TheTechnician27

@TheTechnician27@lemmy.world

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Giant string of organic molecules on Mars⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨hour⁩ ago⁩:

  I… What? No, that’s not even close to what the paper concludes.

  “We argue that such high concentrations of long-chain alkanes are inconsistent with a few known abiotic sources of organic molecules on ancient Mars, namely delivery of organics by IDPs and meteorites […]”

  They’re literally arguing meteorites could not have delivered this concentration of long-chain alkanes.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨big facts⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:

  “It’s funny how people will believe in Newton’s laws of motion but still think the Force from Star Wars is mythical nonsense.”

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Giant string of organic molecules on Mars⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:

  As usual, I’m going to link to the journal article in Astrobiology. The conclusion reads:

  We agree with Carl Sagan’s claim that extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence (Sagan, 1979) and understand that any purported detection of life on Mars will necessarily be met with intense scrutiny. In addition, in practice with established norms in the field of astrobiology, we note that the certainty of a life detection beyond Earth will require multiple lines of evidence. Nevertheless, our approach has led us to estimate that the Cumberland mudstone conservatively contained 120–7700 ppm of long-chain alkanes and/or fatty acids before exposure to ionizing radiation. We argue that such high concentrations of long-chain alkanes are inconsistent with a few known abiotic sources of organic molecules on ancient Mars, namely delivery of organics by IDPs and meteorites, atmospheric fallout and deposition from photochemical haze, and organic production from serpentinization and Fischer–Tropsch reactions on the Red Planet. In contrast, it is not unreasonable to hypothesize that an ancient martian biosphere would be capable of producing this level of complex organic enrichment in martian mudstone deposits, and that allochthonous delivery of hydrothermally synthesized organics could have contributed to the abundance of alkanes found in the Cumberland mudstone. To improve the ability to predict the types and concentrations of organic molecules that could have been preserved in ancient sedimentary rocks exposed to ionizing radiation at the martian surface––regardless of their origin (biotic or abiotic)––we recommend experimental studies that determine the radiolytic degradation rates of kerogens, alkanes, and fatty acids in Cumberland-like Mars analogs under Mars-like conditions.

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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨2022 was a bleak year 😢⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:

  What did you expect? It says “beyond fried” right there, as in “so far past fried that it’s condensed into rubber”. (I’m sorry, Beyond, I love you, and you’re perfect.)

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Good content⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:

  OP is a confirmed Ullian.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨FBI Got Grok to Hand Over Prompts Used to Create Nonconsensual Porn⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  I think you’re in the same boat I am where I fucking haaaaaaate the culture on link aggregators (and probably other social media) where people will bitch and moan to no end that their preferred format (publicly reacting to disconnected headlines whose articles they haven’t read) isn’t giving them literally all the information they need to form a cogent opinion.

  • “I had time to write a 300-word short essay about this headline, but I’m going to whine if I get called for something in the first paragraph that invalides everything I said.”
  • “I can’t believe this headline said a pretty common thing I’m not personally familiar with but the publication’s target audience obviously is.”
  • "Headline didn’t answer every single question I could possibly wonder? Uh, clickbait much?

  They genuinely think that the article body should be effectively superfluous to the headline – not just to have a basic gist of but to discuss and debate current events, which is insane. It reminds me of people who think they can learn math and physics by passively watching somebody else do it – which is true only to an utterly incosequential extent.

  Speaking as someone who’s read thousands of articles for research, I feel confident saying that reading the article is an insane force multiplier to understanding. Any time you spent reacting to the headline would’ve been 3x as effective put into reading even just part of an article. This doesn’t just apply to current events, and even I haven’t thoroughly learned this lesson; so many times I’ve been editing Wikipedia and arrived at a point where reading one goddamn article for three minutes would’ve saved me half an hour of fucking around (“2 hours of debugging can save you five minutes of reading the documentation”).

  This is my way of pleading with you (you, the non-CombatWombat reader): it’s enriching once you can steel yourself and work through the initial dopamine drought, and it quickly becomes enjoyable. It’s not your fault it’s so hard psychologically; this was done to you by formats that value engagement with the platform over engagement with the material.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨FBI Got Grok to Hand Over Prompts Used to Create Nonconsensual Porn⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Yeah, there’s no fucking way “Well Grok told me these are the prompts they used” would be admissible as evidence of any kind.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨i unapologetically love male pits⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Yes, and my comment was assuming the partner washed – unless it’s to the standards I wash my fucking toilet bowl with at least.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨i unapologetically love male pits⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Agreed. Armpit fetishes are weird and gross to me, but they’re a distinct rung down from “I want to shove my face between someone’s asscheeks and aggressively mop up microscopic flecks of their shit with my tongue.” I’m giving ass-eating people the side-eye if they make fun of armpit stuff.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨too many creators not enough destroyers⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Raiden, turn the game console off right now.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Fck it, we ball⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  I mean I’ve read that the giant marine isopod Bathynomus giganteus is popular in Vietnam, so probably – although there’s probably a good reason beyond scarcity that it’s not a widely popular delicacy. I might be concerned about bioaccumulated heavy metals in terrestrial ones, they’d be highly inefficient to prepare, and I’ve never heard of any culture that eats them. But I’m sure it’d be doable. Just to what end, you know?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨whatever tf this is⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  So was I. “Yes, and”, as we say in improv. (I’ve never done improv.)

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨whatever tf this is⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Yeah, hence “a translator”. You didn’t think I meant from Rennaissance-era Italian to modern Japanese, did you? No one person could probably do that. I meant a translator from this plane to the next.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Fck it, we ball⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Fun fact: woodlice are terrestrial isopods, meaning they share a class (Malacostraca, the second-largest crustacean class after Insecta) with the decapods like crabs, shrimp, etc. Orders Isopoda and Decapoda are far away within the class, but they’re still in there!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨whatever tf this is⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Given a translator, can you even imagine Leonardo DaVinci and Hideo Kojima in a room together?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Not a shitpost, OP. Correct me if I missed something.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Sextina Aquafina’s distant ancestor.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Oh no, Intel is moving customer support to AI⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Every article I read about Intel makes me more thankful that I got a Ryzen 1700 in 2018 and never looked back.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Every so often, it's important for our community to pause, heal, and reflect together on what's truly important and why we're all here.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  From this distant vantage point, the Earth might not seem of any particular interest. But for us, it’s different. Consider again at that dot. That’s here. That’s home. That’s us. On it every corn you love, every corn you know, every corn you ever heard of, every cultivar that ever was, lived out its life. The aggregate of our joy and suffering, thousands of confident recipes, listicles, and culinary doctrines, every farmer and forager, every binger and dieter, every planter and harvester of fields, every succotash and popcorn, every monoecious couple in love, every pistil and stamen, hopeful seedling, barbecuer and chef, every eater of cornmeal, every corrupt subsidy, every cob and kernel in the history of our tummies lived there—on a mote of dust suspended in a sunbeam.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Star Trek: Starfleet Academy actor Kareem Diané decides to do their AMA on Lemmy!⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  And floss!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨time for learn⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Fuck you! My weird, ethereal mesh parents let me link to their copper all the time, and I turned out just fine. The problem is all these underparented kids nowadays with their undeveloped third eyes, unprepared for the wondrous horrors of existence.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Global powers see Wikipedia as fundamental target for manipulation— The Times says Wikipedia was "hacked" and calls it an "important victory" for Jeffrey Epstein⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  I don’t want to distract from the article itself, but on a generic level, The Signpost is worth reading for anyone interested in the “behind-the-scenes” of the project. They published another article about this a couple weeks ago.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Spanish Court Orders ProtonVPN and NordVPN to Block Pirate Football Streams⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  I wouldn’t use Mullvad when it’s openly hostile to peer-to-peer torrenting. Even outside of the obvious – piracy is one of the besf and most unique use cases for a VPN – I use torrents wherever the option is available on for legal downloads because that’s normally faster, spares a load on the server, and strengthens the download’s resiliency. That Mullvad wants to restrict that is their (reasonable) call, but it’s not one that’s going to get my money.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨ɘkil ɘd ꙅdɘɘw⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  The text is also larger and the speech bubble closer to her mouth and in a more visually interesting part of the frame. Additionally, the second bubble starts with an ellipsis, indicating even subconsciously that you shouldn’t start there.

  The height, of course, is the main factor.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Uhhhh sure?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Oh, shit. I’m sorry. I’ve heard some wild takes on Lemmy lately, but I still shouldn’t have assumed.

  But now I still have to disagree; this is part of a worldwide psychological experiment on Google’s part.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Uhhhh sure?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  I use and routinely contribute to OSM, and I hate Google Maps both ethically and because the actual underlying map is just half-baked.

  This is a ridiculous explanation for why GMaps suggests nominally slower routes alongside the main one. What’s happening in the OP image is clearly a bug, not Google begging you to pretty please do 8 superfluous minutes of data collection for them.

  • Some people have areas they’re more comfortable with. For example, some people are afraid of driving on a bustling highway or through a claustrophobic downtown. Alternative routes make it more likely that this person can forego a few minutes in favor of something more comfortable.
  • The router isn’t omniscient. Sometimes the human using the router knows more about local conditions than the router itself does, e.g. that a road it’s taking you through has a problem. Alternative routes again make it more likely that you give the person a satisfactory route.

  This comment is just fucking stupid and based on nothing when a much more cogent explanation exists. I’m sure it doesn’t hurt that you travel farther, but seriously?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How Walmart And Pepsico Rigged Prices And Supercharged Food Inflation⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  FritoLay is the top snack brand nationally and holds more than 50% snack market share in dozens of metro areas.

  Which I just have to say is astounding considering how trash Frito-Lay’s snack products are besides Doritos and Fritos.

  • Tostitos are the most inferior fucking tortilla chips I’ve ever had; they’re bland despite being salty as hell, and they’re so fragile that they somehow constantly break under the salsa. The salsa, meanwhile, is trash for the price point (and mediocre regardless with zero variety). At over 4 USD per jar, you’re getting into “actually decent salsa” range.
  • Lay’s regular chips are so thin it’s like you’re biting into air, and the taste is as generic as they come. Baked chips are fine but not special. And the kettle chips are solid enough, but the price point is insane; they aren’t nearly good enough when competing kettle chips are much better at that price.
  • Ruffles are so greasy that they make me nauseous after not very many, and I have a strong tolerance for oil. I can down an entire family-sized bag of chips in half an hour like it’s nothing, and somehow I’d probably turn down a bowl of Ruffles.
  • Rold Gold are pretzels. They exist. They sure do taste like pretzels. Good job, Rold Gold. Anyone else could do what you do.
  • Base cheetos are fine I guess. The puffs are just… Why would you ever buy these other than brand recognition? They’re not even close to the top for this. Herr’s, Jax. And they’ve been riding the flamin’ hot high for years – so much so that PepsiCo shamelessly put it in Mountain Dew at one point. They don’t have real flavor; it’s just heat for the sake of heat. It’s such a middle school snack food.
  • I have to give Fritos props for just being a solid, if basic, snack food. Your dad loves them, and he’s got a good point.
  • Doritos I recognize are absolute trash, but they do taste really good, they don’t have a lot of direct competition, and they’re clearly the crown jewel in Frito-Lay’s lineup. I still think they can’t justify their absurdly inflated price point, but I can understand craving some. These days, since these are majorly overpriced anyway, I’ve decided I prefer to get snacks less frequently but get something nicer like Zack’s Mighty Rolled Tortilla Chips. It feels nicer in the long run. Helps too that I think every Doritos flavor but one is non-vegan.
• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Reddit chess⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Twitter user discovers Cunningham’s law. More at 11.

  (This, by the way, is one of the main engines behind massive collaborations like Wikipedia, OpenStreetMap, etc.)

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Rate my setup guys⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  You’re going to the bathroom, you’re not playin’ Battlefield.

  You’re shittin’ in a bucket, *you’re playin’ Battlefield."