GeriatricGambino
@GeriatricGambino@lemmy.world
- Comment on *crunch crunch* Très délicieux mes amis! 1 week ago:
I don’t think there’d be enough frogs in the wild to fulfil demand.
Yes, there isn’t enough frogs in the wild for it to be sustainable at the scale they’re being hunted. And that’s why scientists raise the alarm about frog populations decline in those places where they are being hunted.
From the same article I linked, still in French, which you can easily machine translate:
“En raison de leur chasse importante, plusieurs espèces et populations connaissent déjà un déclin significatif”, s’inquiètent les experts."
““Due to their heavy hunting, several species and populations are already experiencing a significant decline,” experts worry.”
- Comment on *crunch crunch* Très délicieux mes amis! 1 week ago:
That’s not what I read. Frog farming is difficult because they must eat live prey. So most of it is imported from places where they don’t bother with farming, or environmental conservation.
From an article in French:
"Problème, pour les scientifiques, ces animaux sont issus “en grande majorité de populations sauvages”, et “en particulier d’Indonésie, de Turquie, d’Albanie et du Vietnam”
"Problematically for scientists, those animals come “in vast majority from wilderness populations” and “particularly from Indonesia, Turkey, Albania and Vietnam”
Link to the article in French
- Comment on *crunch crunch* Très délicieux mes amis! 1 week ago:
I have the same experience as well. Never met anyone eating or offering frogs in my life. When I was a kid, in the first half of the 90’s, I would sometimes see frozen frog legs in supermarkets, but I never saw anyone buying them and they have disappeared from french supermarkets for well over 30 years now. I think it’s only local fairs and festivals and some local restaurants, arguing to keep culinary tradition alive who still serves them, definitely not everyday people. Which is ironic because almost all frogs consumed in France are imported from Indonesia. Poor frogs would be better left alone in their rainforest :(
- Comment on Be ungovernable 1 month ago:
Narrator: >they did end up with 250 swearing birds>
- Comment on I volunteer as tribute! 4 months ago:
Is that an Angela make some noise episode reference in the wild ?
- Comment on A guide for our friends outside the U.S. 5 months ago:
What’s the beer for? To be paired with the human ham I’ll turn into if I am exposed to 100 °C for too long?
- Comment on Saw this on another instance and knew it belongs here. 5 months ago:
That shit reads like a high school presentation to attract potential
dupesinvestors to sink their money in. - Comment on The number of times a person mentions ChatGPT in a random conversation might work as a rule of thumb to measure her intelligence (inverse proportion, of course) 6 months ago:
It’s not unlikely the poster is a non native speaker and is used to having a feminine gendered noun for the word person in their native tongue.
- Comment on In the not too distant past this was a thing 10 months ago:
Wearing an oldie watch made in 1988 with a pulsometer on the dial. Love the beaten old thing. Image
- Comment on [deleted] 10 months ago:
Right. Do you feel like I need to justify myself about my life choices to express criticism and a bad opinion about generative IA?
Generative IA is still a huge increasing drain on environnemental resources no matter how much of a hypocrite I may or may not be. I’m not knowledgeable but I assume that models run locally still have to be trained on huge amounts of data before being deployed.
And this image is still shit: it wasn’t produced by a human mind and it is completely tone-deaf. I can’t tell if the portrayal of the character tries to go for “heroic” or “ridicule”. It could be made by an anti trump viewpoint as well as a pro trump one, it’s just that bad.
IA models are still useless as answer boxes as they are unreliable and prone to “hallucinations”. Regarding content creation I think I they are an insult to the very concept of creativity, and the people using it for that purpose are polluters of creative spaces. So yeah, I do hate IA, very much and very openly. I just wasn’t aware I had to show some sort of credentials before being allowed to say something about it.
- Comment on [deleted] 10 months ago:
Can’t believe you felt the need to use an indecent amount of water and electricity to power a request on a chatgpt server somewhere, just so you could make and share this shit. I fucking hate the reality we are all living in.
- Comment on Estonia amends Constitution to strip Russian, Belarusian citizens of right to vote 11 months ago:
This is not about about the naturalization process, or about naturalized Estonian citizens, but foreign residents. In the EU, if you’re not a national or EU citizen, you are not owed to vote in the local elections because you’re a legal resident. Previously Russian and Belarusian resident were graciously allowed to vote, and now this privilege will be rescinded. So I wouldn’t say it’s nationalist jingoism but common sense, Russia is actively engaged in hybrid warfare with the EU, and countries with a shared border are worried enough about illegal crossing from russian agent, so Estonia doesn’t need to grant special privilege to foreign citizens from a hostile country so they can mess with their local elections.
