Deconceptualist

While I don’t appreciate the undocumented stealth moderation (particularly where I named the place in the photo), my other deleted comment was super rude and definitely broke rule #1. I was out of line, so better that it’s gone.

Sorry WarmSoda, you didn’t deserve the hostility. Carry on, and may you avoid future asteroids.

Yeah you’re right. I was in a foul mood and shouldn’t have commented. Sorry 😞

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Maybe not on this instance but I tend to browse “everything” (not just “subscribed”) since the Lemmyverse isn’t that big.

EDIT: Here’s a previous one. https://lemmy.ml/post/17286836

Also you should totally go there, it’s pretty cool IRL :)

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Euclidean G-llamatry

Sir, we just received a strange signal from the direction of Andromeda. We think it’s some kind of natural harmonic resonance, perhaps even a message.

01001000 01100101 01111001 00100000 01100110 01110101 01100011 01101011 01101100 01100101 01110100 01101111 01100101 01110011

Sure, but most people probably don’t know that detail. Hunters probably do, but for your average dumbass a simple “don’t shoot any guns into the air” rule is probably for the best.

I guess that’s fine if you live on a large isolated property. Where I am, the neighbor’s house is like 3.5m away.

No, ignore this. Never shoot guns into the air, it’s both dangerous and stupid.

It was intentional 🙂

I switched fully to Linux on my main gaming PC about 18 months ago. Honestly Proton has become so good that I really haven’t had to dual-boot Windows or run a VM or anything. I even bought a licence for CrossOver when I first switched but ended up not needing it.

For the few games that really won’t run (after trying what I find in ProtonDB and PCGW) I really do either A) wait for fixes, or B) just leave them behind. With a library of like 2500 games it’s not hard to find something else to play.

These are the only games I recall not working at all for me:

• Beyond Good & Evil (GOG) - Might be fixed now
• Prince of Persia: Warrior Within (Steam) - Might be fixed now
• Dauntless (EGS) - Broken due to Easy Anti-Cheat

TIL northern Ohio was once the Nation of Cat and destroyed by the Iroquois.

That one is weird to me, but maybe just because I’ve never heard it.

Instead of “Is the log” maybe you could say “Is nat-log”?

I think it’s more about intent and what you do with the findings and who gains from it. If you and your team announce your plans ahead of time, document everything meticulously, deliver the pieces to a museum or archive, publish papers and deliver seminars and attend conferences on it… it’s probably archaeology. The public then has at least some access to the value of your work.

If you and your associates do it all in secret, sell the artifacts to some rich asshole (esp. via a fence), and cover your tracks, that seems a lot more like grave robbing. You’ve stolen all the value in that case.

I don’t have any difficulty doing that with a mixed salad 🤷‍♂️

What are you suggesting? What is the alternative?

The fundamental mechanism is still unknown, however we do know some important details about consciousness:

• It’s not a simple binary all-or-nothing
• It can change naturally or artificially
• It’s divisible and perhaps even additive

We know this due to a number of phenomena:

• Natural variation in states like awake, alert, groggy, asleep, comatose
• Altered states due to alcohol or drugs (drunk, high, caffeinated, hallucinating, suppressed with anaesthesia)
• Disorders such as Body Identity Dismorphic Disorder (BIID - thinking a major limb doesn’t belong to your body) or Phantom Limb (sensing an limb that isn’t there). Look these up if you’re unfamiliar, they’re fascinating.

Together these and other observations suggest that consciousness is an emergent phenomena (not present in simple organ structures alone) and occurs along a scale, likely proportional to brain size. And just as your daily state can change (between sleep and wakefulness at minimum) it seems a reasonable hypothesis that other creatures experience something similar, though perhaps with a lower maximum awareness in their most alert state.

Heh, customers are the worst 😅

In my experience most mid-upper scale restaurants not only mix the salad but toss it with the ideal amount of dressing before serving it as well. I appreciate that, but I have to wonder how many complaints they get.