Brother it’s been a month and the prices of most groceries in my area have only gone up and the stock market just got fucked up. If this is what “working so far” looks like then I’m terrified of what it’ll be by the time of mid-term elections

The US can survive without exports, they have a shit ton of natural resources and industry… but Israel, oh they’re definitely gone. Israel will be Isfaek in no time

Which person decided to domesticate that thing. Just like “hey I found this weird looking grass fruit wanna enslave it” and chief’s like “hell yeah of course I wanna enslave it!” and then they just ate increasingly beady grass for a few thousand years

How have scientists not figured out interstellar travel yet??? It’s really right in front of us!

Venus was habitable (with vast oceans, plate tectonics, soil and everything) for 3 billion years (almost 70% of its history!), until about 700 million years ago… it stopped being habitable because of Jupiter.

From Wikipedia:

Between 700 and 750 million years ago, a near-global resurfacing event triggered the release of carbon dioxide from rock on the planet, which transformed its climate. In addition, according to a study from researchers at the University of California, Riverside, Venus would be able to support life if Jupiter had not altered its orbit around the Sun.

Considering there’s a good chance Jupiter obliterated our next door neighbours, an entire planet of organisms… yea it’s not as nice as it seems

Oh well. Mars was also habitable for a few hundred million years – in fact, the river beds and remnants of the Martian oceans are still very clearly visible on 2/3 of the surface, even after 4 billion years, and NASA is on a mission to bring fossils of ancient Martian life back to Earth, if there are any. But all of its atmosphere leaked out into space because its dynamo (magnetic field generation) abruptly disappeared so… skill issue lol. One of the many possible contributing factors to that happening is that giant impacts during that period of time overheated its mantle which fucked up global heat flow & convection near the core so… Jupiter’s fault again?

The land of the free? Whoever told you that is your enemy!

Tax/fine Google more and give the profits to competitors like Mozilla (as long as those competitors use the funds for Firefox)

I can’t think of many things you encounter every day that just use straight iron. Only alloys that use iron

Meanwhile, you’ll use very pure aluminum all the time

40°C here in my corner of the US. I have to walk an hour in that surrounded by asphalt most days because of our shit infrastructure 😐

Edit – Heat index, 100°F is about 38°C and 112°F is about 44°C (they didn’t have it in celsius for some reason):

Temperature:

pain

This will be Europe during spring and autumn in a few years. In 2070 I bet we’ll be missing the good ol times when summers were only 40°C. And we’ll miss when most of Africa still existed

non-furries don’t even approach normal, they’ve utterly rejected the concept of normalcy. especially the straight christian ones… blegh… i trust nobody on lemmy is like that, else we might have to nuke the place and start over

If that were the case anymore, it would’ve happened after the 1912 election when Theodore Roosevelt’s Progressive party got more votes (27.4%) and electors (88) than the Republican Taft (23.2% of the vote and 8 electors). But it didn’t. Things went back to normal after that. That was also the election where the Socialist party gained the most votes (6% of the vote and 0 electors).

The Republicans and Democrats are here to stay until our voting system is overhauled.

Well, the largest group in Texas is Latinos… idk how many of them can vote and how mant would actually vote blue though.

Compared to other languages… If those other languages are Romantic, North Germanic, Dutch, Afrikaans, or Frisian. A majority of other languages are typically considered more difficult for people who only speak English.

That being said, I found Russian way easier than German at first, but that quickly stops being the case… German shares a lot of semantic/syntactic similarities with English so you can reasonably assume that a lot of German constructions will easily translate to English, for Russian though it’s more unfamiliar and you have to put more effort into thinking Russian-y. The main thing that made German way harder at first is German declensions… ugh… Russian has a complex declension system but it’s extremely regular, while German declensions are pretty irregular and the declension of articles is especially bad because their forms overlap a lot. Adjective declension is similarly bad. German word order also fucked with me a lot but it’s decently rigid so you get it quickly.

The term AGI has been used since more than 2 decades ago, and AI never specifically implied something with human intelligence (maybe in the 40s-50s when it was just being invented, but not after that). “AI” has always refered to things like Siri and the YouTube algorithm and pathfinding AIs and trackers for anti-air systems and whatever else.

I remember that before I started programming I’d get annoyed at machinery like 3d printers for the “stupid AI” not working. Then I’d probably bang it or something to try to get it to work lol

This is usually what happens when you don’t wear shoes. “Fashionable” shoes deform your feet and crush them up a bunch. It’s why old people in rich countries have so many foot issues, especially bunions. Toes are naturally supposed to be spread out a bunch and radiate outwards, but historical western fashion trends were towards pointy shoes/feet, so that’s what’s the norm now.

There exist shoes that don’t deform your feet though. Like another reply said, barefoot shoes are one. Those are hardly everyday shoes though, you’ll have to search a lot harder (and spend a lot more money) to find “natural” foot-shaped daily drivers

The Milky Way is 100,000 light years across. It’s physically impossible to settle that in 10,000 years

Even worse, because the Kingdom of Israel stopped existing 3000 years ago. Modern Israelis have zero connection to ancient Israel

Here’s some posts from that weird fetishist cult community btw. These guys are obsessed… maybe Morris’ alt accounts? lol

Brian Morris is a sadistic fundamentalist Christian creep and a fraud

There’s also this comment that goes into it well

He was also an advocate for female circumcision (which is illegal in most of the non-muslim world and is mostly used as a mechanism to prevent women from having sex or to remove the pleasure from sex, it’s a very cruel act)

In the same thread you can find this (the link doesn’t work anymore though)

Another person already wrote about the academic bias that Brian Morris has, and how he’s trying to tilt the body of research to support circumcision. It’s also important to note that Brian Morris has a circumcision fetish, he gets sexual pleasure from seeing people getting circumcised and he is a member of the Gilgal Society, a circ fetish group. His name has been included in Gilgal pamphlets and in some of his early research papers he thanked the Gilgals for providing information and support.

You can verify some of the information I wrote on this page https://www.circumstitions.com/morris.html

I recently found a sub called r/DebunkingIntactivism (a “pro-circumcision” sub) and it’s… it’s fucking nutters. The people there talk like they’ve completely lost their minds. It’s basically where a bunch of insecure circumcised dudes go to fume over other people not being mutilated, and make “slurs” for them and stuff. Anyways the few weirdos that are active in that sub love to cite that guy and only that guy a lot.

pretty sure i remember just pressing ctrl-c/ctrl-v on the android studio emulator