Whoops! I didn’t even notice the Modlog because (at least for me) it’s tucked away at the very bottom of the sidebar and nestled between the list of mods and some statistics I don’t really care too much about. :P Genuinely my bad, though; I should’ve looked harder. Appreciate it now that I can finally see it!
I can’t emphasize enough how bad Lemmy’s moderation tools are. It’s not just that they’re abysmally anemic (including that you can’t perform moderator actions on someone in your community without a comment of theirs to click the context menu on? what??). It’s not just that reports don’t synchronize correctly across instances (i.e. if you want to moderate a community on another instance, you’re at a severe disadvantage). It’s that they’re wildly fragmented, presented just all over the place like some kind of scavenger hunt.
Edit: obviously no automod either, although I know that’s a much larger undertaking than any of the things I’ve listed thus far.
But the question is: how would a mosquito that develops this trait have an easier time reproducing? Assuming it reproduced and had quite a few offspring, would that collective group of thousands of mosquitoes have an easier time reproducing? It wouldn’t, because humans don’t have some kind of vision that tells them the mosquito won’t make them start itching 5 minutes later or whatever, by which point the mosquito is long gone. Even if they did, they’d still smack it upon noticing it, because it carries deadly diseases and is an annoying insect.
Correct. A vestigial structure however is one that is no longer needed and is greatly diminished but is retained anyway because there’s little selective pressure against it. It need not be completely useless, but fingernails serve multiple legitimately important functions in humans and thus aren’t vestigial.
It also serves to enable very precise grip in a way that a blunt fingertip couldn’t (pinching something very tiny), to enable us to scrape things, and to protect the fingertip from injury. It definitely isn’t vestigial.
The itch doesn’t begin until well after the female mosquito gets her food and leaves, so what reproductive advantage does it give to that specific mosquito over the others to make the itch not happen at all? The answer is “none”.
Sorry I didn’t go for the Melania Trump joke. I’m sure you’re all very disappointed.
Massaging his heiling arm. Seriously, what disgusting human beings, if they can even be called that.
This is indeed The Room. This is Day 62 of making a meme from every line of dialogue from that film.
I know you mean well, but please explain the difference in tone between my comment (just the original, which the downvotes came from) and this one with 20 upvotes and 0 downvotes. Functionally there is no difference in tone or (as you noted) factual accuracy. If anything, the linked comment is more prescriptive in that it directly tells the reader what to do (“keep your teeth clean”). That I compared an omnivorous diet negatively against a predominantly or wholly plant-based one in any way is the obvious reason why this has as many downvotes as upvotes: people are conditioned to see any mention of a vegan diet’s health benefits as preachy and dogmatic.
If anyone’s never played it, The Room Tribute is a solid 9/10 for what it is and absolutely should be played by anyone who enjoys The Room.
A vegan diet or one at least heavily plant-based (and diets like the Mediterranean one) are consistently linked to lower inflammation in meta-analysis after meta-analysis.
Edit: I have no clue why this is getting downvoted. Examples below:
A vegan diet is just generally lower in inflammatory foods than an omnivorous one.
Trump is 3 years younger and plainly aging worse than Biden.
in order to promote the growth of the fediverse, we want to merge these two communities from two different instances into a third one.
Feels weird.
.ml is unavoidable for some niche tech communities unless you make your own with blackjack and hookers, but for example, Linux has !linux@lemmy.world, !linux@programming.dev, !linux@sh.itjust.works, and !linux@sopuli.xyz. Privacy has !privacyguides@lemmy.one, !privacy@lemmy.world, !privacy@lemmy.ca, and !privacy@programming.dev.
If I’m paying $900 for a phone, you’d better believe that 4K30 is the barest of bare minimums I’m expecting that rear camera to do unless it’s a deliberate tradeoff for something more ethical like a Fairphone. The Pixel 9 base model can shoot at 4K60 and 1080p240 (256 GB and the same $900 price). “Good AI features” lmfao blow it out your ass, Asus. I wonder where this comparison chart is coming from anyway.
Often called the “Citizen Kane of bad films” due to both its cult status as the best bad movie of all time and to the remarkably layered depth of the badness, The Room is a 2003 dark drama indie film written by, produced by, directed by, and starring Tommy Wiseau – an enigmatic eastern European man who originally wrote the film as a play and a book and took inspiration from his favorite classics like A Streetcar Named Desire, Rebel Without a Cause, Citizen Kane, and The Guns of Navarone. Imagine if you took a film that was so truly, earnestly, passionately trying to live among those movies solely for a love of the medium and yet failed completely at emulating every single aspect of them, and you have The Room. I seriously can’t recommend it enough; there’s not a single movie I can say that I’ve watched 8 times and would happily watch again except this one.
Since I missed the post two days ago and wasn’t at my desktop with the screenshots yesterday, I decided to bundle three posts into one day for Super Bowl Sunday! 🥳 (This didn’t really happen to me, by the way; I just wanted something darker today.)