1. Evolution-wise the “whole purpose of postmenopausal females” is anything that ensures survival of their descendants. That is not confined to raising children or indicative that grandpas don’t help raise children as well. If they go collect food it still counts. If they are in charge of their tribe and make wise decisions it still counts.
2. We are not beholden to evolution. Higher thinking has made survival a very different game for humans.
3. Can these MAGA idiots just pretend to be normal humans for a minute instead of talking like real-life handmaid’s tale?

Yeah sure, humans outside of current realities don’t have to be bad for the environment…but we do live in that reality where most humans are really bad for the environment and mosquitos are killing tons of us.

Again I’m firmly on team human, fuck mosquitos. Hopefully some day we can get to a point where less humans isn’t good for the environment.

I don’t advocate human death obviously but with the specific comment you’re replying to:

humans = bad for the environment

mosquitos = less humans overall

so mosquitos may be good for the environment in the most assholish of ways.

The resolution said some stuff about pesticides the US didn’t like.

The resolution encroached on other trade agreements the US would rather pursue.

The US doesn’t want to transfer technology and wants to keep its own IP rights.

The US doesn’t want extraterritorial obligations that the language of the resolution suggests. It thinks all countries should manage their own shit internally.

The US claimed that it domestically supports the right to food and promotes policies to further that goal but doesn’t want it to be an enforceable obligation.

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I mean for some AI at least it was directly trained on material from random internet people. I deserve money from any chatgpt work because I made a lot of Reddit comments.

The picture in this case even says this truck is at Ikea. Is a furniture store where you might be loading lots of big shit really not a use case where bringing a long bed truck makes sense?

There’s also much longer vehicles that suit different purposes that people use without issue. We have no idea what their day-to-day work is and this might be the best possible option for them.

The small dick kill the environment type trucks usually don’t focus on long truck beds.

He’s calling out Walz service history when really he has so much less service history than Walz. And as far as I can tell the “stolen valor” stuff is made up.

Walz retired before his unit received deployment orders so it wasn’t like he was evading a deployment. Walz was a sergeant major when he retired but upon retirement was downgraded to a master sergeant because he hadn’t completed all the sergeant major courses required within 3 years of his promotion.

So Republicans are saying he “stole valor” by claiming to retire as a sergeant major but to anyone whose been in the military (like me) this is really nothing like stolen valor…He did serve as a sergeant major and retire while a sergeant major but he is NOT a retired sergeant major. A distinction that’s obviously a bit confusing and normally nobody would care.

I’ve actually heard that with black bears the best method is to ditch it in central park with a bicycle.

We’re just a couple of normal guys having a normal time with a couple of extremely normal couches. Nothing to see here folks…

Project 2025 wants to slash military/veterans benefits and it seems most of the military knows about it now. I think we’ll be alright so long as Harris wins the election.

Tell that to conventional current vs electron flow. Science is ever updating with new information and the words we use to describe it will change over time as well, but I get what you mean. Prescriptive linguistics especially in formal settings like scientific writing is helpful for clear communication.

Descriptive linguists unite! Words evolve and that’s okay. Really science should pivot away and start calling more proven theories a different word if they’re upset about the confusion.

The etymology of the word theory comes from a word with a meaning closer to “to look at or speculate” so even in that sense science kind of hijacked a word that was further from the modern scientific understanding of the word “theory” and descriptively transformed it themselves for use in their community. And that’s okay too.

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As long as the creator knows what they’re getting into when they make a paid subreddit it doesn’t really bother me. And it’s honestly probably a good plan monetarily for reddit. But just like when games started adding microtransactions it’s likely to change the core of reddit even further from what I used to like about it. But I’m on lemmy now anyway…

He’s trying to claim that companies colluded to stop advertising on X and that violates antitrust laws.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Group_boycott

But it’s strange because this refusal to advertise on twitter doesn’t really harm competition in anyway. Concerted refusal to deal is supposed to be like when 3 big bad companies want to hurt a smaller competitive company so they get together and boycott any suppliers that deal with this competitor or force them to get a worse deal.

The companies GARM (Global Alliance for Responsible Media) represents are big enough (90% of advertising $) but they aren’t really competitors to twitter. If say facebook and tiktok got together and told GARM they wouldn’t run any of their ads unless they stopped working with twitter that would be much more in the spirit of the law.

But Twitter might still have a tiny bit of a case if they can prove they met GARM’s standards but were still excluded anyway. I doubt that’s enough for any major payouts though unless the judge is crazy. And honestly I think it’s still dumb because even if GARM settles it just tells advertisers “Okay you can advertise on twitter if you want they meet our standards”…but are advertisers really going to want to advertise on the site that just sued them?

Also I don’t even think GARM prohibits members from advertising with companies it doesn’t recommend and just offers suggestions, which makes this case even more insane if that’s true. In that situation it’s like the health inspector gives a restaurant a “D” and the restaurant sues customers for not eating there anymore.

I’m assuming this is going to be more like a creator space type thing like patreon/OF. It will make reddit worse of course because patreon and OF already exist we don’t need reddit for that but as long as they aren’t trying to paywall user generated content on existing subs I don’t really care that much tbh.

If they paywall my old comments that I’ve left up to help others I’m going to go back and delete them.

Chromecast naming scheme did get weird - it’s difficult for someone who doesn’t follow these things to know if they want the chromecast ultra or chromecast with google tv. I agree though they should have just called the new product something like “Chromecast Box 2025”.

I guess onn is going to completely take over the low price streaming box market then.