Personality is certainly influenced by genes: there have been cases of identical twins separated at birth allowing similarities between the twins to be studied https://science.howstuffworks.com/life/genetic/5-true-stories-twins-separated-at-birth.htm
The idea that memories of lived experience can be inherited was historically popular, but has been very much disproven unless you count quite tenuous examples https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Genetic_memory_(psychology)
Sitting on one as I type this. I don’t think it’s that bad
Of course I knew this exact clip was coming to lemmy when I heard. RIP
Feels like “beating human records” is pretty meaningless for things that are… not human. I was intrigued to see what the entry criteria were since these are meant to be humanoid, but couldn’t find any real information on it.
Very cool to see there are anti-advertising groups doing this kind of work, it’s the first I’ve heard of them. This one is primarily against billboards but their website mentions a few similar partners. https://adfreecities.org.uk/
To be fair the motive could also be non-political like some kind of personal vendetta
If only it had occurred to someone that sometimes people can look similar to other people, then they might have seen this coming
Am I weird for actually wanting to use this out of nostalgia? I distinctly remember thinking at the time that the gradients on the window bars were the coolest thing ever, especially because you could configure them to be whatever wacky colours you wanted.
I feel lucky I had never heard of this idiot before this story. Hoping that the article ages well and he drifts back into obscurity