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- Comment on Python Foundation rejects $1.5M grant with no-DEI strings 2 days ago:
The PSF is (presumably) already required to comply with Federal anti-discrimination laws. Am I misreading the text or does it not actually create any new obligations for the PSF if they were to accept the grant?
- Comment on Wrecked 'em 💀 3 days ago:
Only the foreign objects need to be removed. British rectums are for British objects.
- Comment on life purpose 1 week ago:
easy work in an air-conditioned office
despair
- Comment on [deleted] 1 week ago:
There’s a filter but it’s not necessarily a “sanity” filter. People on here generally seem to put more effort into learning and understanding the causes that they support than the average person on Facebook does, but those causes themselves are often far out of the mainstream and people’s understanding of why someone might disagree with them in good faith is often rather poor.
- Comment on [deleted] 1 week ago:
I think blaming billionaires for this is incorrect. Look at Lemmy: this place is very much a silo. I’ve been actively participating here for over two years and in that time I have encountered one or two people who supported Trump (the ones posting in /conservative/ before it apparently got taken over). I routinely get called a fascist for being a mainstream Democrat. I’m not complaining (after all, I choose to be here rather than in a more comfortable silo) but clearly being a federated open-source non-profit isn’t solving the problem.
Some billionaires got rich by enabling people to join online silos, but those billionaires were doing what the people wanted already.
- Comment on They say word-of-mouth marketing is the most effective form of marketing. What games did you (not) enjoy that came well-recommended by friends to you, and why did they recommend it to you? 1 week ago:
I often watch other people play games and they look like a lot of fun but then I buy them and try playing them myself and don’t like them. For example:
Kerbal Space Program
Baldur’s Gate 3
King of Dragon Pass
Subnautica
- Comment on In the doghouse: flying canines count as cargo, EU court rules 2 weeks ago:
I wish it was easier to travel with animals. I’d be willing to pay for an extra ticket if that meant being able to bring a dog with me in the cabin.
- Comment on Believing misinformation is a “win” for some people, even when proven false 2 weeks ago:
Our interpretation is that people who responded positively to these statements would feel they “win” by endorsing misinformation—doing so can show “the enemy” that it will not gain any ground over people’s views.
The article glosses over the distinction between endorsing misinformation and believing misinformation. I think people often interpret poll questions as expressions of political affiliation, so for example a person who thinks that the covid lockdowns were a mistake might say that covid is caused by 5G because that’s the answer that upsets or offends lockdown supporters, not because this person thinks it is the literal truth. In other words, what the authors are seeing is not necessarily sincere belief but rather a deliberate, politically motivated endorsement of statements known to be false.
- Comment on King of Dragon Pass, making you feel like a bronze age tribe chieftain 2 weeks ago:
My problem with the game was that the connection between my choices and winning or losing was very hard for me to see. The mechanics are hidden (to encourage roleplay) and the consequences of many actions can be quite delayed, so I would end up losing without understanding why
- Comment on At somepoint in human history there was likely a day where not a single human died. 2 weeks ago:
1:50,000 implies an average lifespan of 137 years, unless I’m missing something. I think 1:15,000 is a more reasonable estimate.
- Comment on Just in time 2 weeks ago:
How dangerous were women in the past, that you had to wear full plate armor when near them?
- Comment on Just in time 2 weeks ago:
I paid $15 a month to haul bulk cargo in a freighter.
- Comment on At somepoint in human history there was likely a day where not a single human died. 2 weeks ago:
I read the full paper and I’m not qualified to evaluate the validity of the model being proposed but I find the idea that the population was
about 1000 individuals, which persisted for about 100,000 years
rather implausible. Implausible things sometimes turn out to be true but models frequently turn out to be wrong so if I were to get, I would bet on the latter.
- Comment on At somepoint in human history there was likely a day where not a single human died. 2 weeks ago:
The human population would have to be in the tens of thousands for that to be likely, and I’m not sure it was ever that low unless we’re arguing about technicalities regarding who counts as human during the process of evolution.
- Comment on Cuddly gerbils 2 weeks ago:
You’re right!
- Comment on Cuddly gerbils 2 weeks ago:
Then why is there an odd number of gerbils?
- Comment on Asking for a chocaholic friend 3 weeks ago:
Winning a Nobel prize causes one to consume enormous amounts of chocolate? Is that what the prize money pays for?
- Comment on The level of discourse in the US right now 5 weeks ago:
I don’t think Garfield or anyone is going to change an adult’s well-established sexual orientation, but the idea that children growing up in a society that normalizes homosexual attraction will be more likely to develop inclinations that otherwise would have been suppressed seems reasonable to me. It’s supported both by the prevalence of what we would call bisexuality in certain cultures and by my own personal experience - I distinctly recall being young and trying to decide whether an attractive character in a picture was a flat-chested woman (and therefore OK) or a long-haired man (and therefore not OK). I had internalized social expectations before I even knew what the differences between men and women were, and so from that point my sexuality developed to be strictly heterosexual, I think that I might have become bisexual if those social expectations had not been taught to me before that formative time.
- Comment on Why is the human body so incredibly bad at responding to colds? 1 month ago:
Some of those symptoms are caused by the virus as part of its strategy for spreading. They make you likely to spread infectious fluid from your nose and mouth. Meanwhile your body has to learn how to recognize a virus that has evolved to be hard to recognize (and do that without also accidentally “recognizing” some of your own cells and killing you) and then track down every last virus. And there are billions of viruses, many of which are hiding inside your own cells.
- Comment on 1 month ago:
I think I could be on board with this.
- Comment on Good evening. 1 month ago:
I saw a guy once with no gap between his beard and his chest hair.
- Comment on Do you ever feel full and hungry simultaneously? 1 month ago:
Hmm, it’s probably several of those things at once. The last time it happened was when I ate a bunch of pancakes for lunch while having a stressful day and not sleeping very well.
- Comment on Do you ever feel full and hungry simultaneously? 1 month ago:
Usually I feel a more normal “I’m full but I could eat more because that was tasty.” I have also felt “I haven’t eaten all day but the thought of eating disgusts me,” but that was definitely a side effect of a medication I was taking at the time.
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- Comment on Rust 1 month ago:
We’re not the first organisms to alter the atmosphere and cause a mass extinction. The first ones were microorganisms and the gas they released was oxygen. We’re descended from the survivors that managed to adapt to a high-oxygen atmosphere but to this day there are many microorganisms that die if exposed to even small amounts of oxygen.
- Comment on Don't 1 month ago:
- Comment on sorry guys i slept in 1 month ago:
Ah 2013, the year I got my first real job after grad school. That was fun. I miss being 27 - I didn’t have the “Oh shit, time is running out and soon I’ll be old!” feeling quite as much, although back then I did worry about turning 30.
- Comment on irl shiny 2 months ago:
- Comment on how good are you at lying during job interviews? 2 months ago:
I’m not sure what the point of lying about a requirement that you have which the employer intends not to satisfy is.
- Comment on If conditions on earth are perfect for life to form shouldn't have happened more than once? 2 months ago:
Keep in mind that the conditions before life formed were quite different than the conditions once it had already been established. Once life exists, there is a competition for resources and a new replicator will be unlikely to survive in an environment filled with far more sophisticated replicators that have had a head start.
