#YOLO and YOLO

SWTIA, baby! :D

In my headcanon this unfortunately only works when OP’s nephew physically snatches his phone and quickly snaps a pic!

BACKSTORY: OP doesn’t quite realise how that works, however, and thinks it’s a good idea to start teaching the lad some simple picture-taking tips. Oddly, these don’t seem to help whatsoever, and more tips inexplicably lead to worse and worse results. Turns out, it’s only when the elements of theft and surprise are involved that these little masterpieces are created. :D

(there’s a webcomic in there somewhere, haha)

Anyway, you got me thinking about kids’ art and I just kinda riffed. Indeed, I dearly love kids’ art because of how it breaks so many rules and often still comes out rather fascinating…

“Silk has evolved independently many times, with at least 23 separate origins in insects alone,” Wasserman explained, including ants, bees, and wasps.

TIL. oO

This comic scares me in a way that TNG never did.

It’s almost like Data up there on stage, trying to learn from Joe Piscopo…

Good points. I’ve heard borderline horror-stories from expats trying to find Euro-style or authentic whole-grain bread in Japan, in particular.

And yeah, here in the States it seems a lot more common to deep-fry tofu, which is health-wise arguably a much worse way to consume it than it’s usually made in EA. Actually one of the reasons I love air-fryers is that they offer something of a healthier compromise, with much less oil typically required.

Carbs are sugars. Just more complex than simple sugars. That’s why carb-rich diets can still be terrible on health over time, regularly messing with glycemic load and constituting ‘empty calories.’ So, even worse than a pre-diabetic source, as I mentioned.

I’d recommend you do a modern nutrition course to catch up on this stuff, because science & nutrition is way past the simple idea of calories-in / calories-out. The fact is that the FORM of the calories matter hugely, with processed foods in general being pretty bad on health, long-term. These are what the studies collectively say.

As someone who’s studied and regularly thought about nutrition for years, I definitely see junk food being a significant problem in East Asia, just as with other parts of the world.

• Noodles are usually made from the starchy part of the grain, and are therefore low in fibre, vitamins & minerals, plus high in salt.
• White rice is similar, just less processed. Both of those are glycemic aggregators, and I understand diabetes is sadly common in white-rice eating cultures.
• Tofu has that healthy reputation, but not only is it a processed food retaining a lot less of just about everything desirable in soy beans, it also tends to be fried, with high-salt, high-fat, high-sugar sauces added for flavor.
• Most bread everywhere is a lot like the noodles problem.

A working link / definition of a ground-source, residential heat pump might help. WP has a page: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ground_source_heat_pump

I guess followup Q’s would be like: how practical are they across Europe?, what types of situations would they work best work in and where might they be impractical? How much can they scale to larger buildings?

Speaking of applying logic, that’s what we typically do through science studies, which consistently show that other animals experience emotion and self-awareness to far higher degrees than previously understood.

asking about one’s character and goals, is likely unique to humans in my view.

I agree that modern man likely has the most articulated language that’s ever existed on earth, which is a big part of that. But would hunter-gatherers have asked themselves about their ‘character and goals’ as part of their regular life? I don’t know that such would be the case especially more than other humans or apes did or do. That said, keeping a nomadic, tool-using tribe going arguably would have required more of that than at any other level of organisation.

Which again suggests to me that a big part of that impetus comes from the level of civilisation I described. I think that’s really what you’re thinking of. Which hardly correlates to our genes at all.

I’m not aware of any evidence to suggest that many living animals aren’t highly self-aware. What is it that you think separates humans so decisively?

Now if you talk about this late-stage, high-tech, message-dense civilisation being responsible for much of that, then I agree, but I’d also point out that it’s a recent construction. Genetically we’re still the same as our hunter-gatherer ancestors, who had none of that stuff.

So what would make those humans from about 6K - 12Kyrs so unique compared to other animals…?

Also, I’d say self-awareness is an ancient concept going back many millions of years at the very least.

We humans tend to think of ourselves as unique among animals, but we are arguably share almost all of our internals and concepts with other animals.

Kinda yeah. These aren’t natural sources:

Metal pollution is a widespread issue, typically concentrated near industrial centres, mining areas and towns and cities. It can also be carried to rural areas in the air or through the use of sewage sludge, agrochemicals and fertilisers, for example.

When bees are foraging for food, they can inadvertently collect metals from their environment through exposure to contaminated soil, dust and pollen. Even at low concentrations, certain metals can be toxic, for example impairing learning and memory, which may affect foraging efficiency and navigation. Metals have been linked to reduced reproductive success, leading to fewer offspring and disrupting brood development.

Thank gosh for the comb.

Never heard of 'em, but bonne chance…?

Uh… BEL because of Tintin et al.
FRA because of BD, and just being a Francophile in general.

IIRC this flawed arrangement is in common with Japan, and often leads to sick notes made for days or more just to make sure the patient doesn’t have to go get one sick leave note per day, meaning unexpected vacations, commonly.

So already knowing how that works, is this just performative politics by Merz?

I think so.

Maize is monoecious, with separate male and female flowers on the same plant.[3] At the top of the stem is the tassel, an inflorescence of male flowers; their anthers release pollen, which is dispersed by wind.[3] The female inflorescence, some way down the stem from the tassel, is first seen as a silk, a bundle of soft tubular hairs, one for the carpel in each female flower, which develops into a kernel (often called a seed. Botanically, as in all grasses, it is a fruit, fused with the seed coat to form a caryopsis)[4] when it is pollinated.[3] A whole female inflorescence develops into an ear or corncob, enveloped by multiple leafy layers or husks.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maize#Description

Same thing with corn, I think?

I seem to recall such being the case on Lemmy, which is why I was rather bowled over when I got on to PF and discovered how very maximised the images are. Good for mobile I guess, but kind of distracting for desktop.

So yeah, I certainly wouldn’t mind if images were minimized / hidden depending on user setting. It would allow me more flexibility in how I lay out my posts, for starters.

Slack off, kiddos!