The questions you’re asking about already exist. Portguese man-o-war are colonies of multiple organisms. Bees and ants are considered superorganisms.

It’s not going to happen to humans, if that’s what you’re asking. The evolutionary incentive simply isn’t there to form a superorganism physically, though you could definitely make the argument that society and culture can be interpreted as a superorganism

They spread and are really really hard to fully kill

Source: I have no idea why my mint is still alive. It’s waterlogged for half the year and neglected the other half

My understanding is that that was the original intention of the phrase. It’s meant to be ironic but then the irony was lost as the phrase got more popular

Going to repost a comment I made on another post, since it seems like people are misunderstanding the situation:

My understanding was that this game was not covered by the strike, and so the voice actors decided to withhold their work for essentially no reason and with zero union protection. I saw on another article that the voice actors involved knew that the game was not covered by the strike and decided to strike anyways. I’m not entirely sure what they expected.

I’m not saying that the union or Mihoyo are bad, but this issue seems to stem from something else entirely (individual voice actors going rogue and doing an unofficial strike)

You know how there’s a ton of subreddits on Reddit that do the exact same thing and like literally all them except 1 or 2 are dead?

Yeah, so that’s what’s going on here. Those communities just simply haven’t been around for long enough to completely die out yet. Just go for the top 1 or 2 communities that have the most subscribers and/or most activity

So I can pitch in here. I was a juror on a trial where jury nullification was talked about. Multiple potential jurors did bring up jury nullification and the final jury contained some members who openly stated that they believed in jury nullification.

The judge and the prosector actually didn’t really care that much - the judge just asked the juror something along the lines of “ok, but do you think you can stay impartial for this trial?”, and if the juror said yes, they were on the jury. And the prosecutor didn’t dismiss anyone.

My understanding is that both the prosecutor and the defense get 10 freebie dismissals - they can dismiss up to 10 potential jurors for any reason. If the prosecutor wants to maximize the chances of getting a guilty verdict, they may potentially try to use those freebie dismissals to get rid of jurors who know about jury nullification. But it seems like, at least in my case, knowing about it (or even openly stating that you believe in it) doesn’t automatically disqualify you.

The defense started talking jury nullification halfway through the trial (it was a wild trial), and that was where the judge drew the line. His reasoning was that the it was the judge’s role to instruct the jury on their job and role, so the defense cannot instruct the jury on their own about what to do. So it seems like you can talk about jury nullification, just not if you’re the defendant.

As for why jury nullification isn’t commonplace, the prosecutor will try to convince the jury that the defendant deserves punishment. It doesn’t matter if you believe in jury nullification if you also believe that the defendant deserves to be in jail. If the prosecutor doesn’t make a convincing argument, then you’d just vote innocent and that’s not really jury nullification. So there’s really quite a long criteria for jury nullification to occur:

1. The jury knows about and believes in jury nullification
2. The jury disagrees with a particular law or case but also isn’t emotionally charged enough about it so as to remain impartial
3. The prosecutor doesn’t use their freebie dismissals to get rid of jurors who might be willing to do a nullification
4. The jury believes that the law was broken, but is also unconvinced that the defendant deserves punishment

Left over right, then right over left. This creates a proper shoelace knot (aka double slipped square knot). You need to alternate. The alternation creates a self-tightening knot. If you do left over left, left over left (or the other way), then you’ve just done a granny knot, which will fall apart

It’s not that bad, you just spit out the shells while you eat. Just like how you have to spit out the seeds when you eat watermelon pizza

Not just that, but the gun was loaded and cocked, and the safety was off. You’d need to have all of these things before the gun is able to fire. So either this guy was extremely negligent or he was planning on using the gun

My understanding was that this game was not covered by the strike, and so the voice actors decided to withhold their work for essentially no reason and with zero union protection. I saw on another article that the voice actors involved knew that the game was not covered by the strike and decided to strike anyways. I’m not entirely sure what they expected.

I’m not saying that the union or Mihoyo are bad, but this issue seems to stem from something else entirely (individual voice actors going rogue and doing an unofficial strike)

You may be misunderstanding what an algorithm is, because I don’t see how your post relates to algorithms.

Am algorithm is just a defined series of steps to do something. Doing long division would be an algorithm.

Social media sites need to rank the posts that it shows to users, and it uses algorithms for that. People talk about social media algorothms because social media sites often select an algorithm that is specifically designed to prioritize the posts that keep users engaged. Lemmy has an algorithm. If you’re sorting by Hot or Scaled, that’s an algorithm. The main difference is that this algorithm is available for people to see and has been selected to actually do what it says it does

I’d say upgrade GPU. Buying a GPU is awful but it’s by far the most directly responsible for gaming performance. I’d probably look for an RX 7600 or RTX 4060. Both of them should be around 300 dollars. Also be aware that games are starting to use more VRAM. Both of my recommendations above have 8 GB of VRAM, and that’s already not enough for some games. If you have the extra money, it’ll certainly be a good idea to spend a bit more to get a 16 GB card (or at minimum, a 12 GB card). Your best options there would probably be RX 7600XT or RTX 4060 Ti 16 GB. Both of those cards should be around the 400 dollar range.

Second priority would be upgrading your storage drives to SSD. Upgrading to SSD’s should help with general snappiness, and plus they shouldn’t be that expensive at this time. That should be around 100 dollars for 1 TB of SSD, or 50 dollars for 500 GB.

3rd priority is CPU. It’s fine, but you might gett CPU bottlenecked in certain scenarios (especially after getting a GPU upgrade). An R5 5600 would be a slot-in upgrade, so you can keep using your other parts. Last I checked (which admittedly was a while back), they’re a pretty good deal, at around 120 dollars.

4th priority is RAM. I’d actually say 16 GB RAM is fine for now, but RAM (and especially DDR4 RAM) is super cheap so you might as well upgrade your RAM if you’ve got the money.

Excuse me parent comment called OP a r*ndo, that’s like the worst swear word ever

I don’t necessarily think that’s what retailers are saying.

What happened is that AMD has already sold a lot of cards before they even finalized the MSRP, then AMD offers a rebate if they announce a different MSRP than the planned MSRP. This is apparently pretty standard practice.

The actual issue occurred due to a series of smaller issues:

1. AMD announced an MSRP that was significantly lower than their expected MSRP, which led to significant negotiations for what the rebate should be. It appears that not all of the already-bought stock is covered by the current rebate. Piecing together clues from AMD and AIB’s, it sounds like negotiations are still ongoing, so the current rebate is likely a patchwork fix for day 1 pricing.
2. AMD did not have a reference model, which serves to force AIB’s from pricing their cards too high above MSRP
3. Rumor has it that AMD prioritized stock for physical stores over online stores, possibly for marketing/PR reasons.
4. Nvidia made next to no cards this generation, causing significantly higher demand for AMD’s cards than anticipated

Well you can have solar, wind, and hydroelectric without steam, so it’s not like you need steam

What’s the att/def on your Nicole? I’ll trade you mine - just pulled a disappearing Nicole. No idea what the att is, but given that it disappeared from my deck, I must imagine the def is wicked high

The only active mod got permabanned due to Reddit’s rule changes.

I don’t expect the sub will stay closed forever, though. Reddit almost certainly will install a new mod to lead the subreddit. No, if you want to truly kill a subreddit, you’ll have to destroy the subreddit’s reputation beyond what can be salvaged with a mod change

Change isn’t necessarily impossible, but it’s really difficult and requires a huge amount of self discipline - if someone changes, they will be a standout exception rather then the norm. I urge you to consider that someone who ghosts you likely does not value you enough to be willing or able to put in the effort to change. Ghosting is deeply rude to do to anyone, and especially toward your significant other.

Take my interpretation with a mountain of salt, because I don’t know the full story. But, from what you said, it seems more likely that he reached out to you because you were a convenient backup

Better late than never, I suppose?

Your body is made of proteins. In the broadest sense, there are structural proteins and proteins that make important things. Some of the proteins that make things (called enzymes) require additional special molecules in order to function properly. These special molecules are called vitamins. Our bodies can make several vitamins but can’t make several other ones. The ones we can’t make has to be eaten, otherwise the enzyme won’t be able to function properly, and depending on what the enzyme does, you’ll either get sick or die or both. Vitamin C has to be eaten. Vitamin D, our bodies can produce. But the process to make it requires sunlight in order to function.

TL;DR: our bodies have evolved to force you to touch grass