Draconic_NEO
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- Comment on don't worry, be happy 1 week ago:
Those dumbasses build their houses right on the beach, they will ultimately be hit very hard by climate change.
- Comment on h8ers gonna h8 1 week ago:
Potatoes are also pretty easy to grow. I think a lot of people grow them as well.
- Comment on send thoughts and peer review 1 week ago:
Yeah that’s really shitty, just another shitty aspect of capitalism protecting businesses and not people. Actually actively screwing people over for money.
- Comment on That's how the world works. 1 week ago:
I agree that people should definitely keep a good store of non-perishable foods in case of hard times, but you also should try to grow food as well. I don’t think anyone is trying to say it’ll be easy, like anything at first it is difficult. It’s definitely worth trying though, if you can and have the space. Like I said, don’t go all in as your only option, keep non-perishable foods on hand, like canned goods, or dried goods. If you’re able to grow your own food you get fresh fruits and veggies, and you won’t use up as many canned goods.
- Comment on send thoughts and peer review 1 week ago:
And even with prosthetic limbs, access might be limited based on profitability.
Let’s also not ignore the fact that many modern prosthetics just kind of suck in general. They’re getting better but they still aren’t great.
- Comment on send thoughts and peer review 1 week ago:
I mean holes in ears healing and closing up is one thing, entire limbs regrowing is another, and we already know from salamanders and lizards that things can go wrong:
Who’s to say a regrown human arm won’t have similar issues, possibly even internal issues only humans would notice due to having opposable fingers.
- Comment on [deleted] 1 week ago:
And often have to work there too, which is even worse.
- Comment on [deleted] 1 week ago:
It’s an industrial district, I don’t think they offer housing there. And if they do it’s only for those who work there.
- Comment on so cozy 🐟 2 weeks ago:
Nom <3
- Comment on so cozy 🐟 2 weeks ago:
They’re like puppies of the sea, just with stingers.
- Comment on Boxelder bugs are relentless lil critters 2 weeks ago:
They are friendly little bugs.
- Comment on Boxelder bugs are relentless lil critters 2 weeks ago:
Interesting argument, mind backing it up with a source?
- Comment on Boxelder bugs are relentless lil critters 2 weeks ago:
Hot take: These guys never bothered me. I know some people are strongly bothered and annoyed by Boxelder bugs but they don’t annoy me.
- Comment on Nuclear energy enjoyers vindicated again after the rise in oil and gas prices. 2 weeks ago:
I thought they peaked during the Triassic.
- Comment on Fascism bad. 2 weeks ago:
Crazy that they boast about having an overactive amygdala but deny it when people say they are acting crazy and paranoid.
Also, side note: conflation of liberal and leftist as if they’re the same is kind of a pet peeve of mine. They are very much not the same thing. Those who know know.
- Comment on Nuclear energy enjoyers vindicated again after the rise in oil and gas prices. 2 weeks ago:
We should be banning, or more accurately, phasing out combustion engines for all vehicles including government and emergency vehicles. If anything should be EVs these should be it. Also consider that American fire trucks are massively oversized compared to ones in the rest of the world. They don’t need to be that big, and thus more compact European-style ones could easily be replaced with electric equivalents.
- Comment on Nuclear energy enjoyers vindicated again after the rise in oil and gas prices. 2 weeks ago:
Also there’s a specific type of reactor that is optimal because it allows for more easily recycling the spent fuel to use it again, and unfortunately these have not been built as much as the other type of reactor.
- Comment on Next round on you! 4 weeks ago:
Looks more like Sushi
- Comment on Artist Depiction 11 months ago:
To be fair it’s a chicken which is 12 meters tall, if you’ve ever seen chickens killing and eating bugs it seems cute but if they were that big they would not be cute at all, it would be terrifying. Little birds are only cute and unintimidating because they’re small.
- Comment on Artist Depiction 11 months ago:
That’s a good idea, have several different interpretations.
- Comment on Artist Depiction 11 months ago:
Of course it’ll be wrong, my point is to try making it look more like a living thing than a living skeleton. When comparing skin wrapped designs to living creatures (even mythical ones) they just look wrong. Most creatures don’t look shrink wrapped. Really imagining what prehistoric animals is more art than science, you use science to try and know roughly what they looked like but that’ll only get you so far, you need to use imagination or creativity.
I mean we can create depictions of mythical animals that have never lived and will never live, why not use some of that skill to try and depict prehistoric creatures in a way that’s more life-like, because the shrink wrap technique isn’t more accurate, it’s lazy, not believable, and also aesthetically unappealing.
- Comment on Artist Depiction 11 months ago:
I think that many of the people who do depictions of prehistoric creatures lack imagination so they do the bare minimum they possibly could to “imagine” the skeleton as a living creature. Imagination is absolutely required to get a good depiction of them that looks lifelike and not creepy and unrealistic.
- Comment on Artist Depiction 11 months ago:
Like this?
- Comment on magic box rule 1 year ago:
The designs probably haven’t fundamentally changed all that much from their older versions.
- Comment on billions & billions 1 year ago:
Not sure, I guess the idea is that in the film they were saying they faked the space race to get the Soviets to work harder and waste money, but it doesn’t really make sense and I think that’s the whole point. It’s meant to be absurd propaganda.
spoiler
Which is why in the movie, cooper isn’t at all mad that his daughter got into a fist fight with some kids over them believing and denying the original real textbooks which explain how man did actually land on the moon.
- Comment on billions & billions 1 year ago:
What are you talking about, we all know the lunar landings were faked to bankrupt the soviets /j
Seriously though, best bet for long distance space exploration just like they said in that movie is to find a wormhole. It’s probably the only real way to travel across the universe in any reasonable amount of time.
- Comment on To deter predators... 1 year ago:
Well it will make them cold if you put it down there.
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- Comment on There is only 1 choice 1 year ago:
Would Anomalocaris actually do well in the modern world. I feel like they probably wouldn’t do so well in the modern ecosystems of much more evolved marine creatures. Would get out-competed very quickly, and likely face plenty of other challenges. Being out-competed is likely the reason they went extinct in the first place.
- Comment on Pringhouls 1 year ago:
Unfortunately reality doesn’t always work out the way maths intended it to. Almost all the ones I’ve gotten had many of them broken. Makes for slick marketing though.
