Umbrias
@Umbrias@beehaw.org
- Comment on Tiger Predators 2 weeks ago:
that’s not how that works, we cant regrow (most) vital organs (liver says hi) because of “engineering problems” not because evolution is random. we personify adaptations to understand them, it can lead to issues but yours is a massive overcorrection.
- Comment on Tomorrow's Problems 5 weeks ago:
you’ve got it. the period of the sun up/sun down cycle would be the orbital period.
- Comment on Using GPT-4 to generate 100 words consumes up to 3 bottles of water — AI data centers also raise power and water bills for nearby residents 1 month ago:
water supply is a limited resource, everyone here appears to be focusing on the wrong thing. when a data center uses water in its cooling noops, that water is made inaccessible anywhere else, such as agriculture, natural habitats, drinking. it does not matter (directly) that the water technically is potable or not after use. Very little water ever leaves the earth system, yet drought exists.
- Comment on USA | Trump will speak from behind bulletproof glass at outdoor rallies 2 months ago:
that is called a missile, not a drone. no consumer uav are doing what you are suggesting, and different uav respond to jamming in a huge variety of ways.
- Comment on Realme’s 320W fast charging can fully charge a smartphone in four and a half minutes 3 months ago:
everything impacts the lifespan and thermal load will be a big one, as well as charge rate. those recommendatiuns take a very complex set of variables and simplify it into a balance of memorable and useful.
- Comment on The Dead Rising remaster no longer gives you points for "Erotica" creepshots because it's not "required" or "appropriate" 3 months ago:
removing unnecessary abusive misogyny != puritanism. hilariously different things in fact
- Comment on The Dead Rising remaster no longer gives you points for "Erotica" creepshots because it's not "required" or "appropriate" 3 months ago:
why care that they removed it at all?
- Comment on Animal Attacks 3 months ago:
it’s a wasp, it is hungry.
- Comment on Netflix is starting to phase out its cheapest ad-free plan 4 months ago:
It’s because netflix’ strategy has been to use the vast amounts of analytics they have to design shows that are so incredibly specialized and focused on targeting unseen metrics that they are entirely devoid of substance.
Even buying into their logic that one could do that, they essentially overfit the data. Find a trend? More trend more betterer more moneyer. Doesn’t work very well.
- Comment on J.K. Rowling Blasts “Gender Taliban” David Tennant After ‘Harry Potter’ Actor Said “Whinging” Trans Critics Are On “Wrong Side Of History” 4 months ago:
Re: edit - you should actually read the article on what tone policing is in their conception and what is harmful about it, not all being called out for dickish replyguy behavior is tone policing. Frustration and aggression can be warranted, and is fine to express, but when all you’re doing is arguing with no cogent point (see: yelling into the void) and misinterpreting what someone is saying to the point of absurdity, aggression is being actively harmful to the discussion. That’s just being an ass for catharsis.
And again, the point was to point out that the person you’re responding to did not say what you claimed they did, and that the addition about labour was helpful. You can be as frustrated and aggressive as you want about that, but this whole discussion could’ve been in agreement, you both appear to agree with each other on the meat of the politics.
- Comment on J.K. Rowling Blasts “Gender Taliban” David Tennant After ‘Harry Potter’ Actor Said “Whinging” Trans Critics Are On “Wrong Side Of History” 4 months ago:
Huh?
I mean… you are literally instead of discussing the politics of the UK, actively choosing to be antagonistic.
And antagonistic in a way that I have literally no idea what you’re even trying to say, beyond wildly thrashing into the void.
- Comment on J.K. Rowling Blasts “Gender Taliban” David Tennant After ‘Harry Potter’ Actor Said “Whinging” Trans Critics Are On “Wrong Side Of History” 4 months ago:
Sounds like they were just hoping things would at least improve, which means not get actively worse nor remain strictly the same, but does not mean things become absolutely good and fixed. You’re the one putting “fundamental changes to how things are run” as their claim.
I found their comment quite helpful, and the content of the addition that labour may not do much better was also useful and fit in the framework they gave.
I don’t think the aggression was warranted or helpful, and only served to stagnate the discussion.
- Comment on First radioactive rhino horns to curb poaching in South Africa 4 months ago:
The point is to make them detectable so border patrol can find them.
- Comment on House Passes Bill That Defines Criticism of Israel as “Antisemitism” 6 months ago:
Funnily enough this exact case is a valid and accurate use of 1984.
- Comment on blast me off, fam 6 months ago:
Across what dose period between the two? A lethal bolus dose is smaller than a lethal two week evenly distributed dose.
- Comment on blast me off, fam 6 months ago:
Why would salt be more lethal than alcohol? You have a lot of water to displace to deal with it, and you can drink yet more water to do so as it will take a while to effect you.
Alcohol is just poison and the act of processing it does damage. Drinking water to dilute it is less effective as it kills pretty fast.
- Comment on We're all a little crazy 6 months ago:
*origin of prophets as they are understood today
The first religions were generally flavors of animism.
- Comment on Antybooties 6 months ago:
Quorum sensing does not require a conceptual framework of numbers. The conceptual framework is the harder part, your brain and many cells perform quorumsensing and computations all the time that you would find difficult to do by hand, or to do symbolically.
- Comment on Author granted copyright over book with AI-generated text—with a twist 6 months ago:
To play devils advocate, talents are things you develop with practice, if you have conditions which prevent you from developing those compared to people without those conditions and which you would like to be able to do, reasonably this is an ada accommodation.
This is a fairly well recognized accommodation to boot.
- Comment on Vaccine breakthrough means no more chasing strains 6 months ago:
Unaccountable armchair ‘scientists’ on hexbear no less. Lol.
- Comment on rabbit hole 7 months ago:
Beehaw doesn’t have nor does it federate down votes, so don’t worry. People can be as upset as they want but if they won’t engage in discussion to voice it I’ll never know.
- Comment on rabbit hole 7 months ago:
In doing so you sacrifice the wealth and progress of the people you are colonializing. Like I said, broken window fallacy. Slaughtering while cultures doesn’t actually as a rule lead to an increase in human wealth or progress towards this future.
And "great person"ing Columbus who was more a bumbling symptom of the colonialist sentiment that already existed is silly. There would have been colonization without him. He’s just the face that got to start genocides for Spain in the Americas first.
- Comment on rabbit hole 7 months ago:
Columbus did not in fact do that, nor is that “the reason” the modern world exists. Broken window fallacy, slaughtering people and generally doing colonialism is not an effective way to create technological progress.
- Comment on Italy considers law against sharenting to protect children's privacy 7 months ago:
It has everything to do with tech literacy. Understanding how to use technology includes the consequences of that use.
Sure I’ll take the discussion more seriously: I don’t know what your experiences were and im sure you have valid reasons to be upset. But your comment makes no indication of these experiences, and I’m not expecting you to share them, you make no indication of wanting to.
Projecting those traumas into a cudgel with which to judge strangers harshly on a whim however is going to be behavior that gets pushback. I don’t think that child has unloving parents, nor deserves to be taken to a new family because the parents made a mistake they clearly learned from. I think they broadly reacted well to the situation in a system (surveillance capitalism) which does a poor job, possibly an actively malicious job, of educating people about the downsides of existing in and using features of that system. Maybe they, if digging deeper, have failed to learn or are in fact unloving. But based on the information available, I don’t think that’s a fair assessment.
I hope you are doing well and wish you luck handling your past and your goals related to it.
- Comment on Italy considers law against sharenting to protect children's privacy 7 months ago:
Just wait until you hear about all the ways parents used to also fail their children.
Technological literacy is ideal, but lacking it is hardly a failure of character.
- Comment on mimic 7 months ago:
Pus isn’t the Greek form so it’s neither here nor there. Octopus is an English word and as such can be pluralized in numerous ways. Octopodes is my favorite though.
- Comment on Why crypto could be green power's unlikely new best friend 7 months ago:
The crypto shill is you.
People write off any engagement with you because you argue in bad faith, exhibit A.
- Comment on Why crypto could be green power's unlikely new best friend 7 months ago:
Crypto shills still exist? This idea was resoundingly rejected for absurdity years ago.
- Comment on Dragon's Dogma 2 updates will give you new save option and make player dwellings available earlier 7 months ago:
Sealion all you like, you know what’s being discussed and why. Feel free to respond when you’re willing to engage with the conversation.
- Comment on Dragon's Dogma 2 updates will give you new save option and make player dwellings available earlier 7 months ago:
Blatantly the incredible use of microtransactions in dd2 and the increasing frequency that games are monetized in general.