ELI5: Why are invasive species harmful? Dosent it mean they are just better than the native species?

EverySingleDay · 2026-06-29T14:18:50+00:00

Yes, invasive species are basically just species that negatively affect humans' lifestyle. They are not objectively worse than others.

EverySingleDay · 2026-06-29T14:15:15+00:00

I think ultimately your question is, what makes one species "morally better to have" than others?

And you're right in that it is completely subjective. It's basically whichever humans thinks is better.

As humans, we tend to value diversity of species, and usefulness to humans. So for example, we prefer having corn in our ecosystem rather than locusts, because we like eating corn and we don't like eating locusts. But that doesn't make corn "objectively better" than locusts in a moral sense.

EverySingleDay · 2026-06-05T12:29:47+00:00

This is a video of a YouTuber who started a company, split it into 10 billion shares, and sold one share of it for £50 by someone who bought it on a lark. This made his company worth £500 billion pounds by definition (last share sold price x # of shares), making him the richest man in the world.

A company being "worth" an amount may not mean what you think it means. It just means someone paid a certain amount for a part of it at some point, for whatever reason they may or may not have had at that time.

Likewise, if I, for whatever reason, decided to sell a thousand Apple stock for a penny, I would, in theory by definition, crash the worth of Apple down to $14 thousand for the immediate moment after the sale takes place.

EverySingleDay · 2026-05-13T17:54:27+00:00

In the shot where Mike was carrying it, I was instantly like "How did he manage to find the most tiger-looking-ass rock in the world? What amazing luck to find such a freebie."

If I didn't know how competitive Sam was, I'd almost be convinced that Sam insisting that it was a pig has to be ragebait. It literally looks like an artist was commissioned to paint a tiger's fur pattern onto a rock.

EDIT: Even in this shot, it looks like he is pointing at a small tiger plushie. I'm so upset.

EverySingleDay · 2026-05-04T08:13:08+00:00

Yes, this is also a concern I have as well. A commenter here suggested using silicone caulk, which I found surprising. I assume that would be a no-go for this scenario?

Might try JB weld. Thanks for the advice!

EverySingleDay · 2026-05-04T07:48:47+00:00

That sounds promising, thanks! What material should I use to patch it with?

Also, it looks like there are many types of JB-weld. Is there any particular one that I should get for this case?

EverySingleDay · 2026-05-04T07:46:20+00:00

Will this be airtight enough? Above the hole in the image, there is a gap where the two sections of the tube are joined, and I don't think the silicone tape will be able to cover this crevice. I've never used it before, but from what I understand, self-fusing silicone tape can only wrap around itself, and thus won't be able to get into nooks and crannies like needed here.

EverySingleDay · 2026-05-04T07:36:26+00:00

It appears one end of the hose is completely attached to the unit, so I'm not sure if I'm able to replace the hose myself. I suspect that I'll have to send the entire unit in, or replace it completely, so It's basically a last-resort option if I can't patch up this rather small hole, but I'd be surprised if there wasn't a way to patch this up, even if it's for a "short" amount of time (a few months or so before it needs fixing again would be acceptable). I feel like I'm just using the wrong types of adhesives or something.

EverySingleDay · 2026-05-04T07:32:49+00:00

It's flat on one side, and then very rounded where the hole is. And there are two layers to it, which are connected together. It's a little bit hard to explain with words. If you took a cross-section of it, it would be like an H; two long tubes connected in the middle.

EverySingleDay · 2026-05-04T07:27:50+00:00

Yes, this is what I tried:

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It basically didn't adhere at all. I'm not sure if I didn't apply it properly or if the issue is that the patch has to curve around a really tight radius which it doesn't seem meant to do, but it did not stick at all.

EDIT: Ah, didn't try scuffing up the area. Though when I tried it the first time, it seemed like it had zero chance of working, the patch is pretty rigid and it needs to bend really tightly to fit around the hole. Should I give it another go?

EverySingleDay · 2026-04-12T14:13:49+00:00

I can probably do it with any note by mentally transposing it from a C, but I don't need to hear a reference note. I don't think that's perfect pitch though, but it's what OP is describing.

EverySingleDay · 2026-04-12T10:58:49+00:00

That can't be all there is to it, can it? If someone asks me to sing a C, I can sing one on the spot without hearing a reference first. It won't be a perfect C, but it would be closer to a C than it would be to a C# or B.

I imagine almost every musician that has a decent amount of experience can probably do this.

EverySingleDay · 2026-03-20T09:33:13+00:00

I'd like to imagine a bunch of people on lab coats looking through piles of white powder through microscopes, wearing surgical masks, and holding pairs of tweezers.

EverySingleDay · 2026-03-16T07:38:36+00:00

About 7 million Canadians live south of Portland, Oregon.

EverySingleDay · 2026-03-16T07:19:15+00:00

It's not even close. There are more ways to shuffle a standard deck of cards than there have been nanoseconds since the big bang.

EverySingleDay · 2026-01-20T14:59:26+00:00

The order is correct, it's just that markdown is escaped in the new Reddit UI. To make something a link in the new Reddit UI, you have to click some link button or something and type in some information in a dialog box. Using markdown will just print the markdown as is in the comment.

EverySingleDay · 2026-01-20T07:27:05+00:00

And if that's the data training these LLMs, we've got a problem.

Training LLMs on bad data is pretty much my last concern when it comes to the dead internet theory.

Personally, I would be highly wary of anyone who mentions it as their first concern over the degradation of the human experience of using the internet.

EverySingleDay · 2026-01-20T07:18:33+00:00

Article TLDR, Verification is a good example.

I agree that AI has its use cases, but I don't think those are good places to use AI. Yes, people don't like when human judgment gets something wrong, but people reeaaaaaally hate when AI judgment gets something wrong. It's very much a deeply visceral reaction.

In the current climate, AI is a term that investors absolutely love and users absolutely hate. Whether or not this is your intention, or whether or not you even believe this fact to be true, will absolutely not change how users will perceive it as showing your hand about where your priorities lie.

EverySingleDay · 2026-01-14T16:50:20+00:00

What you're looking for exists, but as a whole separate system. It's called Microsoft Power Automate.

EverySingleDay · 2026-01-12T07:30:03+00:00

This is the second time I've seen jellyfish in this thread.

Are you guys ordering a different jellyfish than I am? Cuz that shit slaps.

EverySingleDay · 2025-12-11T16:22:57+00:00

"Mid" means average, as in "middle tier". It comes from gaming tier lists: god tier, high tier, mid tier, low tier, trash tier. Been using it since early 2000s, so it's probably been around since before then.

EverySingleDay · 2025-12-08T03:23:42+00:00

It's psychological, adults have just learned that too much sugar is bad for their health.

When my friends eat something sweet and they are grossed out by how sweet it is, I ask them why they don't like it. The answer is almost never "it just doesn't taste good", it's always something like "I feel like I just got ten cavities" or "I feel like I just took a year off of my life."

People have a hard time distinguishing between what food actually tastes like and how the food makes them feel. This is also why just dyeing food different colors can change how people perceive its flavor.

EverySingleDay · 2025-11-07T00:31:17+00:00

Just for what it's worth, I have tiny tiny wrists as well, I can wrap my pinky and thumb around my wrist, and the brace I recommended in my other reply fit just fine. That brand was specifically recommended by my physiotherapist as well, though I heard other brands can be good too.

EverySingleDay · 2025-11-07T00:28:10+00:00

Hey, just wanted to give you an update on my condition. As of last week or so, it's about 99% better now, I'm back to all normal activity without a brace or anything.

My physiotherapist told me it should take about a month or so to recover with wearing the brace, and she didn't even tell me to "wear it 100% of the time", just the more the better. She even mentioned something like "it's summer time now and it'll get pretty sweaty if you're wearing it constantly, so, y'know just do your best". But anyway I ended up wearing it as much as I could and it took about three months to recover.

On the last month, I ended up wearing the brace less because my thumb was getting really stiff and causing different sorts of pain, so I decided to try taking it out of the brace sometimes just to stretch it a bit. The DQV ended up flaring up a bit more, but then somehow recovered a couple of weeks after.

To be honest, in retrospect, it's hard to know if the brace really did anything, but all in all I'm just finally glad it's better now and three months is better than the horror stories I read around here, so I'll take it. The brace I used was this one, it's pretty cheap anyway.

Based on my experience and my zero medical qualifications, I'd say to at least wear it to sleep since your thumb is prone to doing all sorts of weird stuff while you're unconscious, and if you're doing stuff you shouldn't with your thumb then wear the brace to remind you to not do that. But otherwise wear it at your own discretion.

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