Tlaloc_Temporal
@Tlaloc_Temporal@lemmy.ca
- Comment on I'm doing my part! 5 days ago:
Recycling paper (or not recycling) is far better than plastic is every respect. It’s not so much futility in this case so much as inefficiency.
Paper also is rarely, if ever, fully recycled, usually being downcycled into rougher and rougher materials like cardboard and egg cartons. No matter how well it gets recycled, it’s not going to displace primary production.
If you want to talk about futility here, the problem is way bigger than recycling. It’s consumerism, unrestrained capitalism, and ROI of power now vs power later. No amount of recycling of any quality will fix the world alonge but it is one step of many.
- Comment on I'm doing my part! 5 days ago:
The manufacture of straws on that scale can’t be simple to ramp up though. Maybe they just speculated correctly on paper utensil production capacity?
Either way, there are opportunities for fast large scale change out there.
- Comment on I'm doing my part! 5 days ago:
Paper can be composted or burnt, and will decompose relatively quickly if dumped. I can’t see any post-use situation where paper is anywhere nearly as bad as plastic.
- Comment on I'm doing my part! 5 days ago:
It was a surprisingly fast change, to the extent that I wonder if they weren’t planning something along those lines as an industry wide PR stunt or lobbied industry takeover already. Or maybe paper straw machines are just really easy to setup.
It does show that widespread lasting change is possible. Even if it’s just a single step, we won’t get anywhere if we stop taking them.
- Comment on Let's get Physical 5 days ago:
Some kind of drama, probably of the affair kind, but who knows? Maybe it was just a great reaction to a jump scare out of a loving couple. Maybe it was people at a zoo getting manured by a rhino.
These two stills are the only context I have. I’ve seen them twice in the same day, so it’s probably topical, but it could be from the 90s and made relevant by a certain list or something.
My first thought was certain politicians getting freaky in a puplic theatre on security cams though, so not too far off.
- Comment on Let's get Physical 5 days ago:
I couldn’t figure out that it was a kisscam at all. I was thinking a photo booth or theatre.
- Comment on What's the story in your field? Here's mine 1 week ago:
When we’re stereotyping massive swaths of the population with crying meme faces, I think IQ is more than enough to get the idea across.
- Comment on Finally a solution to the Königsberg Bridge problem. 1 week ago:
The original idea was taking a walk before a meal, so maybe if you were a really fast walker…
- Comment on Can I lick it? 1 week ago:
Apollo 1 says hi.
- Comment on This comic hung in my office for years 1 week ago:
I wouldn’t say a normal CPU is inefficient at graphics or cryptography, rather that a specialized GPU is particularly efficient at those tasks.
We only consider a CPU slow at these tasks because of how much faster a GPU is with them, but we never see how much worse a GPU is at general conputation tasks, because of how stupendously bad it is.
As soon as operations need to share info, the GPU speed advantage is gone. Branching paths bog a GPU down with redundant execution. Latency is quite poor too. And exceptions & interrupts are basically impossible at the system level. Trying to run normal programs on the GPU would be a disaster.
- Comment on holee shiet 1 week ago:
And adding more fuel to a fire make it burn hotter and faster. Largers stars die faster, so more fuel will reduce the lifespan.
- Comment on the universe about to have a little minty b 1 week ago:
That suggests we can change the superposition collapse distance by changing how much were observing. By measuring the proportion of change as we turn on or off large-scale observation systems, we can calculate how much of the universe is being loaded by other users. We can finally start solving the drake equation!
- Comment on I'm not saying Lamarck was right; I'm just saying being an absolute unit probably isn't in the average human's genome 1 week ago:
Genes aren’t the only inherited trait. Environment, wealth, culture, and ideas are also roughly passed down to offspring, but these can’t modify the genome, only the gene expression.
Of course it gets way more complex as these things do change fitness which does apply evolutionary pressure to the genome, but you can’t get bigger muscle genes by working out.
That is to say, there are some Lamarckian effects, but it’s all by Darwinian mechanics.
- Comment on Planck units 1 week ago:
Quick, someone make a heavier Honda Accord and destroy the universe!
- Comment on Easy steezy 2 weeks ago:
“You like pets? Name every pet!”
“Eukaryota”
- Comment on Dots! 3 weeks ago:
Technically, this is processed cake. Yellow cake that is.
- Comment on The cell wall is the wall of the cell. 4 weeks ago:
As a Canadian, I share your confusion. I think that phrase was just a common descriptor of mitochondria in US textbooks, or a catchy line in a popular US biology video.
It’s just strange enough to make a big impression on bored students, so I’m not surprised it’s been memed so hard.
- Comment on Yeah failed successfully 4 weeks ago:
This isn’t learned behaviour though. The kites tried eating the invasive snails immediately, but they were too large to be cracked by their beaks, being two to five times larger.
The change to eating the larger non-native snails was facilitated by larger beaks seen in the years after the invasion.
It seems like the local applesnail had a crash due to drought in the early 2000’s (partly caused by the draining of wetlands for development), and the invasive island applesnail was first seen in 2004. There are even more species of invasive snail now, but the opportunity likely arose because of a population crash.
The fittest in this case are the kits that can eat the snails they find, not by being less picky, but by having larger beaks.
- Comment on Yeah failed successfully 4 weeks ago:
Evolution is just the change in allele frequency of a population over generations. This includes 90% of the population dying before they figure out new food.
- Comment on Hertz, showing the difference between science and engineering 5 weeks ago:
Cats were originally used for their curiosity, but training hamsters and eventually parakeets led to much smaller machines.
- Comment on [deleted] 1 month ago:
By that argument, most of these should be black.
- Comment on [deleted] 1 month ago:
Selecting one wavelength are discarding all the others, and sometimes shifting that wavelength to a more convenient hue is great for science, but feels like cheating when looking for a specific colour.
It’s like looking for pictures of red cars, and getting a car that’s 90% rust, a picture taken in a forest fire, and a picture taken through red-tinted glass.
- Comment on Devices (fanmade, obviously) 1 month ago:
Hey! I’m using one of those devices!
- Comment on (゜O゜; 1 month ago:
Or just that it needs to focus on from of itself like filter crabs, or that it needs to see through things like kelp forests or hole enterances.
Given it’s size and the extreme binocular vision, it’s unlikely to have any ambush predators.
I looked it up, it has bony plates all over it’s body and likely a lateral line, so seeing predators directly may have been less necessary. It was also a suction feeder, so likely an active predator of much smaller things. It may have needed good forward vision because it’s maneuverability was poor.
- Comment on science never ends 1 month ago:
I’d argue that we can’t do a resurrection because that’s really complex, not because we don’t know how.
I’ll also point out that there are people alive today who were declared medically dead that live normal lives because we made their heart beat again.
- Comment on Chocobo 2 months ago:
TL;DR: Beaks are a lot lighter and more easily adapted than teeth.
- Comment on Bees don't have lungs. 3 months ago:
They aren’t insects, but most arachnids have book lungs, which are basically a pocket full of air gills.
- Comment on Up'n'Downchirps 3 months ago:
I think it’s been styled to match the spectrographs in the background.
Still hard to read.
- Comment on Give us your craziest ocean facts. 🦑 3 months ago:
It might be more accurate to say the average person knows more about what we don’t know about the ocean than what we don’t know about the moon.
We have a decent idea about what can and may exist in and about Earth’s oceans, but less about the moon; and most people assume it’s just a dusty rock too.
- Comment on p r e s s u r e 3 months ago:
And only 20% as wrong! I hope. :P