Crazy people have always existed (yeah sorry I know that’s a harsh and reductive description mental illness), and most times and places throughout history if you were spouting stuff people didn’t understand they’d most likely just chalk you up as a crazy person and ignore you, not put you on trial for being a witch. Unless you were threatening to upset the social order, then you might get in hot water, otherwise you were just another lunatic.

You’d also need to invent a power grid to make a lightbulb useful, otherwise it’s nothing more than a curiosity.

I would like to take this opportunity to tell everyone about the fantastic book How to Invent Everything by Ryan North. It’s framed as a survival guide for stranded time travelers and goes into detail about many foundational technologies, how they build on each other, and how to make them yourself from scratch. It’s truly a fascinating read.

200 years ago was 1826 and firmly in the industrial/modern era, they were not executing anyone for witchcraft at that time.

Because there is an actual user base for niche interests. Lemmy is great but doesn’t have nearly enough users to support communities for a lot of topics.

In fact you don’t even have to get too niche to find that a topic is non-existent on lemmy. Sports for example.

The whole universe was in a hot, dense state

We grow more crops to feed livestock than we do to feed humans.

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One. But I never hear it, I always wake up before it.

Now do it for my tv, my phone, my wife’s iPhone, and all my hotel TVs when I travel. And also include video downloads and background playback. And also include a music streaming service that also includes downloading.

I have two house keys, one small mailbox key, and a mini library card on my key ring. I don’t even keep my car key on that thing.

I can’t tell you for sure which is quicker or more painless. I’m not a marine biologist and even if I were I don’t think I’d have the answer on another creature’s consciousness. Personally I think it’s really just cope and it’s splitting hairs at that point. You just need to face the fact that you’re killing and eating a living creature.

No it hasn’t been. Cockroaches, lobsters, and other arthropods have a decentralized nervous system. They have ganglia throughout their entire body instead of one centralized brain. These ganglia can react to stimuli independent of the other ones.

https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/fact-or-fiction-cockroach-can-live-without-head/

Source?

They don’t have a nervous system like vertebrates do. They can still feel pain if you slice them through the head because they have a network of ganglia throughout their body, not one centralized brain.

It doesn’t actually kill them, and it’s so small that you’re likely to miss it anyway.

In this context “alive” means “still able to feel and process pain.”

You know, I’ve read that stabbing them through their head doesn’t really kill them because they have distributed ganglia instead of one centralized brain.

I would never trade the freedom I have now to be back in school as a kid who is beholden to the wills of adults around me.

Sounds like Dad’s heart is in the right place.