Pretty much any light that’s on at night will attract bugs. I’d recommend going with an actual lightbulb and not an LED though. This is purely anecdotal, but I find that LEDs attract less bugs than normal bulbs. A children’s night light maybe?
I have to imagine any light is going to attract bugs. You may have the best luck with daylight white lights as it is the most like sunlight. Some brief research found these.
In addition to tankies being involved in Lemmy’s development, the fediverse contains more actual lefties than a lot of the internet, and that means 2 things: -more tankies simply because there are more of them in leftist spaces -more people using the word “tankie,” because leftists are more likely to be familiar with the term. Anyone on the right would call them “commies” instead.
I think they do it to add motion, and make what would have been just a still shot look a bit more dynamic. I've been tempted to do the same thing in my videos, but more for diagrams and pictures, because it makes it a little more interesting than just staring at an unmoving picture for 30+ seconds
Makes sense. Do you know if there's a specific name for it? I assumed there had to be a reason everyone knew to include it in their editing, but I know there's some heavy bias there too since I'm less likely to stumble across uninteresting videos.
These things are considered and any decent instructor won't throw an untrained baby into the water. Newborns are first slowly conditioned to be in and underwater. Often you add a verbal cue before submerging them, so the baby starts to expect it when hearing the cue. The throwing happens once they are used to being underwater. And then the throwing plays a big role because most infants who accidentally fall into water will do so from well a fall. By being used to this, you reduce their risk of drowning.
Reflexes generally don't develop as we grow older. On the contrary, we lose a lot as we grow up. For example, newborns have a diving reflex up to around 6 months. So a baby is on average safer underwater at age 0-6 months. Not all infants have this reflex though, so you always need to be extra careful the first few times and should always start slow.
Are there some people who throw untrained babies into the water? Yes, unfortunately, they exist. And yes, some newborns will die because of it. But generally, people who plan on teaching their newborns how to swim start the proper way. So the risk isn't any higher than with a 4-year-old (which used to be the recommended age). And even if we look at 4-year-olds, the methods don't change much. Most people start slow and do it properly. A few bad apples throw their child into the water. And then some children drown because of it.
When I was still using it for science we simply boasted about our achievements and called that "networking". My new paper is out in the International Journal of Unreproducible Science, cite me, I'm begging you!
My bubble disappointingly is still doing that on Twitter. Since they convinced themselves that Twitter is an essential networking tool it's hard to ditch.
LinkedIn was more seen as "if you want to leave science go to LinkedIn, otherwise ignore that platform". But it absolutely does happen there, too, just not to that extend, from what I am seeing.
I'm upvoting you purely for describing Twitter as "Live Journal with a text limit". That is exactly what it is and with infinitely less privacy or conversational value.
Ahhh that makes a lot of sense okay! I just don't understand how businesses and establishments claim to say that without Twitter they don't get lifesaving information. What lifesaving information lives on Twitter ? Is this just an exaggeration? Something about weather alerts ? I get weather info just fine without twitter, like on live news articles on their respective websites
Oh, for that use case then Twitter is a bit different. Information on Twitter moves fast and you can get quick, bite-sized updates on a company or event (via tags) much quicker than most sites. The ease of sharing information made it very popular for things like announcing updates on website/app down times or catching up on election news for example.
Basically, yeah. People share something whether it be a thought or an image or news or whatnot and others would reply to them and have sort of a mini-discussion. I’m not a fan, but a lot of people really enjoy how simple and brief it is.
Huh okay yeah I opened a Twitter so many years ago and deleted it, I didn't have anything to say and didn't care to hear anyone's burbs anyway. That makes a lot of sense then. I just don't get the appeal at all! Thank you.
You probably aren't real caught up in celebrity worship of any sort. It always seemed to me like a big chunk Twitter was celebrities being able to spam random stuff out to a bunch of their fans. I don't much care about celebrities of any kind, so I never was compelled to use Twitter. However, LOTS of people are way into celebrities, including the giant number of minor social media celebrities, for whatever reason, and those folks probably love being spammed by them very frequently.
Generally speaking, what teachers look for in grade-school analysis is proof that the student actually read and understood, to some degree, the work. The easiest way for the student to do this is the 'right' way; that is to say, the obvious or accepted interpretation, but usually alternate answers are accepted.
If you're asking about multiple-choice questions, then the point is usually to weed out those who paid absolutely no attention/didn't actually read the work with three absurd or irrelevant choices.
Part of the issue with old works is that while in English, many of the phrases, idioms, literary allusions etc have lost all meaning to a modern reader.
At least from the example you gave, it is a question more than a statement. They're not correcting you so much as questioning your answer and offering what they think it really is. Basically, skipping the filler in asking "Are you sure its purple, not blue?"
I see your logic. I still wonder how this became popular though. Is it just one of those things people have been doing for a long time that I didn't notice, and then one day I noticed it and I started seeing it everywhere?
I think it's just typical evolution of language, which happens pretty rapidly, since each generation likes to distance themselves a bit from their parent's generation. It saves a bit of typing, and since typing is such a common activity, it makes sense, just like using 'u' instead of 'you'.
I think its always been around. It might be more common to see it without further qualification (IE, "It's blue, isn't it?"), possibly because of the popularity of short-form content, but I don't think its a new thing.
I’ve heard it put this way: either you have an ideology, or an ideology has you.
In other words, it’s better to be actively engaged in a particular way of how you’re looking at things, knowing what biases you’re bringing, otherwise it’s being done for you through some cultural apparatus and you will wrongfully assume yourself to be unbiased. Knowing how your particular ideology works takes much more effort, as does any form of introspection, since you have to truly examine your values and make choices, so even then part of it would still be unconsciously influenced by culture since alternatives are rarely, if ever offered.
My best eli5: Lower frequencies easily propagate through building floors and walls. Higher frequencies decay sooner and are more easily weakened and adsorbed by walls.
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