DarkCloud
@DarkCloud@lemmy.world
- Comment on Kinda fucked up tbh 6 days ago:
Space is a priority so we can ignore climate change. Rockets put our many many plane flights worth of pollution, elon musk has done over 30,000 of them. Quite a few ended up just dumping raw pollution and parts into the ocean.
No price is paid but by the environment.
- Comment on Scientific conferences are leaving the United States amid border fears 1 week ago:
The murder rate is much lower in the rest of the western world, so good chance this will save some lives
- Comment on UK government withholding details of Palantir contract 1 week ago:
UK government who was perfectly okay destroying trans rights now perfectly okay giving the corrupt influences be Trump, half a billion pounds.
- Comment on What has he seen?? 2 weeks ago:
The kid should also carry a kaleidoscope for when he gets busted… He can just say it was the kaleidoscope the whole time.
- Comment on fake keepass repo on github 2 weeks ago:
This is why I never feel safe downloading a program from Github. I need a recognisable domain name website that google or duckduckgo has picked as the product.
- Comment on [deleted] 2 weeks ago:
Yeah, just take their well known public transport system, or take six months and tour the country by bicycle. \s
- Comment on [deleted] 2 weeks ago:
Of you had four to six months to learn and practice you might be ready enough, if your trip is sooner I wouldn’t recommend it.
Do you have a friend who can dedicate long two hour session to it? If so you might get it in ten hours or so of practice… But they’d have to be a good teacher (be able to teach you how/when the flywheel is taking up the momentum).
- Comment on xkcd #3089: Modern 3 weeks ago:
Metamodern.
- Comment on Physician Whomst 3 weeks ago:
So you opened Pandora’s Lunch Box?
- Comment on China turns on ‘minors mode’ to keep kids safe online 4 weeks ago:
They probably saw the Russian culture war brain rot play out with American youth and decided to have a circuit breaker.
Behind the Bastards has an episode about how YouTube went right wing to create site engagement and an anger economy, and an episode about Facebook doing thr same for boomers.
- Comment on Peepee poopoo 4 weeks ago:
It’s entrapment. This is how they get you to say peepee poopoo. My Fox News watching uncle put me onto this great documentary about it, “The Brown Trap”. Join the peepee poopoo truth movement. WWG1WGA!
- Comment on Seriously Jesus, who was doing that for that to be added 😭 4 weeks ago:
Wait is goat meat boiled in goat milk particularly tasty? What’s the deal? Anyone done a small portion?
- Comment on Feds Threaten Wikipedia After Right-Wing Media Uproar 5 weeks ago:
I think it’s in the single digit percentages of their funding.
- Comment on Chances for the fediverse? Elon Musk takes hit as Europeans ditch X in droves 5 weeks ago:
Might have to also let people know the Fediverse exists?
- Comment on Put him on the cart. 1 month ago:
If they were physicists they’d hold the tip of the handle with a pinching gesture, then pull the hammer back to horizontal and let it drop. Swinging with a perfect arc it would thud into the pope’s head with just enough force to hurt anyone who was still alive, and get a response.
However seeing as they’re still using a hammer to test for brain activity - we can assume the Catholic Church isn’t that friendly to science or something.
- Comment on Find a circle that is going places 1 month ago:
Donald Duck’s girlfriend really wants it right? I mean, we all agree that much is obviously? Flirting is her one mode of existence. She’s desperate.
- Comment on Thanks Ma'am I Understand it. 1 month ago:
Hello fellow kids.
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- Comment on China has world’s first operational thorium nuclear reactor thanks to ‘strategic stamina’ 1 month ago:
If it’s true, China has energy security for the foreseeable future - as Thorium is usually found along side rare earths, and China has the largest deposits of those. More than anywhere else in the world.
- Comment on Via porn, gore and ultra-violence, extremist groups are sinking hooks online into the very young. 1 month ago:
It’s about young Islamic men, if you’re wondering.
- Comment on Going to quit my job and just do sculping full time 1 month ago:
Docking procedure complete!
- Comment on A fluid battery that can take any shape. 1 month ago:
Might relate to this:
- Comment on Why is there steam coming out of the streets in New York 1 month ago:
Sewer mutants cooking up some grub.
- Comment on Kawasaki unveils a hydrogen-powered, ride-on robot horse 1 month ago:
Hard to say because it’s a concept of an idea at this point.
- Comment on Did ChatGPT come up with Trump’s tariff rate formula? AI chatbots ChatGPT, Gemini, Claude and Grok all return the same formula for reciprocal tariff calculations, several X users claim. 1 month ago:
Yeah, and then they convert that to a weighted probabilities or a “data space” they then search during content generation.
- Comment on Think about it 1 month ago:
Who put Lysenko in a position of power?
Look bud, I don’t have all day to teach you this shit. I’m not your mommy or daddy or the teacher at the local school, so just stop bothering me with your lack of knowledge about this.
Lysenko was elected in 1945 to the ruling committee of the USSR Academy of Sciences—the top scientific institution in the country—numerous scientists spoke out against him, citing his poor scientific reputation [7]. Over the next several years, Lysenko was criticized numerous times, and there were even steps taken to open an institute of genetics [4]. From 1946-1947, up to 1.5 million people died within the Soviet Union due to famine [18]. Lysenko’s nadir during this period was reached in April of 1947, when he was harshly criticized by Russian chemist Yuri Zhdanov, who highlighted Lysenko’s failures. He pointed out the destructive manner in which Lysenko had demonized geneticists, and argued that monopolies in science inhibit advancement [4]. Zhdanov’s words were particularly dangerous for Lysenko, given that the chemist was from a family with close ties to Stalin (e.g., Zhdanov went on to eventually marry Stalin’s only daughter) and he was a member of the powerful Central Committee of the Communist Party [13].
- Comment on Think about it 1 month ago:
I feel you don’t know much about what you’re on about.
Trofim Lysenko
The downfall of Soviet genetics and agriculture occurred due to the alignment of numerous social, economic, scientific, meteorological, and political factors. No single person can bear complete blame for the events, but a crucial actor in the story was Trofim Lysenko. Lysenko was born to a Ukrainian…
www.storybehindthescience.org/lysenkoism
I also think you’re arguing just to argue rather than doing something more useful.
Bye.
- Comment on Think about it 1 month ago:
Past the numbers I told you about.
I’m done here - you’re having a conversation with yourself at this point. I addressed the topic I addressed (the deaths from starvation Lysenkoism caused).
- Comment on Think about it 1 month ago:
You seem to think I denied those numbers rather than being the person who pasted them to you.
- Comment on Think about it 1 month ago:
No, I wasn’t. Also, frankly he wasn’t “responsible” for Holodomor and it’s clear you still don’t know what Lysenkoism is.
He was responsible for directing the hunger politically, not for seeking to, or being the cause of the famine.
I’m sure you’re understanding pf history isn’t deft enough to understand what I’ve said, so I’ll simplify it for you:
If one person turns a tap on and another directs the water, who is responsible for the fact the tap is on?
I’m saying Lysenkoism (which has little to do with socialist and communist doctrine or schools of thought) is the man who turned the tap on. Stalin, being an authoritarian monster - chose to direct the water to what suited him politically. But the famine at that point was already happening.
As I said, probably too nuanced a point for you to grasp. But maybe you’ll surprise me.