It's certainly a chaotic mess, but perhaps knowing the original subject of the comic tarnishes my take on it being used for other things in the same way. Analogies are often tricky.
The only issue with this adaptation of a great comic is that it infers the Confederacy was a well built structure that depended on that one small thing. The Confederacy didn't exist that long, it even didn't have a single flag version for longer than a year or so. Change it to the southern states' economy and it makes more sense.
If you really want to get the full idea of what Kirk as a captain is like, dive into the old paperback novels. He has a presence of command that many good writers have expanded on, and there's a reason he's a legend among the many Starfleet commanders. Although I have a head canon that anyone getting to the point of captaining a starship has similar awesomeness in their character that can face just about anything head on. A 23rd/24th century version of the steely-eyed missile man.
Which puts a new light on the various captains in all the series that "failed" in some way. Decker and the rest. They were Kirk level, and what they went through still broke them.
Given that was the very first filmed episode (as a second pilot) it can be forgiven (The Man Trap was the first aired). I can't find a reason for picking "T" later on in the series, but it sounds better than "R" when announcing his full name to an alien ship. "Tiberius" didn't even come along until a later animated episode, and still wasn't canon except to fans until it was used in The Undiscovered Country.
What comes between chickens and their non-chicken ancestors? The problem is in our human need to classify everything into different neat boxes, when it's an actual long and continuous process. In short, the "dilemma" created is more of an argument about what separates species, and that's a hell of a rabbit hole with no single answer.
But the answer is the egg, since a chicken born from that egg is different than its parents.
You're right in that it's not meant to have an answer as it's normally told philosophically. But the biological and evolutionary answer is that there is no dividing line to give that answer because species don't change with individuals but with large populations over great amounts of time. We see those lines because we find fossils of things related to but different enough to others to call them a different name. And the real mind blower is that almost all creatures that did exist never left fossils to find.
The false dilemma of the chicken and the egg shares the same misunderstanding that the "missing link" fallacy does. There's no line between things except over time and thousands of generations.
I've played some action games in the teens and was fine with it. Maybe lower frame rate at low resolution (1080) isn't as apparent as the high 4K, but I've never understood why people can't play with frame rates still far faster than film (if it's truly refreshing the frames completely and not ripping the picture of course). I suppose this argument goes the same direction as the vinyl/CD one, with both opinions dead sure they're right.
If the game is handling variations of frame rates during play badly, that's a different story. The goal is for the player to not realize there's a change and stay focused on the game.
What will always get you is doing something unusual. When working, always have a safe procedure for moving and be very careful when doing things a different way. When at home or at leisure, don't go beyond the limits of what you're used to doing without planning and prep. And know those limits! I've pulled my back a few times before and I wasn't doing anything more than usual, but I was doing it differently, and it got me.
Those who say it with a hard G must also say JFEG using the same logic. I'm fine with someone saying it either way, it's been around so long that I think the choices tend to be regional (aka BBS era).
This has been circulating for years, and the accuracy of its predictions are high at the equator and drops off quickly as you go towards the poles. This map falsely implies that we'll just move out of danger and be fine. Canada, Siberia, and Western Antarctica are imagined almost as futuristic paradises.
You should read the entire article. Toba hasn't held up well to additional evidence. It was certainly hell for many in the area, but it doesn't seem to be the bottleneck that people still quote it for.
Life in general does rebound, it's very persistent. That doesn't mean most life won't die off, nor will the rebound be quick and even resemble what we had. My own opinion is that we may have been witness to the peak of biodiversity, something that won't even happen at that scale again simply because it needed specific conditions to be so vast.
I never said Toba didn't happen. We're just debating the degree it affected the entire species, and if you want to bring better evidence to support Toba being a bottleneck, go right ahead and add the citation.
I used to quote the initial Toba theory myself years ago, but more data leads to a more localized event. That's okay, that's how science works.
Extinction event level but not really, since some human groups didn't show a remarkable effect. A large percentage drop in total population doesn't mean much when it's concentrated in certain areas and the total number of humans is very low already because hunting/gathering isn't conducive to large species numbers. Did you note the one mention of the theory that adaptation of affected humans' behavior might have been the driver for aggressively taking over Neanderthals through killing and incorporating captives into the groups?
Circling back to the point at hand of the thread, climate change is far greater a threat on all species than past recent geologic events, even possibly surpassing ones such as the PETM which is the closest in comparison and definitely an extinction event. Humans haven't experienced that level, ever. They weren't around.
If you mean all the rest I wrote, time will tell. That we've lost so much in biodiversity already and haven't had things play out completely doesn't suggest that things will be "fine".
Might relook at the chart and scale, none of the recent interglacial periods hit 4C, only one topped 2C. Plus note that the x axis is logarithmic, so the time that things happened increase as you look back. The PETM took hundreds of thousands of years to start dropping down, but also a thousand years to ramp up. Compare that to our "instant" climbing now started only a hundred or so years ago.
I have most of the Fediverse-based account and seem to have just gravitated towards Lemmy over Kbin as found it very confusing, What makes you prefer Kbin over Lemmy or any other Fediverse instances?
I had created a Lemmy account at the beginning, not having a clue about things (like so many of us). Then I ran into someone suggesting Kbin - had to search around to figure out where it was and how to get it. The early stock UI for Kbin won me over vs. Lemmy's, even though the content was (more or less) the same. With lots of scripting to customize the looks further and with features those scripts or default that Lemmy users are asking for at the moment, I'm very happy here.
Am I getting the same as any other Lemmy user? I think it comes and goes (it seems to vary between Lemmy instances too), but that's a matter of maturing the federation workings, and I get plenty as it is so it's not like there's nothing to see. Plus when I need more things to look at I can jump over to the microfeed tab and get lots to read as well from Mastadon.
I accidentally wandered into a Reddit thread via Googling something (it's everywhere) and noticed I had gotten mine as well in a message. Looking through it I don't know how useful it really is to have other than for posterity, but the sad part was in thinking that it was just my comments with no context, and those discussion chains are all but lost. Some probably have missing parts due to deletions, and of course they all would require going to Reddit to even read, unless I can just use the URL to maybe find it in an outside archive?
I know it's more than just Huffman behind all this, but I keep thinking of the quote that one person can make a difference. That difference isn't always a good one, and burning things down is always easier than building.
Maybe to avoid repeated questions like this there should be a set place on at least the home page to have a notice of potential issues. Sort of like a status of the general system, since there's a lot more going on under the hood than just a webpage loading. As far as real estate for such, right top under the settings seems fine for a line or so of text or something.
And it turns out that's exactly what is done. Just saw a notice about a planned outage tomorrow posted. I do think it should be at the top and not below all the subscription/magazine info though, and maybe a bit more "flashy" with an obvious border contrast or something.
Another edit: Okay, someone is either reading this and liking the idea, or it's total coincidence and they figured out it would look better.
Every goddamn time I'm trying to make something for my DnD game (lemmy.world)
CloudConvert.com might as well be my fucking home page.
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Stop or gas it? (thumbsnap.com)
All of Risa is Twaining lately, and it's beautiful (startrek.website)
Should of built a better foundation (lemmy.world)
That's everyday lately but Trek makes it better (startrek.website)
Redshirts always have so many questions. (startrek.website)
No doubts (lemmy.ml)
Paradox how could you (lemmy.world)
Even my mom is a better pirate. (lemmy.ml)
Well I feel better now. (lemmy.world)
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How do y'all say GIF? (lemmy.ml)
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So why do you perfer Kbin over Lemmy?
I have most of the Fediverse-based account and seem to have just gravitated towards Lemmy over Kbin as found it very confusing, What makes you prefer Kbin over Lemmy or any other Fediverse instances?
Fidelity has cut Reddit valuation to $5.5B from $10B (techcrunch.com)
My Reddit GDPR Request took 20 days, this is what it looks like (kbin.social)
Account was from 2011 with almost 5000 comments....
Kbin federation change?
Was there recently a kbin backend change? I haven’t been able to see kbin posts all week but they’re populating now.