Redfox8
@Redfox8@mander.xyz
- Comment on This is real 2 weeks ago:
I took it as turning the discussion around - I.e. what to do if your neighbour behaves as above? If so, it sounds like a good way to get people to think about respectful behaviour.
- Comment on Preposterous!!! 2 weeks ago:
Prepostosaurus more like…!
- Comment on An apple a day, ... Ah well, fuck it. 2 weeks ago:
I guess the man’s hair makes her fingers look more pointy. If you’re eternal and out to drink blood, you’ve got pointy fingers y’know.
- Comment on Mmmm... Yeah. It checks out. 4 weeks ago:
I’d argue that parents are different to a ‘leader’ as we perceive them, or as I read was suggested in the comment. Children will stick with their parents, up to the point at which they’re ready to start their own family, like you say, but is that leadership in the same sense?
But yes, I agree, pack = family is accurate.
- Comment on Mmmm... Yeah. It checks out. 4 weeks ago:
Dogs don’t need a leader - the whole alpha male wolf thing has long been disproven, by the original author none the less. Dogs are highly social and live in groups, yes, but there’s no boss dog. Very few animals have a concept of a leader. In fact I’d argue that none do and it’s a totally human idea.
I like your cat/dog thinking idea though. Cats very much think ‘me me me’!
- Comment on OK what is your Roman name? 4 weeks ago:
He’ll be coming soon, I can hear him approaching…
- Comment on OK what is your Roman name? 4 weeks ago:
My middle name is applius
- Comment on Anon learns about history 4 weeks ago:
Oh it so is! Regards, Alistaire Jeremy Tarquin Smithe Smithe-Walmintrop.
- Comment on Labour votes AGAINST letting disabled people use the bus for free before 9:30am 1 month ago:
Maybe if there was a public transport system still running that was not just a cash cow and stifled for the benefit of big oil then it wouldn’t matter who used it when.
Some people wake very early and may only be well enough during rush hour to travel… and yet they’re not supported in doing so, even though it’d cost relative pennies.
Oh and re your last Q, disabled people aren’t allowed to go out on the lash or to the theatre etc, they’re disabled so should be tucked up in bed staring at the samecwall they’ve been staring at all daytime. It saves the government tens of pounds a year that!
PS I’m not being narky at you, rather the system.
- Comment on Labour votes AGAINST letting disabled people use the bus for free before 9:30am 1 month ago:
Welcome to politics 101!
- Comment on Metal genres 1 month ago:
Not heard of them, thanks for the recommendation, that’ll be tonight’s listening sorted!
- Comment on Metal genres 1 month ago:
Listening to Tool right now, love 'Maiden but enjoy pre Bruce as much as the rest… NIN, Anthrax, Sick of it All, Type O Negative, Paradise Lost, Sepultura…must be some kinda metal chameleon circa 90s-00s!
- Comment on You are stardust. 1 month ago:
And here I am sat drinking beer, watching tv. The pinnacle of the evolution of the universe.
Thank you, and goodnight!
- Comment on You are stardust. 1 month ago:
- Comment on I have tomorrow off :) 2 months ago:
Oh that’s Muffit! Enjoy a tipple on me! ;)
- Comment on Hope you like math 2 months ago:
If you’d like to hear about the versatility of the word ‘fuck’ click and enjoy some Wildhearts at the same time :)
You may want to skip the last minute…on the original cd it was waaay longer!
- Comment on Worldbuilding 2 months ago:
I had to look this up as it sounded unusual, but looking at the younh plant it is basically a small trunk covered in long floppy pine leaves/needles that superficially looks like a clump of grass at first. I suspect there’s no evolutionary advantage to looking like grass, but storing up energy before growing upwards makes sense if there’s a periodic fire risk with each fire risk period being over a couple of years. Also handy for dealing with browsing pressure from particulary hungry critters following a fire.
- Comment on Microwave Intensifies 3 months ago:
I sell the truth, that is my fan. Mits off! You now owe me $5.
- Comment on Carnivory in Plants 3 months ago:
There’s tonnes of blackthorn and a lot of sheep in the UK and I’ve never heard it to be problematic. Sheep ate pretty dim, but bramble is definitely not thorny/spiney enough to get caught bar the odd occasion. I’m sure I heard about a shrub (African maybe) that sheep can get completely ensnared in and die, but can’t find it!
- Comment on Carnivory in Plants 3 months ago:
Feeed mee Seymour
- Comment on Check yourself 4 months ago:
Many species of butterlies and moths eat honeydew, aka aphid poop, so no nectar needed. Also the larvae do the bulk of the eating. Imagos of lepidoptera only need to survive not grow so food requirements are fairly low.
- Comment on Carnivory in Plants 4 months ago:
Because they live in environments lacking in the nutrients that can be gained from invertebrates (e.g. in highly acidic soil). This allows them to compete better against other plants. I guess non-flowering plants don’t need the same nutrients so can go without. Only a beginnner+ at ecological botany so someone here can surely explain better knowing lemmy!
- Comment on Why is there such a negative connotation with the poos of horses, bulls, and bats? 4 months ago:
Iirc, the phrase “bat shit crazy” comes from the harvesting of tropical bat guano (poop) for use as a fertliser. The poop is highly toxic, or contains toxic bacteria, which makes the harvesters go a little crazy! Not all bat species have this toxic poop.
- Comment on ??? 4 months ago:
There’s nautiluslive.org/tech/ev-nautilus who have a YT chanel with live feeds.
- Comment on Bookmark 5 months ago:
Missed a trick there, should be reading James Herberts ‘The Rats’!
- Comment on Common British L 5 months ago:
Go to Scotland and taste the joys of a deep fried Mars bar, now you’re talking!
- Comment on DJ Butcher 5 months ago:
This was his version of flossing, he had killer dance moves behind the decks.
- Comment on Pd(PPh3)4 5 months ago:
I’m gonna lick some mercury laced with cyanide, sprinkled with foxglove seeds. Betcha can’t lick more times than me!
- Comment on The rise of ‘Frankenstein’ laptops in New Delhi’s repair markets 6 months ago:
So they’re recycling…good on them…but there I was thinking they may be creating some Apple-PC steam punk mutant for some specialist market…
- Comment on Anyone remember how popular the group Head Cleaner was? 6 months ago:
The hidden tracks were the best!