SoleInvictus
@SoleInvictus@lemmy.blahaj.zone
- Comment on Pdf partee 1 week ago:
Especially since a great deal of that research was performed using public funds.
- Comment on Soup 1 week ago:
I see it now! Thanks for the nudge.
- Comment on Soup 1 week ago:
I’d wager they meant Walt Disney.
- Comment on Choose your difficulty 1 week ago:
Thanks so much for taking the time to write this up. I just told my wife we’re moving to Chile and she thinks I’m crazy. Of course, lacking any context from here, that makes sense.
- Comment on Choose your difficulty 1 week ago:
Thanks for the tip! I’m from the Pacific Northwest of the United States. As things here start to look increasingly concerning, we’re considering our options.
- Comment on Choose your difficulty 1 week ago:
¡Es la verdad!
I’ve actually considered moving to Chile. How are things there?
- Comment on Voyager 1 1 week ago:
The pale blue dot photo always makes me tear up. We’re so small and insignificant in such a grand universe and I’m crushed that I can’t explore it.
- Comment on Experiments 1 week ago:
It is wild to remember we’re all descended from fish. I mostly refer to our primate tendencies (listen to a kid scream and tell me we’re not descended from apes) but a lot of our parts, like our skeletons, are highly modified fish parts. It’s crazy.
- Comment on Experiments 1 week ago:
Other tissues can become fossilized but it’s less common as the conditions need to be just right. That’s how we know some dinosaurs had feathers and what their skin texture was like.
Cambrian genera like Hallucigenia completely lacked bones and we have numerous fossils of them from deposits of shale. That’s how we know what they looked like: tiny Lovecraftian horrors.
- Comment on 1 day ban for spamming, yet the comment I made was unique 1 week ago:
“Ackshally, I changed two to five words (out of three hundred) each time! It was unique!”
-Ultragigagigantic
- Comment on Draw your own conculsions 1 week ago:
Don’t forget other factors, like stress, poor diet, reduced physical activity, and obesity. At least in the United States, all of these things are worse than ever.
- Comment on WWSAD 2 weeks ago:
Standard lefty fare: get rid of the surprisingly small group of people who ensure we don’t benefit equally so they can skim increasingly large amounts off the top of our very existence while providing little benefit themselves. What that looks like is pretty contextual. I’d prefer a non-violent, gradual transition of power, but telling a bunch of entitled sociopaths they don’t get to leech off the world because they popped out of the right crotch historically hasn’t been an easy or friendly process. They get real pissy.
Incrementally, people can band together and just oust their economic and cultural oppressors. A fun, somewhat related example is ROC USA, a non-profit that helps residents of manufactured home parks collectively purchase the land they previously rented. More generically, workers cooperatives are democratically ran, worker owned businesses, so anything that benefits the cooperative benefits the workers. If someone’s job is made irrelevant, they’re moved to another position and the increased efficiency/income benefits all workers, not a parasite class that is paid simply for buying an imaginary portion of the company.
So basically, we change how we do everything and either wrest power from the hands of the few or start doing our own thing that economically stonewalls them. I’ve always wanted to start a non-profit grocery store!
- Comment on WWSAD 2 weeks ago:
I agree with you, 100%. I absolutely would, just not without compensation. I’m a big ol’ dirty lefty. I believe if we lose jobs to increased efficiency or automation, all society should benefit, not just the rich, and those who have lost those jobs shouldn’t just be kicked to the curb as they so commonly are.
- Comment on WWSAD 2 weeks ago:
I’m not a huge AI fan but I think using it to visualize the bizarre shit that people would draw if they could is a good application. Just don’t use it to put people out of work without compensation.
- Comment on Anyone else? 2 weeks ago:
Oh yes, he plays such a punchable shithead.
- Comment on Anon revisits early youtube 2 weeks ago:
Sailor Moon Web Ring 4 Lyfe!
- Comment on kids are gowing up faster and faster 2 weeks ago:
You are 100% correct. Unfortunately, due to the nature of my business, my access to sensitive information, and the mind blowing incompetence of whoever wrote our IT security policies, they won’t do so. My PC is locked down tight to keep sensitive data from wandering off… Except for how I can connect my phone, transfer data to it, analyze it on my PC, and transfer the results back using my phone. That is actually the IT sanctioned workaround. It makes my brain hurt.
- Comment on kids are gowing up faster and faster 2 weeks ago:
Can confirm, it’s not just you. I had no problem with it in college and my first job because I had full access to my system. My latest two jobs, though, fucking hell is it a pain in my ass, especially since I’m not required to use it but am doing so voluntarily to up the quality of our data analysis (it used to be terrible descriptive statistics and incorrectly performed Excel t tests). So IT doesn’t want to even touch it yet I need their constant password pasting to make it go.
I just bring my own laptop when I need to do stats to things.
- Comment on evangelism 2 weeks ago:
If that’s true, then that makes all employees subcontractors.
Not all consultants are self employed.
- Comment on evangelism 2 weeks ago:
I do NOT miss being yelled at by some middle management Kevin about how I’m charging them $275 per hour to justify their getting whatever crazy shit isn’t in the purchase agreement. I wish I made $275/hour. That’d be amazing.
- Comment on What kind of institutional gaslighting is this? 2 weeks ago:
They’re just toeing the line for their corporate masters. Capitalists want 150% effort for 100% pay since the profit margin on that extra 50% alone is huge.
- Comment on Map of the different climates in Australia 2 weeks ago:
I suspect whoever made it isn’t actually Australian.
- Comment on A photography depicting the construction of the Great Pyramid of Giza - 2565 BCE. 2 weeks ago:
Declining mana concentrations affect us all!
- Comment on figs 1 & 2 3 weeks ago:
I love figs so much, I’d still eat them even if they were full of wasps.
- Comment on salmon 3 weeks ago:
They’re so weird! Imagine going through your life sleek and swift, just to turn into Quasimodo once you hit puberty. Then you die.
- Comment on salmon 3 weeks ago:
Oh no, they change that much and sometimes even more. The hump is a sexual selection trait - the bigger the hump, the more likely it is that a male will get to mate. While not all pink salmon get a hump that large, the Barry Whites of the humpy salmon world have a great big shoulder boulder that makes the lady fish swoon.
Here’s one of those fishy freaks: www.landbigfish.com/articles/default.cfm?ID=352
- Comment on isopods are friends 4 weeks ago:
clap clap clap clap
- Comment on Tell Borts I said "Hi" 4 weeks ago:
How could I forget the Crabbe Brothers, good ol’ Shimp and Shamp?
- Comment on don't tell iceland 5 weeks ago:
I’d drink whale milk without hesitation. It’s probably fishy, though.
- Comment on land shrimp 5 weeks ago:
It’ll kill them, but not because it’s acidic. Insects breathe through openings in their abdomens called spiracles. They’ll slowly suffocate if the spiracles are blocked, like from being submerged.