ProfessorOwl_PhD
@ProfessorOwl_PhD@hexbear.net
- Comment on lab toys 2 weeks ago:
Interesting, I seem to have the opposite condition - something breaks, then they ask me to look at it and by the time I get there it’s working perfectly again.
- Comment on wild seals 2 weeks ago:
If a cat weighed 300 pounds, had the intelligence of a toddler and the morals of a seagull, it would be a dog. It’s just a dog. Seals are exactly sea puppers, people just don’t know what a pupper really is.
- Comment on Chief thought Skripal poisoning could be 'act of war' 3 weeks ago:
No, the generic you doesn’t have the history and context of “you people”, and even if it did, using “you people” to refer to groups that people choose to join (i.e the British Government) isn’t a problematic use. The whole point of "you people"being used against ethnic minorities is that it lumps people together as if their skin colour automatically means they follow specific ideologies. The point of an organisation like a government is that they are all working under the same ideology.
- Comment on Chief thought Skripal poisoning could be 'act of war' 3 weeks ago:
Generic you, as in institutions of British government, not specific you, as in Niel Basu.
- Comment on Chief thought Skripal poisoning could be 'act of war' 3 weeks ago:
he said: “To leave that lying around anywhere on foreign soil is the most unbelievably reckless disregard for human life I’ve ever witnessed.”
bro wait until you find out what you’ve been doing in the middle east
- Comment on Nahh 4 weeks ago:
Crocodile, shark, pill bug… They’re all creatures that are now famed as “living fossils”. Even looks like a coeleocanth fin in one of the panels.
- Comment on Campaigners tie baby slings to statues in call for better UK paternity leave 2 months ago:
I just want to be absolutely clear here, to make sure that you fully understand the question, because your answer suggests you don’t: It’s not couple of weeks a year, it’s just a couple of weeks, right at the start, and it’s not a holiday, you have to look after the baby at its most helpless during those extra weeks of leave. Are you sure that you consider a few extra weeks of looking after a child to be worth 18 years of looking after the child? Like I’m not doing a silly hypothetical where I ask if you consider yourself more or less likely to consider having a child in future, I am asking you, personally, if you will be having a child and raising it should men recieve more paternal leave.
- Comment on Campaigners tie baby slings to statues in call for better UK paternity leave 2 months ago:
Would you honestly take on at least 18 years of responsibility for another human being in exchange for a couple of weeks off work? Do you seriously consider that an incentive?
- Comment on Borderlands' theatrical run grinds to a halt with just $31 million worldwide, which is barely enough to cover the marketing costs 2 months ago:
who thought that getting a cheesy splatter film director was a great decision?
Honestly on paper that sounds pretty good, Borderlands should really work as a bit of a campy gorefest. Just… not Eli Roth.
- Comment on Burning Up 2 months ago:
Use Kelvin then, 314°K is a way bigger number
- Comment on Golden age of English universities could be over, says head of watchdog 2 months ago:
Right, so uni fees don’t need raising, they need funding given back.
- Comment on Golden age of English universities could be over, says head of watchdog 2 months ago:
domestic undergraduate fees remaining frozen since 2012
Not untrue, but they like tripled or quadrupled fees a few years before then, so I’m pretty sure it still accounts for inflation.
- Comment on Choose your fighter, chatters. 3 months ago:
Always been partial to the classic
- Comment on The trouble with England – why rioting in the UK has not spread to Scotland and Wales 3 months ago:
Your position is based on your assumption that unionists in northern Ireland are representative of Irish people rather than English people, despite an ongoing race war over their englishness. Catholic and protestant communities are still walled off from each other to maintain the relative peace. The idea that imperialism and colonialism are some unimportant detail of the past is preposterous, they’re ongoing issues that make up the core of northern Irish politics.
- Comment on The trouble with England – why rioting in the UK has not spread to Scotland and Wales 3 months ago:
You don’t belong here, reactionary. Would you tell First Nations Americans that the white Europeans occupying their lands are real Americans, representative of them? Do you tell Palestinians that their occupiers are Palestinians?
Like I don’t understand why you’d bring such an obviously ignorant take to the table - do you genuinely know nothing of why it’s Ireland and Northern Ireland? Do you know nothing of the Troubles? Do you think the violence and ethnoreligious lines just disappeared when the good Friday agreement was signed? Do you not know about them because your education was inexpensive?
- Comment on The trouble with England – why rioting in the UK has not spread to Scotland and Wales 3 months ago:
Not sure if you heard, but Ireland had this big thing over the English living there. Northern Irish protestants are English.
- Comment on Schools to teach children how to spot fake news and ‘putrid’ conspiracies online 3 months ago:
right wing vs left wing conspiracies
- Comment on 🐊🐓🦖 3 months ago:
No, it’s a joke about dinosaur taxonomy. A statistics joke would still fit though, this is science memes, not dinosaur memes.
- Comment on 🐊🐓🦖 3 months ago:
No, the joke is that crocodiles aren’t dinosaurs despite looking like them and being around at the same time, just closely related, while birds technically are dinosaurs, just not the big lizards of 64 million years ago.
- Comment on We unleashed Facebook and Instagram’s algorithms on blank accounts. They served up sexism and misogyny 3 months ago:
No you won’t, if you were the type to self crit you would have just done it instead of assuring me it’ll happen. Also it is on topic and our nation is far from fine, by any definition of the word.
I don’t know what that last line is supposed to mean, but your latching onto name calling suggests you’re incapable of forming a coherent argument and can only argue against people being mean to you, not against their actual points.
At least we can be sure you’re not lying about being from Bradford.
- Comment on We unleashed Facebook and Instagram’s algorithms on blank accounts. They served up sexism and misogyny 3 months ago:
Yeah you’re totally right, people come and here and post for literally no reason whatsoever all the time. Completely normal to post without any form of motivation behind it. Like obviously there’s absolutely no motive behind your accusations of “agenda posting”, you just slapped a random set of letters and they happened to form those words.
Maybe you should examine what you really mean when you accuse other people of having an agenda. - Comment on We unleashed Facebook and Instagram’s algorithms on blank accounts. They served up sexism and misogyny 3 months ago:
Everyone has an agenda you fucking nonce. Anyway I’m firing off reports about your harrassment of new accounts.
- Comment on Shocking 4 months ago:
Don’t forget the one guy who shocked himself 190 times in the 15 minute period.
- Comment on Do Krimes 4 months ago:
Australian crime scenes. Duh.
- Comment on Electrons are easy 4 months ago:
All the spaces there are all the possible locations for the electrons.
Close, but not quite - the spaces are the most likely locations for the electrons at any moment in time. There is always a small chance they’ve fucked off over the street for a nanosecond when you take your measurement.
- Comment on Relationships 4 months ago:
I had both of these in A-level biology somehow. One week we were taught by the ex nurse who was constantly exasperated by us not knowing stuff like how coronary bypass surgeries are performed, and the next a former primary school teacher who would have us doing cutting and sticking exercises on ATP transfer or DNA sequencing. Neither particularly improved our understanding of biology.
- Comment on First trailer for 'Hellboy: The Crooked Man' unveils newest incarnation of the big red hero 4 months ago:
Mixed feelings tbh. I like the smaller scope and eldritchness, but I honestly kinda loved the campness of del Toro and Perlman’s contributions.
- Comment on Will The Rock’s Red One be the worst Christmas movie ever? 4 months ago:
How dare you. The SWHS is the greatest christm- uh, Life Day movie ever made, an absurdist masterpiece. AI wishes it could make something as incoherent.
- Comment on Caption this. 4 months ago:
As it turned out, the llama planes were not what Jacob hoped them to be.
- Comment on PSA DINOS ARE BACK BABY 🦕 5 months ago:
I doubt they’ll be issuing retractions but they claim it’s all updated with the latest science, so probably.
