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- Comment on ScIence 1 week ago:
Imagine confusing ronto and ronaa and accidentally shifting a ronaameter instead :P
- Comment on Free Spot! 1 week ago:
Ah OK, thanks for the context :)
- Comment on vibes-based astrophysics 1 week ago:
Yes, I see your point and agree :)
- Comment on Free Spot! 1 week 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 week 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 week 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 week 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 2 weeks 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 2 weeks 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 2 weeks 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 3 weeks 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 4 weeks 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 4 weeks ago:
Wtf? This gives Incel vibes
- Comment on Happy John Mastodon day to all who celebrate! 5 weeks ago:
For everyone else who doesn’t get it:
- Comment on I'm thinking taffy. 5 weeks 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 5 weeks ago:
Haha same!
- Comment on where's my damn plume 5 weeks ago:
I agree, this seems pretty misleading. And are there any other feathered animals other than on the dinosaur branch? Because if not, how should the feather DNA even end up in mammalian DNA?? Or maybe feathers are produced by very common differently used genes? But in this case this would be even more nonsensical…
- Comment on one heckin' huge fish 5 weeks ago:
I mean, birds being birds, they may actually share this with several members of their family still…
- Comment on Spotify suddenly cut off app developers from a bunch of its data 1 month ago:
Hm, maybe I should give listenbrainz another go then. Thanks for the recommendation! I’ve used it for some time now to scrobble music so it should know what I’m listening to. Unfortunately my taste in music doesn’t seem to be that predictable because all services I’ve tried out have been quite bad at it. I tend to go on manual deep dives into obscure music on bandcamp hopping from one artist to another. Most recommendations I get from algorithms like Spotify tend to be rather popular-focused music which I often don’t really enjoy. (Not trying to be edgy here, don’t think it is inherently better or worse to like mainstream stuff, this is just a genuine problem I frequently face).
- Comment on Spotify suddenly cut off app developers from a bunch of its data 1 month ago:
Such as?
- Comment on Just 2?? 1 month ago:
Alternatively, you could hop from one reference manager to another spending months trying to find the best workflow but never quite settling on anyone. At least that was my strategy of getting around actually reading the damn articles…
- Comment on Standoff 1 month ago:
Just that so far no gods have materialized in our world to study or even interact with us :/
- Comment on shots fired 1 month ago:
Well, and if you then still keep on procrastinating you’ll get burned put and have to resign from academia :'(
- Comment on pizza party after tho 1 month ago:
Don’t forget all the unorganized pressed plant material that they have lying around ;)
- Comment on Dinosaurs Still Live 1 month ago:
For more info:
- Comment on Haha SO TRUE! 1 month ago:
This is the source, so no, this isn’t real :)
- Comment on STOP. IDING. PLANTS. 2 months ago:
Lol, good one!
- Comment on Sleepy Bees 2 months ago:
I quite often find bees sleeping in flowers in my garden. Especially inside Campanula flowers. Always so adorable to see them :)
- Comment on wrappers 2 months ago:
Cute!!
- Comment on MOREL DILEMMA 2 months ago:
You actually can eat the individuals that have not yet emerged from the ground. They look like eggs and are pretty weird in touch. But if you slice them really thin and fry them, they are delicious. (Disclaimer: I’m living in Germany and it might be different for the stinkhorns elsewhere.)