This is huge. Biology is a branch of science that’s almost entirely dependent on microscope technology.

…I suppose we’ll be seeing a lot of headlines like this in the next few years. The UK is going to do every dumb, self-destructive thing the USA has been doing lately, isn’t it?

I appreciate your comment, thank you.

I expected pushback with this story in particular, because people just love their corn fed beef, and will get absolutely belligerent in its defense.

The bare minimum in a science community is reading the article. Or at least it should be.

Thanks for confirming you didn’t read the article and that your opinions on this can be safely ignored.

It’s legitimately depressing that this comment has this many upvotes. This is a science community and they’re upvoting a scientifically incorrect statement.

Did you read the article? Cows now occupy a category of tool users that only has two other animals in it: humans and chimpanzees. The category is multipurpose tool use. In order to be placed in this group the animal needs to use one tool to perform different functions.

Walking onto an automatic milking device is an entirely different category of intelligence.

I play Guild Wars 2, and I’m worried if I bought an OLED I would end up with the UI permanently burned in. The technology just doesn’t seem compatible with games that feature a persistent UI.

I have a conflicted view of Netflix. They’re a classic big American corporation and come with all the bullshit that entails, but at the same time they do occasionally do some cool things.

Like releasing queer content despite the backlash from the right. They released that “gay boot camp” series recently and it absolutely enraged right wing bigots. This thing with blender is another example.

I am very nervous about their Warner Brothers purchase and am hoping they prove to be responsible owners of all those IP’s. It seems quite unlikely, though. There are so few American corporations who aren’t shitty.

Only 1% of the corn grown in the US is eaten by people. Most of it is used as animal feed (which is catastrophic on their systems as their stomachs aren’t designed to digest corn, so their corn diet slowly kills them) and a large portion is made into ethanol and added to gasoline. The corn subsidies are so dumb that they require a minimum amount of the corn being grown to be turned into ethanol, which is extremely inefficient.

The Hank Green video someone linked above goes over some of the stuff I mentioned.

Correct. The exact same fascists who are doing this to the USA have explicitly stated that they’re targeting the EU next.

An entirely different person called him an angel. Maybe check usernames before typing out a whole ass paragraph?

Qobuz has been good for me so far. I ran out of data the first month just because of the increased quality, so I may have to upgrade to an unlimited data plan. I mostly just use it to download albums rather than stream.

The increase in audio quality coming from Spotify is absolutely noticeable, especially for certain bands who put a lot of extra work into their production. Listening to Tool albums on Qobuz is like a brand new experience.

Yes! It always does the loading spin animation for like 10 seconds before it shows me my downloaded album. And some albums just never work at all. I have to go online and then offline again just to make it work at all, which defeats the purpose of being offline in the first place.

I just started my free qobuz trial though, and canceled my Spotify account. I mentioned their CEO as the reason I canceled.

The offline features on Spotify are abysmal. Half my downloaded albums don’t even work. It’s the primary reason I’m looking for an alternative. How can an app with such a high market share be this shitty?

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Only if it’s profitable or they’re forced to do so through legislation. Otherwise they won’t even try.