Reading the article, it says that both men and women attended the protest against rape culture in France, so the real issue is that France has a rape culture. People vs culture.
This comment section however is about a few of the signs that a few of the protesters carried, and/or the comments from the self proclaimed feminist representative who says they'll use these protests to promote their own agenda. That's different, because that's a gender issue. Men vs. Women.
I understand why some people are annoyed by that, because it splits the people instead of uniting them against the primary enemy: The culture.
Anyway this is just a lemmy thread, and it doesn't matter who is right, but it shows that even talking about it is a distraction from the "real issue", because while we are discussing signs and rape statistics, nobody is talking about the rape culture.
I don't know exactly what the feminist representative wants to do, or if she has a point, but I do believe that we need to be able to unite both men and women to speak freely against the culture, because rape culture is enabled by people who don't speak about it. Alienating half of them is bad timing in that regard. To stop rape culture we need both men and women to speak against it.
I hope this makes sense. This thread has gone completely off the rails..
I saw a headline on some guitar magazine "These are the most over priced guitars currently". Says a lot and it's true.
There's not much point in throwing money at a brand name anymore. Quality control is long gone and they all come straight out of a factory anyway. It's alright though, because factory quality is decent, and with a little know-how you can easily make them play good.
My best guitar is a $100 kit-build. Acknowledging that I'd need to do a full setup on any guitar I figured I might as well paint and assemble it myself, because I'm not going to pay several hundreds just for a paint job and a logo.
Looking at the Cybertruck, I think his plan is simply to destroy EVs. Same thing as Twitter.
Both companies are/were evaluated way higher than what they are worth and purchased with loans that are completely insecure, but costing very real interest.
It also looks as if Elon is doing a little totally legal "asset stripping" of the goodwill by paying out huge options to himself before the companies eventually go bust.
I would not be surprised if the Saudis or other co-investors are footing the interest on the loans in the meantime. It's a small price to pay to get rid of those companies obstructing their business.
Whatever you answer to a question like that is going to be attacked. The best way is not to answer, but reply with a different question, for instance "what are you afraid of?"
The stove top kettle might get a comeback since modern induction stoves are faster than an electric kettle. I'm about to get one and look forward to having one less appliance on the table.
Yeah, it's legal to purchase and own a Cybertruck in Europe.
You just can't legally drive it on public roads, because it hasn't passed the safety tests.
They haven't even attempted, because it is evident that it will fail. So, they have not introduced the vehicle for sale in Europe
If you see one, it's probably a gimmick showcase thing. They did tour a demo model around for tv stations earlier this year, but I'm not sure what the purpose was. It was basically mocked everywhere it went.
It's possible and perfectly legal to import it yourself and then... put it in a garage or drive around your mansion all day long if you want.
Yes, for some things. Some tasks are better done summarized. Cleaning generally isn't, because it easily conflicts with other tasks when not done.
I'm a rather busy family man, so if I have 20 minutes to cook a meal for the family before I have to drive someone somewhere it can really mess up the entire day schedule if the sink is full of dishes and the trash bin is topped up with unsorted garbage. So I try to be on top of it for my own sake. "Keep the tools sharp" goes for everything, even a diaper supply.
If it comes up the basement drain, then the obstruction is further down, and so you can't really flush it from the drain and out. You need to find the sewer service well further out and flush it from there and in.
It's likely a broken pipe taking in sand or branches, so flushing it won't be a permanent fix. A plumber can probably fix it from outside too, so it doesn't have to be very expensive.
You don't need to waste your money on snakes and that kind of stuff. If a regular hose on full blast can't loosen the obstruction from outside, then you need a plumber anyway.
I clean up when I'm done. Never leave dishes in the sink and such. I'm not a cleaning freak or anything, it's just that I prefer not having to deal with these kind of obstacles before I can begin doing something else in that area.
I doubt that's deliberate (it's probably depending on some other task or shit that you don't even intend to use), but it's exactly the kind of bloat that turns people away from Windows.
Windows seems to work alright for my work pc, where I'm constantly logged into their cloud, newer switch users, logged in long enough daily to get all the updates and have IT to roll out stuff, so I hardly ever have issues there.
My personal computer is a different thing. I have several users, use it about once weekly, making it basically unbootable. As soon as I open the lid, Microsoft starts bugging me to do a shit load of things and download gigabytes of crap that Microsoft, and not I, needs me to do before I can even use it. More often than not I simply close the lid again.
It's not unusual to meet people who don't even have a pc these days. Most people can solve their daily stuff on any cell phone browser. I find it kinda amusing that Microsoft is pushing people that way.
You're right. OPs second question is more specifically about vision, while I answered more broadly.
Anyway, comparing it to data from a camera is not really possible.
Analoge vs. digital and so, but also in the way that we experience it.
The minds interpretation of vision is developed after birth. It takes several weeks before an infant can recognise anything and use the eyes for any purpose. Infants are probably blissfully experiencing meaningless raw sensory inputs before that. All the pattern recognition that is used to focus on things are learned features and so also dependent on actually learning them.
I can't find the source for this story, but allegedly there was this missionary in Africa who came across a tribe who lived in the jungle and was used to being surrounded by dense forest their entire life. He took some of them to the savannah and showed them the open view. They then tried to grab the animals that were grassing miles away. They didn't develop a sense of perspective for things in longer distance, because they'd never experienced it.
I don't know if it's true, but it makes a point. Some people are better at spotting things in motion or telling colours apart etc. than others.
It matters how we use vision.
Even in the moment. If I ask you to count all the red things in a room, you'll see more red things that you were generally aware of. So the focus is not just the 6° angle or whatever. It's what your brain is recognising for the pattern at mind.
So the idea of quantifying vision to megapixels and framerate is kind of useless in understanding both vision and the brain. It's connected.
Same with sound. Some people have proved being able to use echo localisation similar to bats. You could test their vision blindfolded and they'd still make their way through a labyrinth or whatever.
Testing senses is difficult because the brain tends to compensate in that way. It'd need to be a very precise testing method to make any kind of quantisation for a particular sense.
They definitely do show sympathy, sadness, fear and joy, which are unrelated to being rewarded with food and trained behaviour.
I don't see why they shouldn't have a full range of emotions. It seems simpler and more natural than developing a transactional response only.
The bigger question is what emotions even are. If it's a chemical or biological reaction then it'd be weird if other mammals didn't have about the same emotions as humans.
It's difficult to see how an animal feels unless you know it well. I can mostly see how my own dog is doing, but I have no idea what mood a random dog on the street is in.
Yes sure, in Euclidean geometry, but this is clearly keyhole shaped geometry.