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  • squaresinger@lemmy.worldtoScience Memes@mander.xyzBorders
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    10 hours ago

    Why are some things that some animals do used as a justification for humans to do the same, while other animals doing something else isn’t?

    For example, Wikipedia says this about the topic:

    Territoriality is only shown by a minority of species. More commonly, an individual or a group of animals occupies an area that it habitually uses but does not necessarily defend; this is called its home range. The home ranges of different groups of animals often overlap, and in these overlap areas the groups tend to avoid each other rather than seeking to confront and expel each other.

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Territory_(animal)

    It is natural to not have borders, and only a few species do.


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    10 hours ago

    Also, I’d like to know why one animal doing one thing is used to justify human behaviour as “natural” while another animal doing something else is not. (Or even the same animal doing something else is not.)

    There are tons of non-territorial animals, for example.






  • Does your phone connect to mobile network? If so, your network provider knows your location at all times, because they need to triangulate your position via the network to make sure your phone ends up in the right cell. And yes, they do save your location history, and if you are in a country like the US, you gave them the rights to sell that data when you signed your phone plan.

    Do you use SMS messages? They are unencrypted and the contents are saved too.

    Do you use DNS? Yeah, also unencrypted, and yeah, also that is saved and tracked, no matter which DNS server you configured.

    All of this is way more critical information about you than the car tracking whether you are awake or not.


  • “Haben Sie das Gefühl, dass man heute in Deutschland seine politische Meinung frei sagen kann, oder ist es besser, vorsichtig zu sein?” Diese Frage stellt das Institut für Demoskopie Allensbach den Deutschen seit Jahrzehnten. Im Jahr 1991 antworteten darauf noch fast 80 Prozent: “Ja, ich kann mich frei äußern.”

    1990 haben 77.3% der Deutschen CDU/SPD gewählt, die zu diesem Zeitpunkt einzigen Parteien, die eine Regierung geführt haben.

    Ist es ein Wunder, dass die meisten Leute, die eine Mainstream-Meinung haben, denken, dass sie diese konsequenzlos äußern können?

    Im vergangenen Jahr ist nur noch weniger als die Hälfte der Bevölkerung dieser Ansicht – etwa die andere Hälfte sagt: “Man muss eher vorsichtig sein.”

    Im vergangenen Jahr haben auch nur mehr etwas weniger als die Hälfte (44.9%) CDU/SPD gewählt.

    Extreme Meinungen (und tatsächlich auch illegale Meinungen wie Nazi-Gedankengut) gehen extrem hoch. Warum würde sich wer wundern, dass es dadurch zu mehr Problemen in Bezug auf die Meinungsfreiheit kommt?












  • Just a matter of scale. Every seventh person lives in China.

    Or to recontextualize: The article talks about a time span of around 45 years. That’s around 1.7 billion trees. Remember, that’s an english (short) billion, 1700 million. (In other languages a billion is a million millions, and not just a thousand millions.)

    If a worker can plant 20 trees a day and works 200 days a year, that means around half a million people are more than enough to do it. In a country with around 1400 million people, that’s 0.035% of the population, or roughly one in 3000 people.

    Suddenly, it’s not all that crazy anymore.