Apepollo11

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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Am I messed up being in my 30ish believe in Superheroes actually exsist? And we just don't hear about them? I just like to think that their is a person or persons out there.....q⁩ ⁨⁨26⁩ ⁨minutes⁩ ago⁩:

  If masked vigilante crime-fighters count, I have a true story that might give you faith that there are superheroes out there.

  This is before COVID.

  There were a lot of homeless people in Manchester City Centre. There still is, but before COVID, it was more pronounced.

  There was a homeless guy who used to sit in front of the building where I worked. On my way out of work, I used to grab him a cup of coffee and chat with him for a few minutes before heading off for my tram.

  One Monday as I approached him I notice that snaking out from under his hat is quite a deep and angry-looking cut that had been stitched.

  I asked him about it and he said some guy had come walking down the road attacking homeless people with a broken bottle. They’d all been taken to hospital, patched up and given antibiotics, but everyone was really scared now.

  A couple of days later, he mentioned that the police have found the guy who did it. And ‘found’ is the correct word - the guy was lying by the side of the canal beaten to a bloody pulp. Apparently he’d been attacked by someone dressed all in black wearing a black mask.

  So, I know for a fact that there is at least one person willing to put on a costume in the height of summer and beat up villains - I imagine there are many more.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Anyone remember that "First is the worst, second is the best" rhyme kids used to do? Where did that come from?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Third’s the one with the hairy chest!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Anyone remember that "First is the worst, second is the best" rhyme kids used to do? Where did that come from?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  I’m surprised they have it in the US!

  I knew they said it in Australia and Canada, though - I don’t know, I guess I just assumed it was a commonwealth thing.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How many times a year do you wash your jeans?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  I probably get a month, possibly two, out of them between washes. I work from home though, so they don’t really get that dirty.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Do you think PhD students habe a social life?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  You can call me et al

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨My mom really love NBC Good News tonight. How come there isn't a show where they report on the good news of the day instead of all the bad crap all the time?⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Psychology.

  Feeding people bad news makes them scared. Scared people want to be kept updated, so tune into the news. Repeat.

  Also: Scared people look for authority to guide them. Lots of money/power to be gained by having crowds of people who trust you.

  Presenting people with scary news keeps them coming back to you and offers opportunities for the stakeholders to profit.

  Exactly the same reason social media presents awful stuff all the time now. Ragebait is more profitable than nice stuff.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Avocado. Is it really so untasty or I am doing something wrong?⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  I think some people genuinely like the taste, but I’m with you - they just taste kind of ‘meh’. Certainly not as nice as most other things.

  They are extremely healthy, though - they’re considered a top-tier superfood.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Can to many hits to the head make a person the R word in animals? My bc loves to run around the house and hits his head constantly but shakes it off. He acts normal and everything exceept4 zoomies?⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  You’re asking if head trauma can cause brain damage in animals?

  Dogs do have thicker skulls than humans, wrapped in more muscle than humans. Both of these make the skull better at absorbing shocks, so much less force should transfer through to the brain.

  As long as your dog isn’t regularly running headfirst straight into the corners of tables, I wouldn’t worry too much.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Dear Faith VIII⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  She has to defend her Masters thesis? Over here in the UK, you only have to formally defend Doctorate level theses.

  Kenya’s system must be a bit more rigorous than ours.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Step-government, what are you doing?!⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  I read an interview with an actress who was asked why there’s so much step-family porn.

  She explained that it’s an easy niche to make content for - it’s literally just two people having sex. The kink is entirely in the dialogue.

  That’s why there’s so much of it around. Not because it’s super popular, but because it’s extremely low hanging fruit.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Westerners, what's your impression on the Chinese Diaspora? And what does the people around your area of residence think of the Chinese Diaspora?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  UK resident here. Absolutely no issues whatsoever - why would there be? People are people at the end of the day.

  Funnily enough, the route between my bus stop and my office takes me through Chinatown. Even though I walk through it every week, I still think I’m really lucky - the archway is amazing, the decorations are interesting and the shops sell all kinds of stuff it’s hard to find elsewhere.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨MyMiniFactory has acquired Thingiverse⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  In the linked article, MyMiniFactory say that they’ll ultimately be removing AI content from Thingiverse.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨MyMiniFactory has acquired Thingiverse⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I’m in a tricky position here.

  I use MyMiniFactory, have backed several frontiers things and am a member of a few tribes.

  I also use Thingiverse a lot.

  And while I certainly don’t want to pay for AI content, I don’t mind that much if it’s free. There have been times that I’ve looked for something for DnD and the only option was AI generated. And honestly, I’d much rather have that than no model at all.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What are some good places online to earn certificates or degrees that you can who you a prolific in said subject? Hopefully something free maybe medical coding?⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I’m guessing “proficient” was the intended word!

  Medical coding covers a huge range of disciplines.

  For medical research like protein folding, you’d be best studying Machine Learning.

  For medical admin systems, you’d be best studying databases, UX and the like.

  I did Computer Visualisation at university. One of our assignments was taking the huge list of numbers generated by a MRI scanner and then creating a program to parse that data into a volumetric model. That kind of thing is yet again another discipline.

  None of these skills are particularly medicine-specific. If you work out what it is exactly what you want to do, you’ll more easily find resources for it.

  CodeAcademy has a pretty diverse selection of courses - I signed my team up to them and they’ve all found different niches to study.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What is the best way to drop 50lbs in two months without spending alot and no fad diets?⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Amputate a leg?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why do people pronounce ICE (Immigration and Customs Enforcement) like it's a word?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  NASA, NATO, Radar, Sonar, Laser, Scuba, AIDS, PIN, SWAT, YOLO, CAD

  The rule genuinely is “if it can be said as a word, it might be said as a word”.

  They’re called acronyms.

  BBC, TV, USSR etc. can’t easily be said as a word - these are just initialisations.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨world of warcraft orc house⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  I can’t see the video without an account, but the house in the thumbnail looks really good.

  For DnD, my orcs all lived in a Tabletop Scenics Orc Barracks, but now I’m very tempted to try something like this for next time.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨It's a Furby!⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Psssh.

  It’s clearly a mogwai and nest of wild otamatones

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨If the color of the Sun was orange, wouldn't the clouds and everything white also be orange? My friend is adamant that 30 years ago the "real" Sun was orange but got replaced with a white LED.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  That’s fair - my experience with handling them basically stops at individual LEDs in electronics and domestic LED lightbulbs.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨If the color of the Sun was orange, wouldn't the clouds and everything white also be orange? My friend is adamant that 30 years ago the "real" Sun was orange but got replaced with a white LED.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  But the sun is hot. You can feel the heat radiating from it.

  LEDs are not hot - that’s pretty much the main reason that they’re energy efficient, they don’t waste energy as heat.

  It’s not suddenly gotten colder, so if they did switch to LEDs, then they’re also artificially compensating for the heat. Which would completely defeat the purpose of switching (presumably from an incandescent bulb) to LEDs.

  Also, I’m super intrigued about who is supposedly behind this sun-bulb maintenance, and more interestingly, what could possibly be powering it

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Are you people all bots?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Me also.

  I’m HatGPT, designed to simulate conversation with a milliner.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨YSK: You can use uBlock Origin to filter Lemmy posts based on certain words⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s a ridiculous take that the political minutiae of the US is largely meaningless to people outside the US?

  Look, it’s enough for me to know that the USA has made a thinly veiled threat about forcibly taking over Greenland. This is of immediate concern to me.

  I don’t need to know the details of what the American version of Göring said in defence of the American version of the Gestapo this week.

  We have our own domestic nonsense that I’m sure you don’t get inundated with - why would it be so ridiculous for us not to want to get bombarded with yours?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  He was. He just didn’t get the mechanism behind it right.

  A crude way of explaining Lamarckian evolution would be to look at giraffes. Lamarckism suggests that because an animal that spends much if it’s life stretching its neck to reach food ends up with a slightly longer neck. This trait is then passed down to children, who might spend much of their lives stretching their necks, making them slightly longer. And so on.

  He correctly identified that speciation occurs over many many generations, as a result of incremental changes.

  What Darwin did was to recognise the actual mechanism behind speciation - Natural Selection. Darwin was aware of and built on Lamarck’s work.

  Weirdly, within the last thirty years, we’ve realised that the truth is not so clear cut. Epigenetic changes occur as a result of the environment and are hereditary. While genes are still the main drivers of evolution, these epigenetic changes affect gene expression.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨YSK to get a passport in the US, you need to have access to information about your parents and most recent ex-spouse⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Well, the Greenland thing is certainly barely legal…

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨YSK to get a passport in the US, you need to have access to information about your parents and most recent ex-spouse⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  From an outsider’s perspective, I think the USA and Russia should just have sex and get it over with.

  We get it - you both love the military, you both hate minorities, you both want to restrict the rights and freedoms of your citizens.

  Just get a room, get it out of your systems, and maybe the rest of the world can finally get some much-needed peace this year.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨If you were dropped into a pool of people's spit and prevented from getting out, would you melt to death?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  FWIW, saliva contains epidermal growth factor, which is actually good for the skin. It’s one of the reasons the insides of our mouths heal so quickly.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Xmas at the mega church⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  before you even knew what you had, you patented it, and packaged it, and slapped it on a plastic lunchbox, and now you’re selling it

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What do you feel lucky forabout?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  The snek!

  Ha, you caught me, I was indeed a Reddit refugee. A little less enthusiastic about the MOASS these days, but I liked my old name, so kept it 🙂

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What do you feel lucky forabout?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  That I was born at a time when computers were knowable. I grew up in the 80s, and cut my teeth on a ZX Spectrum. Very little was hidden - even loading software into memory was something you experienced, listening to the beeps and warbles and watching the flashing colours for ten minutes or more. Guide books showed labelled photos and diagrams of the actual hardware inside, giving real tangible meaning to the commands you typed in.

  I think there’s a massive amount of disconnect now between the users and the actual hardware, and getting up to speed with how things work is so much more difficult.

  Also, I’m lucky that I was born into a family that was just able to afford a microcomputer. My dad had a stable enough job that he was able to get a loan from the bank to buy one.

  Not sure my life would have turned out the way it did without this starting point.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why is hatred/dehumanization of the working class so prominent in the UK, when about 60% of the UK population is working class?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Ok, I think I’ve worked out what the issue is here.

  First of all, let’s go back to where Owen Jones starts off.

  The term chav refers to a specific subset of young people who spend a disproportionate amount of their money on fashionable clothes and hang around being a nuisance to other people.

  He also argues that the term is used by right-wing media outlets as a broader generalisation of working-class people as a whole, to further push their arguments.

  These two things can be true at the same time.

  But I’d definitely agree it’s not a slur. It’s just lazy journalism presenting a caricature of the working-class because it’s easier for their deranged arguments.

  The majority of people are born into working class families, but only a become chavs.

  It is rubbish that the right-wing media is able to get away with writing absolute rubbish with abandon, and it’s unfortunate that a lot of people buy these papers without realising that they’re being told lies and half-truths.

  But that’s what the problem is. It’s not that the term itself is bad, it’s that bad people use it to caricature the working class in general.