Isn’t metabolism one definition of life? If so, they’re not alive.
They actually don’t have a metabolism, that’s why they don’t fall into the definition of life in the first place.
Source Wikipedia: “Although they have genes, they do not have a cellular structure, which is often seen as the basic unit of life. Viruses do not have their own metabolism and require a host cell to make new products. They therefore cannot naturally reproduce outside a host cell”
Man, all these biologists going on about cell structure are in for a rude awakening when we run into silicon based life forms. Or even Commander Data
A rude awakening? Maybe. But a fascinating one!!
Why can’t they be fascinated and produce a universalisable definition now? How am I supposed to trust their opinion of whether a virus is alive if they can’t even get Commander Data right? Commander Data is way easier to philosophically understand than a virus.
Sorry, I’m unfortunately too much of a literal, analytical thinker to continue this line of joking. Maybe I don’t even fall into the definition of life myself, who knows…
I’m not joking, I genuinely disagree with the mainstream classification of viruses and Commander Data is genuinely an important cultural symbol for these issues.
Ah OK, I couldn’t tell. So what would you say would be a better definition and what would you like to see included? I’m not really familiar with Data, maybe some background would be helpful…
You commented twice
Weird, i didn’t even got a server timeout, which is usualy the cause.
They’re checking the ‘can reproduce’ box for whether their comment alive or not.
Ok protein spooder
Oh great virus! What is your wisdom?
R E P R O D U C E
Nice, thanks
Schrodinger’s biology?
Weaponized information.
🚨 Viral meme detected
fungi are extra alive somehow
How so?
Some have features of both plants and animals, so they’re kinda hard to fit into rigid categories.
they’re neither plants or animals, so… what does that have to do with being extra alive
That’s how I interpreted @moosetwin@lemmy.dbzer0.com ’s “extra alive” phrasing. If you want to know exactly what they meant, I recommend asking them.
I swear Fungi are an alien species, they’re so weird
Viruses are Schroedinger’s cat confirmed
This little doodad reminds me of Jenova Chen’s old freeware game flOw. Fun little game, but iirc it isn’t free anymore.
Love his games, Journey is still one of my top 10 gaming experiences of all time.
I loved flOw and Flower, but I still haven’t played Journey, I need to get a good ps3 emulator just for that. Also I just checked and the 2006 “student” version of flOw is still free, the 2007 ps3 version is paid.
Its in steam now and works even better than the original ps3 version! Its also 70% off right now :0
Ehhh I guess I need to figure out steam/proton then lol. I haven’t played games in years. Is Flower up there too?
It is! They’re both steam deck verified so they should run on proton!
Not much to figure out, just make sure to not get the flatpak/snap. Any non-arcane distro should have a working package, the trick to packing steam being not trying to be smart about things you basically have to give it a libc, gpu, and FHS (chroot or not), it takes care of everything else.
This should not be seen as advice for anyone but a very small number of people:
There is a good purpose for the flatpak. My use for it is Squad’s anti-cheat uses I think a depricated function in C, and the most updated version of glibc doesn’t support it anymore. The flatpak does contain a version of glibc that works, so I have two versions of Steam installed on my system. I only use the flatpak for Squad, because that’s the only game with that issue.
In principle steam should be able to manage such things by using a different runtime for the game.
The vast majority of games on Steam will just work when you hit play on Linux. There’s not much to figure out. You just need to create an account, download the launcher, and purchase the game. You shouldn’t have an issue figuring it out. If you do, feel free to ask for help.
These fuckers make me think they’re some kind of robot. They look man-made AF.
Aliens.
I’m basically a needle for injecting drugs into you without consent, fight me (I’ll win anyway, some percentage of time).
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Evidence of a false dichotomy to me
The third thing would be “inanimate”
Which is essentially Latin for “not alive” so 🤷♂️
rocks shaped like faces
Yo, Angelo
Do you dare deny it?
Viruses don’t singlehandedly consume matter and produce byproducts so they are not alive
I did have a pet rock as a kid, and I liked it more than normal rocks.
The rare xkcd I find charming and relatable rather than charming and arcane.
Of course
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They may not be alive but prions scare the ever living fuck out of me.
Isn’t metabolism one definition of life? If so, they’re not alive.