Ecco the dolphin

I am a time-traveling dolphin. An entity made of giant balls gave me the ability to breathe underwater, but this ability was recently stolen from me by aliens.

Sometimes I turn into a bird.

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Joined 1 year ago
Cake day: May 13th, 2024
  • Ecco the dolphin@lemmy.mltoNews@lemmy.world•US completely loses perfect credit rating for first time in over a century
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    3 days ago

    You should be concerned with debt/GDP ratio, not the overall number. We’ve had no problem paying our bills which is why in the past we have had an excellent rating. Historically our debt/GDP ratio has been in line with other nations with developed economies. Nothing unusual.

    Moody’s is lowering our rating because our GDP is projected to go down (due to tarrifs and destruction of the public sector) and we are going to be operating with a budget deficit. Decrease in GDP means less tax money coming in, and we will be adding to the deficit anyway (and thus our debt) due to Republican policies.

    Trump has also said he didn’t feel like paying the interest on the debt, which no one took seriously and he didn’t follow through with. Thank god. Since most tbills are owned by US holders, not paying out bonds is a direct self-own.

    Focusing on the actual debt total doesn’t paint a full picture. Moody’s is only concerned whether tbills purchased will actually pay.

  • Ecco the dolphin@lemmy.mltoLemmy Be Wholesome@lemmy.world•Ever thankful
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    11 days ago

    I totally love the energy of the poster in OPs image, it’s so warm and wholesome.

    That said, it’s probably true that cats (and dogs for that matter) have a variety of coat patterns because of domestication. Not only do humans choose to breed pets for their coat variations, selecting for tamer, friendlier animals actually also just introduces a variety of differences from their wild counterparts. Coat color is one of them.

    https://academic.oup.com/genetics/article/197/3/795/5935921?login=false

    But the [related traits from domestication] as a whole, with its diverse array of affected morphological traits, clearly cannot be caused simply by alterations of adrenal function. What, therefore, might be the common factor? What all of these diverse traits, including the adrenals, share is that their development is closely linked to neural crest cells (NCCs). NCCs are the vertebrate-specific class of stem cells that first appear during early embryogenesis at the dorsal edge (“crest”) of the neural tube and then migrate ventrally throughout the body in both the cranium and the trunk, giving rise to the cellular precursors of many cell and tissue types and indirectly promoting the development of others (Carlson 1999; Hall 1999; Gilbert 2003; Trainor 2014).

    Edit: the adrenal gland is mentioned here because lessening the function of the “flight or flight” response appears to makes friendlier animals with better temperament for domestication. The idea is that domestic animals were selected for temperament first, and everything else is less important (why would you keep an animal that won’t stop biting you?).

  • Ecco the dolphin@lemmy.mltoNot The Onion@lemmy.world•Ye storms out of interview after Piers Morgan gets his follower count wrongEnglish
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    12 days ago

    jesus christ stop giving Ye attention. That means you, reader. Stop clicking on these articles.

    One of the symptoms of bipolar disorder is “delusions of grandeur”.

    …But Ye is rich as fuck, and everyone keeps giving him attention, even if it’s just to gawk at him. Everyone is feeding his neurosis.

    This disease unravels people. It changes their personality. It robs them of their ability to sleep. It rewrites their memories. **If ** (with emphasis on “if”) there is good in Ye we might never see it, because in order for him to truly get help he has to see himself as the problem.

    Stop giving clicks to this mentally ill Nazi fuck, and stop giving clicks to people who platform him. Piers Morgan is a vulture.

  • Ecco the dolphin@lemmy.mltoAsklemmy@lemmy.ml•If you had to ruin an entire app/website by integrating automatic logout, which app would you choose to achieve maximum damage?
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    18 days ago

    I have to sign in to 2-5 programs to complete service for customers

    I use shared terminals so I have to sign out when I am done

    Each task takes about 3-4 minutes of computer work, feels like most of my time spent is typing in a 15 character password in 2-5 programs. I do this all day, 8hr shift, graveyards.

    I just change a single digit number on this password when the 90 day rotation happens. Typing it in incorrectly 3 times gets me locked out, a call to IT. I work for tips, no time for that. My work environment is distracting, noisy and stressful, so even if I wanted to use “best practices” in choosing passwords, I really shouldn’t.

    Management refuses to replace keyboards that aren’t in good repair. Several have keys that stick.

    I type in a 15-char password probably 100+ times a day.

    my phone is dead for 2fa

    Lmao skill issue

  • Ecco the dolphin@lemmy.mltoFuck AI@lemmy.world•On Art Accessibility (Art by Sarah Andersen)
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    20 days ago

    Yeah, I was really looking forward to google making more of those neat images with all the eyes and the dog faces. Additional fingers were always a plus for me, like cracking an egg and finding two yolks.

    Now, instead of AI creating man-made horrors beyond my imagining (which are alien and rainbow colored), AI creates man-made horrors within my imagining (excuses for corporate layoffs, aggressive ads, etc, all excused by internet posters who don’t value art to begin with and have no idea what it is. Quit abdicating the human experience to matrix algebra).