macracanthorhynchus

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How to deal with Ancient aliens in the workplace?

Two of my coworkers frequently mention shows like “Encounters” or “Ancient apocalypse” or whatever. I’m not the best at debating or forming arguments against these though I do feel strongly that bold claims require better evidence than a blurry photo and an eyewitness account. How do you all go about this?...

macracanthorhynchus,

Carl Sagan wrote a book, The Demon Haunted World, which is all about why people get sucked into nonsense like ancient aliens, and how to deal with it.

macracanthorhynchus,

Y chromosomes have very little information on them, and the DNA there is pretty highly conserved. You’re not really keeping any secrets by hiding your Y chromosome away.

macracanthorhynchus,

In a sense it very much is news. This speaks to something that people have recently been speculating about, namely: Has Gaetz pissed off enough Republicans that they will start dumping their dirt on him to thoroughly assasinate his character? The publication of this article is essentially a giant “YES” to that question of what the “moderate” Republicans are going to do in the midst of this new Speaker crisis.

macracanthorhynchus,

Yes, but that led to my absolute favorite joke in Moby-Dick: the fart joke in chapter 1. (It’s important to remember that the “Pythagorean Theorem” is A²+B²=C², but the “Pythagorean maxim” is ‘Don’t eat beans.’)

“For as in this world, head winds are far more prevalent than winds from astern (that is, if you never violate the Pythagorean maxim), so for the most part the Commodore on the quarter-deck gets his atmosphere at second hand from the sailors on the forecastle.”

macracanthorhynchus,

Every time a journalist refers to the company as “Twitter” and not “X”, it makes me so happy.

macracanthorhynchus,

How will this plan affect my real estate taxes?

macracanthorhynchus,

Yes, and?

macracanthorhynchus,

That was the whole point of the “Q”! In fact, we could ditch the LGBT and just stick with a fully inclusive “Queer”.

macracanthorhynchus,

Barbarians. The world must treat them like it and shame them and their children until this stops.

Chicken of the Woods! (I think)

https://mander.xyz/pictrs/image/7fa9ca08-3cac-49a7-ace0-81ec6dc825b8.jpegPassed this on a backpacking trip in the Berkshires, northeast US. Very new to mushroom ID, but iNaturalist said it was Chicken of the Woods! Didn’t try to eat it, but it was cool to find something potentially edible! I later spotted a ton more on fallen...

macracanthorhynchus,

It absolutely is. I live near the Berkshires, and just harvested about 20 pounds of them from a local tree. Dinner last night was excellent!

macracanthorhynchus,

You have linked directly to an image of a Ukrainian stomping on a swastika flag. You are not making the point you think you’re making.

macracanthorhynchus,

Brawndo. It’s got what I crave.

What type of game do you want to play that doesn't really exist?

Have you ever played a game and wondered what if you could do something that it doesn’t really allow you to do, for example being able to move around blocks in Minecraft fluidly instead of in sectors, edit the world in Hogwarts legacy with spells, be able to fly in a world like Elden Ring or Elder Scrolls with epic sky...

macracanthorhynchus,

Black & White 3. Just more Black & White, slightly updated and improved since technology is better, but it doesn’t have to be much better. Just a little bit. But basically more of the same.

macracanthorhynchus,

Sure, but in the case of a show dealing with the question of what would happen if the general public could download celebrities despite the non-consent of the celebrities involved, literally Futurama did it.

macracanthorhynchus,

You’ll take what you can get, and you’ll like it!

macracanthorhynchus,

I once overheard a pair of utility workers talking, and as I walked past I only overheard a snippet of conversation. The older one yelled up the cherrypicker to the younger one and said, in a heavy Boston accent:

“If only you could use your powers for good, instead of for useless…”

That sentence is seared into my brain.

macracanthorhynchus,

See “outlawry” or “homo sacer” for this concept from centuries and millenia ago.

macracanthorhynchus,

Pete, I do not need you to innovate. I just need you to make Black and White 3.

AP News: 48% of US honey bee colonies died last year (apnews.com)

This article has been circulating for a while, summarizing the latest BIP data on colony losses. Thought this forum might allow some beekeeper discussion of it. Do we think this annual “doom and gloom” reporting on BIP’s colony loss survey data is useful, or does it sow pointless confusion among non-beekeepers?

macracanthorhynchus,

If all people who like cat photos converge to one community on one instance about cat photos, it means that a server crash or one goofball mod can ruin everything. If all those cat photo lovers are subscribed to 10 different cat photo communities on 10 different instances... then they'll always be connected to share cat photos, will see all the content, and no one hardware pr human problem will crash the whole community of humans who just want to share cat photos.

macracanthorhynchus,

I think reddit has just continued making more and more moves down their path towards the IPO, and all of those moves together have shown a lot of us that we're not interested in staying on for the rest of the ride. Complicity towards corrupt or powerhungry mods of massive communities with tangible effects on the world (e.g. r/politics), censorship, revenue-focused anti-user actions, ignoring the community, downplaying the value of volunteer mods and threatening to replace them... Yeah, thanks, no. I'm good over here in the fediverse now.

macracanthorhynchus,

Well, I hope they have fun playing with each other.

macracanthorhynchus,

I think you have got it slightly wrong. You're correct that you can't just go to one community on one instance and see every new technology discussion that is taking place on Lemmy, but you CAN subscribe to all of the technology-related communities on different instances and scrolling through posts of communities you're subscribed to will show you all the discussions you want to see.

I think your concern is a common one, but what you're seeing as a bug is, I think, one of the best features of federation.

Drop the mindset that r/technology was the reason all of those tech-interested humans got together in the first place. It wasn't. The human community of tech-interested people just all joined the subreddit. If that same human community subscribes to all of the different tech communities on different instances, then they'll all still be interacting together online, all commenting on the same tech posts. No fragmentation.

The extra cool part is how stable this is. Imagine a mod of r/technology went on a power trip? Now the whole sub is gone. Imagine the mod of technology.beehaw went crazy? Not a big deal. Everyome unsubscribes from that community and the discussion carries on in the different tech communities. Or what if beehaw goes down for an hour? (Or forever?) Also not a big deal (unless your account is on beehsw!) because the rest of the instances will still be up.

I expect we will see a feature soon(ish) to set up a multireddit-equivalent so you can just pull up the tech communities you're subbed to.

macracanthorhynchus,

And though I like an overall science/STEM theme as my core, my personal hobbies drift towards the biological - gardening, beekeeping, homebrewing, mushroom-hunting, etc. I think it would be fine to allow all of that stuff here, or to limit the instance more tightly than that. It doesn't really matter - federation means there can be 15 different beekeeping communities on 15 different instances, and as long as all the Lemmy beekeepers subscribe to them it's just... not a big deal. And then if one instance goes down for an hour (or forever) the actual human community of beekeeping lemmings isn't fractured, we've just lost one appendage.

I think once Salamander has made their choice they should just publicize it and then we can all abide by it. No matter what is chosen, I do like publicly belonging to a "science and nature" tribe on Lemmy instead of a "default" tribe or "communist memes" tribe.

macracanthorhynchus,

I'm proud to have joined this tribe on Lemmy. I don't mind having the local community list show some diversity (e.g. mushroom growing and gardening in addition to astrophysics and recent publications on COVID evolution) but I don't need this instance to scratch my "askreddit" itch. That's what federation is for! I think it's your call, but I think drawing a line in the sand is worthwhile to keep this instance moderately thematically organized.

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