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[–] ZMoney@lemmy.world 4 points 1 day ago (1 children)

These social customs are derived from genuine interactions with friends. I'm curious how you deal with talking to people you care about? When I ask my friends how they are doing I'm actually curious about their lives, and I expect them to also be curious about mine. This type of reciprocation is necessary for a friendship in my opinion.

[–] ZMoney@lemmy.world 8 points 2 days ago

I'm a planetary scientist so technically this is a field, you can also be into meteorites as a hobby.

Chondrule formation. These are spherical balls of formerly molten rock that solidified and clumped together to form chondrites, some of the oldest rocks in the Solar System that predate planet formation. Essentially these are nebular dust grains that formed when the Solar System was still an accretionary disk.

Except, do chondrules predate planet formation? What causes them to melt while they're floating around? How do they overcome the kinetic barriers to agglomeration? Are the terrestrial planets, whose bulk composition is thought to be chondritic, actually composed of chondrites?

If you want to see one of the most simultaneously esoteric and bitter scientific debates, attend a chondrule formation session at a meteorite or planetary science conference. MetSoc is a great one in August, and officially I go to present my work but actually I just love the fireworks. As an achondrite person, I don't touch this topic with a ten foot pole, but I love to watch when someone introduces a new wacky idea (space lightning? Shine from a molten Io? Extrasolar?) and you see 15 eminent greybeards rush the mic to yell their objections.

[–] ZMoney@lemmy.world 2 points 2 days ago

So I was under the assumption that every time they beamed someone up or down they murdered them and an exact copy appeared elsewhere.

[–] ZMoney@lemmy.world 5 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago) (2 children)

The point of Bernie or AOC or Zohran or any socialist candidate is the movement behind them, which represents the will of the masses. The actual figurehead is largely irrelevant because everything they do is in the interest of their constituents. They might use their charisma to win (but usually it's the movement that actually wins the campaign), but once they're in power they just have to fulfill their promises, and they have staff to do this.

A regular politician, by contrast, enacts the will of the corporate class. In this way they're mostly irrelevant too.

[–] ZMoney@lemmy.world 8 points 4 days ago

Who would have thought putting all that lead in the environment would have such far-reaching consequences?

[–] ZMoney@lemmy.world 11 points 1 week ago (6 children)

We laugh, but this was an actual product.

[–] ZMoney@lemmy.world 9 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

I would do the exact middle of the neck.

[–] ZMoney@lemmy.world 1 points 2 weeks ago

Man, David Harvey really went off the deep end huh

[–] ZMoney@lemmy.world 6 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

Unrealistic though because most people who ride horses aren't as cool as Subcomandante Marcos

[–] ZMoney@lemmy.world 3 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

I can see him starting his own religion instead, once he realizes how much merch he can sell.

[–] ZMoney@lemmy.world 3 points 1 month ago

Go to a festival with corporate kiosks and grab a free pair.

[–] ZMoney@lemmy.world 9 points 1 month ago (1 children)

The sign translates to "buffet". Cafe is "kávézó"

 

Somebody I'm sure has already said this, but the Turing test assumed AIs would need to prove their intelligence by appearing human in their speech, but now the problem is the opposite, that humans will have to somehow prove that they are not LLMs when they type anything on the internet.

 

Why are there several overlapping coats of paint that are peeling off? I thought this was the new and flashy Boeing plane? The airline was Scoot.

 

I have no idea how the Fediverse works. I use Sync just like I did for Reddit because it's simple. Is there anything I can do to help?

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