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@ 58008 @lemmy.world

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    TIL insects like mosquitoes can fly in the rain because their lightweight bodies don't break raindrops; instead, they ride them safely to the ground.

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  • Making the raindrops... chubby??

  • The ring of fire

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  • We have hot shites to show you.

  • Lab-grown teeth might become an alternative to fillings following research breakthrough

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  • Most of my teeth are destroyed, decades of neglect due to mental illness. I've been hearing about lab-grown teeth for the last 25 years and always hope it happens soon, but the progress seems to be genuine this time. I just hope it doesn't cost insane amounts of money to get teefs grown.

  • An Alarming Number of Gen Z Ai Users Think It's Conscious

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  • This is an angle I've never considered before, with regards to a future dystopia with a corrupt AI running the show. AI might never advance beyond what it is in 2025, but because people believe it's a supergodbrain, we start putting way too much faith in its flawed output, and it's our own credulity that dismantles civilisation rather than a runaway LLM with designs of its own. Misinformation unwittingly codified and sanctified by ourselves via ChatGeppetto.

    The call is coming from inside the house mechanical Turk!

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  • Can someone ELI5 why pre-Newton mathematics wasn't up to the task?

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  • Lower res, for sure. Modern GPUs/drivers and some media players can do a decent job of making them a bit nicer to look at 'on-the-fly', too.

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  • Eric Weinstein has left the chat in tears.

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  • We've successfully extinctified hundreds of species through our very excellent human-centric activities. I've yet to see any environmental fallout from it. Where are the secondary and tertiary extinctions of the animals that depended on the first lot we rubbed out? Where are the corpses left in the wake of the dodo's disappearance? Big Environmental Science™ won't tell you, because they can't. They're shills and liars, all of 'em. Rich elites who make bank on selling textbooks at a 1,200% markup.

    Who's up for starting a truthseeker podcast with me?

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  • TIL about the max headroom signal hijacking in 1987. Despite having his bare ass spanked by a woman with a fly swatter, the perpetrator was never caught.

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  • I wonder why they still haven't come forward, given that there would be no legal consequences for doing so in 2025.

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    TIL that the discoverer of radio pulsars - Jocelyn Bell Burnell - lost out on her Nobel Prize because her thesis supervisor took the credit

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  • Her thesis supervisor had argued against her findings at first, she built the detector and found the signal, and she was disbelieved. She had to fight to get her supervisor to even acknowledge that she had found something worth looking at. And the shameless fucking cunt went ahead and accepted the Nobel Prize for it.

  • I swear he's thinking this after every walk

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  • 😭 I corrected it now

  • People outside the US, do you still consider America a democracy?

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  • On paper, I guess so? In reality, and as is the case with pretty much every developed democracy, money and technology make a mockery of the whole idea. A society in which billionaires can buy their way into the Whitehouse - literally - is no democracy.

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  • Knowing my luck, probably cancer.

  • If money was no object, where would you be booking your next holiday?

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  • The moon, or just into space where I can float around and see Earth from a good distance.

    Do you remember being a very young kid, of maybe 4 or 5-years-old, and riding your bike without stabilisers for the first time? Riding around your neighbourhood with that feeling of limitless time and seemingly bottomless reservoirs of pure joy? Or the first time you played a video game? Or the first time you went to the cinema? Basically any fun and novel experience. You could almost physically feel the birthing neurons branching through your brain in real-time like orgasmic, electrified roots. The joy of simply having your consciousness come 'online' more and more.

    Well, I'm in my early 40s now, and I haven't felt that way since I was that very young child. But I don't think it's because I'm too jaded to enjoy things anymore, it's that I've experienced almost everything there is to experience in a normal everyday life, and there's not much left that is so new and shocking to my consciousness that it will trigger that magical experience again. And so there is no further branching of neurons and no further giddy joy at simply doing something hitherto completely foreign to my brain.

    I think visiting space, and especially landing on the moon, would give me that feeling again. It would be the last truly novel experience I definitely have not felt before, and it's not one that I can sorta kinda experience vicariously. I mean, I've never killed anyone, but I know what an abyss of unquenchable guilt feels like, I know what the terror of being caught after doing something bad feels like, I know what it feels like to be so haunted by trauma that I have nightmares about it for years after. So I can just extrapolate from that and get a general idea of what it must be like to have done something that awful. My imagination can conjure up those sorts of ideas if I want it to, and while I won't get 100% of the way there, I can create a ballpark estimation of it. But going into space - leaving everything and everyone who has ever existed behind - and being somewhere so literally alien to my evolved senses, that's not something I can get a handle on just using my imagination.

    I could be wrong of course, and going into space might simply be like visiting another country in the shittiest, most cramped Ryanair flight imaginable, but it's the only thing I think has the most chance of giving me one last brain-bukkake before I clock out.

    Shame it'll never happen 🤷‍ Maybe I'll start a twitter account sucking Elon's fetid little dick and he'll invite me to use one of his rockets one day. Then while I'm in space, I'll take out a trans flag and play a shitty cover of Nazi Punks Fuck Off à la Chris Hadfield 🫡

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  • Tried searching YouTube for "fireflies" to watch them in action. 99.9% of the results are music, podcasts and political channels using the term. Think I saw 2 videos of actual fireflies on the first page of results 😆

  • If hearts are the symbol for love, what would you say best fits as the symbol of hate?

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  • What sounds like a double standard but isn't?

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  • I agree. I'm talking more morally and less legally. I've seen countless videos where a woman is feebly tapping or shoving a man, the man is clearly physically unbothered and unhurt, but his ego is bruised, so he KOs her with one punch. Then the comments come flooding in about how she deserved it, "equal rights equal fights" etc.

    It's not a fair fight. Of course there are exceptions, there are exceptions to everything. But for most people most of the time, a woman hitting a man is nowhere near as physically impactful as a man hitting a woman. The 'toolset' is undeniably different.

    If a 5-foot man slaps a 6-foot man, and the 6-foot man laughs and then beats the shit out of the smaller guy and stomps on his head, most people would look down on the bigger man for taking it too far with someone he could easily beat and who presented no real physical threat to him. It's like that. I'm not denying the agency of the woman, or saying that her assaulting a man is fine, it's that the response to it from the man is usually an order of magnitude more severe with half the effort. And again, I know there are exceptions to this. Men can be abused and beaten by women, domestic violence against men should be taken more seriously.

    In street/bar fights, where a woman is picking a fight with a man, the man is rightly restrained by societal pressure to not unload on her the way he would if it were a man picking a fight with him. This isn't sexism or baseless gender roles or any of that, it's because most of the time, untrained men are wielding a sledgehammer to an untrained woman's carpentry hammer (untrained in combat sports, I mean). So in that way, it's not a double-standard despite sounding like one, no more than it's a double standard to not beat the shit out of another man half your size when you would beat the shit out of him for the same offence if he were your size or bigger. Not that we should beat anyone up, of course! But it happens and will always happen, so it's nice to have at least one broad rule in an otherwise-ruleless endeavour: men shouldn't beat the shit out of women unless they really need to, to defend themselves from an actual threat, a threat to something more than their ego or temper.

    P.S. Thanks for replying without calling me a misandrist or telling me to kill myself 💗 Genuinely appreciate it!

  • Former lurkers (here or elsewhere online), what changed?

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  • Loneliness.

  • What sounds like a double standard but isn't?

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  • Men hitting women is different from women hitting men.