porcoesphino
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- Comment on Climate change slows Earth's rotation, lengthening days 23 hours ago:
TLDR: Water melt accumulates at the equator so there is more mass further away from the centre of rotation
- Comment on Bluesky CEO Jay Graber Is Stepping Down 5 days ago:
Dictators can affect funding and deals pretty well, they have a lot less influence on the products. From what I’ve seen most “tech” topics are mostly shiny new tech and the periphery to that
- Comment on New ntfy.sh v2.18.0 was written by AI 1 week ago:
Was this written with genAI? Even the TLDR is padded fluff of common talking points
- Comment on Wild macaques don’t abandon babies. So why did Punch’s mother? 1 week ago:
TLDR: They don’t know
They also touch on possible reasons for a pretty small percentage of the article
- Comment on Plastic-eating bacteria discovered in the ocean 1 week ago:
Kind of, but there are plenty of paper and wood decomposers and we still use plenty of those. It will have consequences but you already have to service vehicles and you already need to sanitise hospital equipment
- Comment on 40% of teenage boys believe women lie about domestic and sexual violence: new research 1 week ago:
So… what my sibling comment says that’s timestamped earlier than yours and admits my mistake, but also notes that saying “our” and “we” a lot in the body of an article is very confusing and even if they want to keep broad ambiguous terms they could still do better at linking to the researchers recent work?
Actually, I’m just a bit tired, thanks for the clarification. It does seem to be a nice premise. I don’t think relying on the authors being listed in small print really does much for people that aren’t aware of how this entity operates (hence my confusion and the upvotes on my comment). I do really think the editors could do better ensuring there is clarity here given the ecosystem these articles sit in. I appreciate this being early data might be why they can’t link to a published reference, but I would be shocked if the authors didn’t have something uploaded somewhere to their personal or university websites. But also, I scanned early morning and saw a bunch of “we” and “our” and got on my soap box with a bunch of presumptions before really reading the article
- Comment on 40% of teenage boys believe women lie about domestic and sexual violence: new research 1 week ago:
On reread, the body of this article doesn’t seem to say anything except “we” and “our research” and I had just woken up and assumed the news agency.
But the authors are Sara Meger and Kate Reynolds of The University of Melbourne so it’s probably their research so I’m probably wrong. It really pisses me off how indirectly news articles point to studies and I think this is a good example of that, but I do think I was wrong about the study being done by a news agency. I’m pretty sure these people would have a pdf on their research websites too so not linking is just hand wavy
- Comment on 40% of teenage boys believe women lie about domestic and sexual violence: new research 1 week ago:
The Conversation
At least the article, published in The Conversation, wrote “we” a lot when talking about data interpretation and I saw no reference to any other researchers
- Comment on 40% of teenage boys believe women lie about domestic and sexual violence: new research 1 week ago:
Here is a related study with clearer methodology and survey questions, but it does bundle countries in its age cohort breakdown:
- Comment on 40% of teenage boys believe women lie about domestic and sexual violence: new research 1 week ago:
Downvoting not because the topic is unimportant but because the new study is run by this news agency without publishing their questions or methodology. That seems like running for a headline with little concern for accuracy or scientific methods. I could be wrong but until they are more open we don’t know
- Comment on 🚀 Statistics for Strava v4.7.0 released! Dark mode & Milestones timeline 1 week ago:
What about a non-commercial alternative to strava? It’s core feature is literally push a button, gps tracking, push a button and stop, then some tagging
- Comment on Native bee / wasp ID 1 week ago:
If you don’t know of it, iNaturalist helps with relatively quick IDs. Upload a photo, an AI will give you options with percentage matches it thinks, and then other people will take a look and ID what they think
- Comment on China claims breakthrough with world’s first ducted eVTOL that can lift nearly half a ton 1 week ago:
Never said ads are good nor that adblockers shouldn’t be used
Most of your arguments hold for stealing from a baby “they should protect it better, I don’t owe them shit”
This one “why shit allover someone saying a website has more ads than usual” comment I made seems to have found a lot of selfish assholes that can’t not force their views on other people and tell them how they should live their lives
- Comment on China claims breakthrough with world’s first ducted eVTOL that can lift nearly half a ton 1 week ago:
Just a reminder that this thread, and my comments, are in the context of someone saying the OP had linked a particularly bad website for ads, and this person being attacked
If your position is what you’ve actually written here then I don’t think there is a real disagreement but I am surprised by the effort. There’s only a disagreement if you think it’s reasonable to call out someone for making a comment about the ads on a website being excessive and telling that person they don’t get that privilege because they don’t use the internet your way. Everything that follows is just a retaliatory mirror on the issues with “your way” (yeah it’s another poster not you)
- Comment on Is there a program for tracking IEEE reference numbers and adjusting their order? 1 week ago:
This is the best answer so far
- Comment on China claims breakthrough with world’s first ducted eVTOL that can lift nearly half a ton 1 week ago:
An asshole move is consuming other people work without giving them money and then bitching at anyone that points out you’re a leech
- Comment on Why is the USA attacking Iran? 1 week ago:
That’s happened a few times before hasn’t it?
- Comment on China tests world's first megawatt-class flying wind turbine 1 week ago:
“All of it, obviously!”
- Comment on China claims breakthrough with world’s first ducted eVTOL that can lift nearly half a ton 1 week ago:
It’s weird to me that people complain about how long it takes to get to work, why don’t they just aggressively speed to get there earlier?
Sites need money to run and many rely on ads. Blocking them is an asshole move (that I admittedly do) but so is dumping them all over a page. It would be nice to have some sort of pay for what you use alternative but until then, bitching isn’t half as weird and obnoxious as whatever you’re doing in this comment
- Comment on China tests world's first megawatt-class flying wind turbine 1 week ago:
“Skytanic” was a great episode of Archer. For anyone that hasn’t seen it, the running gag is that Archer thinks the non-flammable helium is going to explode leading to things like this slap
- Comment on ‘People have lost all sense of shame’: three threats against federal politicians reported to police every day 2 weeks ago:
You’re replying to their comment about Australian politics compared to other countries to make a point about the shame of Australia politicians by using an example of British politics and US politics? Somehow I still can’t tell if this is a deliberate troll
- Comment on Giant string of organic molecules on Mars 2 weeks ago:
Thank you!
- Comment on A heaven-sent, incredibly rare event is unfolding in the outback 2 weeks ago:
Alternate title: “Inland lake filling to levels not seen in 160 years”:
For the second year in a row, an inland sea is making its slow journey through some of Australia’s driest country to its home in the heart of South Australia.
Not only is every major catchment that drains into Kati Thanda-Lake Eyre already wet, more rain is forecast and there is plenty of water yet to arrive from upstream.
If this water fills Australia’s largest inland lake — after getting tantalisingly close last year — it could be just the fourth time that has happened in 160 years.
Where is the water coming from?
The Kati Thanda-Lake Eyre Basin is fed by a network of inland creeks and river systems across 1.2 million square kilometres, more than five times the size of Victoria.
It’s the fourth-largest catchment in the world that does not drain into the ocean.
- Comment on Leave big tech behind! How to replace Amazon, Google, X, Meta, Apple – and more 2 weeks ago:
And social media is arguably the main thing. The network effects make it sticky but the US has been amazing at exporting it’s culture, social media amplifies that, and right now that culture is a bit fascisty with a hint of freedom stopping regulation of the rich and misleading. That said, but that lens, I’m not really sure Lemmy is a great alternative since it has a lot of people from the US already and I think it wouldn’t scale well (either because of lack of instances, burn out from moderators, or the problems migrating here)
- Comment on Emergency warning text and siren to be sent to every phone in Australia [July 27 at 2pm AEST] 2 weeks ago:
The US has a similar alert system for emergencies and most alerts you see are to look for a number plate because of a recent child abduction:
- Comment on The world’s first transatlantic fiber-optic cable is being dismantled after almost 40 years 2 weeks ago:
Ironically I went searching for if that was true and ended up at this same article:
History was unmade last year, as engineers began the massive project of ripping the first-ever transoceanic fiber-optic cable from the ocean floor. Just don’t mention sharks.
SHARKS ARE INNOCENT. Or at least they’re not eating the internet. As a family of cartilaginous fish, sharks are collectively not guilty of most, if not all, charges of biting, chomping, chewing, or otherwise attacking the underwater network of fiber-optic cables. The people who build and maintain the nearly 600 subsea cables that carry almost all of our intercontinental traffic—supporting just about every swipe, tap, Zoom, and doomscroll anywhere on the planet—have a love-hate relationship with this myth, which has persisted for decades. They might even hate that I’m starting this piece with it.
It’s a terrible way to open an article: here’s some irrelevant bullshit that hides what will actually be in the article until after you pay us.
- Comment on Are there regions of the world where local men and women have divergent accents? 2 weeks ago:
I think that’s adjectives not verbs but then the language in my post may have only been nouns
- Comment on Can a reasonable person genuinely believe in ghosts? 2 weeks ago:
Ah, I see.
I’d argue we all believe in a thing or two that we don’t have great evidence for when confronted. And I’d argue the size of the collection of things we could believe is mind bogglingly large. So then you end up with combinations like this.
But yeah, agreed from the framing in your comment that believing both is pretty logically inconsistent.
Thinking through this idea a bit more, I think there are a lot of people that would describe themselves as atheists that believe in that certain things will improve their health in a way that others would describe as lacking evidence and should be included on that list. If you push on that idea then I think you’d start getting tension and pushback from a lot of atheists. I’m sure there are other categories you could do this with but I’m not thinking of others quickly now.
- Comment on The world’s first transatlantic fiber-optic cable is being dismantled after almost 40 years 2 weeks ago:
And what’s with the (presumably genAI) image of a shark tearing the cable? Is a shark associated with something I’m not aware of like a company or something?
- Comment on Can a reasonable person genuinely believe in ghosts? 2 weeks ago:
Don’t you just need to believe in a soul? And haven’t philosophers been pondering that in various ways for a long time?
I think this post on another thread nails the core of the issue for me and it’s pretty independent of religion (since I think potential mechanisms could be independent of religion):
If a bunch of people were going around saying I got this weird burn on my skin after holding this rock for a while, scientists would have discovered radioactivity a lot sooner.
There are a bunch of people going around claiming to have interacted with ghosts, and we’ve got bupkis.