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LibertyLizard ,

Show me one iota of evidence that suggests Biden is involved in this.

And by the way, crime in NY is near historic lows.

LibertyLizard ,

Are you? You’ve already jumped to spreading an outlandish theory that has no evidence behind it. That’s not what I would consider reserving judgment.

Will you disavow this theory if no evidence subsequently emerges?

LibertyLizard ,

That would be the mildest reaction to not fly larvae in the history of humanity. I recommend not googling this one.

LibertyLizard , (edited )

Haha I did warn you!

I think it’s a pipevine spicebush swallowtail but not 100% certain.

LibertyLizard ,

Ah I think you’re right, we don’t have those here so I forgot about them.

That is a cuter caterpillar too.

LibertyLizard ,

yahoo.com/…/u-supreme-court-refuses-free-14494969…

Unfortunately, though the problem has gotten much worse in recent years, the theocratic leanings of the Supreme Court has been an issue for decades now.

The argument that this is gender discrimination seems obviously true to me so it’s shocking to me that we’re still living in a society where this type of government violence is still widely accepted. I just have to hope that we’ll eventually evolve beyond this type of Puritanism.

LibertyLizard ,

Good point, I think of the change in court composition as a very recent thing but time flies. It has been a few years at this point.

I hope you’re right that the lower courts will make more similar rulings but I suspect the Supreme Court might overturn it if they went too far. We’re just lucky Fort Collins ran out of money here.

Unfortunately, the court’s composition could take decades to change. It’s a big problem with no easy solution.

LibertyLizard ,

Unfortunately I don’t see any of the proposed reforms measurably improving things while the right has an equal or greater grip on power. Any reforms that are easily implemented are easily neutralized or turned against the left when republicans return to power. Which, in the current political system, is an inevitability.

More radical reforms could solve the problem but would require much greater political power. In my opinion this can only be achieved by forming a mass movement that completely overpowers the right’s institutional advantages. Whether this can or will happen remains to be seen but it won’t be easy.

LibertyLizard ,

My time to shine! Most have already been posted but here are a few more niche ones.

!treehuggers

!nolawns

!foraging

LibertyLizard ,

Even most other botanists wonder if the bryologists are OK.

LibertyLizard ,

I showed this to my wife and she just said “No.” very emphatically.

LibertyLizard ,

So you tested that link? It’s safe?

LibertyLizard ,

Ok thanks!

LibertyLizard ,

What are the bull horns meant to be???

TIL that climbing the full height of Everest means starting at sea level (en.wikipedia.org)

Climbers typically ascend only part of Mount Everest’s elevation, as the mountain’s full elevation is measured from the geoid, which approximates sea level. The closest sea to Mount Everest’s summit is the Bay of Bengal, almost 700 km (430 mi) away. So to approximate a climb of the entire height of Mount Everest, one would...

LibertyLizard ,

Weak. To really say you’ve climbed Everest, you need to start from the Challenger Deep.

LibertyLizard ,

Yeah Bing Chat had sources for a while (not sure if it still does) and when I checked the sources, the frequently didn’t contain the claim in question. So even if you get it to cite real pages, it just doesn’t work the same way as human citations do.

LibertyLizard ,

I know some of those words.

LibertyLizard ,

Honestly this is a good example of where a justice system that doesn’t revolve around incarceration would be better. Obviously this isn’t a situation society can just let fly but what becomes of this child now that their mom is locked up? Nothing good.

Edit: or maybe she isn’t, the article doesn’t mention any possible sentences.

LibertyLizard ,

This seems really detached from what we know of the situation. I would ignore these types of takes unless they’re based on on the ground information. Many people want to believe so strongly that their government is just that they will find a way to justify anything, including mass-murder of civilians.

But I hope more details of what actually happened will come out in the coming days.

LibertyLizard ,

This is why Celsius is the only SI unit that isn’t just wholly better than its imperial counterpart. Both F and C are fairly arbitrary, but in my view F has the slight edge by giving numbers 0-100 in most weather conditions across earth.

LibertyLizard ,

Ah well I should have said metric measurement then. It is part of the metric system, yes?

If you can’t remember the number 32 then I guess. Personally I think it’s pretty bizarre to have negative temperatures all the time but whatever floats your boat.

Regarding losing all thermometers and data… if you lost the definition of Celsius there would be no way to recreate it. This seems maybe more likely then your scenario.

LibertyLizard ,

Nothing. It’s equally arbitrary as setting 0 to be the freezing point of water.

But it covers the weather for the vast majority of people, the vast majority of time, better than Celsius does. That’s what I mean.

If you want to remove sentimentality from your temperature then use Kelvin but Celsius is just as arbitrary and sentimental as Fahrenheit is.

The Irony of 'You Wouldn't Download a Car' Making a Comeback in AI Debates (lemmy.world)

Those claiming AI training on copyrighted works is “theft” misunderstand key aspects of copyright law and AI technology. Copyright protects specific expressions of ideas, not the ideas themselves. When AI systems ingest copyrighted works, they’re extracting general patterns and concepts - the “Bob Dylan-ness” or...

LibertyLizard ,

Pirating isn’t stealing but yes the collective works of humanity should belong to humanity, not some slimy cabal of venture capitalists.

LibertyLizard ,

Is that how this technology works? I’m not the most knowledgeable about tech stuff honestly (at least by Lemmy standards).

LibertyLizard ,

On the one hand, awesome to see young women having a role in leadership. On the other hand, monarchy is pretty much the worst form of government.

LibertyLizard ,

I read that but it also seems to indicate that she’s a third generation monarch in her family. Maybe it’s not officially hereditary but it’s a bit sus. Not to mention that monarchies are bad for reasons beyond their (typically) hereditary nature.

I also think the presidency is a harmful institution but I know most people aren’t there yet.

LibertyLizard ,

What? It’s totally different. The bracts in this species are puberulent while in the common species they are tomentose. Isn’t the difference obvious?

Why are doctors so hands off and unhelpful in the USA?

I remember when I was a kid, doctors were so interactive and really took time to get to know you and talk to you, learn about what you’re going through and explain things. Now as an adult, it’s been nearly impossible to find a doctor who is willing to take any amount of time to sit down, explain things, show any sort of...

LibertyLizard ,

This might be better for wealthy people but it’s hard to see how this would benefit the very poorest who are in most need of health care. What does this solution do for them?

LibertyLizard OP ,

Well, the theory is that persistence hunting was one of the main hunting strategies during a large portion of human evolution before ranged weapons were invented. So it may well have relevance for distribution of labor between men and women during most of human prehistory, and therefore our evolutionary psychology.

LibertyLizard OP ,

https://slrpnk.net/pictrs/image/2a3d24c7-bc77-47c0-b26a-07a93e25d7d6.jpeg

LibertyLizard OP ,

Certainly a question for the ages. If only there was some way to learn more about this topic… perhaps some kind of article. Maybe one that even addresses this very point. But alas…

Tap for spoiler>Abigail Anderson and Cara Wall-Scheffler, both then at Seattle Pacific University, and their colleagues reported that 79 percent of the 63 foraging societies with clear descriptions of their hunting strategies feature women hunters.

LibertyLizard OP ,

I agree that they overstated their point there. But regardless, I think it’s fair to say that any differences between men and women in these sports are fairly small, so I don’t think it changes the overall conclusion.

LibertyLizard OP ,

I can’t believe so many people upvoted this comment. Do they just assume because there are lots of words and you referenced the original paper that this is a good critique? But I guess a lot of people just turn off their brain when they feel cognitive dissonance.

Do you know what a survey is? It’s not meant to be comprehensive, it’s supposed to be representative. Furthermore, it is based on existing ethnographic data, so it’s obviously not going to include data on tribes that are currently uncontacted, because there is little or none. The reasons why are obvious but since you don’t seem to understand, we can spell it out.

Conducting anthropological research on these tribes typically involves going to the tribe and living with, observing, and interviewing them for an extended period to fully understand their culture and way of life. This is not advisable with uncontacted tribes because it is dangerous for researchers and dangerous for the tribe which may lack exposure to endemic diseases in the rest of the world. It’s simply not done and I guarantee no ethics board would approve such research today.

Furthermore, it’s hilarious to suggest that the authors deliberately omitted cultures we know little about to reinforce their own agenda. How would they even know which tribes the exclude? And, as others have pointed out, even if all of these uncontacted tribes had only male hunting (a fact which would be highly surprising), it would barely change the conclusion here that in most forager societies, women engage in hunting.

Overall, this seems a very bad-faith critique. It’s good to delve into the science and examine whether a given paper was conducted in a sound way, but you need to approach it with an open mind, not just seek to undermine it with the simplest and most superficial criticism you can conceive of that supports your pre-existing position.

LibertyLizard OP ,

I wouldn’t consider 9% to be that large in this context. Certainly a difference that would be overshadowed by individual variation.

Even if we assume women are physiologically 9% slower at persistence hunting (which that statistic is far from proving) it still suggests they could and likely were successful at it, albeit maybe not the very best.

LibertyLizard OP ,

I just don’t think the evidence that supports this idea is very strong at all. Like maybe men on average did more hunting than women, but I haven’t seen any evidence to support this framing that women only hunted in times of need.

Unfortunately, it’s very difficult to know much for certain about the culture of prehistoric humans. But there is strong circumstantial evidence, like women buried with hunting implements, etc. which suggests that female hunters were prominent in at least some cultures.

LibertyLizard OP ,

I’m not sure this is generally true but if there was a difference it’d likely be due to social conditioning.

LibertyLizard OP ,

I mean technically all of human behavior is an automatic response of the nervous system. That doesn’t mean it’s not influenced by culture or personal experiences. What constitutes a threat is highly modified by your past experiences, and people can learn to behave differently in stressful environments. We don’t just completely turn off the brain when frightened, that’s nonsense.

LibertyLizard ,

Lol when I read a paper that only cites its own work it’s an immediate eye-roll from me. Usually the realm of people who can’t keep their own biases out of their work.

Maybe it’s different for some hyper-specific subfield where no one else is doing anything relevant but I think that’s pretty rare. I don’t know much about physics though. The papers I read are all biology.

My absolute favorite is when there’s two competing camps of researchers who steadfastly refuse to cite the other’s work on a topic. It’s very silly. Citing doesn’t mean you have to agree with all of their conclusions. Not doing so is obstinately refusing to acknowledge relevant data.

LibertyLizard ,

Not to defend European imperialism in Russia because fuck that but no one did more to destroy the newly established worker-run government than the Bolsheviks. I’m assuming you’re a ML–unfortunately they don’t allow factual discussions of history, so you’ll need to read some history outside of the thought bubble to learn the truth.

LibertyLizard , (edited )

Don’t worry, there’s no reason to read the ML rules since they don’t follow them anyway. 90% of bans there have nothing whatsoever to do with the rules.

However, I will say it’s generally good practice to read the rules in other places.

LibertyLizard ,

A lot of it is from many articles and podcasts I’ve read but here’s a decent if long overview. blackrosefed.org/workers-power-and-the-russian-re…

If you prefer an audio format, I recommend this video (the visuals are optional so I usually listen in the background). youtu.be/uwU3STgBknQ

The whole series is worth a listen but would be a big time commitment.

LibertyLizard , (edited )

Russia is an important geopolitical ally for China. Tension between them is not advantageous at this time.

Also, Americans love dunking on the Russian army, and while it maybe wasn’t as formidable as we thought, it’s still significant. It’s not as if it would be totally free.

LibertyLizard , (edited )

Stupid gotchas have their place in undermining imperialistic narratives about how Taiwan “rightfully” belongs to the PRC.

No territory rightfully belongs to anyone but it’s inhabitants.

In a 65-foot-deep tunnel in Rafah, hostages found executed by captors (www.ynetnews.com)

Forces had no direct confrontation with Hamas terrorists who killed hostages; ‘The IDF and security forces are doing everything possible to bring all hostages home as quickly as possible. This news shakes us all,’ says army spokesperson Hagari...

LibertyLizard ,

I think you’re arguing with a person in your imagination more than with me.

What exactly do you think I won’t change my mind on? That the article posted was of poor quality? If so, that’s true. It should have presented the available evidence clearly and indicated its sourcing. I am interested in additional information, but it’s not relevant to my original assessment.

LibertyLizard ,

I read the article. But it’s a separate article so it has little bearing on the quality of the one OP posted here. How do you feel it’s relevant?

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