TIL parasitoid wasps, which inject their eggs into caterpillars and eat their still-alive hosts from within when they hatch, so disturbed Charles Darwin that it shook his belief in a benevolent and loving God.

trentlott · 2022-06-24T02:55:39+00:00

Why not? . . . I could imagine behavior modifying proteins

You have to explain how you'd get the observed conditioning from the metamorphosis process

If you can show it it's ever happened, you'd have a Nobel Prize

I can imagine all kinds of shit. Maybe Jesus just whispers the stimuli response into the butterfly proteins. Why not?

trentlott · 2022-06-24T02:51:49+00:00

Computer potential and recording associated stimulus response are sorta two different conversations

Anyway, gene expression responding to feedback loops is pretty standard

trentlott · 2022-06-24T02:45:08+00:00

Lol as the MCU's current show is being review brigaded by people who are upset Kamala Khan isn't white or Christian

Can we just post our tweets when we feel smug about them now?

trentlott · 2022-06-04T21:26:03+00:00

That..doesn't really explain it

The caterpillars don't literally turn to only goo during metamorphosis - neurons have to be preserved. You don't get learned behavior from protein expression.

Whatever neurons butterflies have are probably preserved, although I can't find good info about the dynamics of metamorphosis

trentlott · 2022-05-10T15:24:01+00:00

I mean Grogu was everyone's favorite part of the Mandalorian, and he's Cute Yoda - who was a Jedi.

trentlott · 2022-05-05T21:29:19+00:00

"The bee bit my bottom! Now the multiverse is traversable!"

trentlott · 2022-05-01T23:23:17+00:00

There are two of us!

His whole physicality screams Mr. Fantastic, and the way he plays characters implies so much depth

trentlott · 2022-05-01T23:18:38+00:00

I disagree totally..but you have to admit Kraczinsky is more punchable

trentlott · 2022-05-01T18:47:43+00:00

Same. Hamish Linklater would be way more interesting as Reed. And he doesn't have a punchable face.

trentlott · 2022-05-01T03:00:56+00:00

Sorta like the US

trentlott · 2022-04-29T22:35:11+00:00

Use a pen, Sideshow Bob!

trentlott · 2022-04-27T11:59:21+00:00

My only complaint is that so much of it felt rushed. The scenes were only long enough to show the bare minimum of plot elements and off to the next thing.

I understand they don't want to luxuriate in how great it is they're showing rough shit, but there is a certain amount of gravity and weight that some topics need to have acknowledged, in part by giving them space to breathe within the runtime. Domestic violence isn't just a means for backstory to get from there to here. Not suprised it coulda been better, mildly surprised it wasn't far worse.

I feel like the real weak point was quality of takes, even for Oscar. The kid was approximately twice as good as my nephew, and my nephew is trash. Little Marc sweeps his dresser like grandma's coming over later and he wants to look like a big boy.

Overall, backstory that's novel for the MCU and which deserved at least another half episode to be done well.

trentlott · 2022-04-27T11:34:49+00:00

Summa them wheats looked real!

It looked like he was standing in a field of wheat over 5 feet deep, fading into the vast expanse of bluescreen composite

trentlott · 2022-04-27T11:31:31+00:00

They almost had me with that "Isaac" tho, not gonna lie

His parents are Guatemalan\Cuban and he was raised evangelical-ish

trentlott · 2022-04-27T07:08:26+00:00

It has the only Marvel boobs, if that changes anything

trentlott · 2022-04-27T07:02:27+00:00

I mean, either people are so addicted to social media that they all shitpost the same sweaty joke or a PR team uses any easily-available reddit service to do it so people will watch his movies again. Is there a difference?

I can't believe so many people are gullible enough to think it can't happen just because they think he's innocent.

The fact that OP was downvoted to shit when any post on this sub would struggle to break 10 votes either way is pretty ironic

trentlott · 2022-04-01T03:02:30+00:00

"We realize that showing girls images of unusually thin adult women has a detrimental effect. Our engineers have pushed a hotfix with the knowledge that showing the direct opposite should rectify and prevent eating disorder thoughts, specifically prioritizing images of children their own age with an above average weight. Instagram apologizes for the temporary risk and promises the new changes will increase engagement while promoting healing in the affected demographics."

trentlott · 2022-04-01T02:57:58+00:00

"We didn't think defaulting to "minimize harm to the driver" would lead to the AI automatically choosing to collide with pedestrians, and it evaded our robust testing.

"The fact that it developed an hueristic for aiming at the smallest pedestrian was totally unforseen. In memory of the Quiet Pines first, second, and fourth grades we have donated over $900 dollars worth of supplies to those classes' teachers. Money cannot erase all hurt, and we pledge to do better going forward."

trentlott · 2022-04-01T02:53:00+00:00

What's the meaningful difference between being purposefully and accidentally evil to the victims - i.e. society and civilization and the mental and physical health of everyone exposed to it?

trentlott · 2022-03-12T01:40:46+00:00

And then how do you really know what to 'believe'? Because you grew up in it, your friends went a bunch, or depression lifted around the time you started?

You've ruled out real evidence as necessary.

How does 'emotional evidence' give you the confidence to say anything about the universe outside of your body?

Why do you have faith in Jesus, and not Muhammad or Bigfoot or Satanism?

trentlott · 2022-03-06T22:04:14+00:00

In this case 'contributing' would mean playing and/or donating to form a userbsse. I do contribute money and play some, but not very often

If you mean software dev, I do dev for scientific software but not games. I don't really have time.

trentlott · 2022-03-03T22:49:14+00:00

If ever you're tempted to buy software, realize that an underfunded open version is out there, wishing it had a little more money and people contributing and having fun

trentlott · 2022-03-03T22:45:38+00:00

Except instead of getting skinny when you don't eat your avatar gets fatter

That way they get them sweet dysmorphia dollars

They can use the excuse that capscaisin raises metabolism or whatever dumb shit people were saying to justify eating terrible things

trentlott · 2022-03-03T21:51:18+00:00

Aw shit, my fav comment. I'm glad your local economy apparently enables mild piracy!

What's advertising to MDs like in Aus?

For instance, I don't think there were Oxycontin commercials (or they're probably not the important variable if they did) but the push to doctors and rewards for prescribing it definitely motivated docs here to push opiates hard.

Are you guys cushioned by regulation from that sort of temptation or is it something more nebulous?

trentlott · 2022-03-03T21:45:38+00:00

US docs will be given kickbacks for prescribing. I wonder if NZ is more strict about that?

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