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ooli  ·  32 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Dark Hubski

Since the beginning I argued for a more open, less elitist forum. I finaly found that on lemmy

Anyway, with the actual heavy on ad reddit , before the stock premiere, you can espect some new wave of refugee without a dark hubski

ooli  ·  32 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: 8-hour time-restricted eating linked to a 91% higher risk of cardiovascular death

20 000 is not "small sample size"... that 20x more than needed to have reliable data

ooli  ·  32 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: 8-hour time-restricted eating linked to a 91% higher risk of cardiovascular death

good argument, but the BMI is stable within all the sample 29 for <8 hour, and 28 > 8 hour window to eat

so for who do you think your work will be used by ? another artist?, really? that seems a bit naive

ooli  ·  283 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: 533rd Weekly "Share Some Music You've Been Into Lately"

Una Pazzia - Alin Prandea

all the song from this artist are of the same construction, but for some reason only this one stood out to me

ooli  ·  359 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: 526th Weekly "Share Some Music You've Been Into Lately"
ooli  ·  464 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Why we have chins, but Neanderthals didn’t

The author of the paper about chin's explanation, argue in this interview, than speach and chewing, is not enough https://italy.timesofnews.com/health-care/why-do-humans-have-chins-a-scientist-explains-the-enduring-puzzle

I was wrong about elephant (and probably manatee) they dont have one : https://www.npwrc.org/why-do-humans-have-chins-a-scientist-explains-the-enduring-puzzle.html

ooli  ·  523 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: 508th Weekly "Share Some Music You've Been Into Lately"

Nolwen Leroy - Juste pour me souvenir

trying to figure out what gave me chills in song.. The voice is not enough, since all the other song from this artist dont have the same effect

ooli  ·  553 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Earth is now our only shareholder.

    when Patagonia announced the move, I naïvely took it at face value.

Me too, especially with a reputed news outlet like the washington post tittle is :"Billionaire smacks back at capitalism"

And other lament, that the poor Billionaire had to pay 17 millions, just to gift Earth all his fortune

ooli  ·  553 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Switzerland (and surrounding area) in January?

Geneve is a nice place, but pretty small, so you can get around it in a few day. Very international

Lyon has (imho) the best cuisine from all the country. So you can go enjoy some restaurant there ("rue des marronniers" is a rare place with restaurant for tourist that the locals also go to) , and there are some museum.

Lyon is direct from Geneve by train in ~2h. Trains in europa are cool (I heard this is not the case in america)

Venice is great in winter with fewer tourist and still amazing church and rare painting to visit

Without ski , or outdoors passion, I would go for food, musueum and city touring

(the visa for Swiss is may be different for the rest of Europa, as Swiss is not in the EU)

ooli  ·  676 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: The "Great Replacement Theory" Was Never "Fringe"

    Madison Grant was born into a blue-blooded New York family.

    ...

    He was, of course, also a racist and eugenicist. In 1916, he authored The Passing of the Great Race, in which he claimed the superiority of the "Nordic" race and painted immigrants and Jewish people as "inferior" "social discards" overrunning his city.

American "culture" , even at its worse it permeate the world's mind

ooli  ·  678 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: How professional golf arrived at its breaking point

freaknomics podcast, had, last week, a good take on the saudi arabia "soft power" move to get into golf:

https://stitcher-injected.simplecastaudio.com/2be48404-a43c-4fa8-a32c-760a3216272e/episodes/a8071cd1-a5e4-4b40-a6c2-fb5d7abd2fcc/audio/128/default.mp3

ooli  ·  734 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: 480th Weekly "Share Some Music You've Been Into Lately"

Nice duet about the drive to leave everything behind

Stuart Staples: Leaving feeling

ooli  ·  775 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: It's official: we can't terraform Mars

You can put as many bomb/co2 as you want.. Any atmosphere will be stripped away by the sun due to lack of a magnetic field on Mars .

Then, may be the plan is to nuclear bomb it every few hundred year while the Elon Musk's people live there.. I can get behind the idea

ooli  ·  781 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Kraftwerk - Radioactivity

just a reminder that the original sounded the same and was from 1975!

And if you like prehistory of Techno, you might enjoy Jacno (1979):

ooli  ·  809 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Line Goes Up – The Problem With NFTs

No. For an unknown reason he start with the subprime crisis.. why not the tulip bubble, while he is at it?

He try to explain anything from Bitcoin to ETH, to EFT and then the second ETH build or whatever. But the guy is clear and entertaining.. to be fair, I drop off around chapter 12.

The interesting part are why some people chill crypto, and who are obsessed with it

ooli  ·  907 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: 457th Weekly "Share Some Music You've Been Into Lately

Where have all the flower gone -Marlene Dietriech .. For some reason the crescendo in the german version give you the drive to invade Poland

ooli  ·  915 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: The Mysterious Case of the COVID-19 Lab-Leak Theory

    Gruinard Island, Sverdlovsk, Vozrozdeniya Island, Reston, fuckin' Rajneesh

Those are military leak during cold war! They were trying to make Weapons, not searching for cure. I suppose the Geneva convention is against that. No wonder they tried to cover up.

There are ton of virus lab around the world, I never heard of any leak, or even abnormal death rate around them.

I mean, There is one lab in the center of Paris, the Pasteur Institute, I drink my coffee in a bar right in front of it, should I be worried!

ooli  ·  915 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: The Mysterious Case of the COVID-19 Lab-Leak Theory

    If they found a single example of a furin cleavage site that matches this one, I'd be more skeptical of the lab leak. And if they could find it in an animal that has any reasonable connection to the Wuhan area, I'd be even less skeptical.

Key word being "less skeptical".. meaning you will still need other evidences. You made up your mind already! And you blame it on Occam's razzor, and the dude dont deserve that.

On the my end, just bring me a secretary working in that lab saying I have a memo proving we fuck up , and I sign on the lab leak theory. Ok even if she just has an email saying they try to cover up something, I sign on the lab-leak. No doubt the US secret service want and can bring that girl here already

Ok , even just a few neutral biologist saying "ok I looked on what they were working on, and it is basically covid, they fucked up", and I'm team leak

I dont even know what "furin cleavage site" are and the 1st answer from search engine is a study that it is a natural occurence

Or someone bribed them!

ooli  ·  918 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: The Mysterious Case of the COVID-19 Lab-Leak Theory

You miss the point. I dont say this is not a lab-leak (and i dont care if it is, because it wont solve anything).

I say, the occam razor is : it is not a lab-leak.

Basic origin of virus is nature. Occam razor: this one too.

If you want to prove otherwise , you have to bring enough evidence.

And your statement bring nothing.

Because you use association (there is a lab near) to imply causation (the lab did it). Which is a logical fallacy.

And your list is false: you dont know which lab was close to zika. And I can bet the china lab is not the only one working on sars, there is one of the US.

And you overstate the behavior of covid compared to other sars. It is not 'tens of thousand" more special.

But we both know, that you come here with your mind make up, and not to know the truth. Because nothing you can learn will make you think it is not a lab leak

ooli  ·  918 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Alan Moore on life and his legacy

    And I said, look, all you need to know about capes and masks in American superhero comics can be learned by a close viewing of D. W. Griffith's 'Birth of a Nation'. Because I genuinely believe that, that that is where it all comes from. We don't have a tradition of masked heroes really anywhere else in the world apart from America. I mean, Guy Fawkes, who the 'V for Vendetta' mask is based upon, that wasn't a mask, that was his face. It's like, Robin Hood. That was his name. He wasn't wearing a mask. But I think that there is something that possibly dates back to those… the Ku Klux Klan intervention in 'Birth of a Nation', the idea of dressing up in a mask, so that what you do doesn't get back to you.

Comparing the superheros to the clansman, is a very clever statement that nobody will take at face value. I dont think Moore even believe it to be true, he just like the idea that the origin of superheroes are anonymous antiheroes.

Superheroes exist in all culture, not just in America. I believe it to be as old as writing. The 1st occurrence to me, is the Calif changing appearance to solve problem in Bagdad, in the Arabians nights.

More close to me is in 1786, the "Nocturnal Spectator" where Retif de la Bretonne (the eternal enemy of the Marquis de Sade... both pervert in their own right ), where Retif walk though Paris with a mask, want to be called "the Owl" or the titular "nocturnal spectator", and relate what it sees, and prevent crime.

For me it is the 1st true superheroes book. And a surprisingly easy/fun read for a book from that time period

Anyway, I loved all of Moore comics books ("From Hell" being my favorite), while I usually dont like comics books. I think I read 1 or 2 real books from him , and was utterly disappointed. I wish, he still wrote for comics

ooli  ·  927 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Bitcoin is a Ponzi

Counter argument, in the middle

    By that definition, stocks too are ponzis.

    No. Stocks have an external source of revenue, namely the profit that the company makes by selling its products and services to customers (not investors)

ooli  ·  928 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Bitcoin is a Ponzi

1% of BTC owner think the same. 99% just want to make money on a new fad, you know that already

ooli  ·  928 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Bitcoin is a Ponzi

I'm not angry.. the mere existence of exploiting-worldwide-user's google anger me, losing money doesnt: I'm used to it.

Crypto is just so absurd and damaging.. at least NTF pretend to be art, and defining art is just another can of worms.

    But "Satoshi Nakamoto" has been sitting on 1.1m BTC since like 2009

Dont we all agree, that Satoshi is that french engineer turned mobster who is in jail since 2009? Or he would have cashed out long ago.

    here's what a Ponzi scheme actually is:

2nd counter argument from the article :

    That is not the definition of ponzi from source X. Indeed there are many variants of the definition, and they may include other spurious requirements (see below). But those requirements were incidental features of almost all ponzis before bitcoin, not essential features. They are not the reason why investing in a ponzi is a very bad idea, nor the reason why ponzis are frauds rather than just bad investments.

    A definition of "TV" a few decades ago could be "a device that converts electrical signals into an image on a cathode ray tube (CRT) screen." But when flat screen TVs appeared, it would have been silly to say "those are not TVs,because they have no CRT." Instead, people would have seen that the mention of CRT in that definition was spurious, and that a useful definition should capture the effect of the device, regardless of the technology.

The point stay: the only value of BTC is from flux of new investor.... oh! and the service of anonymously buying drugs. THAT might be the thing that let crypto stay relevant for so long. Any business model based around some type of physical addiction, is always a good idea. Still a scam

ooli  ·  933 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: 453rd Weekly "Share Some Music You've Been Into Lately

For some reason, I must be stuck in the 80, when I discover something I like, it is always from that period:

Amsterdam - Cora ... the clip do them a diservice

ooli  ·  1014 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: The Crypto Movement Is Destroying Itself

    Warner Bros. dropped Space Jam NFTs on Ethereum yesterday

And that is good thing? for who? Michael Jordan?

I'm being funny. I know that, like kleinbloo, you're in the ETH maximalist cult, and try to showcase any good sign for that coin. I hope you guys fight the good fight

ooli  ·  1014 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: The Crypto Movement Is Destroying Itself

So you agree it need to be one Crypto to top them all, for crypto to become kind of a thing?

Humm

ooli  ·  1049 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: A sober discussion: Aliens on Earth

It take 1 million year for a 10% light-speed civilization to conquer our entire galaxy

Since it hasn't happen in the 4 billion history of Earth, means we are alone in this galaxy. Or Aliens are very lazy

ooli  ·  1062 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: The Faux Generosity of the Super-Wealthy: Why Bill Gates is a Menace to Society

Yeah I have to admit, the arguments made little sense.

But hey! Bill Gate is portrayed as this awesome charity dude, so it is nice to have dissident voice. Plus the critics against Billionaire's founded Charity is pretty solid: just pay your damn tax

ooli  ·  1155 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: 422nd Weekly "Share Some Music You've Been Into Lately"

I discover song... 40 year old song

millions roses , Alle Pugacheva

Jolene, Dolly Parton

Only similitude: words repetition in chorus. I guess I always fall for that