Disregard the jumper wires it's a first revision okay

!spacechads

!engineering

Newly deciphered passages from a papyrus scroll that was buried beneath layers of volcanic ash after the AD79 eruption of Mount Vesuvius may have shed light on the final hours of Plato, a key figure in the history of western philosophy.

In a groundbreaking discovery, the ancient scroll was found to contain a previously unknown narrative detailing how the Greek philosopher spent his last evening, describing how he listened to music played on a flute by a Thracian slave girl.

Despite battling a fever and being on the brink of death, Plato – who was known as a disciple of Socrates and a mentor to Aristotle, and who died in Athens around 348BC – retained enough lucidity to critique the musician for her lack of rhythm, the account suggests.

Wow you suck at the flute, slave.

The text also reveals that Plato was sold into slavery on the island of Aegina, possibly as early as 404BC when the Spartans conquered the island, or alternatively in 399BC, shortly after Socrates' passing.

“Until now it was believed that Plato was sold into slavery in 387BC during his sojourn in Sicily at the court of Dionysius I of Syracuse,” Ranocchia said. “For the first time, we have been able to read sequences of hidden letters from the papyri that were enfolded within multiple layers, stuck to each other over the centuries, through an unrolling process using a mechanical technique that disrupted whole fragments of text.”

https://old.reddit.com/r/climatechange/comments/1cgmk4u/what_about_climate_change_worries_you_the_most/

The unforeseen positive feedback loops that we will only notice when it's far too late.

We might very well be like Wile E. Coyote, already off the cliff just not realising it yet.

Just like my cartoon!

Preemptive war for diminishing resources.

Wid scale ecological collapse. The ecosystems we have are our life support. They provide all of our food, heavily influence weather patterns, etc. When they go, we go, and we won't be able to out-tech ourselves from the situation. Geopolitical instability rapidly spirals in conjunction with ecological collapse.

I'm surprised to see this relatively low in the list. The biggest problem, IMO, is not that extreme weather events are going to kill people. It's that extreme weather events are going to, at some point, line up badly and wipe out a large amount of food at one time. Add this to the loss of sea life and we simply won't have enough food to feed everyone. Many, many people will die. Many more will try to move.

Looks like Malthusianism is back on the menu!

Geopolitical instability. Collectively, humans are not great at dealing with crisis., so our own collective immaturity will compound any existential crisis. We are the crisis of crisis.

Pandemic is a case in point.

And as for when it will happen, well it started about 2008.

2008 2008 2008 2008 2008 2008 2008 THE YEAR OF MILLENNIAL APOCALYPSE

!ifrickinglovescience !biology !chemistry I'm unironically concerned about climate change as well, but these doomers focus on the most extreme worst-case-scenarios on a very unhealthy way to the point it just discourages any climate action, I don't see much discussion about adaptation neither, not that is a silver bullet but things like more research on GMO heat or drought resistant crops will be necessary and could help with food insecurity. Research on solar geoengineering should also be encouraged.

!ifrickinglovescience highly educational 1950s video.

AND IS A CARTOON JUST LIKE THE VIDEO GAME!

!biology !latinx !macacos

Basically a full scale nuclear war between NATO vs Russia/China would result in 5 billion people dead within weeks. With nuclear winter ensuing the few surviving breadbaskets will be Australia , South Africa and Argentina

I think is bold of them to asume the chinks wont nuke Australia.

South Africa would get overwhelmed by refugees from the north of the continent leading to collapse and full mayocide (RIP @kaamrev, you wont make it).

At the end South America inherits the Earth Brazil has the largest military in the continent so we'll totally invade Argentina to guarantee our food security. It's likely the South and Southeastern Brazilian agriculture wont be much affected, unless hydrological patterns are severely disrupted (I wonder if we could then make use of the Guarani Aquifer for irrigation until the climate goes back to normal)

Also interestingly, a full scale nuclear war between pakis and pahjeets could still result in 2 billion deaths. Total South Asian extinction.

The mods should have a low effortpost button for when i post shit just to make House furry mad

!ifrickinglovescience

!physics

!chemistry

!biology

!engineering

Tell your nerd friends

this guy has gotta be the most INTP person in history

Hi everyone

I just want to rant a bit about misinformations I hear from “educational” and “intellectual” sectors in my country regarding agriculture and the Green Revolution.

For those of you who don't know, Brazil is s breadbasket, along with our neighbors Argentina, Uruguay and Paraguay. Brazil alone produces enough food for over 1 billion people which has lead to a prosperous agro business in the country, speaking from a family background, my maternal grandma was a dairy farmer and she still keeps a small garden to plant veggies on her house. My late paternal grandpa was was a seed salesman and he owned a Silo at one point and my dad is an agronomist (though his company works with forestry). Most cities in the Southern Countryside are agricultural focused, similar to the American Midwest, the Centre-West region of Brazil is another breadbasket however their focus is on cattle (though soybean production increasing). The Agro is incredibly professionalized and Brazil has produces industrialized Agro derived products like Soybean oils, processed coffee and biofuels.

That being said it is no secret the Brazilian left loathes the Agricultural system, but what makes me particularly angry is how much they misinform or straight up lie about making use of “educational channels”.

For instance I've noticed on Youtube channels like Brasil Escola and other Youtube “Professors/Teachers” will rant about how the Green Revolution is bad because of Rural Exodus and the horror, PEOPLE MAKING MONEY OUT OF SELLING CROPS

The worst part is that these “teachers” make their videos to prepare High School Seniors for the ENEM tests (the ENEM is kind of like the American SAT). The ENEM itself is extremely politicized as you need to write an essay (redação) about a given subject. The subject changes every year. For instance the 2022 Redação Subject was “Challenges facing the traditional peoples of Brazil”, that is the indigenous and quilombolas. Last year the subject was “Challenges to face the invisibility of caretaking work made by women”. In 2019 it was “democratization of cinema access in Brazil”, and so on.

Scrolling down the comments of the Youtube Teachercels channels I keep finding the same nonsensical claim:

>FAMILY AGRICULTURE FEEDS 75% OF OUR POPULATION WE DON'T NEED AGRO

>GMOs ARE POISONOUS AND CAUSE CANCER

>LE EVIL MONSANTO

I always read this nonsense online when leftoids talk about the Agro Business. That number is false.

https://www.gazetadopovo.com.br/agronegocio/agricultura-familiar-nao-precisa-da-falsa-propaganda-de-que-produz-70-dos-alimentos/

O censo agropecuário de 2017, o mais recente, também desmentiu os números superestimados da produção familiar, e revelou que as propriedades assim enquadradas respondiam por 23% do valor total da produção dos estabelecimentos agropecuários.

Leia mais em: https://www.gazetadopovo.com.br/agronegocio/agricultura-familiar-nao-precisa-da-falsa-propaganda-de-que-produz-70-dos-alimentos/

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The real number is around 23%

I remember the commies at /r/brasil soying about the MST (Movimento dos sem Terra) or “Landless Movement” a leftist group dedicated to private property occupation. They talked about the MST as id they singlehandedly fed the entire country.

Now, without mentioning their claims are completely bollocks, it seems they would rather disrupt the entire AGRO and place it under new forests or subsistence farming. Excluding the fact this would kill dozens of millions abroad and starve hundreds of millions by disrupting food supplies, it would cause starvation in Brazil as even the demonized AGRO crops (soybeans, maize, wheat) and cattle go beyond export.

Quando se fala de soja, ela está presente em vários outros alimentos, no óleo, no suíno, no bovino, no peixe. Ela é base da ração para esse tipo de rebanho. Você não se alimenta de soja de uma maneira geral, mas indiretamente ela entra na alimentação. > Com o milho é a mesma coisa. O frango é um milho com asa: 73% do frango é milho”, diz o pesquisador da Embrapa.

Corn and soy are used to produce oils and they feed the livestock which is consumed by Brazilians and foreigners alike. Not to mention derivate products like noodles and processed stuff. There's also coffee and cotton, the first is present in almost every Brazilian Household, the latter is the source for clothing.

These São Paulo and Rio de Janeiro teachercels and their leftoid “students” have an extremely romantic, idealized vision of subsistence agriculture to the point of being close to Noble Savage myths. That being said, President Lula is a strange man on this regard.

Lula has close relationships with MST leaders and allowed for this anti agro propaganda to thrive inside our Educational System (it's not only Youtube channels, regular teachers and they commie unions are the same), however when it comes to actual policy he's all business as usual. He always nominates centre-right agriculture ministers from Agro dominated states, he has meetings with Agro producers and businessmen and promotes our exports to China while trying to secure Fertilizer imports from Russia (also a reason why Bolsonaro was friendly with Russians despite the Ukraine debacle). It could be argued he pays lip service to MSTcels.

Anyways, I think this one of the most damaging and dangerous types of virtue signaling and feel good politics, I hope they never get their way but right now is kind of worrying how much PR this sort of nonsensical callous misinformation campaign currently has.

!macacos !neolibs

!comicshitters

As part of a previous article looking at concerns about the use of AI in recent comic books, the cover artist Jingxiong Guo, or Daxiong, was accused by some people on social media of doing such for recently announced Shazam, Wonder Woman and Power Girl covers.

The Shazam covers look ok but the Power Girl and Wonder Woman are sus

These also got plenty of play on social media. Very shortly afterwards, Jingxiong Guo posted the following sketches to his Instagram page, as if to answer such claims.

At the time, a DC spokesperson said "DC Comics has longstanding policies in place that all artwork must be the artist's original work. We are looking into the specifics of this situation." Well, Bleeding Cool has learned that DC Comics has now pulled the cover and has replaced them with the following, from Dave Johnson, Dan Panosian, and Cully Hamner.

Hey if we get more Power Girl art then it's all win/win

Jingxiong Guo told YouTuber Vinicius, or 2quadrinhos, "I haven't used AI, but I am an artist who was hurt in this witch hunt. I've been in this industry for over thirty years and my drawing has always been traditional by hand." He did, however, say, "I am not against AI; I think it belongs to the field of science. It doesn't concern me, and actually, the development of AI has nothing to do with me, but I am grateful that AI can provide me with accurate translations."

>I don't use AI but I totes love AI

Good optics there Jing.

Why had the covers changed? "DC and I considered changing the cover because the controversial image might affect their sales. It does not mean it proves that it is an AI work." These are the new solicitations as they currently stand.

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The replacement covers look more like AI work than the originals do.

I wonder if DC had an expert confirm these were, in fact, generated by AI.

Literally look at the guy's Instagram, where he frequently shows himself drawing with pen and paper, and the stylistic results are identical to these drawings. He has a weird style, he's not using AI. A bunch of reactionary psychos are trying to ruin this guy's career when he has ample evidence going back years that this is just how he draws.

I'm terrified of AI too. I hate the dangers it poses to all creative media. But these psychotic witch hunts must stop.

>Look that not's AI slop he just draws that way.

These robots are taking all our jobs! And our women!

My favourite comments: suddenly its OK to decide who is and isnt a woman

https://old.reddit.com/r/Gamingcirclejerk/comments/1c5i5wj/warhammer_has_gone_woke_i_can_no_longer_fantasize/kzudf68/?context=8

https://old.reddit.com/r/Gamingcirclejerk/comments/1c5i5wj/warhammer_has_gone_woke_i_can_no_longer_fantasize/kzupcv3/?context=8

NEW - Boston Dynamics reveals its new generation "Atlas" robot.pic.twitter.com/o6fuBrx8zF

— Disclose.tv (@disclosetv) April 17, 2024

!sangha

New Soyzgesagt video !spacechads

Very unique footage showing an exoatmospheric interception amid the Iranian ballistic missile attack, likely by the Arrow 3 air defense system. pic.twitter.com/wrZNCV01tn

— Emanuel (Mannie) Fabian (@manniefabian) April 14, 2024

Groomercord is gay corposlop on a centralized server with shitty paywalled features. IRC was leagues ahead in terms of aesthetics, protocol and trout

Cool handles? Mandatory.

Autism? Mandatory.

!oldstrags