Oyster mushrooms eat plastic.

This isn’t anything new to science.

They’re talking about time dilation.

Objects with no mass traveling at light speed in a vacuum don’t experience time.

A photon, traveling through a vacuum for forty years, from its perspective, leaves the instant it arrives.

Likewise, if you can travel at the speed of light for forty years and came back to earth, your twin would age forty years and you wouldn’t age at all.

At a much smaller scale we have to use time dilation to keep clocks in space running at the same time as clocks on Earth. Because in geosynchronous orbit they are traveling faster than objects on the ground.

As is birth. Both sides of the dichotomy are dropped in Buddhism. Focusing on death is letting go with one hand, and clinging with the other.

So that’s what Counting Crows are

Also good for scuba diving and tear gas.

Umbrellas. Good for rain and tear gas.

Yeah, my only complaint with ToME 4 is the length. I like to play on roguelike mode, so a roguelike that takes tens of hours to finish can be daunting. I ‘lost’ a lot of playthroughs due to losing interest, too.

But working with Darkgod was great! Learned a lot about game design and artistic endeavors in general. And, I didn’t know a lick of code when I started. But, the other developers were happy to teach me. Was, and probably still is, an excellent community.

Yeah, I was an old ToME 2 player and got sucked into the ToME 4 Beta early on. Wanting to avoid any licensing issues, he decided to go with his own setting.

I worked on an open source roguelike years ago that’s been financially successful.

He used a donation model (similar to Patreon, but this was before), and eventually put the game up on steam for $5. I think he still works his day job but it was cool to see his hobby support him some (he also kicked me down a few grand for time I spent on the project).

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tales_of_Maj’Eyal

Game in question if you need some ideas on how he pulled it off.

Did you read the article? Google is not an insurance company. So, why is my hospital sharing information with them? And why wasn’t that disclosed in the privacy policy?

Those are the types of questions this study raises.

All forms of consciousness but, yes, most especially self-awareness. A lot of people really aren’t that self-aware compared to a Zen Master. And an earthworm is less self-aware than most people.

Yeah, I think self awareness is a really low bar that we tend to think we’re special for having. And that this fallacy is part of why animal rights are basically shit.

The mirror test does show that an animal is self-conscious, in the sense that, it likely cares what others think and thus has a theory of mind. And you’re right, it only proves self-consciousness, it doesn’t prove its lack because as I stated earlier in the case of my rats, other senses might be involved that would produce that response.

Dogs too. Seem much more concerned with how each other smell than how each other look.

The problem with that test is that not all animals process visual information the same.

For example, rats have horrible vision but two noses, one just for smelling pheromones. I’m quite positive my rats are self-aware being highly social animals with a theory of mind.

But they’ll never pass a mirror test.

As a person with trauma, who has had trauma all his life, I find social interactions draining and stressful. I have trouble developing trust, which makes it difficult to bond with others. And which makes me more lonely in a crowded room than I feel right now sharing my thoughts with you all on the internet.

I guess I’m curious how this study would fair if it was done on self-described introverts. I value my friends, but maintaining and developing those relationships is a burden rather than a joy for me.

Did you read the article or just kneejerk at the title? Sleeping in separate beds increases the risks of SIDs, for example. It is weird that western parents continue doing this to ‘instill individualism’ when it literally kills our children and slows down parent/child bonding in primates. Shit, we still circumcise most male babies because the Korn Flakes guy thought it was dirty for boys to touch themselves. We are weird!

If you prefer to feel ashamed rather than learning something when you encounter new information because of a clickbait article title, well, I can’t stop you. Or even blame you.

But the shameful part isn’t doing something weird out of ignorance, but continuing once we have better information. Putting our pride ahead of our children. That would be a shame.

Denormalizing Western parenting habits and looking at science as well as other cultures isn’t shaming. What’s shameful is putting your fingers in your ears and telling yourself the way my parents raised me was right, I’m right to do it even if it’s not the best for my kids, and everyone trying to educate me as to potentially better methods is trying to ‘shame me for being wrong’.

i.e. It’s not shameful to not know any better. It’s shameful to continue when you do.

Was looking for new political/philosophy podcasts. Been listening to Acid Horizon and will check this one out too!

Ahhh… I checked the size but thought microns and nanometers were interchangeable terms. Thanks for the correction.

Even clean rooms don’t stay clean because great apes are not clean, and they have to work in the space. So even the best spaces aren’t fool proof which is why lab teks wear masks and other equipment.

But yeah, work well enough to keep kids etc from being sick, would require lab level air filtration to make a difference. And we’d probably still have to dress the kids up like lab nerds even with lab level filters and fans.

Even a cheap HEPA filter is good enough to filter COVID.

But, all contaminated air has to actually go through the filter.

This means you need to do several full air exchanges in the required space per hour really if you want to keep people from getting sick. Like a laboratory clean room would do.

And setting up that level of HEPA filtration, is fucking expensive.

I built a very small flowhood for mycology. The filter was $200. The fan another $80. And I’m only keeping a one x two space clean. I imagine it’s just not economical to really apply this technology to schools etc at this point in time.