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  • Otter@lemmy.catoAsk Lemmy@lemmy.world•Which Animals are the worst, and why so?
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    4 hours ago

    Meh, I’d rather let this copypasta be forgotten. It turns cool points into “bad” ones while exaggerating the rest. For example, it’s COOL that this animal evolved specialized digestive organs to process a food in a biological niche that other animals can’t exploit. There’s great variety among animal brain shapes / textures, and having such a complex brain doesn’t guarantee that all humans are that “smart”. Other animals are also sedentary or sleep a lot (sloths, cats) and this is seen as being efficient. Other animals also do things that are pretty gross when viewed through a human lens.

    On top of all that, it feels like justification for everything humans are doing to endanger the population.

  • Otter@lemmy.catoWorld News@lemmy.world•Lawmakers increasingly intimidated by the publicEnglish
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    2 days ago

    Unfortunately these statistics include lawmakers that are standing up to the powerful.

    I imagine a lot of this violence is directed towards those who oppose the powerful, rather than those who are in support of them / already powerful. Powerful people don’t care as much about illegal intimidation and violence.

    For example, all the death threats directed at doctors and lawmakers during the pandemic

  • Otter@lemmy.catomicromobility - Bikes, scooters, boards: Whatever floats your goat, this is micromobility@lemmy.world•Motorcycle visor automatically tints when it's too bright out – no batteries neededEnglish
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    2 days ago

    Apparently it doesn’t

    Irid’s liquid crystal-based technology tints helmet visors to cut glare in an instant. It actually takes less than a second, and it doesn’t even require battery power to work.

    The transition is automatically triggered by bright sunlight – and it returns to normal when you go through a tunnel or it gets dark outside. This means you don’t have to take your mitts off the handlebars to fiddle with a switch on your helmet, like you would with an additional drop-down visor that’s mounted on the inside of conventional models.

    Convenience aside, this is a big deal because adding a drop-down visor to a helmet means it won’t pass muster with Snell’s stringent safety standards that are demanded by many racing competitions. Enhancing visibility in harsh sunlight can make things far more comfortable for riders, and potentially safer too.

    Since it’s powered by sunlight, a power failure should revert it back to transparent. Maybe as the tech improves and becomes cheaper, helmets can include both options?

    The powered automatic version (with a power cutting kill switch) and the drop down option for when you want it dark but it’s not bright enough for it to trigger. If the mechanism is a 3 step dial, then it should be intuitive.

    • 0 = forced transparent (power killed)
    • 1 = automatic
    • 2 = forced dark (power killed + drop-down active)

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