AlolanYoda
@AlolanYoda@mander.xyz
- Comment on #environmentalist 4 days ago:
Your comment made me realize that used to be the same for me, but it’s been years since the last time I remember being given a straw. I guess they’re phasing them out
- Comment on Banana 4 days ago:
In Portugal, it’s very common to find bananas from the Madeira islands being sold in stores, even in like our equivalent of Walmart or Carrefour.
They’re like half the length of a Cavendish, a bit more tasty, but still very similar. I very much prefer them.
I know it’s not as exotic as your selection but it was something I was able to eat regularly and pretty accessibly there
- Comment on Has this ever happened to you? 3 weeks ago:
Man, I think I’d prefer that outcome. Getting laid is easy compared to finding fun people to game with
- Comment on Cause and Effect 3 weeks ago:
Which anime? I don’t recall watching anything along those lines, but it sounds like a show I’d enjoy
- Comment on Husband material 1 month ago:
I don’t know if I trust your answer based on your username
- Comment on Anon dates a 19 y/o 1 month ago:
Invert this rule to get the maximum age you can date (defined as the person whose minimum age is your current age):
min age = (your age / 2) + 7 max age = (your age * 2) - 14
If you’re 30, then you can reasonably date people between 22 and 46. So the other guy can add even more years before 1990.
- Comment on YOU HAVE NO POWER HERE 2 months ago:
I mean they look like a kid to me
- Comment on HELP HIM. 2 months ago:
We can probably never get rid of animal testing entirely for clinical research, we’ll always need to validate simulations in animals before moving on to humans.
Getting rid of animal testing is the exact purpose of organ-on-a-chip research! This is actual bioengineered cultures, not simulations (not dissing on computational biochemistry - also extremely important)
If you can test without the full animal, then models (in this context, models = what you use for testing, be it cultures or animals) based on human induced pluropotent stem cells (ie cells taken from live, adult humans and forced to revert to a stem cell status) in an in vitro setting can actually be more relevant to human physiology than live animal models.
There are a lot of caveats (if it were easy, it would already be done), and there are barriers needed to be overcome for in vitro models to even come close to in vivo and ex vivo models. But a lot of people are investing in it, not (only) due to ethics but also due to lower model cost and better match of in vitro results with the actual effect on a live human body.
I can give papers when I get home, if you want.
- Comment on Anon plays Skyrim 2 months ago:
Not just a random episode, too - it’s one of the plot points in Who Shot Mr Burns
- Comment on Thank you, Thor! 3 months ago:
That’s completely misguided, because people can see his code anyway (in his streams), and also because he will never finish or release his game
- Comment on Pirates are Popular 3 months ago:
My input: I’ve never searched for papers in Scihub directly. I usually find them off Google scholar or something, and then put the paywalled URL or the DOI (an identifier you can usually find in the paywalled website) in Scihub to go to that paper. I don’t think search capabilities are in scihub’s scope.
- Comment on :-) 4 months ago:
That’d be part of why they’re single, I guess
- Comment on Never Forget. Please dear god don't forget 4 months ago:
Every Ralph you think about after you stop thinking about the previous Ralph is a new Ralph, completely independent from the previous Ralph event.
Is it genocide if you are also creating the Ralphs that you kill?
- Comment on Anon blames millennials 5 months ago:
Man I get you. I have barely touched this hobby in years. Best of luck to you, I hope things improve on those fronts.
- Comment on Anon blames millennials 5 months ago:
If you still have a hint of that spark in you, download a game engine and give it a go. Make something short and quick just to learn. It’s a fun hobby when you don’t let it consume your life.
Godot is a free and open source game engine, so lemmy would eat me alive if I didn’t mention it, but any of them, including Unity, would work for this purpose.
- Comment on Liquid Trees 5 months ago:
Yeah, can plant a tree? Plant a tree. If you can’t, the alternative right now is nothing. This introduces another option.
- Comment on Liquid Trees 5 months ago:
They emit carbon dioxide, a greenhouse gas, and oxygen, which causes rust in metals and aging in humans. So it’s a negative really…
- Comment on Why does it seem like everyone is so good looking and beautiful nowadays? 5 months ago:
I don’t know you, but there’s a chance that someone else had this exact realization after seeing you
- Comment on You cannot learn without failing. 6 months ago:
- Comment on What is this shit? 6 months ago:
Can you explain this a bit better?
I’ve seen many journals with this “open access” option (where the authors pay for open access, rather than the readers paying to read it). But the paid option never skipped the peer review process, as far as I can tell.
I just think the last author of this paper is a big deal in his field and can do whatever
- Comment on Now that's an interesting question 7 months ago:
I have seen variations on this online for a long time, and this has always baffled me: do strangers in America really go up to random people who are speaking foreign languages and tell them “you are in X, speak Xese”, a language they may or may not speak? Even among people who share their native language?
- Comment on That's why it's called science fiction duh 7 months ago:
Maybe I am in a different environment (particularly not being American), but the old scientists still exist and are still hard at work. In fact, all scientists I know (and I work in academia) care very little for misinformation on their day to day lives. They’ll make fun of it, but don’t have any more contact with them than anyone else. They still spend most of their time working on their actual projects. The only thing that changed is that now they’re bending over backwards to include AI in their grants to make sure they’re accepted, but having to include the latest buzzwords is nothing new.
Science communicators, on the other hand, yeah, those probably have their hands full with fixing misinformation.
- Comment on The Downtrodden Billionaires 7 months ago:
Did you write this? This is gold
- Comment on I love the future. 8 months ago:
Wait, didn’t the Greeks famously lose at Thermopylae? They’d turn it around later but that’s one of the most famous “celebrated losses” in history
- Comment on I'll show them 8 months ago:
And yet never implemented! Good guy Sony getting a patent so nobody else will do this
- Comment on Proud globohomo 1 year ago:
Maybe a terrestrial globe? That would explain why some have a point labeled “Bangkok”
- Comment on Star Citizen devs report drying funds, micromanagement, overspending, and episodic release for Squadron 42 1 year ago:
I think I’d like a game with those exact prices… In in-game currency
- Comment on Anon finally touches grass 1 year ago:
Wait, really? Whenever I spend more time at work or at home I tend to forget how many really attractive people are really out there. Whenever I go out after a long period of time I end up being positively surprised. I would also not look at Tinder as an example, but because of the opposite: people on tinder look much uglier than in real life. But then again, usually outside you don’t look at people for more than one or two seconds, while on tinder there’s loads of photos for you to examine every single flaw
- Comment on Love is love 1 year ago:
I’m glad I’m not searching for romantic advice in this thread because if I were I’d have a headache.
Should I search for a friendship instead of a relationship? Should I make a move? Should I make a move on my friends?!
- Comment on AI Artefacting 1 year ago:
As an extra advantage to the nose pinching trick, I no longer turn every dream into a nightmare from seeing my distorted figure in the mirror!