[–] 11 points 2 days ago (3 children)

Pain is a signal that a life form has been damaged. I should think that most if not all multicellular life forms have some method of detecting when they are damaged or dying, else their survival would be highly unlikely.

What I don't fathom is why some scientists do not approach all life on earth with basic assumptions of self-preserving behaviour and the implications therein.

A creature does not need to be able to point at you and go "ooga booga" to have feelings.

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  • [–] 22 points 3 days ago (9 children)

    I had an ex at one time who would get mad that I didn't check out other women.

    Like, she would assume I was doing it, but then when she realized I wasn't it would turn into a fight about how I'm not and every guy does.

    When I'm in a relationship I really don't have eyes for anyone else. The need to find someone just kinda turns off.

    She would also get mad and start a fight whenever I said she looked good without makeup, because I was a liar.

    After that relationship, self confidence became a huge checkbox I reviewed before entering any possible relationship.

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  • [–] 1 point 1 week ago

    Celsius isn't actually metric, per say. Its based on the freezing point of water while farenheight is based on the freezing point of mercury.

    Celcius is what most of the world used because 0 is where water freezes and is very relevant to the human condition, hence why its the most used.

    It was adopted as part of the metric SI system but unlike all the units developed for metric which actually use the above scale, I do not believe there is any practical use for this with celcius.

    Kelvin does use this however.

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    I've been seeing a lot of startrek.website shares I do showing the wrong desc and image in the unfurl on the posts lately. It was a few of them a week at first, but it's become multiple a day now.

    As the most recent example, the "Look at the time, its 7 of 9" post unfurls like this in signal:

    Is this a known issue? Is there a better place to report instance issues? It kind of looks to me like UUID reuse leading to new posts displaying old images.

     

    As the title says, I'm curious if they ever named or revisited this Human civilization in the later parts of the timeline in any way? It seems like too good of an opportunity to not revisit it at some point.

    My searches did not reveal any answer, so thought I'd ask my fellow trek nerds.

     

    Is the darkspace theme something that comes packaged with Lemmy or something the server admins are throwing together? I love where it's going but its in need of some love.. there's nothing to make the posts readable against the background.

    Complaints are not intended here, I could likely help if someone points me to a place where I can make PRs.

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