Lyrl

@Lyrl@lemmy.dbzer0.com

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Piping mouse⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:

  Do you think he might like the warmth? Parrot feet don’t have the feather insulation owl feet have, and I believe their circulation actually restricts to barely keep feet above freezing and save most warmth for their torso. Sounds uncomfortable.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Piping mouse⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  I think I saw a clip of an Australian doing that with a chicken.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Who makes up the "serving size" on microwave food?⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Yes, I am in favor of the label having a column for the whole can, but also not all cans are the same size, for example Coke has at least four different sizes of cans: travel67.com/…/coca-cola-serving-sizes-and-an-unu…

  Is having two columns of information (one for the whole package, one standard size to compare to other varieties) offensive to people?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Who makes up the "serving size" on microwave food?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  There is some value in a standard serving size so we can compare nutrient density between products that come in different sized packages. Often labels will have two columns on the label, one for a standardized amount and another column for the entire package.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨My Car Is Becoming a Brick⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  The navigation update-to-car limitations are a big reason Android Auto and Apple CarPlay are a thing. Externally provided services you have to connect to your phone for. Car features work on the car. This seems ok.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I ain't risking shit⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  For something like workplace safety, sure, we should have a regulatory body that researches, teaches, and enforces good safety practices so no one gets hurt putting up a building or running a fryer or whatever.

  If there is an armed gang hurting my neighbors and family - dealing with them is going to have risk of getting hurt, and I hope we pay someone enough to make that risk worthwhile for them and the loved ones they could potentially leave behind.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Flock Safety and Texas Sheriff Claimed License Plate Search Was for a Missing Person. It Was an Abortion Investigation.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  We did not reach out to Flock for comment on this article, as their communications director previously told us the company will not answer our inquiries until we “correct the record and admit to your audience that you purposefully spread misinformation which you know to be untrue” about this case.

  Consider the record corrected: It turns out the truth is even more damning than initially reported.

  Burn.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Trove of surveillance data challenges what we thought we knew about location tracking tools, who they target and how far they have spread⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Amazing work by these reporters. Removing the plausible deniabilty around the stalking being done is valuable for public discussion, and hopefully informs vulnerable figures on the importance of taking precautions like leaving the phone at home in the fridge when having an informant or organizing meeting.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨X-ray scans reveal the hidden risks of cheap batteries⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Lumafield scanned 1,054 batteries – around 100 from each brand – and found 33 of them had a serious manufacturing defect known as negative anode overhang. The defect “significantly increases the risk of internal short-circuiting and battery fires” and can reduce the overall life of the battery,” according to Lumafield. All 33 of the batteries with the defects came from the 424 sold by low-cost brands or brands selling counterfeits…

  For two of the counterfeit brands that were reporting impossible specs, the percentage of tested batteries from those brands that were found to have the defect were even higher – upwards of 12 and 15 percent. None of the name brand OEM batteries were found to have any problems…

  Defects like negative anode overhang and bad edge alignment don’t mean an affected battery is guaranteed to explode or catch fire, but they can increase the risk of those incidents occurring, particularly when combined with other factors such as being left in a hot car or an accidental drop causing additional damage.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Scientists say X (formerly Twitter) has lost its professional edge — and Bluesky is taking its place⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I have read some analysis that right-wing propaganda gets the most engagement when there are liberals in the community to provide the “liberal tears”. Yes, there is a core group happy to be in an echo chamber with only imagined liberal tears, but the majority find substitutes unsatisfying. Potentially the diminishing of non-right content volume will also diminishing the right content by making the comments less interesting.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Artists are losing work, wages, and hope as bosses and clients embrace AI⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Automation replaced hand knitters, and people in that career suffered for a generation, but most people now value mass produced socks more than they value paying a premium for hand knit. Automation replaced telephone operators, and people in that career suffered for a generation, but no one now wants their phone call to be manually switched by a person.

  The pain of automation is real and lasts the length of the career of everyone impacted, but the societal benefit lasts many generations. More support is needed for people who are displaced, but I don’t see fighting the technology as the effective way to achieve that.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  True in Europe and the US, but not everywhere. Corvids are a hugely successful animal class, and there are related species all over the world locally called crows and ravens. Some places the local species called ravens are bigger. Other places the local species called crows are bigger.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨They thought they were making technological breakthroughs. It was an AI-sparked delusion.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  I hope the AI-chat companies really get a handle on this. They are making helpful sounding noises, but it’s hard to know how much they are prioritizing it.

  OpenAI has acknowledged that its existing guardrails work well in shorter conversations, but that they may become unreliable in lengthy interactions… The company also announced on Tuesday that it will try to improve the way ChatGPT responds to users exhibiting signs of “acute distress” by routing conversations showing such moments to its reasoning models, which the company says follow and apply safety guidelines more consistently.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Trump’s pick to lead Bureau of Labor Statistics ran Twitter account with sexually degrading, bigoted attacks⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Amid the racism and misogyny is published work that recessions are when the opposition party is in power. Presumably “economic boom” is when the “correct” party is in power, regardless of “traditional” economic data. Oh, and he’d like to see the US deploy nukes.

  Antoni’s academic work is also sparse, causing concern from prominent economists. Last year, he co-published a report that purported “the American economy has actually been in recession since 2022,” which economists across the political spectrum have criticized.

  Sometime in mid-2019… the account’s username changed to “phdofbombsaway” with the display name “Dr. Curtis LeMay.” The profile image also changed to what looks to be a nuclear explosion. The username and display name appear to be a reference to “Bombs Away LeMay,” a reference to the Cold War general and his controversial stance promoting the use of nuclear weapons. LeMay ran alongside segregationist George Wallace on his 1968 presidential ticket for the far-right American Independent Party.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The Corporate Logo That Broke the Internet - Why are people freaking out about Cracker Barrel ?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  The article is calling out the logo outrage as a distraction from the Epstein files.

  The process of stoking outrage has another effect: It crowds out the news cycle. Most Democrats I know would be shocked at how little the average Republican knows about Trump’s actual conduct and his actual wrongdoing. Republicans can, however, cite chapter and verse about left-wing outrages and left-wing overreactions to Trump.

  That creates a reality where they simply can’t conceive of how any reasonable, rational person would vote Democratic or oppose the president and his policies.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨nooo my genderinos⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I am confused. I thought the thread was about gender, and the reference to “social bullshit” and the statement “that outliers exist, doesnt mean anything” were statements in support of excluding transgender people from society. The 0.018% stat (rate of intersex if defined narrowly) is clearly a reference to sex, not gender. So now I am just lost.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨nooo my genderinos⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I think things get taken too far in some contexts, but the underlying sensitivity is when you are talking to a person who considers themselves an outlier. Like telling someone with no legs that they don’t meet the definition of human and ADA is an abomination that should be repealed. Or telling someone diagnosed with conversion disorder that they can’t receive any physical accommodations, and can’t have any medical consults to check if their symptoms might have a different cause. I hope we can agree those would be insensitive positions to take.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨nooo my genderinos⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I think they were trying to demonstrate the second type of dot should be increments of 10 - the missed step in the original answer - and both messed it up (started with an increment of 20 as you pointed out) and extended it way beyond what was required for the problem at hand.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨100% vegetarian⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  The cost is a big turn off for most people. At grocery stores near me, the Impossible and Beyond products are more than double the price of the meat products they are imitating. In part because livestock feed is hugely subsidized by the government.

  If the plant-based meat alternatives could gain efficiency through scale and experience to lower the cost below animal meat, we would see way more people trying them and finding what dishes they work best in, which would feed back into scaled market demand. But I don’t see that kind of explosive growth potential at current price levels.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨100% vegetarian⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Growing meat cells in a lab and selling them as food is illegal in the states you reference.

  What Beyond does in processing plant material into something that resembles some meat products is still legal everywhere.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Which way?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Or you could soak it in prescription strength urea for a couple of days to get the nail to fall off. Less collateral damage that way.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Which way?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  OP might be talking about a procedure where a podiatrist or dermatologist kills the mis-growing edges of the nail root. The remaining root grows a narrower nail, but hopefully a straighter one. Sometimes the process doesn’t work the first time (hard to judge how much cell-kill stuff will get just the edges and not damage the middle) and has to be repeated.