LillyPip
@LillyPip@lemmy.ca
- Comment on A scientific discovery 1 week ago:
Not in science, you can’t. Only in the colloquial versions of those words.
- Comment on What % of Lemmy memes and reaction-bait is posted for the purpose of farming Lemmy comments? 1 week ago:
Right, I think I wasn’t clear. I didn’t mean farming karma here, I meant posting here to copy Lemmy comments to post on Reddit to farm karma there.
- Comment on What % of Lemmy memes and reaction-bait is posted for the purpose of farming Lemmy comments? 1 week ago:
If you want good karma with top comments that won’t be immediately called out as stoked from another Reddit thread, maybe, since some people have got wise to that? I dunno. I’m probably giving this more brain power than I should.
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- Comment on And there was no on line manual 1 week ago:
It’s been decades, but… you press the button, spin to the station, then release the button?
Am I remembering correctly or should I check into the home now?
- Comment on [deleted] 1 week ago:
Watergate took 3 1/2 years and it was orders of magnitude less complex. Cases of this scale involving political actors have always taken time.
- Comment on why is my whisky evaporating? 3 weeks ago:
A quicker way to eliminate a variable would be to pour a glass of each to the same level and leave them both out for a day or two. If the levels remain consistent, it’s definitely something about the decanter.
- Comment on brains! 3 weeks ago:
I’m an ugly bag of mostly water.
- Comment on What are some video game quotes that is stuck in your head? 4 weeks ago:
‘Stop poking me!’
- Comment on We were there monkeys all along 4 weeks ago:
We’re both. Apes are new world monkeys.
- Comment on same as it ever was 5 weeks ago:
What about caring for the elderly and disabled? We see anthropological evidence of many behaviours that can only be explained by compassion and empathy, some of which would have actually detracted from security.
The notion that the early formation of societies was based on security rather than empathy is outdated. Compassion has clear evolutionary advantages, especially in primate species where offspring are born vulnerable. It’s clearly evident in other primates who live in groups (or ‘societies’), as a driving force of cooperation and cohesion.
Here’s a recent paper (2022) by Penny Spikins, PhD at the University of York, Department of Archaeology, that explores how compassion shaped early human evolution and the formation of societies: The Evolutionary Basis for Human Empathy, Compassion and Generosity.
And here’s another from 2011 by Goetz et al that explores in detail the evolutionary advantages of compassion: Compassion: An Evolutionary Analysis and Empirical Review.
Those papers are both fascinating reads, and I highly recommend them both for a deeper understanding of why and how empathy is crucial to our success as a species.
- Comment on same as it ever was 5 weeks ago:
Millions of years, likely. The whole reason we’re successful is because our pre-human ancestors were empathetic and cooperative enough to build societies.
We see those same traits in many other primates, and they’re not something it makes sense to evolve, lose, and evolve again. Those traits predate us.
Language almost certainly predates us, since we see it not only in other primates, but in non-primate species, too. And based on the humour we see in many animals, you can bet we were making dick jokes nearly out of the gate.
- Comment on Tiger Predators 1 month ago:
Considering evolutionary time scales, this trait may have been a response to something large and dangerous that’s extinct now.
- Comment on What am I supposed to do with all this blood now? 1 month ago:
Human waste products I can understand. But how many humans would you need to mulch to get enough blood for a building project? That’s one of the main fluids we usually want to stay inside our bodies.
- Comment on CODA 2 months ago:
It looks like @Kolanaki posted the source further down the thread: it’s the flute part from a piece in the Jungle Book.
- Comment on CODA 2 months ago:
I just searched for it a bit, but all the sources I could find (twitter, pinterest, BlueSky) also don’t say where it’s from, except that it’s a flute piece.
In case your wife wants to see more of these like I did, the oldest source I could find was Musical composition with threatening auras (29 photos).
- Comment on Dormice 2 months ago:
Ooooh. Welcome blast from the past. That sound…
- Comment on Dormice 2 months ago:
45 minutes at 350F seems like it will burn these tiny filets to a crisp, but I’ll try. I do love a mayo and garlic sauce.
- Comment on Science Journalism 2 months ago:
I’m pretty vocally atheist, but I watch debunking content, and part of that is anti-Flerf and anti-fascist stuff, so maybe the algorithm picked up on that.
- Comment on Dormice 2 months ago:
It’s so fracking adorable, I could eat it up. Any recipes?
- Comment on Vinegar 2 months ago:
Wait – is this how we prevent our socks committing suicide in the dryer?
Alex Jones screeching
- Comment on Vinegar 2 months ago:
The country with the highest per capita consumption of vinegar in 2018 was the Netherlands, with 3,108 liters per 1,000 people
This checks out. As we all know, the Dutch only inflict depression, they’re never depressed themselves.
- Comment on Science Journalism 2 months ago:
I do, too, and alongside that are articles about how new discoveries in cosmology are upending all of science, and alongside those, thinly veiled creationist articles about how that means science has been totally wrong all along, therefore god. The Hubble tension has spawned a lot of these, with at least one article in my feed per day from the Discovery Institute, PLOS One, and the like.
- Comment on Science Journalism 2 months ago:
I’ve been noticing a disturbing trend lately, and I wonder if the way these headlines are written is feeding it: creationist articles have been slipping into my science news feed, usually riffing off whatever bullshit alarmist/exaggerated headlines spread through the popsci realm the day before.
If you don’t know what you’re looking at (and most people don’t), you’ll wind up reading creationist propaganda when you think you’re reading a science article.
- Comment on Important information 2 months ago:
Slotted spoons don’t hold much soup.
- Comment on i need an rv, and lab equipment, and a helper 2 months ago:
I’ve got serious tech skills I could b_ using for evil.
Every day I wake up destitute, I think,
Why not. Why not create a fully automated ecommerce site dropshipping all the trash to Amazon & elsewhere? Hell, why not start a cult? I can at least source cheap FlavorAid.
- Comment on Big Penny! 2 months ago:
This bridge has been stupid low for decades, and it’s a main artery from downtown to the highway. As of the last time I drove past it, the advance warnings signs didn’t seem adequate to me.
- Comment on Big Penny! 2 months ago:
Oh shit, I posted a separate comment before I read yours – this is my bridge! Oo
- Comment on Big Penny! 2 months ago:
There’s a bridge near me with scuff marks on the underside like that. I’ve driven under and briefly wondered about the stories behind each one, and now your post makes me want to investigate further.
- Comment on Seriously, what the f*** is keeping Donald Trump in this presidential race? 3 months ago:
Many other comments here have a share in the reasons, but a huge reason is he’s looking at more state and federal charges, and more lawsuits (which haven’t going well for him).
He NEEDS to run and WIN so he can make all these cases go away for good.
