Gloomy
@Gloomy@mander.xyz
- Comment on Eat lead 3 weeks ago:
This is so fucking cringe that it hurts my brain every time they say it.
- Comment on ( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°) 4 weeks ago:
I disagree.
Evolution is not so much a numbers game. Otherwise Bacteria, Ants, Viruses and the like would have to be crowned winners. So the point op brings up is mute.
The point you add, that they keep reproducing, is also not relevant in evelotionary terms. The short amount of time that we have domesticated chickens, let a side the very resent industalisation of animal farming (it started in the 1950s ish), is just not relevante in evelotionary terms.
I’d say what makes a successfull species is resilience. 99 % of all species have gone extinct. The “winners” of evelotion are, in my opinion, those species that have lasted the longest. And in that regard, chicken ain’t looking to good. They are highly dependent upon humans. Most industrial chickens are genetic aborninatons, bred for beeing fat, fast growing, egg laying machines to the point where their own bones brake because they lack calcium. I’d argue that chickens in their current form would not last long in “the wild”. Hence once humans are gone their is a high chance chickens will follow.
- Comment on ( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°) 4 weeks ago:
And live their lives in fucking misery and suvering, at least most of em.
- Comment on Implants 4 weeks ago:
I thought the same :-).
- Comment on Horrors We've Unleashed 4 weeks ago:
And this is it. This is how we arrive were we are now.
Nature? KILL IT! EXTERMINATE IT!
We’ve spend 2000 years slowly being nature to our wims. It has destroyed the planets ecosystem on a scale only seen by planet wide desasters in the past. We have driven countless species into extinction, and still counting. We take without any regard or resecpt for anything then our own needs.
That is exactly the mindset the comment I am replying to has to me.
- Comment on What? 1 month ago:
It’s such a shame. Children have so much curiosity for the world.
Adults should realy nourish that, not kill it.
I’ve worked with children in that age range (6 and older) and it’s realy crazy what they come up if you give them a bit of room to experiment with their ideas.
- Comment on Science Journalism 1 month ago:
Just that they are actively recruiting people from STEM.
Not only that, we have a couple of social science people around too :-)
- Comment on Poggers 1 month ago:
Let’s say ist a postmodern interpretation of the meme idea.
- Comment on Rip 2 months ago:
- Comment on Too many looks. 2 months ago:
palaeo-electronica.org/…/3821-the-osteology-of-ir…
This is the Paper that started it. They used some (at the time) new techniques to 3d model an old fossil they had, if I recall it correctly.
- Comment on Straightforward. 2 months ago:
When AI would have been the better choice.
- Comment on little hopper 2 months ago:
Also pretending that 4000 years ago humans were still hunter gatherers or something (it’s kind of implied in the wording imo). 4000 years ago there were plenty of fairly developed civilisations around.
- Comment on Oh, the humanity! 2 months ago:
Nono, there a “Priest”. Image him a bit like a scientist, but opposite.
- Comment on Anon gets banned from Walmart 2 months ago:
And they only can provide that useless compulsive junk so cheaply because they bulk order everything and then just change their offering price after the product is manufactured. So the manufacturer can’t just say “No deal” when they already produced massive quantities that they don’t have the logistical means to sell to other buyers.
I’m not saying that this isn’t true, but how does that work more than once? Wouldn’t any manufacturer not quit working with them after this happens once? Isn’t agreed price for a bulk order set down on writing before the manufacturing starts?
Have you got a source for this?
- Comment on Donald Trump has fully embraced sharing AI generated images of Kamala Harris. 2 months ago:
I disagree. When I make Ai images I create like 1000 versions of a promt and chose the one that comes closest to what I want it to convey and work from there.
- Comment on Donald Trump has fully embraced sharing AI generated images of Kamala Harris. 2 months ago:
I get the sentiment and it’s cool you put some time into this. That said I think it looks go much like him leading the protesters. The composition isn’t ideal for the message, you know.
Not want to be an asshole, it’s just what seemed off to me, becuae when I saw this in my feed it looked like a very much pro trump image on first glance.
- Comment on Crystals 2 months ago:
Belief in magic is pretty even between the genders and pretty common
I was interested and looked up some studies. There is a gender gap in spiritual believe and women tend to be more spiritual, including believing in magic. So OPs statement in that regards holds.
Just to be clear, I’m not saying everything that op wrote is correct or that I agree, but the starting point they used, that women tend to belive in magical stuff more often, seems to be true.
- Comment on Squid Checkups 2 months ago:
World crulest animal puts other animals in captivity and then calls them dumb for showing their natural behaviour in a completely alien envirment. More at 11.
- Comment on Science is Magic 3 months ago:
The woo doctor says there’s fairies in the garden and unicorns in the forest, and never shows them to me. The biologist says there’s birds the size of your thumb that flap their wings so fast they become a buzzy blur, and there’s huge winged creatures that fly through the ocean called “Manta rays.” He shows me pictures and specimens of both.
This sounds so much like a writing prompt.
- Comment on Animals are not gifts. 3 months ago:
You can cook em in hot water to losen the hair. It’s called scalding.
- Comment on Animals are not gifts. 3 months ago:
Well, cats and dogs are quite nutritious too, I suppose, so this realy goes for most pets.
- Comment on GLAMour 3 months ago:
Ams wrote paper about it.
- Comment on The worst pick-up line I've ever gotten 4 months ago:
This here is also a good video to find out why one would call her that.
- Comment on Anon doesn’t like Elden Ring 4 months ago:
This felt a bit like it feels for a german to read durch.
- Comment on DRASTICALLY 5 months ago:
But eating 370,000 calories per day WOULD change your body drasticall.
- Comment on Ant smell 5 months ago:
- Comment on We are the stories we tell ourselves 5 months ago:
Thanks, I had to think of this one too.
- Comment on Rip megafauna lol 5 months ago:
Yes, but:
Horses are ridden by humans so the horses have to carry not only extra weight of the human, but also the saddle, gear, human’s water, etc.
Horses are mandated to stop periodically and mandated to have periodic stopped vet checks (rules now state that vet stoppage times are subtracted from Horse times)
Humans are NOT mandated to stop periodically and/or have health checks
There are places allowed for humans to have refreshments along the race.
- Comment on Rip megafauna lol 5 months ago:
Here is an article that shows some contra points to the theorie, in case you want to have a look at the too.
- Comment on Pills (Take Two) 5 months ago:
More like Captain Planet