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by nemo 1y ago
Right now Twitter is steadily shedding users and watching ad revenue steadily drop. Looks like it's in a slow death spiral to me.
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by nemo 1y ago
The Romans mostly used oil lamps rather than candles, the use of candles as a popular light source developed among early medieval Christians who started to use them in their churches after the olive oil supplies dried up in the late/po
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by nemo 1y ago
The big question there is why these metalworkers showed up in only one part of the empire, one of the less wealthy regions, and not one with some unique needs for bronze casting. Note that these are cast bronze, using the term "metalwo
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by nemo 1y ago
Knitting hadn't been invented when these were around - we know the Romans made gloves, socks, and other garments with a great deal of supporting evidence, there's not a single example of a mitten, nor of any kind of knitting like
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by nemo 1y ago
>While some have members who aren't religious, the 12 steps are a religious doctrine. I found groups that weren't religious, but if you go to an AA meeting you are participating in religious rites masquerading as addiction ther
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by nemo 1y ago
I've been to a number of AA meetings trying to find less religious groups. While some have members who aren't religious, the 12 steps are a religious doctrine. The entire method and approach are derived from the Oxford Group/
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by nemo 1y ago
I'm suspicious of the use of "we" here since I don't feel like I'm a part of this discourse. Also: >Now you are always late to things not because you are lovably forgetful In the past from, say, 30-40 years ago,
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by nemo 1y ago
>The term 'painkiller' is reserved for strong pain relief Maybe there's some very specific, limited medical context where this is the case but in common parlance it's not at all the case, search for "painkiller&q
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by nemo 1y ago
I wouldn't recommend ignoring any of the sources of pollution.
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by nemo 1y ago
There are a lot of folks who vastly underestimate the carbon output of current AI training and work, and you're among them. The number of data centers being raised right now with increased power planning around data centers around the
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by nemo 1y ago
Some plants actually have evolved to be pollinated by hummingbirds, they have long thin tube shaped flowers that a hummingbird beak can travel up. The Sword-billed hummingbird has an incredibly long beak due to mutual evolution with flowers
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by nemo 1y ago
Take a look at the Flowerpiercers: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flowerpiercer They're true parasites, piercing the flower to drink nectar without any chance of pollination.
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by nemo 1y ago
For that you want to use BirdNet: https://birdnet.cornell.edu/api/ https://birdnet.cornell.edu/ Merlin is trained on the same source as BirdNet. You can also use the iNaturalist API for visual ids, for
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by nemo 1y ago
making excuses for the Wagner Militia really is not the takeaway you want from this one
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by nemo 1y ago
The claims of the liberalisation of academia are part of a propaganda campaign from the people currently destroying academia - that narrative is totally disconnected from my experienced reality as someone who worked through an MA and a PhD.
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by nemo 2y ago
My wife's taking GLP-1s for health reasons. The author's ideas about the effects of these things are not evidence based. It isn't a magic drug that makes people ascetics. She eats less, but she still impulse buys clothes and
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by nemo 2y ago
The system has been steadily redesigned by authoritarians to remove accountability. I don't call my lawmakers since they all regard me as an enemy - calling any GOP lawmakers is pointless, they aren't accountable to their constitu
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by nemo 2y ago
Who are we going to believe, you or our lying eyes?
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by nemo 2y ago
Sorry I'm busy, might have time to spend to look the podcast up in a day or two, but I don't think there's any actual value in that to anyone over an offhand comment so forgive me if I find other things to do instead.
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by nemo 2y ago
I don't recall their name, they were a guest on the Root Causes podcast discussing PQ topics, though your summary varies from what I was trying to express. It's not that RSA will be classically broken, but that novel attacks to re
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by nemo 2y ago
PKI Consortium: https://pkic.org/events/2025/pqc-conference-austin-us/
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by nemo 2y ago
This smalls a lot like wishcasting masquerading as critique. I just attended a PQC conference, so I'm biased, but this paper's author makes a lot of very strong claims about the infeasibility of future attacks developing that most
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by nemo 2y ago
This is an outcome of a very narcissistic approach to life which is completely disconnected to the lived reality of another that you are supposed to love. That approach to life will lead to very dissatisfying relationships, though it will a
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by nemo 2y ago
No, I'm a vegetarian, actually. I haven't eaten meat intentionally for around 35 years now.
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by nemo 2y ago
Looks like the mantis was partially paralyzed by a hornet sting to me. The article noted that insects engage in nociception with examples, that specific mantis wasn't in that case, but that's certainly not a thing you can generali
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by nemo 2y ago
I'm a bird watcher, I go out a fair amount so I've seen a lot of predation, not just of insects but other birds and mammals. I still don't want to do needless harm to any animals, even insects. I'll still take out roache
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by nemo 2y ago
I have an iMac G4/800 that can run 9.2 as well as OS X. It's not as fast as the later G4s, but it's performant enough, the flat-panel is nice, and the all-in-one design makes thing really delightful to work with. Replacing t
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by nemo 2y ago
I'm 50-something, lots of the friends I've made in the last one to four years birdwatching are close now. I have old friends from 30 years ago but they're mostly a drain. I've formed new relationships with folks in my Ta
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by nemo 2y ago
If you want to debate something, don't pick another person's experience. There's no winning that.
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by nemo 2y ago
Seeds can float on the sea for years. Shore birds that are used to flying over the open sea do spread across much larger gaps, but the passerines and other birds adapted to life in trees or on the ground generally avoid long flights over op

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