porcoesphino
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- Comment on Why geological science, not mineral wealth, will shape Africa's energy future 1 week ago:
I didn’t understand what the title was getting at but it’s basically in this paragraph:
without scientific and technical capacity to develop these mineral resources, Africa risks remaining a supplier of raw materials rather than a driver of the energy transition. Accordingly, the continent’s leverage in this transition will depend less on geology as destiny, and more on geology as science.
- Comment on All Life On Earth Has One Single Ancestor. It Vanished Without a Trace. 1 week ago:
But also, why would we assume it wouldn’t be outcompeted? Most common ancestors are dead / changed somewhat aren’t they?
- Comment on Antimatter has been transported for the first time ever 1 week ago:
In another article the author wrote it was about the same energy it takes to press a key on a keyboard
- Comment on The world on Van der Grinten projection (2011) 1 week ago:
Doesn’t “useful” depend a lot on application and that’s why we have more than one map type?
- Comment on [deleted] 1 week ago:
What the fuck is this and where are the mods?
Agreed the US system is a joke but so is the trying to pitch this post as a question
- Comment on Australia may face fuel 'bumps' as oil tanker voyages cancelled 1 week ago:
You were always a tech companies product
Why do they need to keep anything deanonymised? You need to verify 18+ and I appreciate that requires a ledger for legal purposes but that verification can and should be data siloed. Also, the way databases work with keys mean that I’d be pretty surprised if there weren’t joins being possible that were used (ie where do people that view this content live), but with access (without having specific bugs alongside and audit trail) forcing anonymous data on employees
- Comment on Australia may face fuel 'bumps' as oil tanker voyages cancelled 1 week ago:
I’d argue that age verification on large US tech companies products, what I presume you’re referencing, is the opposite of sucking up to the US
- Comment on 2 weeks ago:
So there is less advertising in Australia and the UK than the US because they say the word cunt more?
- Comment on 2 weeks ago:
I don’t understand the mechanism. I could see a benefit for an advertiser if there was self censorship for criticising that advertiser, but what is the connection between that and self censorship for the word nazi? Or is it another mechanism?
- Comment on 2 weeks ago:
How does self censorship help advertisers?
- Comment on Climate change slows Earth's rotation, lengthening days 3 weeks 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 3 weeks 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 3 weeks 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? 4 weeks 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 4 weeks 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 4 weeks 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 4 weeks 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 4 weeks 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 4 weeks 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 4 weeks 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 4 weeks 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 4 weeks 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 4 weeks 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 4 weeks 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? 4 weeks 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 4 weeks 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? 4 weeks ago:
That’s happened a few times before hasn’t it?
- Comment on China tests world's first megawatt-class flying wind turbine 4 weeks ago:
“All of it, obviously!”
- Comment on China claims breakthrough with world’s first ducted eVTOL that can lift nearly half a ton 4 weeks 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 4 weeks 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