AmidFuror
@AmidFuror@kbin.social
- Comment on Reason for high refresh rates? 9 months ago:
I just wanted to add to the useless comments saying they don't know and can't be bothered.
- Comment on Could plants/trees be an evil alien species that came to earth and made us dependent on them ? 9 months ago:
Plants don't appear to be of a different origin than animals on this planet. They share most of the genetic code* with all other life we know about. The simplest explanation is that we share a common origin, and furthermore that was a common ancestor that likely began from simpler materials on this planet.
*The genetic code is the translation of nucleotide triplets into amino acid sequences
- Comment on What are your thoughts on photosynthesis ? 9 months ago:
I'm in favor. Helps fix carbon and ultimately release oxygen into the atmosphere. Essential for growing plants and blue algae, which are the basis of the global food chain.
Couldn't live without it.
- Comment on Have any of you watched the movie Threads? - Lemmy 9 months ago:
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- Comment on Is China's war on drugs actually effective? 9 months ago:
I was going to make a facetious comment like, "Yes, comrade. There is no illicit drug use in China thanks to 100% effective policy and the people's commitment to their patriotic duty."
Then I read the other comments and didn't want to look like just another shill for China. I count USA whataboutism as shilling since no one asked.
- Comment on [deleted] 9 months ago:
What's the point of me trying to prove something to a figment of my imagination? Nice try, brain image. You almost had me.
- Comment on Is "If A then B" equal to "B if and only if A"? 10 months ago:
It's important to stress the "full blown" modifier in any example.
- Comment on Is "If A then B" equal to "B if and only if A"? 10 months ago:
It's Cunningham's Fallacy.
- Comment on Is "If A then B" equal to "B if and only if A"? 10 months ago:
Not just HIV, but full blown AIDS?
- Comment on Why is the current temperature sometimes lower than today's low temperature? For example right now it 13F with a predicated low today of 16F! 10 months ago:
What a silly thing to get hung up over.
- Comment on Would Nuclear Weapons be as destructive in ship to ship space combat, as they are on the ground in an atmosphere? 10 months ago:
What if you can't afford the whole encyclopedia set and can only buy the sample volume?
And speaking of volcanoes, man are they a violent igneous rock formation!
- Comment on Why there are no "secondary" sports league that allow performance enhancement drugs? 10 months ago:
One reason could be that most of the audience doesn't want to watch them if it feels like what they're doing is artificial or inauthentic.
Might be a terrible analogy, but since people cheat on video games, why don't they have an esports league where aimbots, wallhacks, speedhacks, etc are all allowed? It might be a novelty for 2 minutes, but most people wouldn't want to watch that. It isn't how the games were meant to be played. It's not that it's cheating anymore if the rules allow it. It's that it isn't a good showcase for talent because it becomes about who bought the best cheats.
- Comment on Could you stay in the roundabout indefinitely? 10 months ago:
Because if you let one guy do it, you have to let everyone do it.
- Comment on Where do milsim video games occurs nowadays ? 10 months ago:
I recommend staying away from the island of Medici, although it has a great climate.
- Comment on Is there a difference between customers/consumers? 10 months ago:
In addition to all the answers here, a costumer is someone who creates and/or sells costumes. The term is often used as a synonym for customer by people who don't type/spell well.
- Comment on Is there a chart where particular cuneiform or hieroglyphics are actually matched with emojis? 10 months ago:
Yep, it's just semantics, then. We are not more advanced in the sense of biologically more capable than people thousands of years ago. A few hundred thousand, maybe. Since the split from chimps, I like to think so!
- Comment on Is there a chart where particular cuneiform or hieroglyphics are actually matched with emojis? 10 months ago:
I don't agree with how you seem to be defining "advanced." You seem to be tying that to intelligence and resourcefulness, as opposed to culturally. I think most use it to talk about the sum of knowledge and technology that a civilization has.
While ancient cultures were able to learn a lot about the world around them, today we know what they knew and a shit ton more. They figured out how planets and stars move. We've figured out what they're made of, how they bend space and time, their distances. We've landed machines on some and put them in orbit around others.
They had some cool medical tricks. We have many complex but routine surgeries with high survival rates due to development of drugs, equipment, and sterile environments.
They could write down their learnings to share with others of their culture. We have a global network of scientists sharing massive data sets and inferences.
Their innate capabilities were probably no different than our own, but we have massively advanced the scale and scope of learning shared with each generation. We have a much greater degree of specialized knowledge advancing and branching out at a very high rate.
- Comment on What's with the 'Thanks' people? 10 months ago:
Have you ever done something that was difficult but you wanted to help someone out?
"No problem" implies to me that it was easy or simple. Regardless of difficulty, "you're welcome" means you would do it again.
- Comment on What is an average person living in the US supposed to do about corporations raising prices? 10 months ago:
If you had shit yourself looking at the prices you would have saved yourself $17-$40.
- Comment on If someone pleads not guilty in court and is then found guilty of the crime anyway, does perjury get added to the list of crimes as well? 10 months ago:
Not necessarily. The circumstances of the crime could mean you don't have a viable defense even if innocent.
- Comment on [deleted] 10 months ago:
Flat Earth is silly. Some people take the stance to be funny or play devil's advocate. Many seem to believe it along with other conspiracies.
From the beach or even several feet higher than the beach in Playa del Carmen, Mexico, you can see the high rises on the island of Cozumel. You don't see their bases or the land they are standing on. You just see parts of the buildings. It's super obvious the earth is curved here. It's one simple example of many that is accessible to anyone but conveniently ignored.
There are a shitton of simple or complex indicators that the world is roughly spherical. The "evidences" for the reverse are fringe or depend on deep conspiracies. You have to want to believe in the conspiracy or have very limited critical reasoning to think the earth is flat.
- Comment on Horse people of Lemmy- how easily can someone steal a random horse? (several questions) 11 months ago:
Thankfully we have people like you to tell him off for using the Internet wrong.
- Comment on Horse people of Lemmy- how easily can someone steal a random horse? (several questions) 11 months ago:
Not really. I've never seen a centaur ride a horse. They probably don't know.
- Comment on How can I get better at remembering names in video games? 1 year ago:
You only need to repeat it once, but do it out loud in a really deep, raspy voice. Like if you meet a woman named Natalie, just say back to her in the deepest demon voice you can: "~NATALIE~"
- Comment on Is jogging on sidewalks harder on joints than if one jogged on dirt? 1 year ago:
Your method has the added benefit of being back at your car when the jog is over.
- Comment on If civilization continues to the year 9999, is the idea to go to year 10.000, or...? 1 year ago:
They'll just go to A001, thus pushing back the problem for 26,000 more years.
- Comment on I am keep losing my computer mouse (wireless) and feel anxiety to purchase more mouse. How should I help myself ? 1 year ago:
At least you still have your mouse....
- Comment on How does an automatic road barrier decide when a vehicle is coming? 1 year ago:
Huh? I don't know that... ahh!
- Comment on Would nuclear reactors be feasible everywhere? 1 year ago:
It's public perception that is important here. That's where the impact of Chernobyl is for building new plants. Public perception of the other events furthers doubts about the safety. It's also easy to have hindsight about Fukushima, but it was built nonetheless.
- Comment on Would nuclear reactors be feasible everywhere? 1 year ago:
Three Mile Island and Fukushima would like a word.
