lennivelkant
@lennivelkant@discuss.tchncs.de
- Comment on Describe conservatives with one picture 2 days ago:
Is it me or does that post author name look like a lot of the bots named “WordWordNumber”?
- Comment on I hope she found herself 2 days ago:
Because that’s what the other person asked. “Secluded myself” isn’t really an answer. I can seclude myself counting leaves in the forest, lay down and stare at the ceiling, walk circles around my room and try to make them perfectly circular…
It’s not that you have to tell; saying “I don’t know” or “I’d rather not say” would be an answer too. But you made a snide remark regarding the other person’s reading comprehension (why?) and fail to properly comprehend their question (or mine).
- Comment on I hope she found herself 3 days ago:
…and what did you do while high?
- Comment on I hope she found herself 3 days ago:
Not me. I don’t care. The version of me that I’ve got right now is alright, I’m in no hurry to “find myself”. Either I’ll come across myself by chance or it can’t have been that important.
huffs excessive amounts of Copium
- Comment on nature is music 3 days ago:
What about Black Hole by Betraying The Martyrs?
- Comment on Space Quarry 1 week ago:
If I’d managed to stick a robot landing on a rock hurtling through space, you bet I’d be celebrating hard too
- Comment on Make gravity your bitch 1 week ago:
So what’s wrong with cumming the backstreet
- Comment on Bubble Wrap! 1 week ago:
thank you fellow german taxpayers 👍
Glad to help! And if I ever need it, I know I can count on you too.
- Comment on Virgin Physicists 2 weeks ago:
I mean, depending on your calculations and scale, you might go a little more precise with it. At a diameter of, say, 10m for a semicircular bridge arc, that’s a difference of 1m.
- Comment on Virgin Physicists 2 weeks ago:
So you just need to figure out the precise amount of prewarming, then subsequently cooling in coordination with the circuit’s load to make sure it stays at the right temperature?
- Comment on pain plant 3 weeks ago:
Well, given that it’s supposed to be toxic rather than just painful, I’d say we’re resistant in that it takes a high dose to kill us.
- Comment on pain plant 3 weeks ago:
How fortunate then that the same species resistant to their defense actually goes on to cultivate it
- Comment on Consider the following... 4 weeks ago:
Now get to a medical facility, but make sure not to surface too rapidly or you might get gas bubbles in your joints, blood or spinal chord.
- Comment on I'm just happy you thought it was funny, dear 4 weeks ago:
Do you mean the victims or the instances of SCP-3008-2? I don’t think the anomaly itself is curable.
Summary for those not familiar: SCP-049 is a plague doctor that seeks to violently “cure” anyone afflicted with some nondescript “Pestilence”.
SCP-3008 is an endless and nearly inescapable IKEA, where the “Staff” (labeled SCP-3008-2) are entirely unresponsive during the day but become violent at night towards anyone still in the store after closing time. - Comment on I'm just happy you thought it was funny, dear 4 weeks ago:
SCP Foundation is a fictional (I hope) organisation with the mission to Secure, Contain, Protect various anomalies catalogued with numbers (SCP-#) which are thus also referred to as SPCs. These anomaly descriptions are available on scp-wiki.wikidot.com
Some of the anomalies are references to other fictional things. If you’re familiar with Slenderman, for instance, you may enjoy SCP-096.
- Comment on got any others? 5 weeks ago:
That works if there’s enough public funding, but given trends lately and events most recently…
- Comment on Lightning bugs!! 1 month ago:
I hope you get many beautiful snowfalls in your life yet
- Comment on tig ol bitties 1 month ago:
Contriboobtion
- Comment on A daunting realization 1 month ago:
More like fungsus
- Comment on Psst, the Americans are asleep, post some eggs 2 months ago:
Feed him enough of it and it will work
- Comment on mrw someone tries to proselytize Christianity to me [Day 64] 2 months ago:
For God so loved the world that he invented a hell to throw people into so he could call himself merciful by sending his one and only Son, that whoever believes in him shall not perish but have eternal life.
I think I might have gotten a weird translation there. Anyway, he loves you so much he might choose not to throw you into the lake of fire.
- Comment on Anon questions the KKK 2 months ago:
The core of Christianity is originally the redemption, not the threat that necessitates it and often is more prominent.
The cross is a symbol of the sacrifice made to redeem people from the threat of hell. More relevant here is that sin separates humans from God, and through that sacrifice, the connection is restored. It is a catalyst of redemption and reunion. In that sense, they don’t so much pray towards an implement of torture as an implement of liberation, salvation and mercy.
Given that those are hard things to put in a visual, tangible form and that humans tend to place a lot of value in visual, tangible representations, it’s basically the simplest symbol you could come up with as a nascent cult.
It’s not the only symbol, and particularly during the rise of the Roman church, you’ll note that icons of saints become very common too. Some places will even have the Crucifix feature the crucified Jesus as well, to drive home the point about sacrifice and gratitude.
Protestants later held that the worship of saints was tantamount to idolatry and did away with them again, leaving just the core of the message of redemption. There was in some places a conscious choice to pick the “empty” cross rather than the crucified saviour as a symbol that he is no longer dead.
All in all, given his divine wisdom and love for metaphors and similes, I’d think Jesus would understand the point of the cross…
…then proceed to trash the place out of rage over the waste of money and effort that went into gaudy churches and gold-embroidered robes instead of helping the sick and poor.
- Comment on I guess we are fucked now 2 months ago:
Garfield would be Slaaneshi - excessive amounts of lasagna
- Comment on From now on, I wish to be addressed as Lt. Commodre Squid 2 months ago:
Sounds like a university I know - brilliant and accomplished people, very proud of it, to the point of projecting that pride on everyone else and assume everyone must hold their full title as dear as they do. The idea of one of my teachers, some “First Name, Baron of Examplington-Doublename”, telling us to just call him “Mr. Examplington” would have shorted out their brains.
For all their laudable competencies, humility was not among them.
(Not in Australia, but I imagine it’s hardly exclusive.)
- Comment on South Afruleca 2 months ago:
Glad to make you laugh :)
- Comment on South Afruleca 2 months ago:
Even if I knew what that is, I doubt I could do it on my phone, but I appreciate your contribution to the shitpost request chain.
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- Comment on Caption this. 3 months ago:
I think that, vocal complainers aside, he’s still overall fairly popular. A popular white man saying wise stuff is a great opportunity to signal how committed you are to science without having to put actually significant amounts of money on the line or entering the minefield that is angering the anti-“woke” crowd. He’s a safe investment in public appearances.
Doesn’t mean they’ll have to listen to him. He gets a more sombre version of the Jester’s Privilege that allows him to say whatever he wants, they’ll nod and applaud and perform all the gestures of approval, but they won’t actually change anything.
The other half of it is probably the Internet Outrage culture that sees inciting content get more engagement and boosted visibility in a self-perpetuating cycle of upset. Legitimate criticism drowns in a sea of bullshit, everyone’s pissed off and we’re all easily swept up in the current of emotion. If we’re not mad at one person, we’re mad at the people pointlessly or excessively mad at them. If we try to stem against that, we’re dogpiled by loud complainers while quiet agreement leaves an upvote and moves on.
- Comment on Itch.io was taken down by funko pop 4 months ago:
An individual would risk corporate lawyers lobbing suits at them they don’t have nearly enough resources to fight. In that way, it’s much like other forms of activism: individual actions are easily singled out and retaliated against.
If a ton of people were to do so, however, they might have an impact. Either the registrar would have to take steps to limit who can submit them, which might conflict with some laws, or they’d invest a great deal of resources trying to sort out the legit ones. Trying to single out people for retaliation is hard when there’s enough of them. In this way, too, it is like other forms of activism:
There is strength in numbers. There is power in unity.
If, hypothetically, someone were to coordinate such actions in the style of a crowdsources DDoS, and they could get enough participants, they might get away with it.
