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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The height of sophistication: the 1994 McDonald's manager collection⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Dan Flashes Mcdonalds is a very aggressive store. I mean, you walk by a store and you see 50 guys who look just like me fighting over very complicated shirts, you go in. Yes, you do. You go in.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I feel like a buffet would fix this⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  physically uncomfortable

  such an unnatural position

  Have you considered that he’s been standing with his shoulders rotated forward for most of his life, and that his feeble body falls right into this position, rather than a neutral position where he’d have to expend strength standing up straight with a strong looking torso?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨He makes a great point⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  I don’t understand any dog barks

  That’s obviously false. Any dog owner knows when their dog is begging for help getting something out of reach or being let in/out of a gate, which barks mean “hey someone’s at the door” or “squirrel” and which yelps mean pain. Beyond that, growls and body language can communicate quite a bit, too.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What is the catalyst that actually causes (financial) bubbles to burst?⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  The big players in AI aren’t highly leveraged

  It’s not traditional leverage but the recent deals being announced where the AI companies are raising money from Microsoft, Nvidia, Amazon, Google, AMD, Oracle, etc. and paying it back in stock or purchase commitments have a certain circular bootstrappy notion to them. The formulas for the valuations rely on feedback loops that are less stable and might create runaway feedback conditions at the slightest hiccup.

  In any highly capital intensive business, you always run the risk that the thing you build is worth less than the cost it took to build it. And when that happens, collapses can happen pretty quickly, as everyone invested in these companies rushes towards the offramp.

  I can think of a few catalysts that could trigger that initial realization that the thing made isn’t actually worth the cost to build it:

  • A new model comes out from a competitor that was cheaper to build and almost as good. (Deepseek reminded everyone that this might happen.)
  • New money stops coming in and the companies building things have to tighten their belts. This could be driven by a failure to monetize as much as previously modeled, so that the value of the company itself is questioned.
  • Some kind of legal flaw threatens the entire foundation of some expensive models.
  • Some kind of technical flaw causes one company’s flagship model to lose the race against other companies.
  • Some key personnel are incapacitated in a way that robs the company of its momentum (this almost happened with the board of directors revolt at OpenAI).
  • Something else I haven’t thought of.

  But once a hiccup happens, something built on so many self-reinforcing loops is less resilient against the unknown, the chaos of the real world.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Always question those who are the "teachers"⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  You just mixed being strong with being fat.

  Strong people can look fat. Powerlifters, strongmen, shot putters, football linemen, and other athletes where really high strength are important tend to carry a lot of body fat, too.

  Fat doesn’t mean strong, but very strong very often means “fat” looking.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I'm blue ba da ba da dee da ba dieee⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s even funny the way the parent comment described it: a female town right next to the regular town.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Great Depression: Part Deux⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s more of a BYO protein meal kit, with shelf stable seasoning+carb in a box, where you’re expected to add your own protein.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Great Depression: Part Deux⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Canned green beans are great. I don’t care how many fancy meals I eat, there’s always gonna be a place for that nostalgic flavor.

  And canned corn is basically my preferred method of adding corn to soups.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨#environmentalist⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  You can release some of the stuck on flavors from silicone by heating it in the oven to 250°F/120°C for 20-30 minutes.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Great Depression: Part Deux⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s a very high confidence in the statistical significance, but a relatively low effect (in that the difference between eating cured meats every day and eating no cured meats ever has roughly a 1% chance of making a difference in cancer incidence).

  Basically, about 4% of people who never eat cured meats get cancer in the GI tract (from throat to stomach to colorectal) at some point in their lifetimes, whereas people who eat cured meats every day get cancer in the GI tract about 5% of the time. On the one hand, that’s like a 20% increase in cancer risk, but on the other hand, that makes a difference to only about 1% of the population.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨This man is suffering⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  This is in no way condoning the practice, only describing why it happens, but a lot of dudes actually derive some kind of pleasure or satisfaction at knowing they’ve made someone else uncomfortable. That motivation generally steers them towards in-person interactions.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Fact⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Look at the video of her running, posted on September 29. A video posted on September 27 also shows short clips of her standing or walking or sitting with knees bent, showing that her femurs and tibias are proportional length. There’s a video called rapture prep posted on September 22 that includes a thumbnail that is a side shot with her knees bent, showing the ratio of femur to tibia.

  I think it’s a normal proportioned short person whose camera angles tend to lengthen her upper body and shorten her lower body. And maybe a preference for high waisted pants that may trick the eye into thinking the hip hinge is higher than it is.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Fact⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  She’s just short. And this image is taken from pretty close, so that little changes in distance to camera make a big difference in apparent length.

  A typical smartphone camera’s default “1x” zoom tends to be a pretty wide lens with a short focal length. So you stand up close to your subject when taking pictures or video.

  And people’s faces tend to look better when shot from at least eye level, especially with wide lenses from up close.

  So if you imagine a 1.5 meter tall person photographed from 1.5 meters away, at height level, standing straight, the top 1/3 will take up about 18.435° of visual angle. The middle 1/3 will be 15.255°. And the bottom 1/3 will be 11.31°. So just like that, 0.5 meters can look 60% longer on the top portion of a subject than the exact same length, 0.5 meters, on the bottom of a subject.

  As a result, there’s a warped perspective where the things that are higher on a person’s body or torso look longer, and things that are lower are further away and therefore smaller.

  Bend the knees slightly and the difference becomes even more skewed.

  We don’t notice these things with our eyeballs because our visual cortex corrects for these things with a three dimensional model of the world around us, but still photos don’t go through that same processing when perceived, so sometimes perspective plays tricks on perceived size/distance.

  For a quick demonstration, pull out your phone and take a selfie from above your head, looking up at the camera. How small do your feet look, and does that match the real world appearance as you perceive them in real life?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨ChatGPT Atlas can automate Lemmy shitposting⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Smart quotes are the default in certain interfaces (most notably the iPhone), so they’re not really a reliable indicator or bot-ness.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Hell yeah⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  You’re telling me a crab ran this goon?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Richest American to FAFO?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  He suffered from mental health and physical issues, blamed it on CTE, left a note requesting that his brain be examined for CTE, and was diagnosed with CTE after his death. All that is consistent with targeting the NFL headquarters in that building.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Richest American to FAFO?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  The CEO of a specific fund that Blackstone operates, yes. And she was killed by someone targeting the NFL headquarters, who blamed football and CTE for some of his issues.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨hows keto working out for you⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  also don’t think they are coprophages like rabbits.

  Gorillas do selectively engage in coprophagy in certain situations, depending in large part on their nutrition and diet. Certain fruits in their diet, and the accompanying seeds in their shit, increase the likelihood that they’ll go back for seconds.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨hows keto working out for you⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  The question was: how do gorillas get so muscular on a mostly plant based diet?

  The correct answer is: they eat a shitload of protein that is present in the plants they eat, by consuming 20-30% of their calories from protein and eating 25-40kg of food per day.

  Your answer included factually incorrect claims about how gorillas can synthesize any amino acid so that the concept of nutritionally essential amino acids don’t apply to them.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨hows keto working out for you⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  at no point rebuts the fact that the essential amino acids are themselves ultimately essential

  I’m taking issue with your claim that no specific amino acids are essential for gorillas. That’s wildly implausible, given that pretty much any animal studied has shown that animals all have essential amino acids, and that mammals generally require the same 9 amino acids as nutritionally essential. Even ruminants, whose gut microbes can synthesize many of the essential amino acids, still have issues if they don’t separately consume enough of those amino acids, because the rumen microbes can’t actually provide enough for their metabolic needs.

  Yes, essential amino acids are essential. No, gorillas are not some kind of sole exception in animals to that general principle. They just get enough from their relatively high protein plant diets.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨hows keto working out for you⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  because they can synthesize everything they need.

  What are you talking about. Pretty much every animal lacks the ability to synthesize certain amino acids. No animal can rearrange the carbon skeletons of 11 out of the 21 amino acids relevant to animal protein (cysteine, histidine, isoleucine, leucine, lysine, methionine, phenylalanine, threonine, tryptophan, tyrosine, and valine), so the ability to synthesize certain amino acids necessarily relies on the presence of the amino acids that share the same carbon structure. See here, which talks about the essential/non-essential categorization as being outdated and needing to be understood as a sliding scale in which synthesizing even non-essential amino acids carries a cost, and that eating complete proteins in a species-appropriate ratio is still necessary for animals to thrive.

  Gorillas consume something like 20-30% of their calories from protein depending on the ratio of low protein fruit to high protein leaves in their diets. Their plant food sources just don’t have all that much in the way of energy, so even the small amounts of protein in any given leaf is made up for the fact that they’re eating up to 40 kg of food per day.

  The truth is, gorillas do consume quite a bit of protein. Plant matter, like pretty much any living organism, has protein. Leaves are relatively high in protein compared to other plant foods. Let’s not forget, broccoli has more protein per 100 calories than steaks do.

  So no, gorillas are not capable of freely synthesizing the amino acids they need. The truth is that they’re eating a lot of protein from various sources at different amino acid ratios and using those amino acids pretty efficiently.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Aight. Let's be honest. How many of you dress for yourselves, and how many dress for others?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I dress for myself. And my own comfort does depend on things like social interactions and conversation dynamics and office relationships and others’ perception of me and my reputation. So dressing for myself includes dressing within social conventions.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨i enjoy high fructose corn syrup too⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  You’re just listing reasons why they were reliant on a single crop for sustenance. Cool, but the actual historical example shows why that particular arrangement is brittle and vulnerable to shocks, which is the point being made here.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨i enjoy high fructose corn syrup too⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  The Irish genocide that you refer to as using the colonizer’s term “Irish Potato Famine” had absolutely fuckall to do with potatoes or the Irish.

  But it has everything to do with potatoes (a particular blight that affected potato crops) and the Irish (the actual affected people of this genocide).

  The social and political reasons for why the Irish ended up so dependent on a single crop for sustenance is part of the story, of course, but this discussion right here is about the fragility and brittleness of relying on a single crop.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨i enjoy high fructose corn syrup too⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  For another example of a plant that just didn’t make it into modern society at scale, there are skirrets. Carrots, parsnips, and skirrets were related umbellifer plants with edible, nutritious roots, cultivated over the centuries as food. Carrots and parsnips were responsive to breeding for root size, and could produce comparatively huge roots, but skirrets never really did. Once the potato was brought over from the new world, the skirret fell out of favor.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨soda⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  …Peyton is just a common name in Tennessee. Maybe Peyton Manning helped that trend with his success as a quarterback, but there are a lot of kids with that name in Tennessee.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Opinions on Jurassic Park as a Zoo⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  If I remember correctly, the book opens with a prologue describing the business/finance hype in biotech, where a bunch of startups are raising funds and racing to get rich revolutionizing how to commercialize the exciting cutting edge in biological science in that era. It has nothing to do with the plot and the characters of the book, except that it establishes the tone, the background, and the incentives at play.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Opinions on Jurassic Park as a Zoo⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  My favorite moment in the book is where they realize that the computer program for tracking populations had an incorrect assumption and just returned the full count if it counted the expected population for an enclosure. Only, the dinosaurs were breeding, so the system didn’t catch that the populations were actually higher than expected, and therefore didn’t notice when some dinosaurs escaped from their enclosures.

  I didn’t get what chaos theory was until like 10-20 years later, but to my 12-year-old self it was the first time I learned about how bad assumptions can cascade in real world failures.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Opinions on Jurassic Park as a Zoo⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Michael Crichton was a successful novelist, and his first foray into show business was writing the screenplay for Westworld, about a park where everything goes wrong. It flopped commercially but basically planted the seeds for him to try it again, but with dinosaurs. Spielberg directed the adaptation and then there was a rush to adapt a bunch of other stuff. He was also an executive producer for ER, as it was adapted from a pilot he wrote, based on his own experience from med school (he graduated with an MD but never practiced).

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Pet rent⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Oldest profession.