Yeah but the babies were small, which is what matters here.

The thing with eggs is that they would probably have to be huge. I guess that the egg would maybe have to be 10x the size of the finished baby (Idk for sure though) due to inefficiencies in the food metabolism. While for chickens, that’s not a problem because the babies are small, for humans it would be difficult.

IMO Debian is already pretty far middle-ground. The packages are new enough for my personal usage.

Yeah i basically just wanted to tell you that there’s actual data on stuff and if you wanna know, you gotta read it all, there’s a lot. I don’t know what it would help you and ask a question such as “is there a name for the time when we started to burn oil?” because if i give you an answer, what do you do with that answer? if you can’t embed it into a broader context, that answer seems pretty useless to me. So if you actually wanna know, maybe start reading it all. idk. maybe i come off arrogant, but that’s not my intention. i just don’t understand what your motivation for asking this question is?

I think I just had a lot of talks about this with someone recently. Feel free to DM me if you wanna know more.

Yes, you’re right; The sources of energy have a society-defining role.

There’s two major sources: carbon-based (coal, oil, gas, biomass) and electricity.

Right now, we consume approximately 50% of either, but this is about to change. I predict that solar power will shift energy consumption to nearly 100% electrical in a few years.

I don’t really know about a specific name for when we started burning oil, but you might wanna look at Peak Oil Theory because it explains the mass of oil consumption over time as a bell curve.

They mean inverting the flow of logic, not looking at consequences but at causes, i guess.

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No, I think, they both (burgersc12 and OP) have an important point.

We can think of technology in two different ways: input and output; i.e. what do we put into the machine (source of energy) and what do we get out (factory products). They’re just looking at it from two different angles: OP is asking about power source, but burgersc12 is talking about factory outputs.

what keeps the water going while it makes its journey from the Alps to the sea?

I disagree that it’s “hardwired in our brains”. It certainly has a strong cultural bias. Also, I kinda look at it like a gynologist: If you’ve seen 20 of them naked, it gets boring and you stop staring, I guess.

I assume it’s because France is a sane country.

“freedom” as in “free to economic growth” but not “free” as in “free to do what you want”

I wonder whether it was the right decision to not federate with Threads.

On the one hand, yes, they would have caused a lot of problematic content, but on the other hand, it would have meant a lot of new users, and that would have livened up the place a bit. I guess.

Maybe we could do a switch in the user profile for Lemmy where it says “show Thread posts in All posts”. Or something.

uuh, new users for the fediverse. looking forward to y’all ;-)

Can anyone enlighten me: What is the advantage of IRC over say Matrix, Email, etc…

They wouldn’t wear a leash because they aren’t a dog.

That would be true if the world is hollow.

But we know it is not.

Yeah I think the human brain is a vehicle for “mind virus” which is script and ideas.

Are you interested in this from a philosophical perspective or from a practical perspective?

From a philosophical perspective:

It depends on what you mean by “intelligent”. People have been thinking about this for millennia and have come up with different answers. Pick your preference.

From a practical perspective:

This is where it gets interesting. I don’t think we’ll have a moment where we say “ok now the machine is intelligent”. Instead, it will just slowly and slowly take over more and more jobs, by being good at more and more tasks. And just so, in the end, it will take over a lot of human jobs. I think people don’t like to hear it due to the fear of unemployedness and such, but I think that’s a realistic outcome.