Silverseren
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- Comment on Pesticide Use Has Increased by Over 80% since 1990, Causing Pollinator Declines and Water Contamination 6 months ago:
All herbicides are pesticides. Pesticide is the umbrella term for herbicides, insecticides, fungicides, ect.
Agreed on BT plants. The funny thing about that one is that BT toxin is a common pesticide used in organic farming too (and all other farming) because it actually is so effective and non-toxic to vertebrates (hence why it was used to make the BT toxin producing plants in the first place). And yet the anti-GMO groups still fearmongered about the plants anyways, never seeing the hypocrisy in relation to what organic farming uses.
- Comment on Pesticide Use Has Increased by Over 80% since 1990, Causing Pollinator Declines and Water Contamination 6 months ago:
See, I was good with the article up until it started pushing long since debunked pseudoscience claims about glyphosate. The chemical biochemistry of it is clear and, yes, there have been dozens of studies over the years, which have shown that it is actually one of the lower impact pesticides used out there. Anyone using IARC as a source (when that's not even what IARC is for or about) is betraying their own anti-science stance.
And then they bring up nonsense about organic farming. Organic farming, on average, ends up having to use more pesticides because they use non-specific "natural" ones that are less effective against targeted weeds and thus have to be re-applied more often, such as pyrethrins and spinosad. Furthermore, the use of manure instead of options like drip irrigation causes more nitrogen leaching into the water table than conventional farming methods. If all of our farms were organic farms, this issue would be way worse. Example source: https://hess.copernicus.org/articles/18/333/2014/
And that's without counting the higher land usage requirements for an equivalent amount of food production from an organic farm compared to a non-organic one. If all our farms were organic, the amount of farmland would be way higher and there's be way less wilderness areas.
- Comment on FCC explicitly prohibits fast lanes, closing possible net neutrality loophole 6 months ago:
pats your head It's okay, I know reading comprehension is difficult for some people.
- Comment on Are there any genuine benefits to AI? 9 months ago:
It's massively important in the sciences, both for computing purposes and theoretical design and investigation purposes.
AI is completely revolutionizing genetics research and subjects like biochemistry and pharmacology, because it's able to extrapolate from already identified genes and compounds and find new ones or identify the purposes of genes just from their sequence structure.
It's made processes that would take weeks or months just to identify a single new component to something that takes days or hours.
- Comment on Reddit Falls Short of Ad Growth Targets Ahead of Likely 2024 IPO 10 months ago:
I wonder how ad view counts are affected when you actively drive away your hard core content posting audience? Hmm...
- Comment on Warning: You cannot delete posts or comments on Lemmy. It stays up forever, and is in direct violation of GDPR and other national privacy laws. 10 months ago:
No, it has jurisdiction in the EU. And Lemmy is a part of the EU jurisdiction.
Unless the devs want to block everyone in the EU from accessing the site.
- Comment on Warning: You cannot delete posts or comments on Lemmy. It stays up forever, and is in direct violation of GDPR and other national privacy laws. 10 months ago:
Sure. Lemmy does have such a presence though.
- Comment on Warning: You cannot delete posts or comments on Lemmy. It stays up forever, and is in direct violation of GDPR and other national privacy laws. 10 months ago:
It's been a problem for a while. Considering major social media companies have already gotten massive fines from the EU for violating the GDPR, maybe the lemmy devs will put more effort in setting up a deletion system once the EU sends them a fine for breaking the law?
- Comment on Warning: You cannot delete posts or comments on Lemmy. It stays up forever, and is in direct violation of GDPR and other national privacy laws. 10 months ago:
The GDPR is a required to comply EU law for all websites in their jurisdiction. You can't get away with claiming "but people choose to join the website".
Many other websites and even major social media sites have gotten fined and other sanctions put against them already for violating it.
- Comment on alien.top is a new level of Reddit crossposting spam 11 months ago:
We've got that already on Kbin.social. :)
- Comment on The Pentagon is moving toward letting AI weapons autonomously decide to kill humans 11 months ago:
The sad part is that the AI might be more trustworthy than the humans being in control.
- Comment on Meta disbanded its Responsible AI team 1 year ago:
They still had one of those?
- Comment on Crispr gene editing shown to permanently lower hereditary high cholesterol 1 year ago:
I mean, I've worked with CRISPR in plant biology. It's not really that much more complicated. It's just much more effective.
- Comment on YouTuber Jirard (a.k.a. The Completionist) has been accused of keeping and hoarding charity donations 1 year ago:
Well, Jirard admitted on the call in the video that he knew almost two years ago that the charity had never donated to anything. So strike those options off your list.
- Comment on YouTuber Jirard (a.k.a. The Completionist) has been accused of keeping and hoarding charity donations 1 year ago:
I don't see how there's any good explanation though for having a website quote thanking them for donating from someone who was fired for money issues 7 years prior.
- Comment on YouTuber Jirard (a.k.a. The Completionist) has been accused of keeping and hoarding charity donations 1 year ago:
Funny enough, I think the most blatant and consequential example of this not being able to be taken in good faith is the use of the quote from the UCSF person on the charity website. A person who was fired for money problems 7 years before the charity existed.
No matter what explanation they can give for why they have a quote from him thanking them for donating to UCSF, I see no way for the explanation to be good.
- Comment on Everyone's piling on Rick Berman now? 1 year ago:
Should have piled on him decades ago. The homophobic, sexist ass.
- Comment on Night In The Woods Devs Cancel Highly Anticipated Follow-Up 1 year ago:
I really hope they're able to get better. That's a scary bad condition to have.
- Comment on Worst fear confirmed: You can't launch Modern Warfare 3 without first launching Modern Warfare 2 1 year ago:
"playing one of the top 10 games of all time"
You get that dirty sentence away from Activision.
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- Comment on Honest question: what was Hamas' long-game with respect to kidnapping Israelis? Did they think Israel would just negotiate rather than retaliate? 1 year ago:
That would make a lot of sense. Since Israel has blocked numerous other attacks in the past, Hamas likely expected a similar response, not a complete lack of one from their very apparent and out in the open preparations for the attack.
- Comment on Elon Musk gives X employees one year to replace your bank - ‘You won’t need a bank account... it would blow my mind if we don’t have that rolled out by the end of next year.’ 1 year ago:
I mean, he wanted Paypal originally (and to name it X), so this just seems like the end goal he was trying to get to the whole time.
And it will still crash and burn. Gloriously so.
- Comment on Elon Musk Offers to Also Ruin Wikipedia 1 year ago:
As fun as that would be, we actually have standards, unlike Elon.
- Comment on JK Rowling prefers two years in jail over using correct pronouns 1 year ago:
What do you suggest is the way to determine if an author is using a specific setting or plot device in a serious and purposeful manner then? How do you tell if they're actually just a terrible person supporting terrible ideas?
If the answer is going to be their other statements and actions, then Rowling has made her terrible person status pretty clear.
- Comment on JK Rowling prefers two years in jail over using correct pronouns 1 year ago:
Because the theme and overall storyline of 40k is meant to showcase how evil that is. In a way, the evilness is parody in how over the top it is, particularly with the use of Nazi-esque imagery.
Where in the setting of Harry Potter does it present house elves and their enslavement as a parody, joke, or otherwise not meant to be a serious take on the subject?
- Comment on Does that mean it's harder to tell where something is if you know its temperature? 1 year ago:
They measure how hot the engine is.
- Comment on JK Rowling prefers two years in jail over using correct pronouns 1 year ago:
She's the one that chose to make the fantasy world she made up the way it is. And she chose to make it one where a literal slave class of people enjoy being slaves and things slavery is great, so long as their slave masters treat them well. And the one person trying to free them is treated as a hyperbolic hippie type for even making such an attempt.
That is the made up world Rowling chose to make.
- Comment on JK Rowling prefers two years in jail over using correct pronouns 1 year ago:
Also, almost no one uses any form of neopronouns. They just use the classic three of she/he/they. Or a combination of them.
- Comment on Leaving the fediverse 1 year ago:
I just block the instances, which one can do on kbin.social. Easy way to not have to bother with the dictatorship and genocide supporting tankie trash.
- Comment on Chinese video games are on the rise, but I wish they got more respect 1 year ago:
As I said, it only minorly avoids the fate of other gacha games by actually having effort put into its story and gameplay.