Mothra

@Mothra@mander.xyz

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Youre not worth the time to reply to. Get over yourself.⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Where’s this image from? I’m getting 60s-to-80s book cover vibes, please don’t tell me it’s ai

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Wildfire Griffin⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Well… Mine is baited.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Wildfire Griffin⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Ok but why on Science Memes? I’m also confused, not downvoting but wondering wtf why here.

  Waiting with baited breath for Lemmy community to turn this into a science meme

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Be the problem money can't fix⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  don’t worry no amount of money could ever fix me 😞

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why does it feel like most art museums are for adults and most science museums are for kids?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  To save the parents the embarrassment of having to explain something they don’t understand.

  Don’t get me wrong, art can be just as awkward to explain but it is socially acceptable to chalk things you don’t understand to the artist’s creative whim

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What's up with all the captions on short form videos?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Another one here. I figured this would include more than just millennials?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Uh well actually-⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I would also be confused af. First, I would think it wants me to tap objects with a somewhat glossy surface, even though all of them actually reflect light. But having sorted the first trick in this question, I am now confronted with two other questions: is a body of water considered an “object”? Also, are those actually photos of a river or are they illustrations of a river? They don’t look realistic to me… Because if they’re illustrations then they wouldn’t be particularly more reflective than anything else in this set of images

  I hate these things

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Mint⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Interesting, I can’t say I lived in Melbourne other than during a holiday visit. Maybe I should say NSW

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Mint⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Agreed

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Mint⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  So is Australia apparently. I’ve seen this joke a few times and the first time I had to ask what the hell it was all about. I’ve seen my share of gardens with mint in it and not only it doesn’t take over everything, it’s also very susceptible to insects. A fully grown plant will disappear over the weekend if the right caterpillars find it.

  Lantana, now, that’s a problem

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Budget opinion poll⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ 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?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ 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?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ 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 ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ 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!⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ 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!⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ 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??⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s a Lost Lemming

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Stray Kids⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨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?⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨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?⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨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?⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨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 ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨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]⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨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?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ 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 ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ 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 ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ 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 ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ 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?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ 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 ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ 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.