the end of the middle class in America.

    1000033067

    Haagel ,

    Sorry. I've just realized that I'm in the Aussie instance...

    Haagel ,

    What is the information?

    Haagel ,

    Trees hella smart.

    Haagel ,

    What is a species? What is a genus or a taxa? It seems like the lines become more blurry the closer you look at it.

    Haagel ,

    Uh oh. Le Reddit atheists are migrating to Lemmy.

    We May Finally Know How The First Cells on Earth Formed ( www.sciencealert.com )

    The prebiotic emergence of protocells is an important part of chemical origin of life. This study shows that cyclic-phospholipids formed from fatty acids and glycerol could have played a role by generating a heterogeneous library of vesicles with diverse morphologies and tolerance to a range of metal ions, temperature, and pH....

    Haagel ,

    If I had a dollar for everytime I've read a similar story in the last thirty years...

    Haagel ,

    Rendering 3d immersive AI generated deepfake porn is going to be so fucking fast

    Haagel ,

    "Mounting pressure", much like "condemnation", means absolutely nothing. Isreal will continue to whatever the hell they want and with immunity because western nations are so desperate for a middle eastern ally.

    Haagel ,

    I listen to NPR almost every day and I've never heard them shy away from objective reporting on Gaza. If anything they lean towards sympathy with Palestine.

    I agree that the omission in this article is probably a technicality because there is only one source of information and that source died soon after setting himself on fire.

    Haagel ,

    I've got a friend from Uruguay who lives in Finland (very similar standard of living compared with Norway) and who recently visited me in America. I can confirm that this article is not satire. He was absolutely shocked to see the amount of homelessness and poverty in New York city and he tried very hard not to talk about the rock-solid financial security available to every citizen in Finland.

    Haagel ,

    dck

    Haagel ,

    I still don't understand what he was thinking on that fateful day when he stormed the castle. Surely he, of all people, knew that it was all or nothing.

    Haagel ,

    We could have had Bernie. I can't even imagine how different so many things would have been...

    Haagel ,

    Philosophy > science

    Fight me

    Haagel , (edited )

    You know what I mean, brother. There's a huge scope of difference between applied sciences and natural philosophy. Our technological advancements fail to resolve fundamental questions about the human condition. Scientists rarely study epistemology or philosophy in order to attain our degrees and I think it shows in the public trend toward scientism.

    Haagel ,

    Interesting read. I'm familiar with the Arthur C Clarke quote...

    Haagel ,

    Scientism is the dogmatic belief that empirical science is the only source of knowledge. It's not arguing in bad faith to say that this is a dangerously flawed ideology.

    The inconvenient truth about scientific research is that 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘮𝘦𝘢𝘯𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘰𝘧 𝘥𝘢𝘵𝘢 𝘪𝘴 𝘯𝘰𝘵 𝘴𝘦𝘭𝘧-𝘦𝘷𝘪𝘥𝘦𝘯𝘵. Information requires a metaphysical framework in order to be interpreted in way that makes sense.

    Lacking a philosophical foundation, scientism produces dangerous results, like when Hitler and his ilk explicitly referred to Darwinism as their justification for the Holocaust.

    Haagel ,

    US Senate approves $95bn for US weapons manufacturers to make weapons for Ukraine, Israel and Taiwan

    Haagel ,

    Please enlighten me

    Haagel ,

    I agree. I'm just trying to address the commonly held misconception that piles of cash are being sent abroad. The bulk of the money is spent in America and the weapons are sent to the allies.

    A State Supreme Court Just Issued Another Devastating Rebuke of the U.S. Supreme Court ( slate.com )

    The Hawaii Supreme Court handed down a unanimous opinion on Wednesday declaring that its state constitution grants individuals absolutely no right to keep and bear arms outside the context of military service. Its decision rejected the U.S. Supreme Court’s interpretation of the Second Amendment, refusing to interpolate...

    Haagel ,

    Whoa. That's a bit too philosophical, bud! We like to keep things simple and superficial around here.

    Haagel ,

    What's an enby? If you don't mind me asking...

    Haagel ,

    Oh, OK

    Haagel , (edited )

    I'm 37 with a wife and two kids. I'm fortunate that I see friends quite often. Several times a week, actually.

    It's so important to schedule time for socializing as we get older. We can't take it for granted like when we're young; it often needs to be planned in advance. Being a member of a religious community or special interest group more or less guarantees that there's always a social event coming up.

    I highly recommend guys who are feeling lonely to look into local groups according to their interests. You'll be surprised how many other people also want friends outside of work but don't know how to get it started.

    Haagel ,

    Craig Venter, the infamous head of the Human Genome Project and who created the first "synthetic" cell, has been saying this stuff for years. It's remarkable how ahead of the times he is, perhaps because he's not beholden to an academic institution.

    He claims that a "tree of life" is fallacious, that there is no junk DNA, and that the bare minimum genes necessary for a living cell still can't be determined even after decades of research.

    I hope that the authors of the new Extended Evolutionary Synthesis will admit the deficiency of outdated assumptions and reject dogmatic approaches to the theory, as implied by the author of the book reviewed in this article.

    Haagel ,

    I'm not an expert on the subject. I can only repeat what Venter said: "the only junk DNA is in my colleagues brains". He claims that all DNA has function and that it should not be referred to as junk just because we don't know the function yet.

    He talks about at intervals in this interview.

    Haagel ,

    I don't think that Venter is suggesting intelligent design. He's claiming, as a result of his research, that it's not effective to assume simple explanations for genomics and especially for cellular biology.

    Every technological improvement in the methods of research has revealed more complexity in organisms and so it behooves us to suspend dogmatic approaches to the genome. That's the subject of the book discussed in the article.

    Craig Venter is very controversial and his statements are provocative. I'm not qualified to critique the science in this field. But I'd recommend you to take a look at the work his team is doing with synthetic chromosomes and engineered cells.

    Haagel ,

    It's really hard for me to imagine a scenario where large groups of people are fighting on principle to protect billionaires.

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