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I’ve seen a surprisingly fast turtle once (well, tortoise, but those are technically a subset of turtles).

I guess I could kind of see an argument for regulating what can be grown to some extent, like a government might want to have domestic food production in case of loss of access to imports, and might therefore have reason to make farmers grow food crops rather than some inedible crop that might have more value, but that still doesn’t explain regulating individual varieties of potato, particularly for this reason. If they clog machinery when harvested, won’t that by itself incentivize farmers not to grow them?

I mean, isn’t this exactly what we would expect? Big influx of people when reddit does something unpopular and people want alternatives, then a decrease as the anger fades and people either decide they don’t like Lemmy for some reason, or just settle down into their normal, less active amount of posting, stabilizing at a number of users lower than the peak but higher than before the influx. Assuming that Lemmy still is around the next time Reddit gets people mad, it’ll happen again, just like how Mastodon gets an influx of new users whenever Twitter does something to upset it’s userbase.

Clearly the trains weren’t using that track anyway, seeing as how the track switching thingy looks like it’d just detail the train if used

I mean, is there really potential for infinite simulated ones? It doesn’t make sense to be able to simulate a more powerful computer than the one running the simulation, else any computer would be able to have effectively infinite processing power with recursive simulations, so each “layer” of the simulation is logically going to have less processing power available for it than the layer above, probably a lot less. After a certain point, shouldn’t it reach a state where reality as we perceive it is too computationally intense to simulate?

That’d be on Titan tho, rather than some asteroid

The article suggests that the roman concrete gets it’s properties due to using a certain kind of volcanic ash found around Naples, but not common everywhere else, so using their recipe wouldn’t be sustainable with the amount of concrete we use these days.

If there is a god, who has a plan, which involves absolutely everything that ever happens (by virtue of it being planned out by an omniscient being that therefore would know and take into account exactly what will happen when making any plan), would not you judging said plan, if you do so, necessarily be part of the plan in the first place and therefore be for you to do?

I mean, it’s more of a threat than it was. In all likelihood, this won’t be the last time reddit does something to really anger it’s userbase. There is a much higher chance of people leaving in future incidents if there is an alternative platform with enough users to actually have the content people want.

Still not the same as actually being a tech expert though

I’m a bit under 24, have the limit of my tech skills being the ability to install and sometimes troubleshoot minecraft and Skyrim mods, and have never used Linux (I’ve thought about it admittedly, but ultimately didn’t switch to it as it doesn’t look to be compatible with my vr system.)

So there are some of us here that don’t fit that demographic. From talking to some of my friends though, even the idea of having to pick an instance understanding federation/defederation has been hard to explain to some, doable but they generally prefer things that are self explanatory enough to not have to be talked through them. I’ve tried the whole email analogy but to be honest most of them don’t use email that often anyway.