lvxferre
@lvxferre@mander.xyz
The catarrhine who invented a perpetual motion machine, by dreaming at night and devouring its own dreams through the day.
- Comment on Chat, is this accurate? 1 week ago:
Nobody said it has to be at room temperature, right?
(Also, does it count as “licking” if you spread some gas over your tongue?)
- Comment on Chat, is this accurate? 1 week ago:
Every element can be licked. Some just once.
- Comment on Not a single one 1 week ago:
I think this discussion already run its course, it’s generating a lot of both bad behaviour and reports, so I’m locking it.
- Comment on Not a single one 1 week ago:
Yes, but i would argue that when you mine neodymium or gallium once you then can recycle them for ever
In practice you can’t. There’s always going to be losses when gathering the used parts for reprocessing and during the reprocessing itself.
In the meantime you can actually reprocess nuclear fuel. It won’t be forever, just like the above, but stuff like plutonium and the likes can be used for further energy production, plus this reduces the amount of high-level waste you need to deal with.
- Comment on Not a single one 1 week ago:
What you say about decentralisation is IMO a big deal that other users here are not paying attention to. You can’t have a nuclear usine in your backyard, but you can have a few solar panels here and there. It’s better to allow people to control their means of electrical generation than to have a government (or worse, a corporation) calling the shots.
Another important detail IMO is that “renewable energy” is a mixed bag of a lot of different approaches, each with its pros and cons. This means that if you’re going for renewables you can min-max the whole thing for less environmental and human impact, cheaper prices etc.
That said I think the part concerning waste from nuclear usines is a weak argument. It’s a relatively low volume, compared with the amount of electricity generated by those usines; and mining operations will be always a mess, no matter if you’re mining uranium (for nuclear), neodymium (for wind) or gallium and iridium (for solar).
- Comment on Geologist Reunited With Beloved Rock He Studied 20 Years Ago 1 week ago:
Warning: chemists, don’t do this. If you get attached to a molecule you’ll become a radical.
- Comment on Tips for Surviving the Heatwave 1 week ago:
Yeah. But we got one some months ago, and will likely get another in a few months.
- Comment on Tips for Surviving the Heatwave 1 week ago:
It’s really bad here in South America. For example, in my city (Curitiba) temperatures below 5°C and above 30°C did happen in the past, but extremes to both sides seem to be way more frequent nowadays, as if summers became hotter and winters colder. Max historical temp was in 2024, with 35.4°C. And last summer we got a full week past 30°C. There’s something clearly wrong happening.
- Comment on Copper 1 week ago:
They won’t be satisfied once they notice the heat dissipating irregularly due to excessive amounts of impurity, because you sold them shitty copper. And mistreated their servant.
DON’T SUPPORT EA-NĀṢIR! BOYCOTT THE DILMUN TRADERS!
- Comment on Can anyone confirm accuracy? 1 week ago:
Now we know who caused the collapse of the ecosystems in the Gummyzoic!
- Comment on Anon joins a shitposting group 1 week ago:
I wonder how flat earthers explain it’s winter here in S. America and summer in Europe, at the same time.
- Comment on The various stages of cooking experience 2 weeks ago:
I like measuring things. Probably a carryover habit of my first uni (Chemistry), but the end result tends to be more predictable, and it helps me to avoid dumb mistakes from lack of attention.
For some things there’s a bit more leeway to eyeball things; for example, if I’m adding water to dough I’ll probably eyeball it. (Specially as hydration tends to behave weirdly in rainy days, so it’s better to go by texture than by fixed amounts.) But I’m certainly not eyeballing the amount of salt that goes in the polenta, rice or meats.
Side note I hate that Reddit oversimplification where people seem to believe cooking allows eyeballing but baking doesn’t. It stinks mental laziness; I think in both cases there’s some room for eyeballing, and some for precision.
- Comment on Fingies 2 weeks ago:
Fun fact #2: the Romans solved this by pouring garum — a condiment made of dissolved fish and heavy amounts of salt — into the horse’s nostril.
- Comment on *Humans entered the chat* 2 weeks ago:
I’m not authority by all means. Just someone who’s cross-breeding peppers at home, and had to read about this stuff to know if my goal (four custom pepper varieties) is even viable with the varieties I have at hand.
The reason I used species names is because it’s cleaner — plenty species have multiple cultivars, cultivars often have local names, and some of those don’t even have an English name.
so I’ll take everything you said has fact
Please, don’t. It’s good to check info people mention in social media.
Info on diverging 17mya: scientificamerican.com/…/feel-the-burn-new-world-…
Biggest clade diversity being in the Andes: check this map, focus on Bolivia. The association between clade diversity x geographical origin is a common rule of thumb biologists (and linguists) follow.
- Comment on *Humans entered the chat* 3 weeks ago:
Now you do! You’re also talking with the guy who invented fire. And internet shitposting!
- Comment on *Humans entered the chat* 3 weeks ago:
People are fish.
No, that is not the case of picking a paraphyletic definition and treating it as a clade (“people are fish”).
I’m pointing out that whatever they find “in the wild” in Mexico and neighbouring countries is already the result of humans spreading this stuff everywhere, after years and more years of funny monke, so no matter what you call “original gangsta” that is not it. Anyone with basic reading comprehension (unlike you) can get it.
You’re inventing strict definitions that do not exist
Yeah, because I totally invented the definition of landrace. Suuure. I also invented the aeroplane. /s
😂
I also invented emojis, “lol” and “lmao” because they’re all great ways to force braindead morons out themselves as such.
Not bothering further with you.
- Comment on *Humans entered the chat* 3 weeks ago:
Well if you’re going back millions of years to extinct species, sure
If you don’t, then there’s no “OG pepper”. Multiple species in the genus have been domesticated, cross-bred, spread, and used by funny monke “MOUTH HOT”.
- Comment on *Humans entered the chat* 3 weeks ago:
The “OG pepper” is likely already gone, since the Capsicum genus started branching off 17mya, way before we [humans] colonised the Americas. It was probably some species in the Andes, where you have the biggest clade diversity, including barely domesticated species, like C. chacoense; and wild ones, like C. eximium:
If I had to take a guess chiltepín is probably a landrace, a wild-ish descendant of domesticated C. annuum.
- Comment on It's not just a comic, it's a meme 3 weeks ago:
It’s not just an orthographic resource — it’s a tendency of AI chatbots!
- Comment on 3 weeks ago:
It’s a bit of idealism from my part, but I’m hoping way more than just forcing us (people in general) to stop being online: I want to see all this crap backfiring and prompting the formation of a parallel internet. One that is user-friendly, but corporation-hostile, even at the expense of small convenient bits. Mostly from parts of the “old internet” being glued together: the Gemini protocol, the Fediverse, TOR, etc.
- Comment on 3 weeks ago:
I don’t think the point is to leave the bots out. It looks more like grabbing even more info about you, because you can know a lot about the person just telling them to wave their hand on a cam:
- sex, gender, skin colour, age
- do they have calluses? This hints profession
- do they bite the nails, leave them to grow too much, or carefully trim them? This hints psychological factors
- what’s on the background? Even a blank background hints the person is a bit more privacy-conscious.
- etc.
- Comment on Meta Pauses Employee-Tracking Program Following Internal Data Leak 4 weeks ago:
Days without Meta violating basic principles of honesty, dignity, and decency: zero.
Days without Meta reverting harmful decisions only because people outraged at it: zero.(And no, neither counter is broken. They don’t reach one… because.)
- Comment on Fafo 5 weeks ago:
The species actually got eradicated from both Mexico and USA, using sterile males, and almost eradicated from the southern tip of North America aka Central America.
So yes, it is possible. Regardless of presence or absence of cows. Because, like I already said and you repeated, they can infest any mammal.
The reason they stopped at Panama is simply because it’s a chokepoint; in the short term it’s cheaper to keep releasing sterile males in the Darién gap than to push further. I’m criticising governments in the Americas (including but not exclusively USA) for not coördinating and pushing further, to get it extinct.
- Comment on Fafo 5 weeks ago:
IMO controlling it “down to Panama” is part of what went wrong, I think. Pushing further into South America would’ve been costlier, but if people managed to get those flies completely extinct, the problem wouldn’t come back.
But that requires multiple governments working together with a “helping them out means less problems for me in the future” mindset, and that simply doesn’t roll with USA; USA’s external policy was always
“I’m shirring my panrs so othurrs smell ir”“I’m shitting my pants so others smell it”. And working together with a bunch of dictatorships can be a bit hard, specially when those dictatorships were supported by USA so they can’t trust the United-Statian government to die properly. - Comment on Fafo 5 weeks ago:
Well, I told you guys it’s NSFL.
- Comment on Fafo 5 weeks ago:
In general humans are the least concern. We’re smart enough to know something is wrong with our bodies, and fix it before it gets worse; we wear clothes and bandage wounds so there’s less exposure of vulnerable areas; etc. It’s a bit more concerning because of children, since the flies can attack eyes and mouths, but as long as the parents actually do their job and take care of the kid, no issue. (Bug repellent, pay attention to small wounds, regular visits to the doc, this kind of stuff.)
Dogs and cats are another can of worms (or maggots). Specially urban strays; if anyone here wants some nightmare fuel, websearch images for [NSFL] miíase cachorro or miasis perro [/NSFL], apparently the flies (it isn’t just C. hominivorax) responsible for this sort of infestation will lay multiple eggs in the same wound, if they can. Same deal with the fauna.
- Comment on Fafo 5 weeks ago:
When you see an animal, there’s likely a bunch of the same species you didn’t see. Specially if it’s a small animal, with a fast lifecycle, and the animal burrows itself into something (like, dunno… the flesh of another animal?). And if the animal can live pretty much anywhere there’s another, warm-blooded, animal living. (Livestock? Wild fauna? Pets? Humans? Yes.)
So a dozen cases isn’t just “a dozen cases”, there’s likely millions of those flies in USA already. I’m taking a wild guess here and say a billion dollars won’t even scratch the surface of the problem there.
(Not that it changes things for me. Here in South America the fly in question goes from “present” to “present”. Just businesses as usual.)
- Comment on Anon's dad tries to bond 5 weeks ago:
I am not deciding shit for anyone. I’m concluding your kid is most likely MtF, based on the info you provided — “in my simple brain he has a dick he’s a boy” + usage of the word “trans”.
And, even in the chance my conclusion is incorrect (the kid is actually genderfluid, or non-binary, et cetera), my point still stands, even if you pretend it doesn’t dammit. You highlighted you use “he/him” because the kid has a dick, regardless of the kid’s identity, that’s an arsehole move, doubly so coming from a parent. The right approach would be to use the ones the kid chose.
You’re the one assuming shit here
Not really.
- Comment on Anon's dad tries to bond 5 weeks ago:
She’s Ram’s palette swap from the Re:Zero fighting game. People bullshit she’s a maid in Roswaal’s mansion, but that is not true — there’s Ram and Frederica, no REM sleep or whatever.
- Comment on Anon's dad tries to bond 5 weeks ago:
…I’ll be honest.
You’re saying you’ll defend whatever she decides to be, but I don’t think you accept it yourself; that’s why you’re still treating your daughter as if she was a boy. It’s perfectly possible this actually hurts her, but she doesn’t complain because it’s complicated to complain about things towards your parents, specially before adulthood.
