TenWildBadgers
TenWildBadgers t1_je729ir wrote
Reply to comment by jishnumenona in English is such an unreasonable language that spelling is a national sport by eldrolamam
Yeah, they actually learned the rules.
Who among us with English as a first language actually uses the word "whom"? Because we're absolutely supposed to.
TenWildBadgers t1_je722j4 wrote
Humans are the only species we know able to express a more complicated relationship with gender than agree with biological sex.
If my biologically male dog had the... [Sound of a hard drive defragging itself as a very Cis Male who does not understand the trans experience well enough to articulate this tries to anyway] I guess the mindset and identity of a girl dog, do you think we'd be able to tell the difference? How much would the dog understand the disconnect, and would they be able to express anything of the sort to us?
I would interpret it much more that we don't know how animals feel in a lot of cases, only how they act. With language, we're relatively skilled at communicating how we feel to other humans, which is the only reason very Cis people like me can know that trans and nonbinary people are who they are.
TenWildBadgers t1_je74r4m wrote
Reply to There’s no way to truly hear a random song. by Glittering-Animator2
You want me to double down on that for you? Randomness doesn't exist, it is only a function of we as observing not having all the information.
Picture a normal, 6-sided die. I go to roll it. As the die rolls from my hand and clatters across the ground, everyrhing slows into bullet time, until it freezes, and you get information. Physics formulas, forces, mass, little inconsistencies of the dice's weight and density.
If you get enough information- the precise details of my throw, every air particle that bounces against it, and a truely impossible number of other details, you plug the math into a supercomputer and have it tell you what side the die will land on.
It isn't random, it just depends on factors we don't have the capacity to see or understand enough to predict it.
This is why computers' random number generators litterally just take a hyperspecific measurement of the time and use that as the input to an equation to give you the number you're looking for.