Alpha71@lemmy.world to Showerthoughts@lemmy.worldEnglish · 3 days 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-squaremessage-square83fedilinkarrow-up1506arrow-down153
arrow-up1453arrow-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@lemmy.world to Showerthoughts@lemmy.worldEnglish · 3 days agomessage-square83fedilink
minus-squareintrovertcatto@lemmy.blahaj.zonelinkfedilinkarrow-up7arrow-down2·3 days 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-squareRhaedas@fedia.iolinkfedilinkarrow-up20·3 days 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-squareAdmax@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up3·3 days agoIf it’s not another name for it, it’s definitely very close to the Overton Window.
minus-squarethemoonisacheese@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkarrow-up6·3 days agoYes but you have to lobotomize the frogs first.
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?
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.
Yes but you have to lobotomize the frogs first.