Deme
@Deme@sopuli.xyz
- Comment on Happy Labor Day! 2 days ago:
Do you make enough from those investments to live off of them? If not, you’re not bourgeoisie.
- Comment on Happy Labor Day! 3 days ago:
No, I don’t think so. Just the subset of those which have no value for society and only exist to respond to and perpetuate useless burecracy. Unnecessary middle managers, hr, etc…
- Comment on Happy Labor Day! 3 days ago:
Just using email while also doing something important doesn’t make a job a fake job. Fake jobs are the kind of jobs that society would be fine without. Marketing, sales development, hr. Jobs which exist solely to peddle around useless emails like competitive reviews, social listening reports, messaging matrixes, research debriefs, etc., or responding to such bs in an ever escalating cycle of useless burecracy.
- Comment on Article: Meshtastic vs MeshCore: I Run Both, Here's the Honest Truth (2026) 5 days ago:
I haven’t seen that field show up for companion node settings, but for relays it’s there. I guess companions rarely transmit often enough to warrant it.
And it was at 50% default for me as well with the EU/UK narrow preset. And I would suspect that if you’re setting up a relay, you probably should’ve at least glanced at what’s allowed on the freq you’re using.
- Comment on found this helpful map of which countries are turkiye on turkiye's government website 6 days ago:
Sure but I still don’t get why they did that. Germans aren’t going around insisting that their country be called Deutchland in english as well. Or Spain => España. Or Sweden => Sverige. Or Finland => Suomi. There’s so many examples I could plug here. Languages have different names for countries, no need to throw a fit about it.
- Comment on Article: Meshtastic vs MeshCore: I Run Both, Here's the Honest Truth (2026) 6 days ago:
How is MeshCore setup “Steep, under-documented, decision-heavy”? It’s the exact same Flash => Select region => Go as with Meshtastic.
- Comment on Map of Beans 1 week ago:
Fazer is a finnish candy company. They also make some baked goods and stuff, but no beans as far as I know :D
- Comment on Bada Boom 2 weeks ago:
Your description makes it like they’re edible as well.
- Comment on That's just science 2 weeks ago:
This comment here had a much more grounded explanation
- Comment on That's just science 2 weeks ago:
My guess would be that plants optimize also for absorbing a significant amount of the light they receive from the blue sky, so they still get some when direct sunlight isn’t available.
- Comment on Don’t want your license plate to rust now. 3 weeks ago:
The cameras will track you anyways. You’ll just get tagged as “2003 Honda civic, gray, license plates unreadable…” along with a descriptive list of any stickers on the back of the car.
- Comment on Still waiting for my Donny dollar check, any day now... 4 weeks ago:
I think it’s about bootlickers who mistakenly associate themselves with the ultra rich who start crying when anyone suggests increasing taxes on the actually rich people.
- Comment on greeting a CEO 4 weeks ago:
I need to get me one of those bicycle accessories.
- Comment on I am so excited 4 weeks ago:
OOP isn’t having an anerysm?
- Comment on No Spoiler 👁️⃤ 5 weeks ago:
A teacher at a preschool, surely?
- Comment on No context provided 5 weeks ago:
why would anyone use a vpn to locate themselves in br*tain?
- Comment on Hey hey hey looks like I am in now 🥳 1 month ago:
I think I’ll test this theory. I also agree that fascists should perchance go fuck themselves.
- Comment on SBA #182 instant pudding 1 month ago:
Just woke up and at first glance I thought there was a massive wildfire behind him.
- Comment on It's always for your safety 2 months ago:
Data is a valuable commodity. I think one car company filed a patent not long ago for a system that listens to conversations in the car and then serves advertisements on the central console based on those.
- Comment on Spot on 2 months ago:
I believe the locations of the buildings are a simple result of this having been made with genAI.
I interpret this as just Belgium humiliating the US even more after all the humiliation they’ve already inflicted on themselves.
- Comment on Australians doing the country proud again... 2 months ago:
Pepe was also stolen back in 2016 or so, but that one got reclaimed by people “pretending” that it wasn’t a symbol of hate. The ok-sign shouldn’t even need to be reclaimed since it has such strong previous connotations. But if you do think that it is, and that every cheff doing the chefs kiss or a scuba diver saying “I’m ok” with their hand is actually doing a nazi hate symbol, then it too should be reclaimed.
- Comment on Australians doing the country proud again... 2 months ago:
Zach Rehl, leader of the Philadelphia Proud Boys, making the OK gesture in November 2020
He’s doing it like that.
- Comment on Australians doing the country proud again... 2 months ago:
That’s just the ok-sign.
- Comment on Australians doing the country proud again... 2 months ago:
I have not heard of that association for a long time. Mostly it’s just a lmaooo gotem -type of thing.
But sure, do give the nazis more ammo by giving ownership of such symbols to them.
- Comment on A Woodpecker’s tongue is so long that it wraps around its skull 2 months ago:
I’d guess that it just needs the space so it can extend that far into the tree, without blocking the airways.
- Comment on A Woodpecker’s tongue is so long that it wraps around its skull 2 months ago:
Huh, the link to the research article works for me. Weird. I’ll post the summary below. The woodpecker is trying to break the surface of the tree, whereas a dead-blow hammer “helpful in minimizing damage to the struck surface”, as said in that wikipedia article. The total impulse just means how much energy the bird is expending, whereas the peak force is what breaks the structure of the wood. So it’s beneficial to get as hard of an impact as possible with the highest possible peak force.
The skull of a woodpecker is hypothesized to serve as a shock absorber that minimizes the harmful deceleration of its brain upon impact into trees^1–11^ and has inspired the engineering of shock-absorbing materials^12–15^ and tools, such as helmets.16 However, this hypothesis remains paradoxical since any absorption or dissipation of the head’s kinetic energy by the skull would likely impair the bird’s hammering performance^4^ and is therefore unlikely to have evolved by natural selection. In vivo quantification of impact decelerations during pecking in three woodpecker species and biomechanical models now show that their cranial skeleton is used as a stiff hammer to enhance pecking performance, and not as a shock-absorbing system to protect the brain. Numerical simulations of the effect of braincase size and shape on intracranial pressure indicate that the woodpeckers’ brains are still safe below the threshold of concussions known for primate brains. These results contradict the currently prevailing conception of the adaptive evolution of cranial function in one of nature’s most spectacular behaviors.
Van Wassenbergh S, Ortlieb E, Mielke M … Woodpeckers minimize cranial absorption of shocks Current Biology, 2022; 32, 3189-3194.e4
- Comment on A Woodpecker’s tongue is so long that it wraps around its skull 2 months ago:
That is a common misconception. Shock absorption would diminish pecking performance. You want your hammer to be hard instead of soft if you want to get anything done. Woodpeckers have very stiff heads because of this.
- Comment on Made me chuckle when I saw it, so you have to see it too. It cannot be unseen. 3 months ago:
Fair enough, yeah a human could also do that
- Comment on Made me chuckle when I saw it, so you have to see it too. It cannot be unseen. 3 months ago:
- Comment on Made me chuckle when I saw it, so you have to see it too. It cannot be unseen. 3 months ago:
Good call. I’m on mobile and forgot to open the full sized image.
