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- Comment on [deleted] 5 months ago:
It's an issue given that almost everything everyone buys relies on sea traffic. If it doesn't, then something required to make it did.
- Comment on [deleted] 5 months ago:
No. The melting of the ice caps is now self-sustaining. We dont have enough energy as a species to begin to reverse it now, and it is making itself worse now with every day.
The current glacier they're worried about in Antarctica is estimated to increase global sea levels by up to 3 meters.
That, by itself puts every single port in the world partially underwater, and most of the major airports too. That means every developed country in the world is looking at death and famine at a scale not seen since the Permian Extinction.
And thats just one glaicier that will be popping before 2030. All of Greenland is also in the process of popping, and that could mean 10m plus of sea level rise by 2050.
- Comment on [deleted] 5 months ago:
Climate change.
Ww3 may or may not happen. Hopefully not.
But regardless of that, Climate change will wipe us out.
- Comment on Gammacell 220 5 months ago:
It was a long running and apparently well used research device. It was discontinued in 2008.
Heres a pdf of the 1968 instruction manual.
https://www.nrc.gov/docs/ML0216/ML021630449.pdf - Comment on Kotak’s CEO says Indians should work 84 hours a week 6 months ago:
Except the guy leading the fantasy party is Indian
So thats really weird.
- Comment on Choose your Fighter 6 months ago:
Stegosaurus does have the Thagomizer, so named by The Far Side comics, and officially given that name because scientists didnt give it a name before that.
- Comment on Choose your Fighter 6 months ago:
Spinosaurus and Baryonyx.
Because so many people recognize the former, but we know so very little about that entire family of dinosaurs, and currently it might be one of the easier ways to get paleontologists to argue amongst each other.
For example: the graphic in the post shows Spinosaurus standing on two legs. It was probably mostly quadrapedal, standing on all fours.
It has a huge, paddle like tail, but apparently didnt have the muscles to use it like a croc or gator does.
The entire family has denser bones suggesting an aquatic life, but most of the spinosaurids have those huge back spines which dont seem to serve a known purpose and the spinal bones have room for air sacs which runs counter to the whole aquatic thing.
- Comment on Dragon Age: The Veilguard | Official Reveal Trailer 6 months ago:
Simple, the original team that made DA:O went off to do other things or was promoted into management where they did well, but couldn't replicate the magic of their OG team.
- Comment on Good morning. 6 months ago:
Except for Matt Perry.
- Comment on Coleoptera is the largest order of insects, representing about 40% of all insect species. 6 months ago:
I feel the need to remake this using Brennan Lee Mulligan from Dropout.tv.
- Comment on [deleted] 7 months ago:
People are being sterilized en mass.
- Comment on Choose your difficulty 7 months ago:
You say that, and yes, if you know what you're doing its fine. Same applies to Australia.
We have thick rainforest vegitation so dense you can walk off a cliff and not realize it until you fall through. - Comment on Choose your difficulty 7 months ago:
Includes British Columbia in "easy mode".
Nah, BC looks pretty, but if you unprepared off the beaten trails/roads, they'll never find your body.
- Comment on where's my fur coat smh 7 months ago:
Yup, and I am aware how outdated that artwork is. Thats where I pulled that analysis from.
I'd suggest Raptor Chatter and Your Dinosaurs Are Wrong on youtube.
- Comment on where's my fur coat smh 7 months ago:
Ears are wrong since they suggest directional ears, but we don't have the muscle, or critically the ligament attachment points on the skull, for that.
As far as claws go, again, no marks of strong cartilege / ligament / bed on the fingers and toes that would indicate functional claws.
Nipples: the smoking gun would be a pregnant woman or an infant, but theyd be able to see that unlike rodents, humans arent having more than two babies at a time outside of extremely rare cases, more than two babies just dont have room to fully gestate, so theyd likely cut that number down.
Fur: the sheer amount of plastic clothing we've generated will put that to rest fast.
Whiskers: There would be ligament attachment marks on the skull where the muscles used to move them would have been. Also maybe blood vessel/neuron marks on the bones.
Also the almost complete lack of snout would indicate heavy hand usage and not diving into things headfirst like rodents and cats have to.
- Comment on Why can't people make ai's by making a neuron sim and then scaling it up with a supercomputer to the point where it has a humans number of neurons and then raise it like a human? 7 months ago:
We do have some pretty sophisticated models of neurons, and there are persistent theories (2015 was earliest I found in a quick search) that brains use some quantum physics, in particular Quantum Entanglement, to operate.
https://phys.org/news/2022-10-brains-quantum.html
In which case, hardware has a very long way to go before we can do that at scale.
- Comment on Why do mobile games suck nowadays? 7 months ago:
Yeah that's what i meant.
- Comment on Why do mobile games suck nowadays? 7 months ago:
Fdroid app store has a lot of frankly amaz8ng indie games.
Pirate freecell is fantastic.
- Comment on Final Fantasy Maker Square Enix Takes $140 Million Hit in ‘Content Abandonment Losses’ as It Revises Game Pipeline - IGN 7 months ago:
Now they're attaching pretend numbers to the cancelation.
- Comment on nuclear fear-mongering is a ploy by Big oil 7 months ago:
Natural gas is just Methabe and is being pushed by big oil, since it needs all of the infrastructure they already have.
- Comment on nuclear fear-mongering is a ploy by Big oil 7 months ago:
If Germany can have viable solar energy generation, and they do, then everywhere can
- Comment on Xbox Console Sales Are Tanking 7 months ago:
This is what Microsoft has been actively moving towards since at least the planning of windows 8.
Why bother losing money on physical consoles when you can get people to pay for xbox live on pc?
- Comment on What do companies get out of rewards programs 7 months ago:
"Serve" in this case is double speak for
find out which things everyone in an area buys so we can increase prices on those as well as move them to harder to reach spots so you have to look at other things Kraft is bribing us to sell and have prime placement on. - Comment on If a universal basic income started today with the stipulation that you had to put 40 hrs/wk towards making the world a better place or solving societal problems, how would you spend your time? 7 months ago:
Well, several of my bosses are working on a way to hire me permanently to do just that.
The issye is that they have to convince highly conservative senior management that hiring a guy for $x an hour is a lot less than contracting the same guy for $5x an hour as part of a consulting firm
- Comment on What do companies get out of rewards programs 7 months ago:
This is from a talk the CEO of the self-proclaimed first Canadian company to offer its own points based rewards card, not just AirMiles(which was presumably making money on the same thing, selling metrics.) it was a long time ago, so forgive the inexact quoting.
The purpose of the rewards card is metrics. With it, we know which customer is buying what, at what time, with what payment. This allows us to better target both sales as well as tailor entire stores to their respective customer bases.
- Comment on Can I Put it in my Ass? 7 months ago:
Hell, the oldest dildo is made of stone and definitely predates civilization
- Comment on Corvids 8 months ago:
Most mountain resorts of BC have them, they'll eat from your hand if you hold it out flat for them.
If they're feeling greedy though they'll also just take unoffered food as you're trying to eat it.
- Comment on get rekt 8 months ago:
The best one was when Hancock questioned the authenticity of a photograph taken by his Wife.
- Comment on Corvids 8 months ago:
Not pictured:
The adorable, if thiefish Grey Jay, aka the Whiskey Jack. - Comment on The Fallout TV show might have answered a decades-old question in the video games 8 months ago:
The diversion isn't just the transistor. From my understanding its that the cold war doesn't happen after ww2. You get instead 50 years of the collaboration as an entire species.
Things only start falling apart when the oil runs out.
Also Bethesda added Aliens manipulating Earth, with overtones that it was them who started "the great war." Also they had been manipulating humanity for at least several hundred years.