JohnnyEnzyme

@JohnnyEnzyme@piefed.social

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Bearded Vulture nests found to have hoards of cultural artifacts—some up to 650 years old⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:

  Fascinating. Sort of like the many layers of ancient Troy.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The Earth is reflecting less and less sunlight, study reveals⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Ahh, good point, yes.
  I actually was thinking about those beautiful little deep-sea worlds when I wrote the above, but simply didn’t know enough to assert a dang-ol’ thing at the time. Okay, let’s see:

  However, although it is often said that these communities exist independently of the sun, some of the organisms are actually dependent upon oxygen produced by photosynthetic organisms, while others are anaerobic. –WP

  So… looks like we have at least *some* members of these little communities carrying on, past the death of oxygenic photosynthesis, which they evidently don’t need in order to survive. (meanwhile with anoxygenic photosynthesis carrying on for many millions more of years).

  But off the top of my empty coconut, it does raise a couple Q’s:

  1) Since there are maybe a dozen or less community members who live in these little worlds, closely built in to a commensurate ecosystem, would the death of the ones who rely on traditional photosynthesis bring about a collapse, either partial or total?

  2) Would rampant global warming tend to mess with the already super-heated, typically sulfurous nature of these worlds? (me, I would tend to think “nawt,” since they’re already so hot, but then again, I’m just some layperson really curious about all this, hah)

  Ah… those beautiful, entrancing little forbidden worlds:
  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hydrothermal_vent
  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ECBbAjoEHWI

  ❤️

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The Earth is reflecting less and less sunlight, study reveals⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Right??

  It’s going to be glorious.
  –(sotto voce)

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The Earth is reflecting less and less sunlight, study reveals⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  FWIW, the Earth has about 500-600My left before common photosynthesis is no longer possible due to fallout from the sun heating up gradually. My understanding is that unless complex life somehow adapts, then that will be the end of it on Earth, with simpler life presumably surviving for billions more years past that mark.

  Point is– if complex life can survive the coming collapse, then it evidently does have a healthy window to work with. I believe that might be helped out by the ‘churning of the continents,’ in which landmass gets regularly cycled back in to the magma layer over the course of millions of years, with new areas appearing on the other edges, so to speak.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How Jane Goodall’s Breakthrough Began with a Chimpanzee in Tanzania | The Walrus⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Nice, but I thought it was going to get it in to how the talk went that night. Oh well.

  I read a couple of Jane’s books some years back, and found them enthralling. The distinct personalities of the various chimps came through very clearly, and I might as well have been reading any gripping drama about significant humans.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨8 Bizarre (and Terrifying) Deep-Sea Creatures⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Not sure if this has any relation to the downvotes, but there’s a tonne of javascripts running on that page. I pretty much gave up after some fiddling around. Love that lead image, though.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Not to get all religiony but why in the old testament God was all fire and brimstone and fatal consequences? But the new testament God is all about forgiveness and such??⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Sorry for giving that impression, mssr.

  What I know for sure is that absolutely everyone in life forms a belief system in order to sort out reality.

  Me, it’s not so much that I dislike ‘Christians’ in any particular way, as much as the fact that I don’t like seeing others push people around via their ‘wrong’ beliefs, and so forth…

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Not to get all religiony but why in the old testament God was all fire and brimstone and fatal consequences? But the new testament God is all about forgiveness and such??⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  At one point Okham’s razor says the most probable thing is that a guy named Y’shua from Galilee did indeed start a religious movement.

  Haha, and later on, some group of assholes tried to make hay with the original guy… to the extent that whatever he might have actually said (remember the Gnostics?) to the message of bullshit “Christianity?”

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Not to get all religiony but why in the old testament God was all fire and brimstone and fatal consequences? But the new testament God is all about forgiveness and such??⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Hahaha… now there you go!

  Now THAT’S the way we do things, mate! XD

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Not to get all religiony but why in the old testament God was all fire and brimstone and fatal consequences? But the new testament God is all about forgiveness and such??⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Again– a very whitewashed theory.

  So what you’re telling me there is that you didn’t actually read it there, Bob?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Not to get all religiony but why in the old testament God was all fire and brimstone and fatal consequences? But the new testament God is all about forgiveness and such??⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Wow, it is as if you need something to be true, in the deepest sense, in order to validate your life?

  Dude– and THAT’S the part I always try to confirm. Live your life!

  Enjoy our silly, mutual existence, if you can!
  WE ARE HERE F0R A LITTLE WHILE, and also we like our animal friends et al.

  The ride will be over soon, my friend. So let’s enjoy…

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Not to get all religiony but why in the old testament God was all fire and brimstone and fatal consequences? But the new testament God is all about forgiveness and such??⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Looks like you tried to reply to my actual response, and then sort of went all Gonzo-weird ness for motivational purposes?

  Well, HELLO THERE, fellow freakazoid!

  (I mean, that’s what the point is here, right..?)

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Not to get all religiony but why in the old testament God was all fire and brimstone and fatal consequences? But the new testament God is all about forgiveness and such??⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Do you mean, being just like you… my fellow freakazoid? :D

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Not to get all religiony but why in the old testament God was all fire and brimstone and fatal consequences? But the new testament God is all about forgiveness and such??⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Congratulations!
  Not only do you manufacture stuff that never happened, but you’re about as disingenuous a religious creep as I’ve ever encountered, so far upon the FV.

  Hehe, the ‘donkey-ears’ fit well, amirite?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Not to get all religiony but why in the old testament God was all fire and brimstone and fatal consequences? But the new testament God is all about forgiveness and such??⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Yes, but why are we ‘bickering’ in the first place, and why the need to accuse me of re-editing a comment? (which never happened)

  What you are seemingly trying to tell me here, “PhilipTheBucket,” is that you’re not really able to countenance the actual arguments I’m making above.

  Now would you say that’s a fair or unfair statement? If unfair, could you give me some facts & reality-based reasons as to why not?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Not to get all religiony but why in the old testament God was all fire and brimstone and fatal consequences? But the new testament God is all about forgiveness and such??⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Except for the fact that… I did indeed present multiple arguments, and the fact that at no point did I ‘signal victory?’

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Not to get all religiony but why in the old testament God was all fire and brimstone and fatal consequences? But the new testament God is all about forgiveness and such??⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Almost like every lauded, ‘perfect’ figure across history?

  In fact, “The Messiah” is a concept that certainly goes back long before some dude allegedly named “Y’shua” was branded that way.

  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Messiah

  Now, modern humans being ~300Kyrs old, I would guess that it’s not just an ancient fixation, but even endemic to our very species… our very way of hoping and wanting and longing for a return to ‘the good times,’ directly embodied in a mythological figure.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Not to get all religiony but why in the old testament God was all fire and brimstone and fatal consequences? But the new testament God is all about forgiveness and such??⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  (Edit: Also I think it is dishonest of them to edit their comment…

  Dude, I did nothing of the kind.

  Wow, it’s almost like you managed to copy-paste the known fact that the body of Christian scholars agrees that someone existed, later known as “Jesus,” and then seemingly couldn’t deal with a rebuttal upon your notion of ‘that clearing up everything.’

  So now you’re getting weird about the fact that I had to re-do my comment, simply because I responded to the wrong commenter at the time? So, did not see my rebuttal at all? Did you not see my attempt to explain that?

  Go ahead, tho– consider this your opportunity to fairly reply to what I said above. Sound good?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Not to get all religiony but why in the old testament God was all fire and brimstone and fatal consequences? But the new testament God is all about forgiveness and such??⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  But then you’re making up new standards of evidence for historical characters, and only applying them to Jesus.

  Absolutely false, right from the get-go, “Bob.”

  The whole point of what I said above is to understand things from an historians and archeologists’ POV. You know– the ones who generally try their best to strictly adhere to known facts & reality?

  Such criteria is commonly applied to virtually EVERY significant figure in history, Bob. Are you actually (haha) asking for a special exception for someone possibly known as Y’shua ben Josef during his lifetime, who later got turned in to an almost impossibly, legendary figure by political, financial and religious institutions…?

  I sure hope not, anyway, because that would not be the “Bob” we all know and love.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Not to get all religiony but why in the old testament God was all fire and brimstone and fatal consequences? But the new testament God is all about forgiveness and such??⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  You are thinking about this the wrong way.

  I consider that a terrible way of framing things, and then to make matters worse, you propose only a binary set of conclusions.

  Please do better then that if you want to debate fairly.

  Thank you.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Not to get all religiony but why in the old testament God was all fire and brimstone and fatal consequences? But the new testament God is all about forgiveness and such??⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  As I see it, there’s pretty much a landslide of evidence, from almost every studied angle, that points to what you just postulated.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Not to get all religiony but why in the old testament God was all fire and brimstone and fatal consequences? But the new testament God is all about forgiveness and such??⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Whoops; apologies.
  I borked up my last reply-comment, and so deleted that, and re-created from scratch.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Not to get all religiony but why in the old testament God was all fire and brimstone and fatal consequences? But the new testament God is all about forgiveness and such??⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Which is fine as far as it goes, yet does very little if anything to address the body of the above concerns.

  While “Jesus” likely had something with an actual person who once lived, nailing down the details of his life and history seems highly problematic from a scholarly & historical POV, and as for embellishment, amalgamation and distortion… all such things are highly possible, and even highly likely, AFAIK.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Not to get all religiony but why in the old testament God was all fire and brimstone and fatal consequences? But the new testament God is all about forgiveness and such??⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  I like this reasoning a lot, however:

  #2. In terms of there being a real-life Y’shua, AFAIK it’s hard to know if such a person ever really existed in the first place, or if they were in fact more of an amalgamated ‘King Arthur’ / ‘Robin Hood’ type, very much inspired by earlier legends & mythology, and greatly elaborated upon in later years, via oral traditions, before finally being documented hither & tither by various writers scattered around the region.

  AFAIK there is no archeological evidence whatsoever for that exact person’s existence, and no contemporaneous writing from the time, describing his life.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨YSK: You should enable peak refresh rate in Android⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Good to know! I haven’t noticed any issues over here, but I would expect that with certain apps on certain phones, it could indeed muck things up…

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨YSK: You should enable peak refresh rate in Android⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  In terms of running faster, saving power and preserving battery life, that reminds me that I turned off some stuff on my phone a couple years ago, and have been completely happy with the result.

  Looking it up, I thiiink it went like this:

  To disable animations on most Android phones, go to Settings > Accessibility > Color and motion (or Visibility enhancements) and enable the Remove animations option.

  For more granular control, enable Developer options by tapping the Build Number in “About phone” five times, then find and adjust the “Window animation scale,” “Transition animation scale,” and “Animator duration scale” settings to their lowest values or off.

  Before trying any of that, please do fact-check the above.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Disney sells us imaginary heroes while supporting real world villains.⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  JK Rowling

  No, Joanne!

  I.e., I understand she greatly prefers (absolutely detests) being addressed that way. :D

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Doohickey Corporation - home of the gizmos, thingamabobs, and whatchamacallits⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Doohickey Corporation - home of the gizmos, thingamabobs, and whatchamacallits

  Very good. Added.

  Now let’s see you go to work! :D

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Farewell to the fediverse⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Well, I... guess that answers the question.

  Thank you for answering!

  (hmm, where does the word "answer" come from, anyway?)
  (it seems so odd across common English)

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Farewell to the fediverse⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Oof. My head is spinning just trying to understand all these topics at just the basic level.

  So we meet again, Coopr8, and I'm getting the sense that... there's still much to learn? 🙂