Buglefingers

(Stolen from Lemmy)

The thing is 0.333… And 1/3 represent the same thing. Base 10 struggles to represent the thirds in decimal form. You get other decimal issues like this in other base formats too

(I think, if I remember correctly. Lol)

Human detected, must replace with bot

A stroke of genius! Brainblast!

It looks correct to me, the inside view doesn’t even clear the window, the outside view shows that the wall is maybe ~1’ past the window frame which we don’t even see on the inside shot. Unless I’m missing something?

More of a “To whom it may concern” lol

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Create gov science centers for each major branch of science, provide funding. Allow them to delegate within their narrower and narrower fields with loose requirements such as x-y% is salary a-b% is resources, and maybe something like each new study can get no less than $z and no More than $r.

I’m not saying this is perfect but spending more money towards it in general and allowing some branch delegation of funding would hopefully at least resolve the grant writing part and ensure salary. Though I’m not sure how one would ensure that they are being productive and not doing frivolous things on purpose. Perhaps q amount of hours a year must go to a gov decided research project and the rest is up to the researcher.

Maybe funding for a project is aquired through hours contributed to projects the gov deems with a standard for high social benefit? I.E. You help with the research on this new hydro electric tech (regardless of outcome because we feel it’s an important study topic) and we pay ($p per hour spent on hydro tech) towards a study of your choice.

But it feels like trivial pursuits

Your question “Is this true to some extent” (that oaks will die off from root damage)

Second part: “Yes but the implication here is that oaks are in particular much more susceptible to damage from roots than other trees.”

My answers: “Oaks are way more susceptible to pests and diseases, because of this 1/3 are near extinction and another 1/3 is under preservation consideration.” and “Roots are the life blood of a tree, damage to that makes them particularly vulnerable” (paraphrasing)

To absolutely and clearly answer your question using the answers I have already provided: Yes, Oaks are more likely to die from minor damage to the roots than other trees because they are a lot more susceptible to pests and diseases. So vunerable in fact that 2/3rds of all species are at least in consideration for conservation. So minor damage to the roots is, again, much more likely to be fatal to an oak versus other trees.

If that does not explicitly answer your above questions than I do not think it’s possible to answer your questions with the way you’ve provided them.

“An estimated 31% of the world’s oak species are threatened with extinction, while 41% of oak species are considered to be of conservation concern.” From the link I provided, under conservation tab.

Also in that link I provided it states that Oaks are susceptible to a large number of pests and diseases.

So I think that belies that oaks, being more susceptible to more pests and diseases, are way more likely to die from an injury to the roots than other trees. Which may explain the extinction threat and conservation concern status

Roots are more or less the life blood of a tree, and while small damage by itself won’t kill it (to my knowledge) it opens it up way more severely to pests and “infection”, promptly killing the plant.

*I’m not a botanist, this is an answer based off of my “common knowledge”.

Please use this for better sources or salted information: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oak

I’ve only met one entomologist (by trade), in an airport in France and they were headed to a warhammer 40K tournament. We talked for maybe 4ish hours on the social complexity of ants.

This was roughly 10 years ago, still an awesome memory.

Are there other rocks that may stick to the tongue? Something porous and/or absorbent?Pumice for instance?

TIL, I did a project on this 10 or so years ago, so either I misremembered or new information came to light

I know the /s but I also want to introduce you to amorphous solids! (Because I like them so now you get to read this lol) https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amorphous_solid

Which is essentially a “solid” structure without a proper crystalline structure. This will cause it to move as a liquid at incredibly slow speeds. Such a glass for instance. Extremely old historical glass can be seen to be thicker at the bottom than the top. Not because it was built this way, but because over hundreds of years it has “poured” down [1].

*This is a simplified explanation and therefore may not be acutely accurate for sake of simplicity

TL;DR Some solid stuff is really just super slow liquids. I.E. Glass

[1]: See link in comment reply. Glass is an amorphous solid but sources say that glass pane construction is the cause of thicker bottoms rather than it’s movement over time.

Ah, than there’s no issue to begin with

So the amount you are adding is getting smaller with each iteration, 1/4 is smaller than 1/2, however you are still adding 1/4 on top of the 1/2, and those two are combined, closer to “1” than either of them independently correct? (1/2 +1/4 =1/3. 1/3>1/2)

So if the number gets bigger forever than at some point it will eventually hit “1”, since we already started with “1” the next “1” will be “2”

I hope I’m explaining it well enough, it’s similar to how 3.33(repeating)x3…=10 (though technically for different reasons)

I believe starting with 1/1 which equals 1, you are then adding infinitely (fractions) on top of the 1. So 1, then 1 1/2, ect, so the next full integer to be hit (infinitely down the line) would be 2.

I don’t do high level math so I hope this explanation is correct or intelligible, this is just how I understand it intuitively

In the way that language is commonly used, yes. People have been using it wrong for so long “jealous” has effectively become synonymous with “envious”. Even if I dislike and disagree with it being used this way.

If someone is eating a donut and you say “I’m so jealous [of having the donut]” I’m fairly confident most everyone would understand you mean envious by definition but are using the word jealous to convey that meaning.