Lyrl

@Lyrl@lemm.ee

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Low quality cropping will officially launch on Lemmy in 2025⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  I am sure boarding and deplaning takes longer if everyone is getting into or out of a prone position. The idea might have been standing seats for short flights where turnaround time between flights was a large percent of each trip leg.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨This woman must have a really bad dog⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  The people who care about executions being humane are generally opposed to the death penalty. People who support the death penalty generally want suffering to be inherent to the process. Only limit is whatever the Supreme Court deems “unusual”. Cruelty is allowed by the Constitution as long as it is “usual” cruelty.

  In states that have death penalty (and federal when we have a president who supports death penalty), it’s the pro-death penalty groups - the ones that want it to cause suffering - that get to pick the process.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  There is deeply emotional resistance to the idea of topics being too complex for the average person to understand. The “experts” promote something that superficially contradicts our lived experience? They must be corrupt liars! Down with the experts!

  The economy had, on balance, positive trends in 2024? We felt poorer, so economists should be lynched! /s

  Feels scarily like America is moving towards something like China’s Great Leap Forward en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Leap_Forward

  The Great Leap Forward stemmed from multiple factors, including "the purge of intellectuals, the surge of less-educated radicals… Mao was dismissive of technical experts and basic economic principles…

  Higher officials did not dare to report the economic disaster which was being caused by these policies… Mao did not retreat from his policies; instead, he blamed problems on bad implementation and “rightists” who opposed him…

  …dozens of dams constructed in Zhumadian, Henan, during the Great Leap Forward collapsed in 1975 (under the influence of Typhoon Nina)… with estimates of its death toll ranging from tens of thousands to 240,000.

  The failure of agricultural policies… suppressed the food supply… The shortage of supply clashed with an explosion in demand, leading to millions of deaths from severe famine.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Pictures of Animals Getting CT Scans Against their Will: A Thread⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I think they lack a diaphragm. It was weird reading in my cockatiel care books that some handling on the neck was fine, but even small pressure to their chest could prevent them from breathing.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Tigers 🐅 🐯⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Elsewhere in the thread, someone said non-primate mammals (like mice) are dichromic (can’t see orange), but birds are quadchromic (see even more colors than trichromics like primates). Is your cat only a good mouse-hunter, and comparatively a bad bird-hunter?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Tigers 🐅 🐯⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Apparently pink works as well, if a hunter wants a second color vest

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Give us your craziest ocean facts. 🦑⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  I guess people eating a basket of shrimp are balanced out by people sharing one cow with several hundred others.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Give us your craziest ocean facts. 🦑⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Well, changing it dramatically. It’s going to stay within historical ranges where ocean life flourished, but without any exoskeleton-heavy animals like corals in the mix.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Maybe more with less is possible, but we are currently doing less variety of skill with way, way more energy. From humanbrainproject.eu/…/learning-brain-make-ai-mor…

  It is estimated that a human brain uses roughly 20 Watts to work – that is equivalent to the energy consumption of your computer monitor alone, in sleep mode. On this shoe-string budget, 80–100 billion neurons are capable of performing trillions of operations that would require the power of a small hydroelectric plant if they were done artificially.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Is 33 cents a small amount of money?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  A lot of US benefits have “benefit cliffs” where making $1 more substantial reduces or even completely disqualifies a person from SNAP (food stamps) or childcare subsidies or Medicaid. ncsl.org/…/introduction-to-benefits-cliffs-and-pu…

  It’s not surprising people whose families are directly affected by, or who know people affected by, benefit cliffs think the lawmakers set up taxes the same way.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I don't envy the humans pre-dentistry⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  they’ve been shrinking as we evolved changed our diet

  No genetic changes (evolution) happened. If as children we ate only very tough meat and lots of chewy vegetables - no bread or rice or potato softness - our same genetics would result in much larger adult jaws.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Having a baby? Use this one weird trick!⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  A quick internet search suggests 36 weeks (eight months), which is well into the third trimester, is the most common start of restrictions, and many airlines will accept a doctor’s note the woman is low risk even past that. It was a 2008 election blip when the media got ahold of Sarah Palin flying while in labor because she wanted her special-needs baby delivered by the medical team that had prepared for him, which suggests even the written restrictions in airline policy are not consistently enforced.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨That explains a lot⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  There is a surprising amount of empty space between atoms, and even inside atoms between the eleftron orbitals and the nucleus. Small black holes are so dense they mostly fall through this empty between-atom space and don’t actually hit anything. Even in a matter-rich environment like inside the Earth, you’d need a black hole with more than half the mass of the moon to be large enough to eat matter faster than it loses matter to Hawking radiation.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨That explains a lot⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s wild that there is so much space between atoms (and inside them, between the elctron orbitals and the nucleus), and black holes are so incredibly dense, that a small black hole can fall all the way through the Earth and not hit enough matter to gain appreciable mass.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Sun God⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  There was a time people thought Mercury would have some “twilight” acreage that was always at habitable temperatures. Then we learned that, while yes it is tidally locked with the Sun, it is locked in a 3:2 resonance so it does rotate with respect to the sun, and everywhere gets both scorched and frozen to uninhabitability.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Algae Rock!⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s not just the uptake, it’s whether it stays at the surface, ultimately releasing the carbon back into the atmosphere via decomposition gases, or sinks to the ocean floor, thus locking up the carbon in oceanic rock.

  We have a good handle on understanding the uptake. It’s the float vs sink part that has the critical uncertainty.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Algae Rock!⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  To work as a carbon capture mechanic, iron fertilization-driven algae blooms would have to die and sink to the bottom of the ocean, thus locking up their carbon in oceanic rock.

  The concern is they would die and float, releasing all that carbon back into the atmosphere via decomposition gases. Then we would have all the effort of the fertilization, all the ecosystem disruption of the algae bloom, and maybe negative benefit as far as carbon since the ecosystem disruption could mess up carbon sinks that were actually working.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨be a good neighbour⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Also cultivate plants caterpillars feed on! We won’t have any butterflies if the only food available is only edible by adults.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Fucking pigeons⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I sometimes come across a dead baby pigeon inside my work building, a large manufacturing structure many pigeons find their way into. Presumably the death is from falling out of the kind of nest in OP’s image.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Anon's lacking pissing habits⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s quite low in bacteria when fresh, so in situations clean water is unavailable fresh urine can substitute in a pinch. But it’s not fully sterile, and given even a couple of hours outside the body it grows significant colonies.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Bat Drip⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Estrus in bats - some bloody discharge while in the fertile part of their cycle. Only great apes have menstrual cycles (shedding unused uterine lining at the end of a cycle, NOT fertile when discharging blood).

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s important for vote counts to to be independently checked. Having who voted publicly available means an investigative journalist can prove the county clerk’s claim that dead people voted and so they can’t certify the election is false. Or catch attempts at fraud. Both as a double-check on government in the case of officials who are lying or have acquired false beliefs, or as outside help if the issue isn’t caught internally due to under-resoucing.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨beds⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s such a creepy biological characteristic. Bedbugs are mildly social, and prefer to sleep near other bedbugs. But the traumatic insemination seems to be unpleasant for the females, and after enough holes are poked all over their bodies, they will leave the main colony. A single inseminated female hitchhiker is normally how they infest new places.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Continental D r i f t s⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  It has a lot of dissolved water that, if exposed to atmospheric pressure, boils off. So it could be said to have components that are boiling?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨beds⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Beds predate language. Non-human apes build “nests” - beds in trees - to sleep in.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨beds⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Haha, but batbugs and birdbugs - bedbug cousins that prefer the blood of bats or birds - are a thing. Bedbugs and their preference for specifically human blood evolved alongside primates starting to build sleeping structures.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨banaynay⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Considering the size of the Canadian tomato industry (all greenhouse), it does seem like bananas should also solve. Just bananas can’t pack as densely as tomatoes, but maybe throw one banana tree in every dozen rows of tomatoes or something. A girl can dream.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨banaynay⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Ha, poor kitty.

  Fun fact, a banana is technically an herb and not a tree.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨banaynay⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s more likely they ship poorly. Same reason the tastiest tomato or strawberry varieties are not the ones grown commercially.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨banaynay⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  I live in the Midwest, and had a coworker with a banana plant (I think a Cavendish). He cut it down and dug up the root ball to bring inside every winter. Every few years, the weather was warm enough long enough the thing actually made bananas.