every time yall post abt some cursed thing a hollywood product did, it has the effect – do you understand this? – it has the effect of causing me to hear about the hollywood product. to become aware of the hollywood product. i do not like this. but hollywood does
I’m still weirded out that Google Lens can do animal and plant identification reliably these days. I remember using the first few versions of Google Lens and you’d be lucky if it could even identify a flower as a flower. It was basically only useful for architecture and OCR.
although I suppose this xkcd did come out in 2014, it’s been more than five years and Google has some pretty sizeable research teams.
Me, trying to watch a video without having to expend effort on digging out headphones and processing auditory input: “oh, it’s only got auto-captions, those things are practically useless, maybe I should just come back lat–holy shit, Youtube auto-captions actually *work* now! when did *that* happen?!”
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#and how long will it be until I can download a 2020-Google-level auto-transcriber from a Canonical repository #and start running my own stuff through it without having to offer everything up to the Cloud #reply via reblog #proud citizen of the Future
#anything that makes me laugh this much deserves a reblog #zombies #apocalypse cw #death tw #this probably deserves some other warning tag but I am not sure what
For about seven-eights of the Earth’s history, its oceans were extremely rich in sulfides. This would have prevented animals and plants from surviving in 70% of the planet. But it was a great habitat for photosynthetic bacteria that require sulfides and sunlight to live. Known as purple and green sulfur bacteria (because those are the two colors it comes in) these single-celled microbes can only live in environments where they simultaneously have access to sulfides and sunlight.
That they thrived in the sulfide-rich ocean has been confirmed with the finding of fossilized pigments of purple sulfur bacteria in 1.6 billion-year-old rocks from the McArthur Basin in Northern Australia.
i looked up purple sulfur bacteria and now i’m laughing bc the ocean must’ve looked like a giant glass of grape juice, these things really are purple
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#biology #anything that makes me laugh this much deserves a reblog #((this amusement not to be taken as expressing an opinion regarding the statement itself)) #poetry
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