Fun fact: The only way to get a tan is through increasing your risk of skin cancer:

In the second process, triggered primarily by UVB, there is an increase in production of melanin (melanogenesis),[10] which is the body's reaction to direct DNA photodamage (formation of pyrimidine dimers) from UV radiation.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sun_tanning

(The first process is generally not what people refer to by tanning)

Remember to always use sun screen folks!

My thought process because I'm stupid:

How to turn on (sexually) a light? Makes no sense

How to turn on (betray) a light? Makes even less sense

Oh.

Please read further. I can't be bothered to quote them all but (almost?) none of what follows after the actually seems genuine. Here's the full Texas one for example:

Actually, Yeah, I know exactly what you mean. I’m from Texas. I once witnessed a guy who took a lady cyclist right of way, nothing much you may say, but I got my gun out and shot a hole in the car’s motor the size of a bowling ball. An eye for an eye, thought him a lesson I tell you. Alas, this altercation was witnessed by the police, and I was arrested for aggravated assault. Seems the female cyclist didn’t have the right of way after all. I write these lines from prison, but I would still vote for Trump in the next election.

You are aware systems are more than the sums of their parts...?

A book is more than the sum of its words.

A painting is more than the sum of its pigments

Music is more than the sum of its sine waves.

This is called emergence and is a very basic principle of - well anything, really. The same building blocks arranged in different ways will result in entirely different new objects.

If you're interested in philosophy, feel free to read a few Wikipedia articles. You're not the first one to ask about the nature of feelings and I am not qualified to have deeper discussions about this topic.

It's more the processing that's relevant for pain. No processing, no pain.

For instance, some humans have very specific genetic mutations that do not allow them to feel pain. The peripheral nerves still send the pain signals to the brain but it cannot process them. Therefore, no pain.

There could be a discussion on whether very simple nervous systems (like in jellyfish) without a central component (brain) can process pain. But I'm not a biological researcher or philosopher so that's outside my Lemmy paygrade.

And what makes them different from any other chemical reaction is a little disingenuous. Might as well ask what's the difference between burning a human on a stake and melting glass? Both are just chemical reactions involving heat from a certain perspective.

There is simply no organ comparable to the brain in plants that would allow for plant pain. That's pretty much it.

He'll get a heart attack the moment he discovers the furry subculture of planesonas.

SFW Lesbian Concorde x Tupalev Tu-144 art

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They're roommates by the way. Like for real, the IRL planes with the same registration are in (or rather "on") the same museum.

Worst I've had in Germany was 7:50 AM to 5:30 PM, that was fun.

G8 was a great idea with no drawbacks whatsoever.

Plants can feel pain the same way a machine can learn. Which means not at all outside of marketing.

In reality they simply have mechanisms to react to damage. But that's not pain.

Pain is the processing of injury in a nervous system. Plants lack the nervous system required to feel anything.

Just like a brain dead human, sponge or bacteria plants cannot feel pain in any meaningful way.

Yup, but hardly anyone in the US decides to do Atlantic to Pacific road trips either.

Lisbon to Helsinki takes 47 hours of driving btw.

And you haven't even reached far North yet, there's still 1000+ km of Finland remaining.

It wouldn't need to break the sound barrier. Killing someone once a day should mean one death every 24 hours (assuming the hand uses its own hand time zone).

The Earth's circumfrence is about 40,000 km, meaning the hand would need to travel at most 20,000 km in 24 hours which requires a speed of 833 km/h, whereas the speed of sound is 1235 km/h.

You don't understand, you're the roommate that would be replaced by the robot.