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Dirac

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  • Christie's First-Ever AI Art Auction Earns $728,000, Plus Controversy

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  • Ahh, yes, finally the 1% can do their tax scams AND not pay actual artists. Truly the most cursed timeline

  • Stand together, no surrender ✊🏿✊🏾✊🏽✊🏼✊🏻

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  • I’ll note that he didn’t win a majority, just a larger majority than Harris. This win was narrower than his first one iirc, the swing state bullshit just made it seem more dramatic

  • Mitochondria

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  • Cause it’s the teacher making this decision, riiiiiiight

  • Give us your best infodump.

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  • My new favorite conspiracy theory

  • Mark Zuckerberg visits Trump at Mar-a-Lago, reportedly 'wants to support the national renewal'

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  • Gone to kiss the ring more like

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    Young people were becoming more anxious long before social media, and we should not be fixated on simplistic explanations that reduce the issue to technical variables, researcher says

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  • Correlation may not equal causation, but causation equals causation, and social media has caused enough documented strife among young people to make me question who bankrolled this research group.

  • I'm sure everyone remembers

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  • Nuclear pandemic initiated martial law iirc

  • Is it worth it??

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  • Hahahahaha I meant for the statistics, but I appreciate ya!

  • Is it worth it??

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  • Source?

  • Optimisation is a Slow Process

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  • Sounds like we should optimize that.

  • Instagram-famous squirrel Peanut euthanized after it was taken from owner's New York state home

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  • The raccoon angle is new information to me, and adds a large factor that I will consider. I still believe that the outcome is tragic, that the laws should be different so as to prevent these tragedies. We’ve been encroaching on these species’ habitats and while some have the opinion that “nature” is separate from human life, and would argue that we should separate ourselves from the natural world and not engage with it, I argue that that is precisely the problem. We’re not separate from nature or “the wild”, and we can’t pretend that ignoring them does anything. Ultimately, they will not ignore us, because we’re here, and we’re an intrinsic part of their environments.

    Furthermore, I find your argument a bit two-faced. Intervention and engagement is okay if they’re pests or have a 0.0006% (rough figure based on actual calculations) chance of having rabies, but that’s it, huh? How would you respond if this was a pest in your home? I assume you’d alert animal control or an exterminator, and wash your hands of it once they were out of your hair, regardless of the outcome.

    All of that being said, the presence of the raccoon complicates things enough for me to say that I think this was an unavoidable outcome given the animal control system, but still it should’ve been handled differently and just because this is “normal” doesn’t mean that it isn’t short in the morality department.

  • Instagram-famous squirrel Peanut euthanized after it was taken from owner's New York state home

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  • This is an excellent point, and I was unaware of the raccoon’s presence. Was the raccoon also seized? It didn’t mention it in the original article.

  • Instagram-famous squirrel Peanut euthanized after it was taken from owner's New York state home

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  • Thanks so much friend! I’m a scientist, but also a passionate person, so sometimes I let my feelings get ahead of my reason. Both are important, for sure, but if I get new information or perspective, I really want to consider it as if it came from a genuine place, even if it’s from some rando on the internet. If it’s not a fact, I’ll express as much, but if I was wrong, I want to own it.

    Thanks for your kind words, it means a lot! Happy Day of the Dead to you too!

  • Instagram-famous squirrel Peanut euthanized after it was taken from owner's New York state home

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  • Was your point that it’s cause…what? We started outlawing pet squirrels? That’s such a weird stance

  • Instagram-famous squirrel Peanut euthanized after it was taken from owner's New York state home

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  • This guy gets it ^^^

  • Instagram-famous squirrel Peanut euthanized after it was taken from owner's New York state home

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  • Instagram-famous squirrel Peanut euthanized after it was taken from owner's New York state home

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  • Also, you’re right that my comment was uncalled for. I was a little too passionate, and should’ve been more calm and clear headed. Of course there’s no “making their animals suffer” here, so you can put your straw man and your ad hominem back in your utility belt, my friend. My intent would’ve been more clear had I said “I hope that they can learn to be empathetic in these situations”, and I fell into the fallacy that empathy comes from feeling the same pain, which I know isn’t true. So I agree that my comment was distasteful, and have thus removed it.

  • Instagram-famous squirrel Peanut euthanized after it was taken from owner's New York state home

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  • Also, don’t ignore the rabies comment. I stand by the logic that the rate of 2 cases per year for ~60 years is such an absurdly low rate that using this to justify these actions taken here is equally absurd. Maybe NYC needed these laws in the year 1900, when we were still reading by candlelight, but we’re in 2024. Squirrels are known to have absurdly low rates of rabies (source below). Squirrels are intelligent, can coexist with humans and pose minimal risk to public safety. Squirrels and humans have lived together for such a long time, and the history of pet squirrels is well documented. Honestly, if this was a raccoon even, I’d maybe bite my tongue a bit more, as they’re known to be major carriers of rabies. Again, an unvaccinated dog or cat is more likely to give you rabies than a squirrel. (Which, for cats in NY, has a rate ~300 rabies cases between 2008-2020, and ~8 dogs. (source: https://www.mdpi.com/1999-4915/13/3/450)) Compare to 4 wild squirrel cases catalogued in the entire United States over a similar timespan (source: https://meridian.allenpress.com/jwd/article/59/4/734/496393 ; see table 1) So please, do tell me why you chose to ignore the rabies comment.

  • Instagram-famous squirrel Peanut euthanized after it was taken from owner's New York state home

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  • I see the logic you’re deriving this argument from, but the statement that “Wildlife belongs in the wild” is reductive and misses the point. If he grabbed the squirrel a week ago, and this happened, I’d be less passionate about this point, but 7 years is a long time. The punishment doesn’t fit the crime here. The only injury associated with this creature was because an anon Karen snitched about something that was none of their business. I know it may seem silly to you to value a squirrels life, but it isn’t to me. An imaginary threat caused harm to an animal control officer and the death of an innocent animal. That’s just not cool, and your argument that “Wildlife belongs in the wild” is just a dog whistle to justify these kinds of actions. Especially as we continue to destroy that wild, encroach on their habitats and outright kill them when they’re just trying to survive.