ᴇᴍᴘᴇʀᴏʀ 帝
A geologist and archaeologist by training, a nerd by inclination - books, films, fossils, comics, rocks, games, folklore, and, generally, the rum and uncanny… Let’s have it!
Elsewhere:
- Yrtree.me - it’s still early days for me in the Fediverse, so bear with me
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ᴇᴍᴘᴇʀᴏʀ 帝@feddit.ukto United Kingdom@feddit.uk•Britain's state-owned energy company will not be allowed to use solar panels linked to Chinese slave labour, under changes to government plansEnglish0·23 days agoI live in hope that this will kickstart a solar panel industry here, rather than us just finding a developing country with cheap labour and lax laws.
Second place. A step down from our strong win last year but it just gives us fire in our belly to come back strong next year.
Thanks to everyone who contributed.
ᴇᴍᴘᴇʀᴏʀ 帝@feddit.ukto Fediverse@lemmy.world•There is a second wafrn instance now.English1·2 months agoReddit is worse, it is utterly indifferent to us. We’re just the skulls getting crushed under the treads of Skynet’s tank.
ᴇᴍᴘᴇʀᴏʀ 帝@feddit.ukto World News@quokk.au•Athletics governing body to require DNA tests for women’s sports01·2 months agoFinding a Y chromosome isn’t that helpful where performance is concerned as it isn’t just XY and XX out there and some chromosomal abnormalities can mean you are less susceptible to testosterone which can impact development.
There are people with genetically high red blood cell counts or lung capacity. Usain Bolt has a much higher percentage of fast-twitch muscle fibres (top sprinters tend to be 80-90% compared to the average of 50%). Are we going to test for those too?
Human biology is complicated and the more we know the less black and white it becomes. A crude genetic test isn’t going to help with this.
I just use Threadiverse and Threads can go piss up a rope.
Good catch, I’ve corrected my oversight.
That’s a no for that. It’s ultimately based on someone else’s stolen work.
We would, I suspect, allow AI imagery in discussion about AI and what it us capable of but the days of posting it to laugh at the shitty results seems long gone. In recent examples, I couldn’t tell by eye but I ran it through an AI checker which was pretty definitive.
Yeah, there’s the odd community avatar we need to swap and we definitely need to give some of the communities a bit of a revamp as they were bodged together over a year ago, often in haste.