loaExMachina
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- Comment on Existential trolley problem 6 days ago:
Why are these the passengers
- Comment on 👩🦰💔 1 week ago:
The content of his studies was mostly false, but the concept of it was influential and groundbreaking. He initiated the process of moving the questions of the mind from the field of philosophy to the field of science a’d medicine… But he didn’t achieve that process himself. His psychoanalysis wasn’t science yet, but philosophy on its way to become science.
- Comment on animals you need to know 2 weeks ago:
What’s funny with all these small, narrow-snouted bug-eating mammals is you can never guess what bigger mammal they’re more closely related too by a pic alone because this body plan is present in all therians, possibly because it was the best suited to survive the KT-extinction. So while you’d be tempted to call all of them rodents, you’ve got tree shrews closer to primates, tenrecs closer to elephants, and possums closer to kangaroos than they are to mice.
- Comment on Why do we have hands? 2 weeks ago:
It’s stomach was making the rumblies; that only hands could satisfy…
- Comment on collegial colleagues 3 weeks ago:
Dear Dustycyps, I’m 'ot replying to your reply.
- Comment on Evolution isn't linear. 3 weeks ago:
U sure? Because dromaesaurus lived during the end cretaceous, birds were already a thing. Aurornis, which can be considered the earliest known bird, lived almost 80 million years before dromaesaurus. Even if you meant the dromaesaurid clade, birds aren’t usually classified in it, and possibly predate it.
Tho it’s true that birds are closer to dromaesaurus than to T-Rex, as birds and romaesaurids are part of the maniraptora clade.
- Comment on (Re)Caption this. 3 weeks ago:
Who said you needed a computer to run Linux?
- Gùlguʁnakjsam : Communauté francophone célébrant l'amitié franco-gùlhuʁnakjsamienne (science-fiction satirique)jlai.lu ↗Submitted 3 weeks ago to newcommunities@lemmy.world | 0 comments
- Comment on Is the combined knowledge of humanity safer than it has ever been? 1 month ago:
Yeah, some infos that had to be stored really long times, like the location of buried radioactive waste, are written on paper. Because with current tech, we can make really good paper that doesn’t tear easily or rot for hundreds of years and really good ink that doesn’t fade, but we can’t make digital drives that can last nearly as long. Even regular paper and ink, if in the right conditions, may last longer than an SSD or HDD…
- Comment on What would happen if all of humanity don't need to work any more ? 1 month ago:
Would depend how it’s achieved. The most realistic way would be through mass automation, but the question is now “who owns the machines that produce everything?” A minority controlling these means of production would mean the rest of the world is at their mercy. If they manage to maintain their ownership (though a fully automated defense force, I guess), they can have the rest of the world doing whatever they want… But what do they need these people for then? All they are is a threat, as they are prone to revolt. Genocide seems like a handy option if the elites are sufficiently ruthless, but it would be hard to put in place; there are many people in the world and they can be inventive when fighting for their lives. Beside, there would probably be several such elite groups, still divided in different country; one who starts building large armies and stacking weapons might attract hostility from their neighbors. Providing the people with their needs to pacify them? Sure, but what if they want more? Or what if they make their own automated armies with the free time they have not worrying about starvation? Keeping them occupied seems safer. Why not invent some bogus job that doesn’t actually need to be done and have them believe they still need to earn their living? That could solve the problem from the elite’s point of view. So basically, no change for the people.
With collective ownership of the means of production and an egalitarian spread of wealth, it could be cool tho. People would just do whatever they want, many would still probably undertake collective project, either to further better life of for the fun of it. There could still be forms of conflicts about how some things are managed and by whom, tho…
- Comment on I can't post images anymore 2 months ago:
It does for me too, thank you!
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- Comment on /c/café daily chat thread for 3 December 2023 5 months ago:
A second day has passed without Henri Kissinger!
- Comment on What does it look like for a YouTube creator when the audience uses something like NewPipe or Freetube? 5 months ago:
+1 NewPipe from France
- Comment on Could feral chicken take over the Amazon ? 6 months ago:
Wow, I didn’t know about that… It’s even more troublesome for the hens if it keeps them from feeding of worms and bugs. If part of them survive long enough to breed, this won’t be a problem for the next generation… But this is already a big “if”.
- Comment on Could feral chicken take over the Amazon ? 6 months ago:
Yeah, it’s the jungle fowls I mentioned, from southern China, india and SEA; that’s why I think they might adapt well to the rainforest climate !
- Comment on Could feral chicken take over the Amazon ? 6 months ago:
Why do you think feral chickens are a concern?
No particular reason, chicken, ecological disasters and Brasil are just three things that have been popping in and out of my mind lately, it was only a matter of time until they combined.
The jaguar and anaconda population would increase for a few generations, but it would balance it out after a while
But would chicken still have a place in this new balance? I mean, tigers and pythons haven’t hunted the jungle fowls to extinction, nor have jaguars and anacondas done so to the unrelated, yet- similar tinamu…
- Comment on Could feral chicken take over the Amazon ? 6 months ago:
Yeah, you might be right, byt just to feed the debate I’ll take the defense of the chicken :
- Their sheer number is a big factor : There can be hundreds of thousands in a single farm. Even in tens of thousands die on the first days, the next morning, the survivors will be less fat and more alert
- Red junglefowls are quite adept at living in a rainforest environment despite being nearly flightless and living close to many predators. Their strategy of being diurnal and hiding in the trees at night to avoid mostly nocturnal predators works pretty well and many Amazon predators are noxturnal as well. Mass farm chicken might be too fat at first, but it shouldn’t last too long and feral chicken are known to quickly recover their instincts and start brooding in trees.
-[Tinamus](en.wikipediaorg/wiki/White-throatedₜᵢₙₐₘₒᵤ?wₚᵣₒᵥ₌… while very var from chicken classification-wise (and closer to ostriches), fill a very similar niche and have a similar lifestyle to jungle fowls, also being very poor flyers. This proves that this type of lifestyle can also work in the Amazon. And with tinamu populations being destabilized by deforestation, and chicken being more adapted to a variety of lifestyles, they could outcompete them and steal their niche.
- Just for the scorpion part : Chicken rarely encounrer scorpions due to these being nocturnal. And when they do, it’s a pretty even match : The scorpions might poison them, but the feathers make it harder and the chicken might eat the scorpion first. Source
- Submitted 6 months ago to nostupidquestions@lemmy.world | 15 comments
- Comment on Is social media mostly children? 8 months ago:
Children don’t really have that much free time than many adults, they have to go to school and all, and usually have to go to bed earlier. Beside, you only spend a small amount of your life being a child, so even assuming you’ve had access to social media since you were capable of writing, it’s likely that at the end of your life, unless you’ve suffered an early death, you’ll have spent more time as an adult on social media than as a shitposting child.
- Comment on /c/café daily chat thread for 13 August 2023 9 months ago:
Owwwwwwho
Living on prayer!
- Comment on Why do most religious conservatives support capitalist ideology? 9 months ago:
I think what leads one to hold onto their religion and to support the social status quo are the same things: Attachement to what is familiar and reassuring and rejection of what is new and scary. Conservatives often try to appropriate religion to appear as the side of comfy, reassuring tradition, and represent progressives as the side of scary disrupters.
- Comment on A religion is just a meme that people take seriously. 9 months ago:
I had both Dawkin’s definition and internet memes in mind as I wrote this, since I don’t think they’re so different in the end. A meme (even in the modern sense) doesn’t have to be a funny image: In can be a practice, like rickrolling; a text like copypastas, a story -true or fictional, like “operation baja-blast” or creepypastas. Some combine several of these things, like the meme “loss.jpg” contains the comic’s story, it’s pannels, and the behaviour of hiding the loss symbol or finding it. All of these things are also what religions are made off!
- Submitted 9 months ago to showerthoughts@lemmy.world | 19 comments
- Comment on Is the blockchain an interesting innovation, aside from cryptocurrencies ? 9 months ago:
Given that git was invented before the word “blockchain” started being used, shouldn’t we call blockchain applications “git-like” rather than retroactively calling Git a blockchain?
- Comment on Is the blockchain an interesting innovation, aside from cryptocurrencies ? 9 months ago:
I see, but if I’m not mistaken, git is anterior to the blockchain. What I’m asking here is what new things the blockchain brings to the table, that preexisting protocols like Git or P2P couldn’t do. Or is the blockchain just another application of the same principles (the Merkle chain, as a previous commenter was saying)? If so, what sets it appart ?
- Comment on Is the blockchain an interesting innovation, aside from cryptocurrencies ? 9 months ago:
So, if I get it, it’s like torrent, except instead of you manually verifying the hash code, each computer your file passes pay automatically checks and says “yup, the file I received and transmitted is the file I was supposed to receive and transmit” ?
- Submitted 9 months ago to nostupidquestions@lemmy.world | 86 comments