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lemming

@ lemming @sh.itjust.works

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  • The Meal is Eel (And How an Owl Breathes While Swallowing)

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  • If you ever get a fresh whole chicken (for dinner, for example), you can remove the breasts, then carefully remove the ribcage, make a small hole in the trachea, insert a straw and blow into it, you can inflate the sacs. Even if you know they are there, it's still quite surprising. They are big! Highly recommend, if you're up to such things.

  • The Meal is Eel (And How an Owl Breathes While Swallowing)

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  • I think human babies do the same thing. That's why they can breathe while breastfeeding.

  • I am thinking of having a reddit account

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  • I just realised you probably can use RSS. I think it works, one channel per subreddit.

  • I am thinking of having a reddit account

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  • If you only want to look an not interact, I'm using Stealth. No account needed and you can still follow your preferred subreddits. You can't post or comment, of course. Also no upvoting, but you can mark posts for your own later use. Also, you can have multiple sets of subreddits.

  • Job Security

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  • If you select a sufficiently short and localised subset of data, you can show almost anything. Would I be wrong to guess tjat your opinion is heavily influenced by the current state of the US? While I agree that the situation there is complete shit and something needs to happen, I would argue (admittedly without any solid data in hand) that globally, automation is helping loads of people and is going to continue to do so.

  • The mystery of how big our Universe really is

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  • Well, that sounds completely reasonable. I'm aware of this difference, but maybe I misunderstood what I read. Or misremembered, it's been a while.

  • Job Security

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  • In general, it obviously is. The standard of living is rising over the last few hundred years. Many people can quite easily get things and amount and types of food that would be unthinkable just several decades ago. Many of which wouldn't be possible to manufacture at scale, if at all, without progressing automation. Jobs shifting from production (agriculture and manufacturing) toward services are clear indication of this.

    Enriching the rich disproportionately more is also happening. But that is somewhat different story with partially different causes.

  • The mystery of how big our Universe really is

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  • My quick search shows numbers much closer to yours than mine. I remember mine because I was surprised it was so small. I thought I read it somewhere reasonably believable (but don't remember where), but maybe it was some estimate not generally accepted. Thanks for correcting me.

  • Buy more expensive medications as long as they don't have AI in their process

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  • Research isn't the really the expensive part. Or rather most of research is paid by governments. The expensive part is clinical trials. They are paid by the companies that later sell the drugs. Vast majority of clinical trials fails at various stages, but still has to be paid. So any drug that makes the cut has to pay for tens of other very promising compounds that turned out to be toxic, not effective in humans, or just not worth it (also including buying and shutting down competitors or discontinuing tests on drugs that might work, but would hurt company's other business).

    That being said, there's something very wrong with drug prices in the US.

  • The mystery of how big our Universe really is

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  • I think the current very rough estimate is around ¼ of the universe being observable.

    Fun fact: smaller and smaller part of the universe is observable. As the space is expanding, it drives the furtest reaches of observable universe away faster than the light can fly. So the area, from which the light could reach us if it flew for the time since the big bang, is smaller today than it was yesterday. It really drove home for me just how big universe is.

  • Job Security

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  • So you don't think that automating production and freeing people to do what they enjoy while improving their standard of living is a worthy goal? Yes, we are moving in the right direction, but there's still an astonishing amount of manual labor in terrible conditions happening in poor countries to produce cheap stuff. For things that are automated elsewhere, but it would cost more than the cheap labor there. As I said, it's sad.

  • Job Security

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  • And yet we're still far from succeeding. It's sad.

  • Probably bad for your hearing too

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  • Approximately. It differs a lot and the upper limit goes down with age. It also depends on loudness. I could hear up to around 16 kHz in my early twenties. I doubt many adults would hear 20 kHz, unless it was very, very loud.

  • A mysterious comet is shooting through our solar system. Why are scientists so excited about 3I/Atlas?

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  • This is actually a third one. The second was called 2I/Borisov, I think.

  • What are the best FOSS keyboards/Openboard alternatives on F-Droid?

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  • It's great. It doesn't have spell check, but it's great for writing more characters easily (no long press, just swipe slighty to the side). You can completely customise your layout (and I mean completely, I have my name mapped for easy signing, but also copy, paste, back, compose button...), has Ctrl, Fn, arrows, anything.

    Each key can have up to 9 (but realistically 5) characters - one upon clicking, the rest upon a short swipe to one of the eight directions. I haven't seen another keyboard like this, and it's so much faster than long press!

  • CALL FOR URGENT ACTION to stop Chat Control legislation in EU

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  • Do both. Can't make a mistake by reaching out too much, I think.

  • Pocket Knives

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  • Can you not fly with it? In Europe, you can, the limit is 5 or 6 cm of blade. I regularly fly with mine.

  • Where is he going, chat?

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  • There were also pigeon-guided missiles against ships in development.

  • i am really worried about what's going on in eu

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  • Have you already written to your members of parliament about chat control, and possibly other matters? Seriously, do it. There is very little you can do, but this might actually help. Slightly. Maybe.