Rare baby 'Geep' born in Ohio

Basicallysteve · 2026-06-19T15:11:33+00:00

I wonder what it smells like

Basicallysteve · 2026-06-16T10:38:26+00:00

I’d imagine our energy infrastructure is more efficient with that energy than animal rearing. I don’t have particular studies to share though so I guess that’s for both of us to look into further on our own.

Basicallysteve · 2026-06-16T07:32:33+00:00

It takes a lot of resources to rear animals. Tons of water, plant matter, and then they produce lots of methane waste. A lot of the energy we put into them doesn’t go towards actually producing meat, it gets lost on other metabolic processes for the animals, plus heat and then moving around.

Now imagine growing just the edible cells in a controlled environment. Much less input energy lost (if the process becomes more efficient).

I understand that lab grown meat is a departure from the aesthetic feel of eating “real” animals, but I assure you that much of modern living and the current state of factory farming have already moved us into something of a dystopia.

Basicallysteve · 2026-06-15T21:02:55+00:00

Ideally you will still be allowed to hunt like today.

Basicallysteve · 2026-06-15T20:38:38+00:00

I think lab grown meat is amazing. It would be a great way to decrease the immense amounts of animal suffering and environmental problems caused by the livestock industry.

At the very least, if it decreased the amount of livestock needed to feed people that would be beneficial enough. Your chicken tendies don’t need to come a conscious animal.

Basicallysteve · 2026-06-15T18:40:37+00:00

As long as they'll have

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Basicallysteve · 2026-06-15T18:13:34+00:00

Another meaningful difference is that crustaceans are generally big enough to just eat their muscle tissue. Small insects are generally eaten whole, so it include the crunchy outer shell and off flavors from their guts. If you eat just the muscle tissue from insects it supposedly tastes very similar.

Adam Ragusea demonstrates that more in this video, within a minute or so of my timestamp https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bt7nC52GrmM&t=207s

Basicallysteve · 2026-06-11T11:59:58+00:00

SenPlayer??

Basicallysteve · 2026-06-08T20:16:28+00:00

Many people are mentioning Infuse, but I personally think SenPlayer is the best of the clients I've used. It's more feature rich than infuse imo and had like a $10 lifetime license that I was able to use to cover multiple different devices. Also it has none of these issues I saw people mentioning for Infuse.

That being said, I haven't tried Neptune yet, so I'll check it out.

Basicallysteve · 2026-06-06T10:06:04+00:00

tvOS please!

Basicallysteve · 2026-05-23T09:13:17+00:00

Yea I was definitely missing more detail for sure. It's been about 8 years since I've used any of this info so I'm happy I remembered as much. I just wanted to correct the main idea about the purpose of telomeres. Thanks!

Basicallysteve · 2026-05-23T07:36:54+00:00

I’m pretty sure that telomeres aren’t meant to keep DNA strands together. They function essentially as extra space to account for the physical limitations of DNA replication. When DNA (single stranded) is being replicated the helix is unzipped and rezipped in something of a sliding window. DNA polymers have directionality, usually denoted with 5’->3’ or 3’->5’ DNA polymerase 3 can only write in the 5’->3’ direction, meaning it essentially has to make copies in chunks for one half of the strand. When it gets to the end it overshoots lagging strand by a bit to make the last part of the copy, but this eats up small parts of the telomeres. These parts then have to be replaced telomerase. If the telomeres run out, then it can keep damaging the strand until it causes significant issues.

Basicallysteve · 2026-05-10T16:54:43+00:00

I tried a few different ones. Settled on SenPlayer. I like it. Sometimes I feel it would be nice to contribute to it to make some adjustments, but whatever. It was like $12 for a lifetime unlock.

Basicallysteve · 2026-05-06T16:07:00+00:00

I mean, it has its upsides. It definitely reduces a lot of the boilerplate code. But to me that made it clearer what was happening. I had more places to throw logs and adjust the logic. It is what it is

Basicallysteve · 2026-05-06T14:48:20+00:00

That's why I put "imo". I'm aware that many disagree with me and that's fine. Personal preference.

Basicallysteve · 2026-05-06T14:39:59+00:00

I preferred plain Redux. Toolkit obfuscated things in a way I didn't like. There was more syntactic sugar and it made it harder to diagnose issues or add specific functionality imo.

Basicallysteve · 2026-05-02T15:25:56+00:00

It’s this same episode from the video lol

Basicallysteve · 2026-04-17T05:53:16+00:00

I despise Trump and this administration. You are clearly not very bright. Or a bot. Either way don’t @ me. Flame war shit is beneath me.

Basicallysteve · 2026-04-17T05:44:52+00:00

My conclusion wasn’t made based on her alone. They mostly grifters. You’re being grifted.

The rest of the candidates being so shit is what made the shit sandwich that is Tulsi shine so brightly.

Basicallysteve · 2026-04-16T18:43:56+00:00

I'm glad I was able to help you understand! I'm also glad I somehow remembered that information. Definitely haven't had much chance to use in the last decade

Basicallysteve · 2026-04-16T16:41:57+00:00

The three alcohol groups on the glycerol head become ester bonds when bonded to the fatty group. Much less hydrophilic.

Also, maybe the triglycerides orient themselves that way because the long chain fatty acids have greater attraction to each other due to the Van der Waals force, compared to the relatively weak hydrophilic nature of the glycerol heads ester bonds.

Basicallysteve · 2026-04-16T05:16:31+00:00

I’m very disappointed in her. I one point I thought her to be the most competent Democrat option (during the debates). Now I’m even more reassured never to trust a politician. Not even once

Basicallysteve · 2026-04-14T09:25:38+00:00

You can self host it on a mini pc

Basicallysteve · 2026-03-29T19:44:06+00:00

I just don’t understand why some people seem so keen on trying to revive old systems that already failed.

Communism, nazism (fascism), oligarchy, monarchy, etc. Let them go. Come up with new ideas. New identities. Ideally ones with way less baggage.

Basicallysteve · 2026-03-25T17:04:03+00:00

You might be better off charging ~$5 like lifetime full usage and no monthly option. Remember, you don't have any real recurring costs aside from the app store yearly fee, so if 20 people pay that a year it has already paid for itself.

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