Alsjemenou
@Alsjemenou@lemy.nl
- Comment on Could rising sea levels caused by climate change be thwarted by digging a big hole at the bottom of the sea? 1 week ago:
The weight of the removed soil would sink the land.
- Comment on Why are fruits and berries healthy, even though they are mostly just sugar? 3 weeks ago:
They are not mostly sugar, sugars are just a part of the nutrients. Most fruits don’t even have that much sugar in them, it varies wildly though. There is also the way these sugars are intertwined with fiber, that make it much harder for these sugars to be processed in your body. So the sugars are released over a greater period of time giving your body more time to react. as opposed to refined sugars. Fruits are always healthier than candy, cookies, or soda.
There is a lot more in fruits than just sugars, there are proteins, vitamins, minerals, fibers. Which are all necessary for a healthy body. Sugars as well are necessary for your body to function.
It is practically impossible, if you’re otherwise healthy, to eat too much fruit. I personally eat at the very least 3 kilos or 5 pounds of various fruits a week. within an otherwise varied (vegan) diet. I’ve done so for the past 10 years. I make sure to test my blood, and so far had zero issues except low vit. d. Which you can’t get from fruit.
Why is it healthy? Well, we evolved next to fruits. Our ancestors always plucked and eaten them for millions of years. Just like we’ve done with all kinds of plants. Our gi tract is the right length, our body cant make most vitamins itself and completely functions on sugars. Fruit is part of a varied diet.
- Comment on relax 3 weeks ago:
I AM RELAXED OK
- Comment on Hi do yall this my hair is red 3 weeks ago:
I really didn’t have to think about it at all, since i used a thing called ‘seeing’. Try it sometimes.
- Comment on Not to get all religiony but why in the old testament God was all fire and brimstone and fatal consequences? But the new testament God is all about forgiveness and such?? 4 weeks ago:
My goodness, these comments make me feel we’re back in the edgy atheism days. Please.
The reason is because those texts are much older, and that was the style of religion practiced back then. Most God stories and stories about Gods in that period were like it. Most city states and tribal states had their own Gods that reflected them, and conflicts were gravely exaggerated. Also literally everything that happened in that state were an attribute or reflection of that particular God. With stories of how that attribute came to be, which reflected back in the people and in that way religion was a complex social interaction.
The people who wrote the stories we now know as the old Testament didnt write them as a part of a bible. These were stories of people who were taken out of their states and captured. Forced to live outside their land, but they took their God with them. Who became this omnipresent God that would lead people back to a promised land. Including all the complex social interaction people had with their mostly oral religious stories and traditions.
And it’s the continued tradition that lead to the formation of religious scholarship and the idea that Gods could be of the earth and not just of a state. Which brought about new thoughts, new traditions, new religious complexity written down in the New Testament. Which lead to the desire to make religious books encapsulating all of religious thought.
And only much later came literalism, the mistake to take everything in the Bible literal. which sparked the formation of atheism as we know it today.
- Comment on Here's a fun game. 4 weeks ago:
Back to the dick
Jurassic dick
Honey I shrunk the dick.
Teenage mutant ninja dick
- Comment on Doing the same thing over and over again expecting different results is not the definition of insanity. It's the definition of practice. 4 weeks ago:
“The same”. In a literal sense. Not figuratively like in practice, where you’re repeating things to aim for better performance/outcomes. Every repeat is different, or at least should be otherwise there is this great qoute… something about repeating the same thing and expecting different results…
- Comment on OK what is your Roman name? 4 weeks ago:
Potatoes with mushrooms, brussel sprouts and tofu in a creme sauceius.
- Comment on Why can't countries with vast deserts make solar farms to power the world? 5 weeks ago:
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Power can only travel that far. Electricity gets lost during transport.
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The sun shines everywhere.
So given these two things there is always a point where it is cheaper to build your own solar system than to get it from far away.
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There are more renewable sources of power. Wind. Water. Heat.
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The desert isn’t an euphemism for empty. It’s a climatological zone.
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There is political power in having control over electricity/power needs. The wild swings in oil prices reflect this fact. Reliance and necessity makes it far more logical to maintain your own source of electricity/power.
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- Comment on Has Charlie Kirk ever changed his views on a subject during a debate? 1 month ago:
He was never in it for personal growth he was in it for financial gains. He was a mere grifter, his opinions were for sale. There is a lot of money in right wing grifting when you reach his level of notoriety. His personal beliefs conveniently always pointed in the direction of money. Worth about $12m when he was executed. He believed in his bank accounts.
- Comment on How could AI be better than an encyclopedia? 1 month ago:
The problem will always be that you have to use an llm to ask questions in natural language. Which means it gets training data from outside whatever database you’re trying to get information from. There isn’t enough training data in an encyclopedia to make an llm.
- Comment on How could AI be better than an encyclopedia? 1 month ago:
that’s just circular reasoning, since understanding is needed for communication.
- Comment on Name this minivan 1 month ago:
on the vance
- Comment on The line between what is ai and what is programming will be very blurred in the future 1 month ago:
I don’t know why we should take 12 year olds as an example? Surely you didn’t know certain things at 12 that you know now. Assuming you are 13+
I’m just saying that things will trickle into common knowledge. And there will always be people who know jack shit. Obviously.
But when you play music from a streaming service you don’t go like. Wow people had to rewind cassette tapes! No, you understand the progression music carriers have made and just enjoy the music. You could buy a tape recorder and tapes and they are still available, if you would want. The same applies to coding, and other technologies.
- Comment on The line between what is ai and what is programming will be very blurred in the future 1 month ago:
You mean that less people need to understand code? Like that’s just natural progression. There are many coding languages because hardly anybody knows how to code in machine language or punch cards and we’ve been making coding easier for humans. The progression to natural language is a natural one.
LLMs bridging the gap between coding and natural language isn’t going to be a mystery in the future. Just like we don’t go like “a person punched all those holes in the cards? no way!” Because yes they did and we all understand that that was something that needed to be done at that time. We simply appreciate the amount of work it took. It’s a lot more that typing ‘cryptic letters’, which we will all know in the future also as coding. i don’t understand why you believe everybody in the future is an idiot.
- Comment on So THAT'S where I parked my car! 1 month ago:
and then?
- Comment on Makegg gregg eggain 1 month ago:
if it quacks like a duck…
- Comment on Makegg gregg eggain 1 month ago:
Ella is a stupid name for a salmon anyway.
- Comment on Where has the tax money "saved" in uk austerity gone? 2 months ago:
Two things, firstly the one thing that needs to be avoided at all costs is raising taxes. Since this robs working and succesful people from their personal ability to take care of themselves and their families. Secondly that there needs to be a class distinction between the people who take advantage of the system and those who don’t. That is to say that in their mind society is functioning in such a way that anybody can ‘make it’ through some effort. And that those who supposedly don’t put in the effort aren’t supposed to be cuddled and given handouts, as an incentive to put in the effort as well.
There is perfectly fine education, care and protection through private parties. Just hire those. You can’t? Well I guess you aren’t trying hard enough. We can concentrate police presence in criminal neighbourhoods. We can concentrate care and education in the neighbourhoods that do function correctly.
This is their ideology I’m describing, not my own, just to be clear. Im being sarcastic.
Reality is ofcourse more nuanced than what im saying, after all the neocon ideology needs to exist in the real world and adapt to it. Which mostly seems to lead to populism.
- Comment on Where has the tax money "saved" in uk austerity gone? 2 months ago:
There are several dials that can be tweaked to balance the budget. A (neo)liberal is for low taxes, small government, and selfcare. So their cuts, when the governments expenses are higher then the incomes, are in public services. And they won’t put it back, because that’s against their ideology.
- Comment on 100% vegetarian 2 months ago:
Yes, but only if you got it from a civet that is roadkill.
- Comment on Is it everywhere? 2 months ago:
Some sounds just become the thing they are supposed to represent. They aren’t used because there are no more sounds to be made. Two reasons.
First. Directors won’t use a schnauzer as a guard dog in a movie, because they don’t portrait the intention of a guard dog on screen. For exactly the same reason you can’t use a gong as a laser sound, it doesn’t portrait a laser.
Second. People have collected sounds and made them available. There are stock sounds, just like there are stock pictures.
And so, certain sounds have become used for certain things. And the more they are used the more iconic they become. The Wilhelm scream, red tailed hawk, and many more.
- Comment on A small art gallery in Japan just happened to have these pictures next to each other. And then it morphed into a popular meme template 2 months ago:
I have denied my personal reality and substituted it with yours.
- Comment on Ant on a dating show "I like long walks on the peach" 2 months ago:
axe murderer: I like long gurgles in your screech
- Comment on Time to pluralize titles. 2 months ago:
Supermen
- Comment on It must have been a whole lot more difficult to design and build tall buildings before computers existed 2 months ago:
The processes in manufacturing largely remained the same. Doing things faster makes things easier not more difficult.
Look at the Eiffel tower for example, immensely complicated, wild design and largely pointless (compared to modern standards).
Or compare old wooden windmills to one of the most modern structures, large open water windmills. hundreds of meters tall, simple tubular construction.
The ability that CAD and computer power in general gave us was the ability to simplify and not use more than necessary. The ability to model strength, rigidity and whatever forces necessary, that’s where the real power lies.
and i think that we can’t really speak about more or less difficult. The structures and designs clearly have a very high level of complexity, while most modern constructions deliberately eliminate complexity. But we can’t do that without computers.
- Comment on [deleted] 2 months ago:
I got mine after having a stable relationship and a partner without a child wish.
i knew from a very young age i didnt want kids, and have always picked partners that shared my view. I also knew that I would make a great dad if it ever came to it. So i never got the snip until i was 39.
I don’t think I would have mind if I did it earlier, but it’s also not as necessary as you think. If you pick your partners carefully and be open about your wishes. This shouldn’t be a real issue. If you are having fantasies about fucking around a lot, you should wear protection anyway. And as a matter of fact, not being snipped will help to wear that shit.
I want to mention lastly, please don’t get into a deep lasting relationship with a person who has a child wish. It will end badly.
- Comment on Everybody gets one [choose wisely] 2 months ago:
Finally i can get my jacuzzi!
- Comment on Everybody gets one [choose wisely] 2 months ago:
Ah great, I would like everything i ever would need to buy ever, always be on super sale. Thanks.
- Comment on Why democrats under Biden administration didn't release Epstein files? 3 months ago:
Okay. Let me give a sane outsider take.
First thing you have to understand is that there is a big disconnect between the conviction of Epstein and the influential connections he had. All the conspiracy talk about the island being a childporn hub for elites is nothing more than that: conspiracy fantasy. His suicide fueled many more ideas about the elite killing him, but again no evidence at all.
However, there is a strong public pressure to research the connections between Epstein and the elites he knew. This has most likely been done in the background, since Epstein did shady finances. But Trump has campaigned heavily on the popular sentiment. And it lives in the minds of people a solution to lock up all the elites/draining the swamp.
So now there is a big problem for the maga populists, there is a ‘list’ of connections to epstein. But there is no further evidence (yet) that those people did anything illegal, or is entirely complicated financial crime. The list probably includes just about the entire political spectrum includes donors and includes Trump. So everybody wants to handle this the correct way, including those donors. Nobody wants their name public because they spoke to a shady financial advisor. And any case against a super wealthy person needs to be watertight, they can afford a legal team.
Is it possible that there was deeper predatory connections? sure. Epstein had easy access and no question that he was willing to share. Is that going to be written down in a list? absolutely not. Epstein did finances the shady way and that’s more likely the reason so many rich people were interested in his business.
So this isnt a political issue. Of course, now it is. But that’s because Trump made it one.