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[–] notsofunnycomment@mander.xyz 4 points 9 months ago

Perfect, dank. Heb dat nu ook :)

[–] notsofunnycomment@mander.xyz 3 points 9 months ago (1 children)

“It also means that the ancient monument, near Salisbury in south-west England, was built with stones from all parts of Great Britain.”

Gotta catch ‘em al.

[–] notsofunnycomment@mander.xyz 1 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Is there a video?

[–] notsofunnycomment@mander.xyz 10 points 9 months ago (2 children)

I read somewhere that within Russia Ukrainian troops would be more vulnerable to the Russian Air Force?

[–] notsofunnycomment@mander.xyz 3 points 9 months ago

Spot on. This lack of secure employment (and yes, also probably lack of sense of purpose) also undermines the social relationships necessary to collectively bargain (with a union or not) for better working conditions. When workers don’t feel they have each other’s back, they are less likely to pressure an employer for better pay and conditions.

[–] notsofunnycomment@mander.xyz 2 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)
[–] notsofunnycomment@mander.xyz 7 points 9 months ago

This daddy’s boy ass-twat is not half as brave, knowledgeable, experienced, wise or strong as the people he has imprisoned. And then he uses his own anniversary to “pardon” them. “Pathetic” doesn’t even begin to describe it.

[–] notsofunnycomment@mander.xyz 1 points 10 months ago

That's why I said:

Which would of course also require a collective form of prenatal sex selection

If the goal would be to have a stable population size but with fewer births per woman, I think a collective form of prenatal sex selection (of the kind I describe above) would work.

What this sex selection would look like would be another issue. Whether externally fertilized embryos are selected before they are placed in a womb, or whether it would involve forms of abortion (or even infanticide): it's up to your imagination.

But there are no lies, nor any misapplied statistics?

[–] notsofunnycomment@mander.xyz 1 points 10 months ago (3 children)

Thanks all for your replies. Interesting.

I'm a bit surprised that nobody comments on the matriarchal speculation at the end. You're all fine with that?

[–] notsofunnycomment@mander.xyz 1 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

Expressed as "the average number of babies that an individual woman needs to have for a certain population to stay the same size", the replacement rate should not depend on population size, right?

If you express it as an absolute number (e.g. number of babies per year) than obviously it will depend on population size.

From what I understand, the replacement rate (expressed as the average number of babies that an individual woman needs to have for a certain population to stay the same size), depends mostly on what percentage of people die before they (can) have babies.

[–] notsofunnycomment@mander.xyz 2 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

"Given the soft nature of bronze, historians have previously wondered whether such blades served a ceremonial purpose, rather than a practical purpose on the battlefield. A few years ago, scientists even staged sword fights in order to learn more about how the Bronze Age weapons could have been used effectively in battle, despite being much easier to damage and harder to repair than their iron successors."

Scientists a sword fight?! Yes:

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/en-garde-scientists-stage-sword-fights-study-bronze-age-warfare-180974705/

scientists fighting swords

 

Let's see how many interesting facts about beans we can bring together.

 

Testing testing.

 

When it comes to spreading disinformation about climate change or the risks of smoking, I can clearly see how it protects economic interests (e.g. the value of the assets of the fossil fuel industry or the tobacco industry). I therefore understand that these lies are (have been) regularly pushed by people who do not necessarily believe in them.

But what are the strategic considerations behind the active spread of anti-vax theories? Who gains from this? Is it just an effective topic to rile up a political base? Because it hits people right in the feels? Is it just a way to bring people together on one topic, in order to use that political base for other purposes?

Or is anti-vax disinformation really only pushed by people who believe it?

 

Does mander.xyz block sh.itjust.works? I don't see it in this list: https://mander.xyz/instances

 

Does anyone else also have issues with backspace in Jerboa? Often when I use backspace to correct a spelling mistake, spaces further back are removed as well. Also, after moving the cursor to a new place, it sometimes randomly jumps to other places (removing words in the process).

I'm on Android, /e/ OS 1.11-s-20230510288098-stable-FP3 Fairphone (and I only have this in Jerboa).

 

I think there are good reasons to not let corporate interests join the space we built to escape them, but I guess every instance is free to (de)federate with whomever they want.

So let's say my instance (mander.xyz) defederates from Meta but another Lemmy instance that meander.xyz federates with (let's say "misguided.ml") does not. What happens when someone from Meta comments on a post from misguided.ml and others from misguided.ml comment on that comment? Will I see the comments on the meta comment, but not the original meta comment itself? Or will I not see the entire thread?

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