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it brings me genuine glee to see a Technology a Connections link replied to a Climate Town link like those are two of my favorite things
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it brings me genuine glee to see a Technology a Connections link replied to a Climate Town link like those are two of my favorite things
Mainly that they adopt popular writing and editing conventions and do them well, so that they’re genuinely captivating in addition to being educational, thus making the info more accessible
That’s the first book I ever encountered with an ending that made me angry.
i wonder how much of the Empathy for Cute Animals but Not Humans effect is due to not many people having bad experiences with cute animals but plenty of bad experiences with humans
I, however, have the unique privilege of having had a sister who owned a deranged rabbit that she let roam the house. I once woke up from a nap to it biting me hard enough to draw blood. That thing was a furry asshole.
What little unrepressed memories of Watership Down I have seem to corroborate that rabbits are surprisingly violent…
I’m mildly fascinated by diprosopus and found ye olde depictione of it on the wikipedia page
couldn’t you argue that’s the meddling sun and not the computer
oh god i’m so sorry guys i would have tried to tidy up a little if i knew you were coming over
11/10
i’d bet it’s entirely possible Samos can yell loud enough to knock an eyeball askew
can we have good writing become commonplace in porn pls & thank
my body
here’s hoping Peertube becomes remotely usable in the near future 💀
I woke up in the middle of my wisdom teeth surgery so I of all people oughtta know better lol
at that point just give me general anaesthesia and put me in an airline shipping coffin so at least i don’t have to be conscious for the horror show
my guess is most modern electronics are mostly plastic by weight. oil is kinda like a rare rock? like semi-rare rock juice
a lot of electronics have a fair bit of lithium for the battery, but apparently we get most lithium from seawater. rare by concentration, but usually not extracted in rock form
so yeah rare, not really, and rocks, hardly at all…
Is knowledge better if it serves a purpose, like improving your art?
In my opinion knowledge that serves a purpose (improved art, medical science, applied engineering, take your pick) is better than “trivial” knowledge, but even trivia has purpose (it can entertain and inspire) and sometimes converts from trivia to “useful” knowledge when combined with new science and tech. A good example is pure math, here’s a stackechange thread about mathematics areas that were found to have applications well after their discovery, by mostly mathematicians doing math for the sake of math.
Should art serve a purpose? Is beautiful enough, or should it be useful?
If you mean its physical form has a function other than to be perceived by humans for entertainment and inspiration, then sure, why not? But maybe not always. :) Also of note, not all art is necessarily beautiful. I would say a fair bit of “useful” or otherwise multipurpose art is quite ugly. Shock films, muckraking journalism, and hostile architecture come to mind as examples.
I’ve always felt that life’s purpose should be pursuit of knowledge and self expression in roughly equal proportions. So 50% science, 50% art. That’s just what feels right in my brain, I guess.
I think most brains are just going to have their own idea of what life’s purpose should be and most of them will be more or less fine. A majority will have said purposes stifled by the limitations of society and biology, though
be safe and well! :)
Seems you’re right, I had it backwards
I use it in my 50cc motor scooter since it’s got a barely 1 gallon tank that lasts me ~2 weeks a fill, so the price difference is negligible
I figured the higher octane would make a noticeable difference since it’s such a small engine
But reading this thread I’m now thinking maybe I shouldn’t do this?