Mothra
@Mothra@mander.xyz
- Comment on Budget opinion poll 1 day ago:
I’ll be honest, my economics understanding is rudimentary so what I read makes little to no sense to me. I need an ELI5 version, not just a summary. I vote OK because I didn’t read anything outrageous, but should I fully understand the implications I may decide to change my mind. I don’t see much in the way of job security or job creation though, please correct me if I’m wrong. Job market is tough
- Comment on Is evolution only affected by mortality and birth rate? 1 day ago:
This will depend a lot on your conditions. To see a specific set of traits, you first need to isolate them completely. Over a couple of generations (ten maybe, maybe more or less depending on how many your bunch is) you will probably see they sort of look like they belong to the same family. Similar skin, similar hair shade, probably a certain range of eye color, etc. This is just the product of genes mixing and sort of homogenizing a bit over time.
Like someone mentioned, you could get a mutation, and if the mutation turns out to be either advantageous or simply dominant gene wise then you will eventually see it in most people.
Then finally you have adaptation by natural selection, and this will depend a lot on the type of pressure you subject this bunch of people to. Do they have access to electricity? Are they living completely in the dark? Any diseases affecting them or other creatures underground? Do they have access to space or is this limited? Food? You will likely see your surviving population becomes immune or resistant to underground pathogens, simply because those who can’t will die before reproducing. Similarly if you are short on nutrients or physical space, you will see them shrink over time. If your conditions are more extreme and they’re completely in the dark, you will probably have a population develop some sort of echolocation sense (and this shouldn’t take too long, blind people can develop this to a degree already), and their metabolism will adapt to a much lower vitamin D (unless they can acquire it from some abundant food source). Over an even longer period of time they will either lose their eyesight or if they have access to light (fire? A few narrow openings to the surface?) they will adapt to see much better in the dark. Those are the more obvious adaptations I can think of but there could be a lot more depending on so many factors.
- Comment on Why is Grok so stupid? 4 days ago:
Word salad harvested from comics and reddit, what do you expect? It’s giving you less nuanced results I guess, just guess, because grok being born for Twitter sorry X is inherently looking for blood.
- Comment on Please 6 days ago:
Here’s a virtual hug. Also I appreciate your posts :)
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- Comment on Chrome silently installs a 4 GB AI model on your device without consent — That Privacy Guy! 1 week ago:
If you read the article it will summarize very succinctly everything wrong with it. It is illegal for a variety of reasons in some places (Europe, California) it’s wasteful, it means 4 fucking GB of data unrequested which can be a problem in metered connections in many places. 4GB. This model is not essential for chrome to function as a browser at all, and in all likelihood unless you use it for generating text then you probably are not even using it.
- Comment on Chrome silently installs a 4 GB AI model on your device without consent — That Privacy Guy! 1 week ago:
Yup it’s exactly as the headline says once you read the article. No clickbait. Also is a thorough and readable post, long but easy to understand even for someone who isn’t very tech savvy such as myself.
I guess I have to figure out how to uninstall that now
- Comment on what is this box?? 2 weeks ago:
It’s a Lost Lemming
- Comment on Stray Kids 2 weeks ago:
Would have been more useful if they used a photo of this kpop group showcasing the pincer pose they’re talking about. For some people, this article is “hey look at these two completely new things” and "trust me they’ve got something in common that is visible but we chose not to show "
- Comment on How is Alexander the Great so great he gets that name, but not so great that just “Alexander”doesn’t disambiguate him? 2 weeks ago:
Hm. Guess I didn’t interpret you the right way then, sorry. Bed time for me then, enough Internet
- Comment on How is Alexander the Great so great he gets that name, but not so great that just “Alexander”doesn’t disambiguate him? 2 weeks ago:
Caesar (Cesar or Cesare) is still a pretty common name today though.
- Comment on Is the "everyday stuff" supposed to feel normal? Do y'all just have a parent do things then when you're supposed to be the adult you panic? 2 weeks ago:
Well it feels like that the first time. When in doubt, for most standard procedures such as getting a doctor’s appointment or renewing a passport, you can always search online how to do it. Sites like wikiHow or government information websites exist for these reasons
- Comment on Possibility of translating the messages of dogs, cats, and other pets 2 weeks ago:
Difficult of this to work because animals don’t use sounds as words. They do communicate with sounds, but the only thing you will be able to extract is what you (hopefully) already are capable of understanding: basic emotions, pleading, pain, etc.
Some animals, on an individual level, have specific calls for specific things. But because it’s a single occurrence you won’t be able to gather enough hypothetical data for your project. And honestly if this is your pet, you are probably smart enough to figure out this type of calls.
- Comment on [deleted] 2 weeks ago:
Depends. If people can guess your age more or less correctly, then, likely yes. Strange in the sense of weird.
If it’s obvious that you are on your way to a costume party or some cosplay event, then, it’s probably not considered too weird but it will still be considered unusual.
- Comment on When you block someone on Lemmy, does it stop them from seeing your posts? 3 weeks ago:
Hmmm. You may want to check !comicstrips@lemmy.world , where OP keeps posting comics that are allowed by the mods but clearly very unpopular with the community.
- Comment on Oh No! Now A Federal Bill Wants OS-Level Age Verification for Everyone in the USA 3 weeks ago:
I guess what I’m asking for is an ELI5 of the mechanisms involved, which I figured were understood from the comments.
I already understand that not everyone can bypass something like this, in fact it’s likely I couldn’t either. We also agree that nobody should in the first place. I see anonymity as a right
- Comment on Oh No! Now A Federal Bill Wants OS-Level Age Verification for Everyone in the USA 3 weeks ago:
It’s the mechanism apparently being impossible to be cheated on what I don’t understand. Or maybe I’m just hopelessly confused.
I should have replied under the post instead of under your comment, but it was your comment the one triggering the oh wait what moment for me, sorry. Don’t feel like you have to give me an answer if I’m not making any sense
- Comment on Oh No! Now A Federal Bill Wants OS-Level Age Verification for Everyone in the USA 3 weeks ago:
Can someone ELI5 this for me please? I’m clearly not getting what’s going on
- Comment on If I submit a question to /nostupidquestions/ and I get downvoted does that mean my question was actually stupid or is it a paradox? 3 weeks ago:
It’s either a troll question, bait, not a question, or, alternatively, people are downvoting your legitimate question because they remember you trolling elsewhere.
- Comment on ChatGPT’s latest stylistic quirk is sinister, infuriating – and absolutely everywhere 3 weeks ago:
Same as with an em dash. But also as with the em dash, it’s now becoming much more frequent because of LLM usage. People see stripes and call it a tiger.
- Comment on Why is it that when the graphics driver freaks out in your browser when watching a video, the page always turns this specific shade of green? 4 weeks ago:
Noted, thanks. English isn’t my first language.
- Comment on How do.contires that use commas for decimals read such numbers aloud? 4 weeks ago:
What language?
- Comment on Why is it that when the graphics driver freaks out in your browser when watching a video, the page always turns this specific shade of green? 4 weeks ago:
You are being downvoted because your comment is rude, irrelevant, and neither helpful or funny
- 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. 4 weeks ago:
Eh… It says that in a room with a thousand people you would be smarter than 345 of them.
That’s the same as saying in a ranking where no. 1000 is the smartest and no.1 is pretty much the dumbest person, you would be number 346.
- Comment on Are there any ways to reverse AI brainrot and force myself to do any creative endeavor, even if inspiration didn't strike? 4 weeks ago:
Best way to force something is with a partner in crime. Find someone else interested in doing something creative and work a plan. That teamwork can become motivation. This can be very hard though, I’m going through somewhat of a similar situation. What creative field would you be looking into? Ttrpg is a good start, speaking from experience.
- Comment on FUXUZIYXIKHCV 4 weeks ago:
Weird and I’m surprised it would have such a narrow snout but hey. Aesthetically an improvement I’d say
- Comment on What's in a name? 4 weeks ago:
Strange photo. I can’t figure out if he was on a boat, or in front of a print of the opera house and not the actual opera house. The lighting is weird, but it would be ok if he was on a ferry maybe. But the hair looks strange. I’m confused. Confused because out of all images of Harrison Ford out there, they had to pick this specific one that lhas no relation to the snake, which is endemic to Peru.
- Comment on Is it normal to "like" or at least not care seeing people suffer? 5 weeks ago:
This question is not stupid, it’s obvious. Everyone knows this is not normal, including you.
The only thing you get out of this is either shock value entertainment or some sort of self serving narcissistic engagement (which btw fits with the psycho profile you like to paint of yourself).
As I type this I realise I should block you just so I don’t accidentally lend you my attention in the future. I leave my comment in case other commenters find it useful.
- Comment on [DCSS] I have identified the last magical staff 5 weeks ago:
I’ve… Never heard of this game before, I must try
- Comment on Samsung is shutting down messages — alternative to Google's messenger? 5 weeks ago:
Yet at the time of my comment, not a single one of the suggestions handled sms
