Taniwha420

@Taniwha420@lemmy.world

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Anon lives in the midwest⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I’ve had members of the Métis community tell me to use “indigenous” with a mixed group because in Canada the Métis and the Inuit don’t fall under the Indian Act.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Dormice⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s other common name is the European Fat Dormouse.

  I don’t see why the need to shame. Some of us like our dormice with some fat on them.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The art of being discreet⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I saw your spoiler, I still couldn’t figure out what was going on. Partly I was busy looking at her facial expressions, whereas to notice the puke you’ve got to be watching the bottom of her hand. Also, I’m not sure what the clip was like on desktop, but the narrative in the chat helps with interpreting the drama, and it’s just about illegible.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The art of being discreet⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  It would help if I could read the text! What happened?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Can I take over askhistorians?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Oh please make it happen. That crew is too good to be stuck in Reddit.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Secondary Succession⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Now draw a fire holding the woody species.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Horse⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I suspect round one is like eating milk, and round two is a fine cheese. Or eating cabbage, and later experiencing it as a well-aged kimchi. I’m sure it’s full of probiotics.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Horse⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  A longer digestive system is necessary to properly break down plant cellulose. This is why some small herbivores are copraphagic (eat their own shit, like rabbits): it takes two times through to extract adequate nutrients.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Anon is baffled by Mel Gibson's continued career⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Ahhh … Clever lawyers. Put in a clause to prevent an Aussie from using rhyming slang.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Lol. Lmao, even.⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I’ve been wondering a lot about absurdism in humour. There are people who laugh when they see something disastrous happen, like a man reflexively trying to stop a cement truck from tipping and getting squashed dead. Or a recent news story of the only fatality in a school bus crash: it was an observer who got hit by a vehicle as he ran across the highway to see if the kids were ok. A lot of the time this laughing response to a disaster is interpreted as schadenfreude, but a good portion of the time I believe it’s absurdism.

  We try so hard to have agency, to do something, but the World doesn’t give a fuck. You have two choices when shit goes so wrong: you can wail about the unfairness of it all, or you can laugh at the absurdity of our efforts in the face of the colossal chaos of it all. The laughter is stronger.

  It’s interesting to me that some cultures seem to have absurd humour baked in. The Aussies and Kiwis seem to have it. They just make jokes about and laugh at the most horrific situations.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Lol. Lmao, even.⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I’ve been wondering a lot about absurdist humour. Dan Carlin relates a story of an old Air Force colonel who

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How did we switched from "Dinosaur are giant lizards" to "Dinosaur are giant birds"⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Birds are reptiles.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Restore a garden back to life in Horticular coming in July⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Oh, this is something I love doing IRL. Love getting in there and pruning and shaping until things have been restored. I love being the chance to rejuvenate a neglected apple tree over the course of a few years.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Coconuts 🥥⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  IRC the genetics don’t support that. It looks more like Polynesians originate from the area around Taiwan, sharing DNA with the indigenous Taiwanese. Again IRC there are some South American genes present in the Easter Island or Tahiti area, which seem to have been introduced pre-European contact. It’s tricky to tell though because there has been so much sharing of genetics since then. It looks like maybe some Polynesians went to South America one or a few times and returned.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What's the rule for which 'national identity adjective' suffix to use?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Do you change the emphasis? da-ko-TANT?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Shout Factory will be releasing "THE LAST UNICORN (1982)" on 4K Ultra HD and Blu-ray on August 20.⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  In some ways this was the first Studio Ghibli film. The bulk of the animators went on to work at Studio Ghibli.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Mushroom ID⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Yeah, the sponge underside mushrooms are boletes, and I am not aware of any that are poisonous.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The evidence against Drake keeps stacking⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  “Vamipre”.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I don't really know how to deal with coworkers who emotionally dump their issues on me⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I second this. This sounds like older men seeking validation. I’m willing to bet that they’ve been sold on a mythical contract: “If you do X, you will have a smooth life and get respect.” Problem is, many in the public don’t believe in X or think it’s a problem, their families/wife probably doesn’t think much of them, and they haven’t had the life they thought they were entitled to. Often this crew is looking for someone to blame for the unfulfilled contract nobody ever agreed to.

  I suspect they’re looking for validation (“Tell me I’m right and good.”), and you’re agreement that the people they think cheated them indeed did that and are bad/cheaters.

  Old White Guys really got sold on this, “get a job, work hard, and your wife will lust after you,” false contract. That’s why they can be so hateful. It’s either find someone who stole their reward from them, or acknowledge they believed a lie.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨geoengineering⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I maintain that we have a battle of world views going on here. In some ways it’s about the myths we believe in. Most environmentalists believe in what I call the Hobbit Paradigm: we live in a beautiful garden, and if we grounded ourselves in relationships with our communities (including nature) we would have a good and sustainable life. Many technocentrists believe in what I call the Star Trek Paradigm: humans are limitlessly ingenious, technological solutions will save us, and Nature is viewed with an anthropocentric utilitarian ethic.

  I do not believe in the Star Trek Paradigm. It’s hubris. I also don’t think it’s a very pragmatic paradigm. We live in a world we evolved to live in. Not worrying about this world because we think terraforming other planets and setting up space bases might be a possibility is not comprehending the Good or risk very well, IMHO.

  I suppose a third paradigm is cold-blooded, individualist Realpolitik; It’s a dog eat dog world, fuck you, I’m just trying to get mine as hard as everyone else is. In this case Space Colonisation is just a beard to disguise a callous and usurious relationship to the beings is this world.

  That makes the conflict one of story, of myth, which means no one will have their minds changed by facts. They’re belief systems. We need to expose those fundamentally short -sighted or selfish beliefs. We need to tell better stories, and expose the ridiculousness of the other stories.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What's a small cleared space in a forest where people can live called?⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Old English was ‘den’. Place names ending in ‘den’ or ‘don’ were originally farmsteads cleared in the forest, i.e. Wimbledon, or Camden.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Rachael Dixon, 53, dies in suspected mushroom poisoning (Ballarat).⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Oh yeah, and the number of times I’ve heard people who obviously don’t know what they’re talking about look at an Agaricus sp. mushroom and confidently answer, “oh yeah, that’s a field mushroom. It’s good.” No. It’s not. A good number of species in that genus will fuck your liver up real good and even kill you.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Oops⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Like, what made him vomit, what was his vomit made of, and if that wasn’t a fucking joint then what was it?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨acceptable screws⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I don’t know what you’re talking about. They’re naturally superior.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨mOLecuLaR maN⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  That sounds like Gabor Maté’s work.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨When asked a question, what is your first reaction, to answer the question or to defend yourself?⁩ ⁨⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Not sure you’ve given us enough context. Why would I feel the need to defend myself when someone asks me directions.

  I have a suspicion you’re asking if someone questions my actions or something.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What do you see that you wish others saw?⁩ ⁨⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I’ve started to think of “optimum solutions” rather than “right solutions”.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨brilliant as silver⁩ ⁨⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Vapours too.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨brilliant as silver⁩ ⁨⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I thought it was the vapours from using mercury inside that got them.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨neanderthal flute⁩ ⁨⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Wow. Never heard of it. en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Divje_Babe_flute

  Not a rudimentary instrument by any means! Capable of 3.5 octaves and modern scales and ornamentation.