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- Comment on Fossils 13 hours ago:
Humanity’s closest living relatives, the Chimpanzees, live in forests. They diverged from our lineage 6.5-7.5 million years ago, and there are almost no fossils for them. Except for a statistical fluke, someone studying solely the fossil record could be excused for thinking that they never existed at all… but they do!
- Comment on Fossils 19 hours ago:
At least, older than our words.
- Comment on Online Content Is Disappearing 1 day ago:
Well, websites can still be made, so not quite the same, but I get what you mean:-).
And similarly, a ton of written material was lost e.g. when a library was burned - often unique or rare material subsequently lost in other ways, so very much the same process.
- Comment on Meirl 2 days ago:
- Comment on Pray they don't alter it any further 2 days ago:
There is that to consider too, yeah…
- Comment on Pray they don't alter it any further 2 days ago:
I dunno about you but for me sometimes websites don’t want to stream. It is pretty darn easy, when it works, but so is Netflix, which works far more often, and does things like tap out halfway through a show extremely infrequently to never.
Also the former requires an internet connection. A better comparison for you to have used is not streaming but downloading. If you download entire seasons at a time, then you won’t have connection issues watching it later. Though Netflix is legit great about that too, with one-click downloading of an entire season at once. So Netflix kinda wins there too, plus being far easier for someone who doesn’t know what “self- hosting” even means to set up.
It really is great software.
About content though… yeah, it’s really hit or miss. Which is somewhat complicated by all the hype around TV shows these days - who wants to watch Mandalorian? Game of Thrones? Star Trek shows? The actual good Marvel ones? None of that is on Netflix, but are they really “good” to begin with, or is that just what “they” want us all to be watching? Anyway, there’s some fantastic stuff that is truly great that is available on Netflix. To name a few: The Magicians, The 100, The Babadook, The Fall of the House of Usher, The Sandman, yes and things that don’t start with “The” also! Orange is the New Black, Ghost in the Shell, Midnight Mass, … well, I’m sure there’s more, probably 😎.
Netflix is not for everyone. But it is good for some, or perhaps I should say some of the time. And for the rest there’s always sailing. :-P
- Comment on Pray they don't alter it any further 2 days ago:
True. But that takes significant effort to set up. And I did forget to add one more benefit to paying Netflix - I get to give back, to encourage good quality content to continue to be created.
So whenever I have trouble connecting to a high sea, or just want a more guaranteed experience, it’s a reliable standby:-) … caveat: for the content that it actually has on there:-(.
- Comment on Pray they don't alter it any further 3 days ago:
And present in Netflix as well at lower tier subscriptions.
It’s not so bad to have one subscription service that is like $15-20/month, or even less with ads.
Where it really adds up is having to pay for all of them, like Disney+ and Paramount+, and that is also (relatively) new. One of the reasons I got Netflix in the first place was to watch Star Trek shows… but now those are elsewhere, as too is most everything else, and I’m wondering what all I am getting from Netflix anymore.
Here’s my list:
(1) fantastic streaming tech, I almost never have buffering issues these days (possibly significantly lower resolution but it switches seamlessly)
(2) ability to download an episode to watch offline, e.g. at a gym and it even auto-advances to download the next one in a series.
(3) Netflix produced content, except this tends to be crappy content (not always, but… not worth the pricetag definitely, for me)
(4) Anything that Netflix is successfully able to license from other places, which unfortunately tends to rotate and sometimes doesn’t even get whole entire series (like you’ll get up to a certain season and then no more).
It is licensing that ruined television for everyone, not Netflix, but still… am I getting my value? We’ll see as time goes on.
- Comment on Pray they don't alter it any further 3 days ago:
I get roughly zero commercials on Netflix. That probably varies somewhat depending on how you access it - I use a super old Chromecast bc my super old TV’s app doesn’t work anymore.
On the other hand, most shows I used to watch on it are gone now, leaving me either to watch the Shitflix content that’s left, or just 1-2-3-it elsewhere.
- Comment on [IJustWatched] Blade Runner 2049. What do you think about it? 1 week ago:
That they already know all about the lack of agency of housewives or pleasure bots or the centrality of women’s fertility to their social value … because they live it, and are busy handling it IRL and this film isn’t really helping anything.
Except, as your last sentence mentioned, it is good for men to see the issue portrayed, from both sides. That’s not nothing.
- Comment on Never Forget 1 week ago:
There are lots of funny spellings:-).
One of the best imho is tRump, like Donald’s Rump.
Or for those in the know, Drumpf.
- Comment on what goes around 1 week ago:
- Comment on what goes around 1 week ago:
Or, in this formulation, the world is you? :-O
- Comment on [IJustWatched] Blade Runner 2049. What do you think about it? 1 week ago:
What I absolutely loved about that protagony video, and to some extent the glimmers of this that I saw in the movie itself, was how DEEP it was. Like yeah, it makes some people feel uncomfortable - and that’s the point, b/c it allows us to have these kinds of conversations where perhaps some men relate more to the robots, even if some women relate more to the men in that movie.
Hollywood has historically done a piss-poor job at feminism - probably b/c of the constraints of capitalism where even women will not pay to see shows that stray too far from the usual - though more of late I think it has done a bit better, at least in offering a bit more choices (still horrible behind the scenes though, even in women-owned and primarily women-employed studios). And at first glance this show looks to be one of the worst, with the nude female hologram - except that she is us, here and now, and the CEOs in the movie are the CEOs irl, “above” us all.
Therefore it is feminism turned on its side, to become all about remembering the human - as in: whenever we have a choice, however rarely that might occur, what will we do with it? Man vs. Woman no longer matters as much as the past, when we are all united in being not-billionaires.
- Comment on what goes around 1 week ago:
But if carnivorous dinosaurs eat herbivorous dinosaurs, and herbivorous dinosaurs eat plants, then all dinosaurs are plants.
And plants eat sunlight, so all life on earth is the sun.
- Comment on Just asking questions 1 week ago:
Anything at all under an authoritarian regime.
- Comment on Just asking questions 1 week ago:
Nor is engineering, so they get their own letters in STEM.
- Comment on [IJustWatched] Blade Runner 2049. What do you think about it? 1 week ago:
A deep dive into the agency of objects protagony for anyone interested.
- Comment on Wednesday, my dudes. 1 week ago:
In that case can we move ahead to Friday? :-P
- Comment on Oxygen 1 week ago:
I’ve also heard that electrons in them cannot be relied upon - especially to be anywhere that they say they will (instead, they zip off to the other side of the whole galaxy/universe, then before you can tell anyone they’re gone, they are back again!) :-P.
- Comment on Oxygen 1 week ago:
Isn’t that there one of them… “forever chemicals”? 😂
- Comment on What is Reddit doing 1 week ago:
They have done this for years now - this is not new.
- Comment on Experiments 1 week ago:
- Comment on Aliens 1 week ago:
Where what it actually is… is what? :-P
- Comment on CWD 2 weeks ago:
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if you are infertile, then early or late does not matter
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either way, the individual “you” does not matter to evolution that works on a population basis (not strictly speaking fully true bc of e.g. bottlenecks, like Mitochondrial Eve, Y-chromosomal Adam, and Genghis Khan, but the idea of “population” can be extended to include such founder effects). i.e. your genetic makeup is determined by millions of years of prior evolution, not what you had for breakfast this morning, so regardless of current fertility status, events such as Alzheimer’s are “okay” (again, caveat: purely in the evolutionary sense - though it is horrifying to an individual who gets it) bc they occur post reproductive age, i.e. it is too late bc the genes have already been passed on to another generation.
Insert additional caveats to literally all of this, and also caveats to those caveats, bc biology cares little for how easily it can be understood:-D. e.g. kin selection is also a thing, long past reproductive age and also works for infertile people.
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- Comment on CWD 2 weeks ago:
By the time you first notice it’s already far too late.
Not really, so long as you have already reproduced. From the perspective of your genes, “you” are expendable anyway:-(.
And if we want to do anything about that, perhaps we should properly fund scientific research.
- Comment on Don’t upvote this 2 weeks ago:
- Comment on Don’t upvote this 2 weeks ago:
I would have upvoted a red pill meme.
But I did upvote this blue pill one that somehow means the same thing…
- Comment on conservation 2 weeks ago:
Just be:-)
- Comment on [deleted] 3 weeks ago: