T156

@T156@lemmy.world

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Least extreme biophysics phd⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  We also don’t know if it was just that gene that was altered, or if there are other effects. Modern gene editing isn’t so precise that we can edit just the gene we want. A lot of genes with similar sequences as the target can also be affected.

  It’s basically like firing a shotgun at the house they live in. You might hit the one you want, but you may also hit other unrelated people in the process.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨cherry pickers⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  “Cherry picking” is a form of selective arguing, where someone will laser focus on one tiny part of the data, even if the rest of it says things contrary to their point.

  So, if I had data saying that 70% of people who trod on landmines died immediately, 25% experienced loss of at least one limb, 2.5% were unharmed, and 2.5% were unaccounted for, a Cherry-picker might argue that landmine hopscotch is completely safe, since only 25% of people lost limbs, and a portion of people were completely unharmed.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Poooweeeer!!!⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Sort of?

  ATP basically packages the energy, like wires, or the battery.

  But the powerhouse/generator that makes them would be the mitochondria under most circumstances, since one of the main mechanisms to do that lies within the mitochondria.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨tickle tickle⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  “This is I, when the cute biochemistry student tickles me in the stomach. Unbeknownst to me, I will be later killed by her as part of her research.”

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨tickle tickle⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Usually, if the mouse is infected or mutated in a given manner, its innards would need to be removed and studied, to determine what effects the mutation/infection had on them. This kills the mouse.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨CherryTree Introduces Star Trek: Deep Space Nine-Inspired "IYKYK" Raktajino Mug⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  This seems like the kind of thing you’d need either a dishwasher, or one of those cafe rinsers that spray water up into the thing to clean.

  You’d never be able to get your hand into the corners.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨CherryTree Introduces Star Trek: Deep Space Nine-Inspired "IYKYK" Raktajino Mug⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Does the gravity field count? It’d take a huge movement for us to notice any shift in Earth’s inertia.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What is the point of the Nicole spam?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Easier and/or less moderated. They would be much more difficult for a moderator to track down if you’re talking with them on another platform.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What is the point of the Nicole spam?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  I’ve received 3 Nicole messages since I’ve been on here, each one with a different photo. It’s weird, really weird. I ran the photos through TinEye and Google Reverse Image Search but I found no exact matches. The photos are blurry somewhat, which implies that they are shots taken from a video, which is a method catfish have used to evade detection. It’s also possible that the original photos have long been deleted (as far as I’m aware, this would contribute to evading detection) and the catfish is using this to their advantage.

  They could also be photos catfished from other people.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Which shows are worth watching?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  They’re definitely good choices, but all of them are worth watching. Your tastes might differ from the recommendation, anyhow, so it’s worth checking the shows out personally, and then make a judgement.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why aren't all rooms holodecks?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Holograms aren’t stable in the long term. They will start to come apart after some time. That, and they constantly require power to maintain. A bed and furniture does not, and will still work if the ship needs to go without power for one reason or another. Most things someone might put by hologram can be done by replicating the thing, instead of using a hologram. Most rooms have a replicator, and excepting furniture, which you might need to ask engineering to make for you, you can just make it yourself.

  Starships aren’t lacking space by any means, so there’s no need to stick people into a broom closet.

  Though there are things like that. The Ba’ul “migration” ship was basically that, where the entire ship was meant to be a holodeck. In the 32nd century, rooms are basically holograms, except that holography has been superseded by programmable matter.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The past 18 months have seen the most rapid change in human written communication ever⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  How did they estimate whether an LLM was used to write the text or not? Did they do it by hand, or using a detector?

  Since detectors are notorious for picking up ESL writers, or professionally written text as AI-Generated.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨"Star Trek is dying." How would you sell it to a younger audience?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s dying because its repeating the old mistake of trying to go back to the exact same formula, and because it’s less accessible.

  In my opinion, Paramount taking Disco off of Netflix, in favour of sticking it onto its own streaming service, was a mistake. Although it meant that people were less able to access it, either because Paramount Plus wasn’t available in their region, or because they couldn’t justify the cost of spending money on another streaming service.

  And in the meantime, it keeps trying to go back to the same thing. That was what killed it back at the start of the 21st century. Enterprise and Voyager were variants of exactly the same kind of thing as TNG, with better special effects. Everything keeps trying to go back in time, and cater to Nostalgia. Remember Captain Kirk? What about Picard? Or the Constitution-class Enterprise? There doesn’t feel much like there’s anything interesting in Trek any more. It’s basically all rehashing or nostalgia.

  For all its flaws, part of what made Discovery interesting was that it was (not unlike the ship itself) an experimental testbed. Writers would, and did, just throw everything at it, for good and ill, and I’d argue it worked. Having that flexibility gave us the second wave of Trek, and I’d argue just as much that Discovery settled into being some kind of 32nd century TNG was either a harbinger, or hurt it severely.

  What Trek really needs for a revival is something that the network would never allow (CBS/Paramount would never risk their cash cow.), and that is to go back to its roots. Not in the Federation-and-Enterprise way, but in what made TOS.

  TOS stood out because it wasn’t like the other cowboy shows at the time, or like the rocketty sci-fi of the era. It was distinct. It pushed the social-progressive line so hard it was nearly pulled off the air, and if Roddenberry had had his way with including an LGBT member in TOS like he’d wanted, might have done so outright.

  Newer Trek (TNG and onwards) is much safer and more conservative by comparison, to the point of being boring. It barely pushes the line, if at all. The Orville, by virtue of having less brand baggage behind it, arguably does a better job of being progressive.

  Visually, too. Every Federation starship basically follows the same template, even into the far distant future. Trek is not glued to the appearance of the Constitution-class Enterprise, or a variant of such for its hero ships, nor does every ship need to use warp engines and that.

  A minor side tangent, but reverting to the same kind of thing is why I was rather disappointed with what Discovery did with the 32nd century. It would have been far more interesting if they’d gone to a time when all the powers we know and are familiar with, and even the tech aboard Discovery were ancient and long-deprecated.

  Discovery in the 32nd Century, as an Equinox counterpart of the Voyager plot could have been amazing, both from them being an outdated starship in what used to be familiar territory and what it would mean to maintain Federation values when the Federation doesn’t even exist any more.

  Honestly, I think bits of Picard and Strange New Worlds had the right idea when it came to the Synth ban, and the Illyrian extinction. Show us the downsides of Federation policy for things that might have been well-intentioned, but had negative or mixed effects, and how they fixed/improved it. That’s something we’ve rarely seen in Trek, in a way that wasn’t just “we don’t like this rule, so we’ll ignore it”.

  Here comes the question: If you’re in Alex Kurtzman’s position, how are you going to sell the franchise to a new, young audience? How are you going to convince kids who spend their time playing Roblox and watching Mr. Beast that Star Trek is a good show to watch?

  The young audience isn’t a monolith, and I’d argue that Star Trek is better off not competing head-to-head. Could you imagine DS9 or Voyager with their totally not-a-square radical groovy Teenage Mutant Starfleet Captain? It would be unwatchable. Hell would be upon us.

  Instead, Trek could benefit by competing through simply not competing, and stand out, rather than copy other sci-fi. Give us what Trek has always been, a nice slow comfort watch, where everyone is competent, and everything isn’t always at stake or fisticuffs all the time. That may work to its benefit, when everything else is dark and gritty, since it would be distinct compared to other things.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Daily Discussion Thread: Tuesday, 25 February 2025⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Is it not too heavy for breakfast? It seems pretty hearty.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Daily Discussion Thread: Tuesday, 25 February 2025⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I’ve found that you just have to treat them like a mechanical typewriter, and type like you’re hammering in nails for them to work some semblance of properly.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Daily Discussion Thread: Tuesday, 25 February 2025⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I didn’t know that they even had an online list of those. Thought it was mostly for corporate guff, and photos of their catalogue.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I love the future.⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  The company logo doesn’t look like a W, it looks like an electrical diagram icon for a lightbulb, or one of those energy-saving curly bulbs.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Daily Discussion Thread: Monday, 24 February 2025⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Gone back to uni for the first time in a while, and I think I overloaded my brain. I’ve got a mild headache after sitting through the info session.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Patch this Bish!⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  A lot of Bioluminiscence, but Infrared light as almost in any living be, which we can’t see without special devices.

  It’s different from the blackbody radiation that body heat produces.

  Structural weakness not only in the lower back, but also in the knees. The human being still has many reminists of an quadruped, as one of the younger species. He still has a way to be optimized as bipedo. Lower back and knees are still not optimized for this, apart of some other static and organic problems. We are still in phase beta.

  Evolution doesn’t follow the rules of intelligent design anyhow. If they did, we would all be crabs.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Patch this Bish!⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  A lot of Biolumiscence, but infrared light as almost in any living be, which we can’t see without special devices.

  It’s separate from the blackbody radiation that comes from body heat.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Patch this Bish!⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Humans do bioluminisce, it’s just too weak for human eyes and most detectors.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Is the Nintendo Switch 2 the end of innovative consoles?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  No, Nintendo does this kind of thing every so often, where they’ll just make an incremental upgrade to an existing console, rather than build a completely new one, with a new gimmick. The DSi wasn’t a massive step up from the DS Lite, which itself wasn’t that major of a step up from the DS, and the GBA SP wasn’t a huge step up from the GBA.

  At most, they just have a minor additional gimmick, but everything else more or less remains the same. Switch 2’s gimmick is allegedly letting you use the joycons like computer mice.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How alarmed should I be to see stool in my blood?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Same for the other kinds of stool. More than a few phlebotomists would be quite concerned about sitting on a stool and having it start bleeding under them, or seeing stools in a blood sample.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How are you actually doing today?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  I think part of it is also that Star Trek is hampered by its own branding. No network would want to risk their cash cow by having them be controversial, so they’ll keep it safe.

  I have quite a hard time envisioning any new Star Trek nearly getting the show taken off of the air by pushing boundaries like the original Star Trek did.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Daily Discussion Thread: Thursday, 30 January, 2025⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Those potato cakes look pretty nice.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Does the US really have no instruments in case a newly elected president immediatelly and openly exposes he's a nazi?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Normally, it would be the electoral system that would act as the check. But otherwise, it doesn’t put any other limits based on political belief and affiliation (other than having allegiances to other political powers). If the majority wanted to elect someone who wishes to abolish the democratic election system, then that is what they will get.

  That’s possibly for the better. Being able to bar given political alignments or affiliation from office would either need to be so specific so as to be useless (a modern nazi typically has little directly to do with the original), or be broad enough that it’d be a dangerous thing, since it could be used in either direction.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Daily Discussion Thread: 🚓🚑🚒 Saturday, 4 December, 2024⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Big W sells dishwashers?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What's the deal with male loneliness?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  You’ve never heard men say “dude, just suck it up and get over it already. Don’t be a wuss.” about similar issues to other men?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨NSW Police face fresh calls to be banned from Mardi Gras⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  They’re allowed to join the march, just not as police.

  The ban is for the police as an institution.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why does it seem most people, mainly conservatives, against Trans people? Unless I am wrong I never heard of one shooting up a school church or whatever. The ones I have met have been pretty cool.⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I think this all happens mostly due to the stress trans people are inadvertently causing their parents. When your kid comes out of the closet, this will happen to a parent regardless of how liberal-minded they are. Even if you have no problem with the concept, your kid being trans brings about new kinds of threat scenarios you never had to think about before. If you’re a sensible, smart and handsome person like I truly fucking am, you can process it in a few years and come out as not being a 100% asshole towards the issue.

  I feel like it’s more the opposite problem. For the parents, trans people are a vague boogeyman. They’ve never meant a trans person personally, and they’re constantly told that trans people are just waiting to jump them in the bathroom, or at sports, or all sorts of other things, so they’ve never had to contend with someone they know being trans.

  If it was simply stress or threat to the kid, it wouldn’t really explain the reaction to disowning them, since most of those aren’t about the treatment that their kids would receive for being trans,.