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(DIR) Post #Ahb8G76z1cdRJGE16O by futurebird@sauropods.win
2024-05-06T00:39:47Z
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"... averages 31 years, with the longest recorded lifespan reaching 51 years. This meter-sized beetle is native to Mexico and Central America, where it inhabits dry and arid environments...."Meter sized?METER SIZED?I need to stop using google the first few results it shows for simple insect questions are always GPT garbage ... LORDY.
(DIR) Post #Ahb8vqnI5GcwrcupiC by futurebird@sauropods.win
2024-05-06T00:47:22Z
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@neckspike I'm crying thinking what might have been!
(DIR) Post #Ahb9bV4xD6w3g72OiO by skyfaller@jawns.club
2024-05-06T00:54:56Z
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@futurebird I don't think Gregor Samsa is native to Mexico and Central America. Absent other evidence, I have to assume the Metamorphosis takes place somewhere in Europe, perhaps Prague.
(DIR) Post #AhbCExG0ZtDuH29Jtg by WhiteCatTamer@mastodon.online
2024-05-06T01:24:29Z
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@futurebird Dry AND arid? My God, the range on this thing.
(DIR) Post #AhbDUdDMxmhAhTxDPc by ralph058@mstdn.social
2024-05-06T01:31:06Z
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@workingclassgames @futurebird There are still some web crawlers out there. For 99% of us, the first half dozen finds are enough to answer the reason for our search.If not, they provide a way to find out.The problem with web searches is that one paper or site will call it a shovel, another a spade, yet another an entrenching tool, and still another a geological removal device.
(DIR) Post #AhbDUe4BnOwjLIfOk4 by futurebird@sauropods.win
2024-05-06T01:38:27Z
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@ralph058 @workingclassgames "There are still some web crawlers out there. "but are they a meter long?
(DIR) Post #AhbE91K0kjqD3CJsPI by SFBayTide@sfba.social
2024-05-06T01:45:48Z
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@futurebird @neckspike it would make a darn good horror film.
(DIR) Post #AhbEDiLUjUw1e4FfcW by log@mastodon.sdf.org
2024-05-06T01:46:17Z
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@futurebird A beetle with lungs? Instead of spiracles and tracheae? As implied by the scale.
(DIR) Post #AhbGrMyzmL6isglTo8 by jeffc@mastodon.online
2024-05-06T02:16:12Z
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@futurebirdThey just don't grow 'em like they used to, do they? (Except maybe during the Carboniferous.)These sorts of hallucinations have me wondering lately if the John Mastodon incident might have arisen from an early use of AI to write an article.
(DIR) Post #AhbLYKNriUSX5c8YVs by anne_twain@theblower.au
2024-05-06T03:08:47Z
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@futurebird Soon it will be no better than the Middle Ages when people relied on hearsay, folk tales, uneducated guesses, incomplete memories, divination and divinely inspired visions for information. "What a gift the internet of information was" they'll say. "If only we'd protected it."#AI #GenerativeAI
(DIR) Post #AhbxdYNetwEeCnxX3A by IngaLovinde@embracing.space
2024-05-06T10:15:30Z
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@futurebird and there were four more beetles much larger than one meter! Two of them still alive.
(DIR) Post #Ahbz9y3t3SlR4hjOyG by cetan@toot.community
2024-05-06T10:32:34Z
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@futurebird large beetle size of a small beetle?
(DIR) Post #AhcBXZDII51oPR9PQ8 by vaughnsc@techhub.social
2024-05-06T12:51:15Z
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@futurebird @linux_mclinuxface This ‘Mexican Beetle’ did have a 30-odd year production run, and could be measured in meters. So maybe that’s what addled the AI results.
(DIR) Post #AhcG89FqASoyQk2ZzU by nicksalt@mas.to
2024-05-06T13:42:42Z
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@futurebird how do you rate the stract search engine? I've added it to my Firefox search engine list and so far it's pretty useful, especially regarding scholarly subjects...
(DIR) Post #AhcGBYNbD3OrDuIFsW by kyonshi@dice.camp
2024-05-06T13:43:07Z
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@futurebird I bet some roleplaying supplement got sourced for that
(DIR) Post #AhcJ6u6hIert1YrWam by todwest@mastodon.world
2024-05-06T14:16:09Z
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@futurebird Well, a centimeter is a kind of meter
(DIR) Post #AhcKSJTAIYMFig8z1k by DavBot@nerdculture.de
2024-05-06T14:31:11Z
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@futurebird @MOULE Try out searxng. No fluff like weather, instant answers LLM or otherwise, maps or business listings. Just search results scraped from the top search engines, collated and ranked. I have an instance running:https://search.davbot.work/
(DIR) Post #AhcPhWlPeUSL48klIO by ratcatcher@c.im
2024-05-06T15:30:00Z
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@futurebirdWhat sort of meter?Makes a big difference whether it's the size of a small panel ammeter or a large gas meter.