Candelestine

@Candelestine@lemmy.ca

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨‘Jeopardy!’ to reuse questions, contestants for Season 40 amid writer’s strike⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  … they can’t find someone to come up with trivia questions worded in reverse word order? That’s really not that hard.

  Ooh! They should use ChatGPT!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨YSK that YouTube shadow bans people (for a time) + implications to creators⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  This comment is hilarious, and it being downvoted is sad.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨When you notice Lemmy is quieter than usual, thean have a look at the Lemmy.world status⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  If either of those figures is actually accurate from an end-user standpoint, then the entire downtime must be coming during my primary periods of usage.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[HN] UK man bitten by cat contracts unknown and ‘extensive’ bacterial infection⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  No, salt would probably not be an effective method. If you’re going for the hydrophilic method like that, you’re better off using honey, which was used at several different spots throughout history as a wound dressing.

  While we can do much better nowadays, it does have some anti-microbial properties and could definitely be better than nothing.

  If all you have is salt, you could try making a saturated saltwater solution and using that, but it’s not going to be as effective. These are not particularly good methods in general, as there are many, many pathogens that can resist them in a wide variety of ways. (like, viruses not necessarily needing water to still exist, for instance)

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨When you notice Lemmy is quieter than usual, thean have a look at the Lemmy.world status⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s been this way for weeks, actually. I haven’t seen a graph of the uptime, but I’m sure one would look extremely ugly, based on my own user experience.

  This right here is an alt, and despite the fact that I don’t prefer to comment from it, since I won’t necessarily check in soon to see replies, it’s seeing some heavy use.

  The attacks a few weeks ago weren’t a one-off, they never stopped. It seems down maybe half the time or so?

  One of the many ways we (all of Lemmy) are not quite ready for the mainstream yet, we still have basic technical/security issues to resolve. Soon, though.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Baffled Scientists Detect Massive Unexplained Radiation From the Sun, Study Reports⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  I’m not him, but now that I think about it, there is a tendency for many people to prefer the more generalized term.

  Where scientists don’t tend to use the word scientist as much, I can’t recall ever seeing the term in a journal article for instance. (I don’t read many, but I’ll read an abstract here and there) I’m not sure why. I expect it’s some categorization thing, where not all scientists perform research, so researcher is the more precise term. I’m just guessing as to the reason though, I do not have a PhD.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Lemmy is more left leaning because the rights popularity seen on other social media are driven by bots that are not here.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  This is underrated. I actually close Lemmy a lot easier and more quickly than I did reddit, it’s not hooking me with dopamine hits nearly as strongly.

  As a result, since I know I’ll probably just scroll for a few minutes at a time, I’m more willing to check in more often and toss a few upvotes and maybe a comment or two around.