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 Showerthoughts@lemmy.world•Bacteria may kill us entirely, but we will never kill bacteria entirely
42·30 days agoIf we would kill bacteria entirely, we would doom ourselves inevitably.
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 Showerthoughts@lemmy.world•Doing the same thing over and over again expecting different results is not the definition of insanity. It's the definition of practice.
9·1 month agoSo No. I also was always very irritated by this quote, because from a scientific point of view this is rather incorrect, as (like you said) experiments need to be repeated, to verify the results.
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 Showerthoughts@lemmy.world•The Rapture could have happened, but nobody would know because everyone got left behind
10·1 month agoIf it happened, but nothing happened, did it really happen?
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 Showerthoughts@lemmy.world•"Pro-life" and "pro-choice" aren't actually opposite positions
1382·1 month ago
One of the classics.
This rule is however also broken. For example, if I come to you to ask for help, but you unkindly decline (cause unbeknown to me, you are really having a bad day), you will never receive any help from others, because you treated my like this. And as I will then reject your request for help, I will then be also excluded in the future from help from others. I.e. this rule will spiral into a bad state, because there is no forgiveness.
To solve this, we would need to make a new addition. And then we will be able fo identify another edge case, requiring another edge case. And this continues on and on.
The intention of these simple ethical/moral/social rules is to be as simple as possible, while still being a good approach. The are not intended to be absolutely followed, but to be a rule of thumb, until more information is available, to adapt properly to the situation.
And what if I don’t know (yet) how they treat others?
Behold, Approximate True Colour Neptune
Wikipedia - Neptune - Colour
Actually not that blue, compared to Earth.