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  • Every individual is different than their parents. We don’t see large scale changes from one species to another from a single generation, but from population changes over huge amounts of time.

    Sometimes there’s a mutation that allows previous features to come back in an individual showing the history. Look up images of chickens with teeth.

    Chickens as we know them now in a farm didn’t exist until we did our own evolutionary selection to change them to something that would have more meat on them by picking the preferred ones. Dogs are another very obvious demonstration of that. Dogs came from a now extinct ancestor of wolves, so you can carry the same fallacy, when did the wolf become a dog? It wasn’t the first ones that were lured in by a warm place and food, was it the second generation?

    Evolution doesn’t have clear lines, humans just like to classify things. It’s a lot easier to do that with species separated by millions of years because the details have changed enough.


  • It depends on the road and the car. If the road isn’t designed for the speed you’re going, you are risking your life and others. Step it down to more common speeds. Going 60 mph on a highway is actually slow these days, but it feels normal and you have time to react because the road surface, sight distance, and curves all are built with those speeds in mind. Now try 60 mph in a 35 mph residential area. Not only is it deadly if anything goes wrong, the road isn’t as flat and you can’t see as far, plus the room to move is much tighter.

    It’s said that one of the fastest cars in the world, the Bugatti, can only be driven at its full speed and for a limited time in certain places because it requires both a very flat surface and other ideal road conditions. It also eats up tires.






  • To further the spirit of the topic:

    picture: An individual painting, drawing, or other representation on a surface, of an object or objects; esp. such a representation as a work of art. (Now the prevailing sense.)

    image: An optical appearance or counterpart of an object, such as is produced by rays of light either reflected as from a mirror, refracted as through a lens, or falling on a surface after passing through a small aperture. Such an appearance may also be a mere subjective impression on the sense of sight, as an after-image (q.v.), and the negative image or accidental image seen after looking intently at a bright-coloured object, and having a colour complementary to that of the object. An image produced by reflexion or refraction is called in Optics a real image when the rays from each point of the object actually meet at a point, a virtual image when they diverge as if from a point beyond the reflecting or refracting body.

    Source: the interweb. Fight me.




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    I think it’s even worse. They didn’t tell us what was and wasn’t recyclable. They used symbols very similar to the recycling logo to stamp on various types of plastics to classify them. Most of the types used are one time use, they never were meant to imply recycling, that’s just the symbol appearance.


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    Recycling started off as the third R and last resort, the first two were Reduce and Reuse. Those were not compatible with an economy based on consumerism and growth, so Recycling became the focus, creating an industry to pick through the few things that could be recycled and trashing the rest, and encouraging the public to buy more because it’s not a problem as long as you participate.

    And if you don’t participate, all the problems are your fault. Not the companies making the stuff, they’re just doing what you want.


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    They can be, but verifying everything is close to factual is hard to do. I do think that what makes the friendship is key - if it’s something that’s enjoyed online, then odds are you aren’t going to be completely compatible IRL with other things, maybe even most things past the one thing you share. If it’s more general things, then the odds go up a bit, but you still don’t know the “vibe” the person gives off in reality, so there could be traits that you’re better off not knowing about. However, I met my wife online (back before “real” internet on Quantum Link, a national BBS for C-64) and we’re still compatible, so it can happen. Granted, it was a lot different then, but there were fakes and scammers then too.








  • There’s nothing for Lemmy that I know of, but in the beginning of the first migration from Reddit there was such a thing being worked on by various people for Kbin. Kbin unfortunately is broken for a while now due to the developer’s health issues, but there was a fork made called Mbin. And the good news is that the extensions for Kbin seem to work for the most part with Mbin via ViolentMonkey. I can’t recall if I had to do much of anything to tweak it. I don’t know if there’s been any work since then, only that it still works for me now.

    I looked back to find something to recommend to research, but short of using VM and searching for scripts to use with a Mbin site (like fedia.io) I’m not sure.