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- Comment on Bring them back!!! 14 hours ago:
But it’s not a zoo, like even in the slightest. It’s a theme park.
They don’t have a full dinosaur genome so they literally make stuff up. Not only that, but just like with the Colossal Bioscience stuff that’s literally happening right now, there’s no learning for these brought-back-to-life creatures so they will not behave anything like their actual prehistoric counterparts. It is bad science because there’s no reason to be doing the science at all. It won’t replicate anything from the past (for so so so many reasons) and it has so many unethical things to get past before it’s even slightly in -eh- territory.
- Comment on Bring them back!!! 14 hours ago:
There’s a recent Behind the Bastards episode on the main dude behind Colossal (who is actually a very well known scientist) and exactly how he is using science to do bad things without considering the consequences.
- Comment on Bring them back!!! 1 day ago:
In addition to what you’re saying, a big part of the movie is why are we doing this? Is there anything to be gained from it? We’re currently having that conversation with the “dire wolves” that Colossal Bioscience has created. They’re not actually dire wolves, in any sense of the word, so all we’re learning is how to genetically modify creatures. We’re not learning anything about the creatures themselves. There’s no purpose to doing the same with Dinos, there’s no dna left to match against and the environment is completely different, they wouldn’t act the same at all.
- Comment on Why doesn’t Apple/Samsung/Google use new tech like every other phone maker? 1 day ago:
The latest tech isn’t proven to last, might be harder to integrate, might require making design choices that affect the production line, the reliability of the phone, the battery longevity, the supply chain, the operating system, etc. Using the newest tech is a surefire way to make sure you have to do a recall, if you’re the biggest companies on the planet.
- Comment on Anon is a survivor 5 days ago:
Immortal means you can’t die, or alternatively you can’t die of natural causes. It doesn’t mean you avoid accidents.
- Comment on Babe can you refill my drink from the cloaca dispenser please? 1 week ago:
That isn’t the one from the picture and I’ve never seen one of those in the wild. Not that they don’t exist, but the comment I replied to said “those” referring to the one in the image, which clearly doesn’t have a pinhole camera.
- Comment on Babe can you refill my drink from the cloaca dispenser please? 1 week ago:
OK so not the one from the picture then.
- Comment on Babe can you refill my drink from the cloaca dispenser please? 1 week ago:
Source?
- Comment on Costco changed the bag to plastic!! 1 week ago:
The countless articles made with money by industries that don’t want to use recycled plastic cause it would buy into their bottom line? Yeah I’m gonna believe the one that actually showed the process and tests they did and are willing to make less money by reusing plastic.
Why would the quality degrading matter for cheap plastic shit coming from other industries? You don’t need your shampoo bottle to last longer, you don’t need your deodorant stick container to last longer. The only reason they wouldn’t use recycled plastic is because it’s going to cut into their profit.
- Comment on [deleted] 1 week ago:
Palestine supports Ukraine. www.aljazeera.com/…/are-palestinians-pro-russia
The Palestinians, who have long suffered from Israeli wars and occupation, wish for the war in Ukraine to end, for Ukraine to be free. They stand in solidarity with the victims.
Ukraine supports Palestine
aljazeera.com/…/ukrainian-letter-of-solidarity-wi…
If you believe otherwise you’re literally falling for Israeli and Russian propaganda.
- Comment on [deleted] 1 week ago:
This has to be the most braindead propaganda take I’ve ever heard. You think that supporting Ukraine is the opposite of supporting Palestine? They’re both countries being invaded against their will by terroristic governments. If you support Palestine you support Ukraine, full stop. If you think otherwise you are so brainwashed you literally can’t think for yourself.
- Comment on [deleted] 1 week ago:
This has to be one of the most propaganda ridden bullshit takes I’ve ever seen. You’re so brainwashed you think it’s appropriate for any country to be invading another. Fuck off.
- Comment on Costco changed the bag to plastic!! 1 week ago:
Trash Panda isn’t an article, they’re a disc golf manufacturer that solely uses recycled plastic. They’ve tested with recycling the exact same plastic more than ten times. And I have no clue what you are talking about with scotch tape, it’s literally designed to be tearable, just like the Costco bag in the picture….
- Comment on Costco changed the bag to plastic!! 1 week ago:
That’s just categorically false. Trash Panda Disc Golf does a video on just that myth. The problem with recycling has nothing to do with degradation. It has to do with economics. New plastic is cheap. Reusing plastic isn’t.
- Comment on Sweatshop 2 weeks ago:
Have you contacted the government safety board?
- Comment on Sweatshop 2 weeks ago:
Sorry I’m not saying to complain so they change it. I’m saying complain and now you have a written record for osha that the temperature is unreasonable. You can now force their hand.
- Comment on Sweatshop 2 weeks ago:
Complain that it isn’t reasonable.
- Comment on Dismay as council removes Pride flag in Derbyshire after Christians complain 3 weeks ago:
Judy Crook, who runs the bookshop, told the Guardian that, though as “a point of basic Christian belief, we welcome everybody”, they did not want to promote homosexuality and “we’re not happy with the gay rights situation”.
“We have to respect other people’s views. But we didn’t want the flag flying outside our shop.”
She even admits it’s not Christianity saying to hate LGBTQ folk. She’s just a bigot.
- Comment on Add it to the pile of reasons to hate 'em 3 weeks ago:
Blame the Brits.
- Comment on Instead of asking all my stupid questions separately, could I just get a ton of "How to Adult" type resources in the comments? 4 weeks ago:
This is such a weird take. Do you learn in school mostly by reading or mostly by paying attention to the teacher and listening? Yeah video is terrible for things like news which just state information and there’s no deep explanation required but visuals, especially moving visuals, supplement the learning process to an extreme degree.
- Comment on I can't hear them 1 month ago:
I think it would be Brzzzzzzz^z^z^z^z^z^z^z^z
- Comment on How to check whether a particular url is safe or not ? 1 month ago:
Might be because it’s a redirect… or maybe Firefox shows emojis directly but not other punycode?
- Comment on How to check whether a particular url is safe or not ? 1 month ago:
🌽.ws
Should transform to 🌽.ws when you click it. The
xn—is the punycode prefix.Here’s how Punycode works:
Unicode characters are first converted into a series of code points, which are represented as a series of numbers. The code points are then converted into a series of ASCII characters, using a specific algorithm. The ASCII characters are then prepended with “xn–”, which is a special prefix that indicates that the following characters are encoded in Punycode.
For example, the Unicode character 快 (which means fast in Chinese) is represented as the code point “U+5FEB”. This code point is then converted into the ASCII characters “2s5v”, which is prepended with the “xn–” prefix to give us “xn–2s5v”. This can then be used as part of a domain name.
When the domain name is displayed to a user, the Punycode is converted back into Unicode characters, so that the user sees the original characters rather than the encoded version. This allows users to use and read domain names in their native scripts, even if their computer or device doesn’t support those scripts.
- Comment on How to check whether a particular url is safe or not ? 1 month ago:
Ff shows punycode. The article is quite old.
- Comment on Anon can't go on a field trip 1 month ago:
Rule of cool supersedes making sense. Yeah there’s a ton of nonsense, but you called it yourself, it’s fun. That’s all that matters.
- Comment on How to check whether a particular url is safe or not ? 1 month ago:
I’m pretty sure ff shows punycode automatically. I’ve never had to touch it at least and I get punycode.
- Comment on Bluesky Is Plotting a Total Takeover of the Social Internet 1 month ago:
Bluesky’s model is built in a way that means it won’t ever be decentralized. There are plenty of articles about it.
- Comment on Papa I'm scared 1 month ago:
I think one sentence makes it hit less hard. It’s more surprising with two sentences, and the “sly eyes” and the paragraph break help with it.
- Comment on Forced to lie on a questionnaire 2 months ago:
If you use kagi you can just permanently block Pinterest. And any other site you want. Or rank their listings lower.
- Comment on Forced to lie on a questionnaire 2 months ago:
If you use kagi you can just permanently block Pinterest. And any other site you want. Or rank their listings lower.