porcoesphino
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- Comment on Where do you typically leave/read reviews 5 days ago:
4.5-4.6 can be hit-or-miss
How is that not inflated? For my personal ratings, a three is something I’d be happy to eat every day. A five is close to unattainable. It’s basically centered on 2.5 with something like a tapered normal distribution. It’s tedious mapping out so I’m not lowering ratings for good places so I don’t rate anymore.
But getting past me being difficult, you can’t even rate 4.5 can you? Isn’t that information being lost when the way people rate is basically 5 for thumb up and every other number is a thumb down?
You’re right about it being useful to look at relative ratings, I just wouldn’t label that as really accurate.
It’s a separate issue but you brought up categories. I never loved rating in a situation like on Airbnb where one place might be a deliberately expensive penthouse and another might be deliberately a cheap shared room in the wilderness, especially with something like a “cleanliness” rating
- Comment on Where do you typically leave/read reviews 5 days ago:
Agreed Google maps is the best review aggregator (and I wish it wasn’t) but “the star ratings are scarily accurate”? I think you mean “hugely inflated”. Like almost any review system a I’ve seen recently: if you like a place and you give less than a 5 then you’re hurting it.
- Comment on If this has been asked recently just link it no need to be mean, because I am emotionally sensitive right now. Thank you for your attention to this matter. 1 week ago:
Most authoritarian regimes consolidate power through improving the economy and high approval don’t they? The collapse tends to come later after to consolation I thought and I hadn’t seen it argued as a strategic thing. Any chance you can point to something that discusses this more fully?
- Comment on Shark Data Suggests Animals Scale Like Geometric Objects 1 week ago:
I didn’t bother reading it but I presume an attempt at compelling reporting. Mice and elephants have some morphological differences that are influenced by their size differences and these have been used in high school physics for at least decades but I presume longer
- Comment on Magic Mushrooms Evolved Psilocybin Not Once, but Twice 1 week ago:
I’d be curious to see that with dosage. Like maybe they’re just more sensitive to caffeine than originally expected, kind of how humans were way more sensitive to LSD than expected. But also, the effects of LSD in humans seem to plateau unlike alcohol, it would be interesting to see if the caffeine web is the spider falling off a metaphorical cliff
- Comment on If you smoothened out the earth, how high would the water level be? 2 weeks ago:
You did well in your answer by the way. I didn’t downvote. My comments are directed at everyone downvoting the person calling out imperial units
- Comment on If you smoothened out the earth, how high would the water level be? 2 weeks ago:
Sure, they’re great for people chatting casually in the US, Myanmar and Liberia but they add unnecessary complexity with scientific or engineering applications
- Comment on If you smoothened out the earth, how high would the water level be? 2 weeks ago:
Like, nautical miles have a good use but that’s not even the miles being used
- Comment on If you smoothened out the earth, how high would the water level be? 2 weeks ago:
Yeah, I’m fluent in what you listed too… but everything you listed is just meters in metric so that’s five-ish conversions to needlessly need to know. And if you start using equations in then standard units play up a lot like when diving with imperial units you measure depth in feet but pressure in pounds per square inch so you have an awkward feet to inch right there and the equations are just more complicated. Anything beside the simple gets compounding unit conversions. And the countries left in the world that only use imperial are the US, Myanmar and Liberia.
- Comment on If you smoothened out the earth, how high would the water level be? 2 weeks ago:
Ahaha. All the people from the US downvoting this 🤦♂️ So many solutions to questions like this a just easier and more intuitive in metric. Tec diving is just hilarious in imperial units
- Comment on If you smoothened out the earth, how high would the water level be? 2 weeks ago:
This is close, if you haven’t seen it. It plays off of the “earth is smoother than a bowling ball” thing that’s almost true but turns it around:
- Comment on How many people would a generation ship need to have for inbreeding to not be an issue? 2 weeks ago:
I was more thinking of the space / rockets side of things but you got me. I’m already subscribed to both
- Comment on How many people would a generation ship need to have for inbreeding to not be an issue? 2 weeks ago:
It’s the wrong place to ask, but if I liked this question, where should I be subscribed to besides !space@mander.xyz ?
- Comment on How many people would a generation ship need to have for inbreeding to not be an issue? 2 weeks ago:
And presuming a species that built a generation ship doesn’t have the ability to handle these environmental changes (either through “fixing” the environment or the genes). And there are two migrations here. I’m not seeing much targeting the earth to generation ship migration directly here. But, they’d all die in free space so the ship is an environmental “fix” and they may need a genetic “fix” to handle things like long term exposure to lower gravity, or some quirks of centripetal gravity.
- Comment on How, and why, are there so many AI-generated videos of incredibly obscure/niche topics? 3 weeks ago:
Bad content with new tools isn’t a new issue for sure… but it seems pretty dominant in places
Another example is/was every time a space X launch happening (particularly starship) if you search space x or elon musk on youtube. That used to be pretty crypto currency targeted slop though
- Comment on Do boycotts work? 5 weeks ago:
Yeah, I was think there is easier momentum for non-hardware tech. Social media is mostly its users so if they leave there isn’t much. Disney showed some of the weaknesses of streaming services but they’re aren’t many non-US alternatives. There are YouTube alternatives but there most of the content creators are entrenched there. Most of the rest of Google’s offerings have European alternatives.
- Comment on Do boycotts work? 5 weeks ago:
I wish there was momentum to boycott US tech companies
- Comment on Why are fruits and berries healthy, even though they are mostly just sugar? 5 weeks ago:
What specifically in the original post did you have issue with? There’s not a lot too that post, and you have agreed with part of it, so it seems like it would be faster to list out the issues
- Comment on Why are fruits and berries healthy, even though they are mostly just sugar? 5 weeks ago:
Here’s a review focused to some extent on how accurate the science in that book is:
www.healthline.com/…/how-not-to-die-review#TOC_TI…
The author seems pretty focused on pushing a single message so I’d be careful with that message myself. (As someone who aspires to have a diet that’s mostly vegetables with a few cheat days for meat.)
- Comment on Why are fruits and berries healthy, even though they are mostly just sugar? 5 weeks ago:
Fruits tend to get listed as low GI supporting the poster’s statement.
Also, you’re simplifying the chemistry and metabolic pathways to the point they sound the same when they’re obviously different. I’m not an expert but I as I understand it table sugar is short chain and good to go, fruits (if they’re not pre cooked) tend to be a bit more complicated and have a few more steps along the way (and I assume each requires some energy to unlock and also result in some chemical energy that isn’t completely digested). Also, what you’re saying goes a lot against what I understand from the carb count on the packet from fibre vs. what your body unlocks. That said, I’m very ignorant and far from an expert
- Comment on Why are fruits and berries healthy, even though they are mostly just sugar? 5 weeks ago:
Are you both from the US? It was rough getting used to how much you all like to drown out the food with various sauces
- Comment on Why do companies always need to grow? 5 weeks ago:
Oh, I didn’t say I had a preference. And I see your point that one is just a conjugation of the other. I’ve just seen capitalism as a term used more for explanation and when I’ve seen capitalist said it tends to have a negative connotation at best but more often it is half spat out
- Comment on Why do companies always need to grow? 5 weeks ago:
The question says capitalism (not so loaded term) your answer said capitalist (more loaded term and you’ve taken time to use the loaded part of the term).
That said, I accidentally replied to a question in lemmy.ml so the person asking the question is probably more aligned with your way of thinking and explaining than I am. Sorry about that
- Comment on Why do companies always need to grow? 5 weeks ago:
An economic model that includes capitalism explains a lot of the world including having some close process analogs in nature.
A capitalist sounds like a label you’re trying to apply in an attempt to label someone as being maximally for profits. A lot of companies admittedly work that way and it’s important to include that concept.
By my reading you’re taking the use of the first term and then saying they are using the second term. I think this is called equivocation.
- Comment on Ants Trapped For Years in a Soviet Nuclear Bunker Survived in The Most Horrifying Way 5 weeks ago:
Yeah, I down voted for the poster not saving some of us a click
- Comment on Why are podcasters/vloggers suddenly holding tiny mics? 1 month ago:
I’m amazed at how many people found rogan authentic. Is it the same sort of podcasters playing off people’s intuitions, like the fact checker used to?
- Comment on [deleted] 1 month ago:
I’d add “mania” to that list of terms that need defining. They seem to have a specific meaning that’s probably misaligned with most people reading the question: