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dnavinci

@dnavinci@genomic.social

Considerably more Curious than Callow.
Scientist, adventurer, father
Still missing my adopted homeland in Finland
hän/häntä

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lednaBM , to random
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Biden fails the test of the moment.....

I will continue to support Biden, but he once again has disappointed me by letting these criminal thugs push him around.
Putin, Xi, and Kim are very happy men today. Their plan to ruin this country is picking up speed now....

dnavinci ,
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@futurebird
I want him to flex.
His opponents have just laid unlimited new powers at his feet, during a time when he is perceived as half-dead.
There has never been a better time for a show of force.
@lednaBM

dnavinci ,
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@lednaBM
Legally, and only "legally" you're right, those things need to wait until after an election.
Power-wise, there's a nearly unlimited range of actions a potentially outgoing president can take to reshape a political landscape.
The permission slip is on the table
@HarbingerOfSalem @CoachMark @futurebird

futurebird , to random
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In Oklahoma they are passing a law to mandate a Bible be in every classroom.

I don't have as much of an issue with this as I do with hanging the (Protestant Evangelical) ten commandments on the wall. The Bible, like many other religious texts is an important book...

Just one little question:

Which Bible?

Ya'll say "The Bible" like you have a Pope and there is only one. That's not true. So... which one?

If you don't know then maybe you are not qualified to make such mandates.

dnavinci ,
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@futurebird
I was likewise wondering which 10 commandments they wanted, Exodus or Deuteronomy. Also I counted 17 last time. Which ones should we omit.

futurebird , to random
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The time genie will bring back one (1) extinct animal from any time in all of earth's history. The animal will be integrated into an ecosystem seamlessly with no major negative consequences. You get to pick the creature.

Do you feel obligated to pick something like a sauropod just so people can experience the awe?

Do you bring back something more recent to correct the crimes of mankind?

Or are you selfish and you ask for hell ants so you can finally see how their mandibles work?

dnavinci ,
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@futurebird
Considering the "it will be automatically integrated into its ecosystem", clause I choose Jaekelopterus, the Giant Sea Scorpions.
As a runner up, I choose the once-dominant-form-of-life, Orthoceras!

lednaBM , to random
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Hello darkness, my old friend....

dnavinci ,
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@bigheadtales
I was about 14, growing up on a farm, when I realized that most men - talking shit when they drank - couldn't kill a chicken, much less a human.
@skepticsbookoflists @mintyfresh @lednaBM

dnavinci ,
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@bhasic
For sure we let the hens grow old laying eggs.
Eggs turn into chicks and chicks grow up into hens and roosters.
Roosters don't lay eggs. Roosters turn tasty and aggressive at about the same age, so if you're a 14 year old with a stick it starts to feel like a (more) fair fight, even if it's all over in one swift move.

I'm always worried when I tell folks about farm life they're gonna think it's cruel to kill a chicken...

@bigheadtales @skepticsbookoflists @mintyfresh @lednaBM

dnavinci ,
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@BenAveling
I think I can clear this up.
Overshoot is real.
Overconsumption is real.
Overpopulation is NOT real... Yet.

It's not a population problem, but an efficiency problem

Also most of those "articlea" arent a scientific articles but are meant to look like one. Scientific American is real though.

@504DR @lednaBM @nonehitwonder @starlily @Goldfigure @bhasic @bigheadtales @mintyfresh

futurebird , to random
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Camponotus mirabilis are in the same genus as ordinary carpenter ants found in most temperate countries. As bamboo specialists, their queens faced curious evolutionary pressures. The widths of the stems are fixed. Their heads cannot be wider than 2.6mm. But, the queens must be large enough to lay many eggs.

The result is the miraculous elongated head. The smaller workers look like ordinary carpenter ants, the majors have square head, the queens... are remarkable.

https://www.alexanderwild.com/Ants/Taxonomic-List-of-Ant-Genera/Camponotus/i-x5wCfTf/A

dnavinci ,
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@futurebird
This is eerily close to my "molecular biology of gender" lecture for laypeople who are misusing 3 sentences about chromosomes from 7th grade
@alexwild

futurebird , to random
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I had the eusocial cat dream again. Perhaps it is better described as a reoccurring nightmare! Basically everyone had these cat colonies— but the cats were super intelligent— on the colony level and manipulating global politics.

What’s your reoccurring dream?

dnavinci ,
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@futurebird
There's an evil trilobite who lives under the far corner of the pond near where I was born. Ill be out for a walk and then video-game-boss-aerial-pan/zoom intro to it under the mud. It has glowing red eyes.
30 years of that dream...

Nonilex , to random
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Conservative attacks on could threaten
are sowing that falsely characterizes IUDs, , even as “” — something used to cause .
in ≥17 states have blocked largely Democratic-led attempts to pass assuring the right to birth control since 2022.


https://www.washingtonpost.com/health/2024/06/05/birth-control-access-abortion-ban/

dnavinci ,
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@Nonilex
Or if you're yelling at the crazies you can borrow this zinger:

"why does God kill 70% of babies? Because 70% of fertilized embryos naturally fail to implant, and die. It's the exact same thing IUDs and plan B do.
God is good and I model my life after his word, but no abortion service or pill has anywhere near the body count that He does."

futurebird , to random
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It was always exciting and important when as a child I’d pepper some adult with questions and (at last) they would say “you know what? I don’t know. Let’s ask this other person or let’s look it up!”

LLMs are like the kind of adult who just makes up some plausible BS rather than say “I don’t know” those kinds of adults didn’t really think my questions mattered they didn’t think I’d remember or notice they’d lied to me. I always noticed. I think these systems trigger me because of it LMAO.

dnavinci ,
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@futurebird
I think this is part of why you haven't heard these systems directly connected to e.g. Siri.
Written word gives you some chance to perform media literacy and critical thought. Tin pot pastors know that spoken word happens quickly and frequently shortcuts critical thought, and relies on a personal reputation and earlier dialogue to build agreement.
I havent tried it myself, but my guess is that people quickly identify spoken LLMs as having sociopathic tendencies and learn to distrust

dnavinci ,
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@futurebird
I think this is part of why you haven't heard these systems directly connected to e.g. Siri.
Written word gives you some chance to perform media literacy and critical thought. Tin pot pastors know that spoken word happens quickly and frequently shortcuts critical thought, and relies on a personal reputation and earlier dialogue to build agreement.
I havent tried it myself, but my guess is that people quickly identify spoken LLMs as having sociopathic tendencies and learn to distrust

GottaLaff , to random
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Huh. Imagine that.

👀
IRS Audit of Could Cost Former President More Than $100 Million

The tax agency concluded in its long-running investigation that Trump effectively claimed the same massive write-off twice on his failed Chicago tower. https://www.propublica.org/article/trump-irs-audit-chicago-hotel-taxes

dnavinci ,
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@Npars01
Boycott Tripplite if you don't already
@GottaLaff @Woodswalked

parismarx , to random
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Meta lost $3.85 billion on the metaverse in the first quarter of 2024 alone. You know, that thing we all laughed about a couple years ago and next to no one actually uses.

It’s burned $45 billion on the metaverse since the end of 2020.

https://www.cnbc.com/2024/04/24/metas-reality-labs-posts-3point85-billion-loss-in-first-quarter.html

#tech #meta #metaverse #vr

dnavinci ,
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@parismarx
The problem with shorting tech stocks is that even when you can see them making deadly, insanely bad decisions they still have a fuckton more money and dumbass investors that can float them for a decade or two before any stock-financial consequences occur

FuchsiaShock , to random
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Capitalism must be ended

dnavinci ,
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@futurebird
Which... Making VC bait that goes viral is kind of like a messed up provocative art project
@FuchsiaShock

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