JacksonLamb

@JacksonLamb@lemmy.world

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Are spiders turtlely enough for the Turtle Club?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:

  Great find! There are various members of Dolomedes in other countries. Some specialise in rivers, other lakes.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Are spiders turtlely enough for the Turtle Club?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:

  They are in many countries.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Are spiders turtlely enough for the Turtle Club?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:

  Why limit it to the US? Dolomedes is international.

  Also yes I will sleep tight, knowing these adorable and accomplished spiders are out there living their best lives.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨There's no wrong way to stroke it⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  You sound like you are trying to trick people into getting their skin rasped off by sharks.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨*pat pat pat*⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Here you go.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How bad is it that Israel has attacked Iran? ⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Unfortunately no, there are a bunch of times in both the Torah and the Bible where God explicitly tells Israel to commit genocide, eg Amalek.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How bad is it that Israel has attacked Iran? ⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Yes. You can see why I think this will have long-term global implications for nuclear armament.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How bad is it that Israel has attacked Iran? ⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  For many years Iran was enriching uranium and various other countries were like, no pls.

  This is a massive oversimplification but basically back in 2014-15 Iran agreed to stop trying to build nuclear weapons capabilities (and have increased surveillance of what it was doing) in exchange for lifted sanctions.

  Trump of course undid all that, Biden tried to reinstate it, Trump seems to prefer to let Israel bomb Iran instead.

  So in my view what has just been proven here (and in Ukraine) is if you trust the US and don’t arm, you will get attacked by your enemies.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Basically⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Good point. I assumed they meant the films because the books were not any kind of technogical innovation.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How bad is it that Israel has attacked Iran? ⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  It has implications for nuclear armament. Netanyahu needs a forever war to stay in power, and Iran is now further incentivized to arm itself to deter that.

  Other countries in similar positions are seeing how having agreed to a non proliforation deal in the past with the US has panned out for Iran.

  So more nuclear armament is probably more attractive to certain countries who don’t want to be the Iran or Ukraine of their regions.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Basically⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  George Washington could finally get some implants or dentures and stop stealing the teeth from slaves.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Basically⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  I love how you make it sound like the moon landing happened after LOTR.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Peak male form⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  If anything, it shows how naive and credulous we became. Old photos with completely made up rubbish captions are now a staple of social media.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Pissebed⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  The theory that children get to name these things makes sense.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Existential dread⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Love death and robots will have one sooner or later.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Existential dread⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I do not want to be reincarnated as a cyborg cockroach.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Correct Grindr Response⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Is it easy to permanently disable Superfetch?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨You might want to hose it off when you are done⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  This.

  It’s low key embarassing that a whole meme can spring up based on not knowing that other places have different hygeine.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Do you know the answer?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  AI has put me off writing lists.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Do you know the answer?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  I concur with this.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨You could get anything you wanted and it was FREE⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  So do I.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨You could get anything you wanted and it was FREE⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  I still have a few folders of music from Napster.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨You could get anything you wanted and it was FREE⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Somewhere in my files I still have the recording of a hoarse male voice singing along to Ricky Martin’s “Bailamos”, purportedly recorded from Martin’s mic by a sound tech when he was lip synching live on stage.

  Probably fake but I want to believe.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨American and British English spelling and pronunciations⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  If you use the wrong past tense all the time, that will definitely make you sound like a hillbilly.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨American and British English spelling and pronunciations⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Thanks!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨American and British English spelling and pronunciations⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Compelling argument.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨American and British English spelling and pronunciations⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Me too. It’s the one word that triggers something in my brain.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨American and British English spelling and pronunciations⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Oxford spelling, Oxford comma: what’s not to like?

  Anything with a United Nations style spellcheck will sort it for you.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨American and British English spelling and pronunciations⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Depends on the tense.

  I burn the toast.

  I have burned the toast

  I burrnt the toast

  I had burnt the toast

  Using burned in all of them sounds like a hillbilly.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨American and British English spelling and pronunciations⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Do you by any chance know where I could read a good introduction to Canadian English?

  I can write fluently in UK and US English but Canadian sometimes has me stumped.