If we organised highly-publicised world-wide funerals for each animal that goes extinct because of our behaviour, maybe it would help sway people to take environmental issues more seriously
https://lemmy.world/post/44407661
If we organised highly-publicised world-wide funerals for each animal that goes extinct because of our behaviour, maybe it would help sway people to take environmental issues more seriously - Lemmy.World
Set up like a traditional funeral, with a grave, a coffin, eulogies and large
photos of the animal in various stages of its life cycle. The speakers could be
biologists who give mini-lectures about the animal and its evolutionary history
and climate experts who can explain why they died out. The gravestones could be
giant stone sculptures of the animal, with the lifespan of its species’
existence written in place of the “Born - Died” years, maybe with lots of other
info carved into it for posterity, like its home regions, mating and familial
behaviours, etc. Maybe local politicians could [be shamed to] attend. Maybe even
celebrities who could come and sing or whatever. A “wake” could be held before
or after, where we can mingle with the experts and chat about their respective
fields while we get drunk. Charities and green activist groups could fundraise
amongst the revellers. Kids could draw or dress up as the animal for a
competition. Basically anything fun for everyone who might come. A celebration
of the creature, and a hopeful plan for how to prevent further extinctions. And
a party, because no cunt wants to go to an actual funeral where everyone’s
miserable and hopeless, certainly not if that’s all that’s planned for the
event. If all over the world, we agreed to do this on the same day, it could
have an impact. The graveyards of lost lifeforms would remain a constant
reminder, and its sadly ever-growing cohort would show everyone who sees it how
fucked things are getting. /cope
Did anything of note take place in the year 1 A.D.?
https://lemmy.world/post/44402643
Did anything of note take place in the year 1 A.D.? - Lemmy.World
I know it was Jesus’ first birthday party, perhaps with the slightly older Judas
Iscariot lurking in the background stuffing his pockets with party size Snickers
bars while everyone else sang יום הולדת שמח, but apart from that.
Do you feel that use of generative AI and LLMs is ever justifiable? If so, when and where?. Of not, why not?
https://lemmy.world/post/44235242
Do you feel that use of generative AI and LLMs is ever justifiable? If so, when and where?. Of not, why not? - Lemmy.World
You can take “justifiable” to mean whatever you feel it means in this context.
e.g. Morally, artistically, environmentally, etc.
Need guidance for a filter I use here on Lemmy; it doesn't block posts if the keyword is at the beginning of the post title
https://lemmy.world/post/44015490
Need guidance for a filter I use here on Lemmy; it doesn't block posts if the keyword is at the beginning of the post title - Lemmy.World
Hello friends, I have a filter I use to block posts containing keywords in their
titles. The problem is, they won’t work if the keyword appears at the very
beginning of the post’s title. This is the filter:
lemmy.world##article.row:has-text(/\bKeyWord1\b|\bKeyWord2\b|\bKeyWord3/i) I’ve
tried ^KeyWord, and that doesn’t work either. And I’m now at the limits of my
knowledge! Any tips? Cheers!
Under the most ideal circumstances, how 'clean' is drinkable tap water by the time it reaches our taps?
https://lemmy.world/post/43712756
Under the most ideal circumstances, how 'clean' is drinkable tap water by the time it reaches our taps? - Lemmy.World
I’ve always been under the childlike impression that my tap water is clean
clean, but when thinking about it today I realised that it’s unlikely that tap
water is completely sterile, certainly not by the time it reaches my house
through miles of pipes. So, just how unsterile can it be and still pass muster
with the local government? If we accept a certain number of rodent hairs or
cockroach shells in each helping of our processed foods, I can only imagine
what’s considered acceptable when it comes to tap water. For reference, I’m in
N. Ireland, which is, regrettably, the UK. But obviously the island of Ireland
is where my water comes from. From this nightmarish swamp
[https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2025/aug/30/uk-largest-lake-lough-neagh-faces-environmental-crisis-as-rescue-plans-stall],
to be precise. Stay moist, hydrohomos.
TIL that the distinction between frogs and toads is informal and purely cosmetic
https://lemmy.world/post/43624329
TIL that the distinction between frogs and toads is informal and purely cosmetic - Lemmy.World
Lemmy
Yes, providing spoiler warnings for very old films is still appropriate and necessary
https://lemmy.world/post/43523320
Yes, providing spoiler warnings for very old films is still appropriate and necessary - Lemmy.World
I recently posted a thread about an old movie from the 1950s (12 Angry Men), and
provided spoiler warnings. More than one person replied jokingly that they were
grateful for the spoiler warning for a 70-year-old movie. I’ve heard the same
comment in one form or another many times over the years, and I really don’t get
it. What’s the expectation here? That we’re all LLMs who’ve been trained on
every movie released prior to 2010? It would be literally impossible to watch
every film - even excluding obscure or foreign films - that humankind has
produced since the beginning of cinema. I’m a huge movie fan who watches 2 or 3
new (to me) movies a week from pretty much every era, but I had only watched
this very famous movie from the '50s in the last year, because I’m not a magic
space baby with a brain containing all of the film scripts in history. The more
films that are made every year, the less they will be watched by future
generations, because time is a straight line and we haven’t figured out how to
pause the fucker yet so we can all catch up on 100 years of film. I’m grateful
that this old movie hadn’t been spoiled for me, because I wasn’t even an itch in
my father’s nutsack, nor he in his, when the film was first released. But the
jokes in that thread would seem to imply that I would have had no right to be
annoyed if the film had been spoiled for me, because… what? I should have had
the good sense to be born during the depression instead of the ‘80s? I should
have a working knowledge of every story every told prior to my birth? The fact
that this very famous and very old film hadn’t been spoiled for me shows that
even very famous and very old movies don’t automatically weave themselves into
the fabric of your reality by the mere force of time itself. I had no clue what
the movie was about beyond the very basic premise, because even spoilers for old
movies are hard to come by when there’re so many movies in existence. The jokes
would only make sense if the opposite were the case. If you care about spoiling
films for other people, then there is really no time frame for a film’s release
that makes it ‘fair game’. People have varied and unpredictable lives when it
comes to the media they’ve consumed, and more often than not they’re busy
watching the current output of Hollywood rather than watching their
grandparents’ favourite films featuring actors who are all long dead, and before
colour image was even technologically possible. The noble spoiler warning should
be eternal. And all of the above also applies to novels, plays, TV shows, video
games, and anything else where spoilers might ruin one’s first taste of it.
Spoiler warnings are free, but they can conjure great cultural value seemingly
out of thin air for those who are protected by them.
TIL Antidepressants used to be called 'psychic energizers'
https://lemmy.world/post/43508993
TIL Antidepressants used to be called 'psychic energizers' - Lemmy.World
We really need to bring that back 👀
TIL that the phrase "time is of the essence" comes from 18th century contract law
https://lemmy.world/post/43193336
TIL that the phrase "time is of the essence" comes from 18th century contract law - Lemmy.World
I always assumed it came from Shakespeare, or something along those lines. That
it actually came from putrid legalese was like finding out that my online
girlfriend was an AI chatbot all along.
