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  • LOGIC💣@lemmy.worldtoThe Far Side@sh.itjust.works•2026-01-19
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    9 months ago

    I’ve heard that this type of cicada lives underground for 13 or 17 years, which immediately jumps out as being two different prime numbers.

    It seems odd at first that a species seems to know about prime numbers, but there is a natural explanation. If there are ones that emerge in non-prime intervals, they are more likely to emerge at the same time due to their common factors. So those ones would tend to emerge in greater numbers, making them easier for predators to specialize in.

    But staying underground for long intervals in prime numbers of years makes it difficult for those predators, so the prime cicadas would have an evolutionary advantage.


  • Glancing over the rest of the comments, I don’t see somebody explicitly pointing out how we know Trump is full of shit and also dumb as shit in this letter.

    First, he campaigned on “America First,” so he never felt an obligation to think “purely” of peace. It’s just a lie.

    Second, he’s outright saying that he previously was giving the Nobel Prize committee an insane amount of control over American foreign policy because he wanted to be a Nobel Peace Prize. This is a dumb as shit thing to admit.

    Third, is it Russia or China who we’re worried about taking over Greenland? Does Trump not understand that these are two different countries? Surely if he is working on some sort of intel, he’d specifically choose one of them to be worried about. I think this demonstrates that there’s no real intel about this, and he’s simply lying.

    Fourth, why isn’t he waiting until Russia or China actually do something? If they actually did something militarily in Greenland, then America could swoop in and save the day. And then, he’d also have some actual reasoning behind statements that he could use to justify taking control of Greenland.

    Also, NATO has done tons of stuff for the US. Why does America have the largest military budget in the world? It’s because America has chosen to maintain military presence all over the world. NATO has always supported American foreign policy.

    Everything Trump is saying in this letter reeks of bullshit.






  • I don’t have a link, but I am sure I saw it on the news in the early or mid 90s. But one thing I have learned recently is that many of the “news” articles about cars are invented stories planted by other car companies.

    Like one recent thing you’d have seen is stories about electric cars catching fire. It seemed that every time any electric car caught fire, it was national news, but non-electric cars catch fire frequently, as well.

    So anyways, long story… less long, the story I’m remembering might have been fake, as well.


  • LOGIC💣@lemmy.worldtoComic Strips@lemmy.world•Announcements
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    9 months ago

    These people are better at using AI than like 99% of everybody, since they are actually critically and carefully reviewing its output.

    One of the big problems with actually using AI for work is that, even for people who carefully and critically review it, sometimes, it is just too good at making slop look like something real.


  • I remember when cruise control first became widespread for cars. Most people didn’t use it or barely used it. Some people, like me, did a lot of testing and figured out the best ways to use it, and ended up using it more than most. But then, there were people who just assumed it would work perfectly like they imagined, and used it as if it was a full-self-driving car, which immediately had bad results.

    I think the worst thing about AI is that it lures people into fully trusting it, and they don’t even realize that their cruise control car is heading off-road towards a cliff. AI can be a useful tool if you know what you’re doing, but it is such a bad idea to have it on by default. Even a lot of fairly experienced users are tricked by AI. The average person doesn’t have a chance. It’s irresponsible to expose them to it.