Apepollo11
@Apepollo11@lemmy.world
- Comment on Settle a debate can potato's and noodles go together and taste great with sauce and other things? (I say it can) However my mother says two starches should never be cooked because it's too much. 1 day ago:
Two starches can be magnificent - it’s hard to beat a good chip butty.
- Comment on How do waves in Lemmy work? 6 days ago:
I think it mostly depends on the community. There are people from all over the world on here, and different groups have different demographics.
Unless you’re using a server that’s super-picky in its federation, I can’t see that the server makes much of a difference.
- Comment on If it were suddenly revealed that a significant number of questions posted in this comm were ai bots would that bother you? 1 week ago:
Honestly, with the state of many questions posted here, I’d be surprised if there wasn’t a fair number of bots posting here.
One user in particular, has a posting history that is highly sus.
- Comment on Is there any good thing for using AI for the middle class and poor? Instead of just the oligarchs ripping off the middle class and poor? 1 week ago:
You include car safety features in your list of reasons that you think the EU is going to collapse?
- Comment on Is there any good thing for using AI for the middle class and poor? Instead of just the oligarchs ripping off the middle class and poor? 1 week ago:
I hate to inform you, but you might be onto a losing battle. It’s been a mandatory safety feature on all new cars in the EU for a few years now.
- Comment on 1 week ago:
Black Books (s1e4). It’s a daft Father Ted / IT Crowd style comedy.
The main character’s posh friends are angry at him for being extremely drunk at a dinner party and traumatising their son, who has been walking around with a shocked open-mouthed expression ever since walking in on him going to the toilet in their kitchen. He tries to downplay it by saying that’s how children normally look.
- Comment on 1 week ago:
“What? What? He looks surprised. All children look surprised. Everything’s new to them.”
- Comment on How did we reach to having 18 required for voting in elections? 2 weeks ago:
FWIW, the UK currently has a bill in place that will lower the voting age to 16 before the next General Election (so, before Aug 2029).
I think it’ll be a good thing. Young people are a good deal more aware of what’s happening in the country than old people are. I mean, the current arrangement has stripped away the housing and career prospects of young people and brought us to the verge of fascism again.
Lower the limit to 16, and set some kind of upper limit too.
- Comment on Is there any good thing for using AI for the middle class and poor? Instead of just the oligarchs ripping off the middle class and poor? 2 weeks ago:
For information based things, absolutely.
Something that people don’t seem to understand is that there’s a difference between AI and GenAI.
And that within GenAI, there’s low cost stuff like text and graphics, and high cost like video and audio.
And that with tools developed with GenAI often do not use GenAI when it is run.
AI (not GenAI) is super useful and you use it in a bunch of applications already without even realising it. The camera that interprets speed signs and displays them on your dashboard = AI. Spam filters = AI. Google translate = AI.
- Comment on For those who are super against to AI/LLM today. What was the catalyst how did you reach to this point? If you have the power to change our current situation what would you do. 2 weeks ago:
I don’t know what you think my greater point was, maybe you’ve accidentally conflated me with another poster.
My point actually is that these are not unprecedented rates. These are entirely precedented rates. This is gross capitalism destroying the world as gross capitalism always does. What you’ve lost sight of, though, is the respective scale of things.
As I said, the US alone needlessly wastes vastly more energy and water than the entire world’s usage of AI consumes. For energy, it’s several times more, for water it’s orders of magnitude more.
You make out that solving these massive problems is impossible, so instead you’re railing against AI. Which of course is your prerogative, but just remember that there are much bigger wins out there.
- Comment on For those who are super against to AI/LLM today. What was the catalyst how did you reach to this point? If you have the power to change our current situation what would you do. 2 weeks ago:
There is a point there, though.
American cars are much less efficient than European ones.
The amount of water required for AI data centres worldwide is more than an order of magnitude lower than the water required for just corn in the US alone. Only a small fraction of which actually gets used for food.
The average energy usage per person in the US is nearly three times higher than someone in the UK.
The environmental cost of data centres is absolutely a concern, but we shouldn’t forget the US alone wastes more energy and resources than are used by data centres worldwide.
- Comment on [deleted] 2 weeks ago:
This was my immediate thought too.
OP - it’s not that uncommon, and is totally treatable.
It’s just some muscles involuntary tensing up as a result of something going inside (or sometimes even the idea). Unfortunately, because it’s an involuntary reflex, you can’t “just relax” it away. It’s just something your body needs to unlearn.
Talk to your doctor, follow their advice.
For what it’s worth, both of the people I knew who had it when they were younger, once it was sorted, it stayed sorted.
- Comment on Do you think that sitcoms on TV today are horribly unfunny? Compared to older ones? 2 weeks ago:
Survivor bias is definitely a major factor here - I can vaguely remember at least a dozen sitcoms from my childhood and early adulthood that didn’t survive (or got soft-rebooted into something better).
- Comment on Do black people actually want to be called Black with capital B? 2 weeks ago:
We do capitalise community names though - like deaf vs Deaf.
This is the same, it’s not being used as a description of how someone looks, but to what community they belong.
- Comment on How come there is so many commercials to make a guy hard but not something for women that will enjoy sex more? No pun intended in this but why are women getting royally fucked? 2 weeks ago:
Mitchell and Webb did a terrific sketch on this concept.
- Comment on What's the evolutionary advantage of very long hair on human heads? 3 weeks ago:
There are two different things coming into play here.
First of all, hair length evolved before long hair did.
Modern humans originally evolved tightly curled hair. Basically like we still see in many African populations. It’s thought that this was an adaptation to protect against the heat of the sun. Basically like an insulated sun hat. The longer this curly hair grew, the more protection our natural hat provided.
As homo-sapiens populations moved further North, this protection was no longer needed - in fact there was the opposite problem, it was cold and rainy.
Greasy straight hair offers an advantage over curly hair in this kind of environment. It acts like a waterproof blanket, preventing the skin beneath getting wet, and drying quickly. Heat is lost through wet skin significantly faster than dry skin, and in situations where energy sources might be hard to come by in winter months, this can be a disadvantage.
We already had hair length sorted, so it was simply a matter of reacquiring the straight hair shape.
Europeans got a leg-up in this regard - Neanderthals appear to have had straight hair, and interbreeding definitely occurred. At this point it’s worth remembering that by the time anatomically modern humans evolved in Africa, earlier hominids were already living all over Africa, Europe and Asia. Neanderthals were very similar to modern humans and shared an extremely close common ancestor.
And this is how, and why, some homo sapiens populations have long straight hair.
- Comment on Why is the old testament handed down from GOD (which is my favorite book) but the New Testament was written by a man (King James) ? 3 weeks ago:
I won’t touch on the points covered by the other replies because they’ve explained it perfectly. I think you’re confused about the divorce thing, though.
King Henry VIII was the one who founded the church of England to allow him to get a divorce. But his version was essentially identical to the Roman Catholic church but with the king instead of the pope.
His great great grandson, King James VI / I actually cared about religion and reforming the church. He supported the idea that everyone should be able to actually understand the scripture, instead of just the elites and clergy. He was also very anti-Catholic and, as a direct result, was the king targeted in the Gunpowder Plot.
- Comment on Is there music I haven't heard because I only speak English? 3 weeks ago:
I did not know I needed this in my life until you posted it. Thanks so much - I’m going through all the old posts now!
- Comment on Why is it cheaper to find and view 2 Girls 1 Cup than it is to read the news on NY Times? 4 weeks ago:
I wonder what became of them. I like to think they finally bought a second cup so they didn’t have to share anymore.
- Comment on Has anyone else noticed the strong pro CCP and anti-west vibes here? 4 weeks ago:
Putting all patriotism aside, I don’t think there’s any reality in which the US uses its potential to make the world a better place.
The big difference nowadays is that it’s become patently clear that the US government isn’t even trying to make the US a better place.
- Comment on Are Independents just embarrassed Republicans like Libertarians Apolitical and Moderates? 5 weeks ago:
The truth is that, by any normal definition, Republicans are far right and Democrats are centre right.
If you actually wanted to run a progressive platform, then running as an Independent might be your only choice.
In the UK at least, most Independent candidates run single-issue platforms. Hartlepool famously elected a guy dressed as a monkey as mayor, he ran on a platform of “free bananas for school children”. He did so well as mayor, they elected him two more times.
Another costumed independent, Count Binface (an intergalactic space warrior who wears a dustbin on his head) beat the far-right Britain First party in the London Mayoral election (although sadly didn’t win the actual mayorship).
- Comment on What does everyone think of the economic outlook for the next year? 1 month ago:
To be fair, I think we’ve been in the midst of a political crisis for some time.
Although I agree - I think Andy Burnham winning Makerfield would be the flashpoint for the leadership contest that has been looming for the past few months.
Maybe this is the only way things will settle down.
- Comment on What does everyone think of the economic outlook for the next year? 1 month ago:
Next year? Hard to say. If Starmer gets ousted, which looks more and more likely, then that’ll probably mean a cabinet reshuffle. Honestly can’t say I’ve been too impressed by Rachel Reeves’ efforts, but then again I imagine it’s hard to totally insulate the economy from a mad bloke who’s seemingly trying his level best to destabilise the entire world.
If Burnham or Miliband do get elected, then I imagine we’ll do ok.
- Comment on As adults, do you still watch kids’ cartoons, either old or new? 1 month ago:
Ha, it’s, er, complicated. It kind of follows on from Headmasters, but is set in a world where people don’t know about transformers. Optimus Prime seems to have never existed - there’s a robot that looks exactly like Optimus Prime, but isn’t, and nobody even bats an eyelid.
The Deceptions/Destrons are led by two powerful human sorcerers following commands from a weird glowing alien blob with tentacles called Devil Z.
The Cybertronians spend most of their time disguised as humans or monsters, and it’s the humans that become the heads for giant robots.
Masterforce really feels like it’s its own thing. I just think of it as an alternative universe, like TFA. Trying to make it fit in causes too many headaches!
- Comment on As adults, do you still watch kids’ cartoons, either old or new? 1 month ago:
Absolutely! I’m currently working my way through the absolutely bonkers Transformers Super-God Masterforce for the first time right now.
A lot of the stuff from the 80s is pretty hit-and-miss on revisiting, but some of it is still gold. In general, anything produced since 2000 is much higher quality.
I like the scope for world-building and story-telling possible in animation that isn’t really feasible on other mediums.
But I like animation for both kids and adults. I like western stuff and animé. I’ve been collecting animation cels for twenty something years!
- Comment on Guys, I am in need of niche media to larp, any suggestions? 1 month ago:
The PS3 hit, Fat Princess.
Cool fantasy setting, much fighting, clear objectives (princess kidnapping) - perfect LARP stuff.
Plus whoever is the princess gets to be fed cake all day.
- Comment on What somebody with cosmetic plastic surgery gets injured, does the plastic "spill out" or get seen? 1 month ago:
FWIW, and I’m only mentioning this because of the phrasing of the question, plastic surgery isn’t named after ‘plastic’ (the noun), but for ‘plastic’ (the verb). Plastic surgery was used as a term decades before plastic (the noun) was even invented!
But anyway, to answer your question, people tend not to use silicone in implants so much nowadays, preferring saline instead (as another person said). The main reason is that it is much less problematic if there is a rupture.
Leaking silicone is not immediately dangerous, but does need to be removed - which is difficult as it can squidge about and under other tissues, causing mischief as it goes. Saline, by comparison, will just get absorbed by the body, usually harmlessly.
- Comment on Why Ireland? 1 month ago:
You know, this makes total sense.
I was searching online trying to work out what Ireland had done, but a typo explains everything.
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- Comment on Many mythology seem to share a concept of spirits is there a reason for that? 1 month ago:
People die.
In cases where someone meets an unfortunate grizzly end, like being eaten, there’s an obvious reason. But more often than not, people just stop being alive.
Imagine you have no knowledge of science, how would you explain this? An hour ago, this body could move, could breathe, could do normal things. Now it can’t.
Something has changed. Something is missing. What was once a person is now a thing, a body.
It stands to reason that the missing bit is the key to what makes people human. It’s clearly not a physical thing - the body looks the same - so it must be something intangible.
Tie this to the fact that people are very good at detecting other people around them. We’re especially good at sensing when we’re being watched (in person, not through cameras, obviously). We also find ourselves in situations where we feel like we’re being watched when no one possibly can be watching.
So we have a fundamental element of human-ness as something intangible, and we also have situations where it feels like someone is there when there’s no-one around.
It doesn’t take a massive connection to associate the two.