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- Comment on Yes, you can store data on a bird — enthusiast converts PNG to bird-shaped waveform, teaches young starling to recall file at up to 2MB/s 2 weeks ago:
Starlings are invasive.
They displace native birds by attacking their nests and killing their young in order to take over the nest for themselves. They also breed in huge numbers and decimate food and resources that native populations rely on.
There’s a very good reason they have no federal level protections against trapping or hunting
- Comment on Yes, you can store data on a bird — enthusiast converts PNG to bird-shaped waveform, teaches young starling to recall file at up to 2MB/s 2 weeks ago:
Do you promise? All i want for Christmas is for starlings to fuck right off
- Comment on The US government could get even more Intel stock if the company ends up losing control of its chip manufacturing business 2 weeks ago:
Nationalizing any big company is kinda funny from the administration pushing to privatize everything else for their rich buddies to run
- Comment on Japanese Power Plant Turns Saltwater Into Electricity 2 weeks ago:
The reason being that dumping the brine back into the ocean creates a dead zone wherever that dump point is, since the relative concentration of salts is higher compared to regular seawater.
They’re almost certainly recreating seawater just to help alleviate the dead zone effect and figured out how to get some free electricity out of it too
- Comment on Hundreds of thousands of Grok chats exposed in Google results 3 weeks ago:
If you’re still on Twitter, you deserved this
- Comment on Amazon is considering shoving ads into Alexa+ conversations 1 month ago:
I’m pretty sure Amazon got this idea from Black Mirror’s latest season
- Comment on [deleted] 5 months ago:
I hate grass, I hate mowing it and the free time that eats. Its useless
I’m slowly deleting patches by installing garden beds and pathways with things that are useful to me and wildlife and don’t need constant maintenance.
My dream is to strip off the top layer of most of the yard and put down some grasses that don’t grow above 4-6 inches and other ground cover between my garden beds.
- Comment on China Halts Critical Rare Earth Exports as Trade War Intensifies. 5 months ago:
Holy hell, thank you for posting that
I’ve never seen that one before. My sides hurt
- Comment on Stable Genius At Work 5 months ago:
It probably was, to buy the dip for him and his buddies
- Comment on Mortgage rates surge over 7% as tariffs hit bond market 5 months ago:
You can afford rent?
- Comment on Getting Nicole-ed feels way more awesome than how getting scammer spam usually feels. 5 months ago:
There’s a Nicole community now?
- Comment on A tool to compare laptop prices and specs 6 months ago:
Where have you been all my life?
This is exactly the tool I needed. Thank you so much!
- Comment on Opening Lemmy in the morning and seeing dozens of unread comments in your inbox makes you think: what the heck did I say yesterday? 6 months ago:
Oh she’s using a new picture now?
I’ll probably get it in my inbox sooner or later
- Comment on Bluesky and Mastodon users can now talk to each other with Bridgy Fed | TechCrunch 6 months ago:
Since mastodon can interact with us, does that mean bluesky can too?
- Comment on ISPs fear wave of state laws after New York’s $15 broadband mandate 6 months ago:
Corporations fear they can’t afford another yacht. News at 11
- Comment on Be the change you want to see in Lemmy 6 months ago:
I’m doing my small part.
Went from 100% lurker on Reddit to regularly active lemmy commenter
- Comment on Titan submersible implosion apparently captured in new audio 6 months ago:
It’s the sound of hubris
What is remarkable is that implosion sound clip was recorded 900 miles away
- Comment on Time to get serious with E2E encrypted messaging 7 months ago:
There’s also Wire
E2EE and can be used as desktop or phone app interchangeably. No phone number required for signup.
Family has been using this for years now
- Comment on We need a more active admin. 7 months ago:
In the meantime posting about this chud is good for bringing attention to it. The other thread about this is why I just blocked the guy so I can get back to wasting my time on my own terms.
- Comment on Library 7 months ago:
This is why I don’t bother buying games, much to the bewilderment of my partner who participates in this ‘buy 100, play 5’ thing.
Accept that you’re basic and save that cash for something else
- Comment on Anyone ever look at pictures of themselves as a child and feel no connection to them? 7 months ago:
Your sentiments are appreciated and we need more reminders like this out in the world in these dark times.
Yeah, family and loved ones will always have that bias because people are more than their physical appearance. Thoughts, attitudes, habits, feelings, kin. You love someone for all of those reasons and more.
But if I saw a doppelgänger child I’d be lying right to the parents faces to remain cordial.
YMMV. Highly subjective and all
- Comment on Anyone ever look at pictures of themselves as a child and feel no connection to them? 7 months ago:
All babies looks ugly to me
Yeah this is in line with how I see babies and kids, so that’s gonna explain some of it. It’s definitely an unwritten rule to say babies are cute.
Though my cousin had a couple kids and the youngest was the exception to the rule when he was like 2-6, just the cutest little thing.
So I don’t know.
- Comment on Anyone ever look at pictures of themselves as a child and feel no connection to them? 7 months ago:
It goes a step beyond for me.
I look at kid pictures of myself and think I was an ugly looking baby. Everyone else thinks I was cute. Which I take to mean everyone is being polite, but I couldn’t care less because I don’t remember being that kid whatsoever.
- Comment on Israel Is Blocking 11 American Doctors and Nurses From Leaving Gaza 7 months ago:
Nothing will change until we stop giving them carte blanche to do whatever they want. Daddy America would have to cut off their allowance and we know orange Mussolini has no intention of doing that.
So don’t expect ceasefires or international laws or citizenship status to matter one bit
- Comment on New Year's fireworks accidents kill five in Germany 8 months ago:
Hey that’s our job! Us Americans are supposed to be the ones maiming or killing ourselves from fireworks, it’s practically an American tradition
- Comment on Facebook and Instagram to Unleash AI-Generated ‘Users’ No One Asked For 8 months ago:
They see Reddit pulling off having bots steer discourse and they’re green with envy. I can’t imagine it not being something like this
- Comment on Israel must face consequences over Gaza campaign: UN experts 8 months ago:
UN rights experts are independent figures mandated by the Human Rights Council. They do not therefore speak for the United Nations itself.
Well there’s your problem.
Not that it would matter if the UN itself acknowledged anything remotely close to this being genocide, they’re a toothless collection of bureaucrats
- Comment on New bird flu mutation discovered in US as cat infections cause alarm 8 months ago:
This is more of a don’t let your cats outside and don’t feed them frozen raw meat foods. Even though that diet is healthier for them as obligate carnivores
- Comment on DUHH 9 months ago:
- Comment on Stress 10 months ago:
I mean yeah that’s true.
But on reddit reposts were everywhere and it was very common for bots to karma farm by doing so, so calling it out had a purpose.
