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dexa_scantron@lemmy.worldto Showerthoughts@lemmy.world•Apocalypse movies in the near future won't have survivors scavaging abandoned cars.4·3 months agoThey did a good job covering that in The Last of Us (season one, episode…4 or 5?): 20ish years post-apocalypse, someone very prepared has kept battery cells in a refrigerator (in acid maybe?) and they have to rebuild the battery before they can use the car, but the battery works.
Source is I heard it somewhere and of course now I can’t find it. :/
Except sexual selection usually affects one sex, not both. And the extra bone doesn’t make the jaw stronger, it makes it weaker.
Yes. Humans have chins, which make jaws weaker. Chins are useless extra bone and essentially a structural defect, but not bad enough for evolution to do anything about.
dexa_scantron@lemmy.worldto Technology@lemmy.world•A Reddit moderation tool is flagging ‘Luigi’ as potentially violent contentEnglish44·4 months agoNo, the mods will just get constant streams of false positive flags they have to clear.
My mom and I went to Orkney in 2022 and overheard part of a conversation in a shop. My mom asked the clerk what language that was. “… English.”
dexa_scantron@lemmy.worldto Technology@lemmy.ml•How to delete Facebook, Instagram, and Threads | TechCrunch91·6 months agoYes, I only respect journalists who never update their opinions or recommendations given new information. Everyone needs to use psychic foresight to determine the best takes and then never ever change them. Meta was always exactly as bad as it is today. /s
dexa_scantron@lemmy.worldOPto Technology@lemmy.world•The erasure of Luigi MangioneEnglish43·6 months agoYeah, I edited the post to call that out specifically
dexa_scantron@lemmy.worldOPto Technology@lemmy.world•The erasure of Luigi MangioneEnglish1184·6 months agoThat’s not what the article is about. Stack Overflow has kept content that Luigi created up, but removed his username, in violation of Creative Commons. Edited the post to make that more clear.
dexa_scantron@lemmy.worldOPto Technology@lemmy.world•The erasure of Luigi MangioneEnglish86·6 months agoPreemptive compliance.
dexa_scantron@lemmy.worldOPto Technology@lemmy.world•The erasure of Luigi MangioneEnglish731·6 months agoDo you have other examples? Because the article gave an example of a similar account that was not anonynized like this. Sure, accounts are often taken down, but the content isn’t left up.
dexa_scantron@lemmy.worldto Asklemmy@lemmy.ml•I have a Kindle, but it doesn't scroll and I'm a scroller. Anybody got an Android app that scrolls ebooks really well? Preferably open source and able to access the web (where my library resides)?6·7 months agoThe Kindle app for Android has an option for continuous scroll instead of page turn.
dexa_scantron@lemmy.worldto Mildly Infuriating@lemmy.world•This weird AI-generated engagement baitEnglish6·7 months ago404 Media has done a lot of excellent reporting on this: https://www.404media.co/facebooks-ai-spam-isnt-the-dead-internet-its-the-zombie-internet/ https://www.404media.co/facebook-is-being-overrun-with-stolen-ai-generated-images-that-people-think-are-real/ https://www.404media.co/where-facebooks-ai-slop-comes-from/
dexa_scantron@lemmy.worldto No Stupid Questions@lemmy.world•Is there a name for the trope where a story is high fantasy at first glance, except for it's not fantasy and is actually set in a post-apocalypse dystopian future?6·10 months agoYeah, though clues are few and far between; the
spoiler
museum in Tanchico with the Mercedes hood ornament
is the biggest clue. From Jordan’s other writings, the
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First age was our time, then humans created an AI powerful enough to genetically engineer humans to be able to do magic,
and that led to the Age of Legends.
dexa_scantron@lemmy.worldto No Stupid Questions@lemmy.world•How do I know if a medical issue should be addressed by a Clinic Visit, Urgent Care, or the Emergency Room?5·10 months agoLosing consciousness for any reason = ER. A friend passed out during dinner and we weren’t sure what to do, so we called the triage nurse and they were like “ER now!” (He was fine, they never figured out what happened and it’s never happened again, but it’s definitely stayed with me.)
dexa_scantron@lemmy.worldto No Stupid Questions@lemmy.world•How do I know if a medical issue should be addressed by a Clinic Visit, Urgent Care, or the Emergency Room?25·10 months agoGreat criteria. Another “straight to the ER” one is loss of consciousness; people get knocked out in movies all the time so it’s easy to assume it’s fine, but it’s not.
dexa_scantron@lemmy.worldto science@lemmy.world•7,000 Microplastics Studies Show We Have One Really Big Problem45·10 months agoPlastics industry: “See?! We told you plastic decomposes and doesn’t just stay in landfills forever. Happy now?”
There are some articles about his death linked on Wikipedia but they’re pretty just-the-facts: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Kyanka