wolframhydroxide

@wolframhydroxide@sh.itjust.works

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Poetry⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  In that case, that would have to be a VERY big rose, which doesn’t bode well for life on earth if it’s approaching at relativistic speeds. Or are you suggesting that it’s a galactic - scale rose, and we’ve got a few million years before it obliterates the Milky Way?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Poetry⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  So, what I’m taking away from this is that, if I ever see a blue rose, it’s already too late, and the object moving at relativistic speeds toward me has already probably ignited a thermonuclear reaction in the air around it, but the light from the fusion bomb before me has not yet reached me?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Don't Worry About Retirement, Millennials⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  They won’t refuse trans soldiers. They will just ban any action or expression which conforms to a gender identity not consistent with sex at birth, and selectively hand out corporal punishment for perceived infractions.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Don't Worry About Retirement, Millennials⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  I’m pretty sure that what you’re suggesting is very nearly the plot of John Scalzi’s “Old Man’s War”

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨It's never been about helping people⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  As the thirteenth amendment specifically allows.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨onions⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  A great point!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨onions⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  We don’t and didn’t judge her

  So, this is an entirely separate case from the OP, then.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Mars Bar from the 1990s found during house clearance - shrinkflation in action⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I could be wrong, but I believe the person to whom you replied was indicating that they would be okay with “enshittification” being the word of the century, because there are SO MANY things on the horizon or actively festering and spiraling out of control that, if “enshittification” is the worst thing to happen this century, that would be an acceptable outcome.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Hmmm⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  <Spitefully squeezes kumquats onto a baked potato, maintaining direct eye contact>

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Literally nobody⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  I think you misunderstood what the meme says nobody “cares” about. It says that nobody cares which side of a specific poilitcal argument a 2000-year-dead jewish apocalypse predictor would have taken if magic were real. It is saying that everybody wishes they would shut up about that. I am not required to care which one of the two bumblefucks is “correct” to want them to STFU, nor to talk to others about how we would all like those two idiots to STFU.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Bean on my mind⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Tesseracts is a Lemmy frontend that was recently revealed to be hiding huge swathes of the fediverse from anyone who used the Tesseracts frontend, and it was doing it in a way that couldn’t be modified by admin or users or even checked, so nobody knew that anyone who had ever engaged with anything remotely political was being erased. It’s all due to Admiral Patrick, the developer of Tesseracts, who decided that they should be the sole arbiter of what is good on the Federated internet. It is now a badge of the highest honour to find oneself on the Tesseract shadow ban list. I am, unfortunately, not on it yet, but I have aspirations.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Czech champion prize fighter who genuinely believes he's a Japanese samurai holding his favorite animal the wombat⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Came here to ensure this fact was present. Thank you for your service.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Poetry⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  I would certainly hope so, since the “raindrops on roses” line is literally the first line of the song.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Chat, is this accurate?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  What? No. The Leidenfrost effect would apply. You could pour a few milliliters of liquid helium over your tongue and it would boil on contact. You just need to make sure to minimize total contact time.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Chat, is this accurate?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  The oxide layer forms within seconds, like aluminium and sodium (the two elements surrounding it), and even if you scraped it off and stuck it on your tongue, it isn’t going to react quickly enough to do you any damage. It will probably taste slightly bitter, like licking baking soda. I have some downstairs. Shall I test it and take a video of the results?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Philosophy has peaked. Checkmate atheists⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  This is similar to Michael’s solution to it in The Good Place. If you haven’t watched it, it’s basically a Moral Philosophy course, with hilarious and beautiful examples. Also with giant, flying cocktail shrimp.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Chat, is this accurate?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  I’m glad they listened to me a couple years back. The first comment I ever made on Lemmy was pointing out that Magnesium was DEFINITELY fine to lick.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Anon joins a shitposting group⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Indeed, though if you actually look at the page for “Europe”, you’ll see that nobody can even agree on where the “cultural” boundary is anymore, because it’s a spectrum. You posted your stupendously condescending comment as if there’s a “right” way to classify continents, and the poor, uneducated citizens of the USA would be so confused at hearing your objectively-correct stance. The way you said it was offensively patronising, and “Europe” has nowhere to talk, because Europe doesn’t rightfully exist in any consistently-delineated way, because the “cultural” nature of “Europe” isn’t some homogeneous block, and the only thing those cultural spectra can agree on is that they don’t agree on the delineation. Anyone using the word “continent” nowadays is wrong, because it’s a dated, arbitrary moniker which serves only to continue Eurocentric cultural hegemony and try to divide humanity. Gatekeeping it and using it as a way to mock hundreds of millions of people, though? That’s just disgusting.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Anon joins a shitposting group⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Since you appear to be from France, I will just point out the hilarious hypocrisy and ignorance of suggesting that North and South America, which are separated by no less than three different tectonic plate boundaries, are the same continent, while living in “Europe”, which hasn’t been tectonically separated from “Asia” for hundreds of millions of years.

  You should reflect on that.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Walls within walls⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Founded by Ghislaine Maxwell’s father, yes, that Ghislaine Maxwell.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Thanks, little buddies.⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Tardigrades don’t have visible eyes like that in the left picture. That’s some ai-generated slop image of a demodex mite.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Wiley Coyote⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Elsevier was literally founded by the father of Ghislaine Maxwell. He clearly passed on his moral framework to his daughter.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨oopsie⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Yeah, they put up LEDs to make a “rainbow road” for pride month as a performative gesture.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Guerrilla plantfare⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Those also look very similar to pokeweed. You probably had a pokeweed infestation.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨🌈 🏳️‍🌈 🌈 🏳️‍🌈 🌈 🏳️‍🌈⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Law of superposition. The timescale is in the order that you would find it digging down through ancient rock strata.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The Matrix⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  A very well - reasoned answer, thank you!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The Matrix⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Thanks. Good point!

  I’m just a peon on mint.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The Matrix⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Here’s a question: if you know the steak isn’t real, having copied only your memory of it from the matrix, but you know that the original had to have been based on the experience of killing a real animal, is the nonexistent steak vegan? What if all cows are already extinct, like in the world of the Matrix?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The Matrix⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  A great point, but I wonder if it would have reached that point if cypher had been given relaxation time and good experiences in the construct.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The Matrix⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  So, as Cypher made clear, the main draw of the matrix was that he didn’t have to spend his entire life being miserable, with shit to eat, and nothing interesting to do. Soo… What about the constructs? If they could simulate people and sensory input with fidelity, couldn’t they simulate the experience of a juicy steak? Why, when they weren’t actually spending their time outside the matrix doing much other than sitting in a spaceship, wouldn’t they just spend 6 hours a day in the construct? Wouldn’t that have given them all much more practice with breaking the construct of the matrix, and also let them have the nice stuff that the matrix offered, and also knowing that they were the masters of their own destinies? It seems like Morpheus was just a shitty manager, and Cypher was unfulfilled in his job.