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  • Evil_Shrubbery@lemmy.ziptomemes@lemmy.worldLike its a drag race
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    1 day ago

    Actually the drivers should consider the distances of cars to the traffic lights in relation to the speed of light and sound in the surrounding air - it would be more optimal if the waiting driver would start honking a bit earlier than the green light turns on so that the honk sound would reach the slow driver at the time the light from the green light reaches them.
    (It just isn’t optimal to wait the green light to pass two or more cars & then the additional wait time for the slow sound to reach the driver holding up the line in the front.)


  • Evil_Shrubbery@lemmy.ziptoScience Memes@mander.xyzSpidey Senses
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    Yeah, 400 million years. We are doing it in centuries.

    We are already into the mass extinction event caused by humans, the hardship for biodiversity is measured in millions of years in event we give nature back the space immediately (ie we disappear).

    And three are no plans anywhere about that.

    The hardship for humans seems irrelevant in comparison, if we have a war & kill 4 billon people that is still a 50 year setback (1975).

    Also even if human population is starting to level (geopolitical predictionds still point to 12bn, it’s more about the economy & living status than food supply), we will each year consume more of everything, space/surface included.

    I don’t even see us reaching our max destructiveness on earth’s species in the next 100+ years.

    Times will get a little tougher for next human gens & with our entitlement we will just destroy more nature.

    Nothing in our past or present points to anything other than that.



  • Evil_Shrubbery@lemmy.ziptoScience Memes@mander.xyzSpidey Senses
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    That’s so sad.

    It’s hard to argue how we aren’t an infestation. The reach & environmental effects of humans per individual is outstanding even without factoring the explosive growth (globally only a few 100k or a few millions for 4 billion years, then a billon in a single millennia, then 9 billon in just 200 years).

    Solitary unconnected gardens can’t help, it would barely be possible to sustain us normally if we all were extremely and unambiguously (and with much more knowledge) aware of & actively dedicating our lives to diminish environmental impacts.

    But also our overall lives would be better. Imagine forest cities with tall buildings (without critter loss, so maybe glass covered streets?), clean every, waste treatment & reuse, no “waste”, etc.


  • Evil_Shrubbery@lemmy.ziptoScience Memes@mander.xyzSpidey Senses
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    Why would you put that uncensored comment out here for us to see? Now I’m going to have nightmares as if directed by John Capenter about spiders that look exactly like puppies to humans until they attack.

    Ohhhh, that’s a really cool & outstanding thought!
    (With a satisfying explanation for the biological size limits ofc. It can just be “magic”, idk, the idea is too nice to be cockblocked by a plot hole.)

    It would be even funnier if the arachnids lost some original traits in favour of mimicry & their new environments (like the jumping spoders in this post lost the jumping part for their ant masquerade).

    Not the jumping, but like the way of life - they just figured dogs have it too good when bonded to nice humans so some jumping-dog spiders just decide they want to be pets and they cuddle & fetch their entire lives (sure the humans might find it suspect how many live snacks they have to feed their pupper, or how no smol animals seem to hang around the house, but that’s not that different to being owned by a cat).

    Also nothing beats the feeling of a happy jumping-dog spider jump-hugging you when you get home with all its weight.

    (There is also the funny looks the first time you take your dog to the vet. Or how it builds it own beds out of the nicest silky material you’ve ever seen. Or how you’ve seen it jump from the ground after a squirrel … that was on the very top of a very tall three.)

    Also jumping-dog spiders - kings of puppy-eyes look!

    The mammal head tilt still needs some (evolutionary) work tho:

    - ‘Does it bite?’
    - ‘Almost never, but it will cocoon people that it dislikes.’








  • The key search words in your (Chinese? better than rewarding Amazon with even more extra fees) store of choice I wound suggest:

    3.5" to 5.25" Internal Hard Disk Mount Rubber

    But don’t get the ones where the inner mount (of the 3.5" drive) is the same piece or bolted/screwed into the outer mount (5.25").

    The ones in my pic have fairy big rubber nips in between (each secured on both sides), 4 at the bottom (that support the weight of the disk too), and two on the sides.

    Also such 5" brackets you can mount anywhere rally, even on the outside of the case, lol.
    In one case without the 5.25" bays (at my parents, quick job) I mounted two disks on such mounts on that metal mesh between the PSU compartment and the main compartment.


  • I know all that, my question was about this bit you glanced over:

    scorpion in that pose

    What dead scorpion is in the position of a live one mid moving?

    Once the poor thing was dead (but prior to coppering), what kept the tail up? And legs out?

    The odds of it naturally (by that I mean without human involvement) being in that shape are really slim.

    Basically all the dinosaur fossilised materials we have are of them laying down in various twisted shapes.
    Its not like the fancy displays in museums with the “bones” aligned as if the animal was alive. That doesn’t reflect how they were found, even if by chance they were all together & undisturbed.

    If a human gets buried by dirt (or just left outside) it’s not gonna be preserved in a dancing pose.

    I’m gonna assume someone copper-plated a dead scorpion.

    Edit: a quick search for copper scorpio also makes me think it’s bs.
    This article for example: geologyin.com/2023/07/the-mystery-of-copper-scorpion.
    Also most comments on this Reddit post are saying the same, tho that ain’t much.





  • Hmm. Overall about as much as the og I would say.
    It’s sacrifices some logic here and there for the fluidity or character plots (literally what you would stereotypically expect from USA, the “just enjoy but don’t think about it”, tho it’s a format of show where this isn’t crucial) but if you get used to it then I think it offers some fun.

    As a spoiler of what I mean, eg >!just for fun/a story they introduce a martial the ghosts can literally interact with as normal living people … and that’s just it, all of it, a one episode story … it would change everything for the ghosts, after so much time not touching anything material they would immediately be all over it, hell, they could dust/plate keycaps with that shit & the ghosts could shitpost on Lemmy 24/7 … but no, a deus-ex-machina device used as an irrelevant plot crutch that could work even better with several different explanations or small adjustments!<.
    This isn’t an isolated case, they are quite a few such examples/(a bit to centre) plot holes they don’t or just barely explore – or like explain why they can’t explore/use it no longer.
    Well, it’s just more of that in the USA version & in return you get a bit more variance (which isn’t a good or bad thing, just a difference).

    Iirc, it’s more of a half-background show for me.