Churbleyimyam
@Churbleyimyam@lemm.ee
- Comment on Rightwing populists will keep winning until we grasp this truth about human nature 3 hours ago:
Good article. He’s right as well.
- Comment on A person born in 2015 is 20 years old 1 day ago:
Can confirm. My kid was born last year and is 9 years old now.
- Comment on Pictures of Animals Getting CT Scans Against their Will: A Thread 4 days ago:
Why couldn’t that bird get a sleeping bag like the hamster did? Seems a bit drastic taping it down by the neck
- Comment on Religions have some of the wackiest rules 1 week ago:
Thanks :) I found a free PDF copy on anna’s archive
- Comment on Religions have some of the wackiest rules 1 week ago:
That’s fascinating. Can you recommend any books on the subject? The easier to read the better!
- Comment on 🤙 hang ten 🤙 1 week ago:
Yeah but monkeys have hands on their feet, so they can pull on the pedal’s upstroke as well as push on the downstroke ☝️
- Comment on Time to WAKE UP 1 week ago:
There’s something about bird memes that puts theme in a class of their own.
- Comment on Vets tell BBC they are under 'consistent pressure' to make money 3 weeks ago:
I met another Brit travelling in Thailand who went to hospital with a stomach problem. They didn’t want to treat him until they got a confirmation email from his travel insurance. After they got the email they gave him a massive room to himself, lavished loads of food and drink on him and wouldn’t let him leave after he got better.
- Comment on Pens in Space 3 weeks ago:
This is the most upvotes I think I have ever seen on a comment here.
- Comment on Even his doctors are full of it 3 weeks ago:
0.00000192 megameters
- Comment on 'Naive' to trust Chinese firm with British Steel, UK minister says 3 weeks ago:
Perhaps he’ll be open to looking at all the stuff which has been sold off to the Americans now. I won’t hold my breath.
- Comment on ‘I’m super worried’: fewer UK tourists visiting US amid Trump’s policies and rhetoric 3 weeks ago:
I’m totally up for this. Yes, some kids will find out how to circumvent it and yes, some parents won’t abide by it but even if a law isn’t completely enforceable it totally changes people’s attitudes on a population level. Look at the ban on smoking in indoor public spaces for example.
- Comment on ‘I’m super worried’: fewer UK tourists visiting US amid Trump’s policies and rhetoric 3 weeks ago:
I’ve thought for a long time that a Mastodon instance administered by adults would be a good solution.
- Comment on Tigers 🐅 🐯 3 weeks ago:
This must be utterly terrifying for them.
- Comment on Tigers 🐅 🐯 3 weeks ago:
Competitive advantage over their deer peers.
- Comment on Time to yeet your smartphone into the long grass 4 weeks ago:
I absolutely love independent technology like this 👍
- Comment on UK government says anyone working in Britain for the Russian state will have to register and declare what they are doing or face jail 5 weeks ago:
I wish I could give your comment more than one upvote. I think the vast majority of us are not fully aware that we’re in the middle of an active Russian propaganda campaign. Apparently there are at least 10,000 people in Russia employed full-time on this and a tiny fraction of that here to try and combat it.
I think this is the first time our society has been subject to a state-backed propaganda campaign since the widespread adoption of the internet (which is of course not regulated like ‘legacy media’ is) and so it makes sense that most people aren’t really on their guard for it. The government has no excuse though. They are reported to by the intelligence services, who know exactly what is happening here.
- Comment on big sausage boie 5 weeks ago:
Imaginative naming, scientists 👍
- Comment on hmmm 5 weeks ago:
The fact that this is published in the BMJ suggests to me that this is, in fact, an advertisement.
- Comment on copper 5 weeks ago:
This is what can happen if you don’t get anyone to look after your house when you’re away.
- Comment on Child support 1 month ago:
This just makes me angry
- Comment on Petition: Ban behavioural data extraction for advertising 1 month ago:
I will sign this. I also wonder whether parliament.uk itself sells behavioural data. I seem to remember getting a ‘share this data with 754 partners’ notice on a gov website once…
- Comment on novelity 1 month ago:
Novelousness.
- Comment on Sir Gareth Southgate: Boys need role models, not gaming and porn 1 month ago:
Yeah, it was the same for me. And I think you’re right about the lockdowns too. Apparently those kids even have lower IQs as a result…
- Comment on Sir Gareth Southgate: Boys need role models, not gaming and porn 1 month ago:
As a fellow millennial and Vice City alumni I agree with you and Gareth Southgate.
But I also think that the quantity of time that kids are spending online and in front of screens is playing a bigger part than we recognise. We didn’t have smartphone on us 24/4. And of course content producers have gotten better at making their stuff visually stimulating and addictive.
Funnily enough though, a few weeks ago I had some late night sessions playing GTA for the first time in about 15 years and noticed afterwards that I was driving faster and accelerating much hard in the car IRL!
- Comment on Getting older 1 month ago:
This is a good one.
- Comment on Starmer says he wants to increase UK defence spending to 3% - and announces foreign aid cut 2 months ago:
Reducing dependence on crackpot America is good in my book, as long as we’re not going to just spend that budget with them anyway.
But for gods sake get rid of the tax exemption on wealth to pay for it instead of cutting things that people actually need.
- Comment on imagine 2 months ago:
Oh OK, that makes sense - you’re talking about clones right? I thought you were saying that they don’t even come out the same species 🤣
- Comment on imagine 2 months ago:
Wild maple trees for example do not grow true from seed.
How do they reproduce?
- Comment on FGFBD 2 months ago:
Bouffer la chatte.