TheTetrapod

@TheTetrapod@lemmy.world

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Captain Disillusion: SNL VFX Mystery⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ 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 ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:

  Literally.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨and we thought our thing with beans was bad⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ 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 ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  PIZZA 👏 IS 👏 TOAST 👏

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨and we thought our thing with beans was bad⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ 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.⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ 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 ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Semi-gloss is shinier than satin and less shiny than gloss.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Meaty lifehack⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ 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 ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I don’t know what to tell you guys, hamburgers are made of hamburger, and mince sounds gross.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Fead⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨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 ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨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 ⁨👣👣👣⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨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 ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  The title is, though.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Polar Bear Dens⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨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 ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨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 ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Stealing from bigots isn’t the moral evil you seem to think it is.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Bravo, Ridley⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨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.⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Literally who?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Boops boops⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Wow, that one guy had a huge stick up his ass.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Anon interviews for a job⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨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 ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨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 ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨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.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why are weather apps so bad at telling you the current weather?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I think you just restated their joke.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨This works btw. Our counsellor just called me and asked to have a session with just me. I have no doubt we'll be discussing how crazy my wife is.⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Not the plague. Other plagues.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨High suspense⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Between how long they had known each other at that point and the situation Kirk was in, I find calling him “Doctor McCoy” very jarring.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨We hardly knew ye.⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Oh no, I love Blinding Lights! 😭

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Don't you all get tired of the constant negativity?⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I don’t mind the idea of being radicalized, as long as I’m on the right side of history.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Anon can't find a good match⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Yeah, I feel like anyone giving OOP the benefit of the doubt is overlooking that part.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Cannabis⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I kind of thought the Spock thing would convey I wasn’t 100% serious in my reply to a weed shitpost.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Cannabis⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Standard middle school definition of species is applicable here. If they can breed and their offspring is fertile, they’re the same species.

  QED, Spock is sterile.