andros_rex
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- Comment on I am two of them 23 hours ago:
Flipping through your other comments - ever considered that the problem might be your personality?
- Comment on I am two of them 1 day ago:
Where are you having random gay men telling you how well they suck cock? Did you accidentally install Grindr?
- Comment on Please remember to spread the word about this :( 1 day ago:
To sum up - because I taught this to a kid yesterday - for a period, life photosynthesized and oxygen was toxic to most living things. There were large growths of photosynthetic Cyanobacteria that pumped the air full of oxygen. Living things at the time (like, bacteria and microbes, nowhere near vertebrates) couldn’t handle all the O2 and died.
- Comment on Could I seek asylum as a US trans person in Costa Rica (or other countries)? 1 day ago:
Tbh, all I want is a single room apartment, a full time job, and access to medical care. If the monarchy can give me that, I’ll shut off all socials and shut up. I am not going to be alive if I am here in October.
- Comment on Could I seek asylum as a US trans person in Costa Rica (or other countries)? 1 day ago:
Rainbow Railroad does not help individuals in the US.
I have already contacted Translifeline, and they were not able to help me either.
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- Comment on Republican Senator callously says 'biblically, we are supposed to work' to millions set to lose health care 2 days ago:
So there’s no reason in understanding the ideology that people are using to oppress people? We should refuse to learn more and just say “nah it’s stupid” because we don’t agree with it?
Ignorance is not something to be proud of.
- Comment on Republican Senator callously says 'biblically, we are supposed to work' to millions set to lose health care 2 days ago:
I’m not a Christian.
The Epic of Gilgamesh is fiction too, but it’s useful in understanding Mesopotamian society.
- Comment on Republican Senator callously says 'biblically, we are supposed to work' to millions set to lose health care 2 days ago:
Now on his way to Jerusalem, Jesus traveled along the border between Samaria and Galilee. As he was going into a village, ten men who had leprosy met him. They stood at a distance and called out in a loud voice, “Jesus, Master, have pity on us!”
When he saw them, he said, “I’m sorry, your health insurance is not in network.” And as they went, they collapsed and died, because they were lazy freeloaders who didn’t work hard enough.
- Comment on Republican Senator callously says 'biblically, we are supposed to work' to millions set to lose health care 2 days ago:
It’s weird how Christian dominionists never mention the Jubilee. You’re supposed to forgive all debts every seven years, and you can’t really own land - God does.
The only parts they read in Leviticus are the ones about killing gays though.
- Comment on Republican Senator callously says 'biblically, we are supposed to work' to millions set to lose health care 2 days ago:
The problem is that the Bible was written by multiple authors over the course of hundreds of years. (Oldest bits are like 1000ish BCE, but those are scraps of poetry that were integrated in later, probably dating back to when Yahweh was a married storm god - early Jews were henotheistic)
It’s not a consistent voice, not all views in each book (or even within the same book) are consistent. The big misinterpretation is that it is ultimately not a unified text - it’s a collection of history, poetry, and philosophy written by people who often had political axes to grind (so much of OT is about Israel versus Judah, maintaining a unified identity during the Babylonian occupation, etc)
The way it has been interacted with and interpreted is critical to understanding most of human history.
Saying “lol Bible dumb” and stopping there is lazy 14 year old on r/atheism thinking that will cripple your understanding of about 2000 years of human history.
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- Comment on Oranges? In this economy? 3 days ago:
I’m sad that Alan Wagner is using AI. Love his work most of the time.
- Comment on Microsoft is is bed with Google now, in a worse, more OS-integrated way than Mozilla was. This timeline sucks. 4 days ago:
Often people have jobs which involve computers, which force them to use whatever software the 90 year old running the company thinks is appropriate.
- Comment on A metaphor for capitalism? 4 days ago:
Y’all know that spiders can climb right?
And that spiders often make webs that look like this? Famously, funnel spiders?
- Comment on hol up 4 days ago:
Missionary trips are often glorified vacations. “Voluntourism.”
High school/college kids come over, build a school and then bounce. It would be better if that money was spent hiring local people to build that school. It relies on this racist thinking that somehow those poor Black or South American or whatever people are too stupid to know how to build things/survive, and they need some random white kids to come in and safe the day.
It’s for show, it’s to make the “missionaries” feel good about themselves and get some nice profile pictures instead of actually doing anything.
There are cases of “hospitals” being started by random people with no medical training - one I’m thinking of killed lots of babies. Somehow a random unqualified white person is just better and smarter, that they can fix all the problems.
It’s such a fucking farce. The real problems of the global south are that the centuries of exploitation and colonialism destroyed those countries economies and ways of living. The pseudo charity does nothing but exist as colonialism lite.
(I am excluding the rare groups of actually qualified people. I’ve talked to nurses and such who have done good work in places like Haiti. But they also did the same kind of work here - the kind of people I met assembling fentanyl test kits.)
- Comment on Dune game 6 days ago:
Dune 2 walked so that StarCraft could run.
- Comment on 8999 BC 6 days ago:
There’s always big error bars on these dates for that kind of reason. Actual archeologists are going to be careful with their language and say things like “the earliest evidence we have for bows is around 9000 BCE.”
- Comment on Are spiders turtlely enough for the Turtle Club? 6 days ago:
I know about the types of communities you are talking about, but there is a difference between people who purposefully put animals together to cause them to kill each other for entertainment and taking striking pictures of natural predation.
I just watched a video of an Australian water rat eat the heart of a toad, as an adaptation to prey on invasive species with mostly toxic organs. That is pretty cool, and the shock value helps with the educational aspect.
There’s a difference between that and “let’s put a snake and a spider in the same confined environment to watch them kill each other for fun.” Or god, the monkey torture people.
Animals eat each other, and learning about them will require confronting this fact. I think this photo is educational, not lurid. Most people know very little about spiders, and I hope that my posting this picture got people to think more about the natural world. It is shocking, it does provoke a visceral reaction, but it also prompts questions. I am probably going to use it as a phenomenon to explore the next time I work with a student on biology.
- Comment on Are spiders turtlely enough for the Turtle Club? 6 days ago:
Saw that shit in theatres. As well as Baby Geniuses 2 and Meet the Spartans.
- Comment on Are spiders turtlely enough for the Turtle Club? 6 days ago:
Spiders routinely hold onto 100x more than their weight. Are you basing any of this on a knowledge of invertebrate biology? Ants can do similarly impressive feats.
- Comment on Nier creator Yoko Taro reveals the sad reality of modern AAA game development, “there’s less weird people making games” 6 days ago:
Yeah, but how survivable is making indie games? Unless you make it big, you aren’t paying rent that way.
- Comment on Are spiders turtlely enough for the Turtle Club? 6 days ago:
Here’s one eating a frog.
What specifically about the physics of the situation is making you suspicious? I’ve worked in an invertebrate lab, admittedly primarily with ants, and nothing about this raises alarm bells.
- Comment on Are spiders turtlely enough for the Turtle Club? 6 days ago:
Yeah. My spider book was given to a middle schooler more than a year ago :(
- Comment on Are spiders turtlely enough for the Turtle Club? 6 days ago:
The sizes make sense - the turtle is on the smaller end and likely a juvenile, but both seem appropriately sized - the spiders can grow that big, especially if female.
I found this in a group for spider enthusiasts - these are the kinds of geeks that will look at a spider leg and get it down to class. AI is not good at generating invertebrate species specific traits yet. While this is pretty spectacular - not a daily event - these are both species that can be found in the same area, and these spiders will attack vertebrate pray.
- Comment on Are spiders turtlely enough for the Turtle Club? 6 days ago:
This is not AI.
- Comment on Are spiders turtlely enough for the Turtle Club? 6 days ago:
Yeah, many larger spider species will go after smaller vertebrates. Goliath bird eaters (South American) will go after snakes much larger than they are - despite the name, they aren’t inclined towards birds though.
Calories are calories.
- Comment on Are spiders turtlely enough for the Turtle Club? 6 days ago:
Nope, southern US. Found in a local group.
- Comment on Dear Kevin 6 days ago:
I missed the “for.” There’s a serious lack of mpreg daddy dom fiction.
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