Dabundis
@Dabundis@lemmy.world
- Comment on Did 70% of Wisconsin voters just delete their own constitutional guarantee to be eligible to vote? 2 weeks ago:
Closing loopholes is worthwhile, even if they’re not being abused yet. You say “if you see this happening, then you’ll have to vote”, but that thing that may happen is people being denied the right to vote. So if this starts to happen, it may be impossible to undo with voting.
- Comment on House Centipedes 5 weeks ago:
I usually get these little dudes in the summer. I let them be when I can stomach it, but I have this one lamp at my desk pointed up at the wall to give me some indirect light. Occasionally a house centipede will crawl along in front of the light and cast a really long shadow to freak me the hell out.
- Comment on 10001 5 weeks ago:
Ominous
- Comment on Horrors We've Unleashed 5 weeks ago:
The niche being food for fish that share their ecosystem in larval stages, and birds/bats/frogs that share their ecosystem in their adult stage.
- Comment on Horrors We've Unleashed 5 weeks ago:
If we were to somehow magically remove mosquitos from existence in an instant, we’d better hope something fills their ecological niche quickly
- Comment on Oxbowin' 5 weeks ago:
Known in Australia as Billabongs
- Comment on Horrors We've Unleashed 5 weeks ago:
I understand what you’re saying here, but the set of people killed by “every disease ever” includes the entire set of people killed by mosquito-borne diseases. Mosquitoes can’t have killed more people than every disease ever because mosquitoes’ kill count is part of every disease ever.
- Comment on Anon recommends a cast iron pan 1 month ago:
It’s pretty likely that the temperature needed to polymerize the oil would destroy whatever compounds are responsible for making olive oil taste and smell the way it does. Plus, if done well, seasoning creates a permanent bond between the polymer and the metal, so you probably wouldn’t get anything to come out of the seasoning into the food.
As for adding iron to the food, you might be thinking of acidic foods causing iron to leech out into the food. If the seasoning is “perfect” then this might not happen, but any weakspots in the seasoning can allow acids to corrode the pan if they’re left there long enough. Common advice you’ll find is to avoid cooking acidic food for long periods of time (e.g., simmering tomato sauce for several hours)
- Comment on Has there been a depiction of fast food on a space station? 2 months ago:
There’s at least one instance on futurama where a space ship is flown through a drive-through that’s just out in the vacuum of space
- Comment on Anon casts a healing spell 2 months ago:
You couldn’t “restore” something to a state it’s never been in. Cutting off the legs and then casting regenerate would “regenerate” the lost pair of paralyzed legs.
- Comment on Anon casts a healing spell 2 months ago:
Even with regenerate, what exactly are you regenerating? If the necessary neural pathways for the legs to work never developed in the first place, they couldn’t be “regenerated”. If this was your goal I think you might need to true polymorph a guy into “the same guy but his legs work”
- Comment on Anon casts a healing spell 2 months ago:
Alright, you cast heal wounds. Any wounds on the legs are healed. You are now aware that paralysis from birth is not a “wound”
- Comment on Butcherbirb 2 months ago:
Songbirds in general can be unexpectedly vicious
- Comment on Go already 2 months ago:
And this is the magical part where we recognize that both can exist
- Comment on Go already 2 months ago:
Interesting in concept i guess, but orders of magnitude less efficient than a train.
- Comment on Go already 2 months ago:
In order for everyone to just freaking go, their cars would have to be attached somehow.
I wonder if anyone’s ever thought of linking a bunch of cars together so they can all stop and go simultaneously. And hey, since the cars are attached and all need to go to the same place, we can build a track instead of using high maintenance rubber on pavement and-
oop, we invented trains
- Comment on Social Engineering 2 months ago:
add a hard hat and you’re in
- Comment on Animal Attacks 3 months ago:
Literally asking for it, how dare you attempt to enjoy a delicious seasonal fruit
- Comment on They did the math. 4 months ago:
I too vomit while standing up at my full height.
- Comment on On the House Floor, Republicans Gag Mentions of Trump’s Conviction 4 months ago:
That means after saying it, you can say literally anything and guarantee it will be off record c;
- Comment on well shoot 5 months ago:
This is the way. Plus they’re usually mesh so you can just toss them in the fridge with your produce and it stays breathable
- Comment on the law of adulting: veg spoils 5x faster when ur paying for it 5 months ago:
Soak a kitchen towel, wring it out, and line the bottom of the crisper with it. Feel it every once in a while to make sure it’s still damp. That’ll let your crisper be what it was designed to be: a little high-humidity box in an otherwise arid refrigerator.
Also, take note of how produce is stored at the grocery store. If the store doesn’t refrigerate something (apples, tomatoes, avocados to name a couple), odds are you shouldn’t either. The fruits and veggies that belong in the crisper are the ones that are periodically misted with water in the case at the store. Also probably don’t keep anything tightly wrapped in plastic.
- Comment on New Doom Game Could Be Announced At Xbox Showcase In June 6 months ago:
Welcome to 2024 where we announce the possibility of an upcoming announcement.
- Comment on heresy sheresy i wanna be a dinosaur 6 months ago:
Not heresy, apostasy. A heretic worships god wrong. An apostate worships the wrong god. (“wrong” as defined by the church, of course)
- Comment on Living 6 months ago:
The reasoned par of my brain wholeheartedly agrees with you, and when I can convince myself to do so, I let them vibe. Unfortunately the reasoned part of my brain is powerless to stop the fight or flight response that happens when [spindly-legged creature] crosses my field of view. It simply happens.
If reasoning alone could overcome an otherwise unreasonable physiological response, then allergies wouldn’t exist.
- Comment on 2x2 lumber at Home Depot is now 1.28x1.28. Nominal size is supposed to be 1.5 6 months ago:
I think this commenter is trying to say that the nominal size of a 2x2 is 2" by 2" (and it looks like they typo’d nominal to “normal”)
The actual size of a 2x2 is 1.5" by 1.5", and OP incorrectly calls these dimensions nominal
- Comment on #justposeidonthings 6 months ago:
For scale, 20,000 leagues is almost 9 times the diameter of the Earth
- Comment on Animals 7 months ago:
To expand a little bit - the ridges of your outer ear will attenuate certain frequencies of sound more than others depending on the height of the source relative to your head. Animals that don’t have these outer ear ridges can still find the source of a sound laterally since they have two ears, and tilting their head tilts the plane of their ears letting them get some vertical sound perception.
In the smarter every day vid on this topic, they had a blindfolded person point to the source of a sound (succeeded no problem), and then packed clay into the outer ear ridges to mess with that sound attenuation. The person was able to keep their lateral sound perception but the vertical was all over the place.
- Comment on 2/5 7 months ago:
I dunno, I think it’s one star.
- Comment on Folksy stuff 7 months ago:
Can confirm, dancing while doing chores continues to be the way to go as an adult