[-] doctordevice@lemmy.ca 15 points 1 month ago

While true, it's also true that cats of all sizes behave very similarly. Cheetahs are probably the least similar to the other cats.

If you've had pet cats and gotten to know their behavior, it's remarkable how familiar the behavior of big cats can be.

[-] doctordevice@lemmy.ca 22 points 1 month ago

No sorry, I didn't mean the image was AI generated. I interpreted the person in the image as being the employee correcting AI mistakes, but because of their hands they don't correct any of the deformed hands in other AI image gen.

[-] doctordevice@lemmy.ca 23 points 1 month ago

I sincerely doubt anyone at that zoo didn't suffer a severe emotional loss that day. That was an awful situation, and while I do think the zoo has the blame it is not because of their decision that day. For the employees, the death of an animal at a zoo can easily cause grief akin to the death of a family member or pet, depending on how closely they worked with the animal.

Once that child was in the enclosure they really didn't have time to try out different options that may have aggravated Harambe. Any option, including the lethal one, presented a risk to the child. They chose the option they thought gave the best chance to save the child.

Where the zoo has blame is the design of the habitat such that a child could just crawl in. I know they've learned from their terrible mistake and changed the design, but they really should have known better in 2016.

[-] doctordevice@lemmy.ca 18 points 1 month ago

Whoever wrote the article must not understand how time works, right?

Kyle is not a chart-topper among popular names in the U.S., according to the Social Security Administration, which annually tracks the names given to girls and boys in each state. The most recent data showed Kyle ranked 416th among male names in 2023.

By comparison, Ivan ranked 153.

Name popularity this year doesn't matter. Infants aren't the ones answering the call for a gathering of people with a certain name.

[-] doctordevice@lemmy.ca 21 points 1 month ago

My wife and I were able to buy a ridiculously priced starter home only because we had the privilege of her parents being able to help with the down payment. We had to move farther away from work than where we were renting just to be able to even consider homes.

Our mortgage is twice what our rent was, and we only gained about ~100 sq ft of interior space. Plus a whole host of problems because the previous owners were jackasses who DIYed everything and did it all wrong.

[-] doctordevice@lemmy.ca 25 points 2 months ago

How are those the same? You need to define "religion" and "sport" rigorously first.

Since you haven't provided one, I'll just use the first sentence on the wiki page:

Religion is a range of social-cultural systems, including designated behaviors and practices, morals, beliefs, worldviews, texts, sanctified places, prophecies, ethics, or organizations, that generally relate humanity to supernatural, transcendental, and spiritual elements.

"Atheism," without being more specific, is simply the absence of a belief in a deity. It does not prescribe any required behaviors, practices, morals, worldviews, texts, sanctity of places or people, ethics, or organizations. The only tenuous angle is "belief," but atheism doesn't require a positive belief in no gods, simply the absence of a belief in any deities. Even if you are talking about strong atheism ("I believe there are no deities"), that belief is by definition not relating humanity to any supernatural, transcendental, or spiritual element. It is no more religious a belief than "avocado tastes bad." If atheism broadly counts as a religion, then your definition of "religion" may as well be "an opinion about anything" and it loses all meaning.

If you want to talk about specific organizations such as The Satanic Temple, then those organizations do prescribe ethics, morals, worldviews, behaviors, and have "sanctified" places. Even though they still are specifically not supernatural, enough other boxes are checked that I would agree TST is a religion.

I have no idea what you're on about with not golfing being a sport.

[-] doctordevice@lemmy.ca 19 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

My experience (bachelor's in math and physics, but I went into physics) is that if you want to be clear about including zero or not you add a subscript or superscript to specify. For non-negative integers you add a subscript zero (ℕ_0). For strictly positive natural numbers you can either do ℕ_1 or ℕ^+.

[-] doctordevice@lemmy.ca 19 points 2 months ago

Sounds like you're just jealous that John Greene has more people that care about him than you do.

But don't count yourself short, the votes on this comment of yours suggest more than 20 people read your comment!

[-] doctordevice@lemmy.ca 16 points 2 months ago

Whoa, what a cool fun fact! I better bring that one up next time I'm watching LOTR with people.

[-] doctordevice@lemmy.ca 19 points 2 months ago

It's probably different when he sees it coming from a fellow Chinese citizen.

[-] doctordevice@lemmy.ca 19 points 2 months ago

Too bad you've never had a close bond with a cat. They're a lot more cuddly and affectionate than non-cat folk give them credit for. Not to say they wouldn't be dangerous, those claws and teeth are killing weapons. But they wouldn't intentionally kill their person.

[-] doctordevice@lemmy.ca 21 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

This only gets funnier the longer I look at it. Which is difficult to do since I start laugh-crying every time I read the names.

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