CarbonIceDragon

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[–] [email protected] 45 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (5 children)

holds the power button

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Literally just imagining things in your head out of boredom does something similar, and that's something that's just gonna happen if you sit idle.

Brains need stimulation to develop and continue to function properly, as creatures with unusually powerful brains, humans benefit from, even need, quite a lot of such mental stimulation. There's a reason we enjoy and put so much effort into entertaining ourselves, compared to most other animals. Working through imagined scenarios is no more unhealthy for us than exercising our muscles to keep them fit is.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 week ago

I imagine that Google, Facebook, and other such companies would agree

[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 week ago (2 children)

Malawi is surprising to me, what's the context for one happening there of all places?

Also the ones in Australia/Canada/UK are kinda funny to me, seeing as they literally do have a king.

[–] [email protected] 24 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (5 children)

Technically not, since a lack of intelligence doesn't necessarily imply that something said by a given person is wrong (else an unintelligent person could make things more likely to be wrong by saying something, or would be unable to say that thing if it is true.)

[–] [email protected] 15 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Ron DeSantis isn't a lemmy mod, to my knowledge.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Sure, but if unforested land is artificially forested, or deforested land is reforested faster than would occur naturally, or human activity causes an increase in plant cover unintentionally (for example, if increased carbon dioxide spurs in increase in plant growth beyond the previous norm), then the photosynthesis done by those extra plants would be caused by humans, surely?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 week ago (2 children)

The eggs have gone back to 5 bucks a dozen where I'm at, at least in the store I was last in. Still haven't bothered getting any recently, but they're not at like, 8 or 9 like they were at the same store a month or two ago. Not sure if that's a change in the bird flu situation or if they've just been pushed down with some kind of subsidy or something.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 week ago (3 children)

I don't really get why this source first emphasizes that carbon molecules have an effect regardless of source, but then says that it is wrong for humans to "take credit" for photosynthesis. If something, human caused or otherwise causes an increase in plant cover such as to cause an increase in carbon stored in plant biomass, the atmosphere doesn't care if humans did that or if plants did.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 week ago (5 children)

Is there a context for "sociopath"? like, would a person that actually had that mental condition be disallowed from commenting, or was it saying that you had called someone else a sociopath and that isnt allowed?

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Literally any time I see United Airlines branding, I immediately get "United breaks guitars" stuck in my head.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 week ago (1 children)

To be fair, potentially addictive or not, I wouldn't support a ban on social media either. The practical requirements needed to effectively restrict access to information in the modern age (both porn and social media being examples of information) are such that I generally view the cure as worse than the disease, so to speak, and view the least bad option as being to just give up on legal restrictions and just deal with the consequences instead. Addiction is harmful, but most consumers of such information aren't harmed by it, and restriction inherently requires monitoring and removing internet anonymity to a degree that I find unacceptable.

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