Phineaz
@Phineaz@feddit.org
- Comment on Bethesda, you just entered the no flight zone 1 day ago:
Consider getting a therapist, this sounds very unhealthy.
- Comment on How come LED Light Bulbs only last for about 2-3 Years? 1 week ago:
Something to remember: thicker filaments, while they do last longer, worsen the ratio of light to heat.
- Comment on Climate change 1 week ago:
They’d … switch to metric?
- Comment on "rebellious" 1 month ago:
It’s going to be very hard having the same opinion for all of these (somewhat abstract) instances - considering how wildly incompatible some of these are.
- Comment on Corn 🌽 1 month ago:
Well, alright thanks for clearing that up. I understand the meme now, although I still struggle with the … unusual use of terminology. But yes, it very much makes sense to show teosinte then!
- Comment on Corn 🌽 1 month ago:
I … what? This is such a gigantic leap, going from Teosinte to modern day mazie and calling it a GMO, what is it even suppoed to mean? We shouldn’t use domesticated plant? I am seriously scared by the lack of what I consider to be general knowledge of breeding in the general population, have people stopped going to school in the last 5 years?
- Comment on dopamine detox 1 month ago:
People did WHAT?
- Comment on New tech discovered 2 months ago:
Trust me bro(ette): Rubber duck is the SHIT. I don’t even program save for a few rare instances, but any complex issue where you just know something is wrong but can’t quite put your finger on it? It works miracles. A lot better tbf if you are actually explaining it to someone who can ask questions, but any object that you can look at is a good substitute.
- Comment on Copper Nanotubes 2 months ago:
I’m guessing it’s a derogatory term for the female reproductive organ?
- Comment on When creating a story, how many black characters can I create without them calling the story woke? 2 months ago:
To give a serious answer: As many as the story requires. The same thing goes for any ethnicity. If neither the story nor the character nor any of their dialog require it, not describing a character by their ethnicity is a valid (albeit somewhat harder) choice. This way, anyone can read and imagine the story with what they are familiar with. Now don’t get me wrong, you can absolutely assign every character a full set ranging from emotions and values to physical attributes and ethnicity - but you don’t necessarily have to state that “Jade” has dark/light skin. Simply describe the character on a different level. This is complicated, but beautiful if done with cultural identity: Someone from a community of turkish guest workers may have a very pragmatic and hands-on approach at their job but be somewhat hands-off in the household, until they have guests (Chosen from an arbitrary pov, this is not grounded in experience). If you wish to determine what ethnicity a character has, first ask yourself: is it important/does it influence them? If no, try to leave it out maybe? If yes or you absolutely want to know it, rolling dice is a valid option: Check the distribution in the chosen community and simply roll. From what I know many authors base characters, settings and scenes on some kind of real-life example, so naturally one might base the ethnicity on the same example.
- Comment on They did the math. 2 months ago:
Ye, they would probably bow down to vomit. Would be interesting to see how giraffes do it.
- Comment on Every sperm for themselves! 2 months ago:
… I disagree. It is funny due to the contrast in “behaviour” (these are cells, not animals) which is shown via the contrasting images (don’t worry, I’m not going to mansplain the term “meme” ). I daresay that if you can easily turn the joke around, it doesn’t rely on stereotypes. Since this is the case (make a meme about asymmetric division in oocytogenesis compared to equal division in spermatogenesis) it’s simply funny. I suggest more calm.
- Comment on Every sperm for themselves! 2 months ago:
I’ll bite: How is this related to gender?
- Comment on Synthesize this 3 months ago:
I’m a simple life scientist: I see DNA, I upvote.