Ask Lemmy
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4 days ago
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If you're punching with you fist, you are probably punching wrong.
Not The Onion
‘Do not store guns in your oven’: Loaded gun stored in oven fires multiple rounds after getting overheated
ragica
2 weeks ago
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Amazed to see this. New old house. Used oven for first time. Some sort of stench and black gunk dripping from top heat shield. Gas stove. Investigate. Pull out pieces of a gun. Glock or something. Previous owner stops by for mail (unusual situation). I had over the melted pieces, "you forget something in the oven?" "Oh shit. No problem, I can fix it." "uh.. Okaaaaay... "
Nature and Gardening
What's growing on, Beehaw?
ragica
2 weeks ago
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After a month of neglect my garden is compete chaos. I am (more-or-less) fine with this. It is better to have grown and lost, than to have never grown at all. As they say. Or something like that.
Privacy
ragica
1 month ago
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As long as the backdoor is licenced GPL what's the problem?
gardening
ragica
2 months ago
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Been meaning for years to harvest some seeds from a big patch of nettles growing not far from here on a country (canada) roadside. Then this spring someone decided to cut all the grass and weeds back along this road... the nettles disappeared. I watched for months and months hoping they would re-appear. I had almost given up hope, but finally just in the last month they have slowly appeared again by the edge of the cut. A meager little growth, compared to what I was. Will I ever harvest any seeds? All I know for sure is that I will continue to intend to.
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2 months ago
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Similar recipe:
Chop nappa cabbage
Couple of packs or ramen broken up.
Ramen seasoning powder.
Chopped or slivver almond
Sesame seeds.
Green onion / scallion
rice vinegar to taste
Archaeology
Neanderthals didn't truly go extinct, but were rather absorbed into the modern human population, DNA study suggests
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2 months ago
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Coincidentally just just watched this Gutsick Gibbon (primatologist) vid which touches on this a bit (though not the main topic). https://youtu.be/dy7_LousWVo
pics
ragica
2 months ago
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Emerald damselfly, or migrant spreadwing. Nice pic.
Comic Strips
[ExoComics] Try again
ragica
2 months ago
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Never have a seen a more visceral illustration of the brutal dangers of ai.
World News
Pew survey on global attitudes on China
ragica
2 months ago
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Chocolate and famous name brand cola?
World News
Pew survey on global attitudes on China
ragica
2 months ago
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Unfortunately your stats link appears to be paywalled, or at least requires login to see the graph?
vegan
ragica
2 months ago
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The annoying part of this for me is that Gates' name needs to be dropped in, presumably to get attention. But so it goes.
It's interesting to see that the concept of butter in the comments seems to be a significant trigger for a bunch of people (in the /c/science posting of this article). This is another level to the problem.
But the main problem which no one seems to have commented on (maybe because it is mentioned at the end of the article) is, like many animal product substitutes, production cost and scaling.
Animal products are so embedded and subsidised (and/or at least true externized costs ignored), and politically connected, potential eco-friendly alternatives like this have a really extra hard time getting off the ground even if I could one day be cheaper.
science
ragica
2 months ago
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This may be a logical fallacy known as false equivalence, when one fact is stated or implied to be conflated with another not directly related fact.
Technology
Disney hack leads to 1.2TB of Slack communications leaked online
ragica
2 months ago
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Some alternate suggestions might be nice.
Science Memes
Irresistible
ragica
3 months ago
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Here is the novelization of the cartoon... sort of. As She Climbed Across the Table by Jonathan Lethem.
Science
Physicists Have Created The World's Most Fiendishly Difficult Maze (using Ammann-Beenker aperiodic tiling and Hamiltonian cycles, possibly mimicking quasicrystal structures)
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3 months ago
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Ha ha, maybe. The article is pretty short. However, the actual paper linked at the bottom of the article is titled "Hamiltonian cycles on Ammann-Beenker Tilings" (unfortunately I can only see the abstract), so the original authors are also responsible!
It's my thinking that the key point of thr Hamiltonian cycle in this context is it visits nodes only once thereby creating a unique path. The trick here seems to be then joining those paths for a collection of subgraphs? I'm really not sure. It's a bit beyond me, but I find it interesting to think about.
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World News
Official bilingualism in Canada a 'myth,' says new poll
ragica
3 months ago
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What are you talking about. Everyone knows polls are the best way to determine what is or is not a myth. That's why that TV show Mythbusters failed so miserably and is off the air now. Too much fiddly experimentation and sciency mumbojumbo, and not nearly enough polls. It really helps if the polls ask pointed questions about hot button issues with little to no context also... So people aren't confused or have to think too much (which also is a form of dishonesty when you think (but not too much) about it). Pretty sure there is a poll out there somewhere that confirms this.
Map Enthusiasts
Timezone changes between 1923 and 2023
ragica
4 months ago
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My god, at this rate UTC+1 and UTC+3 will dominate the whole world by 2223!
Libraries
Peak inclusivity at public libraries was in 1995—2005. Exclusion is on the rise as libraries outsource tech
ragica
4 months ago
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Interesting perspective, but I'd tend to argue that the technologies such as WiFi have massively increased inclusiveness and accessibility for magnitudes more people than it has raised issues for.
WiFi, for example, allows libraries to offer servises 24 hours a day without the need to physically enter the building. Wirh such openness comes some security and resource sharing challenges, and metimrs addressed by throttling or overly aggressive firewalls. But for nearly everyone the expanded accessibility has been fantastic.
I am also concerned with outsourcing. But worried about cloudflare are pretty far down the list. Adobe controlled DRM on most ebooks, and even third party cloud based catalogues, are way more concerning. But unfortunately these happen to be the most cost effective way the limited funding of libraries can manage in many cases. I hate these circumstances but it seems to me the compromise is providing more access to more resources for more people, not less.
This is not to discourage always better ways and more freedom and efficiency. But overall I just can't see how the issues you cite are excluding people more than helping include more people.
Lets face it, the half dozen people per million (if that) who care about the FLOSS status of thier WiFi hardware's firmware, probably are technically capable enough to find a way to access library resources securely more than most people!
World News
Netanyahu to address Congress, House Speaker Mike Johnson says
ragica
4 months ago
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International war criminal to come get pats on the back says unconditional supporter of domestic insurrectionist and life-long criminal.
Mildly Infuriating
For security reasons
ragica
4 months ago
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As a person who ages ago created and single letter (before the @) email address thinking myself clever and efficient... I'm amazed and distressed how many forms have insisted that my email address is invalid.
Not The Onion
American Airlines is Issuing 'Poverty Verification Letters' For New-Hire Flight Attendants Because Their Wages Are So Low
ragica
4 months ago
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The wealthy NEED the airports to keep running so not to interfere with their vacation plan. Starving kids on the other hand can simply be rewoven as doormats by any good capitalist.
Gardening
ragica
4 months ago
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The blueberries are ready when they taste good to you. Some people like them earlier for a more tart flavour.
World News
Gen Z workers in China are picking 'gross outfits' over corporate glam because they don't get paid enough to look fly
ragica
5 months ago
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And yet their makeup is impeccable. Article says "young people", but curiously only cute women in the pictures.
"It looks cute, and yet, you don't lose that feeling of sexiness." Ah, the all important feeling of sexiness in the office that women strive for.
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www.youtube.com
ragica
7 months ago
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Dresses of the coat world
ragica
7 months ago
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Multi-reddit-like functionality.
Users being able to group communities together themselves might also be a potential solution to the many, many posts complaining about the fragmentation of identical communities across instances.
ragica
8 months ago
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Sometimes a bandage helps to stop the bleeding.
Sometimes bandages are left on too long and wounds fester.
Bandages can be useful sometimes, but care must still be taken.
COVID-19 Pandemic
COVID-19 makes you miserable by draining dopamine
ragica
8 months ago
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Here is the study referenced:
World News
Exiled Chinese artist Ai Weiwei: 'Censorship in West exactly the same as Mao's China'
ragica
8 months ago
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Ai Weiwei lived in China most of his life, and was openly critical of the government there. He has been imprisoned before. In his family history, one of his parents was internally exiled. This is a brave person who knows a few things from personal experience and deserves some respect and consideration, even if you disagree.
ragica
8 months ago
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Vogager has a web app version, if that's what you mean by front end.
Selfhosted
Self hosted photo library with S3
Technology
Japan’s moon landing picture might be the space photo of the decade
ragica
8 months ago
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Kids these days not playing enough Lunar Lander
Canada
ragica
8 months ago
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To me this perspective seems to reach the exact opposite conclusion than it should given its premises.
ragica
8 months ago
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Crickets is a good alternative. Especially when sprinkled on avacado toast.
World News
Israel Rebuts Genocide Charge by Declassifying Cabinet Decisions
ragica
8 months ago
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Seems like a tacit admission at very least that to anyone without access to these internal documents the accusation of genocide is reasonable. Interesting.
Selfhosted
Centralized User Management Like Plex for eBook Server
ragica
8 months ago
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Thanks for the link. Yeah, my server is old. COPS is old, but still works great for me. .
Calibre has built in server, but while running server (last I checked) it locks the db so you can't do much with the Gui, can't add books etc. Also I'm already running a a web server with php so it's more efficient just to slap the COPS web app there rather than run yet another server.
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8 months ago
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"In the non-violent condition, however, participants with higher scores in Machiavellianism had a higher increase in cortisol" - linked study
So people trying to be manipulative bastards in 'nice' games increase thier stress? Interesting.
Unfortunately the source study appears to be paywall and not yet on sci-hub, so don't know what specific games they used. As to how they define Machiavellianism, I assume something toke this:
"In the field of personality psychology, Machiavellianism is a personality trait characterized by interpersonal manipulation, indifference to morality, lack of empathy, and a strategic focus on self-interest." - Wikipedia
Asklemmy
A time traveller comes back from 50 years in the future. You have 3 hours with them. What do you do?
ragica
8 months ago
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Ask why. Then probably work on subversion... because it is seriously doubtful they've come back for any good reason.
Selfhosted
Centralized User Management Like Plex for eBook Server
World News
Protests erupt in Argentina against President Javier Milei’s economic shock decree
ragica
9 months ago
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I don't actually know anything. But casually to me it looked like a choice between 160% chance of it getting worse and a 300% chance of getting worse. And it's not very surprising at all in these circumstances many go for the latter for all sorts of reasons (and delusions). But I don't actually know anything.
www.sciencealert.com
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The lecture is based on his book, "Sentience: The Invention of Consciousness" Post-lecture Q&A: https://youtu.be/cBIa1KeXEWk?si=1-mVNCnXD7cvgusz
www.livescience.com
phys.org
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Jupiter may be the stormiest place in the Solar System, but Saturn's no slouch either. A new study has found that the ringed giant also has persistent megastorms that can last a century and leave deep atmospheric scars that last much longer. An analysis of radio waves emitted by Saturn conducted by a team of astronomers led by Cheng Li of the University of Michigan has revealed long-lasting signatures of giant storms, including equatorial storms that took place hundreds of years ago. This is a fascinating insight into the dynamics of Saturn, and can help us figure out the cause of the strange megastorms that rage every few decades...
Study link: https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2023.06.29.23292056v1
phys.org
Paper: https://www.cabidigitallibrary.org/doi/10.1079/hai.2023.0027
phys.org
Charged cosmic rays, high-energy clusters of particles moving through space, were first described in 1912 by physicist Victor Hess. Since their discovery, they have been the topic of numerous astrophysics studies aimed at better understanding their origin, acceleration and propagation through space, using satellite data or other experimental methods. The Alpha Magnetic Spectrometer (AMS) collaboration, a large research group analyzing data collected by a large magnetic spectrometer in space, recently gathered new insight about the properties and composition of specific types of cosmic rays. In a new paper, published in Physical Review Letters (PRL), they specifically unveiled the composition of primary cosmic-ray carbon, neon, and magnesium, along with the composition and properties of cosmic-ray sulfur.
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In Big Tech's wasteland of planned obsolescence, praise for the defiant joy of flippers and steel
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Craig Childs chronicles the last millennia of the Ice Age, the violent oscillations and retreat of glaciers, the clues and traces that document the first encounters of early humans, and the animals whose presence governed the humans chances for survival. With the cadence of his narrative moving from scientific observation to poetry, he reveals how much has changed since the time of mammoth hunters, and how little. Across unexplored landscapes yet to be peopled, readers will see the Ice Age, and their own age, in a whole new light. Craig Childs is a writer, wanderer and contributing editor at High Country News, commentator for NPR's Morning Edition, and teaches writing at University of Alaska and the Mountainview MFA at Southern New Hampshire University. His books include Atlas of a Lost World: Travels in Ice Age America (2019), Apocalyptic Planet (2013) and House of Rain (2008). "Tracking the First People into Ice Age North America" was given on August 4, 2020 as part of Long Now's Seminar series. The series was started in 2003 to build a compelling body of ideas about long-term thinking from some of the world's leading thinkers.
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Why is the deep ocean cold? And why does this matter for global warming? Doing the maths with pipes and plumbing, not computers, we explore how processes that keep the deep oceans at frigid Arctic temperatures also determine how fast the world is warming in response to rising greenhouse gas concentrations – and also explain why it would be so difficult to say when the warming would stop even if we were to stabilize greenhouse gas concentrations at today’s levels forever. #climate #physics #lecture #ocean
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> What is the Large Hadron Collider used for? How do we know that dark matter exists? Join Pauline Gagnon as she explores these questions and the current ongoing research at CERN, the European Laboratory for Particle Physics. Watch the Q&A here: https://youtu.be/vQ8W6_uM0Pw > > Could we be at the dawn of a huge revolution in our conception of the material world that surrounds us? > > The creativity, diversity and motivation of thousands of scientists have gone into CERN, and ensured the success of one of the largest scientific projects ever undertaken. It has led to scientists being able to describe the smallest constituents of matter, and the role of the Higgs boson. This talk explores the world of particle physics, spanning the infinitesimally small to the infinitely large. > > This talk was recorded at the Ri on 26 September 2022. > > Pauline Gagnon first studied at San Francisco State University then completed a PhD in particle physics at University of California in Santa Cruz. Pauline then started research activities at CERN, the European Laboratory for Particle Physics located near Geneva, where Pauline worked as a Senior Research Scientist with Indiana University until retirement in 2016.
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[Original Description](https://www.gresham.ac.uk/watch-now/guitar-tudor-london): Few people now remember that the guitar was popular in England during the age of Queen Elizabeth and Shakespeare, and yet it was played everywhere from the royal court to the common tavern. In 1559 Queen Elizabeth herself received a case of three guitars as a New-Year’s day present. This opening lecture of the series, with musical illustrations, uses documents, poetry and images to bring the instrument to life, with a particular focus on the autobiography of the beguiling Tudor musician Thomas Whythorne.
blog.medium.com
Today, Medium is launching a Mastodon instance at me.dm to help our authors, publications and readers find a home in the fediverse. Mastodon is an emerging force for good in social media and we are excited to join this community.
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"Antarctic explorer Ariel Waldman delivers an impromptu talk at Eyeo Festival 2022 about her work in Antarctica ahead of her next expedition there. Ariel is a National Geographic Explorer, filmmaker, author, and an embedded researcher with the McMurdo Dry Valleys LTER (Long Term Ecological Research) team."
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Oddly, I hadn't put much thought into the energy costs of cooking pasta before.... This article estimates the UK spends £4,690,000 per week on it! And suggests possibly greener ways of cooking it. It's a small amount per person, but there's a lot of people (I hope) making pasta!
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The College of Psychiatrists of Ireland Evolution and Psychiatry Special Interest Group welcomed Dr Randolph M Nesse to present a talk titled "Why hasn't natural selection eliminated mental disorders: Knowing the five reasons improves clinical care as well as research" during their meeting on Friday, 4 February 2022. The Special Interest Group is open to all College members and Psychiatry trainees.
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"Invisible microbes have created some of the largest structures on the planet. Mycorrhizal fungi form extraordinary subterranean networks that associate symbiotically with plant roots. Most land plants, including many human crops, need mycorrhizae for optimal growth, but recent research has shown they also play important roles in forest-wide communication and may even turn some trees into carnivores. More dramatically, microbial communities have created global landmarks ranging from the White Cliffs of Dover to the Great Barrier reef."
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Britain has one of the richest of all pagan heritages in Europe, defined as the textual and material evidence for its pre-Christian religions. The island is possessed of monuments, burial sites and a range of other remains not only from several distinct ages of prehistory, but also from three different major historic cultures. This lecture will look at what we know of prehistoric worship, focusing on Stonehenge and the bog body known as Lindow Man, to examine the difficulties of interpreting evidence for ritual behaviour for which no textual testimony survives.
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In this year's Genetics Society JBS Haldane Lecture, Turi King will discuss leading the international research team involved in the DNA identification work of the remains of Richard III and the current project to sequence his entire genome. Watch the Q&A: [https://youtu.be/Be3lDr--l64](https://youtu.be/Be3lDr--l64) Turi King is a Reader in Genetics and Archaeology and Professor of Public Engagement at the University of Leicester. She is perhaps best known for leading the genetics analysis in the King Richard III case leading to the identification of his remains in 2014 which led to his reinterment in Leicester Cathedral in 2015. This talk and Q&A was recorded in the Ri on 26 November 2018.
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The introduction of the euro (exactly twenty years ago as Greece’s currency) was presented as a big promise of economic convergence and well-being, in the spirit of the even bigger promise of permanent peace in the European continent. However, as is all too evident by now, the euro was instrumental in dividing rather than uniting Europe, and it put in action centrifugal forces that undermined unification – a prerequisite for a common European foreign policy and defense policy. Today, in the context of the biggest military conflict on European soil since decades, a critical re-evaluation of the twenty-year-long history of the common currency is more urgent than ever.
The first ancient herpes genomes to be sequenced suggest that the virus became widespread with Bronze Age migrations into Europe and possibly the emergence of kissing.
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In 1929 Edwin Hubble discovered that our Universe is expanding. Eighty years later, the Space Telescope that bears his name is being used to study an even more surprising phenomenon: the expansion is speeding up. The origin of this effect is not known but is broadly attributed to a type of “dark energy” first posited to exist by Albert Einstein and now dominating the mass-energy budget of the Universe. Professor Riess will describe how his team discovered the acceleration of the Universe and why understanding the nature of dark energy presents one of the greatest remaining challenges in astrophysics and cosmology. He will also discuss recent evidence that the Universe continues to defy our best efforts to predict its behavior.
