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- Comment on frenly warnin 5 days ago:
Maybe they emphasise “children” to encourage more of the current adult generation to sacrifice themselves. And to manage expectations of when the benefits arise.
- Comment on Cathy, do the math. 5 days ago:
I dont know, when most people were children they might believe their parents like that. Some of them grow up and develop minds of their own and critical thinking but others seem not to. Maybe it gets harder to grow up, the longer you spend as a child.
Or maybe you’re right and it’s an intrinsic part of human diversity - maybe the tribe has always needed some sheeple - so our genes might always create some.
- Comment on Cathy, do the math. 5 days ago:
A bit of healthy scientific skepticism or logical reasoning with some skills to evaluate sources of evidence and biases help with both understanding quoted stats, and liars and the ill-informed.
It’s a difficult and time consuming skill to learn and use though.
- Comment on Cathy, do the math. 5 days ago:
“wired”. lol.
- Comment on Anon uses Windows 1 week ago:
Yes surely fake.
But anyone using MS OneDrive for personal stuff might want to check with some privacy advice - and I doubt MS are going to recommend doing that.
If MS is giving large increases in cloud storage and bandwidth for free/very cheap one wonders whether there’s anything in it for MS. Again MS might not feel the need to say.
- Comment on What is this thing, a spring loaded tampon or something? 2 weeks ago:
Rat pogo stick.
Unfortunately rat consumers are notoriosly sensitive to the ‘not tested on animals’ logo, so is not as simple as attaching rat and observe.
Standard practice is to tape a large potato to the top part and check it bounces properly.
The datasheet should state the specific bounce characteristics to test against, but normally, it should bounce between 2o% and 40% of it’s length, when dropped from 40-50% of it’s length. I think the standard weight for the testing potato is 700 +/-20 grams. Again the datasheet might indicate a different range if it is specifically marketed towards a niche market like juveniles or the obese or something.
- Comment on [deleted] 3 weeks ago:
Because one of them shot the sheriff one time?
- Comment on The upside of the cyberpunk dystopia 3 weeks ago:
The Three Stigmata of Palm . . . Dick
- Comment on The upside of the cyberpunk dystopia 3 weeks ago:
Martian Time Dick
- Comment on What really separates a PC from a server? Mainly the hardware, but I guess software too. 3 weeks ago:
I’d say the operational requirements.
A home PC mostly has max 1 simultaneous user (i.e. the “person”) - out of maybe a small pool of potential users - the availability requirement is ad-hoc. It offers many services, some available immediately on boot, but many are on call.
A server typically has capacity to provide services to many simutaneous users and probably has a defined availability requirement. Depending on the service, and the number of users and the availability and performance requirements it may need more communication bandwidth , more storage, faster storage, more cores, UPS, live backups and so on. But it doesn’t strictly need any of that hardware unless it helps meet the requirements.
In terms of software any modern PC runs an OS offering a tonne of services straight from boot / login. I don’t see any real differences there. Typically a server might have more always on serices and less on-call services, but these days there’s VMs and stuff on both servers and on PCs.
Most PC users would expect to have more rights such as to install and execute what they want. A server will typically have a stronger distinction between user and sys-admin. but again if a server offers a VMs it’s not so clear cut. That mostly comes out of the availability requirement - preventing users compromising the service.
- Comment on How do people doctor shop? Don't all doctors pass info on all their patients between each other? And in this day and age how do they do it.? 3 weeks ago:
They can’t if if they’re “difficult”.
- Comment on smort 4 weeks ago:
That’s why scientists ( I assume they’re supposed to be the right hand side) claiming to measure “intelligence” should pick a more specific term for what they’re measuring.
If they use the word “intelligence” I’d be extremely suspicious about why they’ve chosen that word. I would assume they have a decent understanding of how the word is likely be interpreted by the other 97.5%, if not they need to get out and do some fieldwork.
- Comment on Basic courtesy 5 weeks ago:
Wow USA is strange, how did calling the police after the vandalism become “losing” or “irrational”.
It sounds like the thought process is: just in case someone might commit a crime, preemptive escalation is the best choice.
Wild. I’d call that thought procecess verging on sociopathic not rational. If a person’s fear of crime is so crippling that they think society has broken down because they fear a crime that they dream might happen; that person was never a well adjusted member of society. I’d think anyone trying to do business with or interact with such people should be careful - they’re unlikely to follow predictable or normal behaviour patterns.
I’d get that mindset might be rational for the BLM-type victims in those states /areas where law and order does seem to systematically fail some communities. But if it’s based on fear rather than evidence of law and order having broken down then, it’s less rational.
- Comment on Entropy? Never heard of it. 5 weeks ago:
It’s not just ships. Before and after ships forests were/are cleared for farming. Net carbon sequestration of almost any forest is likely to be better than cropland and pasture - more so the old forests with well developed fungi and worms and stuff that fix and recycle some of it, not so much the timber forestry but i sustect theyre better than farms still.
Steel ships did not really even slow deforestation much - globally. Though you could argue that the sail ships enabled Europeans to bring all their various shit to the Americas - so it is maybe linked to the farming thing.
https://ourworldindata.org/world-lost-one-third-forests . FYI This graph is a bit misleading because time is warped on the vertical.
We also drained and dried out wetlands and bogs which are quite good at trapping a high amount of rotting material, also to make farmland. I’m not sure if that is counted in those stats - that is possibly more of a European overpopulation thing than a global one anyway.
I dont see how it will stop unles people start eating less, or more efficiently (I guess swap a lot of cow for cereals).
I don’t think monocultures + fertilizer + pesticides is going to be all that sustainable at keeping high yields in the long run - but we shall see about that I guess. Gene techlogy does seem to create some advances.
- Comment on The Periodic Table according to astronomers 5 weeks ago:
Plutonium is not a real element.
- Comment on How did people end-up agreeing on the name of rivers/mountains and seas ? 5 weeks ago:
You dont even need 2 languages, just a bottle of whisky.
‘Loch Lochy’ in Scotland.
- Comment on What Refutes Science... 1 month ago:
Science requires systematic observation, measurement and usually variation (often experimentally controlled); and, usually, iterations.
One datapoint outside such a system is not science.
You can’t even necessarily just insert a new datapoint into a pre-existing scientific sytem. The system itself may need to be adjusted, for example to test and account for biases that often occur due to how observations are made.
- Comment on Before they hired me THIS was part of the process. Had to submit an answer as to what she was holding 1 month ago:
Chicken?
- Comment on [UK] "Labour has been sucked into the WFH culture war. It should know better" 2 months ago:
“. . . Wes Streeting as a politician”.
Please use NSFW tag for such abominable gore.
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Every problem is a nail if you hammer it hard enough.
- Comment on Why do AI bros and other staunch AI defenders seem happy about the potential of killing off the creative industries? 2 months ago:
"Hey, there’s Evan. "He’s a young guy. “He likes the Stereophonics.”
- Comment on Do you know what your kids are up to? 2 months ago:
Royal Order Trebuchet Flatten Levant
- Comment on I wanna ROCK 2 months ago:
radioactive cheese
- Comment on Do you want me to heat that up in the "Michael Wave"? 2 months ago:
I only use my Erin Friar these days.
- Comment on Developer of WalkScape (the fitness MMORPG where you progress by walking IRL) here again. We're accepting new players and have a Lemmy community! 2 months ago:
Thanks.
I’ll have a look if I can sandbox in lineage first, then maybe apply for the beta test if it looks possible.
- Comment on Developer of WalkScape (the fitness MMORPG where you progress by walking IRL) here again. We're accepting new players and have a Lemmy community! 2 months ago:
When you say “android” does it depend on any google services? Or will it run on lineageOS with no(minimal) google stuff?
- Comment on The funny progression of getting promotions at work 2 months ago:
Finds ways to get people to pay for lead poisoning.
- Comment on Hypothetically, if some mysterious force started to jam every radio frequency, how would modern day society adapt to this? 2 months ago:
Depends exactly how “modern” you mean, i guess. It seems like whatever humans would be doing is whatever the invincible alien overlords would either: permit; or, don’t care enough to stop.
Why would they come here (close enough) just to jam some radio? Is this an omicron perseiei VIII thing.
I prefer programs with the tite “World’s ‘blankiest’ ‘blank’.” - Comment on Enjoy this out-of-context conversation with my wife. 2 months ago:
Dozens of lemmings were left stunned and confused today as ‘Flying Squid’ revealed that they are in fact a hammerhead shark with a few tentacles glued on.
- Comment on These dames wanting inclusivity 2 months ago:
Objectifying women is considered bad form. It’d be like saying they’re just a sub-class of Person.