Shouldn’t the raptors cancel though?

eh, Id say theres some pretty ugly mammals out there, at least in my opinion. most primates for instance, mole rats, some but certainly not all bats…

yet also kind of cute

As someone who doesn’t play magic, I had no idea it had a racism card.

I mean, good? I guess they’d bring some user growth, but they’d just post their brand stuff that I don’t imagine most people really want in their feeds, and there’s the risk that they end up getting favored treatment on larger instances by donating more than a typical user can or paying the moderators there.

I mean, has the system ever not eventually stabilized in another state? The fact that we have had extinctions, quite a lot of them even involving most species that have ever existed, and yet complex life and ecosystems still exist, would suggest that life will find a way to adapt around such a loss given time.

How many species of birds and bats eat just mosquitoes though, or a high enough percentage that they would go extinct rather than shift to rely more on their other prey species, even if at a smaller population? And are those particular species of birds and bats worth the consequences of having mosquitoes?

Even there though, what is the actual point of a phone app controlled smart toilet, even if you open sourced the whole thing? Unlocking one’s phone and tapping the app icon, and then presumably a button on the app, is going to take more time than one press of a lever that one is right next to anyway, and the latter doesn’t present as many points of failure.

Every second I’ve lived so far, I haven’t died, so if we simply take that pattern and extrapolate it for each future second…

The argument is that there exist some use cases where we do not have a viable low carbon energy source yet (things like heavy farming equipment or aircraft), and one can effectively counteract the emissions of these things until we do develop one. Or alternatively, by the time that we eliminate all the high carbon energy, the heating effect already present may be well beyond what we desire the climate to be like, and returning it to a prior state would require not just not emitting carbon, but removing some of what is already there.

Before bed I’ve heard, but right after waking? I thought light was good then for getting you more alert?

I hate to break it to people, but this universe is the one where people occasionally eat spiders.

Consider: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fried_spider

Any shirt not soft enough to not really need ironing, is too stiff to really be comfortable, imo.

Russia is even funnier, given that they don’t even do that anymore.

That sounds like the kind of plan the cold war era CIA would have come up with.

Beyond obviously malicious stuff like this, if people are going to have AI autonomously purchase things, I wonder if we might see stuff like ads designed not to influence human purchasing decisions, but to make someone’s AI assistant think that a given product is a better match for what it was asked to buy than it really is

As someone who did 3 years of a physics degree and then ended up crashing and burning at the basic quantum stuff until I ultimately quit, I sympathize with this wholeheartedly. Like its fascinating and all, and its great that some people are able to get it, but like, if I have to deal with a Schrödinger equation again I think I might scream.

This is how the immortal snail gets you to let your guard down, nobody suspects that little thing

To be fair, while I seriously suspect Trump’s stance towards Gaza will probably be worse than Kamala’s would have been, He isnt exactly in office yet, so his fault in this is at most limited to Israel anticipating that he probably wont do anything when he is. Had Kamala won, what is happening today would likely be largely the same.

The whole “either you hate the Palestinians or you hate the Jews” narrative that pops up whenever Israel does something wrong is part of the problem. The government of Israel uses its demographics as something of a shield from criticism, by stating that it is the Jewish state, and thus that to accuse them of wrongdoing is to be antisemitic. But it is not so; not everyone who is Jewish agrees with or desires what Israel is doing, they cant, no matter how many they might bring on board, because it is an ethnic and religious identity that includes some, like children, who aren’t even able to understand and agree to it. The actions of Israel are not the actions of Jewish people as a whole, and they never will be, because ethnic groups simply do not work that way. If anyone is being antisemitic here, it is the Israeli state itself, for attempting to tie their very real atrocities to Jewish people in order to coerce people into ignoring them. Its like the rhetorical equivalent of a criminal taking a hostage in order to deter arrest.