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- Comment on Brazil's Amazon lost area the size of Spain in 40 years: study 22 hours ago:
For starters, North America needs to stop eating so much meat. It’s easy to blame Brazil, but deforestation is chiefly driven by meat production, which Brazil exports mainly to Asia and the Americas.
- Comment on Jair Bolsonaro found guilty by Brazilian Supreme Court 4 days ago:
And bolsonaristas literally asked for it… Brazil manages to copy the worse of the US and then do it even worse.
- Comment on Axolotls! 6 days ago:
- Comment on No one could make it out in one piece 1 week ago:
He’s so bad at directions he lost himself into a spinoff manga?
- Comment on Everyone wants a turn 2 weeks ago:
I think slugs got tricked into thinking it was an endless surface and kept exploring it.
- Comment on Mommy, Why is There a Server in the House? 2 weeks ago:
Those parents deserved to be mocked. Poor child
- Comment on Mommy, Why is There a Server in the House? 2 weeks ago:
This is cute except for the windows name drop. Is this book a Microsoft ad?
- Comment on Scientific possibility! 2 weeks ago:
The only evidence of feathers we have is of the places where the feathers attached to the bones, as far as I know. I haven’t heard of any direct evidence of feathers.
- Comment on [deleted] 2 weeks ago:
Get a fan in the room, he might be overheating
- Comment on when ur higher than sagan 3 weeks ago:
German loves homeopathy actually
- Comment on Let's hear it, little lemmings. 3 weeks ago:
With Marie Curie perhaps via zoom.
- Comment on 3 weeks ago:
Calling something a fish is like calling something a tree.
- Comment on 3 weeks ago:
Those are fishies.
- Comment on You are hotter 4 weeks ago:
Thst means they have batteries hidden somewhere.
— thermodynamics
- Comment on Somewhere in a parallel universe.... 4 weeks ago:
This art style is now completely doomed for the next several years at least because it’s so characteristic of AI slop.
- Comment on PSA: WASH YOUR HANDS 4 weeks ago:
Not just this but definitely helped me in my journey. The whole idea of having to use separate cutting boards and knives just incase you get a terrible infection is totally insane.
- Comment on I hope you like TICKS 5 weeks ago:
Most work in real life: excel, python, R.
- Comment on Alexa, how do I remove cooties? 5 weeks ago:
Yes if you want to have nice caramelization instead of just burned skin.
- Comment on Would we be able to use the measles virus to reset the immune systems of people with autoimmune disorders like MS or rheumatoid arthritis? 5 weeks ago:
It sounds like a really smart question. Most people have no idea how measles, or any virus, works.
- Comment on Surprise! 1 month ago:
It’s still a kind of discrimination when you can’t imagine other people like you to be different than you. It’s totally fine for them to be 80-20 gay-straight but when you make blanket statements like “as a bi, I can tell you most bi guys are actually gay” that is hurtful discrimination.
- Comment on Surprise! 1 month ago:
It’s not as simple as that at all. Sexuality is a spectrum, it’s fluid, you’re not always born with it, and there are social factors at play. In some societies bi people live straight lives due to social pressure. On top of that, many bi guys often have more sex with guys because it’s easier and carries no risk of pregnancy. So yeah, your friend is just discriminating against bisexual people.
- Comment on Must use this 1 month ago:
Robocalls don’t care
- Comment on El Salvador parliament adopts reform to allow Bukele to run indefinitely 1 month ago:
Oof… That can’t be good. It’s great that he fixed the country’s safety issues, though not without breaking some eggs, but term limits exist for a reason. No one is immune to the corruption.
- Comment on Google Assistant Is Basically on Life Support and Things Just Got Worse 1 month ago:
It was never going to succeed because it doesn’t bring Google money.
- Comment on Activist Who Helped Film “No Other Land” Shot and Killed by Israeli Settler 1 month ago:
Settlers is just the white washed euphemism for colonizers.
- Comment on AI Chatbots Remain Overconfident — Even When They’re Wrong: Large Language Models appear to be unaware of their own mistakes, prompting concerns about common uses for AI chatbots. 1 month ago:
As any modern computer system, LLMs are much better and smarter than us at certain tasks while terrible at others. You could say that having good memory and communication skills is part of what defines an intelligent person. Not everyone has those abilities, but LLMs do.
My point is, there’s nothing useful coming out of the arguments over the semantics of the word “intelligence”.
- Comment on The Age-Checked Internet Has Arrived 1 month ago:
I’m sure some countries will gladly setup VPNs for accessing this stuff even when all other countries block adult stuff.
- Comment on Become back status quo 1 month ago:
It’s 2025. Why are we still using cards for regular purchases? In Europe there are so many local alternative systems, which are about to start integrating with each other.
- Comment on Twitter in EU and UK 1 month ago:
What FUD? All I want twitter to be is a source of porn. And now it’s not even useful for that anymore.
- Comment on From games to reminders to drink water: The rise of 'streaks,' rewards that keep you hooked 1 month ago:
My duolingo strike addiction made me fucking miserable, but I just couldn’t stop. I knew that breaking it would plunge me into a horrible depressive state. I finally broke free after finishing the diamond league and make peace with “good enough”. I haven’t been able to use duolingo ever since, because there’s apparently no way of just using duolingo normally without gamification.