Daily Bard Digest 2024-09-13

At 09/13/24 22:20:50 in science with a score of yall:

You can and should fact check its claims

The entire history of anthropogenic climate change denialism is littered with overly confident people who thought that having a degree in i.e. electrical engineering gave them the skills and cowtools and training to "fact check" claims about climate change.

https://old.reddit.com/r/science/comments/1z1hyo/two_of_the_worlds_most_prestigious_science/cfpy15c/?context=8

Ten years ago.

At 09/13/24 22:24:12 in science with a score of yall:

The entire point of science and science communication is the ability to be able to show (if necessary) how we know what's being claimed. In science communication, it involves being able to trust the communicator.

AI is not a human. It isn't trustable. It can and has hallucinated nonexistent citations when asked to show its work. It is worse than wrong.

At 09/13/24 21:26:50 in conservativeterrorism with a score of yall:

This has nothing to do with terrorism and is just memeing

At 09/13/24 20:02:15 in science with a score of yall:

Every infection is trillions of opportunities for the bacteria / virus / fungus to evolve. Every infection in a given host species is trillions of opportunities for the pathogen to evolve a stronger, more resistant, more acute / lethal variety.

No man is an island. And fungal infections are often opportunistic. They might need moist skin, from frequent sweat - or higher relative humidity. Maybe they thrive better on mammals who've consumed metabolites from algal blooms. Or the pathogenic varieties are outcompeted currently by varieties that coevolved with us in cooler climates, that can't survive hotter, moister climates.

They might, also, begin as a fomite bloom - starting on an external substrate. Black mold makes people sick by growing on wood / in air conditioning ducts / etc, not in the person (usually).

Or symbiotic development - there are cases of soldiers in the US Civil War who developed bioluminescent wounds because of opportunistic infections by bacteria in symbiotic relationships with nematodes, infections made possible by weakened immune systems and temperature differences.

There are sometimes people who say things like "climate change will make more areas of the planet capable of growing crops, and more carbon dioxide is more plant food". These are simple strawmen - higher carbon dioxide concentrations aren't the bottleneck to more plant growth, and many plants, and many agricultural crops, depend on specific temperature ranges to germinate and thrive, for their soil symbiotic fungi & bacteria to thrive, for their pollinators to thrive.

The point here being that the conditions that allow for the support of now-8-billion humans … the conditions of +2°C Earth, +3°C, are likely to drive the evolution of novel pathogens that are More Fit To Compete in that climate.

At 09/13/24 20:03:09 in science with a score of yall:

Please never recommend chatgpt or any generative AI to answer science questions. It hallucinates wrong answers, confidently.

At 09/13/24 17:53:04 in WhitePeopleTwitter with a score of 3 points:

That'd be swans. Swans are murderhobos. Geese are belligerent football hooligans.

More than a year back I was out biking a trail in the morning cool, and out of the sky descends a swan, divebombing me and raking claws down my arm. Nine inch long ragged gouges. I had to bail & run into the trees at the side of the trail to escape it and came inches from running off a 60 ft high cliff.

At 09/13/24 17:59:31 in help with a score of 2 points:

That's something that I wanted to know, too. So I tried making a new account. Turns out that there's 6-7 "default" avatar combinations, and all but one of them are dressed colourfully, brightly, etc.

The very last one in the pick slider is the grey hoodie guy with the sunglasses & cell phone.

It's a UX phenomenon known as Slider Terminus Default. People will run the slider all the way down or across, and you get 11-20% more of those choices than the others in the list.

At 09/13/24 14:50:35 in AntiTrumpAlliance with a score of 1 point:

https://www.senate.gov/about/powers-procedures/censure.htm

About Censure

Article I, section 5 of the United States Constitution provides that "Each House [of Congress] may determine the Rules of its proceedings, punish its members for disorderly behavior, and, with the concurrence of two-thirds, expel a member."

Among the ways in which the Senate has disciplined its members is censure, sometimes referred to as condemnation or denouncement.

Censure is a formal statement of disapproval in the form of a resolution that is adopted by majority vote. The term "censure" is not found in the Constitution, and the word does not have to appear in the resolution. A censure does not remove a senator from office nor does it deny to a senator his or her rights or privileges. Since 1789 the Senate has censured nine of its members for conduct that senators determined to be inappropriate or detrimental to the Senate.

At 09/13/24 10:49:20 in AntiTrumpAlliance with a score of yall:

Do not leverage, amplify, or promote any ambient culture of hatred.

I am certain you do not wish to argue that several years ago you assaulted me at Tanglewood Forest. Several of your fellow company members have chased me and thwapped me with Amtgard -legal boffer weapons on Company Road while I was making announcements on behalf of Kingdom Officers.

Snapshots:

https://old.reddit.com/r/modnews/comments/134tjpe/reddit_data_api_update_changes_to_pushshift_access/jihki3w/?context=8:

• undelete.pullpush.io

• ghostarchive.org

• archive.org

• archive.ph (click to archive)