Kornblumenratte

@Kornblumenratte@feddit.org

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Trump posted this in Truth.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ 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.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Next US presidential elections.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Trump posted this in Truth.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ 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!⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  This image is far older than generative AI.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Tea is basically just salad water.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  I stand corrected.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Tea is basically just salad water.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Tell me more.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Tea is basically just salad water.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  TIL, thanks.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Tea is basically just salad water.⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨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 ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ 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 ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ 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 ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ 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 ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  And it’s far to rural…

  Sorry, Appalachia does not exist in European mental maps.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Shit's getting real⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  💯

  It has to do with the exploitation of insects.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨holee shiet⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ 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 ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Otorhinolaryngology was born in the 1850s, though, not 1700s.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨You got it, buddy⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨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 ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨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 ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨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.⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨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:

  [1939](en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Flash}

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Deep ocean technology offers never before seen images of lost WWI submarine⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨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 ⁨>:)>⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨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 ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  My browser eats timestamps, til. And yes, that is impressive.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Audible unveils plans to use AI voices to narrate audiobooks⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨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 ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨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.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Audible unveils plans to use AI voices to narrate audiobooks⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Hm. I wasn’t able to listen to all 9:53:57, but in the samples I watched I heard a voice resembling the classical computer voice of Science Fiction movies of the 70s. Better than most YouTube AI generated audio content, but good enough to narrate audio books? Well, we’ll accustom to anything, I guess.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Audible unveils plans to use AI voices to narrate audiobooks⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  To rephrase my question: where can I listen to an example of good AI spoken content?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨doctors⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  People are more complicated than cars, and surgeons are no magicians. I think your idea of the reason of your mother’s surgeon for refusal might be a bit off:

  1. Without adequate pre- and post-op physiotherapy, a joint will likely be worse after surgery.

  2. If simple physiotherapy is already too painful, cutting into this overexcited tissue risks inducing a complex regional pain syndrome.

  3. If someone suffers from both depression and from too much pain to do physiotherapy, they need a multimodal pain therapy to prepare for surgery.

  So, based on the bit of info you provided, refusing surgery was very likely the right thing to do to avoid worsening your mother’s situation. What I di hate is when doctors don’t explain themselves and just say “I can’t help you”, but do not point patients to someone who can.