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- Comment on Microsoft Follows Google on a Controversial Decision - gHacks Tech News 2 days ago:
Sorry, I misread your question. Yes, google maps shows “Gulf of Mexico (Gulf of America)” in Europe as well :(
- Comment on Microsoft Follows Google on a Controversial Decision - gHacks Tech News 2 days ago:
No, it shows Gulf of Mexico. The commenter just wanted to give some good alternatives that people could use!
- Comment on A daunting realization 5 days ago:
I misread, thanks for clarifying :)
- Comment on ‘Mass theft’: Thousands of artists call for AI art auction to be cancelled 5 days ago:
- Comment on A daunting realization 5 days ago:
What? Why does no one in the comments mention that plants don’t decompose dead bodies? This statement is just utterly wrong.
- Comment on Harry Potter and... fits into everything 5 days ago:
Well, that is pretty much US defaultism. I’m not from the US and was talking about academia on an international level.
Your example again just shows how the structure, i.e. the universities working under capitalist logic, are the problem. This doesn’t mean that academics necessarily agree with this change in politics.
I get why you have such a fatalistic view and I agree with your statements about the fascist takeover :(
- Comment on Harry Potter and... fits into everything 6 days ago:
Not sure if this would impact academia all that much since those “pompous” scholars are just a tiny minority. I don’t think academia’s problem lies in individuals being problematic anyways but rather on a structural level. Egoistic, shortsighted and competitive behavior is strongly incentivized. And people that don’t fit that mold get burned out pretty quickly. I think opposite to your argument it is rather an indication of how good human nature can be that academia is still working on such a collaborative and communicative basis despite capitalist and neoliberal pressures.
- Comment on The Proposal 1 week ago:
I’m in love with both, too ❤️
- Comment on Say it. 1 week ago:
Haha, my favorite crochet youtuber Complicated Knots made a series of videos on “Bugsmas” (for Christmas) last year. She included in her bugs such things as bees or beetles, but also a snail and a velvet worm. No hemipterans were included though. But following your definition, all those above could be bugs because they are terrestrial.
- Comment on China is quietly pushing ahead with massive 50,000Mbps broadband rollout to leapfrog rest of the world on internet speeds 2 weeks ago:
The Chinese gaming market is gigantic though and their 500 million gamers certainly need good internet.
- Comment on Aardwoof 3 weeks ago:
Interesting, isn’t ard also ground/earth in Arabic? Maybe one of those words that made into the indo-german languages by the Arabic conquest?
- Comment on It's real. 4 weeks ago:
Same :'(
- Comment on sometimes it be like that 4 weeks ago:
Nah, if you are an actual researcher dealing with hundreds of species you hardly now the common names (if the taxa even have common names, which most don’t!). Also, working in a diverse international environment like the research community means that knowing only common names won’t get you anywhere. It is very much necessary for you to know scientific names to be able to communicate with others.
I know many the scientific names of taxa from completely different kingdoms than my own research because I’ve been talking with other researchers about their field of study.
- Comment on moms rule 4 weeks ago:
Humanity isn’t progressing uniformly forward like this. Lgbtqia+ people were considered normal part of society by various cultures. Also Magnus Hirschfeld was an advocate for lgbtqia+ people a hundred years ago. Slavery has been transformed into modern slavery because the western world has found other, more concealed ways to force people into labor. Ideas may die out, but they will pop into people’s head again and again.
- Comment on ScIence 5 weeks ago:
Imagine confusing ronto and ronaa and accidentally shifting a ronaameter instead :P
- Comment on Free Spot! 5 weeks ago:
Ah OK, thanks for the context :)
- Comment on vibes-based astrophysics 5 weeks ago:
Yes, I see your point and agree :)
- Comment on Free Spot! 5 weeks ago:
Very interesting indeed! It’s fascinating how many adaptations there are that aren’t as obvious as anatomical ones.
Although I would take the validity of this excerpt with a grain of salt. The evolution of different kinds of fish is really messy (as they are a paraphyletic group anyways). I couldn’t find any info on how any fish or sharks evolved in freshwater conditions for example (just that their urea content is indeed higher). If you have any info on that, I would be glad to read it :)
The only interesting bit I did find was this pbs eons episode on how armored fish evolved to probably store minerals like calcium and potassium and how other vertebrates today use their endoskeleton to store those same minerals.
- Comment on vibes-based astrophysics 1 month ago:
No, as far as I understand it, it isn’t something we invented. It is rather a placeholder for observations we made. In many different contexts we observe something that is matter but that doesn’t seem to interact with anything else. We call this dark matter. And then there are theories of dark matter that try to explain the observations of dark matter. But dark matter is that what we observe, not a theory or invention.
- Comment on vibes-based astrophysics 1 month ago:
Isn’t the question in itself wrong? “Are dark matter models unsuited to explain observations” suggests that dark matter is a model we invented to explain something else. But as I understand it, dark matter is the observation itself and we need to come up with an explanation for it. Cf. Angela Collier’s video on exactly this.
- Comment on TikToker’s trip to China: The influencer or the influenced? - How Beijing's network of influencers across various platforms try to shape narratives on issues critical to its foreign policy 1 month ago:
It is indeed reminiscent of all the western influencers being invited by armies, police forces or prison systems (especially in the US). They also get paid for portraying a highly idealized or fake image of these institutions. Albeit there is a difference in that these influencers know upfront what they are getting into. Wanting to vlog about e.g. harmless-looking Chinese lifestyle topics and it being made into propaganda is a bit more insidious.
- Comment on Meta scrambles to delete its own AI accounts after backlash intensifies | CNN Business 1 month ago:
My point is that it doesn’t know for the reasons you gave. It is just hallucinating. So I don’t think the answer is trustworthy. Of course, it seems like a reasonable answer, but how do you get to the conclusion that the answer is truthful? It could just be made up because that was what sounded the most likely to the AI.
- Comment on Meta scrambles to delete its own AI accounts after backlash intensifies | CNN Business 1 month ago:
No, one is an actual answer to a question and the other one is a hallucination without any connection to an actual answer.
- Comment on Meta scrambles to delete its own AI accounts after backlash intensifies | CNN Business 1 month ago:
Well, but is this really a truthful answer by the AI or is it just predicting what some human would say?
- Comment on The 11 weirdest things humans did to robots in 2024 1 month ago:
The dog-poop collecting robot reminded me that in some countries people don’t go out with their dogs everyday. Somehow sad to know that there are millions of dogs just living at home with hardly anything to do :(
- Comment on BAE 1 month ago:
You seem to confuse “someone likes you” with “someone finds you attractive”. Maybe someone smiles at you just because you seem like a nice person. I would even argue that this happens much more frequently than someone smiling at you because they find you attractive.
Well, this is aimed at straight dudes in any case, so in this mindset “girls” (!!!) only either are for sex or unimportant.
- Comment on BAE 1 month ago:
Wtf? This gives Incel vibes
- Comment on Happy John Mastodon day to all who celebrate! 2 months ago:
For everyone else who doesn’t get it:
- Comment on I'm thinking taffy. 2 months ago:
Ohh, wow, you solved a long-standing mystery to me! I’ve been listening to a lot of discworld novels and could not figure out what “treacle mine road” was supposed to translate to. Now that I know the spelling I could finally look it up. Thanks! ❤️
- Comment on hit it 2 months ago:
Haha same!