JakenVeina
@JakenVeina@lemm.ee
- Comment on Trump literally referred to himself as "King". Surely conservatives are against a monarchy forming? 1 day ago:
“It’s just a joke! I love it when he triggers the libs like this!” /s
- Comment on How is the Stock Market keeping it's value after *points to everything*? 1 day ago:
Because its value was always fictitious.
- Comment on Malicious Ads in Search Results Are Driving New Generations of Scams 2 months ago:
Yup. I literally got caught in one last week. Picked what I thought was the top non-sponsored Google result, when looking for concert tickets. Turns out it WAS a sponsored result, proxy-selling the tickets I was looking for at triple price. I got lucky that my bank was willing to dispute and get the charge reversed.
- Comment on just three women have died and 50783 babies have been saved by Texas' abortion law. A damn good trade if you ask me. 2 months ago:
Considering those quotes talk about defining “living systems” or “groups of organisms”, as opposed to individual cells (and again, elaborated on even moreso within the full linked articles), I’m gonna have to say “no, they’re not really excluded at all.” Their entire purpose is to meet up and initiate replication. An egg and sperm cell are each one small part of a much larger system of ongoing life. The same can be said for a fertilized egg, an embryo, and so on for most stages of development in a womb.
If you want to insist on a definition that says egg and sperm cells aren’t alive, or aren’t an organism, you’re gonna have a hard time saying that a fertilized egg or an embryo are. They don’t replicate on their own, either, not without a very specific environment and set of stimuli.
Also, sperm cells DO replicate, to an extent. They undergo forms of mitosis and meiosis, during their growth. And an egg cell absolutely replicates. Like any other type of cell replication, it needs certain stimuli to initiate it. I.E. it needs to be fertilized.
- Comment on just three women have died and 50783 babies have been saved by Texas' abortion law. A damn good trade if you ask me. 2 months ago:
From the National Institute for Health
In biology, it is generally agreed that organisms that possess the following seven characteristics are animate or living beings and thus possess life: the ability to respire, grow, excrete, reproduce, metabolize, move, and be responsive to the environment
The article as a whole elaborates that even trying to pin down a single definiton of life is a bit of a fool’s errand, much less trying to use such a definition to support arguments about when life starts or stops.
From the Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy (which actually is just re-quoting an entirely different article, one of many discussed within)
We propose to define living systems as those that are: (1) composed of bounded micro-environments in thermodynamic equilibrium with their surroundings; (2) capable of transforming energy to maintain their low-entropy states; and (3) able to replicate structurally distinct copies of themselves from an instructional code perpetuated indefinitely through time despite the demise of the individual carrier through which it is transmitted.
From a University of Minnesota Introduction to Biology course
All groups of living organisms share several key characteristics or functions: order, sensitivity or response to stimuli, reproduction, adaptation, growth and development, regulation, homeostasis, and energy processing. When viewed together, these characteristics serve to define life.
In short, there really isn’t any unified definition of life. Comparing different definitions, there’s common themes that emerge, but nothing that supports saying conception is when it starts. If you’re going to use that definition, you can’t support it by saying that “science” defines it that way.
- Comment on just three women have died and 50783 babies have been saved by Texas' abortion law. A damn good trade if you ask me. 2 months ago:
It doesn’t. Life is a continuum, it doesn’t care what artificial labels we try to put on things. A fertilized egg is just as alive as an unfertilized one, or a sperm cell, by any scientific definition of life, highlights how useless it is to try and use that definition to argue about abortion.
- Comment on Cannot load additional pages in Jerboa 2 months ago:
Interesting. The web UI doesn’t give me that issue. It is HORRENDOUSLY slow, though. It periodically freezes for as much as minutes at a time.
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- Comment on Seeking feedback: how should lemm.ee move forward with external images? (related to frequent broken images) 3 months ago:
Option 2 seems like the optimal idea, on paper, if Option 1 isn’t feasible, but Option 3 doesn’t really bother me, if there’s trouble with Option 2’s implementation. I don’t consider privacy at an IP-tracking level really that much of a concern. This is a social media platform, my privacy is my anonymity.
It sounds like maybe Lemmy itself coupd use some enhancement with regard to how and when it decides to proxy, and what it does when proxying fails. If we can get a better experience by swapping to Option 3, until such enhancements are maybe made in the future, that sounds fair to me.
- Comment on Seeking feedback: how should lemm.ee move forward with external images? (related to frequent broken images) 3 months ago:
The issue last year was with someone, or many someones, uploading CSAM (child sexual abuse material, I.E. child porn). Like, SPAMMING it out to a bunch of Lemmy servers, which then federated it out across the whole network, in REALLY high volume. Obviously, no one wants to see that, but the legal concern is liability. For some servers, depending on where they’re hosted, that means they can be held responsible for “hosting” the content, once it’s been federated to them.
- Comment on Seeking feedback: how should lemm.ee move forward with external images? (related to frequent broken images) 3 months ago:
I’ll wager “no” to your question. That sounds like something the Lemmy codebase itself would have to implement, not smething that’s just configurable.
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- Comment on Slapping Chicken 5 months ago:
Let’s assume the chicken has to reach a temperature of 205C (400F) for us to consider it cooked.
Remind me never to let this guy cook for me.
- Comment on Which anime do you enjoy with a mostly adult cast of characters? 5 months ago:
Fullmetal Alchemist (both of them). The two main characters are basically the only teenagers, and only one of them looks it.
- Comment on Nothing is requiring employees to be in the office five days a week 5 months ago:
This right here. This article title. This is why you don’t name your company “Nothing”.
- Comment on shapez 2 is a big hit with over 150,000 copies sold in less than a week 5 months ago:
They took the genre and distilled it down to the purest gameplay-focused form that they could. And for an Early Access title, it could absolutely be a full release today. No bugs, no performance issues, nothing feels missing or incomplete, except maybe a few minor QoL bits. The success is deserved.
- Comment on Sonos lays off 100 employees as its app crisis continues 6 months ago:
Who?
- Comment on This shitpost is preventing shutdown 6 months ago:
Inside the kernel, even!
- Comment on Day 4 of posting a Daily Screenshot from the games I’ve been playing until I forget to post Screenshots 6 months ago:
Shit, this is a cool idea. I might have to steal this.
- Comment on would I enjoy tunic? 7 months ago:
Let’s say it’s a cipher, but with a twist.
- Comment on How do y'all feel about using summons in Soulslikes? [Lies of P endgame spoilers] 7 months ago:
If they get friends, I get friends.
Fuck every last person who gatekeeps the way someone uses intentional game mechanics.
- Comment on would I enjoy tunic? 7 months ago:
It sure sounds like you would like it. I will say that for me, everything about the game is fantastic, except for the combat, which is kinda terrible. Especially the boss fights. Feels to me like they’re trying to mimic a souls-like style, but really really overshot on difficulty.
Basically, I say go for it, but don’t hesitate to drop the difficulty settings, if you’re like me.
Also, get yourself a physical notepad.
Also, also, don’t feel bad about having to look up some stuff for the really late/post-game puzzles. One thing they toom WELL from Dark Souls is the idea of puzzles that are really made to be solved by the collective wisdom of the community, not just you.
Also, also, also, don’t disregard the language puzzle, completely. I did, and when I looked it up later, I wish I hadn’t I wish I’d at least have given it a shot, for myself.
Good luck!
- Comment on Hotly anticipated 'Black Myth: Wukong' is delayed on Xbox Series X|S — and now, Microsoft has responded 7 months ago:
friendly reminder that the game developer himself said this game ‘needed no female players’" and claimed “some things are made only for men”
I anticipate this game dying in a hot fire.
Article for reference. Unfortunately all the original source (twitter posts and whatnot) seem to have been deleted.
- Comment on [deleted] 7 months ago:
Yet another proof that I stumbled into the best instance from the beginning.
- Comment on Did Obama Becoming President Make People Hide Their Racism? 9 months ago:
Lol, no. I have family members that actively called him a n****r while he was in office.
- Comment on It is very therapeutic to garden, though. 9 months ago:
Agreed, my wife and I had that conversation recently, as it happens. Though, for some things, there are other benefits. Herbs is the best example, even the fresh, packaged herbs that you can buy at a grocery will be noticeably not-as-good as something that you picked fresh in the backyard 2 minutes ago. Dill, basil, thyme, mint, what have you. I’ve found the same to be true of things like bell peppers and jalapenos.
- Comment on Notice for all moderators: please check the lemm.ee moderation policy 9 months ago:
Best instance continues to set the bar.
- Comment on Mmmm Chicker Nugger 9 months ago:
Having happiness in your life and wanting tobshare it with others?
Fucking nerd.
- Comment on Phones have unique phone numbers, why dont computers have unique computer-numbers? 9 months ago:
Main difference there being that switching cities means probably switching ISPs. You can absolutely carry over your IP address when you move between the same provider, if that’s part of your service plan, and that may well happen with some ISPs even without it being part of your plan. There just isn’t really much of a need for people to carry a static IP, except for some businesses, and I’d say the main reason is that people don’t visit websites by memorizing and typing in an IP. They do memorize and type in phone numbers.
- Comment on Phones have unique phone numbers, why dont computers have unique computer-numbers? 9 months ago:
They do, it’s called an IP address.
Phones get numbers assigned to them by a cell service provider, in order to communicate on their network, which is basically the exact process for computers and IP addresses.
If you’re asking about the equivalent of like a SIM card, in the computer/internet world, that’s handled at higher layers, by digital certificates. And again, the process is almost exactly the same, except they don’t (usually) get put on physical chips.