SpaceCowboy
@SpaceCowboy@lemmy.ca
- Comment on 3 days ago:
It could also hide from predators in an aquarium where it will be brought food every day and get medicine from a veterinarian if it gets sick. An Aquarium is the safest place for the octopus to live, so why wouldn’t it’s survival instinct tell it to live there to hide from predators?
We should set up an experiment with an aquarium that allows the octopus access to the ocean. Do you really think the Octopus would run away from the aquarium where it’s safe from predators and gets fed every day?
- Comment on 3 days ago:
Yes and for all we know the octopus prefers to live in a place safe from predators, always has lots of food, and a veterinarian on call when it gets sick.
It’s strange to me that people anthropomorphize animals to make big claims about the animal wanting to live in the wild. If you release that animal into the wild it will likely be eaten or starve but everyone assumes the animal wants that based on absolutely nothing.
Why not anthropomorphize animals under the assumption they would want a life similar to what we’ve built for ourselves? Is the validity of the complete guesses about what an animal wants gain merit based on how holier than thou the people making the guesses are acting about it?
Bottom line, the octopus is safer living in an aquarium with ample food than living in an environment amongst predators where food is scarce. All animals have a strong survival instinct (they’d be extinct if they didn’t) so it’s more likely if an animal could communicate it’s preferences, it would choose the option where it’s most likely to survive for a very long time, so it would choose living in an aquarium.
If a I scream “RELEASING ANIMALS INTO THE WILD IS MURDER!!!” over and over again, does that make it a more compelling argument?
- Comment on You should start doing this today 3 days ago:
I already do.
I did recently tell a guy to go fuck himself, but in a good natured way.
- Comment on A car advertisement that you have to think about 3 days ago:
I’m wondering how they pronounce 69 now…
- Comment on 3 days ago:
The octopus went back to it’s tank after getting a snack. That’s at least some indication the octopus likes living there.
You are assuming the octopus prefers living out in the wild where it could be eaten alive. Who are you to assume what an animal wants?
Are you currently living in some kind rectangular structure where you have easy access to regular meals? Why are you living in this way and assuming an octopus wouldn’t also prefer this? There’s nothing preventing you from leaving the rectangular structure you’re currently living in and going out into the wilds and fending for yourself to survive. Why don’t you do the thing you’re assuming the octopus wants to do?
- Comment on No Way 3 days ago:
We have a highway that goes all across Canada that’s for trans people.
- Comment on CNC 2 weeks ago:
The safe word is “Tiberium.”
- Comment on If you smoothened out the earth, how high would the water level be? 2 weeks ago:
Now if you want to flatten out everything, even the floor under the sea that is then also filled with what has been land before, then we do not even need to know how much the land is. The water will be above it, regardless the height of the land.
But wouldn’t moving the land from the high points increase the circumference of the solid part of the Earth and stretch the water around it a little bit, making the height of the water a little bit less?
- Comment on Don't fix the problem just change the parameters 2 weeks ago:
Yeah I keep an analog clock on the wall because it’s a more intuitive way to keep track of how long I’ve got to get ready to go out. I know where the angle of the minute hand will be when I have to be out the door, so it’s quicker to glance it it and know if I gotta pick up the pace or I got plenty of time or whatever.
- Comment on Soup 2 weeks ago:
Well the cereal is baked which is a form of cooking. But yeah, it’s not cooked in the milk, so a bowl of cereal is not soup.
- Comment on got this ad and uh 3 weeks ago:
Sure but the Palestinian flag appears on the usernames of people spouting a lot of antisemitism. And there’s a lot of people claiming the confederate flag isn’t about white supremicism. So there’s a high probability of an AI scanning conversations and coming to the conclusion that these flags have the same meaning.
Maybe instead of looking the other way on antisemitism in the Free Palestine movement, people that are a part of that movement should be calling it out? But as always it’s easier to look the other way and make rationalizations about how it’s ok for your allies in a movement to be racists assholes.
- Comment on got this ad and uh 3 weeks ago:
Easy to understand why an AI scanning discussions of these groups would guess they’re associated with each other. Both say pretty much the same things about Jews controlling the government, Jews controlling the media, etc.
- Comment on Tesla reintroduces 'Mad Max' Full Self-Driving mode that breaks speed limits 3 weeks ago:
The key is “with human supervision”. Calling it Full Self Driving with “Supervised” in parentheses aftwards while putting out videos where they say the only reason there’s some behind the wheel is because of regulations (those annoying “regulations” amirite?) leads people to think they don’t really need to supervise the driving of the car.
Couple that with the fact that there are actual full self driving cars (Waymo) there’s even greater confusion.
People have been killed because of the misconceptions about Telsa cars actually being full self driving. Which they aren’t, they cheap out on the hardware needed for that to be possible, let alone the software.
- Comment on Only you can prevent forest fires 3 weeks ago:
Surprised Smokey hasn’t already been shot by Kirsti Noem .
- Comment on I always wondered why hotel rooms had bibles 3 weeks ago:
Not too far off…
The Bibles are put into hotels by the Gideons, which was founded by travelling salesmen that wanted to make sure other salesmen would have access to a Bible while traveling.
- Comment on I always wondered why hotel rooms had bibles 3 weeks ago:
Yeah it’s the Gideons that put the Bibles in hotels. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Gideons_International
It’s an international organization, but based in the US so they obviously focus more on the US.
- Comment on I went to an anti-tech rally, where Gen Z dressed as gnomes and smashed iPhones. Here's what I learned. | Business Insider 3 weeks ago:
Yeah but the cartridges that come with a new printer are usually only 1/3 full. As another guy said, get a printer that uses toner. They’re more expensive (because you’re actually paying for the printer) but you don’t have to worry about ink drying out because it’s toner, it’s supposed to be dry.
Inkjet printers are basically a scam, if you don’t print all that often, the ink will probably be dried up when you go to use it, and if you print frequently, it’ll be cheaper to have a laser printer that uses toner in terms of per page cost.
- Comment on Wikipedia Says AI Is Causing a Dangerous Decline in Human Visitors 3 weeks ago:
If this AI stuff weren’t a bubble and the companies dumping billions into it were capable of any long term planning they’d call up wikipedia and say “how much do you need? we’ll write you a cheque”
They’re trying to figure out nefarious ways of getting data from people and wikipedia literally has people doing work to try to create high quality data for a relatively small amount of money that’s very valuable to these AI companies.
But nah, they’ll just shove AI into everything blow the equivalent of Wikipedia’s annual budget in a week on just electricity to shove unwanted AI slop into people’s faces.
- Comment on Inspirational 3 weeks ago:
The optimal launch angle would only be 45 in a vacuum. It’ll be lower if you’re on Earth where there’s air resistance.
- Comment on I went to an anti-tech rally, where Gen Z dressed as gnomes and smashed iPhones. Here's what I learned. | Business Insider 3 weeks ago:
The term “late stage capitalism” is not a call to action, it’s a call to apathy. It’s promoted by online influencers to make it permissible to participate in capitalistic endeavors (it doesn’t matter the collapse is inevitable) so they can entice people to buy their merch so they can be rich. It’s a sign that leftism has been successfully captured by capitalism.
- Comment on Was the fall of Rome this stupid? 4 weeks ago:
Incitatus was more competent than most of Trump’s cabinet.
- Comment on New California law requires AI to tell you it’s AI 4 weeks ago:
I think it’s one of those perfect is the enemy of good kinds of situations. Go further is more complicated and requires more consideration and more analysis of consequences, etc. and that can take some time. But this is kinda no-brainer kind of legislation so pass this now while making the considerations on some more robust legislation to pass later.
- Comment on For the third day running, Israel violates Gaza 'ceasefire' to maim and murder Palestinians 4 weeks ago:
Nah you’re callous towards the lives of people because winning points against political enemies is more important to you. You have the same mentality of MAGA. The fact that you find some happiness when you see people dying proves this.
Personally I’m hoping Trump’s peace plan works. Hell give him the Nobel Peace Prize he covets too if it means people stop dying.
- Comment on It's true... 4 weeks ago:
Even better: I’m going to write my PhD thesis on this one!
- Comment on Batman probably checks for the bat signal the way we check our screens for notifications. 4 weeks ago:
“Hey Batman, I have Bruce Wayne on the other line, he’s got some information, you should talk to him.”
Yes, this is a scene that actually did happen in the Adam West Batman show.
- Comment on Batman probably checks for the bat signal the way we check our screens for notifications. 4 weeks ago:
In the movie The Dark Knight, Gordon says Batman often doesn’t show up when the bat signal is on, he mostly turns it on to to remind criminals that Batman is out there.
In the comic The Dark Knight Returns, Gordon says there’s about a dozen different ways Gordon could contact Batman, but he uses the Bat Signal for similar reasons.
So it’s mostly just for theatrics, if it were a real emergency Gordon would phone up Batman. But I guess it’s a way to indicate to Batman “let’s talk whenever you’re not busy”.
- Comment on For the third day running, Israel violates Gaza 'ceasefire' to maim and murder Palestinians 4 weeks ago:
You want people to die so you can “own” the MAGAs. The MAGAs want immigrants to suffer so they can “own the libs”.
You’re the the same kind of person as a MAGAs. Try to be a better person.
- Comment on Great games you would recommend from before 1990? 4 weeks ago:
Yeah it’s hard to get the mix of space exploration, interesting aliens to meet, and a good overarching story that Starflight (the first of this kind of game) right out of the gate.
And yeah you didn’t scan that planet and check the gravity levels? You’re dead. If you didn’t notice in the report how hostile the animals on the planet are? You’re dead.
But it kind of got it right, there wasn’t a cut scene where the science officer explains that it’s too dangerous to land on the planet, it’s you deciding it’s too dangerous. It had an element where there’s danger but if you get the science right the danger isn’t an issue. Space is scary but science makes it less scary.
- Comment on Climate goals go up in smoke as US datacenters turn to coal 4 weeks ago:
But they aren’t choosing renewables, they’re choosing coal. People are responsible for the choices they make.
- Comment on Great games you would recommend from before 1990? 4 weeks ago:
Yeah and the Genesis version had some fun little things added like flying a circle around a planet to go orbit it. Driving the vehicle around on the planet felt a lot more fun too. So yeah a lot of little things added that just made it more fun. A rare case of a console port making significant improvements over a PC game.
Though the original had a big paper map that you could draw wormhole paths on when you discovered them. But since it’ll be hard to print out the map that big, it would probably be more annoying than fun at this point. So yeah, the Genesis version would be the way to go… if you can get.