There's a chance it will snow here soon, hope it actually stays on the ground for longer than a few hours. I know it's not as magical up north, but for us in the middle it happens a couple days a year at most and December wasn't even winter temperature-wise

Cirnoman

>>810
It's happening! (or it will soon).
It feels wasteful when it snows at night because you can't appreciate the beauty of the falling flakes

Snow! SNOW! SNOW SNOW SNOW SNOW SNOW! OH MY GOD THERE'S SNOW! AND IT'S PILING UP AND IT'S SO PRETTY AND I WISH IT HAPPENED MORE OFTEN!
SNOW SNOW SNOW SNOW SNOW!!!!!! SNOW!
SNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWW!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Snowing again. There's these nice big snow flakes. It's ridiculous. I wish there would be more snow, it's just a tiny dusting this early morning.

>>198
Yes, there are more in zoos though. It's because they have large ranges, they are fairly solitary and they can only really live in wilderness. It's why they need to be introduced to Australia.

>>196
>I was going to make a new thread about this but the I would be spamming the board in threads about Australian ecology I think.

Feel free to do so. That was a very cool video. I hope to see mammoths and thylacines in the future.

>>181
This image is too deceiving. I always think she has absolutely gazonga size boobers

>>521
saw it again and had the exact same thought. stupid australia boobers

Well, it's been a year and they still have not cloned a thylacine nor have I gotten a reply from the Minister for the Environment about my idea to introduce big cats to Australia. Sigh.....

If all you want to do is just kill people then nuclear war is what you want.
I think the idea that we need a purge because Earth is near it's human carrying capacity is woefully misguided and the product of a mind that can only comprehend the past. Humans and life in general have a remarkable ability to find solutions to the problem of survival. The more individuals you have attempting to solve that problem the more chances and ability the collective has at finding a solution.

>>893
It's not like we're actually going to do it...
Just a thought experiment on culling the human population.

Why are Hebrews like this?

>>901
Not so much about the earth reaching its capacity but more so about decrease in the collective intelligence of the population due to the sheer number of humans. Which is why I purposed selective culling in the post.

Somehow a thread about who to genocide and how to do it has not turned out well. Closing the thread.

When I pick up the home phone they often confuse me with my mum, but that's because it's her house and phone I guess, so they ring expecting to talk to her and just think that I am her.

you will never talk with the female-voiced anonymous, stop trying to beg him

>>720
I just wanted to make sure they were okay...

I mumble a lot and I have a lisp and it makes me sound like I am reteaderd.

I have a name that sounds very similar to a girl name and people mishear it for that all the time and then call me the girl name no matter what I do. It used to bother me a lot but I don't really care anymore. It's not actually my name.

>>689
>And plus the masses don't know or care enough to know what they want anyway. They are idiots.
look at the results of swiss referendums, there are indeed plenty of idiots, but not the majority

>>692
I took a quick glance but I really could not see anything particularly unusual about it, nothing that would indicate they either are idiots or not idiots. But there were a few referendums that I am kind of surprised didn't get through, such as the clean water bill, the various green food bills and the anti-Sprawl bill. But then I don't know anything about Swiss Politics or what the Bills actually wanted to implement so I can't really say for sure whether there decision was stupid or not.

I disagree with gay marriage as well but that is more personal I guess. It's interesting to see that it was fairly close to the result we got in Australia though.

This thread is getting dangerously close to the sort of politics I come here to avoid.

yes, and two of the council of three think it's a bad thread and that the guy who wants to replace his government with a monarchy is dangerously close to stepping outside of the realm of philosophy and into activism, but it's not quite there yet so there's nothing to do.

>>694
I myself feel that way too and I made this post >>693 the problem is that I feel compelled to reply to posts even though that ends up taking the thread in directions I don't want it to go... I won't reply to any more such posts.

Also, I thought this was a cool report.
http://titag.org/2016/2016papers/walkercoconutcrab.pdf

>>274
I just realized. The way that beetle's mandibles are is kind of like elite's mouths in Halo.

>>277
I am more of a leg man myself.

>>566
is this sailor moon

>>582
It's Hakumei to Mikochi.

>>576
Huh. I figured it would make a pizza by having it spin around and drop the ingredients on it and then lower it into an oven and dispense it, but 3 minutes seems rather fast. I make pizzas myself and they usually take about 7 minutes, although I use a lot more cheese so I suppose less might allow for faster cooking. Hmmm.

>>571
I see that pretty often, FamilyMarts too, but maybe that's because I like in a dystopian hellscape megacity.

>>579
I love those things but it must be hard to repair if there's a problem...

>>578
Hmm, yeah that's pretty amazing to do it in 3 minutes. The machines are made in Italy apparently, so there must be some heavy research into fast pizzas there. I'm kind of surprised, though, I'd figure Italy would be the last place to develop something like this.

>>580
it must be fucking awful to repair. but they do look great, cyberpunk imageboards are ripe with photos of these things.

>>120
Here's to the finest crew in Starfleet
Engage!

I really need to get back into watching this but the 1st season is so slow.

>>125
I don't really get why people dislike the first season. I liked it...

ｷﾀ━━━(ﾟ∀ﾟ)━━━!!

>>212
>>213
I trust doc's judgement
the man has a degree

>>211
In retrospect how did this actually occur if you were just wiping...

>>505
Thin paper, I hope.

Japanese space age toilets should become the norm so that we can avoid such unfortunate accidents in the future. Nobody want to be falsely diagnosed as a homo gayman.

>>513
Are those ones that come with bidets? Because the world could certainly use bidets becoming the norm.

>>503
>so a creature that is exactly the same but breeds faster and with less resources would simply outcompete it.
Waiting any day now for the rabbit uprising.

>>506
That already happened in Australia so they used Calicivirus to genocide them.

>>503
>adding pain receptors and such adds complexity and adds cost.
This is what I mean by seeing higher reasoning. There is no calculation of cost to evolution, it is simply competition.

>>509
Cost is a part of competition. If a creature performs nearly the same or exactly the same as another creature only it has some advanced features that require longer gestation and more resources to be consumed for that gestation then it will be outcompeted by the creature that doesn't require that.

>>510
>>271
you have no way to connect what you're talking about to the inner experience of the fly. I heard flys only feel pain on tuesdays.

>>405
this thread was made a year ago

>>406
huh

>>82164
December 29, 2020 was 357 days ago.

>>404
a year or two more

but there'd be fewer Tewi threads...

>>463
Why are you being so rude?

>>468
Because I was samefagging

If you want the months to be equal lengths then the simplest solution is to have 12 months of that length plus a 13th intercalary month with all the extra days at the end. That's the system used, for instance, by the Ethiopian Calendar.

What if we had 1 month a year and then change the length of a day by 59.178s to compensate for the roughly 1/4th of day that each year has? This would cut down on the number of months and make their length more consistent while also getting rid of leap years.

Doesn't work. Blockchain is, and always will be, a fundamentally useless technology for just about every situation. We have had transactional ledgers for years. What do you think Git is, conceptually? Beyond blockchain buzzword nonsense, crytocurrencies are also dramatically useless for practical usage. In their current implementation, they're nothing but assets to bid on. You'd be better of transacting your business in Venezuelan Bolivars than Bitcoin. Furthermore, "Tether cryptocurrencies" are nothing but assets held in trust to ensure conversion between it and the legal tender it is exchangeable for; if they're not backed by anything, then they're worthless because they have nothing to support their value, and thus cannot be a tethered store of value if that value can fluctuate.

In regards to Web 3.0 stuff in particular, similar proposals have been made in the past for distributed filehosting wherein people would dedicate a portion of their storage and be compensated for their hosting. I don't think I should have to mention this, but this is an awful idea for many reasons: 1. data integrity; if the data you're storing is not properly encrypted, what's stopping someone from unscrupulously accessing your personal files, or anything else that is sensitive, such as user data or credit card information? Nothing. 2. Distributed hosting akin to bittorrent makes no guarantees in regards to the speed of downloading or uploading, nor does it ensure the data will be stored forever, which leads to 3. If, for whatever reason, all of the hosts for a particular set of files goes offline, what happens to the files? In all likelihood, they're gone forever just as the many torrents over the years have died, but in this case you're potentially facing the loss of your entire business front, personal website, or personal storage. Finally, this leads to 4. If the only guarantee against the instability of distributed networking is centralization, what is the point of having a distributed network in the first place? There are lofty ambitions in saying, "anyone could host files for others and be paid in crypto to keep hosting them," but the reality is that this will quickly be monopolized by large players if it is to succeed in any measure.

I might be missing some of their other points, but one stuck out to me. They mentioned the possibility of having a single profile not bound by any platform. This is an admirable goal, but again, when facing reality there isPost too long. Click here to view the full text.

Okay, going to make comments as I watch. The thumbnail was not misleading; it seems heavy on internet clipart.

>Papa Elon
*vomits violently*
Feelman, social media emojis, and now this. Fuck this guy. Anyway...

[crypto talk for a few minutes]
Ignoring this, it's unrelated to the topic.
He called a website a "web 3.0 app". He spent a couple minutes talking about a P2P program and implying it was incredible even though he admitted a couple minutes earlier that napster existed 20 years ago. Some talk here or there about encryption, again old hat.
[programmer BS talk]
How does this relate to "3.0" at all? How does this change how the user interacts with the internet? It won't. 2.0 was a major change because the common man could submit content, a huge change from the largely read-only nature of the earlier internet. Privacy? Unrelated, and people don't care about it.
To me this looks like a reason to justify the energy-wasting, environment-destroying pyramid scheme called crypto. The guy is probably a /biz/ or /g/ memer, the images he uses seem to go along with it.
When a headline asks a question the answer is always going to be negative because if the writer was confident it wouldn't be a question. Youtubers seem to follow the same rule.
Grifters, grifters all the way down.

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Web3.0 is an eternal retcon of itself

I certainly don't think the web 3.0 people are talking about is something. Not only that but I don't even think it's wanted at all. Your average person doesn't care if the websites he is using are decentralised or not, well actually if anything they probably lean towards centralisation not away from it.

However, I do think there is going to be a web 3.0 but that is going to be AR/VR and the internet of things.

>>443
Average joe didn't care that he could get his plumbing instructions by watching youtube videos. Though I'm not sure he cares about NFT grifters and buying things through crypto (though it's worth pointing out that paypal is very very very very bad and will withhold thousands of dollars in funding somewhat arbitrarily while it's competitors such as stripe are not globally accesible)

Friendly reminder that although wild animals may seem friendly and cute, you shouldn't not touch them for two very important reasons: 1. There's no way to foresee an animal's behavior, and it may suddenly lash out unexpected, and 2. Petting young animals, such as was done in this video, can result in them being rejected by their parents if their scent wavers or is masked by the scent from your touch.