DrBob

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[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (5 children)

Get bent. Impacted is absolutely acceptable usage to describe a direct or follow on affect from an action or initiative. It's useful precisely because it's an intensifier that conveys not just that there is a detectable change in an indicator, but there is a major change that directly attributable to the manipulated variable.

ETA: I think I have this figured out. That 70s Show use the phrase "get bent" as a synonym for "fuck off". That's not how I learned the meaning in the actual 70s. It was closer in meaning to "get real" and in line with the reported etymology of "go have a drink".

[–] [email protected] 14 points 2 months ago

Eve online.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 3 months ago
  1. Nothing.
  2. Chicken salad on a croissant.
  3. Grilled pork loin with corn and beets from the garden. And a random potato from the grocery store.
[–] [email protected] 20 points 3 months ago (2 children)

Platypus. So goofy looking on one hand. Poisonous spurs on the other.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

SHUTUP! ~it might hear.~

[–] [email protected] 12 points 5 months ago

Holy shit that shirt wins the year.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 5 months ago (2 children)

Sticks and stones can break my bones, But names can never hurt me.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Furring strips and drywall don't count as load bearing. Structural means that it carries the weight of the overlying structure. Basically if the building falls down if that element is missing, it's structural. So staircases for instance are almost never structural. Many interior walls are not load bearing so they can get knocked down without consequence. You can also split a room by building a wall that won't be load bearing.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 6 months ago (26 children)

Structural use means load bearing. So no.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 6 months ago

Measure differences in what? We can't ask *c. elegans * about it's state of mind let alone consciousness. There are several issues here; a philosophical issue here about what you are modeling (e.g. mind, consciousness or something else), a biological issue with what physical parameters and states you need to capture to produce that model, and how you would propose to test the fidelity of that model against the original organism. The scope of these issues is well outside a reply chain in Lemmy.

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