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Beacon@fedia.ioto Ask Lemmy@lemmy.world•Who is an actor you can't stand, but everyone likes?85·4 days agoPaul Rudd. Deeply uninteresting to watch or listen to.
Inaccurate to the point of being untrue. There are some people that won’t be good back to you, but the large LARGE majority of people will be nice to you if you’re nice to them.
There’s a kernel of truth in there, but here it’s worded as an incorrect statement. I believe the intent of the message is to say something like -
“There are some people who won’t be nice to you no matter how many times you are nice to them. So don’t waste your life energy trying to win them over.”
Beacon@fedia.ioto Showerthoughts@lemmy.world•Not only do we humans have a common ancestor with primates still living in trees, we have a common ancestor with the trees.2·5 days agoIt’s almost a certainly that all current life on earth has the same common ancestors. It makes sense for a ton of reasons.
For example all living organism have dna, and they all use the same 4 nucleic acids that their dna is made from. Neither of those facts are necessary requirements for life to exist, so since 100% of life does both of those things then that’s very strong evidence that 100% of life had a common ancestor.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_life
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Last_universal_common_ancestor
Beacon@fedia.ioto Showerthoughts@lemmy.world•Not only do we humans have a common ancestor with primates still living in trees, we have a common ancestor with the trees.5·6 days agoYep, literally every single living thing has a common ancestor.
Monkey? Yep.
Tree? Yep.
Octopus? Yep?
Mushroom? Yep?
Bacteria? Yep.
Beacon@fedia.ioto No Stupid Questions@lemmy.world•Why do fancy cars look fancy and cheap cars don't? Can't you just slap a Lamborghini-style chassis onto a lawnmower engine if you want?55·6 days agoOy, dude, no. You couldn’t prove my point any more clearly
Beacon@fedia.ioto No Stupid Questions@lemmy.world•Why do fancy cars look fancy and cheap cars don't? Can't you just slap a Lamborghini-style chassis onto a lawnmower engine if you want?44·6 days agoRidiculously pretentious comment, and at least half of it isn’t even meaningfully true.
Beacon@fedia.ioto Technology@lemmy.world•Smartphones are Designed to Fail Us (and We Have to Change That)8·6 days agoIt makes total sense to me. A phone case is just a cheap piece of plastic that’s made using cheap mold-manufacturing, and cases last for the entire life of the phone, sometimes even living on through a couple of phone lifetimes.
But screen protectors have to be more rigorously designed, - making sure that the material works well between finger and each particular touchscreen, and it’s made using relatively much more expensive manufacturing processes like curved glass cutting, and people have to replace them every once in awhile because the purpose of a screen protector is to take all the damage that otherwise would’ve happened to your screen.
Beacon@fedia.ioto Technology@lemmy.world•Smartphones are Designed to Fail Us (and We Have to Change That)66·7 days agoThat doesn’t match my experience with phone hardware. Everyone i know has a bunch of old phones that’ve been handed down to kids and even more sitting in junk drawers, because they all still work. Yes a couple of them have cracked screens, but even with those the only reason why the screen wasn’t repaired is because people wanted or already had a newer phone.
Software is a totally different matter though. The OS and apps stop getting updates at some point even though the hardware is still totally capable of doing what most people want their phone to do. And even worse, many companies don’t allow a phone to revert to an older OS version, so the company pushes out an update that slows the phone down and then there’s no way to fix that.
The HARDWARE isn’t designed to fail, because the SOFTWARE is designed to let the company force the device to fail at whatever exact moment the company later decides on.
Beacon@fedia.ioto Ask Lemmy@lemmy.world•Do you think pH should be added to food item labels?5·7 days agoYou’re misunderstanding. Yes there’s plenty of scientific evidence that excessive soda drinking harms your teeth, but that’s a totally different topic than whether listing pH level on nutrition labels would have any effect on public health.
Beacon@fedia.ioto Showerthoughts@lemmy.world•So many bands emphatically demonstrate that successful communication is not about what you say, but how you say it84·7 days agoHang on a second, you’re saying that music is mainly about how things SOUND!!! That’s a brand new revelation!!! 🤣
Beacon@fedia.ioto Ask Lemmy@lemmy.world•Do you think pH should be added to food item labels?6·7 days agoI don’t think it’s necessary. Generally people who get acid reflux know exactly which foods exacerbate it. And i don’t believe it causes the level of effect on teeth health as you imply.
In other words just like with all the other values that already got added to the nutrition labeling, you’d have to make a strong science-evidence-based case demonstrating that it would be meaningfully helpful to add it to the listings.
Beacon@fedia.ioto Ask Lemmy@lemmy.world•It's June 2025. What are you looking forward to in the next 6 months?6·8 days agoGood weather activities! Like:
Biking! Street Fairs! Free concerts! Farmers markets! Parades!
Hm, got a source for that? It’s not hard to believe, but I’d need a source before i do
Beacon@fedia.ioto No Stupid Questions@lemmy.world•Hello, non-Americans, do you have any Chinese language classes in your education system?8·8 days agoOf course plenty of American schools offer Chinese language courses. It’s odd that you assumed with total confidence that the opposite was true.
Beacon@fedia.ioto Showerthoughts@lemmy.world•Is it really doom scrolling if it's just true?8·8 days agoI’d say it has to be things you believe to be true. If a wacko is scrolling for hours on nonsense about how the covid vaccine inserts a mind control chip into your brain and how the leftists are going to come to your small town and force your kids to be trans - then that’s still doom scrolling.
You might think so, but the actual lyric is “this”
https://genius.com/Eurythmics-sweet-dreams-are-made-of-this-lyrics