TheTetrapod
@TheTetrapod@lemmy.world
- Comment on If we are going to rename the Gulf wouldn't this be more appropriate 3 days ago:
Their comment was a joke, in case you missed it.
- Comment on Anon visits America 4 weeks ago:
I thought, and a quick Google confirms, that it is used in the Harry Potter series a few times. Obviously, you might not have read them, but for people in my cohort, that was likely our largest exposure point to British culture.
- Comment on Behold currently! 4 weeks ago:
This is way better than the OP.
- Comment on Rather be homeless than have this as my job 4 weeks ago:
Brother, you wouldn’t blow 2-3 cocks in an 8 hour shift if that was your only duty? After the first week, you’d be so good at it that you’d be “working” less than an hour a day.
- Comment on Yes Chef 4 weeks ago:
You’re probably lactose intolerant.
- Comment on Coffeezilla does a third part of his CS:GO gambling expose...where he squarely puts the blame on Valve 5 weeks ago:
They have no power to give those people reparations, so yeah, why not? Just cut the head off the damn snake and dust off your hands.
- Comment on Saint Luigi 5 weeks ago:
You didn’t really respond to the core idea of my comment, which is that AI isn’t doing anything to help us achieve the things that we would actually want it to. And what about the safety concerns around current-gen self-driving vehicles? It’s easy to call everyone primitivists if you refuse to acknowledge their legitimate points.
- Comment on Saint Luigi 5 weeks ago:
I think the core issue here is that, so far, AI has only taken away jobs that people want. People want to be artists, writers, and even programmers, and those are the only industries to be disrupted by AI thus far. If AI were to reduce society’s need for manual or emotional labor, I think you would see far less reluctance to accept it. Also, the self-diving car thing, from the outside, just looks to be a matter of public safety. I think most people would agree that cars will be able to safely drive themselves eventually, but the ones currently on the road feel underbaked and rushed along by a greedy cabal of tech industrialists.
- Comment on Captain Disillusion: SNL VFX Mystery 1 month ago:
Most science communication YouTube channels engage in debunking (of flat feathers, young earth creationists, pseudoarcheologists, etc.), always with evidence. Just because a bunch of racist pngtubers co-opted the word skeptical 10-15 years ago doesn’t change the meaning of the word itself.
- Comment on Shitposting 1 month ago:
Literally.
- Comment on and we thought our thing with beans was bad 1 month ago:
Then what the heck were you saying? That a family might keep a couple goats around? Because I think that still counts as demand.
- Comment on and we thought our thing with beans was bad 1 month ago:
PIZZA 👏 IS 👏 TOAST 👏
- Comment on and we thought our thing with beans was bad 1 month ago:
politely raises hand While I think factory farming is abhorrent, I find the most compelling reasons to eat plant-based to be the environmental ones. Therefore, I think “I only eat a little bit of meat” is actually a huge positive step someone can take. If your primary concern regarding meat is the cruelty of taking the life of another animal, that’s completely valid, but compared to the others, that square just feels out of place.
- Comment on Pretty interesting when you really think about it. 1 month ago:
If you close your eyes and imagine a future Star Trek utopia, are you still imagining borders? It’s a pretty standard opinion that borders are an outcropping of our worse natures and should eventually be left behind.
- Comment on Trying to retain your sanity while married 1 month ago:
Semi-gloss is shinier than satin and less shiny than gloss.
- Comment on Meaty lifehack 2 months ago:
I didn’t realize this wasn’t universal until upthread, but Americans refer to all ground beef as hamburger or hamburger meat.
- Comment on Meaty lifehack 2 months ago:
I don’t know what to tell you guys, hamburgers are made of hamburger, and mince sounds gross.
- Comment on Fead 3 months ago:
I just found out spinach is crazy high in them too! I love spinach…
- Comment on Steven Spielberg is ‘a big PC Gamer’ — loves shooters, and insists on keyboard and mouse 3 months ago:
I find it very difficult to believe that you don’t like a single Spielberg movie, just on a quantity level. He’s made so many at this point, at least one must tickle your fancy.
- Comment on 👣👣👣 4 months ago:
As someone in the inside, what’s the rationale behind having to publicly post jobs like this? Why can’t you just offer the job to the person you want to give it to?
- Comment on Ohio pets 4 months ago:
The title is, though.
- Comment on Polar Bear Dens 4 months ago:
I want to know how polar bears figured out that they need an air hole in their dens. Is that passed down instinctually or demonstratively? Animals are so cool.
- Comment on Burning Up 4 months ago:
Rating inflation. If someone called you a 5 or 6 out of 10, you’d feel bad. 7/10 is the bottom of acceptability, just like 72° is room temperature.
- Comment on Anon comes out to his religious parents 5 months ago:
Stealing from bigots isn’t the moral evil you seem to think it is.
- Comment on Bravo, Ridley 5 months ago:
Probably the fact that we can track the development of modern wheat from a natural grain to what it is today.
- Comment on Dune is about worms. 5 months ago:
Literally who?
- Comment on Boops boops 5 months ago:
Wow, that one guy had a huge stick up his ass.
- Comment on Anon interviews for a job 5 months ago:
It sounds like you’ve left the field, but I’ll never miss a chance to proselytize bone conduction headphones. Mediocre sound quality, but they leave your ears completely open and can work through ear protection.
- Comment on perspective 5 months ago:
Great reference. The Bobs haven’t really achieved anything on this scale yet, though. The closest is the Skippies’ Matryoshka Brain, but IIRC they’re using a system of satellites around a brown dwarf star, which would be somewhat comparable in size to Jupiter. The Others’ Dyson Sphere project is closer, but I don’t think we really got a sense for how far along they were, but it looks like their home star is only a bit larger than Sol.
Sorry if that came across as nitpicky, I was just excited to see a Bobiverse reference in the wild.
- Comment on Aluminum 5 months ago:
People always argue that -num isn’t a legitimate way for the name of an element to end, but I never see you guys talking about Platinium.