Lemmy is so toxic. Why down vote this?

Bobcats and house cats are obligate carnivores. Even if people doubt that you actually ate bobcat, I pretty much guarantee that it would be gross.

Outside of fish, where there are additional trophic levels, there are two reasons that we don’t eat carnivores.

First, there are fewer carnivores. The common figure is that in nature if you want 1 pound of animal, you need 10 pounds of animal food (I’m simplifying). So 100 pounds of herbivore food makes 10 pounds of herbivore which makes 1 pound of carnivore. And if you want to farm an animal it can’t be competing with you for food. It needs to, in general, eat stuff you don’t want to eat. Like grass or table scraps or bugs. We can eat herbivore meat. We love it so much that whenever we showed up, we ate everything to extinction.

Cats are separate. They kinda domesticated themselves because when we started storing grain lots of rodents showed up. They just ate them, doing both of us a favor.

Second, they taste nasty. We’ve got poultry. They eat “bugs” those are more like the plankton type trophic level. When they can catch things like snakes or mice, they go absolutely nuts, but they do so more rarely than obligate carnivores.

Then, there’s pigs. They have a similar enough diet as poultry, but we do feed them meat scraps. I can guess about why this is, but I can’t be as confident as I am about my other statements.

Finally, humans are alleged to taste like pig. Maybe that’s it.

Ah. Yes. That’s the easy way to do it.

It’s hard to communicate with pithy texts only. I misunderstood.

I agree that the renaming effort is an over reaction trying to be more DEI for no apparent benefit.

Do you think artists should be able to name their works?

Why shouldn’t scientists also be able to name their works?

that is so incorrect that it has a Wikipedia article

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You actually seem to have got it.

Here’s a better source that suggests that they are interested in changing birds named after people, rather than birds named after slurs. It’s linked in this article. I really hope that shames op. We need to be better.

Whether or not those people were bigots, they were probably white and male. Same as the anatomists that named the lady parts.

There’s just a tradition of the first person to scientifically describe a “thing” getting to name it.

It’s not great, but people that get to travel the world describing species and knowing enough to scientifically describe lady parts, etc are not poor people, at least until post war science. They still would have been mostly white and male, but they wouldn’t have had to be as much independently wealthy.

This is a terrible source, as is Lemmy tradition.

Here’s a better source I really wish that op would have been better about that. It’s linked in the article they linked.

It appears that they are concerned with the tradition that the first person that scientifically describes the species gets to name it.

And, well, those people have been white.

I disagree. This is fear mongering.

I’ve spilled a lot more than this on me and didn’t even report it. I’m pretty sure they would have laughed at me if I did.

My dad just got diagnosed with cancer. He had a pet scan, got about 600 MBq of tracer injected, then proceeded to sleep next to my mother and piss that radiation all over the place.

That is much worse than this, and it’s just not a problem.

Radiation units are difficult. Especially so because Sievert is used in SI for several different concepts (that really don’t belong in the SI, imo).

I can’t really explain this to you simply. There’s probably some YouTube videos that are good, but you really need a sophisticated understanding of modern physics and lots of engineering principles.

I’ll be brief, but I just can’t explain this stuff in a text post and I’m not used to not explaining it to people who don’t already have detailed knowledge.

Bq and Curie are units of activity. That’s how many times you measure a decay per second.

Roentgens is a unit of exposure. That’s about how much the radiation is charging up a unit of air. You recognize this from the Chernobyl series (which is extremely good and at least accurate in the physics).

Absorbed dose is the cumulative energy deposited. This is Gray in SI. That’s the unit of measure you use when you prescribe someone radiation therapy.

Then there’s equivalent and effective dose. Those depend on various ways about where the radiation goes and what kind of radiation it is. You can irradiate your hands a lot without problems. It’s different for your colon or brainstem.

That is completely out of scope to this.

Ionizing radiation is dangerous in large amounts, but this is not a large amount. I’m not even sure how they got their 4 Bq/cm2 number. You’re way more radioactive than that on your own.

The dosage makes the poison.

This is more like rubbing a banana on you.

Those incidences are people finding dangerous, improperly discarded sources and not knowing what they were.

The radiation levels in the two hospitalised men were at or above 4 becquerels per square centimetre, the threshold which is considered safe.

Honestly. This is journalistic malpractice.

A Becquerel (should be capitalized) is 1 decay per second. That isn’t really even detectable above background, and radiation is really, really easy to detect in minute quantities.

I have spilled vastly more than that on myself and didn’t even bother telling anyone.

A simple nuclear medicine scan uses something like 500 MBq.

This is at the level of rubbing yourself with a banana.

Can we just not turn this into world war 3?

Please?

What’s even the point? Just trade with your neighbors and don’t fight with them.

*induction

Convection is a fan that runs in your oven.

Right. No one has been lying about this.

Everyone should know that being around burning things is bad. It’s not like the actual food you’re cooking is not also putting these things in the air, even on an electric stove…

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Right. The point is they didn’t even try to test it.

That took far too long for humanity to figure that out.

Yes, but this was basically pre scientific.

They just guessed and happened to get it right.

With some exceptions, it really took until the 17th century to actually develop the scientific method.

Edit: what a weird thing to down vote.

It’s just so hard to resist. Everything is wrong. It’s like it’s designed to make everyone angry.

Well… That drives engagement.

It was vectron, and you all only started talking about it when I was out sick last Thursday afternoon.