Kornblumenratte
@Kornblumenratte@feddit.org
- Comment on do you remember a time when societies were so polarized and shifted so much to the right like today? How long did it last? 2 days ago:
I’d say all of history until 1968?
- Comment on Why are podcasters/vloggers suddenly holding tiny mics? 3 days ago:
Here is a good video explaining the trend: youtube.com/watch?v=0arvnAlV_C4
- Comment on xkcd #3147: Hiking 1 week ago:
Friction cooling.
- Comment on Trump posted this in Truth. 3 weeks ago:
They will. Autocrats love public applause, and what public applause is greater than a 90+ % vote? Or do you know of any autocracy that does not have a ritual of approval called elections?
Well, granted, military dictatorships usually don’t do this election thing. With all this ICE buildup, Department of War renaming, declaring war on gangs while redifining the Venuzuelan government as gang, and this Chipocalypse stuff Trump is cosplaying more and more as an unhinged warlord. I’m afraid you might be right.
- Comment on Trump posted this in Truth. 4 weeks ago:
Next US presidential elections.
- Comment on Trump posted this in Truth. 4 weeks ago:
There will be elections. All autocrats love elections. Being reelected with 90+ % just feels too good to not have them.
- Comment on Good luck! 4 weeks ago:
This image is far older than generative AI.
- Comment on Tea is basically just salad water. 4 weeks ago:
I stand corrected.
- Comment on Tea is basically just salad water. 4 weeks ago:
Tell me more.
- Comment on Tea is basically just salad water. 4 weeks ago:
TIL, thanks.
- Comment on Tea is basically just salad water. 5 weeks ago:
Salad is called salad because it’s salted - it’s right there in the name. Salt is basically the only required ingredient, and it’s usually missing from tea. Furthermore, the stuff that is salted (and nowadays dressed) to become salad is usually fresh stuff, not dried and fermented.
- Comment on Shit's getting real 1 month ago:
I’m afraid another form of governing rule would not change the exploitation of the environment, animals or people - humans always exploited the environment and animals regardless of the system of government or economics. We’d need a cultural shift from an individualistic self-centered culture to a culture that accepts our position as one part of a complex interconnected ecological and social network.
- Comment on Shit's getting real 1 month ago:
Farming has an far greater impact on the ecosystem. There is no way to live for humans without completely reshaping their environment. We evolved as an invasive species.
If you’re moral argument to call for a boycott of honey is honey bee’s impact on the ecosystem rather than their enslavement and exploitation to humans, your only reasonable moral course of action is Fruitarianism using only fruits growing in the wild - basically an Orang Utan or Gorilla lifestyle. That choice has been made some 4-5 million years ago, when our ancesters became an invasive species in the savanna and began our first reshaping of ecosystems. Good luck reversing that choice.
- Comment on Shit's getting real 1 month ago:
I’m glad you asked. Fruitarians have an answer to that moral dilemma.
- Comment on Tried naming the states from memory as a European 1 month ago:
And it’s far to rural…
Sorry, Appalachia does not exist in European mental maps.
- Comment on Shit's getting real 1 month ago:
💯
It has to do with the exploitation of insects.
- Comment on holee shiet 2 months ago:
Well… black holes are not cool, either.
- Comment on holee shiet 2 months ago:
I doubt this would work. The sun runs on hydrogen fusion. Adding water is just adding fuel to fire.
- Comment on PSA for those in America 2 months ago:
Cats are the dominant species. Well, actually ants, but cats are a close second.
- Comment on You got it, buddy 3 months ago:
Otorhinolaryngology was born in the 1850s, though, not 1700s.
- Comment on You got it, buddy 3 months ago:
Taint is a bit inaccurate, I’d say. It’s actually “Schamlippen”. “Scham” meaning “shame” and was also used as an innocuous or rather less derogatory word to refer to this area of the female body that may not be spoken of. “Outer and inner shame lips” just stuck and is the colloquial expression for labia majora and minora.
- Comment on Hertz, showing the difference between science and engineering 3 months ago:
They did not use coal back then – I’m not sure whether it was even known to the Mediterranean culture. Forests were plundered for shipbuilding. Crude oil was only available as naphtha in the Middle East, barely enough for the local fishermen to pitch there boats and for the Byzantines to use in their flamethrowers. Furthermore, crude oil was not used in steam engines — you cannot shovel a heep of oil under a kettle. Fuel existed, yes, but they had no access to it.
All it would have needed is fixing the steam exhaust and have it drive a shoveled wheel.
So a completely different machine? Shoveled wheels were invented centuries after Heron. Even if they played with such a setup – an open, non-pressurized turbine has no usable power. To use steam, you’ll have to pressurize it, and the technology to tame high pressure was only developed to build cannons that do not burst.
In the history of the steam engine, the fuel supply was available before the engine. IIRC, Watt’s incentive for the invention of the steam engine was the need to drain coal mines.
- Comment on Hertz, showing the difference between science and engineering 3 months ago:
Herons steam “engine” had no power whatsoever and was not scalable. And even if it would have been scalable, they had had no fuel to drive it.
- Comment on VPN Registrations Increase by 1,000%, less than Hour After PornHub Blocked France From Accessing its Website. 3 months ago:
Well – this might be more succesful in boostering the IT skills of France’s next generation than any curriculum reform.
- Comment on world changes so fast 3 months ago:
- Comment on Deep ocean technology offers never before seen images of lost WWI submarine 4 months ago:
TIL 200 m and beneath is regarded as deep sea. Just 200 m! 2000 bananas!! 20833 full and one flat lego brick!!!
- Comment on >:)> 4 months ago:
No, it wasn’t. Or to be exact, we don’t know, but it’s highly unlikely. In 2009, the bone growth pattern of Myotragus was thought to occur only in cold blooded animals, but in 2012 they found it is widespread in extant mammals as well.
- Comment on Audible unveils plans to use AI voices to narrate audiobooks 4 months ago:
My browser eats timestamps, til. And yes, that is impressive.
- Comment on Audible unveils plans to use AI voices to narrate audiobooks 4 months ago:
Thanks, I’ll listen into it.
- Comment on Anthropic apologizes after one of its expert witnesses cited a fake article hallucinated by Claude in the company's legal battle with music publishers 4 months ago:
This is far worse than being not a reliable source of info. Ms Chen had all the info she needed, and Claude falsified it.