Skua

@Skua@kbin.earth

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Fake history porn⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Tom Scott's game show! https://lateralcast.com/

  He has always had a real love for game shows and has done quite a few different ones over time, but Lateral seems to be his main project just now. The format is dead simple, it's Tom plus three guests (usually other youtubers or podcasters that he has met throughout his career) taking turns asking the each other some kind of a question that requires, as the name suggests, some lateral thinking to puzzle out

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Fake history porn⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Every time video game things come up on Lateral he's more or less stumped because he has just never been into games, which is totally fair enough, but I feel like if he were going to enjoy any video game at all it'd be Portal

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Internet discourse is wonderful ⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Presumably being less orange in some way. None of it actually means anything, all of Orange's words are a parody of that incel terminology, it's just that in the comic being orange or green is a desirable characteristic

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨production line⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Wait what the fuck, they really did switch a bakery over to drone production and put them on a conveyor belt like that

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨redwoods⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  https://cdn.imgchest.com/files/y8xcnjxrg24.jpg

  I'm glad to report that they're still standing! These photos aren't great, but they do at least show how much taller they are than every other tree in the area and the incredibly confusing presence of an old phone box is a helpful comparison for how chunky they are

  However, I also found out that these are dawn redwoods, the smallest variety of redwoods. These don't even get to half the height of the giant ones in California and they're still the biggest trees I've ever seen in person

  Also tagging @shalafi

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Corporate policy⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  It was at least common in (my part of) the UK when I was in university over a decade ago

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What strategy would you use to estimate the number of hazelnuts⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I think that this is more or less the approach I would take, but you shouldn't worry about the actual diameter of anything. It's not important, after all - if everything was scaled up twice as big, the answer would be the same. Just call the diameter of the cup a nice round number and then see how the hazelnuts compare to it. In this case I think there's about five hazelnut widths to the glass, so I'm gonna call the glass diameter 50, the nuts 10, and the glass height 80.

  You'll need to change your formulae, though. pi*d is the circumference of a circle, but we need the area here, so pi*r*r (and then multiply by height for volume). That gives me 157,050 whateverunits cubed for the volume of the cup. For a sphere it's (4/3)*pi*r*r*r, so 524 for the hazelnuts. Now, I know that spheres don't pack perfectly into a volume, but I don't remember the factor even for optimal packing, so I'm just gonna take a wild guess and say that 70% of the internal volume of the cup is actually occupied by hazelnuts. That gives me... 209 hazelnuts in the cup. Which seems worse than your answer on a gut level, but I can count 86 visible ones so it's maybe actually not bad

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Four wheels good, two wheels bad: why are there no exciting cycling games?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Just tried this out recently. It's good fun. I do wish it explained itself a little better at the start - I had no idea that it was essentially a roguelite - but it gets that feeling of momentum at the edge of wiping out just right

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨redwoods⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Oh holy shit, we have half a million of them‽ I was under the impression it was just a few scattered around the place

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Who is the enemy?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Then WordArt loves you too

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨redwoods⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I'm not sure what qualifies as a "proper" storm for you - the UK never gets anything like the cyclones in India or the Caribbean - but we did have one of our worst on record at the start of this year. I actually haven't been along to the place since then. If I get a chance this weekend I'll go have a look, see if I can get some photos for shalafi elsewhere in this thread too

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨redwoods⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Not naturally, but a fair few of our landed gentry got really into trees while we were doing the whole empire thing and since we have a wet temperate climate here the trees seem to like it

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨redwoods⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  There's an old stately home near me (in the UK) where a few redwoods were planted some time around 1900. The scale of those things is genuinely bewildering. They're so much bigger than every other tree that it messes with your sense of perspective a little

  It's also weird how squishy the bark is. It's like a giant funfair plushie tree

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Best Co-Op Games?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Enjoy the bean juice when you can get some. I think I'll go brew some myself

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Best Co-Op Games?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Lovers in a Dangerous Spacetime in particular is hilarious if you get four people playing it

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Best Co-Op Games?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Since OP mentioned it, how may of these can do offline co-op? I don't think DRG does, and it's the only one I've done multiplayer on (though it is otherwise a great suggestion)

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Is your bunker pineapple-shaped?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I know I get excited when I see NFLD mentioned⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I want to go hiking there. The landscape looks spectacular. I had hoped to take a day trip over when I was visiting Dubrovnik a few years back, but sadly I could not fit it into my schedule

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Good point!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I expect that it's straying much too close to dicussion of the ongoing hot-button political issue of asylum seekers and small boat crossings for Casual UK's "no politics" rule. Glad you could still post it here without re-typing it though

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The least problematic early black metal band⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Oh, right. I meant it as in "I hate that there are so many fascists in the genre that checking for them becomes a necessary evil of listening to the genre". I do check because I don't want fascists in my playlists

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The least problematic early black metal band⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  There is definitely plenty of non-Nazi black metal. It's just that there's also a lot of actual Nazi BM, including some of the foundational figures of the genre. The general themes of the genre being very misanthropic and usually interested in the various kinds of paganism that Nazis cribbed a bunch of their symbolism from can also make it difficult to spot the Nazis at a glance if they're not being overt about it

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The least problematic early black metal band⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  "Do they hate all of humanity or just specific colours of humanity?"

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The least problematic early black metal band⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I'm pretty certain it's a joke

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The least problematic early black metal band⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I enjoy black metal, I enjoy much less having to become a freelance investigative journalist each time I find a new band that sounds cool

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Everytime i come across a 3d printing post⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  In my defence they had not posted the replies to others when I had started typing

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Everytime i come across a 3d printing post⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Rubber, including natural rubber, is a hydrocarbon polymer and should probably count as a plastic in any useful definition of the word for this context. Normally natural rubber is biodegradable, of course, but we vulcanise it for usage in tyres, and that makes it much less so. As such, tyres are a huge source of either microplastic pollution or, if you want to call it something else, functionally-identical microrubber pollution

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨‘They stole my face’: Streamer claims The First Descendant ads used AI to make it look like he’s promoting it⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I'm going with "they absolutely did see it coming and are confident that they can make it go away for less money than an actual marketing campaign that gets the same amount of attention would cost"

  They've got a veneer of plausible deniability, basically no need to expend any money on the material, and just enough of a chance to filter out anything that uses the image of someone that could actually afford to fight them in court about it

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Can't believe I made this without ChatGPT⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  0.0003 of anything should not be measured in kilo-units

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨They'd just appear out of nowhere⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Near-sightedness makes you more likely to notice them, but I don't think it's a serious sign of anything unless you're seeing them so much that it's a problem. They're always there in healthy eyes, your brain just tunes them out most of the time. I would assume that changes in the way your eye focusses - either because of a change in the actual eye like the person above describes or because of a change in the prescription of glasses changing the light that enters your eye - just makes it more likely for your brain to not tune them out because they suddenly look a bit different to what your brain got used to