T156
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- Comment on robot slurs 21 hours ago:
Bug.
The original bug was a moth in computer-relays.
Humans are squishy like bug, and behave semi-unpredictably like bug. Therefore, bug.
- Comment on US education 21 hours ago:
So where does that put people who have been electrified? Did they simply die of terror because they thought they had grasped a live wire?
- Comment on oops 2 weeks ago:
Interesting. Always thought chewing gum was more like when you made “plastic” out of the caesin in milk.
- Comment on If I found voter irregularities in my home district do I have to hire a lawyer to prove it.? Or just let it go and the Florida Orange win? 3 weeks ago:
Doesn’t the Congress and Election College have final say? The rest of it could be a sham, but what they say goes.
- Comment on Discussion Thread 🪁 Monday 7 July 2025 3 weeks ago:
I see. What would have been a better fit in that case?
- Comment on Discussion Thread 🪁 Monday 7 July 2025 3 weeks ago:
I think so? The metal clicky lighters you used to see in James Bond films and the like.
- Comment on Discussion Thread 🪁 Monday 7 July 2025 3 weeks ago:
Is the only place to buy those posh lighters only at smokos or the internet?
Was thinking of getting one as a gift, but since I don’t smoke, no idea where the proper place to get one is.
- Comment on Why covering our shoulders with a mantle or blanket is so efficient at warming us? 3 weeks ago:
More to less. It varies a bit, but it extends a tiny bit along the shoulders and down the spine.
The brown fat is basically a metabolic heater, so indulating it will help warm things up.
- Comment on Perfect Anatomy 3 weeks ago:
Urine probably also helps flush things out too, so you don’t need to deal with as many infections from bacteria who also want a share of the nutrient gel gametes get.
- Comment on is homophobia associated with homosexual arousal 3 weeks ago:
And more proof is always useful. Science runs on it.
- Comment on [deleted] 4 weeks ago:
Socialism as in Norway, not Stalin.
It should be pointed out that Norway is not socialist. It’s a social democracy/capitalist country.
- Comment on Where's the couch, JD? 4 weeks ago:
Sort of? Someone was editing his face to be more round and babylike. This was one of them.
- Comment on Arts & STEM 5 weeks ago:
G - gumanities
Or as we like to call it, GNU/Gumanities.
- Comment on wtf 5 weeks ago:
Other animals get zoomies too.
- Comment on I'm not okay. 5 weeks ago:
You can get them fresh from the factory. Sure, they need 96 batteries each, but beats all that nasty wood and bugs.
- Comment on Discussion Thread 💈 Saturday 21 June 2025 5 weeks ago:
I think the hot drink might be getting a bit too hot in that second photo.
- Comment on Is it weird I sleep with an old blanket I've had since I was a young girl? 1 month ago:
Does it matter if it is weird? Everyone is weird in some way.
There’s no weirdness warden who will whack you into gaol for being weird.
- Comment on Why do some people hate drinking water? 1 month ago:
Maybe if you gave him a wet food diet, like a cat or something.
- Comment on [deleted] 1 month ago:
Eventually we’ll hit it with phones, and then it’s just a matter of time till a solid “base” with swapable components come out. There’s been a couple already, but they still require a sacrifice of size or speed/power.
I’d honestly argue that we’ve more or less hit it already, since a lot of phones over the past few years haven’t really changed from the template of being a black glass rectangle with some buttons on it.
- Comment on More like a bacterial infection imo 1 month ago:
That implies that Britain didn’t intend those consequences. But Britain has mastered using starvation as a weapon of genocide, in particular by masking it as an “unfortunate” result of taxes and tariffs.
We do know that the British did try and get the Irish to renounce their heritage to receive aid during the famine as well. Some families had to renounce their Irish name and Catholicism before they would be given food during the famine.
- Comment on Discussion Thread 🍕 Thursday 12 June 2025 1 month ago:
What happened?
- Comment on Would AI replacing humans in every workplace eventually make it easier for an advanced civilization from outer space to colonize us? 1 month ago:
No. Because any advanced civilisation capable of sending a colony ship across light-years to another planet is already so far outside of our current technological ability that it matters precious little.
We would be easy to colonise either way. Doubly so if they have some form of FTL technology to make that trip in reasonable time.
But there’s also an argument that anyone who can do so would have a much easier time not dealing with all of that and just colonising an uninhabited planet, or outright using materials for the task.
- Comment on I made this instead 1 month ago:
Only sometimes. Other times, you want to add extra entropy, so you can have a nice hot dinner.
- Comment on [deleted] 2 months ago:
Because it’s not a small thing to change. You’re basically overhauling everything if you wish to transition from a monarchy to a republic, because it’s rooted in everything.
The names of the governmental positions, and possibly their responsibilities would need to change, as would official documentation, the money, the flag, the national anthem…
You could hardly call yourself a republic if your passports are still carry the authority of the monarch, and your national anthem prominently features the King.
It only gets more complicated if you’re a former colonial power, since they may also be affected, and have to change everything as well. If the UK decides to ditch the Monarchy and become a Republic, Australia and Canada would need to follow suit, since it would be silly for them to have references to a monarch that no longer exists, or a GG who’s meant to be representative for a position that no longer exists.
Either that, or there will be a political/legal headache deciding whether they become the new inheritors of the monarchy, since the parent is gone, or would they be also need to make the same changes (see above).
- Comment on Whenever a beast is shown on screen 2 months ago:
They are getting quieter though, and there’s concern that they may evolve to lose the rattle entirely, as the loudly rattling ones get sought out and killed off.
- Comment on What's the point in getting married? 2 months ago:
As an example, medical care/inheritance rights are one.
Back before the days of gay marriage, there were no end of horror stories of LGBT people whose partners were dying from HIV, and were forbidden from seeing their dying partners, or for estranged family to swoop in and kick the “friend” out, preventing them from seeing their partner, often taking everything that belonged to the deceased in the process.
A relatively famous art piece has a similar story, where the Boskovitch’s boyfriend’s family swept in and took everything after he died, effectively erasing their relationship in the process. All that was left was an electric fan.
- Comment on Bees don't have lungs. 3 months ago:
Usually not lungs as they exist in mammals, though.
- Comment on I want to see Vulcan fail 3 months ago:
He certainly seems to think so, though. When he was sharing his emotions with Picard, he was distraught that he wasn’t as open about his fondness for Amanda, before she died.
- Comment on We are back in sync with lemmy.world! 3 months ago:
Basically, Lemmy works by having a whole.bunch of different servers chitchat to each other. Hence how I can post a reply to you, even though you’re on Aussie.zone, and I’m on Lemmy.world.
The problem was that because Lemmy.world was big, and there were a lot of people in Aussie.zone who had feeds over there, Lemmy.world couldn’t fire stuff off quickly quickly enough.
Analogically, you’re basically getting a telegram to your house every day, saying what’s on the news. Except that there are a lot of people, so the telegraph operator can’t write and send the telegrams out quickly enough, and the message started backing up.
Lemmy.world basically enabled multi-threaded sending, which works like hiring more telegraph operators. While they could now keep up, there was still a huge amount of backlog that they had to send.
It’s only until this post that they finally caught up.
- Comment on I want to see Vulcan fail 3 months ago:
At least if Sarek is any indicstor, they are definitely very restrained. He was quite distraught over not being as affectionate with Amanda as he could have been.