I’m not sure it’s solid info that other cows used sticks. It was quickly mentioned.. I think he said something like “i think other cows have used twigs”... or something that I vaguely thought sounded uncertain. Unfortunately I cannot hit rewind on my radio tuner. And I don’t have a good enough connection to grab online streams.
It’s evidence that supports vegan causes. A tool for the vegan activist’s toolbox. In particular, environmental vegans benefit when the highest climate footprint animal (cows) are shown to have intelligence. Intelligence is a factor in assessing animal welfare and suffering. That is why it is posted in c/vegan.
(edit) note as well that when dealing with vegan-hostile meat eaters, this is the kind of story that you can present without attaching politics to it. Just show them and say “isn't it cool that this cow figured out how to scratch her back”, and leave it there. There’s nothing controversial about that. It just drops it into their mind that there is some intelligence they did not know about. Let them realise for themselves what it implies.
The BBC article titled “Cow astonishes scientists” said “However, despite about 10,000 years of humans living alongside cattle, this is the first time scientists have documented a cow using a tool.”
A small amount of intelligence goes a long way. If you have the intelligence of a plant, you’ll have a hard time getting compassion. If I end up as a vegetable with no brain activity or chance of recovery, pull my life support plug please.
I recall seeing videos of cats that are quite sneaky, performing ninja-gymnastics to operate doors. They wait until no humans are around and go and do something the owner doesn't like. In some cases owners took care to ensure a cat could not access whatever area was banned only to discover after installing surveillance videos that the cat can pull off some amazing feats when no one is around -- and close the door to conceal their mischief.
The theoretically best technique (IMO) is to dump the rice in a tub of water and let it sit for 30+ min. That starts the hydration without wasting heat (thus a faster cook). Then I grab a handfuls and rub the grains together to wash mechanically. I know it’s working because the water gets quite cloudy on every cycle. After ...
BBC World News is talking about this today. The linked article covers a finding that links air pollution to accelerated Alzheimer’s disease. This article puts science behind the obvious: cyclists absorb more air pollution than car drivers. ...
psy is on /this/ instance. Note my question was directed to the mander admins, who would only have the power to make me a mod on the node under their control.
I’ve not tried the onion instance since reporting the data loss issue, but in principle a the onion host could be a good candidate for read-only access (scraping).
Would it perhaps make sense to redirect the greedy subnet to the onion instance? I wonder if it’s even possible. The privacyinternational website used to auto-detect requests from Tor exit nodes and automatically redirect to their onion site. In the case of mander, it would do that for the subnet giving problems. They are obviously not using Tor to visit your site, but they could have Tor installed. You would effectively be sending the msg “hey, plz do your scraping on the onion node,” which is gentler than blocking in case there is more legit traffic from the same subnet. That is assuming your problem is not scraping generally but just that they are hogging bandwidth that competes with most users. The Tor network has some built-in anti-DDoS logic now, supposedly, so they would naturally get bottlenecked IIUC.
I guess the next question is whether the onion site has a separate allocation of bandwidth. But even if it doesn’t, Tor has a natural bottleneck b/c traffic can only move as fast as the slowest of the 3 hops the circuit goes through.
So, the server that hosts the front-end via Tor will see the exit node connecting to it
The onion eliminates the use of exit nodes. But I know what you mean.
I appreciate the explanation. It sounds like replicating the backend and DB on the Tor node would help. Not sure how complex it would be to have the DBs synchronise during idle moments.
Perhaps a bit radical, but I wonder if it would be interesting to do a nightly DB export to JSON or CSV files that are reachable from the onion front end. Scrapers would prefer that over scraping, and it would be less intrusive on the website. Though I don’t know how tricky it would be to exclude non-public data from the dataset.
You walk into a tea shops and find countless varieties. All those herbal teas: not really tea. They are made from non-tea plants, most of which taste nothing like real tea. Peu-er is probably as close as it gets. ...
I think everyone would agree that full justification is aesthetically superior. But that’s all it is. It is not more readable. Readability is actually better with a ragged right (left justified) because the variation of line ends facilitate tracking the line you are reading from one line to the next. So the popularity of ...
The thread is about the psychology of acceptance of collective punishment. Nit-picking 1 of the 6 examples serves what purpose, exactly?
A punishment may or may not be in connection to a “crime”. Crime is a man-made artificial construct. When we speak of collective punishment, the punishment is applied more broadly than those doing the harm (which may more may not be a 1-to-1 mapping to “crime”, or there may even be no crime to speak of).
To answer the question, you have misunderstood the research (which came from CATO Institute). The research does not count being undocumented as a crime for the study. In fact, I should have mentioned it neglects all non-serious crimes (traffic infringements, minor theft, possession of small quantities of pot, etc). The study puts the bar at incarceration. If a crime leads to incarceration, then it is a serious crime, which is ideal for the study. Of course counting illegal immigration in that study would defeat the purpose of the study and just serve the propaganda interests of the right-wing nationalists.
It is also wrong to define all undocumented people as criminals because (for example) asylum is a legal process entitled to asylum seekers who are undocumented. The same group of advocates for collective punishment also endorse the process of converting legal immigrants into illegal immigrants by arbitrarily denying them an extension of their permit after they have been rooted in for decades (formed families, integrated into local culture, contributed to the economy, etc), uprooting them from where they were lawfully established and giving them the boot without even covering travel expenses. The unlawfullness of their status was /created/ by the pushers of collective punishment in this case. The collective punishment was a pre-cursor to this technical “crime”.
Anyway, your false claim that undocumented inherently implies crime needed correction but beyond that the discussion is irrelevent to the thesis.
I did a search for communities with “history” in the name. It came back with [email protected] even though that instance has been down for over a year. If I did not already know of that instance going down, I would just post there expecting my post to be seen, because there is no indicator of when the server was ...
That wouldn’t exactly hit the mark because a ghost community /can/ be active. The problem is that if you have:
someCommunity@originalNode
nodeA/someCommunity@originalNode
nodeB/someCommunity@originalNode
You can see the local copy of nodeA/someCommunity@originalNode if you are on nodeA. But you don’t know it is orphaned and you are in a bubble. People on nodeB can see posts in nodeB/someCommunity@originalNode, but not nodeA/someCommunity@originalNode. There is no signal that you have been cut off, and that your post will only have a local audience.
We already have transparency of activity, but not transparency of scope and reach.
I would even say adding the transparency is just a start. The real bug here is that the fedi has not figured out that nodeA and nodeB need to sync with each other regardless of the parent.
We are sitting ducks. The tech giants will likely try to harvest all fedi content so their AI machines can exploit the data. How can we get ahead of this? ...
Consider how many people park a hot car when they get home and then go immediately cook food. The heat energy in the engine block is wasted as they burn more energy on the stovetop. So why not design engine blocks with a flat cast iron topside that can give a good heat transfer to a skillet or copper pot? If it would bring ...
EV car buyers have a delusion that their old ICE car is removed from the planet. ICE cars are not being trashed upon replacement. They are shipped to Africa, where the avg. age of a car at the time of purchase is 21 years old.
Small aircrafts w/an ICE last forever because they are very well maintained (by law in fact). The cost of replacing an aircraft is also very high, so economic pressure also ensures a long life. The same would be true of ICE cars in your region if the economics of your region demanded it. Reguardless, unless you also plan to eliminate worldwide poverty in a couple decades, the ICE cars are not going away.
I try to resist the urge to turn off the heat immediately before serving food because the pan is still hot for tens of minutes -- all wasted energy. I try to turn off the heat ~10—15 min before the food is done cooking. Most people are impatient, addicted to convenience, lack self-control, and probably don’t even consider ...
It seems like few people have noticed how privacy proponents rightfully show discontent at every new policy or action that emerges that claws away more of our privacy -- unless it is in any way tagged as “anti-money laundering”. Then automatically people shrug it off, look the other way, etc, without questioning it. ...
The immersion style of language learning essentially entails an instructor who speaks only the target language, not the language you already know. The same way children learn their first language. ...
I just posted about a hum that I hear. There is a science project to track the people who hear the hum, which I was looking to contribute to. Then I noticed the survey is inside the private walled gardens of Google. The researcher’s email address is gmail, the survey form is in Google Docs, and they exclusively use Twitter as ...
Indeed. We also have to consider that it has become popular¹ to boycott the US over Trump’s tariffs and US support for Israel. These boycotts would discourage the use of US tech giants, in principle.
I was glad to hear from BBC crowd science (the linked show) that I’m not alone in hearing a hum. People around the world hear a low frequency (50 Hz) hum. ...
Well, I suppose not necessarily.. I hear a hum but it does not bother me because I don’t generally fixate on it. When I notice it, I then realise I’m being lazy and need to get out of bed and get my attention on something. Some people suffer, like Diane Schou, who moved to a town that didn’t trigger her electromagnetic hypersensitivity.
I suppose a test would be to enter a sound-proof room which then also has a faraday cage, and get tested. The tester would have controls for emitting sounds mostly outside the statistical hearing range, along with one to turn on a wifi AP, and some dummy switches that emit nothing. Then for you to raise your hand when you hear something. I read about someone taking a test like that, and she raised her hand whenever some electronmagnetic something was played (wi-fi iirc). It was something that was unusual and surprised the researchers. I cannot find the story on that now. Might have appeared in Wired mag.. not sure.
Gas has a conversion efficiency of 100% but not all of it every the kettle. That leads to efficiencies lower than the electric ones.
Yes but you’re only talking wall to water. From energy source to water gas is the most efficient because it does not have the lossiness of generation and transmission that electric does.
With good induction it is also faster than every other method so that would be my choice if I had an induction cooker.
You’re purely talking boil times. But the end game is brewed tea, in which case it cannot be faster because after boiling the water you still need ~1—3 min to brew it. That’s why the inline heating elements in dispensors are interesting. It starts brewing immediately so the 1m50s it takes to boil all the water can be neglected.
I highly doubt that gas stove is more efficient that anything other than a wood fire.
We’re talking from energy source to water, not wall to water. Sure, if you neglect everything that gets the energy to your wall, then electric is more efficient.
What do you mean you have to watch the temp control? Obviously they shut off at the temp you set
There are 3 varieties of electric kettles:
on/off, no control
temp guage (analog or digital), no setting
configurable so you can set the temp which is then targetted
BTW, your link is unreachable to me. (Cloudflare strikes again)
For the greenhouse gas emissions, the electric kettle should pull ahead in the future as renewables take over
Perhaps in most regions outside of populist-rightwing-controlled regions, that will be the case. ATM I am not in the US but still they are tearing down the nuclear power plants and building 3 new natural gas fired plants. So progress is moving backwards where I am.
Centralised gas burning would be more efficient than burning it on a domestic stove, but hard to grasp that the difference would be enough to exceed conversion and transmission losses. Worth noting that there are a couple ways to get hot water from gas:
simple pot on stovetop
water runs through a coil of fire-heated pipe inside an insulated box -- aka a tankless combi boiler
The 2nd option would not give boiling water, as I would not want boiling water to run through the domestic pipework, but I wonder how a small tankless gas-fired tea water appliance might do as far as increasing the gas efficiency, should it be invented.
In any case, if electric-fueled heat were generally efficient, I would expect the gas-fired combi boilers to be much less popular. Though note as well that economy is not closely tied to efficiency. Natural gas cost per kWh is much cheaper in my area than electric cost per kWh (by a factor of 2 I think).
A Cow Named Veronika Can Scratch Her Back with a Broom. Uses it like a multi-tool (choosing the best end for the job). ( www.smithsonianmag.com )
A Cow Named Veronika Can Scratch Her Back with a Broom. Uses it like a multi-tool (choosing the best end for the job). ( www.smithsonianmag.com )
🍅⌛ This 560g bottle of hot ketchup only lasts 1 month after opening. Crappy design or asshole design?
This big bottle of spicy hot ketchup from Spain says it only lasts 1 month in the fridge after opening. Is the label lying? ...
washing brown rice → tedious. Am I doing it wrong?
The theoretically best technique (IMO) is to dump the rice in a tub of water and let it sit for 30+ min. That starts the hydration without wasting heat (thus a faster cook). Then I grab a handfuls and rub the grains together to wash mechanically. I know it’s working because the water gets quite cloudy on every cycle. After ...
Air pollution accelerates Alzheimer’s disease. -- And in separate studies, urban cyclists are exposed to more air pollution than the car drivers who produce it ( scienceline.org )
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Air pollution accelerates Alzheimer’s disease. -- And in separate studies, urban cyclists are exposed to more air pollution than the car drivers who produce it ( scienceline.org )
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Air pollution accelerates Alzheimer’s disease. -- And in separate studies, urban cyclists are exposed to more air pollution than the car drivers who produce it ( scienceline.org )
BBC World News is talking about this today. The linked article covers a finding that links air pollution to accelerated Alzheimer’s disease. This article puts science behind the obvious: cyclists absorb more air pollution than car drivers. ...
🧇 ~~edible glues~~ binders (e.g. for waffles)
I’m making savory waffles based on corn and very coarse cornmeal. Of ...
Should I create a psychology community, or take over moderation of psy?
I was tempted to create a psychology community but noticed the psy community has no moderator. Any admins have a preference?
Long load times again
I just wanted to make sure you were aware - there seem to be long load times especially when loading the community pages (posts load fairly quickly).
There is only ONE kind of tea tree. Plz folks, make more.
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There is only ONE kind of tea tree. Plz folks, make more.
You walk into a tea shops and find countless varieties. All those herbal teas: not really tea. They are made from non-tea plants, most of which taste nothing like real tea. Peu-er is probably as close as it gets. ...
note to mod: might want to expand the sidebar purpose
The sidebar says nothing about this community’s purpose other than this link: ...
Why are scientific journals, mags, and newspapers multi-column, while most other mediums are not? Why are they fully justified (left and right both)? ( blog.codinghorror.com )
I think everyone would agree that full justification is aesthetically superior. But that’s all it is. It is not more readable. Readability is actually better with a ragged right (left justified) because the variation of line ends facilitate tracking the line you are reading from one line to the next. So the popularity of ...
Is collective punishment becoming more socially acceptable over the past 50 years?
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Lemmy community search shows results for ghost communities that have been gone for over a year (links.hackliberty.org)
I did a search for communities with “history” in the name. It came back with [email protected] even though that instance has been down for over a year. If I did not already know of that instance going down, I would just post there expecting my post to be seen, because there is no indicator of when the server was ...
Is collective punishment becoming more socially acceptable?
There seems to be a trend of collective punishment becoming socially acceptable. Examples: ...
should Lemmy and Mbin add an AI scraping permission flag?
We are sitting ducks. The tech giants will likely try to harvest all fedi content so their AI machines can exploit the data. How can we get ahead of this? ...
Can we plz stop wasting engine block heat after parking cars?
Consider how many people park a hot car when they get home and then go immediately cook food. The heat energy in the engine block is wasted as they burn more energy on the stovetop. So why not design engine blocks with a flat cast iron topside that can give a good heat transfer to a skillet or copper pot? If it would bring ...
Worthy climate study? Serving food immediately after turning off the heat is a bit like gassing a car right up to the red light
I try to resist the urge to turn off the heat immediately before serving food because the pan is still hot for tens of minutes -- all wasted energy. I try to turn off the heat ~10—15 min before the food is done cooking. Most people are impatient, addicted to convenience, lack self-control, and probably don’t even consider ...
Research needed: is the proliferation of copious AML law a crutch for incompetent law enforcement?
It seems like few people have noticed how privacy proponents rightfully show discontent at every new policy or action that emerges that claws away more of our privacy -- unless it is in any way tagged as “anti-money laundering”. Then automatically people shrug it off, look the other way, etc, without questioning it. ...
Cannot crosspost to a community I am subscribed to because the UI prioritizes the giant centralised communities at the top of the list
I needed to cross-post to ...
The case against immersion style of language learning
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The case against immersion style of language learning
The immersion style of language learning essentially entails an instructor who speaks only the target language, not the language you already know. The same way children learn their first language. ...
When the quality of scientific research is reduced because the researcher relies on platforms of surveillance advertisers (Google)
I just posted about a hum that I hear. There is a science project to track the people who hear the hum, which I was looking to contribute to. Then I noticed the survey is inside the private walled gardens of Google. The researcher’s email address is gmail, the survey form is in Google Docs, and they exclusively use Twitter as ...
I hear the hum ( www.bbc.co.uk )
I was glad to hear from BBC crowd science (the linked show) that I’m not alone in hearing a hum. People around the world hear a low frequency (50 Hz) hum. ...
Brewing tea. Water kettles vs. hot water dispensors, ⌁elec vs.🔥gas… the heated debate!
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Brewing tea. Water kettles vs. hot water dispensors, ⌁elec vs.🔥gas… the heated debate!
Tea drinkers: ...