andros_rex
@andros_rex@lemmy.world
- Comment on I am two of them 6 hours ago:
Flipping through your other comments - ever considered that the problem might be your personality?
- Comment on I am two of them 15 hours ago:
Where are you having random gay men telling you how well they suck cock? Did you accidentally install Grindr?
- Comment on Please remember to spread the word about this :( 19 hours ago:
To sum up - because I taught this to a kid yesterday - for a period, life photosynthesized and oxygen was toxic to most living things. There were large growths of photosynthetic Cyanobacteria that pumped the air full of oxygen. Living things at the time (like, bacteria and microbes, nowhere near vertebrates) couldn’t handle all the O2 and died.
- Comment on Could I seek asylum as a US trans person in Costa Rica (or other countries)? 1 day ago:
Tbh, all I want is a single room apartment, a full time job, and access to medical care. If the monarchy can give me that, I’ll shut off all socials and shut up. I am not going to be alive if I am here in October.
- Comment on Could I seek asylum as a US trans person in Costa Rica (or other countries)? 1 day ago:
Rainbow Railroad does not help individuals in the US.
I have already contacted Translifeline, and they were not able to help me either.
- Submitted 1 day ago to nostupidquestions@lemmy.world | 20 comments
- Comment on Elon Musk wants to rewrite "the entire corpus of human knowledge" with Grok 1 day ago:
You asked a question, I gave an answer. I’m not sure where you get “condescending” there. I was assuming you had read an academic text, so I was hoping that you might have seen those patterns before.
You would look at the data for gaps, as my answer explained. You could use logic to predict some gaps, but not all gaps would be predictable. Mendeleev was able to use logic and patterns in the periodic table to predict the existence of germanium and other elements, which data confirmed, but you could not logically derive the existence of protons, electrons and neutrons without the later experimentations of say, JJ Thompson.
You can’t just feed the sum of human knowledge into a computer and expect it to know everything. You can’t predict “unknown unknowns” with logic.
- Comment on Elon Musk wants to rewrite "the entire corpus of human knowledge" with Grok 2 days ago:
You have to have data to apply your logic too.
If it is raining, the sidewalk is wet. Does that mean if the sidewalk is wet, that it is raining?
There are domains of human knowledge that we will never have data on. There’s no logical way for me to 100% determine what was in Abraham Lincoln’s pockets on the day he was shot.
When you read real academic texts, you’ll notice that there is always the “this suggests that,” “we can speculate that,” etc etc. The real world is not straight math and binary logic.
- Submitted 2 days ago to [deleted] | 2 comments
- Comment on Oranges? In this economy? 3 days ago:
I’m sad that Alan Wagner is using AI. Love his work most of the time.
- Comment on A metaphor for capitalism? 3 days ago:
Y’all know that spiders can climb right?
And that spiders often make webs that look like this? Famously, funnel spiders?
- Comment on hol up 3 days ago:
Missionary trips are often glorified vacations. “Voluntourism.”
High school/college kids come over, build a school and then bounce. It would be better if that money was spent hiring local people to build that school. It relies on this racist thinking that somehow those poor Black or South American or whatever people are too stupid to know how to build things/survive, and they need some random white kids to come in and safe the day.
It’s for show, it’s to make the “missionaries” feel good about themselves and get some nice profile pictures instead of actually doing anything.
There are cases of “hospitals” being started by random people with no medical training - one I’m thinking of killed lots of babies. Somehow a random unqualified white person is just better and smarter, that they can fix all the problems.
It’s such a fucking farce. The real problems of the global south are that the centuries of exploitation and colonialism destroyed those countries economies and ways of living. The pseudo charity does nothing but exist as colonialism lite.
(I am excluding the rare groups of actually qualified people. I’ve talked to nurses and such who have done good work in places like Haiti. But they also did the same kind of work here - the kind of people I met assembling fentanyl test kits.)
- Comment on Dune game 5 days ago:
Dune 2 walked so that StarCraft could run.
- Comment on 8999 BC 5 days ago:
There’s always big error bars on these dates for that kind of reason. Actual archeologists are going to be careful with their language and say things like “the earliest evidence we have for bows is around 9000 BCE.”
- Comment on Are spiders turtlely enough for the Turtle Club? 5 days ago:
I know about the types of communities you are talking about, but there is a difference between people who purposefully put animals together to cause them to kill each other for entertainment and taking striking pictures of natural predation.
I just watched a video of an Australian water rat eat the heart of a toad, as an adaptation to prey on invasive species with mostly toxic organs. That is pretty cool, and the shock value helps with the educational aspect.
There’s a difference between that and “let’s put a snake and a spider in the same confined environment to watch them kill each other for fun.” Or god, the monkey torture people.
Animals eat each other, and learning about them will require confronting this fact. I think this photo is educational, not lurid. Most people know very little about spiders, and I hope that my posting this picture got people to think more about the natural world. It is shocking, it does provoke a visceral reaction, but it also prompts questions. I am probably going to use it as a phenomenon to explore the next time I work with a student on biology.
- Comment on Are spiders turtlely enough for the Turtle Club? 5 days ago:
Saw that shit in theatres. As well as Baby Geniuses 2 and Meet the Spartans.
- Comment on Are spiders turtlely enough for the Turtle Club? 5 days ago:
Spiders routinely hold onto 100x more than their weight. Are you basing any of this on a knowledge of invertebrate biology? Ants can do similarly impressive feats.
- Comment on Nier creator Yoko Taro reveals the sad reality of modern AAA game development, “there’s less weird people making games” 5 days ago:
Yeah, but how survivable is making indie games? Unless you make it big, you aren’t paying rent that way.
- Comment on Are spiders turtlely enough for the Turtle Club? 5 days ago:
Here’s one eating a frog.
What specifically about the physics of the situation is making you suspicious? I’ve worked in an invertebrate lab, admittedly primarily with ants, and nothing about this raises alarm bells.
- Comment on Are spiders turtlely enough for the Turtle Club? 6 days ago:
Yeah. My spider book was given to a middle schooler more than a year ago :(
- Comment on Are spiders turtlely enough for the Turtle Club? 6 days ago:
The sizes make sense - the turtle is on the smaller end and likely a juvenile, but both seem appropriately sized - the spiders can grow that big, especially if female.
I found this in a group for spider enthusiasts - these are the kinds of geeks that will look at a spider leg and get it down to class. AI is not good at generating invertebrate species specific traits yet. While this is pretty spectacular - not a daily event - these are both species that can be found in the same area, and these spiders will attack vertebrate pray.
- Comment on Are spiders turtlely enough for the Turtle Club? 6 days ago:
This is not AI.
- Comment on Are spiders turtlely enough for the Turtle Club? 6 days ago:
Yeah, many larger spider species will go after smaller vertebrates. Goliath bird eaters (South American) will go after snakes much larger than they are - despite the name, they aren’t inclined towards birds though.
Calories are calories.
- Comment on Are spiders turtlely enough for the Turtle Club? 6 days ago:
Nope, southern US. Found in a local group.
- Comment on Dear Kevin 6 days ago:
I missed the “for.” There’s a serious lack of mpreg daddy dom fiction.
- Submitted 6 days ago to science_memes@mander.xyz | 87 comments
- Comment on Honda successfully launched and landed its own reusable rocket 6 days ago:
Like how the 2018-2021 Honda Civics shipped with non functioning AC because they used the wrong type of refrigerant? They’ve also trained dealerships to deny the warranty!
It’s been in the 90s all week - I risk heat stroke in my fucking car going to work!
- Comment on :-) 1 week ago:
We’ll have to find a trans guy who gave birth and had bottom surgery afterwards.
Although I don’t think the scrotes they can make right now have the same kinds of nerve endings. I’ll never get to try CBT :(
- Comment on Thing makes noise wallet goes empty 1 week ago:
It would help if there wasn’t a tendency for mechanics to fleece people who don’t understand cars. When I looked like a young woman, huge difference in the way I was treated - I needed to bring my dad.
Hell, the entire industry seems to be built on fleecing people. My stepdad was a finance guy for dealerships and he would fuck over anyone, friends and family included.
- Comment on Usually helps me out, honestly 1 week ago:
Or of course an erect penis, which would land the Joker in jail.
Jared Leto is still walking free.
