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It's okay to be embarrassed because you didn't know how the Nielsen rating worked and I gently pointed out how easy it was to determine.
It's okay.
You don't need to reply and get upset over it and result to personal attacks. It's not a good look on you, champ.
A 1.2 rating sounds bad ...
Do you see the pH scale and go "hmm, a pH of 1 seems bad"?
It's always remarkable to me when people feel the need to attach their approval or judgment to things they have absolutely zero clue about — despite the answer being a cursory Google search away.
Here's a current list of of the top-10 Nielsen-rated programs as of last week:
1 NBC SUNDAY NIGHT FOOTBALL 9.6
2 SUNDAY NIGHT NFL PRE-KICK 6.9
3 60 MINUTES 6.8
4 MNF ON ABC (BUF AT NYJ) 6.7
5 FOOTBALL NIGHT IN AMERICA PT 3 5.2
6 MON NIGHT KICKOFF 4.7
7 YELLOWSTONE 1 4.1
8 AMERICA'S GOT TALENT-TUE 3.4
9 AMERICA'S GOT TALENT-WED 3.0
10 FOOTBALL NIGHT IN AMERICA PT 2 2.2
The tenth-most-watched program had a score of 2.2.
There's a grain of truth in here, but not quite. One in every four or so (not quite, but we can roll with it regardless) identified species of animal is a beetle. Not one in every four animals, by population nor overall species.
The reasons for this is are many, but may include because beetles are big, easy to catch, agriculturally-significant, and are particularly easy to pin and study, dramatically boosting the count of beetle species we work with on an academic level (lending to higher identification rates). There are also just a shitload of beetle species, naturally.
Scientists estimate something closer to ~10 million species of animals, which would still make beetles a huge percentage of the species, but a far cry from 25%. If you looked at the total number (estimated) of individual animals, beetles are pretty insignificant.
Source: Studied entomology and love me some Coleoptera
I love how when new waves of people discover old technology, there are always these types of fundamental questions.
Firefox has been here for a long time. Plenty of people use it. Casuals don't care about what browser they have installed. That's the entire conversation!
The actual interesting part of these questions popping up is the staggering lack of awareness. We can click your profile, and, as I've linked above, see you try Firefox for the first time, ever. Then, you proceed to ask fundamental questions like the one in this thread without referencing that you're brand new to the software, or that you haven't bothered to look up previous discussions.
As for being the "reasonable conservative" in the room, well, I'll let that speak for itself.
Your entire argument applies to books as well.
It's a bad argument.
Hey, friend? My post specifically referred to your laughable use of the entire phrase. The idea that you're now backpedaling into defending just a portion of that phrase indicates exactly how right I was.
I'm gonna go hard for a second here and say that they most certainly do not look "really silly".
Your echoing of a term unique to a single author and acting unimpressed when someone hasn't heard of it is weird. If you were couth, you'd have linked to the work or defined the term after using it. As it stands, your use of the term "secular cycle" is nothing more than a smarmy debate-trap with absolutely no constructive merit.
Those schemes are more fly by night and don't last long.
Websites that sell illegal products are almost always based in a place where the product isn't illegal or enforced.
I've actually noticed this too.
Upon asking what the deal is, I'm often met with an "I like when creators get paid" which is righteous but misguided, or "I don't care about the ads", which is baffling.
I had an acquaintance try to show me Linus Tech Tips one time.
I genuinely do not understand the appeal. You've got a whiny little shit making the worst jokes possible and basically wasting money fucking up hardware. Most of the actual "work" the group does, like testing things, is throwaway meant for views.
This video should be good. Will edit this comment if anything stands out.
Hey dumbo, you quoted the guy, sure, but then you immediately wrote a quote and attributed it to them that they did not write.
You're dishonest, unintelligent, and bad at arguing. You've been judged.
Your comment basically assumes that everyone lives in poverty.
Which, granted, isn't that far off from the truth, but the reality is that it takes an extremely poor person to think like you - to the extent that someone dropping $25 bucks on mac and cheese for a kid probably doesn't share your sentiments.
I always find it so extraordinary when someone replies to one of my comments with some off-the-wall shit like this.
You're splitting hairs I already split. I specifically pointed out that their core products, you know, the things that actually matter, render the company among the most-reliable tech giants out there. I explicitly countered the notion that the fling-shit-and-see-what-sticks method is anything other than an elaborate R&D scheme.
Yet, here you are, responding to me raging about Google's failproducts as if I didn't JUST get finished explaining what that's all about and how it doesn't detract from their ability to generate income. They're not lunatics, you just don't understand what's happening. Which again, is wild, because you're literally responding to a comment where I explained what's happening.
You: bursts into a church
Also You: "Jesus sucks lol"
Most excellent.
Are we under any impression that this will have long-term support? Or just a novelty to enjoy while it's here?
I thought this comment was replying to my OP and was super confused. Deleted my response because it made no sense once I realized you were responding to this dude and not me.
I blocked the community before those replies happened. You're just guessing and making shit up instead of asking me for the facts at hand. Lemmy activity is public, you really can't get away with this kind of stuff.
Read my other comment if you want my thoughts on the relevance of discussing the circumstances that highlighted the bug.
Who asked?
I'm pointing out a bug. I am not soliciting your opinion on the circumstances of how the bug happened. The fact that you felt the need to completely ignore the pertinent question and instead speculate on the circumstances is mind-boggling and paints you as a busybody with nothing better to do.
Since we're dishing out advice unsolicited, here's mine: when someone submits a bug or issue like this, refrain from chiming in if you have nothing related to the issue at hand.
Edit: Also, for what it's worth, I commented on a community and then blocked it. The entire premise of your criticism is wrong. I don't understand where your confidence comes from.
I made a comment in a community and then blocked that community. Why am I getting notifications from that comment? I don't want to read replies to my comment. I don't want to get notifications from that community. I am uninterested, and the contact is unwanted. That is why I blocked it — it's almost the entire point beyond filtering the feed.
Is this normal on lemmy? Do I really have to unblock the community and remove the post in order to get this to stop? That seems nuts, so I'm thinking I'm missing something obvious. If someone could explain what I'm missing, or if this is indeed a privacy oversight, it would be appreciated.
They love milkweed. You can attract them to your yard if you plant some. I've personally raised large colonies of these for research, they're truly remarkable insects for a number of reasons, beauty of both the larvae and adults being chief among them.
One of the more common issues that plague the Monarch is Ophryocystis elektroscirrha, a parasite that can be identified by examining a body-dust sample through a microscope. OE is passed on via spores that are consumed, and if an animal is affected by OE and undergoes metamorphosis, it will emerge with a number of defects that often lead to reduced lifespan or imminent death.
Sadly, in research environments, the only way to deal with OE outbreaks (a sign of poor control) is to euthanize the animals to contain the spread of spores. This is typically done using a freezer, which ostensibly allows the animal a peaceful death by slowing down its metabolism and numbing its senses.
Did two people with almost identical names make Lemmy? If not, can someone (who actually knows what they're doing) fix up the Wikipedia article? Someone shouldn't be referred to as a creator and a co-creator, and then obviously, the typo.
Tiger beetles are notable for one thing: their speed. They can move up to 9km per hour, which given their size, is spectacular (a 1:125 body length per second ratio).
Because they run so fast, they can be observed pausing after short bursts. Scientists suspect this brief respite is a way for the insect to get its bearings. But, like a lot of entomology, there are other ideas...
These aquatic insects are intimidating-looking, with large modified forelimbs. Although they live in the water, they're air-breathers, and like virtually all insects, can fly when necessary. The modified forelegs, referred to as "raptorial" (predatory) legs, have a similar function to that of mantises — they grab and secure prey to be consumed. Preferred prey is soft-bodied, but Giant water bugs don't need to discriminate, given how powerful they are for their size.
However, unlike a praying mantis that chews its prey with a traditional insect-mouth plan made of many mandibles, since Giant water bugs are Hemiptera, they have a straw instead of "teeth." This means that they, like some assassin bugs and spiders, rely on injecting digestive juices into their immobilized prey, then sucking up the now-digested innards.
In my personal experience, these things are scarier than they look, but they're absolutely capable of pinching or piercing you with their forelimbs, and they move fast in the water. I personally stay away from them.
LINKS: bugs & https://lemmy.world/c/bugs & !bugs@lemmy.world
SIDEBAR:
>All things Arthropoda (not just Insecta)!
>Share pictures, ask questions, and solicit identification. Higher-quality pictures are easier to identify. Do not guess the species of an insect, use a dichotomous key to be sure.
>Please understand that handling wild animals, bugs or otherwise, can be dangerous. Seek immediate medical attention if you’ve been bitten or stung by something.
They're huge. But they only experience this form for a very short period of time! Most of their life is spent underwater in their larval stage, where they hunt other animals and cling to objects to manage currents.
In their mature form, shown, they aren't even really interested or capable of sustaining themselves. Indeed, they just wither away and die. It's sad, but for insects, the dramatic life cycles are part of what makes them so special.
These are photos of slides and sticky traps featuring various Chalcids, mostly Fairyflies, from a research project many years back.
>The Mymaridae, commonly known as fairyflies or fairy wasps, are a family of chalcidoid wasps found in temperate and tropical regions throughout the world. The family contains around 100 genera with 1,400 species. Fairyflies are very tiny insects, like most chalcidoid wasps, mostly ranging from 0.5 to 1.0 mm long.