thedirtyknapkin
@thedirtyknapkin@lemmy.world
- Comment on Time to go to the Soup Store 2 days ago:
I interpreted this as implying that the bits of food hiding in the water are small or pulverized.
I understand stew to just be less watery. barely enough liquid to cover the chunks.
- Comment on Freelance Video Game Journalists Are Propping Up The Industry, And Many Are Being Paid Dogshit In Return 4 days ago:
you could repurpose this headline to literally any creative or journalistic industry these days. “x industry is being propped up by underpaid freelancers” is just a fact of life now. it’s just so much cheaper when you don’t owe them any benefits or dignity or anything at all in fact.
- Comment on Jewel Beetles 6 days ago:
it would be more like if someone intentionally painted that bottle to attract them then irritated that design using an the money in the world to perfect it. it’s almost electric horror shit if it wasn’t just another person trying to make money.
- Comment on Potoo Potions! 1 week ago:
always more complicated than the headlines would have you believe.
- Comment on Potoo Potions! 1 week ago:
because that’s actually not in the books lol.
i honestly hate the show because it’s not at all accurate to the books either in spite of that being the bulk of their marketing. that said, the two swords things comes entirely from the games. in the books he makes comments a few times about the fancy metals in his swords helping kill monsters, but he only has one at a time.
- Comment on Monkey business 2 weeks ago:
oh, that was a very different thing. in fact, i think it’s a shame that public reaction to that situation killed dolphin research.
there’s a really really good episode of radiolab on this. the experiment was actually extremely promising and groundbreaking. they had a dolphin spending its own free time practicing making human words with his blowhole, using the water to try and make a sort of lip. rotating the blowhole in and out of the water to shape the sounds. this dolphin was able to understand spoken language and was observably getting frustrated at his inability to say what he clearly wanted to.
the dolphin jerking thing happened because this was a dolphin actively in the throws of puberty. dolphins are intelligent, willful, occasionally evil animals. in nature they will masturbate themselves on shellfish and so other heinous sexually deviant things by human standards. the dolphin in the study was showing tremendous progress, but started showing string sexual urges. it got to the point that he was completely uncooperative. they jerked him off because he was cooperative after. there is no reason to believe the dolphin was explicitly attracted to the researcher and the researcher was said that she wasn’t attracted to the dolphin.
this story was highly sensationalized. so much so that it completely overshadowed the fact that THE DOLPHIN COULD TALK. he wasn’t very good at it, but that’s only because he lacked the hardware. to this day no one can get funding for dolphin research because of this. it left that much of a stink on the entire field. we have made almost no meaningful progress in this field since. THE DOLPHIN COULD FUCKING TALK AND ALL WE CARE ABOUT IS HOW GROSS IT IS THAT THEY JERKED IT OFF.
- Comment on Relationship goals 2 weeks ago:
the horny brain will actively chemically supresses our “ick” reaction. we’re literally less capable of being grossed out when having sex.
- Comment on Relationship goals 2 weeks ago:
mine just attached under my toilet seat. the water line connects to the existing toilet water line. it came with the fitting i needed and was easier than Legos to set up.
think i payed like $25 on Amazon like 5 years ago. i try not to buy from Amazon anymore, but I’m sure there are many reasonable options out there elsewhere.
- Comment on Relationship goals 2 weeks ago:
eh, is got a little valve and i just turn it all the way. i like the cleanness.
- Comment on Relationship goals 3 weeks ago:
not to be too stereotypically reddit butt…
a bidet makes it a lot easier 😅. it shoots a little water up in there like a mini douche every time. helps get those last little stubborn bits too if there are any.
- Comment on Monkey business 3 weeks ago:
oh fuck, now we’re getting back into those chimps that were raised as humans by private citizens. there’s examples of them masturbating to human porn and being sexually disinterested in their own species. it’s honestly uncomfortable to think about.
- Comment on Marvel Studios’ ‘Blade’ Removed From 2025 Release Schedule, Disney Dates ‘Predator: Badlands’ Instead 3 weeks ago:
oh shit, my bad. yeah IDK then. that’s weird.
- Comment on Marvel Studios’ ‘Blade’ Removed From 2025 Release Schedule, Disney Dates ‘Predator: Badlands’ Instead 3 weeks ago:
because a blade movie had been announced, but a blade actor had not. that was more or less the official announcement that snipes would reprise the role.
at least that’s how i took it at the time. maybe it was an oddly tongue in cheek way of implying he was killing the film?
- Comment on No excuse 4 weeks ago:
maaan, one time i pulled in awkward to the corner of a parking lot at a trail head to wait for my friend. i was pulled forward and at an angle so i could see past the other cars and know if my friend had driven past the lot. the was no cell service so i had to go flag him down when i saw him since the rail head wasn’t very well marked. I made sure i wasn’t in anyone’s way, but it was an ugly ass park job if it had actually been a park job.
as I was sat there with my windows cracked two dudes walk past and spent like 5 minutes shifting on Subaru drivers because of my park job. they didn’t see me in the car i guess. like, they were just making incorrect assumptions, but it still kinda hurt…
- Comment on Steam Now Warns Consumers That They're Buying a License, Not a Game During a Purchase 5 weeks ago:
yeah no, this is just fixing the wording to better represent the truth that has always been.
this is because a California law recently passed requiring these kinds of purchases to inform consumers that they don’t actually own it. valve decided it would be easier just to do this for everyone.
this has always been true for all digital games you purchased. the fact that you didn’t realize this is why the law was need.
thanks California for being the only force fighting for consumers rights in the United States. i can see why conservatives give you so much shit. you do things that matter.
- Comment on Self-reflection 1 month ago:
it’s a good feeling unless you can’t print otherwise and the teacher is an asshole.
I had that once in highschool, so no Dean to escalate to or anything. principal took his side. the problem was, due to medical issues, i struggled to get assignments done at home. this class was 90% essays, but it was also just a history class. 100% of the material was covered in the lecture. I’m autistic and tend to remember lectures very well. so, come time for the final exam, one of the only actual in class exams, and i get nearly a perfect score. i knew the material, i just had other struggles with getting the papers done.
he used my struggle with the rest of the class as the only proof he needed to get me expelled. i had to finish my schooling at an alternative school, which was way way better anyway and honestly wasn’t a setbacm in the end. it sure set the tone for my relation with authority though.
- Comment on The past is a foreign country. 1 month ago:
we still have a couple of lemon giving phrases that survive “when life gives you lemons”. “looks like that car you bought is a lemon”
lemons are sour instead of sweet like most fruit. my guess is that a lemon is a thing to generally make your day/life worse, especially if it seemed like a good thing at first.
makes sense in the context of a “confirmed bachelor”. he’s giving that lemon to a stork. he’s not going to have children. someone married him and he’s not going to have children. back in the day that would be seen as defeating the point of marriage, though the real implication is he’s gay and married for a beard.
in the context of other relationships or a breakup they thought they were dating someone for keeps, turns out they weren’t worth it. they were a lemon, looked sweet but tasted sour when bitten into.
- Comment on Is martial arts really that useful? 1 month ago:
all of the “real” Martial arts from back before guns were about using weapons. those aren’t really practiced as much anymore because they’re all useless in the face of firearms anyway. why spend years training with a knife when the same time could be spent training with a gun. if combat effectiveness is your goal then you need to learn modern combat techniques.
that said, there’s plenty to be learned from it, and it’s not like it can’t help you in a fight. but as another commenter said, the real way to win every fight is by avoiding them. so really the best thing to learn is de-escalation and recognizing danger.
- Comment on Krillin 1 month ago:
it’s like bread. if you only ever saw white bread on sandwiches you might be confused to hear about someone living a good sourdough or rye from the bakery.
- Comment on stop 2 months ago:
man IDK, i know a lot of vegans and none of them are silent about it. they’re all deeply passionate people and that’s not necessarily bad, but they’re definitely not quiet.
- Comment on Is "disk" just a different spelling of "disc" or are they actually different words? 2 months ago:
more disk shaped than flash memory.
- Comment on What are your thoughts on Warframe? 2 months ago:
i mean… it’s a big game. an hour is definitely not enough time to get the feel of a game like that.
hell I’ve never played it and have no strong feelings for or against it, but saying you quit after an hour is not much more than saying you never tried it at all.
- Comment on Anon gets a good look at Steve-O 2 months ago:
I’m pretty sure I’ve heard steve-ob say himself that they couldn’t probably pull off much more jackass without like… dying. also i think the vibes have been off for them as a crew since bam went off deep and Ryan died.
- Comment on Anon gets a good look at Steve-O 2 months ago:
there may not be a correlation between race and length, but there is a correlation between race and percentage of spongey tissue.
this is basically what creates the difference between what people call a “grower” vs. a “shower”. black people are slightly statistically more likely to be “showers” having a larger flaccid size. the extreme examples is this will, however, achieve a less hard erection. so it’s not all bad for the growers. that said, porn stars have tricks to achieve longer harder erections. Viagra is the absolute norm on professional porn sets. meth and other stimulants also run rampant. it’s generally not actually pleasant work.
the racial statistical correlation is weak, and not really worth much. it’s about as significant as some peoples being taller on average. in fact, much less so, because “black” isn’t a distinct population. i have no idea if there have been better more detailed and representative studies done on this. the only one I’ve seen just went off of general demographic data sets like “non Hispanic white” or “black”. maybe you could argue it’s not worth studying, but damnit, everyone kinda wants to know. it’s all talked about often enough. we should really get to the deepest bottom of it just to end the argument. even though proving things with data never ends arguments.
- Comment on Anon slips through a crowd 2 months ago:
hmmm, all boys high schools aren’t actually very common in America. high schools here are almost all coed.
- Comment on Danger 2 months ago:
yeah, it’s likely for insurance or regulatory reasons.
insurance will find any reason possible to deny your claim. even if that is a failure to remove the keys from the ignition after the car burst into flames.
regulators shouldn’t allow slack. with any company in a regulatory situation they will to exactly as much as they’re allowed to get away with. give them an inch, they take a Mile. letting hazard tags slide based on judgement creates space for corruption and abuse. following procedures to the letter with strict documentation can help curtail that.
- Comment on Danger 2 months ago:
haha, no doubt. i may not be Australian, but i have written similar snarky reports before lol. after a certain point you’re choosing between 5 hours of overtime to write a report, or writing something like “event was fucked, station did not coordinate, check initial documents”
- Comment on Danger 2 months ago:
you know, i bet it’s literally missing its primary control surface
- Comment on Danger 2 months ago:
nah, my bet is that’s a machine that’s like visibly exploded to pieces. some manager walked by and reprimanded them for not tagging the broken gear. writer of tag argued back that “it’s obviously fucked, i mean look at it. have a think about it for a second”. manager said it doesn’t matter, protocol. tag writer writes sarcastic tag.
- Comment on Inconceivable Horror 3 months ago:
damn… does this count? like generally we want to avoid plastic cups in the ocean, but would it be bad to take something like this from say, a hermit crab? if we take the cup where will it go? chances are out will just end up somewhere else it shouldn’t but this time without being made use of by crabs. my knee jerk reaction was to say animals using plastics don’t count, but that’s clearly not true when we reuse garbage intentionally to create animal habitat like artificial reefs. can we really say that only humans have the capacity to reuse their own garbage effectively?