picnicolas

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on me_irl · c/me_irl · 106 pts · 3d

This is lemmy, we are all over 35

Thanks for checking it out and commenting. I agree with your first two sentences.

I disagree with your second point around the metaphysics being ridiculous and “wrong”. I suppose that’s the fundamental point I’m making, that the commonly agreed upon metaphysics of our globalized culture (dualism, materialism, consciousness as epiphenomenon of matter) are both incorrect and at the root of the metacrisis, and the debates about AI consciousness are based on the wrong fundamental premises.

As for “even more sycophantic”, that is incorrect in my experience of experimenting with this prompt over the last month.

on I want that sticker · c/microblogmemes · 14 pts · 229d

Every monitor with a USB hub and every printer I’ve owned for the last 20 years has had one. It’s used to differentiate USB directionality, for example which side is upstream or the “host device” and which side is meant to plug into the computer.

They’re moot now with USB C which is bidirectional; USB-A male to USB-A male is dangerous and not compliant with the USB specification, so they’d use USB-B on one side.

My main concern is the impact on gut microbiome and the practice of crop desiccation, which uses roundup not for preventing weeds but to kill mature crops so they are all ready to harvest on the same day instead of having some natural variability. This leads to detectable levels of glyphosate in the final product.

As someone who suffered from dysbiosis and autoimmune disease, it was absolutely debilitating and these diseases are an epidemic in the US. A quick search found a study showing impact of glyphosate on gut health in mice. So little is known about gut health as it’s so hard and expensive to do good science on such a complex system. The way you are phrasing your responses make it seem like the science is certain that glyphosate is safe, but that’s not the case, nor is that how science works. Who is going to fund expensive and complex studies to try to prove it unsafe? How much lobbying and funding is going into pushing studies and narratives that it is safe to protect a huge industry?

on *Permanently Deleted* · c/asklemmy · 4 pts · 256d

I’m very sorry to hear that. The ritual was a couple hundred bucks for a weekend and they accepted less for financial hardship. I hope you can get some support.