CarbonIceDragon

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[–] CarbonIceDragon@pawb.social 5 points 1 day ago (2 children)

What I have to wonder about that, is if those genes are actually connected to behavior, or if humans just perceive animals with floppy ears and curly tails as friendlier and accidentally select for that as well

Naruto is a ninja despite wearing bright orange and acting as unsubtle as possible in the same way that James Bond is a secret agent despite the people he's spying on knowing who and what he is already.

[–] CarbonIceDragon@pawb.social 21 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Is this what health insurance CEOs do in their spare time these days?

[–] CarbonIceDragon@pawb.social 20 points 1 day ago (3 children)

Or radiation perhaps?

[–] CarbonIceDragon@pawb.social 45 points 2 days ago (1 children)
[–] CarbonIceDragon@pawb.social 2 points 2 days ago

In this article's case no, it's talking about one of those "wood but compressed down into a higher density" type materials.

I'm not sure pykrete would be truly fire resistant anyway, I'd imagine the ice component would stop it burning, but given that it would melt, the heat from a nearby fire would still pose a problem for it I'd assume.

[–] CarbonIceDragon@pawb.social 2 points 2 days ago

Youtubepoop. A genre of YouTube videos, I'm not entirely sure how to properly describe what qualifies something as one, it's sort of like shitposting memes I guess but full of bizzare in-jokes.

[–] CarbonIceDragon@pawb.social 8 points 3 days ago (1 children)

To be fair, indigenous in this sort of context usually refers to a colonial state where the ruling group is different from the one there before a colonial empire got there. I don't usually see it used for populations that haven't been subject to conquest and occupation like that within the last millenia or so, even if it could technically fit, it'd be a bit redundant.

Though if the history of, say, Ireland is any indication, historically when white Europeans end up in that kind of position they haven't faired much better.

[–] CarbonIceDragon@pawb.social 23 points 3 days ago

Ironically, the closest thing I can think of to this concept actually applying in humans would be "free" internet stuff that is actually funded by advertising and personal data harvesting, which is unrelated to socialism but does describe the place that original post looks to have come from.

[–] CarbonIceDragon@pawb.social 3 points 4 days ago

"Entering Space: Creating a Spacefairing Civilization" by Robert Zubrin. My mother's work when I was growing up had a "free book shelf" that someone had put it on and she'd brought it home because I liked sciency stuff, and I've been extremely interested in space development and futurism ever since.

[–] CarbonIceDragon@pawb.social 13 points 4 days ago

Because our elections system is fundamentally broken in such a way that creating or promoting something other than the existing two makes the side you like least more likely to win. As such, unless you can get literally the entire base of one of the major parties to switch to you in the span of a single election cycle, "asking for something more than the lesser of two evils" has mostly the same practical consequences as "asking for the greater evil".

This largely breaks the premise of democracy, of course, because the two main parties don't have to follow "the will of the people", they just have to look slightly better in the eyes of their base than the other party. The way to fix it would be to greatly reform our election system, but that's difficult to do (admittedly not entirely for bad reasons, it probably would not be ideal for authoritarians to make changes to that for example), and made worse by the fact that both parties benefit from the current system vs one where even more competition can exist.

That latter point means that what it would really take, is first usurping control of one of the existing parties from those that currently run it, and then getting those newcomers into enough power at a national level to get election reform done. That's not a terribly likely path to work out, I'm afraid, but it's probably all we've got short of an actual violent revolution (which have a high risk of failing or getting co-opted by authoritarians, and in any event are a lot harder to start than some people on the internet seem to think they are). This is probably why the establishment democrats hate this guy so much, despite him only running for mayor (of a large city admittedly, but still, not exactly president or anything). Popular candidates from outside their established group are exactly the kind of thing that you would need to start this process, and if successful that group would lose much of their power.

[–] CarbonIceDragon@pawb.social 13 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago) (1 children)
 

Possibly not the ideal instance for this, but Id rather not deal with alt accounts and like how this instance has been run thus far. Plus, theres gotta be some other furries that play this game right? seeing as it lets you make creatures...

 

Not entirely sure if this is the right place to ask this, but I figured it was the closest fit.

I've been thinking about creating one or possibly a few communities, mostly due to missing some that were on Reddit. Before creating any, I wanted to be sure of a few things:

  1. Do communities have to be created on the instance one logs in to (ie, does the fact my lemmy account is from pawb mean that communities I make have to be made here?) I kinda assume it would since going to another instance's page loads their site, which I obviously am not logged into, but given my second question I feel like I should ask if there's a way to make one elsewhere.
  2. Given pawb is a furry instance, do communities made here have to be furry related, or could one make, say, a community for some specific game for example that isn't explicitly a furry game?
  3. Would creating a fetish-related community for one that is popular with some furries be allowable, or should I go to a different instance for such things? I noticed one or two on pawb already but I was unsure if they got any special permission to be created or not.
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