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- Comment on [deleted] 4 months ago:
It's an issue given that almost everything everyone buys relies on sea traffic. If it doesn't, then something required to make it did.
- Comment on [deleted] 4 months ago:
No. The melting of the ice caps is now self-sustaining. We dont have enough energy as a species to begin to reverse it now, and it is making itself worse now with every day.
The current glacier they're worried about in Antarctica is estimated to increase global sea levels by up to 3 meters.
That, by itself puts every single port in the world partially underwater, and most of the major airports too. That means every developed country in the world is looking at death and famine at a scale not seen since the Permian Extinction.
And thats just one glaicier that will be popping before 2030. All of Greenland is also in the process of popping, and that could mean 10m plus of sea level rise by 2050.
- Comment on [deleted] 4 months ago:
Climate change.
Ww3 may or may not happen. Hopefully not.
But regardless of that, Climate change will wipe us out.
- Comment on China is attempting to mirror the entire GitHub over to their own servers, users report 4 months ago:
Better to analyze for vulnerabilities. Particularly with a number of governments using open source software hosted on github.
- Comment on Favourite patient modern game? 4 months ago:
Obligatory Fuck EA for the bullshit they pulled.
They buried the game launch intentionally behind Battlefield 1.
- Comment on Choose your Fighter 5 months ago:
Stegosaurus does have the Thagomizer, so named by The Far Side comics, and officially given that name because scientists didnt give it a name before that.
- Comment on Choose your Fighter 5 months ago:
Spinosaurus and Baryonyx.
Because so many people recognize the former, but we know so very little about that entire family of dinosaurs, and currently it might be one of the easier ways to get paleontologists to argue amongst each other.
For example: the graphic in the post shows Spinosaurus standing on two legs. It was probably mostly quadrapedal, standing on all fours.
It has a huge, paddle like tail, but apparently didnt have the muscles to use it like a croc or gator does.
The entire family has denser bones suggesting an aquatic life, but most of the spinosaurids have those huge back spines which dont seem to serve a known purpose and the spinal bones have room for air sacs which runs counter to the whole aquatic thing.
So to sum up, we have a heavily built, seemingly aquactic crocodile like dinosaur with teeth and jaws built for active hunting. But wouldnt be that fast on land (heavy bones and giant spines) and cant swim like a croc or gator(no muscles for that.) And it doesn't have a long neck like a heron or pleisiosaur.
Best of all, the most complete skeleton of spinosaurus was destroyed in WW2, so we don't even have that to work from.
- Comment on Neuralink to implant 2nd human with brain chip as 75% of threads retract in 1st 5 months ago:
Or Musk decides that you don't need some part of your brain. Or worse, rents it out as server space.
- Comment on OpenAI says Sky voice in ChatGPT will be paused after concerns it sounds too much like Scarlett Johansson 5 months ago:
Open AI seems to have dealt with their massive legal issues so far by signing caught red handed agreements.
- Comment on OpenAI says Sky voice in ChatGPT will be paused after concerns it sounds too much like Scarlett Johansson 5 months ago:
I believe the SAG(Screen Actors Guild) just had a big strike about AI likenesses without proper compensation.
- Comment on Keeping pet cats indoors would save millions of native animals and billions of dollars. So what's stopping us? 5 months ago:
thats my point
If house cats were actually some kind of living natural disaster, birds would have driven extinct millenia ago. To solely blame housecats for the mass extinction of songbirds that have existed beside them for hundreds to thousands of years without any appreciable population effect is insane.
Also while DDT has its own host of issues regarding it building up in the food chain, my concern here is the post-DDT ones.
- Comment on Keeping pet cats indoors would save millions of native animals and billions of dollars. So what's stopping us? 5 months ago:
No it absolutely doesnt.
It absolutely states that birds are considersbly more at risk, and that we dont know how by how much. Try reading more than the intro next time.
I said that cats arent the problem, they're a symptom of it. That is a definition of a multifacted problem. That paper absolutely says the same thing.
The reality is that you could keep every housecat inside and it would not stop the decline.
- Comment on Keeping pet cats indoors would save millions of native animals and billions of dollars. So what's stopping us? 5 months ago:
Say you didn't understand what any of those papers said without saying you didn't understand what those papers said.
- Comment on Keeping pet cats indoors would save millions of native animals and billions of dollars. So what's stopping us? 5 months ago:
Equally, before the post-DDT pesticides(when the decline started), housecats didn't exist, never went outside and never killed anything.
/s
Go look at the other reply where I sourced my opinion.
- Comment on Keeping pet cats indoors would save millions of native animals and billions of dollars. So what's stopping us? 5 months ago:
ttps://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8640698/
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We didn't know or study the effects of pesticides in various wild birds. And it varies wildly between species, with chickens not being a good general case. Also that birds are considerably more affected by pesticides than mammals.
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Simple logic. Housecats do not have access to deep woods or exist in large populations outside of cities and suburbs in North America, yet the populations are declining there. This implies that they are not the cause of the decline.
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This logic is backed up by https://www.birds.cornell.edu/home/bring-birds-back#:~:text=All%20told%2C%20the%20North%20American%20bird%20population%20is,declined%20by%2053%25%2C%20or%20another%20720%20million%20birds.
LWhich points out that it is a multitude of factors and that grassland species(i.e. farmland) are the most affected, with wetland and forest species being less affected.
- Further logic is that the decline is a relatively new phenomenon. But housecats killing birds is not new. Therefore something else is behind the decline, and simply keeping cats inside will not fix the issue.
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- Comment on Keeping pet cats indoors would save millions of native animals and billions of dollars. So what's stopping us? 5 months ago:
That its only a symptom of the real problem and won't actually solve anything.
The animals they catch are weakened from pesticides.
- Comment on Choose your difficulty 6 months ago:
You say that, and yes, if you know what you're doing its fine. Same applies to Australia.
We have thick rainforest vegitation so dense you can walk off a cliff and not realize it until you fall through. - Comment on Choose your difficulty 6 months ago:
Includes British Columbia in "easy mode".
Nah, BC looks pretty, but if you unprepared off the beaten trails/roads, they'll never find your body.
- Comment on The Verge shows how Google search is useless 6 months ago:
The thing is that the AI text is atrocious and vapid. It takes up a lot of space and says
"Laser printers are better in every way minus full color than inkjets, but are bigger and more expensive than inkjet printers."
The trick is that AI took 12 paragraphs and using a list incorrectly to do it instead of a sentence.
- Comment on where's my fur coat smh 6 months ago:
Yup, and I am aware how outdated that artwork is. Thats where I pulled that analysis from.
I'd suggest Raptor Chatter and Your Dinosaurs Are Wrong on youtube.
- Comment on where's my fur coat smh 6 months ago:
Ears are wrong since they suggest directional ears, but we don't have the muscle, or critically the ligament attachment points on the skull, for that.
As far as claws go, again, no marks of strong cartilege / ligament / bed on the fingers and toes that would indicate functional claws.
Nipples: the smoking gun would be a pregnant woman or an infant, but theyd be able to see that unlike rodents, humans arent having more than two babies at a time outside of extremely rare cases, more than two babies just dont have room to fully gestate, so theyd likely cut that number down.
Fur: the sheer amount of plastic clothing we've generated will put that to rest fast.
Whiskers: There would be ligament attachment marks on the skull where the muscles used to move them would have been. Also maybe blood vessel/neuron marks on the bones.
Also the almost complete lack of snout would indicate heavy hand usage and not diving into things headfirst like rodents and cats have to.
- Comment on Why can't people make ai's by making a neuron sim and then scaling it up with a supercomputer to the point where it has a humans number of neurons and then raise it like a human? 6 months ago:
We do have some pretty sophisticated models of neurons, and there are persistent theories (2015 was earliest I found in a quick search) that brains use some quantum physics, in particular Quantum Entanglement, to operate.
https://phys.org/news/2022-10-brains-quantum.html
In which case, hardware has a very long way to go before we can do that at scale.
- Comment on China unveils video of its moon base plans, which weirdly includes a NASA space shuttle 6 months ago:
In short:
Sinovac, "their" covid vaccine, was stolen from Canada when Canada offered to help them produce a vaccine. Signed an official treaty and everything. Canada did the hard work that they literally couldn't, and still can't, do. Then they took the vaccine and claimed it was entirely their own work.
Huawei's 5G development miracle is 100% stolen technology from Nortel. They did no work of their own other than work so shoddy even the UK Tories didn't want to touch it.
These are just the two highest profile ones that go right to the leaders of the CCP.
- Comment on China unveils video of its moon base plans, which weirdly includes a NASA space shuttle 6 months ago:
One theory Ive read about is that they probably merely iterated on the (likely middle eastern, probably egyptian or persian) invention of "greek fire". Since its only a single ingredient difference between one of the known formulations of it.
And the Europeans made gunpowder useful with the invention of pearled gunpowder, which made it possible to predict burn rates and slow them down for cannons, allowing for bigger and more potent cannons. Anecdotally, there is documentation of an Ottoman diplomat pleading to a Chinese one that "the Europeans never learn to make gunpowder"
They also claim to have invented chariots, despite using the Sanskrit word for chariot.
- Comment on China unveils video of its moon base plans, which weirdly includes a NASA space shuttle 6 months ago:
The entire fundamental basis of the CCPs economic miracle is that intellectual property is not respected.
- Comment on Final Fantasy Maker Square Enix Takes $140 Million Hit in ‘Content Abandonment Losses’ as It Revises Game Pipeline - IGN 6 months ago:
Now they're attaching pretend numbers to the cancelation.
- Comment on Lawsuits test Tesla claim that drivers are solely responsible for crashes 6 months ago:
- Comment on nuclear fear-mongering is a ploy by Big oil 6 months ago:
Natural gas is just Methabe and is being pushed by big oil, since it needs all of the infrastructure they already have.
- Comment on nuclear fear-mongering is a ploy by Big oil 6 months ago:
If Germany can have viable solar energy generation, and they do, then everywhere can
- Comment on Xbox Console Sales Are Tanking 6 months ago:
This is what Microsoft has been actively moving towards since at least the planning of windows 8.
Why bother losing money on physical consoles when you can get people to pay for xbox live on pc?