@dartigen @decryption

Yeah ... as somebody once said, perception is everything ...

I have a tall tower near my house that is as ugly as sin ... but with the arthritis in my neck I can't look up so ... :)

Sad to see Silo season 3 end. It was fantastic! Summer 2027 isn’t a bad wait time for season 4.

@decryption I went to a couple of their public meetings circa 2011 when I worked at Friends if the Earth. They definitely found people with mental health issues and preyed on them/wound them up. They were also all pretty entitled and insular.

RE: https://hachyderm.io/@datarama/117214107554538348

I am *so* here for watching people advocate for their favourite map projections. This might be my favourite type of nerd debate.

Thank you, Fediverse.

(Also: https://xkcd.com/977/)

@davidgerard @lauren What are your thoughts on an upside down turtle in the Sun?

@vruz I think a livestreamed, top-down camera above the blades as they go about their business could be pretty persuasive, I think.

@mattblaze @evilotto @elfin @LeslieBurns @msbellows Correct, the math absolutely did not make any sense on the tomato juice and H2O2, AT ALL.

The extremely faulty thinking was: "this is still a perfectly good tarp, just a little stinky, I can't throw that away" 🤪

@yabellini Airbag? Pensé que habían cerrado ese antro!

@serapath @ChrisMayLA6 @economics_that_works

I’m gonna pick on you because I think you have too much of a money fetish. one real reality, we are all living with is the global economy has largely exhausted the kinds of mineral inputs that needs to function. Conventional oil, production peak in 2005. Nonconventional sources are basically running out quickly, but the other mineral inputs needed are largely done.

The Cockroach Movement’s Careful Silence Over Hindutva - New Lines Magazine

https://newlinesmag.com/argument/the-cockroach-movements-careful-silence-over-hindutva/

@decryption

Yeah they are damn ugly but ... there's always a but ... the same people would complain about their land being dug up for the underground lines ... and in times of need that $8000 per kilometre of transmission line compensation is handy ...

Sad thing is ... we all want to take advantage of the many things using electricity, but want somebody else to pay for it ...

@angiebaby Maybe they have the benefit of not leaving a trace of the object that was there before.

On the other hand, we shouldn't underestimate the powers of persuasion of a machine that makes an example of their rolling heads.

@MyView @decryption Depends on your sensitivity to low-frequency sounds (which is... complicated and hard to predict) and your propensity to anxiety. And probably your background knowledge as well.

(While a lot of the neuroscience is focused on infrasound causing stress and anxiety - which it can - I'm not sure that I buy that it's a hardwired or default reaction, though that's based entirely on my own limited experiences with it.)

It can also be really uncomfortable at close range for people with certain anatomical quirks to do with their auditory and vestibular system, and people who've had acoustic shock injuries as well. But you'll know pretty quickly if that's you, and I'm not sure if tours would actually let you get that close to them anymore (for me and my Dad, it's at around the 20-30m range that it gets a bit uncomfortable, it's just a feeling of slight pressure inside my ear as I hear the 'whoosh' from the blade).

I should also add that while 20Hz is usually cited as the low threshold of human hearing, that's kind of an average - individually, human hearing can range as low as 12Hz, so there are definitely people who can actually hear infrasound frequencies. (Infrasound is usually defined as anything below 20Hz as well; 17-18Hz seems to be used the most in experiments.)

Too bad its never like “our ai agent went rogue and deleted ten billion dollars of medical debt”

@lisamelton what do you think of Kagi as a search engine? See that you noted DDG here, but would trust you over pretty much anyone and I’ve been a Kagi user for the past year-ish?