T156
@T156@lemmy.world
- Comment on If I invented a shirt that caused cameras to be damaged when filmed/photographed, would I be committing a crime by wearing the shirt at events with cameras? 5 days ago:
Although that really only works as long as the camera doesn’t have an IR filter in place.
- Comment on Remember to 2FA your kidneys. 6 days ago:
You joke, but there are already protheses which are proprietary, and have shut down. Artificial eyes is a famous example, where the company making one shut down the product line, and blinded people who’d had it installed, due to it just shutting off.
- Comment on Remember to 2FA your kidneys. 6 days ago:
Only if the alternative was doing nothing. Having to sit down and stay still in a chair for many hours whilst hooked up to machinery doesn’t sound like much of an improvement.
- Comment on robot slurs 3 weeks 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 3 weeks 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 5 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? 1 month 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 1 month ago:
I see. What would have been a better fit in that case?
- Comment on Discussion Thread 🪁 Monday 7 July 2025 1 month 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 1 month 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? 1 month 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 1 month 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 1 month ago:
And more proof is always useful. Science runs on it.
- Comment on [deleted] 1 month 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? 1 month ago:
Sort of? Someone was editing his face to be more round and babylike. This was one of them.
- Comment on Arts & STEM 1 month ago:
G - gumanities
Or as we like to call it, GNU/Gumanities.
- Comment on wtf 1 month ago:
Other animals get zoomies too.
- Comment on I'm not okay. 1 month 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 1 month 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? 2 months 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? 2 months ago:
Maybe if you gave him a wet food diet, like a cat or something.
- Comment on [deleted] 2 months 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 2 months 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 2 months 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? 2 months 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 2 months 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 3 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? 3 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.