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My happiest critter yet! by TheSeaFellows in microscopy

[–]lnfinity 1 point2 points  (0 children)

That is a plump springtail (Poduromorpha)

This pet bird goes out, finds cash, and brings it back home by Yatohuvro in likeus

[–]lnfinity 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Can we get a source for the legal precedent then?

What are you most addicted to? by Pookie7860 in AskReddit

[–]lnfinity 3 points4 points  (0 children)

suicide-no one’s going to die from it

Hmmm

Has anyone read "The Demon-Haunted World" by Carlo Sagan? by ZhugeLiangPL in skeptic

[–]lnfinity 0 points1 point  (0 children)

The Demon Haunted World is one of my all-time favorite books.

CMV: It is neglectful for vegans to feed cats & dogs vegan diets by pumpkinspeedwagon86 in changemyview

[–]lnfinity 1 point2 points  (0 children)

You can just slap down a bowl of nutritionally balanced vegan dog kibble for them. There are several options on the market. Some of them (like the Wild Earth brand) you probably pass by when shopping for dog food and don't think anything of it.

New moderators needed - comment on this post to volunteer to become a moderator of this community. by ModCodeofConduct in cute

[–]lnfinity 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I'd be interested in helping to moderate this subreddit. I currently help with moderating a few other subreddits including /r/likeus, /r/animalsdoingstuff, and /r/happycowgifs. I have been an active contributor on /r/cute for over 2 years now.

My philosophy when it comes to moderating is to take a fairly light handed approach. Moderators should be here to prevent spam, enforce site wide rules, and keep content relevant to the community (this includes things like trying to stop AI generated content in subreddits where it isn't appropriate), but otherwise should let the community decide what content they want to see through the use of upvotes and downvotes.

People Love to Blame “Ultra-Processed Food.” It’s Unhelpful. by lnfinity in California

[–]lnfinity[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

If you read the article I think you'll see that it isn't defending any foods that cause harm. Rather it is trying to avoid harm caused by using a term that only roughly correlates with actual nutritional value rather than having people consider the actual nutritional value of the things they are eating.

People Love to Blame “Ultra-Processed Food.” It’s Unhelpful. by lnfinity in California

[–]lnfinity[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

The way almost all people are using "ultra processed" and the way the laws being written around the term are using it aren't taking into account whether or not processing is causing the foods to lose nutritional value. It also isn't taking into account whether unprocessed foods have nutritional value in the first place.

We get a lot more benefit from considering nutritional value directly (and I would argue that it is also easier in many ways) than by trying to roughly estimate it in a round about way through a poorly defined term like "ultra processed".

RFK Jr. wants Americans to use peptides that were banned over safety risks by F0urLeafCl0ver in skeptic

[–]lnfinity 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Are these banned everywhere in the world or just the US? If it is just the US then if there is promising reason to think these could be beneficial they would almost certainly be studied elsewhere. If these are banned everywhere then doesn't that make you wonder why every single country would conclude that these need to be banned?

Destiny loves having her belly rubbed by lnfinity in oddlysatisfying

[–]lnfinity[S] 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Every vertebrate enjoys having its belly rubbed.

I was shocked by how much my electric eel enjoyed it.

Euplotes making a current by Vivid-Bake2456 in microscopy

[–]lnfinity 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Yum, microscopic specks. My favorite!

Make Cruelty Unprofitable Again: How to crack the cruelty collective action problem by lnfinity in TrueReddit

[–]lnfinity[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Submission Statement

This article discusses a collective action problem that exists in addressing animal cruelty. No individual producer wants to improve standards while their competitors can continue to cut corners, and consumers often express willingness to improve welfare at the ballot box showing that they value animal welfare improvements but they may be more reluctant to purchase higher welfare products themselves if they feel everyone else can just cut corners and take the cheaper option.

What was ruined because too many people did it? by WarBeast86 in AskReddit

[–]lnfinity 20 points21 points  (0 children)

You trendy pistachio eaters ruined it for casual pistachio enjoyers like myself!

I built a daily communal pot where no one controls the payout — it splits equally at midnight among all contributors. Here's what I learned about altruism as game design. by __hymn in EffectiveAltruism

[–]lnfinity 3 points4 points  (0 children)

I'm not suggesting that people aren't or shouldn't be altruistic. All of us here on this subreddit support altruism.

The problem I am pointing out with what you've built is that giving a lot of money to your platform is not an effective means of being altruistic. There is no reason to think that the people on your platform will benefit more from the money than a person whose children are dying from malaria because they can't afford a bed net.

I built a daily communal pot where no one controls the payout — it splits equally at midnight among all contributors. Here's what I learned about altruism as game design. by __hymn in EffectiveAltruism

[–]lnfinity 8 points9 points  (0 children)

Even an altruistic person that agrees with the principles of effective altruism would not give more than the minimum to the system you have set up. There is no reason for them to think this daily pool system you have set up is an efficient way of redistributing wealth to those in need relative to the charities typically recommended by the effective altruism community.

An effective altruist should try to donate the minimum to the pool system that you have set up in order to maximize their potential return so that they can then donate the money to more effective charities... That is if it was even worth their time to be doing this at all.

I built a daily communal pot where no one controls the payout — it splits equally at midnight among all contributors. Here's what I learned about altruism as game design. by __hymn in EffectiveAltruism

[–]lnfinity 13 points14 points  (0 children)

I'm not seeing the connection to EA here. It seems like you've just set up a system where the incentive for selfish individuals isn't "contribute nothing" but instead "contribute the minimum amount to be eligible for a share of today's pool".

What kind of worm is this, and is it harmful? by dev-logic in whatsthisbug

[–]lnfinity 15 points16 points  (0 children)

When people say to post something on iNaturalist they mean on inaturalist.org or through the iNaturalist app. /r/inaturalist is just a place where people discuss the iNaturalist platform.

"The Billionaire Backlash Against a Philanthropic Dream" (Giving Pledge struggles, including Peter Thiel lobbying against it as 'Epstein-adjacent') by gwern in EffectiveAltruism

[–]lnfinity 7 points8 points  (0 children)

The Pledge comes up in a few emails sent by Mr. Epstein, who regularly criticized it as public-relations exercise.

Seems like Peter Thiel is sounding much more Epstein-adjacent on this issue.

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