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- Comment on I'm doing my part 1 day ago:
I believe they increasingly use PLA which is a bioplastic. But yeah it used to be, and in many cases likely still is, polyethylene which is an oil product.
- Comment on Bee fly 2 days ago:
The larval stages are predators or parasitoids of the eggs and larvae of other insects. The adult females usually deposit eggs in the vicinity of possible hosts, quite often in the burrows of beetles, wasps, or solitary bees.
Larvae live parasitically in the nests of various solitary bees and wasps.[2] When the fly larva locates a host larva, it will consume it slowly, greatly increasing in size as it tightly holds onto the host, eventually becoming a pupa and overwintering.[9]
haha yeah, adorable
- Comment on The Russian Neo-Nazi Network Pushing ‘White Lives Matter’ Division in Britain – Promoted by Tommy Robinson 1 week ago:
https://x.com/Academists1721/status/2064427986267275660
Is supporting actual Russian fascist groups like this something lemmy.ml lets its users do? Can we get a .ml admin to weigh in on this?
- Comment on Good point 1 week ago:
If humans interacted with sharks the same way we do with cows, sharks would definitely kill more people.
- Comment on The body of a contortionist while performing a trick. This X-ray also shows that a significant part of the spine does not bend. 2 weeks ago:
My neck hurts just looking at this.
- Comment on Flipper!! 2 weeks ago:
Damn, that ended being a bit of a rabbit hole.
The source for this image was Wikimedia Commons which describes them as “Romanes’ 1892 copy of Ernst Haeckel’s fraudulent embryo drawings.”
I hadn’t heard of these fraudulent drawings that were seemingly so notorious that describing them as fraudulent needed no further elaboration, so I went on Ernst Haeckel’s Wikipedia page which has a longish subsection about these specific drawings. Apparently some… shall we say artistic license, was taken to make the different embryos look more similar to one another, and by modern standards they’re useful mostly for getting the idea across but are not completely true to life.
Wikipedia even has an article specifically about embryo drawings. The short of this story seems to be that there was some controversy back in Haeckel’s day mostly by people who rejected Darwinism. In the 90s some scientists noticed that these drawings didn’t match what they see in the lab and wrote a paper about it. Their paper was hijacked by people who reject Darwinism (i.e. creationist nutsos) and so there was more controversy than the matter probably really deserved.
Finally, I found this article on the website of the National Center for Science Education that defends Haeckel’s drawings, comparing them to modern photographs with any egg yolk removed (as the embryos were originally depicted without the yolk, something Haeckel was up front about) to show that they weren’t that inaccurate:
- Comment on He's an arborist 2 weeks ago:
You mean like a big burl?
- Comment on Flipper!! 2 weeks ago:
At what stage are these, uh, stages?
- Comment on Can a person who is representing his or herself still play the insanity defense or EED defense? 3 weeks ago:
If anything, representing yourself should make the insanity defense stronger.
- Comment on Websites have a new way to spy on visitors: Analyzing their SSD activity 3 weeks ago:
If you read through the paper this looks like a total nothingburger. They get the training data for the LLM they use for activity classification from the target system. Unless you give advertises labeled activity data from your system, the attack will not be possible as demonstrated.
- Comment on how much money is there in total? 3 weeks ago:
Money isn’t real so this is a meaningless question. The total amount isn’t negative though. Consider that the total GDP of the world is positive.
- Comment on Anon meets a celebrity 5 weeks ago:
The post is from 2022 so there’s a good chance this happened before Kanye went overtly nuts.
- Comment on Day 665 of posting a Daily Screenshot from the games I've been playing 5 weeks ago:
I’ll be honest that first screenshot is not a very flattering representation of the game’s graphics.
- Comment on Lmao 2 months ago:
Space elevators require a counterweight on the other end, but there are various (theoretical for us, for now) launch systems that could be used. Spin launch and a launch loop for example. There’s also orbital rings which are somewhat similar to space elevators but AFAIK don’t require materials as strong as a space elevator would.
- Comment on Lmao 2 months ago:
The best part about it is that it’s an extremely gradual slope completely unlike the mountain ranges on Earth, so you could haul stuff up there on trucks or trains easily.
- Comment on Lmao 2 months ago:
They were well funded back when their real goal was to develop ICBMs capable of delivering nukes.
- Comment on Lmao 2 months ago:
I think Mars, assuming you terraform it, would be pretty close to that on both counts. Space planes might still be difficult, but the delta V is much lower and Olympus Mons would pretty much sit above the atmosphere.
- Comment on Lmao 2 months ago:
Apparently with 50% higher gravity it would be pretty much impossible with chemical rockets, but with the median of the estimate (so about 12.43 m/s^2^) it would be possible, you’d just need an incredibly large rocket, or non-chemical propulsion (e.g. nuclear).
A space program on that planet would definitely advance much slower than on Earth.
- Comment on Lmao 2 months ago:
That’s, uh, not really how that works. A taller atmosphere would mean you have to go through more of it, but unless it’s not a terrestrial then the atmosphere won’t be that much taller.
If it is a non-terrestrial planet, it’s unlikely anyone would be building rockets on there to begin with.
- Comment on Lmao 2 months ago:
According to Wikipedia this planet has an estimated surface gravity of 12.43 m/s^2 with a margin of error of about 2 m/s^2. That’s only up to 50% higher than Earth’s 9.8 m/s^2 (on the high end of the error margin) so it probably would be possible to get into orbit.
That said we don’t actually know much about it for sure. We don’t know if it’s a terrestrial planet for example. It could be composed mostly of gases and liquids like Neptune.
- Comment on Sent this to my friends flexing a "top 65%" score. The site didn't make it clear that's not a good thing. 2 months ago:
Good point.
- Comment on Sent this to my friends flexing a "top 65%" score. The site didn't make it clear that's not a good thing. 2 months ago:
Maybe, but I don’t know if that’s a good thing. Social intelligence is how CEOs and other charlatans get disproportionate success in society, and if all we had was social intelligence humanity would be nothing but smooth-talking cavemen.
- Comment on Sent this to my friends flexing a "top 65%" score. The site didn't make it clear that's not a good thing. 2 months ago:
Just curious, what’s the most important one?
- Comment on how things become science 2 months ago:
“Liable” means they might post a correction later that nobody will see because corrections aren’t sexy to algorithms. Big deal.
- Comment on Let's ask this AI app! 2 months ago:
x.com/gnostrils/status/2039561643844415724
why’d you erase the first line of the second name
- Comment on Anon is bored of it all 2 months ago:
Unless you live in Australia the ozone layer is not a problem. If you do live in Australia, my condolences.
- Comment on Killing the intellectual future of Iran. Science has no borders. 2 months ago:
Good way to ensure that whatever regime rises from the ashes will be even more backwards than the last.
- Comment on Turpentine story 2 months ago:
Those white clumps were probably his gut lining
- Comment on Jeff Kaplan is sick of hearing you demonize games you weren't going to play anyway: 'Shut the f**k up. No one cares. We don't need to hear that you weren't into it' 2 months ago:
If Red Dead Redemption is anything to go by, there’s a sizeable and very dedicated audience to immersive multiplayer western games.
- Comment on We're just scanning for the bear... 3 months ago:
“Why can’t we live in a world where women don’t have to think about these things? It’s heartbreaking to hear of things women close to me have dealt with,” Chaney said. “It would be nice to work towards a world where there is no difference between the heat maps in these sets of images. That is the hope of the public health discipline.”
I’m not convinced this phenomenon would disappear in a world where women don’t have to think about these things. It could be an evolutionary psychology thing. Would have to repeat the experiment in different societies and environments to find out.
