986 pts · August 7, 2013
https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.nytimes.com/2020/06/17/world/asia/india-china-border-clashes.amp.html
This is a result of the border skirmishes that have killed soldiers. India is looking for a non military way to escalate.
it doesn't pass the Bechtel test. What would the bigots be upset about?
But the main character is a man of undefined ethnicity and there is only only two female side characters (armorer & shock trooper)...
There was a minor reality reboot by X-Man.
several weeks of data lost, the rat park had male and female (sex>drugs?), results not consistently reproducible, rats≠humans, etc
This is not in the standard literature. Its famous in pop psychology but was mostly ignored by real psychologists because of bad methodology
https://theoutline.com/post/2205/this-38-year-old-study-is-still-spreading-bad-ideas-about-addiction?zd=1&zi=or4shzpr
No. I'm saying Nikolaj Coster-Waldau playing Ra is whitewashing.
Pseudoscience = mistakenly believing idea is based on scientific method. Im applying the scientific method correctly on a thought experiment
tend to have dark skin anyways, so its less useful for the conversation
From here, you could have a fun discussion about whether or not she more closely resemblers cetaceans, pinnipeds, or sirenians. But all
Its more accurate to classify her as a mammal due to how her tail moves. Mammals move up and down, fish go side to side.
Gods of Egypt is in Africa (while I concede that Egyptians consider themselves Arab, not black, they are not Danish)
it when people use science correctly to worldbuild in fantasy, however. Thats why i'm hoping we end up with some countershading on Ariel
I was objecting to the completely wrong application of scientific principles. Like using earth physics to justify sound in space. I love
My proposed rule being "color in the ocean is more about camouflage than about vitamin D or sun protection"
First the melanin argument is used to "prove" that a black mermaid couldn't exist AT ALL. Real life dark marine mammals disproves this
Second, the majority of marine mammals are dark skinned .˙. demonstrating that a black mermaid is MORE likely than a white one.
Third, Beluga live in the Arctic Circle and are white to blend in with the polar ice caps. This is an exception that proves the rule
Fourth, yes, this isn’t real science. It’s a fucking mermaid. She could be purple. But if you are going to hide behind science, use it right
First, the melanin argument exists to say a black mermaid could not exists. Second, marine mammals are a more relevant parallel .˙. a (1/2)
Still all white actors (except James Earl Jones)
Well we don't know the depths mermaids live. Also, would love a countershaded mermaid
Most marine mammals have dark skin for camouflage. Albino whale calves actually rarely make it to adulthood.
The same way that all whales (except balugas) do? Dark skin would be more of an evolutionary advantage due to camouflage in dark water
Clear counterpoints: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sperm_whale
Fixed it for you: "White mermaids make sense because *pseudoscience proposed by not biologists who have never seen a marine mammals*"
Lion King
That would be horrible. Gorillas live in dense forests, not grasslands. Now if Rafiki was changed to a bushbaby, i'd be all for that. Adorbs
https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.nytimes.com/2020/06/17/world/asia/india-china-border-clashes.amp.html
This is a result of the border skirmishes that have killed soldiers. India is looking for a non military way to escalate.
it doesn't pass the Bechtel test. What would the bigots be upset about?
But the main character is a man of undefined ethnicity and there is only only two female side characters (armorer & shock trooper)...
There was a minor reality reboot by X-Man.
several weeks of data lost, the rat park had male and female (sex>drugs?), results not consistently reproducible, rats≠humans, etc
This is not in the standard literature. Its famous in pop psychology but was mostly ignored by real psychologists because of bad methodology
https://theoutline.com/post/2205/this-38-year-old-study-is-still-spreading-bad-ideas-about-addiction?zd=1&zi=or4shzpr
No. I'm saying Nikolaj Coster-Waldau playing Ra is whitewashing.
Pseudoscience = mistakenly believing idea is based on scientific method. Im applying the scientific method correctly on a thought experiment
tend to have dark skin anyways, so its less useful for the conversation
From here, you could have a fun discussion about whether or not she more closely resemblers cetaceans, pinnipeds, or sirenians. But all
Its more accurate to classify her as a mammal due to how her tail moves. Mammals move up and down, fish go side to side.
Gods of Egypt is in Africa (while I concede that Egyptians consider themselves Arab, not black, they are not Danish)
it when people use science correctly to worldbuild in fantasy, however. Thats why i'm hoping we end up with some countershading on Ariel
I was objecting to the completely wrong application of scientific principles. Like using earth physics to justify sound in space. I love
My proposed rule being "color in the ocean is more about camouflage than about vitamin D or sun protection"
First the melanin argument is used to "prove" that a black mermaid couldn't exist AT ALL. Real life dark marine mammals disproves this
Second, the majority of marine mammals are dark skinned .˙. demonstrating that a black mermaid is MORE likely than a white one.
Third, Beluga live in the Arctic Circle and are white to blend in with the polar ice caps. This is an exception that proves the rule
Fourth, yes, this isn’t real science. It’s a fucking mermaid. She could be purple. But if you are going to hide behind science, use it right
First, the melanin argument exists to say a black mermaid could not exists. Second, marine mammals are a more relevant parallel .˙. a (1/2)
Still all white actors (except James Earl Jones)
Well we don't know the depths mermaids live. Also, would love a countershaded mermaid
Most marine mammals have dark skin for camouflage. Albino whale calves actually rarely make it to adulthood.
The same way that all whales (except balugas) do? Dark skin would be more of an evolutionary advantage due to camouflage in dark water
Clear counterpoints: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sperm_whale
Fixed it for you: "White mermaids make sense because *pseudoscience proposed by not biologists who have never seen a marine mammals*"
Lion King
That would be horrible. Gorillas live in dense forests, not grasslands. Now if Rafiki was changed to a bushbaby, i'd be all for that. Adorbs