As a side bonus, you now know who all the members of the thieves guild are.

Requiem for a Dream, you mean that movie!

If you assume that physics works similarly, in the world of avatar as in ours.

The fact that a spacefaring civilisation won’t extract the mineral from asteroids, in a significantly more efficient manner, means that the mineral is not the only goal.

As shown in the second movie, biopiracy is a big motivating factor.

Looking at the tech shown, I would surmise that biopiracy is the primary motivator.

The humans in the movies are masters of biological manipulation. They can make a fully functional alien body, also splicing in human DNA; easily enough that they make quite a few in the first movie. These bodies are close enough to the original that they can breed.

The motivation to extend their mastery of biological manipulation has to be huge.

I did this at climbing recently.

It was really hot and everyone was sweating; someone said “I better have some electrolytes”; without thought:

it’s what plants crave!

108

110 is just a little big

Well…a single mitocondrion is not really a powerhouse of anything except really simple single celled organisms.

Wikipedia:

The number of mitochondria in a cell vary widely by organism, tissue, and cell type. A mature red blood cell has no mitochondria, whereas a liver cell can have more than 2000.

It would be more correct to say “are the powerhouse of the cell”.

5 makes no sense outside of USA
20 What is phone bo? book?

19, 20 if NZ equivalent of AOL

Disagree.

I read the post; Trump made the murder all about Trump! He and his wife were killed, because he didn’t like Trump; if they had just loved the great and powerful Trump enough, all would be well.

So if someone was to hypothetically label an image in a blog or a article; as something other than what it is?

Or maybe label an image that appears twice as two similar but different things, such as a screwdriver and an awl.

Do they have a specific labeling schema that they use; or is it any text associated with the image?

Of course I do, sometimes I need expert advice!

Balgging, getting the kids hooked!

Maybe profit isn’t the only motive…

I don’t see how both these claims can simultaneously be true.

Sorry, my poor communications…I was referring to the social media companies, when I said they had been trying and failing for years. Not trying that hard mind you; moderation is a very expensive problem to solve, and they don’t want to spend money they don’t explicitly have to.

(it’s) actually about making citizens more easily identifiable online.

Maybe. That is speculation, probably a nice little side effect. But not the primary goal.

Independent social media sites however, don’t all have the resources to implement verification systems, so some will feel the financial burden of compliance a lot harder, and others

This is a great point; and there is an easy way to solve this problem. Not that the govt will care that a simple solution exists. If you don’t have an algorithmic feed a lot of the spread of misinformation is curtailed. If you are not allowed to host images/video etc directly than the moderation of them can be off loaded to 3rd parties.

What’s more, knowing that the platforms they’re using have their identities will make a great many people more hesitant to speak critically about existing power structures.

Another great point. I don’t have a good answer to this one, but there are anonymous leak avenues etc for serious stuff.

In any case, this ban is literally worse than just leaving the problem be.

I don’t really agree; the ban will do two things.

1/ it will show the social media companies that, Australia at least; has tools that they can use to reduce their power.

2/ show kids that this is really serious; it is not just your parents saying shit you can ignore.

Will some kids work out how to get around it; yep, 100%. Will it be a big portion; maybe, tech literacy is not as high as it could/should be.

Holding platforms accountable to a bare minimum standard of moderation against misinformation, bullying and harassment might be a starting point.

This would be great; but it is also too little too late. They have tried, and failed at exactly this for years.

And hey, if socmed’s really that bad for you, then us adults could benefit from this alternative, too!

It is that bad for you! Algorithmic social media is doing you harm.

I figure holding tech giants directly accountable for the specific harms they’ve caused

What if; the social media giants are in another country. Your country doesn’t have jurisdiction there and can do fuck all in reality.

Maybe fine them??? Sure, which they will fight in court until the end of time; all the while the harm continues.

I don’t know if a ban will work, or what extra harms it will cause. But there are no good options to tackle this on the large scales of whole countries.

Algorithmic social media is mind cancer; if you have a better suggestion for tackling this issue. Let us know.

Lemmy is social media; but there is no algorithmic feed, my views are not being manipulated by some engagement maximizing machine.

It is scorching hot, when was December ever cold.

All good; Sir Terry is my favorite author of all time.

I re-read all of discworld at the start of the year. I usually do another read through every 3-4 years; I’ve read through all of them 7 or 8 times by now…

Really, I would place them at teen fiction level.

I started reading them at around 15.

Edit: yes teens are still children.

Sir Terry, was an absolute gem of a human. He wrapped philosophy in comedy and fed it to (mainly) children; the world is better because of his work.

If you want to understand; check out the boots theory