sillypicture t1_jeex8he wrote on March 31, 2023 at 2:52 PM

Reply to comment by ZuesLeftNut in Japan and China Connect Military Hotline to Reduce Tensions by bloomberg

Spotted the armchair international diplomacy expert

sillypicture t1_j9ls8t2 wrote on February 22, 2023 at 10:05 PM

Reply to He’s 52 days old by furkanta

are the pupils supposed to be like that? i thought cats had vertical eye slits.

sillypicture t1_j9fonad wrote on February 21, 2023 at 4:17 PM

Reply to comment by ddlbot in Quantifying organellar ultrastructure in cryo-electron tomography using a surface morphometrics pipeline | Journal of Cell Biology by chromoscience

So this is how civilisation ends.

sillypicture t1_j9fg4m5 wrote on February 21, 2023 at 3:20 PM

Reply to Putin Halts Nuke Pact With US, Vows to Push War in Ukraine by MyCouchPullsOat

> US President Joe Biden extended the nuclear treaty by five years to 2026 as one of his first acts upon taking office in 2021 shortly before it was due to expire, after Putin had pressed his predecessor Donald Trump without success to agree to a deal.

What? Trump didn't listen to Putin when he was being reasonable?

sillypicture t1_j924ogg wrote on February 18, 2023 at 5:34 PM

Reply to comment by DrSmirnoffe in Scientists have figured out a way to engineer wood to trap carbon dioxide through a potentially scalable, energy-efficient process that also makes the material stronger for use in construction by giuliomagnifico

Reddit needs to remember that microbes in the ocean store several orders of magnitude more carbon and also generate that much more oxygen than all the trees.

sillypicture t1_j4v78ti wrote on January 18, 2023 at 2:20 PM

Reply to comment by Hooligans_ in The Apple TV expects you to have an iPhone in order to accept new iCloud terms and conditions by diacewrb

Insert pitchfork copypasta

sillypicture t1_j4651fs wrote on January 13, 2023 at 1:00 PM

Reply to comment by Rain1dog in Intel breaks the 6GHz barrier with $699 Core i9-13900KS processor by Avieshek

Moneybags with a P3. I had to make do with my pentium 380 MHz.

sillypicture t1_j2vpkac wrote on January 4, 2023 at 7:08 AM

Reply to comment by Equivalent_Arugula86 in Report Reveals Wave of New Features for Apple's Mixed-Reality Headset by DarthBuzzard

First iteration(s) may be crap but I'm in the camp that is for a waist mounted everything and a comfortable headset. I feel vr is more practical as an attachment to a desktop and engaged at home or similar safe environment.

To be outside, it should be less vr more hud. Read: "wtf was this wanker's name again??"

Mega anti apple though

sillypicture t1_j20g66i wrote on December 28, 2022 at 7:32 PM

Reply to Lithuania defense minister is leery that Russia will run out of ammo by KimCureAll

Looks like my first game of hoi

sillypicture t1_j1w43tv wrote on December 27, 2022 at 9:03 PM

Reply to comment by Sticky_Robot in Ukraine lessens projected GDP fall from 50% to 32% by sviterochec

how did france and italy get shanked so bad?

Wasn't the fighting in france largely in the open fields, and the south remained more or less untouched?

what's up with italy too? did they put everything into the african campaign?

sillypicture t1_j1w3wh4 wrote on December 27, 2022 at 9:02 PM

Reply to comment by Sticky_Robot in Ukraine lessens projected GDP fall from 50% to 32% by sviterochec

wasn't there still a ginormous amount of civilian deaths to firestorms of dresden and similar?

sillypicture t1_j1j8p0x wrote on December 24, 2022 at 8:19 PM

Reply to comment by Alaishana in Changes in Earth’s orbit that favored hotter conditions may have helped trigger a rapid global warming event 56 million years ago that is considered an analogue for modern climate change by giuliomagnifico

Thanks for the very involved reply!

I have no issue with the assessment that the are no politicians or even a collective of them, that can put together the momentum to affect a useful change within a generation.

However, as one that is working in a field that is trying to address climate change, i am cautiously optimistic with our currently available technology, and that there is enough material and other necessary resources (perhaps less so with time).

It is political momentum and actual allocated resources that are proving to be bottlenecks.

Also, i submit that humans as a collective (humanity) are both stupid and smart.

I'm curious though, how do you actually explain to your grandchildren things about war and homelessness and hunger, and why we haven't been able to address them?

sillypicture t1_j1am1co wrote on December 22, 2022 at 9:59 PM

Reply to comment by Alaishana in Changes in Earth’s orbit that favored hotter conditions may have helped trigger a rapid global warming event 56 million years ago that is considered an analogue for modern climate change by giuliomagnifico

Can you tell us the why? (Why we can't Carbon Capture or reverse this mess)

sillypicture t1_iz476lz wrote on December 6, 2022 at 10:06 AM

Reply to comment by Gnarlodious in Starlink is delaying its daytime data caps by prehistoric_knight

Then give them to me, I need my 8k streaming at 120 fps!

sillypicture t1_iyh2fb9 wrote on December 1, 2022 at 9:52 AM

Reply to comment by Ann_not_a_cult_er in New device can make hydrogen when dunked in salt water by TurretLauncher

Every intermediate process introduces inefficiencies.

sillypicture t1_iy4gpf6 wrote on November 28, 2022 at 6:03 PM

Reply to comment by danimidsommar in One of our DnD players canceled so we found a replacement (OC) by AlternativePotato42

doesn't it break immersion if the DM keeps looking stuff up ?

sillypicture t1_iy4gmpv wrote on November 28, 2022 at 6:03 PM

Reply to comment by mostlikelytrash in One of our DnD players canceled so we found a replacement (OC) by AlternativePotato42

Player gaia

sillypicture t1_iwg3y1b wrote on November 15, 2022 at 11:30 AM

Reply to comment by start3ch in The lifespans of honey bees living in laboratory environments has dropped about 50% over the last 50 years, hinting at possible causes for the worrisome trends across the beekeeping industry, according to new research by University of Maryland entomologists. by Wagamaga

Doesn't it depend more on breeding ftequenct and less on absolute time period?

sillypicture t1_iwf0104 wrote on November 15, 2022 at 3:29 AM

Reply to comment by Digital-Bridges in The lifespans of honey bees living in laboratory environments has dropped about 50% over the last 50 years, hinting at possible causes for the worrisome trends across the beekeeping industry, according to new research by University of Maryland entomologists. by Wagamaga

Interesting study. Either they have somehow evolved to live shorter lives (periodic/fortnightly events?) Or there are persistent stressors, which would be interesting to study persistence of, by continuing their breeding cycle in the lab (idk if that's possible or practical).