Slowy

@Slowy@lemmy.world

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Bombs Awat⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Like yes, but, the actual hard part of aquarium fish keeping isn’t really related to the fish themselves. It’s the water… nature has already prepared this biologically active, clean, ample supply of water for the air dropped trout. Replicating that in a tiny glass box without at least a surface understanding of the chemistry involved can be very difficult. But you should also learn how to supply an animal with the proper environment before you get one.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Hacking Kia: Remotely Controlling Cars With Just a License Plate.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Both of those functions have been available via key fob for at least a decade, no internet required. Though yes the range on that can be limited.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Self study; Changing my own Biology Successfully⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  I think one major difference is feathers - we have not had feathers show up in any mammalian mutations or evolutions that I know of. We went a different direction, with the fur and all. So even if fast tracking wings were possible I think that would involve some kind of fur covering and different adaptation for flight more akin to bats.

  The other major hiccup is - fast tracked uncontrolled evolution, aka genetic mutation, without the controls/failsafes (such as non-viable mutated animals dying out and failing to breed) just equates to cancer…

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Self study; Changing my own Biology Successfully⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  We mammals are pretty far (~65 million years) diverged from birds, so you’d probably be looking at more of a bat style wing or flying squirrel gliding skin mechanism than anything feathered.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨catfish'd⁩ ⁨⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I live for your memes

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  There is still a bit of the Finless Porpoise left there, but not dolphins specifically no.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  There are types of freshwater river dolphins in the Yangtze and the Amazon, for example. Sea dolphins can survive in freshwater for awhile but their skin isn’t adapted to it, and it will get damaged eventually. That and the difference in buoyancy in sea water vs freshwater leads to the sea dolphins eventually getting exhausted in freshwater.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Lemmy.world Should Defederate with Threads⁩ ⁨⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  They weighed in months ago back when it was announced and said they were taking a wait and see approach, where if it did cause problems they would defederate, but didn’t want to preemptively do so. Many other instances did defederate already though.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Top 50 defederated instances⁩ ⁨⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  What was it? This list really piques my curiosity but I know it’s better not to look….

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Doesn't each community being local to each instance split the audience?⁩ ⁨⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  It would be cool to be able to just combine the content at the user level. You could have all the gaming communities under a custom gaming label, with a filter that checks for duplicate titles or links (wouldn’t be perfect but decent) and imports in the comments from duplicate threads (with some subheadings or something to distinguish their origin)

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨X advertisers stay away as CEO defends Musk’s “go f*** yourself” interview⁩ ⁨⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Oh I see, in my app your comment shows up as a top level comment not a directly reply to someone. But that explanation makes sense !

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Walmart, Costco and other companies rethink self-checkout, some stores removing them⁩ ⁨⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I really don’t like doing pickup because I care about the quality and ripeness of my produce and also purposefully select the furthest away expiry dates for certain things I go through slowly, it becomes a lot to ask someone else to do if there are 20 comment lines for these little details, but if I don’t it just results in wasted food and money :/

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨X advertisers stay away as CEO defends Musk’s “go f*** yourself” interview⁩ ⁨⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Why don’t you want to engage in public? Just curious, I don’t have any contentious viewpoint to express

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Real Love⁩ ⁨⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  wellbeingintlstudiesrepository.org/…/viewcontent.…

  Nothing concrete of course, because it’s very difficult to study at a stage where we cannot communicate or directly observe the emotional states of animals, nor ethically design a study where one attempts to cause animals enough distress to engage in self harm or bring about their deaths (and simultaneously prove that was their intent).

  It’s in no way a concluded topic, but it doesn’t make sense to reject outright either - and I definitely think there is enough evidence around for animals understanding of their peers mortality, why start with the assumption that they have an inability to recognize their own mortality in the first place? It’s good to be skeptical, but unproven anthropomorphism is just as illogical as the opposite assumption.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Real Love⁩ ⁨⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I would think the cases of non-human animals committing suicide (mostly cetaceans) would be indicative that at least some of them can comprehend personal mortality on some level. It’s a bit different if an animal doesn’t eat due to stress or whatever and starves to death, I wouldn’t call that suicide, but whales occasionally just drown themselves, that’s pretty hard to rationalize any other way

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨We're probably pretty fortunate that humans have at least some degree of self control over when we stop eating.⁩ ⁨⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Natural selection like that only occurs if you die before you get a chance to reproduce, a lot of the diseases affecting the obese kill you a bit later than that

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨MIGHTY MIGHTY HETEROMORPHIN TIME⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Niche, silly, beautiful

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨An EXTRA Hour!⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  No daylight savings time change masterrace saskatchewan representing

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How should I handle an ex friend who feels like he needs to bully me to raise his own self esteem? (We're adults)⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  I had this same thing happen with a friend of mine, he was being manipulated by his partner at the time, 1 slow motion train crash later, he got diagnosed with bipolar, medicated and stabilized. We talk a bit again, it’s nice to see him in a stable place. But if someone refuses to hear what the therapist says and dismisses them or hides information from them they aren’t really going to be able to get proper help.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨LinkedIn Issues Warning to Site Shaming Pro-Palestinian Sentiment.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  That would track if it was anti or pro but it seems to be specifically aimed to censor one side

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Baldur’s Gate 3 player finds “rarest” ending where characters are dogs and cats - Dexerto⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Spoiler tags for literal game endings would be nice even if they are in the titles

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  No he’s right, this is a disconnect with reality

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨England’s concrete crisis could extend to hospitals and courts, experts say⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Never heard of it until this moment

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨pugs are a cruel human creation⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Check out exotic toad bulldogs for a step into the very wrong direction

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Spyware maker LetMeSpy shuts down after hacker deletes server data⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  No its more like for secretly spying on a partner you suspect of cheating or child’s phone activity. I think you need to get ahold of the device in question and have it unlocked to install this. Still very unethical obviously