@Alpha71 to ShowerthoughtsEnglish • 10 hours agoCurrent day America has proven beyond a doubt, humanity is the only animal that wouldn't jump out of a slowly boiling pot of water.message-square50arrow-up1305arrow-down130
arrow-up1275arrow-down1message-squareCurrent day America has proven beyond a doubt, humanity is the only animal that wouldn't jump out of a slowly boiling pot of water.@Alpha71 to ShowerthoughtsEnglish • 10 hours agomessage-square50
minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilink5•8 hours agoIsn’t it for all animals. If you keep slowly increasing temperature their body temperature will more easily come to equilibrium with outside temperature than it will if you just put them to hot boiling pot?
minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilink5•5 hours agoYes but you have to lobotomize the frogs first.
minus-squareRhaedaslinkfedilink17•8 hours agoNo, it’s a fallacy. What is true is called “creeping normality”, and it’s absolutely what humans do to large scale and/or slow changes.
minus-square@Admaxlink2•3 hours agoIf it’s not another name for it, it’s definitely very close to the Overton Window.
Isn’t it for all animals. If you keep slowly increasing temperature their body temperature will more easily come to equilibrium with outside temperature than it will if you just put them to hot boiling pot?
Yes but you have to lobotomize the frogs first.
No, it’s a fallacy. What is true is called “creeping normality”, and it’s absolutely what humans do to large scale and/or slow changes.
If it’s not another name for it, it’s definitely very close to the Overton Window.