"Evaporative cooling" isn't about things evaporate AS they cool; it's the phenomenon where you can lower a local temperature significantly below ambient temp by causing water to evaporate, because water absorbs a lot of heat in order to evaporate.
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EY's interpretation of how this works as "the hottest molecules carry the heat away with them as they evaporate" is... not correct I mean whatever, I'm not a physicist either, but the core metaphor he's relying on here is this really bad oversimplification
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I mean, i'm not a physicist either, but the molecules don't CARRY the … heat … what? WHAT? Heat is not a THING! You can't CARRY it?
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The heat gets ABSORBED as energy that fuels the evaporative process. And even THAT's an oversimplification. But … just … WHAT? i apparently never read that one, or noped out because it was too fucking stupid for me.
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To be fair to EY the metaphor may have gone into enough detail that the physics worked out this way Like the idea is that the people who have the most "potential to leave" a group by definition are more likely to leave the group first
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Scott actually had a much better metaphor for this whole phenomenon, loath as i am to give him credit for anything. He said something like "if your community is explicitly anti-witch-hunt, you're going to end up with a lot of witches."
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Which is true! It's just that he thinks that's a value-neutral observation, which is of course ridiculous.
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Scott is absolutely aware that this actually happened to his blog -- it's the most obvious fucking thing in the world, it's the reason they had to split the "Culture War" thread off of his subreddit into its own thing because it was getting too obvious
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He's also basically said that he doesn't mind this because he finds the witches less threatening than the witch hunters He thinks actual fucking Nazis provide him more congenial companionship than that howling baying mob of angry far-left SJWs
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Replying to @arthur_affect @iridienne and
Well, that's his choice He's made his bed and he can fucking sleep in it
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