MotoAsh

That’s literally not how VPNs work nor are you aware of what you’re talking about.

Using a VPN does absolutely nothing to protect from their apps scraping up and phoning home telemetry.

It’s still YOUR phone. It’s still YOUR GPS location. It’s still YOUR data connection. A VPN is not a catch-all solution to privacy.

Good luck with that on anything that has a locked boot loader or stock OS.

Liberals aren’t left. They stab leftists in the back every chance they get. Someone who will stab you in the back at their first opportunity makes a bad ally.

Only up to iron is star poop. Anything heavier tends to be created by novae of various sizes. Technically nothing comes from the black hole, but many of the very heavy elements are birthed along side black holes.

They said the same thing about the curvature of spacetime 100 years ago. Then it was proven like three years later.

Nah, that’s the heavier elements.

If you know more about biology than me then you should KNOW the HUGE scale differences between life forms.

It’s not my fault you’re too fucking willfully ignorant to understand the literal truth behind a “bong rip thought”.

You not understanding what I said doesn’t mean I do not understand what I said.

Your understanding is still grossly ignorant and pathetically self-confidant. The main point I was trying to drive home was the DIFFERENT SCALES of life, yet you go off trying to attack me for explaining things in simple terms… You are pathetic.

Definitely wrong, although I do not have a collegiate off-hand understanding of biology to really fully decribe it.

But it comes down to what does a “cell” mean in biology? Even your case in point specifies an object with many cells in it.

Cell membranes don’t use simple diffusion to transport chemicals across. That’s the entire point of a “cell”. It’s a defined region that at least attempts to control its own various chemical balances. Cells do have many gates that allow many molecules across, unfortunately including many viruses and prions. Unfortuntely, cell walls are also not impervious to truly toxic chemicals, either, so a “cell wall” still can absolutely break down with minimal effort with the right chemicals. They do attempt to control their own balances though, including basic ionic content. That’s the whole point. The attempt.

I really have to ask… Why do you think humans aren’t so big on the scale of life? Your perspective really come across as human-centric. Not “bad” by itself, but still wholly incompatible with reality.

The thing that does change in relation to diffusion at scale is the necessity of circulatory and respertory systems, which is a massive order of magnitude or few increase in complexity than cells.

Try literally trillions. Billions is literally several orders of magnitude less than reality.

Again, most people literally cannot fathom the scales. Not as an insult, but to point out the literal scale. (god I’m such a millenial with all those ‘literals’, but it’s true…)

The result in the end should be an organized series of events, a process, that takes or produces data. The data can be anything from a single number in a calculator, to a text message, to your entire social profile. The process can be anything from basic math, to advanced math (i.e. machine learning, rendering, cryptography, etc), to performing simple operations on that data like shuffling that data somewhere else.

These processes are stacked on top of each other and utilized with basic logic (if, else, loops, scope, etc) and combined together with a myriad of programming patterns and algorithms, to produce higher and higher orders of complexity, that eventually solve a real-world problem.

The result is an ever increasing complexity of useful tools and processes that can either solve specific problems directly or at least provide discovery for other useful tools and processes that might.

It’s translating higher order problems from something understandable at the task level all the way down until a piece of specialized rock that only understands on and off can eventually spit out a meaningful result.

ok ok electrical engineers get the claim for the last sentence, and plenty of the real-world complexity, but hopefully it illustrates my point that ‘nothing’ is … just wrong. We cannot discount the absolute importance of abstract things. Everything from “imaginary” numbers to completely abstract things like philosophy have real- world consequences. If programming produces nothing, then MOST jobs that aren’t manual labor produce nothing.

Nah. You are assuming a red blood cell is a common size. It’d be like aliens coming to Earth, seeing Humans, and assuming life’s average scale is that of a human on this planet.

There is a MASSIVE scale of difference between cells of different animals. Some cells can be seen with the naked eye. That doesn’t magically mean other animal cells have to also be large.

There are entire living organisms that are smaller than Titin. Several species of eukaryotes are smaller than Titin, and they’re single celled orgsnisms by definition. A single celled organism smaller than a human blood cell by an order of magnitude.

That says nothing of prokaryotes, which are also celled organisms that are multiple orders of magnitude smaller still.

Again, it’s amazing only because you assume humans aren’t fucking insanely huge. An understandable perspective for sure, but a wrong perspective none the less.

Again, it is amazing … but because we cannot fathom how big it still is.

I’d give you a Vulkan, “neat, curious even, but not mind blowing”, as to what I mean a truly aware response would be.

It’s neat, but if you’re aware of the developmental stages of even just human babies, it’s really not surprising nor unique as to how small something with such differentiated parts is.

IMO, this kind of amazement mostly points to humans not really unserstanding how tiny the building blocks of reality are. Even the “massive” protein molecules your body uses with hundreds of thousands of atoms in them, tens of thousands of amino acid chains, can fit many on the tip of a sewing needle.

Titin has over 30,000 amino acids in it, and barely gets over 1um in length. That’s barely wider than a sharp razor blade’s edge, and they’re orders of magnitude sharper than most knives.

The scale of the world is crazy, and we are already giants in it.