Hegar

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[–] Hegar@fedia.io 16 points 1 day ago

30% of US adults voted for trump - that 30-35% mark is probably about the total support that fascists can muster.

And yet people keep insisting the problem is the american people and not the corrupt system that allows minority rule.

[–] Hegar@fedia.io 31 points 1 day ago

Yep! It's called primary endosymbosis and it's one of the coolest things around! (I think.) The endpoint of a process where two parts of symbiotic relationship morph into an organ in an organism.

The first case of primary endosymbosis resulted in the mitochondria and thus all multicellar life. That's pretty cool.

Another time created the chloroplast and thus all plantlife. Again, yay for primary endosymbiosis!

A few years ago scientists discovered that it happened really recently, resulting in an organism with a "nitroplast" for in house nitrogen fixing. So in the far distant future there could be an entirely novel branch of life, potentially as different from what we know as redwoods are from cats.

[–] Hegar@fedia.io 59 points 1 day ago (6 children)

Mitochondria are so much more than that!

They have the ability to kill the cell as well as provide power, they can communicate and transfer resources to other mitochondria, and they might be one of the reasons that organisms need sleep.

I heard a science communicator suggest that in some senses, we might just exist to serve the needs of our mitochondria.

[–] Hegar@fedia.io 13 points 2 days ago (2 children)

It was almost certainly written by gpt, you can tell because it doesn't make any sense but still manages to be objectively incorrect.

Information already is knowledge, and that's not what gpt does.

[–] Hegar@fedia.io 5 points 2 days ago

I don't think it's correct to say the people want trump. Only ~30% of US adults voted for him.

[–] Hegar@fedia.io 33 points 2 days ago (3 children)

What the american people want has almost no bearing on what the elites who control the american empire decide to do.

No major policy has matched public opinion since the end of the civil rights era. In gender, ethnicity and wealth, our representatives are not representative of us either.

It's naive to think we live in a democracy.

[–] Hegar@fedia.io 1 points 2 days ago

I was gonna recommend Othan by Heilung, it sounds like casting a spell.

[–] Hegar@fedia.io 6 points 3 days ago (1 children)

I don't know that it's wise to trust what anthropic says about their own product. AI boosters tend to have an "all news is good news" approach to hype generation.

Anthropic have recently been pushing out a number of headline grabbing negative/caution/warning stories. Like claiming that AI models blackmail people when threatened with shutdown. I'm skeptical.

[–] Hegar@fedia.io 7 points 3 days ago

The belief that that land is ours by right, promised to us by an angry man in the sky - aka zionism - is ideological fuel for the genocide we've been inflicting on the palestinian people.

If genocide is the problem, then zionism is a big part of the problem.

[–] Hegar@fedia.io 2 points 3 days ago

elected him

Someone doesn't understand how our oligarchy's electoral system works.

[–] Hegar@fedia.io 9 points 4 days ago (3 children)

The little US person should be dressed in a fast food employee outfit or Revolutionary War era clothes, to fit with everyone else.

 
 

A survey of 600 likely general election voters in Michigan, released late Thursday by WDIV Local 4/Detroit News, found that zero African American respondents said that they supported Trump, while 82.1 percent said they supported Vice President Kamala Harris.

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