[–] 1 point 1 day ago*

What you say sounds reasonable. It would take a year to determine the actual correlations up to a scientific standard, using proper experiments with controls, etc.

But I still feel the LED light I have helps them at night, even if they could get a bead on me without it too.

There could be all sorts of variables: which species of mosquito? Which LED lights? Which weather? Maybe some LEDs are invisible to some mosquitos, and some increase my visibility by 5%. Then, if the weather makes the rosquitos lethargic, 5% is not able to clear a threshold of increased swarming action, but when they are hungry and warmed up, 5% difference in their sense impressions is enough to make the mosquitos go bonkers. The possibility space is too large, which is why I am not a scientist. I don't have the stamina to do 100's of experiments to sort this out to a high standard.

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  • [–] 2 points 1 day ago* (2 children)

    That's not my experience. I have a nifty one AAA battery LED light, and when it's dark and warm out, and I turn it on, immediately mosquitos come to me. It's so irritating, sometimes I just don't turn it on, and I keep it off when entering my house, to avoid dragging the insects with me inside the house.

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  • [–] 4 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

    Bahai is an eclectic remix, redo, reframe of the old "hits". I don't consider it Abrahamic only pecause Bahaullah was inspired by Abrahamic religion. The flavor is completely different, and the behavior too. I don't see Baha'i as a threat the same way Christianity, Islam, and some conservative strains of Judaism are.

    What matters to me are not words, but function. What do their clerics preach? What do their doctrinal documents say? I judge every religion harshly. Many doctrinal statements do not pass the sniff test.

    That said, the people for whom the religions serve as cultural background, are not simply robots who implement all aspects of relidious doctrine at all times. I judge people on how they live their lives, and on what they want to do in the world as I intimately know and experience it.

    So Zohran is great, but not Islam. Talarico is great, but not Christianity. I may agree with many things Pope Leo says, but my world is better without the Catholicism. Etc.

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  • [–] 8 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) (2 children)
    1. Billionaires and Capitalism.
    2. Abrahamic religions. (no problem with Voodoo or Shinto or Sikhism or Bahai or ...) Prosperity gospel is not ok. Saying that hell is mostly filled with women and that women are less capable of civic life than men is not ok.
    3. War.
    4. Boom (for some) and Bust (some never experience the downside, some never experience the upside) cycles and economic fuckery like prices bieng too high or just volitile, many rented instead of owned across the board domisiles, ads, paid subscriptions, spam, scams, gamblified everything, climate and energy mismanagement, science and all other legitimate human needs bow to the "need" for profit and lately the "need" for aristocratic rule (Trump and Musk and Yarvin aren't the only ones who want to be kings over me), etc.
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