Swallowtail
@Swallowtail@beehaw.org
- Comment on Clever, clever 3 weeks ago:
Requiring students to cite work is pretty common in academic writing after middle school.
- Comment on I don't trust like that. 3 weeks ago:
Most species of wasp are not aggressive towards humans. I work out in my garden a lot and almost never have encounters with aggressive wasps–the only time I really do is when yellow jackets create a nest in an area that I haven’t been to in a while.
- Comment on Horrors We've Unleashed 5 weeks ago:
I’m having a hard time actually finding a source for this. Just a few poorly written articles that basically cite this video as a source. Something this potentially impactful seems like it would make the rounds more, so I’m very skeptical.
- Comment on Reddit is making sitewide protests basically impossible 1 month ago:
I remember wanting to be a forum mod when I was like 15 and thought that it would make me cool on the forum. As a grown adult… no way. I am so busy between work, grad school, and my personal life, I have no time for such silliness. I have a lot of respect for mods that donate their own time to run communities.
- Comment on THICC 1 month ago:
The rapid-fire memes and acknowledgment of them being memes made it cringe, IMO. If they’d just dialed it back and said something like this I think it would have been fine:
“Here’s our beautiful thicc girl, Abby! She loves to eat fish and swim with her friends. Come see her at our aquarium any time!”
- Comment on ‘Whatever Happens in the Sauna Stays in the Sauna’: Diplomacy, Conducted in the Nude| The Finnish Embassy offers one of hottest invitations in Washington: a chance to discuss serious topics in a sauna 2 months ago:
I wish sauna culture was more of a thing in the US. I’ve lived in places where they are common and it’s such a nice, healthy way to relax after work or on the weekend.
- Comment on Machine Learning 3 months ago:
Try iNaturalist, it works pretty well. Also, learn plant morphology, makes it easier to narrow things down when you get a couple suggestions within the same genus or family.
- Comment on 'LLM-free' is the new '100% organic' - Creators Are Fighting AI Anxiety With an ‘LLM-Free’ Movement 5 months ago:
AI-generated articles, books, coloring books for example, are all a thing now. Behind the Bastards did a podcast episode on the latter two.
- Comment on Cruciferae 6 months ago:
Sauteed/air fryer brussels sprouts 🤌
- Comment on It is very therapeutic to garden, though. 6 months ago:
I used to hate tomatoes, then I tried home-grown and just realized grocery store tomatoes often suck by comparison. There are many plants that don’t store/ship well so you either can’t get them in stores (e.g. pawpaws) or they taste bad because of short shelf life/bruising.
- Comment on Dell responds to return-to-office resistance with VPN, badge tracking 6 months ago:
Remote workers are overall more productive, report a better work-life balance, and suffer less from occupational burnout. It also saves companies money because they don’t have to spend as much on office space.
psychologytoday.com/…/the-surprising-truth-about-…
My time is the most precious commodity I have. Unfortunately I’m in a career where I can’t work remotely, but if I was I would refuse to go back to the office. Life is too precious to waste it sitting in traffic if you don’t have to.
- Comment on trains 6 months ago:
Also, rain exists…
- Comment on ‘Dead Space’ Franchise Is Officially On Hold at Electronic Arts - Bloomberg 7 months ago:
Stasis was in the first game, yes. You were required to use it several times to be able to pass through a few malfunctioning doors. You get it for free early in the game and don’t have to upgrade it at all to open the doors, preventing the game from soft locking itself.