MeowZedong
@MeowZedong@lemmygrad.ml
- Comment on (☞ﾟヮﾟ)☞ 4 days ago:
Unless whatever group is in power has expressed that they wish to destroy those artifacts, I would prefer to work with whatever government there is to not only transfer the artifacts back, but help them setup whatever infrastructure is required to maintain them, including training of staff in their care.
Your bias is exactly the same on that led to those artifacts being stolen. It can be summed up as “these are savages, how can we trust them with their own things?” The West stole these artifacts and in many cases destroyed other artifacts or defaced historical sites to take them in the first place. It’s chauvinistic to continue this cycle. Give them back, try to make things right, and if things get destroyed, that’s just how it goes. It wasn’t the West’s to take in the first place. More progress is made by working with people than pearl-clutching. This is accepting the world as it is and trying to make it better all at once.
- Comment on (☞ﾟヮﾟ)☞ 4 days ago:
Much like the theft of historical artifacts by the UK et al, ISIS was the result of decades of imperialist meddling by the US. Maybe just leave things be and let the locals work out what they want to do with their land, their people, and the artifacts on it. Offering assistance without strings attached is good, interventions are bad.
It’s like offering to help your neighbor with their yard: it’s acceptable to offer to lend them your mower, but it’s not acceptable to dig up everything on their property, replace it with grass sod, and spray it regularly with herbicides because you didn’t like the look of their local fauna and are afraid the dandelions and clover would spread to your lawn after your first intervention.
- Comment on Recycling ♻️ 5 weeks ago:
arXiv, not QrXiv.
arXiv is a free distribution service and an open-access archive for nearly 2.4 million scholarly articles in the fields of physics, mathematics, computer science, quantitative biology, quantitative finance, statistics, electrical engineering and systems science, and economics. Materials on this site are not peer-reviewed by arXiv.
- Comment on Least anticipated game in history 5 weeks ago:
Now REPENT
- Comment on Least anticipated game in history 5 weeks ago:
They’re all in the lab working ridiculously long hours.
- Comment on For the little guys. 5 weeks ago:
I once watched this nature documentary named “Princess Mononoke” and can confirm that wild pigs continue to live on even after physical death.
- Comment on AHHHHHHHHHHH 4 months ago:
TBF, fuck calculus. Only nerds like calculus.
- Comment on AHHHHHHHHHHH 4 months ago:
My experiences have led me to believe the type of math someone is good at depends on their field (or what math they use regularly).
Some biologists are excellent statisticians, far better than me. I’ve also learned to never trust those same biologists with unit conversions that a chemist would consider incredibly simple.
- Comment on BMW’s new iDrive turns the whole windshield into a heads-up display 5 months ago:
Not to mention the glare from reflecting off an icy/wet road. This would truly be a nice feature.
- Comment on Turkey Temptation 6 months ago:
Just like our high school campuses. The national parks will be catching up with the rest of the country. It’s about time we bring them into the glorious future!
- Comment on New Additions! 7 months ago:
I have an incredibly happy sundew that doesn’t mind the colder temperatures by my windows in the winter at all.
I took a big round-bottom flask, threw in some wet sphagnum moss, added the sundew, and capped it with parafilm. Zero upkeep besides an occasional turn and it’s thrown up multiple flowers. It’s an artificial marsh with the sun causing the water to circulate and keep the humidity high while it’s quite low outside the flask.
This has worked well for other carnivorous plants too…until a cat decides to yeet itself onto that window ledge and knocks everything over.
- Comment on lab toys 7 months ago:
You need to treat them nicely and maybe show a bit of romance. Poems, flowers, even a printed picture of flowers, something nice that will last is all it takes and your instruments will work perfectly for you. Each person may need to contribute individually to the shrine.
I swear, some damned tech came in on a PM and removed my poem from my favorite HPLC and now it’s been acting up for me nonstop.
- Comment on Calcrelatable 7 months ago:
Yeah, some companies seem to be allergic to standards, hence the need for the final disclaimer.
- Comment on Temporary Carbon Storage 🙃 7 months ago:
Oh, this shit is funny!
Offset is a platform that aims to generate high integrity, premium carbon credits from industrial sabotage and direct actions. At the heart of our work is an innovative new methodology for quantifying the climate benefits of political actions that publically disrupt carbon flows.
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Our Approach
Carbon offsets apply the logic of capitalism to atmospheric interactions. This logic assumes that all activities on earth can be quantified and abstracted, and therefore exchanged. Offsets produce the capacity to outsource the effects of one’s consumption—at the scale of the individual, the corporation, or even the nation state—to someone, somewhere else, even to the generations of the future. In short, many existing carbon offset markets act to maintain a status quo rather than address root causes of the climate catastrophe.
In contrast, the Offset platform includes a registry of alternative offsets that focus on social exchanges and political actions in order to contribute to a program of highly financialized radical change.
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Institutional Support
Offset (version 0.1) was commissioned by the Australian Centre for Contemporary Art, Melbourne, for Data Relations.
- Comment on Calcrelatable 7 months ago:
C or AC = clear all CE = clear entry
That said, there are variations based on brand and model.
- Comment on Monster Hunter Wilds will have a spider-free mode for those with arachnophobia 7 months ago:
The best arachnophobia mode is Satisfactory turning all of the spiders into ridiculous cat heads.
- Comment on Clever, clever 7 months ago:
The professor hides white text on a white background to catch potential cheaters. The actual assignment is written in black text. If the student has followed the instructions that are written in white, this is a good indication that they may have cheated, because human eyes won’t see the white text against a white background, while a computer program writing a paper for the student will see the white text and follow the additional instructions.
- Comment on bitey 7 months ago:
Never skip jaw day.
- Comment on Pressure vs Temp 7 months ago:
How’d you find a way around the gender triple point?
- Comment on Get good. 8 months ago:
Wow, you were lucky! I grew up only knowing one type of knife because that’s all my dad could afford. Imagine growing up in a house where the whole family had to share one knife for both bread and poop!