atomicbocks
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- Comment on Me too. 1 day ago:
Conscious (sentience / sapience) is an ineffable, unmeasurable, quality. There is no way to say that one sentient being is more or less sentient than another. In fact there is no way to tell that I am not the only consciousness in existence but it feels rude not to give others the benefit of the doubt. We can create neurons and even small brains in the lab but we don’t have any way to instill life into that neuron. Consciousness simply emerges out of the constituent parts of being alive, possibly even as a result of the interactions of such a complex system.
- Comment on Me too. 2 days ago:
Consciousness is 100% an emergent property.
- Comment on Help. 4 days ago:
Wasn’t there a guy who married his 3DS dating game girlfriend a while back? I’m not sure this is exactly a new phenomenon.
- Comment on California is debating whether or not to remove the bike lane on the Richmond-San Rafael Bridge. During the public hearing, a politician was driving his car 5 days ago:
I think that’s part of the problem though. Downvoting isn’t for disagreeing it’s a vote that a comment detracts from the conversation as a whole.
- Comment on California is debating whether or not to remove the bike lane on the Richmond-San Rafael Bridge. During the public hearing, a politician was driving his car 5 days ago:
Based on this and a couple recent other threads I am becoming pretty convinced that more and more of the people on Lemmy are children.
- Comment on The design is very human 1 week ago:
Not necessarily, lots of old TVs and console radios only had one speaker. As well many old LPs split the lyrics onto the separate channel with the intention that it would be listened to in mono with one speaker. This is why some old masters still have all the lyrics on one channel and all the music on the other.
- Comment on stupid sexy apples 1 week ago:
The allergens in honey are from where the honey was made. If you haven’t already you might try locally sourced honey as it will have the allergens that are already in the air where you live.
- Comment on Instacart is urging the Mayor of New York City to veto a bill that would require the company to pay its workers minimum wage 1 week ago:
There is a whole group of people that actually believe that some jobs should not provide a living wage. They will argue that high school students don’t need a living wage and then unironically still want McDonald’s to be open during a school day.
- Comment on flowers for the lost 3 weeks ago:
You forgot Sojourner.
- Comment on In New York City, Drivers Who Run Red Lights Get Tickets. E-Bike Riders Get Court Dates. 3 weeks ago:
- Comment on In New York City, Drivers Who Run Red Lights Get Tickets. E-Bike Riders Get Court Dates. 3 weeks ago:
Mopeds have been a thing for a long time and electric has been an option for a long time. Also bike delivery has been a thing in NYC for a long time. That they are not street legal doesn’t make sense to me. Unless for the same reason a Mustang is street legal but a Mach E is not.
- Comment on After 18 years, a surprise Half-Life 2 update makes it once again possible to beat a honking train on Highway 17 3 weeks ago:
I played through recently and I beat it but I distinctly remember thinking that I didn’t remember it being that hard. It took me several tries and very precise timing, I think I even ended up coming back to it the next day.
Glad they are fixing it, though it makes it hard not to speculate more about an upcoming sequel. I think they will call it HL2 Episode 3 just to fuck with everyone.
- Comment on I 🖤 LaTeX 3 weeks ago:
I’ve literally never heard anybody pronounce them differently, your comment confused me at first but TIL.
- Comment on we must protect them from exotics 3 weeks ago:
Ugh. We have spent so much on blackout curtains because of our neighbor’s insistence on having outdoor lights on all night. Same neighbor who once said to me “I just hate clover, don’t you?”…
- Comment on well? 3 weeks ago:
On the contrary; while I have heard the explanation that the commenter you replied to has said I have also heard a slightly different theory:
Our universe is the 3 dimensional event horizon of a 4th dimensional black hole. By extension we may find that black holes in our universe have similar funky 2 dimensional areas at their even horizons.
I am sure clickbait articles are part of it but there also seems to be several actual theories surrounding the idea of the nature of our universe relating to black holes.
- Comment on Since we're doing magic eyes now... 5 weeks ago:
I grew up with the Magic Eye books and have never been able to do cross-view as a result.
- Comment on Nintendo bans Switch 2 owner after they played used Switch 1 games — decision eventually reversed after 'proving innocence’ 5 weeks ago:
Nintendo tracked the UID to a different Switch in a completely different geographic location logged in with a different account tied to a different bank card and still bricked it. Even Windows licenses aren’t that much of an asshole.
- Comment on Milking dust 1 month ago:
The books, Jurassic Park and its sequel The Lost World, are very good and very different from the movies. I also recommend Disclosure by the same author.
- Comment on Dolph is prime human 1 month ago:
The same reason the National Aeronautics and Space Administration isn’t NAASA.
- Comment on Enough is enough 1 month ago:
Not OP but just to hazard a guess:
Alcohol evaporates quickly. It’s probably there for the same reason it’s used in dry shampoos and antiperspirants; to make something that sprays but drys into a power or thickens to a gel in a very short period of time.
- Comment on 'Xbox Hardware Is Dead,' Says Founding Team Member, 'It Looks Like Xbox Has No Desire — Or Literally Can't — Ship Hardware Anymore' - IGN 1 month ago:
That Xbox would become Microsoft’s Steam has been the prevailing prediction for the better part of 10 years. I am immediately dubious of anybody who’s opinion is that a more capable than the Xbox device (as far as availability of games) has no reason to be purchased.
- Comment on It was all a lie, wasn't it? 1 month ago:
Probably;
Wood structures fair better in high wind and in earthquakes. Things we have far more of in North America.
- Comment on Sweatshop 1 month ago:
I have a thermostat that looks just like that at home. It doesn’t go to 100°, like the other commenter said.
- Comment on It's the dream 1 month ago:
In my experience it’s usually a “cherry on top” of whatever horrible personality that person has. It’s the difference between somebody who treats like they own you for 40+ hours a week and somebody who understands that people are hired for what they know and not for their output quantity.
- Comment on 🐇 🐇 🐇 1 month ago:
I didn’t really start hating it until not doing it for 13 hours a day meant losing my job because, and I quote, “we can have meetings all day because you have all night to finish your work”.
- Comment on Aging is fun 1 month ago:
If this is you, try drinking more water.
- Comment on Always there 1 month ago:
“After these messages, we’ll be ‘light’ back!”
- Comment on The real question is, which color? 1 month ago:
It takes all kinds to make a world; There are even people who don’t like chocolate and would just prefer the peanuts…
- Comment on Ok smartass 1 month ago:
They don’t look the same and it doesnt look like differences that can be explained by photoshop.
- Comment on A couple of Switch 2 owners are already reporting expanded back panels, Nintendo investigates possible causes 1 month ago:
I think I would be more okay with having to undo a screw or two as long as it was still just as easy to get the battery out. The way the Advance SP and DSs handled it. Lithium batteries are slightly more unfriendly to being handled than AAs and this is a device aimed at children. Your point stands though.