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LaLuzDelSol

@ LaLuzDelSol @lemmy.world

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  • It's free real estate

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  • Yeah I don't disagree, but that is still why they changed it. Using "man" to refer to all mankind (and even "mankind" for that matter) is going out of style.

  • What is your least favourite thing about the fediverse or lemmy?

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  • Not very Auth of you! You sound like a hedonistic libertarian to me.

  • What is your least favourite thing about the fediverse or lemmy?

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  • It takes patience but you can block all the political communities. Once you do that you just have to block a dozen or so super users who spam the other communities with political content.

    That's the thing that drives me crazy- communities that really should be non-political like "Pictures" or idk "Cars" are full of posts like "Heres what Trumps reversal of EPA regulations means for the future of EVs." Like I get it Trumps bad but can't you contain that discussion to the 5000 communities devoted to politics?

  • It's free real estate

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  • I mean the original line was "where no man has gone before" which at least made sense, although it didn't represent the female crew very well.

  • Imitation is the sincerest form of flattery

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  • Hmm I don't remember Sam getting a red cloak though.

  • Linux in California is in deep trouble - The Bryant Review

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  • Yeah that's literally what a lot of aftermarket motorcycle parts say.

  • The Myth That Wind Farms Are a Guillotine for Birds Is Being Debunked by Hard Data

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  • Yeah people in the comments are talking about wind turbines killing birds being a hoax though. It definitely isn't.

    Another important distinction is that wind turbines disproportionately kill raptors like eagles, which are not threatened by cats.

  • The Myth That Wind Farms Are a Guillotine for Birds Is Being Debunked by Hard Data

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  • People saying this is some kind of hoax have not done their research. As someone who works for a renewable energy company they do hit birds (and bats, which are attracted to their low-frequency hum). I thought it was kind of nonsense before this job, but up close you realize those blades are spinning FAST. Theres nothing like them in the animal kingdom so birds arent afraid of them. There are steps you can take to mitigate the threat, but it is a valid concern. On the whole, though, they are still much better for the environment than pretty much any other type of energy generation.

  • The Myth That Wind Farms Are a Guillotine for Birds Is Being Debunked by Hard Data

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  • I work for a renewable energy company. We regularly find dead birds at our wind sites, including occasionally protected species like eagles (killing bats is also a concern).

    There are steps you can take to mitigate the threat. We have dumped a ton of money into a really cool technology that scans the skies constantly with super high res cameras and automatically stops turbines in the vicinity of protected species.

    Overall, renewable energy is still much better for wildlife than burning fossil fuels.

  • Imitation is the sincerest form of flattery

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  • What are the Hobbits wearing? When did Sam ever get a red cloak like that?

  • Duolingo is dying celebratory thread

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  • You absolutely will learn with Duolingo, the "games" are literally saying, reading, and writing things in a foreign language. There's nothing else to it.

  • Duolingo is dying celebratory thread

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  • Right. The point I'm making though is that for the majority of Duolingo users, if you take away Duolingo you don't get something better. You get nothing.

    Only on lemmy would people be cheating the demise of a language learning app, no matter how gameified.

  • Duolingo is dying celebratory thread

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  • I feel like people criticizing Duolingo for being inferior to talking with native language speakers or a traditional language class are kind of missing the point. It's like saying 10 minutes of slow walking is inferior exercise to an hour of HIIT every day. Yeah true but people actually use Duolingo. The whole point is that it is fun and doesn't feel like a chore. It's probably why so many people around the world have learned English by watching American and British TV shows. Is that an optimal learning method? No, but the best exercises are the ones you actually do.

  • Why nor????

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  • Well it's interesting that it makes regular ringing/metallic sounds when it's dropped(at least in the movies), so it is not inelastic. Which means it could be deformed if placed under extreme force but it would always spring back into shape. So I think it might be the world's most powerful spring.

  • Do you still have faith in humanity?

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  • .......well that is unfortunate humanity is cooked haha

  • Do you still have faith in humanity?

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  • Ah, so SHE was responsible for my low GPA!

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  • That's a fair rebuttal. Thank you for engaging with me civilly, it makes these discussions a lot more productive and enjoyable.

  • Ah, so SHE was responsible for my low GPA!

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  • My point was, and is, that you should always be skeptical of feel-good facts shared in image format on social media. The worlds oldest continuously operating university being founded by a Muslim woman is pretty cool - so why have I not heard it before? If you told me it was actually founded by [random European guy], I would probably just believe you because there isn't really any reason for misrepresent or make up that story. However, there is a pretty clear incentive to distort or embellish the story of Fatima because it pushes back against the narrative of Islam being misogynistic and anti-science. I'm not really trying to be pedantic here, just skeptical of the whole story in general. If a black inventor did something... at least we can agree they did it, and I don't really care about semantic arguments. I agree that people disputing black people being inventors based on pedantic arguments may be motivated by racism, but that's not what I'm trying to do here. If there was clear evidence that

    a) Fatima was a real person, and

    b) There was any evidence that, at the time of its founding, al-Qarawiyyin mosque was a center of learning,

    I wouldn't really care about whether or not you could really consider it a "university" or not, and would be happy to consider her the founder of the oldest continuously operating university. However, the reality is that there aren't any historical records of Fatima until 500 years after her death, which makes her seem more like Dido of Carthage or Romulus than a real person. (Also, they literally found an inscription, believed to be 9th-century, within the mosque that says it was founded by someone else). Also, while madrasas were definitely centers of learning, all the sources I could find say the transition to a madrasa happened after the mosque was founded.

    So idk man. It's not outright misinformation but it is disputed by historians for several reasons.

  • Ah, so SHE was responsible for my low GPA!

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  • I don't think that's an accurate summary of the authors findings. He says she likely founded a mosque, and there is zero evidence from midevial sources and earlier, that she did anything more than that (it's worth pointing out that her very existence is disputed by some historians because there are no references to her until centuries after her death). It's impossible to prove a negative, but there is no evidence the mosque operated as either a library or a university at the time of its founding. So again, I can't debunk this- nobody can - I just think it's pretty flimsy. I could claim the world's first university was an Egyptian temple, because they probably taught things there.

    I dont think it's fair to say people are being overly pedantic because she was a Muslim women when the only reason this is getting shared in the first place is because she was Muslim woman.

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