[-] Little_mouse@lemmy.ca 5 points 33 minutes ago

Same way it's done now, only with the profit staying with the workers. Anti-capitalism is not anti-infrastructure or anti-technology or even anti-commerce. It's just anti-private-ownership of the above.

[-] Little_mouse@lemmy.ca 125 points 1 week ago

There was once a thought that the linden tree had a sap that was toxic to bees. A paper that I found claims that the more likely cause of bee death is actually starvation. The flowers of fhe linden tree have little or no nectar late in their flowering stage, but the presence of small amounts of caffeine may mislead bees into believing they are finding a food source. This paper recommends planting alternate late summer flowering plants nearby.

https://royalsocietypublishing.org/rsbl/article/13/9/20170484/50480/Do-linden-trees-kill-bees-Reviewing-the-causes-of

[-] Little_mouse@lemmy.ca 57 points 4 months ago

Neither visionary nor a founder.

[-] Little_mouse@lemmy.ca 101 points 5 months ago

Given the existance of The Big Mac Index, which seeks to compare global currencies and their respective buying power, this is actually fascinating.

[-] Little_mouse@lemmy.ca 127 points 8 months ago

If you drink something that is about the same ionic concentration as your blood, you can absorb a lot of it safely.

If you drink something much much saltier than your blood it will pull water out of your blood cells.

If you drink something with very few ions it will hydrate your blood cells, but drinking too much can burst your blood cells as they try to absorb to much.

[-] Little_mouse@lemmy.ca 60 points 11 months ago

The standard way to streak a plate involves creating a resevoir of the sample you are studying, then using a sterile tool to streak through that at a steep angle. Then you streak through the first streak with another sterile tool, and so on and so forth.

As you streak through lines, the amount of bacteria pulled along is reduced until you are able to isolate individual colonies.

[-] Little_mouse@lemmy.ca 70 points 1 year ago

Sound is transferred through a medium literally as a wave. When you get right down to the core of it, the wave requires movement within the medium to transmit.

So it might help to conceptualize it not as "Liquid cannot move faster than the speed of sound in it's medium" but more like "The speed of sound in a liquid medium is defined by the speed at which energy can propagate in that system, which includes motion."

[-] Little_mouse@lemmy.ca 45 points 2 years ago

I imagine if my occupation includes carrying a gun, interacting with citizens, and a historically high rate of extrajudicial deaths amongst people I am supposed to be protecting. A publicly accessible camera would be beneficial to easing the minds of those I interact with and providing evidence for any actual instances where I felt my life was threatened.

[-] Little_mouse@lemmy.ca 153 points 2 years ago

"Most consumers want fast food companies to label when sawdust has been added to food - but trust restaurants less when they do."

[-] Little_mouse@lemmy.ca 51 points 2 years ago

Honestly if I could just print up a new tablet instantly and without cost, I would have half a dozen around me when I am deep into a research fugue.

Being able to quickly and easily flip between books or articles (or even different sections of the same book) while at the same time keeping the existing information up on a screen that I can directly reference is great.

[-] Little_mouse@lemmy.ca 64 points 3 years ago

"But, when I talk to people in general, most seem to not worry because they “have nothing to hide”, and most are only worried about their passwords, banking apps and not much else."

Sounds like they have passwords and banking apps to hide, You should demand their bank account and credit card details to verify that they have made no illicit actions.

If they point out that they have no reason to trust you with that information, that's when you point out that police, government, or corporate groups are made out of people just like yourself. They might have some codes of conduct, or a vetting process, but it just takes one person malicious or careless enough for you to be severely impacted.

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