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  • Wugmeister@lemmy.dbzer0.comtoScience Memes@mander.xyzOn Bears
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    1 month ago

    Ooh bear facts! My favorite bear fact is that there is no grizzly bear species. Sure, there’s regional genetic variation, but they are all genetically brown bears.

    What they are named for is the grey hairs on their pelt, which are caused by the stress of malnutrition. This is why they are so much more aggressive than the other bears: they are literally starving because there is not enough calories in their environment to keep so many land sharks happy and healthy.








  • Wugmeister@lemmy.dbzer0.comtoScience Memes@mander.xyzShocking
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    2 months ago

    I would like to see a study done with several groups:

    1. People who read multiple books each year
    2. People who watch lots of video essays
    3. People who listen to podcasts
    4. People who prefer short-form content such as TikTok
    5. Veterans
    6. Educators, such as teachers or professors
    7. Librarians
    8. A control group composed of people who either do not fit into the other categories

    I’ve heard a lot of people claiming some of these groups are better than others of these groups, but I’m rooting for a null result.







  • User error

    In all seriousness, the biggest benefit of apple products is that the user experience just does not change over time. They are very conservative with the changes they do make, even though they will hype them up as the next big revolution in computing. It just seems arcane to you because you aren’t used to it. Apple is great for old people because things stay the same forever

    Edit: I reread your comment and realized I completely misunderstood you. Yeah, apple is super behind and is lacking basic features for the reason I just mentioned. For a while you couldn’t even copy/paste on the iPhone. Really dumb imho. But the good thing is that things look the same forever, so you never have to be confused by your phone’s layout changing when you get a new phone.


  • I think the strongest feature of Android is that many apps are released first on Android and take months or years before they are ported to iOS. And even when they do, they are missing functionality I take for granted on Android. iOS is in fact more secure in general (if we assume Apple is altruistic) but this comes at the cost of basic things like apps running in the background, informative notifications and notification history, spam call filtering, and fast charging.

    Also, if you are a normie it’s a big plus to have all the default Google apps pre-installed on most phones. If you aren’t, it’s a big plus to have the freedom to strip all non-foss apps from your phone, replace the OS with a more FOSS-friendlt OS, and otherwise customize your phone.