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Why do different ethnicities/races look different?
  • Some features, such as melanin levels, are due to evolutionary pressures. High levels of melanin protect you from the sun, lower levels of melanin boost your vitamin D production.

    Other features are just random. Over time, human populations were affected by random changes that weren't exactly useful but not detremental either. They're called sprandels. According to a quick Google search, blue eyes don't seem to have any advantages, but not really any major disadvantages either, so that would be an example of that.

  • What small, everyday life tips do you have to offer?
  • I've had both H450 and HD458, had the same issue on both of them, though as you note only on one side. Apart from that and them repeating "connection lost" forever, they are great headphones.

  • What small, everyday life tips do you have to offer?
  • Sennheiser noise canceling over the ear headphones are comfortable enough to sleep in even if you’re a side sleeper

    Hard disagree. If you accidentally cover the mic in the right way, you'll be greeted by a loud, high-pitch feedback noise that will violently wake you up.

  • Parhaat suomalaiset ruuat

    Tuli tässä yksi päivä illanvietossa vastaan amerikkalainen, joka halusi yllättää pari suomalaista kaveriaan järjestämällä yllätysjuhlat, joissa tarjoiltaisiin suomalaista ruokaa. Asun ulkomailla, ja olin siksi paras henkilö vastaamaan hänen kysymyksiinsä suomalaisesta ruuasta. Mutta olipas yllättävän vaikeaa.

    Kysymys kuuluukin: mitä suomalaisia ruokia sinä suosittelisit? Minun oli erityisen vaikeaa keksiä hyviä suomalaisia ruokalajeja, jotka eivät kuuluisi paikalliseen ruokakulttuuriin myös täällä Ruotsissa. Karjalanpiirakat tuli siinä hetkessä mieleen, jälkeenpäin ehkä pinaattiletut.

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    What's an aspect of life that's currently done privately that you think should be communalized?
  • Greetings from Sweden, here shared washing machines are really common and generally not disguisting at all.

    There are also solutions to people behaving badly in apartment buildings. Unfortunate if nothing was done at yours, but it’s definitely not an impossible problem to solve.

  • Why is Mastodon struggling to survive?
  • Microblogging is definitely useful for many things, short and quick thoughts, links to news articles, jokes, memes etc. You can also comment and share things easily. Microblogging actually resembles instant messaging in a lot of ways, just with an undefined ’group chat’ size.

    I find it kinda funny that Twitter has become so toxic that people start thinking there must be something wrong with the format.

    Also RSS clearly can’t replicate a big chunk of the desirable properties of microblogging (eg. easy sharing and commenting).

  • Lemmy total number of users last month (very close to 1.5 M users)
  • You talk as if you don’t understand how plots work. If the change looks like a 90% drop, that’s how it’s going to be perceived.

    Moreover, if you do start from 0 you instinctively see the 5% drop, and can make the conclusion that it’s big or small yourself. If you don’t do that, you need to calculate numbers. People don’t do that. They see line go down, and get the impression from that.

    Any drop would look the same on the initial plot. 5%, drop 50% drop, 0.005% drop. The ’start your y axis at 0’ rule has a lot of exeptions, but this is not one of them. In fact, it’s the quintessential example of lying with a plot.

    If you want to see the actual values for each timestep, there are better tools for that. Such as a table.

    Explaining all of this feels bizarre. You are de facto trolling by this weird contrarianism.

  • Lemmy total number of users last month (very close to 1.5 M users)
  • If you start at 0, you see exactly what you're supposed to: there is a rather negligible trend in the given timeframe.

    That's the point. The number of users has very slightly declined in the past few months. Under the original plot, you have a lot of people (rightly) misinterpreting the data, and saying that a lot of users are leaving the site.

    That's why you start at 0. So that people interpret the data correctly.

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