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  • sp3ctr4l@lemmy.ziptoFediverse@lemmy.worldBluesky does federation-washing
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    11 months ago

    Yep.

    Its ‘federated’ as long as you ignore a single massive chokepoint controlled by one company that allows them to block/ban/censor users of any part of the system.

    So functionally, their ‘federation’ system is actually just a false marketing/propoganda campaign that may also result in crowd sourcing some server costs.

    It’s psuedo-federation, along the lines of a psuedo-historian or psuedo-scientist: They pretend to be something they are not, in such a way that makes them seem trustworthy when they are in fact not.



  • Bingo.

    Psycopathy/Sociopathy (They’ve been merged together into ASPD as of the DSM 5) is 100% normalized, actually idealized, often literally worshipped, promoted as the mode of behavior of a successful, powerful person.

    … So long as you don’t directly go around murdering and robbing and defrauding people yourself, one at a time, if you can do all that indirectly via commanding or directing a complex, layered, system, then congrats, your psycopathy produces concentrated profits and socialized misery, and tens of millions of idiots will believe you are a role model.




  • Recent studies have it at closer to 92% ‘junk’ DNA, and 8% actively coding.

    Also, a lot of non-coding DNA does actually serve other useful functions, it just doesn’t actively code.

    It could play a role in epigenetics, ie the regulation of what active coding sequences are active and when, it could be telomeres that prevent DNA strands from unravelling at the ends, it could be binding and scaffold sites that assist in the structural stability and integrity of the chromosome.

    DNA can be functional, without being active-coding.

    Only regions that are both non coding and also totally non functional are truly ‘junk’, but we keep consistently finding more ways that ‘non functional’ regions are actually functional.


  • Life is a process of systems within (and outside of) an entity interacting consistently with each other.

    Why would a static screenshot of exact chemical composition matter for any process that involves a moving or animated body?

    A bricked computer with a corrupt boot loader is chemically the same as one that actually works.

    A car is chemically the same before and after you turn the key on its ignition.

    A lightbulb is comprised of the same substances whether or not its turned on or off.

    … Part of the difference between an alive and a dead body, is that the chemical reactions that constitute animating the thing into being alive … have stopped.

    A dead body is not metabolizing. It has no brain activity. The chemical reactions required to keep its heart beating are no longer happening.

    Decomposition then sets in.

    These are all differences in chemical processes.











  • As the saying goes, you may not be interested in politics, but politics is interested in you.

    Democracy doesn’t work if everyone is stupid and misinformed.

    Americans currently have an average literacy ability of 5th - 6th graders. Less than 10% of Americans are capable of independently, critically evaluating contrasting information.

    A person who chooses to be surrounded by stupidity, and then absorbs that stupidity, is stupid.

    Yes, there is a difference between stupidity (low mental aptitude, ability, potential) and ignorance (low actual knowledge set), but ignorance makes you stupid, and stupidity makes you ignorant, or even worse, full of ‘knowledge’ of false facts.

    Frankly, I’ll go so far as to say that if you willingly choose to consistently retard your own understanding of the world, by getting all your info from idiots on Facebook or TikTok, then you are definitionally retarded.

    I’m very, very tired of acting like misinformed idiots, who continuous choose to become more idiotic and misinformed, who are extremely belligerent, do not accurately fit into this definition.

    https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/retard

    Merriam Webster:

    retard (verb)

    to delay or impede the development or progress of : to slow up especially by preventing or hindering advance or accomplishment