Notices by Jake in the desert (jake4480@c.im)

The oldest olive tree is in Ano Vouves, Crete, and it's estimated to be 2500-4000 years old https://mossandfog.com/the-oldest-olive-tree-in-the-world-is-over-3000-years-old

#science #Crete #Greece #history

Started Scanners today as I realized recently I haven't seen it-- one of the few (David, now that his kids make flicks) Cronenberg things I haven't seen. So good. Only about a third or a fourth of the way through, psyched to finish. That head exploding scene, and Michael Ironside, too. Wild stuff

#movies #films #film #Scanners #Cronenberg #horror #BodyHorror #80sMovies #1980s

Fascinating experiments done with humans and ants.

"Unsurprisingly, the cognitive abilities of humans gave them an edge in the individual challenge, in which they resorted to calculated, strategic planning, easily outperforming the ants.

In the group challenge, however, the picture was completely different, especially for the larger groups. Not only did groups of ants perform better than individual ants, but in some cases they did better than humans."

https://phys.org/news/2024-12-ants-superior-humans-group-problem.html

#science #ants

Apparently we think at about 10 bits per second. It can go up slightly, but that's all still filtering the trillions of external stimuli that are all around us and being perceived by our nervous system. Pretty wild, man

https://www.sciencealert.com/scientists-quantified-the-speed-of-human-thought-and-its-a-big-surprise

#science #thought #cognition

@thanius AWESOME read!! 😀😀

Quality advice

Godzilla (SNES, 1993)

Apparently the "hacktivists" that have been DDoSing the Internet Archive are doing it because they think the U.S. government is Zionist. Regardless of whether that's true, the Archive is nonprofit and has nothing to do with the U.S. government.

And ironcally, of course, the assholes who are doing this and destroying human history (not just U.S. history, either) are posting about it on X, a "service" that is now owned by one of the richest fascists in the USA.

Great job, you fucking fools. Get fucked

RIP the incredible James Earl Jones, known for so many things.

Some of my favorite work of his was as Thulsa Doom in Conan the Barbarian and in the Simpsons Halloween specials.

He will be so missed.

Someday, companies will require you to use devices that allow Internet nag screens to physically pop out of the screen and to grab your eyelids, holding them up, in order for the company to literally 'inject' an ad into your eye

@fistfulofdave 😂 does have a Microsoft-y feel now, yeah. And same, I've used it since OpenOffice. But it's such bs that Microsoft wants to charge for Office now, this laptop I've used for 5+ years that I paid for this version of Windows 10 then that was installed on it - no way am I paying Microsoft for Word or Excel. And LibreOffice is so similar, I don't need it for crazy complex things on my personal laptop. Just basic word processing and spreadsheet stuff. So it's nice. But yeah, the UI is very reminiscent hahaha

I won a contest @libreoffice held, and I got all this KILLER LibreOffice swag from them.

I've used LibreOffice for so many years, from back in the mid 2000s when it was OpenOffice. It's better than Microsoft Office. It's totally free and open source, and you don't have to be logged in like you do now with Office.

Try it out if you haven't, you won't regret it.

https://libreoffice.org

#LibreOffice #OpenSource #FOSS

A new theory on what might be on the other side of black holes https://www.sciencefocus.com/space/whats-on-the-other-side-of-a-black-hole

#science #space #BlackHoles

@mk @cory I.. disagree with that. You're gonna have a tough time being anti-feminist with me

@buru5 @spinning_bird all this reminds me of the demos on a DS or 3DS - beyond even stopping at a level or two like most demos, you have a limited number of times you can try it before I assume the software locks up? Never used all the tries, although some games I'm probably close.

I'm a physical game guy when possible but the industry has been going more and more digital only and yeah, now this. Subscription stuff.

I've tried out GamePass a couple times when it was SUPER cheap and then I try like 20 or 30 games hahaha. But would I pay for it monthly regularly? Nah. I wanna have the game free and clear in ONE way or another. Takes me FOREVER sometimes to get through certain games.

Happy 40th anniversary to Gremlins that came out today (June 8) in 1984. Love that Gizmo. 😍

Black hole 'morsels' could prove Stephen Hawking's theory https://www.space.com/black-hole-collisions-morsels-hawking-radiation

#science #space #BlackHoles #physics #StephenHawking

With the impending doom of ICQ in June and the new crappy version of Teams coming in July, I would like to post this meme one final time

#ICQ #Teams #Microsoft #MicrosoftTeams

End of an era- ICQ will stop working on June 26. 😢

https://icq.com/desktop

#ICQ #internet #history

@youronlyone haha thanks! Classics. And oh wow yeah they should really remaster those Carmen Sandiego games!