They weren’t all big, but anyway, they (probably) evolved like giraffes to reach for food and as protection against physical damage from predators. The climate was also different and they had plenty of food.
Anyway, evolution does not select. It’s not survival of the coolest features… it’s only reproduction of those that manage to reproduce.
Lens manufacturers say that anything other than a microfiber cloth will damage the coatings on a lens. But microfiber cloths eventually pick up crap and they look like they’re a pain to wash....
Just water and a regular dishtowel. If they’re more dirty I’ll use dishwasher soap. Rub it over with a finger to get the greesy stuff off and wash the soap off.
The microfiber cloth that usually comes with the glasses tend to stop working after a while, and I always have clean dishtowel anyway.
Outside my kitchen I use my t-shirt or if I’m wearing a shirt, I’ll use the underwear top, because shirts generally aren’t too good at it due to prints or fabrics. Yes I wear a “wife beater” under my shirt. It’s what it’s for, and I guess also for cleaning glasses.
The Gulf Stream plays a significant role in maintaining the climate of the US East Coast and Western Europe. “We conclude with a high degree of confidence that Gulf Stream transport has indeed slowed by about 4% in the past 40 years.” The full study is Here
The consequences are unpredictable. More extreme weather is about the only certainty.
The energy of the heat transfer will not just be missing in Europe. It’ll also be in excess in the Caribbeans, perhaps creating stronger winds worldwide.
Imagine a house with water radiators, where you turn off the circulation pump while keeping the furnace on full blast. It’s gotta go somewhere.
Gen X has to come up with something other than lawn care. Lawns are for boomers.
Gen X is too cool/apathetic to care about lawns. The issue is that Gen X isn’t really trying to gatekeep anything.
If I had to tell the boomers or millennials or gen z to “stay off my bandwidth” I’d probably be more like “ok, suit your self, I have no shits to give”.
While there are plenty of issues where I’d support the younger generations against the older, being cool isn’t one. None of them have any idea, and neither did we.
Your mother’s reaction is the most clever thing I’ve ever read.
Allow me to gen-x-plain:
The thing isn’t necessarily apathy. It’s an acknowledgement of being able to handle the request regardless of the input. That’s what gen X does. We handle shit. Regardlessly.
The question is if consciousness only exist on this level.
We know that ant hives have a hivemind that is not present in the individual ant. Similarly humans can also be observed to create a zeitgeist on larger than the individual scale. Even individual humans pass through different states of consciousness from birth to death. So it very much seems that consciousness is scalable. So where are we on that scale, can it be scaled down as well as up?
Most things in the universe have recursive properties. They can be scaled up and down or be understood as the sum of their parts. Saying that consciousness is an emergent property is no different, but it’s sort of dodging the question just as badly as someone saying it’s a magical new law of nature.
Perhaps AI can help us determine what the minimum number of required parts to create the emergent property is and why it isn’t present in the same setup with just one less part, or with a different complexity. I doubt we’ll find the answer, but it might lead to some better questions.
Well, then in this case I guess the religious person who is willing to riot, injure and kill would be the asshole going purely by their actions and motivations for those actions.
I’m still not sure which side you’re talking about.
Toilets are different though. If you’ve ever tried to fix one you’d eventually figure it out.
Most people would call a plumber and pay the bill for swapping the feces-capacitor-unit or whatever is billed, and that’s how toilets work to them. They don’t think it’s magic, they think it works because the plumber was paid.
To anyone who has tried to fix one, it also isn’t magic. It’s just a really clever design consisting of several valves controlling the input and output of water in different pipes. I won’t try to explain as there are several different designs, but the main idea is that valves work just like logical gates. On/off. Just like a computer has bits and booelean operations, toilets work by manipulating the gates(valves) either by user input (pressing the flush buttons) or by conditions changing (the pressure of water at certain levels).
Toilets are logical. You can run Doom on toilets. Try to run Doom using the bible.
Every time you interact with someone you should give them a base level of respect. How they respond determines the amount of respect you continue to proceed with.
I’m with duck. The “do a kickflip” is selfexplanatory at this point, to the point where I’ve started yelling it myself, so anyone saying they do it preemptively is good in my book.
They can change the terms, but if you don’t sign the new terms then you have never accepted the new terms.
For some reason, companies think they can write anything into their terms and think it matters. It doesn’t. Most contracts aren’t worth the paper it’s written on.
Use a toothpick to open up the loops in the knots. Focus on one of the outermost strings and move the ball through the loops until it’s clear. Then you only have four tangled strings and so on.
I have a second generation Chromecast on an old TV that only does 1080p. I’m fine with that, I don’t care about the resolution. Someone told me that I might like the new one with Google TV, but I don’t know much about it. I pretty much just cast from apps on my phone, so I’m not sure if there’s any reason to upgrade....
I went from generation 1 to 2 only when apps refused to work.
The 3. Generation doesn’t do any features different for me.
I’ve had some issues with temperature shutdowns and unreachability on all of them, maybe not so much on 3. genenation. It may be the cause of your issue, but I’m not sure.
I mostly had that issue on gen.2 but I’ve also swapped phones and moved my WiFi in between so I’m not sure. When I had gen.2 on our primary TV, it would fall out after many (8+) hours, at which point the dongle would be smoking hot. I could usually fix it by cooling it (waving it out the window 😃 )but eventually I upgraded to gen.3 and haven’t had that issue since then.
What’s it called when you’re nostalgic for a time you didn’t live through, like teenagers feeling nostalgic and “looking back” on i.e. the 80s or 90s?...
It’s called Sehnsucht in German and is also used as a psychological term in English.
I’m not really sure if the 80s were necessarily better or worse in reality. On one hand it all seemed relatively simple, but without the distractions of constant communication, flexible agreements, procastinating and whatever else we have in our modern stressful information overload, the 80s were quite brutally direct. If you could time travel there, you’d probably find people to be rude and focused on actions instead of thinking. For better or worse.
Offline casinos can also make money on drinks/snacks/entrance fee/hotels rooms. Theoretically it would be possible to run an offline casinos with loosing odds. (They don’t)
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Made this today, not sure if anyone can relate :P (lemmy.world)
Thanks for everyone’s kind words on my first comic strip. Here is my second.
New cars are great... (sopuli.xyz)
Norway joins EU nations in banning Russian-registered cars from entering its territory (apnews.com)
pay the bills... repeat... (feddit.de)
Why were dinosaurs huge?
I mean, why evolution selected dinosaurs to become that huge?
How do you clean your glasses?
Lens manufacturers say that anything other than a microfiber cloth will damage the coatings on a lens. But microfiber cloths eventually pick up crap and they look like they’re a pain to wash....
U.S. Senate unanimously passes formal dress code after uproar (www.axios.com)
The Senate passed a resolution Wednesday to make business attire a requirement on the Senate floor....
It’s Definitive – The Gulf Stream Is Weakening (www.iflscience.com)
The Gulf Stream plays a significant role in maintaining the climate of the US East Coast and Western Europe. “We conclude with a high degree of confidence that Gulf Stream transport has indeed slowed by about 4% in the past 40 years.” The full study is Here
How to say the number 92 (i.imgur.com)
Pls help its been on for 5 miles now (lemmy.world)
Truth. (lemmy.world)
When relationships haven't been working out for you (lemmy.world)
rule (lemmy.blahaj.zone)
i hope this hasnt been posted yet, but seriously, i’ve been laughing for like 10 minutes straight and 5 minutes gay over this
Is Consciousness Part of the Fabric of the Universe? (www.scientificamerican.com)
Interesting article didnt know where it fit best so I wanted to share it here.
What are these in the sea? (lemmy.world)
What are these dotted ball shaped things I circled in yellow in the image?...
Danish law banning public burning of Quran sparks outcry (www.lemonde.fr)
"God works in mysterious ways" basically means "this doesn't make any sense to me, but I'm gonna ignore it"
Side note, does it count as a shower thought when it was conceived while sitting on the toilet? Do we have toilet-sitting-thoughts communities?
A combination, for your consideration (lemmy.world)
The rental market is softening so fast in some pockets of the country that landlords have no choice but to offer concessions (fortune.com)
Respect isn't earned. You receive the amount of respect you give.
Every time you interact with someone you should give them a base level of respect. How they respond determines the amount of respect you continue to proceed with.
Unity: An open letter to our community (blog.unity.com)
Historical kitty signature (lemmy.ml)
you are approached by a cool duck (lemmy.world)
If you found an f35 fighter jet in south carolina, what would you do with it? (i.imgur.com)
Unity deleted these terms, don't let them get out (lemmy.today)
From The Internet Archive: web.archive.org/…/Unity Software Additional Terms…
Cheers my dudes (lemmy.ml)
Gasoline, diesel vehicles dominate India's auto market, EVs lag (www.reuters.com)
These things are always the biggest pain in the ass to untangle (lemmy.world)
Germany Will Force 80% of Gas Stations to Install EV Charging, Too (www.thedrive.com)
"Bring Your Kids to Work Day" on the 58th floor of the World Trade Center North Tower, April 1974 (live.staticflickr.com)
Every day, EVERY - DAY (lemmy.world)
Should I upgrade my Chromecast?
I have a second generation Chromecast on an old TV that only does 1080p. I’m fine with that, I don’t care about the resolution. Someone told me that I might like the new one with Google TV, but I don’t know much about it. I pretty much just cast from apps on my phone, so I’m not sure if there’s any reason to upgrade....
What’s it called when you’re nostalgic about a time you didn’t exist during?
What’s it called when you’re nostalgic for a time you didn’t live through, like teenagers feeling nostalgic and “looking back” on i.e. the 80s or 90s?...
18+ Are anyone elses characters exposing themselves during level up screens? (lemmy.world)
The american dream (infosec.pub)
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Rigged system (infosec.pub)
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this is all (lemmy.world)