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ExFed , (edited )

Invasive honey bees are less effective pollinators for most native plants than native bee species. However, they indeed consume a lot of nectar, leaving less for the native bees to survive.

Admittedly, it’s not a simple relationship, but between increased competition and fewer resources due to landscape changes, it’s not necessarily a good one.

ExFed ,

argues like an annoying 14 year old atheist that just discovered Internet arguments and the think whole Internet is Christian

Brilliant. I’m saving this imagery for later.

ExFed ,

Do you mean to say that crypto is based on crypto? Crazy!

ExFed ,

Ahh, so… crypto, which is based on crypto, can be used to pay for treatments to crypto.

Got it.

ExFed ,

Ugh, don’t get me started. By “American Christians” I assume you mean “Christian Nationalists” … Christian Nationalism is about as Christian as the moon is made of cheese:

But our citizenship is in heaven, and from it we await a Savior, the Lord Jesus Christ…

Because only women are worried about becoming step-parents? (This prolly could've been an Ask Lemmy.) (lemmy.world)

I’m looking for some good reading on how to, eventually, best help be a step parent to my partner’s children and NEARLY ALL books are geared toward the woman’s perspective as though men don’t want to be a strong teacher and develop these kids into healthy adults. Ugh!...

ExFed ,

If you’ve been alive for more than 30 seconds, it’s not just anecdotal. But to appease the challenge, anyways: www.census.gov/content/dam/Census/…/p60-269.pdfThere’s a massive imbalance between custodial fathers and custodial mothers. Even worse is the imbalance in child support negligence.

Can we please just admit that there are normal biological/social/economic/perceived/identity differences between men and women? That’s not to say all of those differences are good or desirable, or that they are without variation, but can we at least recognize the state of our world without shunning those with different viewpoints?

ExFed ,

I work at a father son activity centre…

That’s great!

…you would be shocked at how few women I see spending time with their own children!

I’m not at all shocked. Selfish behavior isn’t exclusive to men. Women are also deeply flawed humans.

These are US based and based on separated parents.

I provided non-anecdotal evidence, and you shit on it? What are your priorities?

Selectively observing statistics doesn’t give a good representation of real life, but shitting on other people for selectively observing statistics doesn’t help, either.

ExFed ,

cherry trees and cherry blossoms are two different trees

Do you mean “ornamental” cherry trees and “fruiting” cherry trees? A “cherry blossom” (or “sakura”) refers to the flower of a cherry tree, usually of the “ornamental” variety. The article seemed fine to me.

ExFed ,

Both kinds of trees have blossoms. Granted, people do call ornamental cherry trees “cherry blossom trees” … but, technically speaking, a “blossom” is literally the flower of any stonefruit tree.

ExFed ,

Yes, they are, which is why the gifting of cherry trees is such a strong symbol of friendship! Experiencing Sakura is uniquely Japanese.

The transience of the blossoms, the extreme beauty and quick death, has often been associated with mortality; for this reason, sakura are richly symbolic…

doyouknowjapan.com/sakura/

ExFed ,

Can’t be going and adopting kids all willy nilly, or else the adoption factories might ramp up production!

/s

ExFed ,

Harsh words. After all, Rankine is best.

Evangelical app 'Bless Every Home' is mapping personal information of immigrants and non-Christians in a bid to conduct door-to-door religious conversions and “prayerwalking” rituals targeting them. (newrepublic.com)

It puts a lot of features at the fingertips of the faithful, including the ability to filter whole neighborhoods by religion, ethnicity, “Hispanic country of origin,” “assimilation,” and whether there are children living in the household....

ExFed ,

Turns out there’s a lot of historical context. Also, whether it was God or Satan who influenced David is somewhat ambiguous thanks to quirks in translation.

www.gotquestions.org/David-census.html

ExFed ,

I display a clock at work that I proudly label as “Standard Time” year-round. Screw daylight stealings.

ExFed ,

Audio, like a lot of physical systems, involve logarithmic scales, which is where floating-point shines. Problem is, all the other physical systems, which are not logarithmic, only get to eat the scraps left over by IEEE 754. Floating point is a scam!

ExFed ,

You’re right that keeping European Honey Bees (Apis mellifera), even though they are introduced/invasive to North America, isn’t usually detrimental to native pollinators. However, Apis is in no way in danger; they are an agricultural livestock.

Point is, saying you’re “saving the bees” by keeping honey bee hives is like saying you’re “saving the birds” by keeping chickens. Weird flex, but okay.

ExFed ,

What about this particular paper is difficult to replicate?

ExFed ,

Hard disagree. This is a problem every web service has had to deal with since the beginning of the web: what happens when a host (either the machine or the person) stops working? How do you keep the service up?

Centralized services solve that problem with internally funded, transparent redundancy. Federation solves the problem with externally funded, highly-visible redundancy. They’re still the same solution, just a different way of going about it.

You could argue that user identity is lost due to the discontinuity between instances, but that’s probably something the Lemmy devs could fix without too much hassle.

ExFed ,

Suggest reporting post for breaking community rules:

Rule 3: Opinions articles, or Articles based on misinformation/propaganda will be removed. Sources that have a Low or Very Low factual reporting rating or MBFC Credibility Rating will be removed.

ExFed ,

Looking at their comments here, I don’t think OP is interested in playing by the community rules.

Propaganda is insidious.

ExFed ,

Well, yea, that’s the problem. I shouldn’t have to “learn” a UI, things should be apparent and obvious.

Counterpoint: vim is very well liked for it’s UI, but there’s a https://stackoverflow.com/q/11828270.

To your point, though, the learning process ideally ought to be seamless and linear; each new thing you can do with the application should be mostly obvious given what you already know about the UI, not force you to learn everything from scratch or do work to learn it (unless you’re into that kind of thing). I don’t think Discord is the worst offender of this rule, but they could make it better.

ExFed ,

You’re right: it’s probably not practical to paint a building with the stuff. Nighthawkinlight briefly comments on this. I believe the idea is to use it on passive radiator panels to sink heat from a pumped coolant fluid. That way you can strategically place panels (e.g. on the roof) and control them, just like solar heating panels.

ExFed ,

For those of us still naive … Why does Lemmy say “Ubuntu bad” now?

ExFed ,

Ahh, okay, so nothing new under the sun: Hipsters hate normies and September never ended.

Although I’m under the impression that Mint and Pop have taken a bite out of the “beginner desktop” market, Ubuntu is most of what I observe in the office when everybody else is booting Windows.

I can understand selecting for novelty; I’m usually in that camp. But novelty shouldn’t come at the expense of an argument to IT departments that they should support at least one Linux distro.

ExFed ,

Care to elaborate?

ExFed ,

I think it would depend on the books.

Isn’t that the whole argument for banning some books and not others?

ExFed ,

Aye, didn’t want to accuse you of advocating for censorship. Just a friendly reminder that even the most “dangerous” texts are that way because of context, not content.

Also I was today years old when I learned about The Turner Diaries. Yikes.

ExFed ,

Because people prefer the [lack of] daylight in the [morning] which is why everyone [hates] DST hours.

Is that actually what you meant?

I really wish people would stop spinning DST as if it gives us any more daylight than Standard time. It’s literally just rotating a circular instrument by 30 degrees and whitewashing it with a nice-sounding name.

ExFed ,

The opposite. For northern latitudes, the time switch is actually somewhat beneficial. People generally don’t love waking up and going to work/school/whatever in the pitch black. DST doesn’t magically “save daylight.” The total amount is daylight is the same for either.

The only real solution is permanent Standard Time. Local businesses and governments already shift their business hours as they see fit for other reasons, so keeping “summer hours” and “winter hours” is totally reasonable.

ExFed , (edited )

Local businesses and governments already shift their hours to be open when people are awake and available regardless of whatever arbitrary thing the clock says…

If DST and Standard Time are functionally equivalent for all intents and purposes, why not just stick with the simpler one?

ExFed ,

I love how a purely factual statement somehow receives as many downvotes as it does upvotes … People are weird.

ExFed ,

I’d rather the light when I might be able to enjoy it.

There’s a subtext to every DST vs. ST argument that never gets talked about: how much control people have over their own schedules. If, instead of shifting your clock, you could instead shift your schedule, wouldn’t that achieve the same result?

ExFed ,

The daytime is basically our employer’s time anyway, I’d rather not waste any more precious daylight on that part of the day.

I feel like this strikes at the heart of the whole DST vs. ST argument. As I mentioned in a sibling thread, it boils down to how much control we have over our own schedules. Instead of a mutualistic relationship, we’ve sold our souls to our employers. Shifting to permanent DST may be a temporary solution, but if we can’t figure out a way to form healthy relationships and boundaries with work/school/etc, even those gains will eventually get optimized away from us.

ExFed ,

So you’d rather change everybody else’s schedule to meet your desires? Because that’s what DST is: the government telling its people to change their schedules by an hour.

ExFed ,

I’m not arguing for changing clocks twice a year. I’m arguing that permanent DST is no better than permanent Standard Time when it comes to scheduling. The difference is that people are falsely convinced permanent DST will give them “more daylight” when it will not. Schedules have always shifted between seasons. We can’t do anything about the motion of planets, but we can decide to go to work an hour earlier to maximize how much continuous time we have after work to do yardwork or whatever.

Today, we have this arbitrary “9 to 5” work schedule. Give it 20 years of permanent DST, and we’ll start wishing we “had more daylight” because we have a “10 to 6” work schedule. They’re just numbers. Why not choose the simpler standard?

ExFed ,

We’re kind of having the same argument in two different threads … I’m not sure which thread is better.

Morning our schedules is no better than moving out clocks.

It’s objectively better! “Moving clocks” is effectively the same as moving schedules for individuals, but to practically coordinate with others, everybody must change their clock and therefore their schedule. Individuals and organizations already construct their schedules as needed.

Part of the issue is that we all work too damn much, anyways. The 40 hour, 5 day work week (and thus the 9-to-5) is an arbitrary concept that research has indicated may be just as effective as a shorter work week.

ExFed ,

Perhaps you think I work 9-5.

Apologies. I was using “9 to 5” to mean “a standard work schedule that doesn’t actually exist for most people except as a cliche.”

I have no desire to go to work an hour earlier

But that’s exactly what permanent DST is! Just because the clock still says “7 xDT” instead of “7 xST” doesn’t make it the same time. The sun still rises and sets on it’s own time no matter what our clocks say. Circadian rhythms ultimately depend on sunrise, zenith, and sunset, not some number on a clock. Switching between ST and DST effectively forces the whole world to adopt a “winter” schedule and a “summer” schedule, but in an incredibly disruptive and politically-charged way.

I agree that changing clocks twice a year is a bad idea. My point is, if we’re going to pick one, it should be the one that is based on the motion of the planet. The whole world has to coordinate schedules anyways. So let’s use a standard that more closely matches our biology, not some “you’ll save daylight” marketing.

Or maybe we should all agree to live in the future and just use UTC…

ExFed ,

why you’re snarkily editing my words

That’s fair. That’s on me.

earth time is arbitrarily assigned

Excuse me if I’m misunderstanding what you mean … but, no, it really isn’t. UTC is defined quite precisely and accurately to track the mean solar time. Time zones are usually designed to balance the zenith of the sun (that’s “noon”) and regional boundaries (although some countries make some… creative decisions in that regard). “Morning” and “evening” are defined in terms of the position of the sun, not some number on a clock.

ExFed ,

work doesn’t let you come in earlier and leave earlier in the winter (clock-wise)

And that’s where the real problem lies. Instead of negotiating with our employers to help build equitable schedules, we’d rather ask the government to enforce it for us. Permanent anything, either DST or ST, will force us to face this fact. In light of that, I’d rather go with permanent Standard Time, as it matches mean solar time and thus circadian rhythms. Everything else is a social contact.

ExFed ,

…everything else around me moves an hour. I have to move because time is standardized.

This sounds an awful lot like you’re arguing for continuing to change our clocks twice a year. I’ll assume benefit of the doubt that this is just a misunderstanding.

I don’t think standard matches our biology in some magical way.

It’s not magic. It’s science.

ExFed ,

I was homeschooled through middle school because the public school administration wanted to put me on Ritalin despite the school psychiatrist’s objections.

Public schools aren’t perfect either.

ExFed ,

The point they’re making is that homeschooling is far more flexible (for better and for worse) than most public education in the USA. Admittedly, it’s a bit of a patch to fill in the gap, but for some kids it’s incredibly beneficial. I was in a very similar situation: elementary school sucked and was extremely boring; despite the school psychiatrist’s objections, the administration wanted to put me on Ritalin instead of proposing any real solutions. So my parents homeschooled me through middle school. I didn’t actually follow much of the formal material, and instead of followed an “unschooling” approach. It was extremely beneficial compared to getting medicated.

The USA needs education reform, for sure, but kids can’t wait for our value systems in the States to finally figure out good, flexible, and diverse pedagogical techniques.

ExFed ,

I totally understand the need to educate the educators. Few parents are appropriately equipped to become a full-time teacher. That’s a problem, for sure.

But, as a rule, saying “X needs to be abolished” is extremely lazy, naive, and reeks of authoritarianism. If it’s so bad, try proposing something better.

ExFed ,

Like say, a standardised, govt funded education system? With dedicated professionals on staff and specialised facilities?

That still fails to prepare countless students because they don’t quite fit expectations? I was one of those students.

Homeschooling isn’t above criticism, for sure, but public schooling isn’t perfect, either. People don’t just make decisions for no reason. Sometimes they really do have some local insight that you don’t.

ExFed ,

School attendance works all around the world.

For most kids in most places, I agree. But there are some places around the world where formal government-run school does not work. I live nearby some very rural places with chronically underfunded schools and unique social problems. The teachers I know who work there try their hardest, yet are aware they can’t do a good enough job for their kids. In those communities, formal schooling just isn’t enough.

Provide good options and people will make good decisions. Abolish bad options and people will still make bad decisions.

ExFed ,

I live in the USA. I’m talking about people in developed nations. The richness of a large region only loosely correlates to the prosperity of its smaller regions.

People have to make decisions based upon their environment. There’s no government in the world that can control this fact. The least we can do is acknowledge it and help people make the right decisions within their environment.

ExFed ,

It’s hard realizing that it’s a messy world full of people who do bad things to each other for stupid reasons. Just remember:

Roses are red.

The sky is blue.

Single-party authoritarian ethnostates leverage the absence of a free press to hide mass atrocities against ethnic minorities.

Acceptance is the first step to letting go of copium.

ExFed , (edited )

The only one arguing against documented historical facts and ongoing reality in this thread is you. The PRC isn’t some magical place where people don’t do awful shit to each other. They’re just really good at covering it up.

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