Dasus
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- Comment on Robot eyes are power hungry. What if we gave them tools inspired by the human brain? 4 days ago:
- Comment on Are spiders turtlely enough for the Turtle Club? 4 days ago:
Don’t spiders actually sort of rather drink their prey than eating it? We digest food inside us, spiders just vomit up shit onto paralysed prey that liquifies it so the spider can just sort of slurp it up.
So I wonder how he’ll do with a turtle. It’s easy enough to imagine on a fish, but…
- Comment on [deleted] 4 days ago:
What would you, specifically, find to be a tolerable amount of ads?
- Comment on How to speak to a vaccine sceptic: research reveals what works 5 days ago:
Oh no, not all of them. I’m just too lazy to write a more accurate sentence.
-ium is a commonly used Latin suffix for elements. The name for platin cones from spanish “platina”, ‘little silver’.
- Comment on How to speak to a vaccine sceptic: research reveals what works 5 days ago:
We have a draw.
The first name proposed for the metal to be isolated from alum was alumium, which Davy suggested in an 1808 article on his electrochemical research, published in Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society.
- Comment on How to speak to a vaccine sceptic: research reveals what works 5 days ago:
But all the other elements are -iums as well, so aluminium makes more sense.
Regards someone from neither country
- Comment on How do you think early humans survived without water bottles? Did they just live next to water sources all the time? 6 days ago:
Really?
en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Waterskin
Also, there was an ice age. Not everyone lives in scorching climates. Theres fresh water around me 247/365. As waterskins are somewhat recent probably, in terms of evolutionary history.
- Comment on If a sandwich is defined as any food item between two pieces of bread, then a layer cake is a type of sandwich. 6 days ago:
- Comment on British woman laments Brexit rules that would stop her Italian husband moving to UK 1 week ago:
It’s essentially a punishment for daring to fall in love with someone who isn’t British/Irish
OR rich.
Which makes it worse.
“We’re racist, but if you’re rich, we’ll overlook it”
- Comment on YSK: Non-violent protests are 2x likely to succeed and no non-violent movement that has involved more than 3.5% of the country population has ever failed 1 week ago:
No you won’t.
- Comment on British passenger in seat 11A survives India plane crash, reports say 1 week ago:
Yeah that sort of luck is hard to believe, but so is winning the lottery. But it usually happens to someone.
Honestly, for him, I hope he was drunk. Otherwise, or even if he was, he’ll have fucking hard trauma forever. But studies show that you’re more likely to survive accidents and get less mental trauma if you’re drunk. (Although being drunk is often the cause for accidents, so discounting that…)
Anyway, incredible luck in such misfortune
- Comment on British passenger in seat 11A survives India plane crash, reports say 1 week ago:
Leaving a comment here for someone to reply to with more information
- Comment on F.D.A. to Use A.I. in Drug Approvals to ‘Radically Increase Efficiency’ 1 week ago:
Properly implemented machine learning, sure.
These dimwits are genuinely just gonna feed everything to a second rate LLM and treat the output as the word of God.
- Comment on When asked "are you an honest person?" The only logical answer is yes. 2 weeks ago:
You can mix truths in with lies and that would still absolutely be considered dishonest, but you cannot mix lies into truths and still be honest.
Depends on how you look at it. For instance if someone asks about a subjective matter, and you know they’re not asking because they wish to know your opinion about the subject matter, but because they need psychological reassurance or some such thing.
For example “does this make my ass look big”? Or “do I look good in this dress?”
Would you consider a person dishonest for reassuring someone who might have struggled with weight and confidence issues, even if they might not regard that person personally attractive to them?
Is it lying? Perhaps. Is it dishonest? Unless you think there’s some objective standard for what is a big ass and what is good-looking, then it’s gonna be hard to argue either of those are lies, no matter what the scenario. You can also do “well no, that doesn’t make your ass look big, it looks the same size both with and without pants” or “no, that dress doesn’t make you look good, you always look good”.
“Never cruel or cowardly. Always try to be nice, but never fail to be kind.”
- Comment on What was life like for the "average" person living in Nazi Germany 2 weeks ago:
I’ve often thought about it.
Generally probably you just slowly learn what not to say or do to not get in trouble and keep your head down and hope you get through it.
youtube.com/playlist?list=PLOsQDFuB3bqczBIz-a66Nv…
Colditz is a nice show. The Kommandant isn’t a Nazi, but a member of the Reichswehr, and often finds himself in the difficult position of doing the right thing or following orders.
It’s a bit more nuanced than when Finn in the new Star Wars shows changes sides from the empire to the rebels and two seconds later is blasting his former mates accompanied by loud “yee-haas”.
- Comment on Microbiota 2 weeks ago:
Took me a while to realise it’s because Trump administration is aggressively scrubbing anything to do with “diversity”
- Comment on Facebook advertised a professional child kidnapping service to me 2 weeks ago:
How do you assert your right to anything in this system?
Yeah it’s just ridiculous. The most ridiculous thing in the recent years has been browsing the web anywhere where the new EU EULA laws apply.
Now it’s become less so, but it still for most sites often takes literally 15 minutes to go and click off all the “legitimate interest” bits. Just like straight up wanting to refused everything is taking me longer than it would to load that site on 56k. And that’s not even to begin to consider that someone would actually read the hundreds of pages of all this hundreds of different deals. For every fucking website. It’s literally impossible to make an informed decision about any of those deals or agreements, because there’s just too much fucking info.
I’ve literally quoted the law at Finnish authorities and tried contacting journalists and politicians, and I’m still yet to find a single person who would be even willing to accept that the cops did something illegal. I don’t need for them to change the past, but stop fucking gaslighting me about how the present works when I’m showing you photographic evidence you’re ignoring.
Youknow?
Even when literally caught in the act, even when I have black on white about them saying something that is clearly inaccurate, they’ll just ignore their mistake. And usually blame me. Even my mom implicitly victim blames me.
Fucking society, being ruined by greedy psychopaths
- Comment on 1.5TB of James Webb Space Telescope data dumped on the internet — new searchable database is the largest window into our universe to date 2 weeks ago:
Wait… what?
We’ve got tons of oceanographic satellites. James Webb is extremely good at picking up light. The ocean is extremely dark.
- Comment on Facebook advertised a professional child kidnapping service to me 2 weeks ago:
Good to hear it’s been shut down at least.
Both the facilities and the state. They pretend they are protecting children by refusing to investigate. The double speak is fucking insane.
Yeah I know about bureaucratic fuckery as well. It’s very different here in Finland, but the insanity of how the system actually works is pretty mindblowing in some cases. The worst part is that no-one believes me though, as “that sort of thing doesn’t happen in Finland.” In the US you can at least find someone who believes in the right thing, even if most people don’t. Like it’s big enough that someone will agree with you. Haven’t found anyone in Finland yet.
Thanks for those links, I got to read more into this shit. Won’t be expecting a John Oliver episode though, if it’s not a “hot issue”.
Tbh I think they weaponise all laws. Laws really don’t matter to them. Well, laws do, justice doesn’t. I’ve found that out. Laws only matter if you have practically limitless funds so you can actually make the argument for your rights. When you don’t, there’s no fucking justice. So depressing.
- Comment on Facebook advertised a professional child kidnapping service to me 2 weeks ago:
Wtf is Elan and why am I only hearing about this now?
Where’s the Johbn Oliver episode about this? Still in production?
- Comment on Palantir Is Going on Defense 2 weeks ago:
Sarumon, nice typo.
- Comment on "And my dick fucks your wife more than you do. What's your point?" 2 weeks ago:
- Comment on Neo-Nazi group ‘actively seeking to grow in US’ with planned paramilitary training event 2 weeks ago:
Big bad neo-Nazis afraid of showing their faces.
Cowards.
- Comment on I'm sure it's just a coincidence that everything that can be wielded against them either just isn't implemented (good mod tooling) or doesn't work properly (user/instance blocking) 3 weeks ago:
Don’t forget davel@lemmy.ml
- Comment on Why do some people say "I wouldn't want a government to dictate what I eat"? This would mean they'd be against food safety regulations, would it not? 3 weeks ago:
Depends on the species, to be fair.
Love me a nice bit from a fresh deer corpse.
- Comment on why does alcohol stop my back pain but medicine doesn't? 3 weeks ago:
I didn’t provided medical advice.
I’m saying that pain that is neuropathic is often treated with Gabapentin, which in the long run, is healthier and safer than self-medicating.
Thus if OP looks up what neuropathic pain is and gets concerned, they should call a doctor and tell all this. Which is when the actual medical advice will come.
You can give people information about medicine without giving them medical advice.
- Comment on why does alcohol stop my back pain but medicine doesn't? 3 weeks ago:
Uhm, I don’t think I did.
You shouldn’t take strong prescription drugs willy-nilly.
- Comment on Becoming a veterinarian is hard 3 weeks ago:
Yeah I guess it would be challenging to say the least to find a prostate on a seagull.
- Comment on Captcha 3 weeks ago:
That’s not a footpath, it’s a clearing or a small road even. You can’t see the footpaths in winter, they’re about a foot wide if that.
30 meters “at best”? Nah bruv. Maybe in the summer for that specific place, but as there’s a ton of birch there and such an open place, it’s probably a photo from the edge of a clearing on the side of a field or something. You don’t get birch in most of the forests, it’s just pine, and pine doesn’t really have branches on the low part of trees. So in a pine forest, you’d see way further.
tips and tricks for surviving the coming collapse
Teaching Finns how to fight in wintery forests? We’ve a saying for that; “älä yritä opettaa isääs nussimaa”.
- Comment on Why do some people say "I wouldn't want a government to dictate what I eat"? This would mean they'd be against food safety regulations, would it not? 3 weeks ago:
Yeah, they ban the sale of items which shouldn’t be eaten, so there’s none for the consumer to choose, even if they wanted to. I mean obviously I’m referring to somewhat edible things, and not saying that everything that isn’t edible is banned.
Depends on where you live, but yeah, I imagine drinking dangerous chemicals isn’t necessarily illegal in itself. However I know there is a law in Finland saying you can’t sell like methanol from gas stations to ppl “if you suspect it’s going to be consumed”, because some drunks mightve done that in the past.
Not really a problem, but just remember such a law existing.
