We can infer a lot from the size and position of its eye sockets. The eyes were position so as to be forward facing, not side facing like an herbivores.
This article has a really good pocture in it showing you a direct view of the eye sockets from the snout. Its cheekbones and nostrils are designed so that it's visual field easily would clear them, giving it binocular vision like ours. The study that article discusses used fossils to model what dinosaur faces would have looked like, then examined their visual field. The trex had around a 55 degree binocular range, which is larger than many predatory birds that we know to have excellent vision over long distances. It's eyes were also gigantic, allowing for a lot of light to get in.
As for sense of smell, I don't know how we know about it; I think we assume it did because it's nostrils were also huge, and because most animals today have good senses of smell, meaning it's a good adaptation to have and likely would be present on the largest land predator to ever exist.
Literally all of the evidence I have been able to find backing his claims is him saying "just trust me this definitely happened." He hasn't shown any documents. He claims to have them, and that he'll give them to congress, but has not publicly released them.
It's your standard conspiracy grift- make up something that's plausible for you specifically to know, back it up with nothing because there's nothing to back it up with, do the media circuit spreading your bullshit, sell a bunch of books, retire.
His entire argument to congress is basically "the military isn't telling you about everything they do, and I say they have alien bodies and spacecraft" which... yeah, I 100% believe that the military doesn't tell everything they do to congress because congress is full of people who would openly release classified materials to the public just to do it. It makes logical sense for the military not to tell them all of the programs they have going at any given time, even if I think that isn't constitutional and shouldn't actually be allowed. That doesn't prove anything though.
He's trying to use the military hiding information from congress to back up his claim that they have an alien bodies program and it just doesn't work. But stupid people will happily eat it up though!
Unless the military actually releases info that corroborates what he is saying I'm not going to believe a word of it.
Pay 54 billion dollars to utterly destroy a platform which gave normal people the ability to effectively spread information about the wrongdoing of the upper class, and which often promoted that very information.
That's why he did this, he knows it's killing g Twitter and wants it dead.
No, it won't. I bring it up in this particular thread for 2 reasons.
I don't like the insinuation that anyone who claims to have problems with Firefox must be bots. I don't think that's at all true, since I've run into multiple problems with the browser myself that I haven't been able to solve.
I brought it up in the previous thread because I think that if people are considering switching, knowing what problems exist is useful. It isn't meant to dissuade anyone, in fact I regularly recommend Firefox to my friends and family. But I don't personally use it because of a pretty major problem, and I don't think it's bad to mention it when the topic comes up.
"Other people who have bad experience ces with something just be asteoturfing."
Ivw consistently had an issue with Firefox that I described in a thread a few days ago that I can't seem to identify or fix. Am I just not allowed to mention it?
It's such a potent example of why we need antitrust laws to actually be applied to tech companies.
But our government here in the US is both run by geriatric idiots who don't even know how to use a computer let alone regulate one and also is bought out by these companies.
This is a blatant, out in the open anti-competitive action that is suggested in this article and it shouldn't legally be allowed to stand, but our politicians understand so little about how technology works that they'll blindly accept Google telling them that it isn't monopolistic rather than actually try to understand it.
Thanks! I'll read up on that tomorrow, though I'll have to do something slightly different as I used proxmox as my base OS rather than unRaid. But that looks like a good stepping off point!
The right has succeeded enormously in changing the definition of "free speech" for a large segment of the population to mean "speech without public criticism or outrage."
That guarantees that we will see lots of horrific people get into office and get the spotlight, because anyone who asks "why are we platforming these people" will be accused of "cancel culture" and "being anti-free speech" by all the conservatives and even some liberals, now.
Forget that the people I want ostracized from major public platforms are actual, literal nazis, saying nazi things and actively working to enact a system which will enable actual genocide. That doesn't matter any more to a lot of liberal suburbanites who believe that free speech is somehow sacrosanct, and have accepted the new definition.
It guarantees the Overton window will continue shifting to the right at an alarmingly fast rate unless we enact laws to stop it, which we can't because of how broad the first amendment is.
I'm actually setting plex up within the next couple of days! I had to make some hardware changes first (mostly adding more storage)
Are there any good guides on how do to it the way you did so it can torrent the stuff you don't have on demand? I assume that once you've torrented it, it keeps that torrented media downloaded for later use as well? Or does it automatically delete after a certain amount of inactivity on that file? Did you set it up with a VPN, and if so how did you get that working in Qbittorrent in docker?
Yeah the weirdest part for me was that it carried to a new install; I've NEVER seen another program where that happened. But it happened THREE different times, it 100% carried over, or at the least was so inherent to something in my setup that it started happening again within 2 days of re-installing.
Every time I try to use Firefox I run into the same incredibly annoying issue.
Sometimes tabs will randomly not work. I'll open a new tab, go to, say, Google, and it will just hang, it never loads. Doesn't matter what site I try to load. It happens seemingly randomly. Sometimes it won't happen on the first page load, but the second.
It's the entire reason I witched to brave, because I couldn't figure the problem out and every time I posted to reddit about it I would be told that nothing was wrong and it must be my add-ons, despite the fact it also happened when I un-installed all of them.
It persisted to a new install, too. No idea what caused it and it's so annoying that I don't want to bother trying...
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We can infer a lot from the size and position of its eye sockets. The eyes were position so as to be forward facing, not side facing like an herbivores.
This article has a really good pocture in it showing you a direct view of the eye sockets from the snout. Its cheekbones and nostrils are designed so that it's visual field easily would clear them, giving it binocular vision like ours. The study that article discusses used fossils to model what dinosaur faces would have looked like, then examined their visual field. The trex had around a 55 degree binocular range, which is larger than many predatory birds that we know to have excellent vision over long distances. It's eyes were also gigantic, allowing for a lot of light to get in.
As for sense of smell, I don't know how we know about it; I think we assume it did because it's nostrils were also huge, and because most animals today have good senses of smell, meaning it's a good adaptation to have and likely would be present on the largest land predator to ever exist.