JohnnyEnzyme
@JohnnyEnzyme@piefed.social
- Comment on How come no one has taken 'A Hero's Journey' and applied it to the bible? Would this not give more evidence to work of fiction or non fiction? 5 days ago:
As a huge fan of Campbell’s work, I want to hate you with the hate of 10K suns! And yet, reality is reality. Science is what it is IMO, and if I’m wrong, then I’m wrong. (oof)
That said, however, I wonder if the alleged ‘takedowns’ of Campbell’s work aren’t a bit invested upon the desire to believe. And one thing that I know for sure, however wrong Joe could arguably be about this or that, he was also absolutely correct upon a bunch of other stuff. About our Naked Ape chronic desire to believe, and the way we all tend to invent shockingly similar mythos. In order to meet the needs of our chronic insecurity, and we are absolutely LOADED with that stuff.
So as I see it, you can tear down Campbell’s work upon this or that angle, and yet it would be a fool’s errand to try to erase his main point, and he has many of those, after all..!
- Comment on What's a good software for making memes and simple comics? 1 week ago:
I’m still looking for an online tool that will auto-arrange text in to speech bubbles. That used to be a feature on the old “Red Meat” comic creator, but it seems strangely hard to find these days…
- Comment on What can be done to prevent more dangerous heatwaves in Europe? 1 week ago:
Carbon capture technology was always some kind of excuse that execs had to pollute today because we could theoretically fix it in the future.
You’re exaggerating. While that’s true, and fits a pattern of such executive / corporate behavior, there’s more to it from what I know. That is, various science researchers around the world really have been studying CC tech as a potential helper to mitigation, if not as a primary solution. That goes back to the late 70’s if I understand correctly.
And carbon isn’t our only problem. Methane is a way worse greenhouse gas, and we keep releasing it to the atmosphere because it’s cheaper than trying to control it.
Last I recall, methane is ~20x more potent than CO2 in the GH effect, and arguably represents one of the more potent tipping points.
Even if we stopped producing CO2 tomorrow, and suddenly enough carbon capture facilities to capture carbon at the same rate we were releasing it appeared, it would still take decades to make a meaningful change.
My original point was about if CC tech could make a dramatic difference in the CO2 we’ve already placed in the atmosphere. Not just do a ‘working offset.’ I think that still presents problems in mitigation, I’m just not sure why from a science standpoint.
- Comment on How come Rugby never caught on in the states? I played in college and it's basically like football without pads. Isn't it? 1 week ago:
I played in college
💡!
- Comment on What can be done to prevent more dangerous heatwaves in Europe? 1 week ago:
nothing, nothing we do now will stop the warming.
What if (theoretically speaking, because I don’t think we’re close yet) we rolled out carbon-capture technology and implementation on a massive scale? How much useful impact would that have on mitigating CC versus how much of that is still out of our hands?
- Comment on Is there hope for humanity? Or are we just destined or designed to wipe our own selves out? 2 weeks ago:
Excellent.
- Comment on Is there hope for humanity? Or are we just destined or designed to wipe our own selves out? 2 weeks ago:
500-600Myrs ahead (all while everything gets hotter and hotter, outpacing species ability to deal with it), photosynthesis as we know it will stop working.
- Comment on Is there hope for humanity? Or are we just destined or designed to wipe our own selves out? 2 weeks ago:
Bullshit.
Our “technology,” culture, practice and morality keeps proving that the rich are obsessed with their wealth, power and privilege, and don’t give a flying fluff about future needs nor adaptation.
Your presumption is that age-old one that naively assumes that new tech = betterment of reality for the human condition. But it rarely actually works that way outside of stuff like vaccines.
- Comment on Is there hope for humanity? Or are we just destined or designed to wipe our own selves out? 2 weeks ago:
No it won’t.
In 500-600Myrs, life under known parameters will be completely impossible.
- Comment on How animals communicate to work together across species boundaries 2 weeks ago:
Different species of fungii communicate and cooperate?
- Comment on How animals communicate to work together across species boundaries 2 weeks ago:
And trees, too!
- Comment on Why are we so afraid of cockroaches? 3 weeks ago:
Haha, true, Drumpf is only a 2nd-gen immigrant… not so German anymore.
Bonus points for learning about “potato noises!”
- Comment on Why are we so afraid of cockroaches? 3 weeks ago:
The American / German ones are the ones that reproduce very fast and can take over very quickly.
Especially the ones with botched, blond hair transplants that keep getting elected by an army of doofuses.
- Comment on How many donations worth of ten grains of rice does one need to live healthy for one day? 3 weeks ago:
Wow, that site’s been up for almost 20yrs, now. It’s pretty fun, and helped me do a little bit of language-learning over the years, but is nowhere comprehensive for such a thing. Still, it’s casual fun, and seems to be legit:
- Comment on Is piefed or blahaj down? not been able to get on it today or yesterday 3 weeks ago:
Wow, how does that work?
I thought for sure a PF acct was necessary!
- Comment on Is piefed or blahaj down? not been able to get on it today or yesterday 3 weeks ago:
You’re actually using it as a Lemmy user posting to Lemmy communities? oO
- Comment on Is piefed or blahaj down? not been able to get on it today or yesterday 3 weeks ago:
PieFed absolutely has a post scheduler, which I use all the time.
By the same token, OP’s posted ~1100x across 11mos on their Lemmy acct, so it seems quite possible they’re using some kind of Lemmy scheduler. Since you say it’s not in Lemmy proper yet, I’m guessing they might be using one of these:
https://github.com/RikudouSage/LemmySchedule
https://github.com/stevenvergenz/lemmy-scheduled-post-bot - Comment on Is piefed or blahaj down? not been able to get on it today or yesterday 3 weeks ago:
I’d done posts in advance
Oh, does Lemmy have a scheduler, now?
- Comment on Finally sitting down to rewatch Beam Me Up, Sulu. The Blu-ray has extended interviews. 3 weeks ago:
I’m watching it here:
https://tubitv.com/tv-shows/200261747/s05-e31-the-encounterIt does have some ads here and there. It also might be on DailyMotion, ad-free.
- Comment on Finally sitting down to rewatch Beam Me Up, Sulu. The Blu-ray has extended interviews. 3 weeks ago:
I’m just now watching his Twilight Zone episode. Intense stuff…
- Comment on is our battery/junk drawer dangerous? 3 weeks ago:
Generally catastrophic failures happen when a battery is damaged
I’m not a chemist or ‘battery scientist,’ but I understand that Li+ ion cells can indeed be heavily damaged without showing any outward traces of such. That is, internal filaments can build up over time, and a damaged cell can be at risk when charging (as you note above, I believe).
That said, there may be associated swelling that tends to indicate such damage, but I’m not sure that’s always true. A cell with a cheaply-made casing would be a combined risk.
- Comment on [deleted] 3 weeks ago:
Japanese audiences and just Japanese groups of people in general are quite a unique beast, and not really a great reference point for comparison, IMO.
- Comment on The Picard Video 4k 3 weeks ago:
Did you see the one (above) with the original music synced in? Because I think it helps a lot.
- Comment on The Picard Video 4k 3 weeks ago:
Would you believe me if I told you that Captain Picard sang and danced the song “You’re Adorable” right on the bridge of the ol’ NCC-1701D?
"That’s impossible!" I hear you saying…
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VZNs-9Jr5TI - Comment on Is there music I haven't heard because I only speak English? 3 weeks ago:
Glad you found it useful!
I will say, though– just because the songs are handpicked doesn’t mean that they’re necessarily good songs. However, the genre tags help a lot with that kind of thing.
- Comment on Is there music I haven't heard because I only speak English? 4 weeks ago:
Get your arses in here, peoples!
!nonenglishmusic@piefed.social - Comment on How do you vet a person asking to be a mod? Unlike others don't want to read their entire post history. How come pretty much no one is asking to be a mod on c/askhistorians? 4 weeks ago:
I’m someone who can contribute constructively to select historical discussions, but that’s the extent of it. I’m also spread too thin to mod / contribute at yet another community.
So at this point, I wish y’all good fortune in this endeavor, and meanwhile I’m indeed formulating an upcoming Q for you all, as I have time.
Still, I’m wondering if maybe you might throw this out to r/history, r/AskHistorians or other platform (with their permission), asking if anybody’s interested in contributing here. It might be worth a shot, anyway.
- Comment on How do I re-establish peaceful relations with a family of crows? 5 weeks ago:
It isn’t, of course. I’m pretty sure I was aiming for “naturalist” there, but yon ol’ brain fog kicked in.
- Comment on How do I re-establish peaceful relations with a family of crows? 5 weeks ago:
They usually get a chuckle or two, so it’s all good.
- Comment on How do I re-establish peaceful relations with a family of crows? 5 weeks ago:
It’s kind of like sharing a living space with someone– good to put in a little effort to get along and be flexible rather than get off on the wrong foot and potentially antagonise them.