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AbouBenAdhem

@ AbouBenAdhem @lemmy.world

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  • We will never know the name of a human that lived 50,000 years ago

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  • If the name “Naomi” can occur independently in Hebrew and Japanese, it’s probably been popping up regularly since the beginning of language.

  • FBI Couldn’t Get into WaPo Reporter’s iPhone Because It Had Lockdown Mode Enabled

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  • It’s not that the watch is an added vulnerability (there’s no info accessible via the watch once the phone is locked)—it’s just a missed opportunity.

  • FBI Couldn’t Get into WaPo Reporter’s iPhone Because It Had Lockdown Mode Enabled

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  • One shortcoming of lockdown mode, as far as I can tell: you can pair your phone and watch so locking your phone will lock your watch as well, but you can’t do the reverse. It seems more likely that a hostile party would get access to your phone first while you still (temporarily) have control of your watch, so being able to lock your phone from your watch would be extremely useful. (Or for that matter, set lockdown mode to trigger automatically if your watch is removed or your watch and phone move to different locations.)

  • Fifty Years Ago, the Supreme Court Said Money Is Speech

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  • Yes, but did the Court pay money to turn the words of its decision into legally-significant speech?

    Because otherwise, it seems a bit self-refuting.

  • do most people really like the taste and smell of eggs?

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  • I think eggs, potatoes, and tofu are in a similar category: there are so many drastically different ways of preparing them that it’s impossible to generalize—and when someone does, I just assume that they haven’t yet found the exceptions.

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    Am I allowed to hate the US government yet?

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  • I see three broad camps:

    1. Salvage the good bits of the US government and replace the rest with something better, while leaving its global role intact
    2. Reduce the global power of the US to the point that it’s just one element in a stable multipolar system, each of which can have its ups and downs without disrupting the rest
    3. Replace the US as the dominant power with China and/or Russia, because the US is uniquely and irredeemably bad and the seeming flaws of its rivals are just western propaganda.

    I suspect a lot of the criticism you face is from people unsure of whether you’re in camp 2 or 3.

  • Trump administration pulling 700 immigration agents from Minnesota

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  • Where are they getting redeployed to?

  • We might not even be communicating.

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  • I wasn’t trying to correct you — just demonstrating OP’s point about the assumptions we have to make before we can pretend to understand each other.

  • We might not even be communicating.

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  • I’m assuming that when you say “though” you mean “thought”, and when you say “Olato” you mean “Plato”, and when you say “1000” you mean “2400”, and when you say “covered this” you mean “proposed that we all subconsciously share knowledge of a realm of pure, unmediated ideas which we learned in a previous life”... but of course you might mean something else entirely, and I’d be none the wiser.

  • Ask Science @lemmy.world
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    Is it likely that we’re underestimating the extent of metamorphosis in the fossil record because we’re mistaking different stages of the same organism for different species?

  • Noam Chomsky advised Jeffrey Epstein how to dodge the pedo accusations

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  • In theory, sure—but that combined with his being in his 90s makes cluelessness far more likely.

  • Noam Chomsky advised Jeffrey Epstein how to dodge the pedo accusations

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  • Epstein apparently fancied himself an intellectual and cultivated contacts in the sciences for their own sake—he was also a major donor to the Santa Fe Institute and seems to have made a favorable impression there.

    I think we underestimate the ability of predators like Epstein to appear as something other than they are when it suits them.

  • Noam Chomsky advised Jeffrey Epstein how to dodge the pedo accusations

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  • Chomsky’s Wikipedia article has a section on his friendship with Epstein. It mentions Chomsky wanting to take his wife to visit Epstein in the Caribbean, which seems an unlikely thing to do if he believed the allegations. But it also sounds like he was was way too dismissive of sexual misconduct allegations in general.

  • Anyone else feel that the beautiful always win no matter how evil they are?

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  • Beauty is subjective—maybe we just find success attractive after the fact?

  • Would it theoretically be possible for a planet to stay at the same place in an "orbit" of its parent body?

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  • It could be stationary at the barycenter of a binary star system, but any perturbation would tend to destabilize it.

  • The rich oppose clean energy because it is renewable. If clean energy became non renewable, or fossil fuels became renewable, they would no longer oppose a transition to clean energy

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  • It’s simpler than that: the currently rich support the industries that enabled them to get rich, whatever they are; and when a new industry finally does supplant them, a new group will get rich and oppose the next advance.

    That’s the cost of privatized infrastructure.

  • Have you ever seen a man with a face like that?

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  • Can anyone explain the expansion of space to me?

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  • Objects beyond our cosmic event horizon are in a similar state to objects inside a black hole’s event horizon: we can describe them in hypothetical terms, but they’re effectively outside of our universe. There’s no longer any causal connection between us and them in either direction, and our relativistic frame of reference doesn’t extend to them.

  • Best way to trigger automation with my return home?

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  • Using your person state makes it easier to update HA when you get a new phone, especially if you have a lot of automations that use it.

  • "No Trespassing" signs don't make any sense because they imply "Trespassing is A-OK" if not for the sign.

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  • It varies by jurisdiction, but in many places trespass isn’t actionable if it was accidental or if the person was deceived into trespassing by a third party. Posted signs could prevent those cases.

  • Wikipedia @lemmy.world
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    Investment theory of party competition

    en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Investment_theory_of_party_competition
  • Showerthoughts @lemmy.world
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    The Lord of the Rings spinoff the world needs right now isn’t Rings of Power or Hunt for Gollum—it’s a feature-length version of the Scouring of the Shire.

  • Showerthoughts @lemmy.world
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    Turing speculated that the ability to act human would be the best indication of humanlike thought, but a better indication would be the inability to act otherwise.

  • Showerthoughts @lemmy.world
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    The first evidence of human activity every archaeological expedition encounters is evidence of an archeological expedition.

  • Wikipedia @lemmy.world
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    Dionysian imitatio

    en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Dionysian_imitatio
  • Showerthoughts @lemmy.world
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    I wonder what humans do when they’re not taking showers. And where does all this water come from? And how did I become sentient?

  • Showerthoughts @lemmy.world
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    Maybe "CAESAR STABBED IN BACK BY BRUTUS AND CASSIUS" was just an ancient clickbait headline, and the actual event was a minor policy dispute instead of a literal assassination.

  • California @lemmy.world
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    California opened college savings accounts for millions of kids. Why do so few know about it?

    oaklandnorth.net /2025/11/03/california-opened-college-savings-accounts-for-millions-of-kids-why-do-so-few-know-about-it/
  • Wikipedia @lemmy.world
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    Shift-and-persist model

    en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Shift-and-persist_model
  • Showerthoughts @lemmy.world
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    The first century BCE and the last century BCE are the same century.

  • Showerthoughts @lemmy.world
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    People with six fingers can get away with anything, because everyone will assume that any videos of them were AI-generated.

  • Ask Science @lemmy.world
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    What would be the drawbacks of a genetic code with 6 nucleotides instead of 4, but each amino acid could be coded with 2 base pairs instead of 3 (so the genome could be 33% shorter)?

  • California @lemmy.world
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    Governor Newsom to deliver major address to Californians ("Democracy at a Crossroads")

  • Showerthoughts @lemmy.world
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    If the Romans had put Jesus in a box with Schrödinger's cat, Christians’ souls would be in a quantum superposition of saved and damned.

  • Showerthoughts @lemmy.world
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    Trying to build viable third parties by voting for them in presidential elections is like trying to build a third door in your house by repeatedly walking into the wall where you want the door to be.

  • Biodiversity @mander.xyz
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    Emerging niche clustering results from both competition and predation. (My takeaway: more species can coexist in an ecological niche if they have distinct predators.)

    onlinelibrary.wiley.com /doi/full/10.1111/ele.14230
  • Showerthoughts @lemmy.world
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    If whales are ignorant of conditions on land, they probably think humans are an endangered species.