T156
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- Comment on What's the point of constitutional monarchies? Why even keep the monarchy in place if they aren't even doing anything? 1 week 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 weeks 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? 4 weeks 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. 5 weeks ago:
Usually not lungs as they exist in mammals, though.
- Comment on I want to see Vulcan fail 1 month 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! 1 month 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 1 month 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.
- Comment on I want to see Vulcan fail 1 month ago:
Although it is also important to consider that for both Spock and Michael, they weren’t full Vulcans, but were Human, or part-Human, with all the relevant emotional needs and expression.
It is not implausible that the Vulcan method works with Vulcans, but not nearly as well with non-Vulcans.
- Comment on What are the odds of a person getting poisoned by food delivery driver? How would the odds change if the person is a public figure (such as Twitch Streamers)? 1 month ago:
Plus, like with Marilyn Monroe, their personality on stream is generally a persona of sorts. They’re going to be very different collecting food and paying for it on their own, compared to when they’re in front of an audience.
You’d be more inclined to think that someone who looked a bit like the streamer received the food.
- Comment on kawaiiiiiii 1 month ago:
Why not? They can’t go across, but they can certainly go up.
- Comment on ‘Star Trek: Lower Decks’ Series And Graphic Novel Nominated For Hugo Awards 1 month ago:
Considering Parallels, there’s at least a sector of Enteprise’s worth of universes, ignoring the one that exploded, that could be close enough to TNG.
Intrigued by the idea that literally every Star Trek took place in a different universe though. That sounds like something you’d find in TOS/Lower Decks episode, only for jtnto just reset by next episode and be forgotten about.
- Comment on IT'S NOT A COINCIDENCE 1 month ago:
You can’t just call the cat a parasite.
- Comment on How likely is it that Trump will be the first President assassinated since Kennedy? 1 month ago:
He’s also useful. A lot of the kinds of people who might wish to be rid of him back in the day would much rather put him to use for their own ends.
- Comment on Will SNW (or any future Trek) Retcon Mojave, California? 1 month ago:
TNG also brought up raising the continental shelf to create more livable space. Picard’s brother was working on that.
- Comment on shrimp colour drama 1 month ago:
Mp3 is already compressed, as is the MP2 CDs use.
If it wasn’t conpressed, you’d be looking at CDs per track, instead of tracks per CD.
- Comment on Other than a faulty charging port, is there any reason to use a wireless phone charger over wired? 1 month ago:
Surely that would very a lot depending on where they get their energy from? Even the most measly household solar panel can deliver 10W to a charger, in which case, the energy impact would be negligible.
- Comment on Other than a faulty charging port, is there any reason to use a wireless phone charger over wired? 1 month ago:
It’s also safer, because you’re not connecting something that might carry data to the USB port. Wireless charging cannot transmit data. USB can, so delivering a virus or something that way isn’t out of the question, where it would be harder to do that over wireless charging.
- Comment on Other than a faulty charging port, is there any reason to use a wireless phone charger over wired? 1 month ago:
That doesn’t sound correct, considering the amount of wireless chargers that will take 10W, but can only deliver half that to the phone.
- Comment on Other than a faulty charging port, is there any reason to use a wireless phone charger over wired? 1 month ago:
I’m surprised that you can wirelessly charge like that. In my experience, wireless chargers are really finicky about positioning, unless they have some multiple-coil trickery going on, which a lot of battery pack chargers generally don’t. Having them in a pants pocket seems like a really good way to throw that alignment off.
- Comment on Other than a faulty charging port, is there any reason to use a wireless phone charger over wired? 1 month ago:
On my S5, there’s a little flap that you had to open and close to maintain the IP67 rating. Constantly opening and closing it was a recipe to breaking it off, where wireless didn’t put that kind of wear in.
With my newer phone, it’s easier to keep the cable with a battery pack to charge when out and about, and charge wirelessly at home, since I generally don’t need it done with any great speed, and it saves having to buy/replace another cable, or forgetting to unpack and take it with me.
Qi charging is also pretty standard, which is also good if I have a few devices with different cable needs, but mutually support the same wireless charging standard, since I can put an iPhone and an android on the same pad, without having to swap cables back and forth.
- Comment on Other than a faulty charging port, is there any reason to use a wireless phone charger over wired? 1 month ago:
Although most phones made in the past decade will detect that, and suspend wireless (and possibly wired) charging if the phone’s circuits are heating, until the temperature drops.
- Comment on Least extreme biophysics phd 2 months 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 2 months 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!!! 2 months 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 2 months 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 2 months 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 2 months 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 2 months 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? 2 months 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? 2 months 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.