My father was a doctor teaching metabolism in a medical school at that time, and he told me the same thing. No, experts didn’t ever believe that, as far as i can tell.
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Then this thread isn’t for you. Don’t thread shit.
Edited to retract the mod note. It was just a reference to the use of the phrase, and totally appropriate to the thread. My apologies.
Well, no, it doesn’t. It points to the magnetic north pole, but not the geographic north pole. Close enough for trivial uses, but needs to be taken into account for any real distance navigation.
But what he may have been saying is that the North side of the needle of a compass points North. (Or rather that this is a misconception of many.)
Either way, both are valid reasons to say that a compass doesn’t point to the north pole.
I can’t imagine why you’d need them all in the same meal, or even the same day. As long as you are getting them often enough that you maintain high enough levels, it shouldn’t matter at all when they are consumed.
I believe he’s referring to people confusing the phrases “I could care less” and “I couldn’t care less”. “I could care less” is a perfectly fine expression of indifference - you just have to be aware of the concept of sarcasm.
correct. bad moderation.
Either that or ellipsis as in “(as if) I could care less,” which is how I personally parse it when I say it. Not sure if I buy the sarcasm explanation (as Pinker argued), but either way (or yet another way), it’s an idiom, and anything goes as long as it’s understood. Idioms often fail logic and literalism.
And, yes, I think @puzzlegal may have gotten whooshed here.
I dm’d him to ask what he meant. He hasn’t replied. If that was his intent, yes, I’ll withdraw the note.
Plenty of misconceptions about the pope and the Catholic church in general. Papal infallibility is only one. The popular idea is that the pope ‘can’t be wrong’ and everything he says is like God saying it. That isn’t anything resembling the official description – the pope can only be infallible on points of Catholic doctrine and that only when he makes such points ex cathedra, that is, issued with the full authority of his office. Which has only happened twice.
Many people believe that Catholics must obey all sorts of rules, many of which are outdated, ridiculous, or cruel. But the reality is, although once true, that era is long over, and the Catholic church has little to no power over the everyday lives of Catholics.
I knew about the ex-cathedra stuff, but didn’t realize it only happened twice. And, yes, Catholics are not as dogmatic as one may think. I don’t know of any Catholics against birth control ; many I know are pro-choice. Opposition to homosexuality is rare in the Catholic circles run in. Hell, my daughter’s school celebrates non-Christian holidays like Diwali and Holi to be inclusive of their South Asian students. The school website lists preferred pronouns for their teachers. The church marquee displayed “Black lives matter” during the Floyd protests, etc.
In the US, ordinary Catholics (including priests and nuns) poll about the same as other citizens – some progressive, some conservative. Because the organization is intractably anti-democratic, only males have power, and only bishops and above have a voice, it’s easy to believe that the proclaimed doctrines are what lay Catholics also believe. In my experience it is more accurate to say it’s what they endure, because they like other aspects of the church.
Yeah, that squares with my impression. I think of Catholics as, on average, smack dab in the middle of the political spectrum in the US. (Oh, and ex cathedra where I had ex-cathedra before. Darn autocorrect.)
And even that’s not strictly true.
A compass simply aligns itself with the magnetic field that is passing through it. We then make the assumption that the direction of the magnetic field that’s passing through the compass “points” to the magnetic north pole.
This is usually a good assumption. It’s not always true.
Fair, and there are in fact a number of anomalies that will cause it to diverge.
Sometimes in the geography, sometimes more local.
The only thing I remember from “The Gods Must be Crazy II” is when one of the people leaves their metal coffee mug next to their compass, and as such, goes entirely the wrong way.
Ermmm…
So, it does point to a North pole. Glad we cleared that up.
The North pole of a compass needle indeed points to the South Magnetic Pole. But that wasn’t what was said. No polarization was specified, and compasses do indeed point to a North pole (when used correctly and not futzed with by metal objects, yes).
No. Both are valid reasons for saying a compass doesn’t point to the same North pole most people think it does.
But the way this was stated, was just wrong in itself.
I’d think that, given enough air resistance to be measurable, the 50 lb ball will hit first, because the air will push back on both balls with the same force, since it is the same size and shape, yet will slow down the 50 lb ball less because it is using the same amount of force against a larger mass.
But it does not point to the North Pole, which was the original claim.
I think that the convention called DEF CON should have only been held in five years, not thirty years so far. The conventions could have been called DEF CON 5, DEF CON 4, DEF CON 3, DEF CON 2, and DEF CON 1, in that order. Then those people who attended the last one could say, “Let’s go to DEF CON 1”.
Not going along with needless grammatical pedantry is not the same as being wrong. Someone who says “my compass points to the North pole” is being imprecise, but they are not being wrong. There are multiple North poles, there’s a reason we qualify the Geographic one as True North if there’s confusion.
Yes, pedants, it is the one which “The North Pole” is easy shorthand for. That doesn’t make people who don’t align with your pedantry wrong. If they insisted their compass pointed to True North, yes, they would be wrong then. But as it stands, they’re right and you’re just pedants.
And if pedants were being non-hypocritical in their pedantry, they should actually be complaining that the Geographical pole shouldn’t be “The”, as there are multiple North Poles, so all of them should be “a”.
I’d agree. Remember, no one ever sold a car because it ran too well.
You do lose value with a new car as soon as you drive it off the lot, but if you’re going to keep a car 10-20 years, that has no relevance. And new cars have warrantees and are less likely to break down. What you save in initial cost, you lose back in repair costs.
Had a disagreement with the wife the other day over SSNs. I mentioned that the first three numbers have always, until now, designated which state (area) one has registered in. In my case, 574 is Alaska. She said no, the first number is the state and the next two numbers are the town and in her case 104 meant NY and Buffalo. We had a bit of a spat over that and I had to show her on the intertoobs that she was incorrect.