wolframhydroxide
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- Comment on onions 1 week ago:
A great point!
- Comment on onions 1 week 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 1 week 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 1 week ago:
<Spitefully squeezes kumquats onto a baked potato, maintaining direct eye contact>
- Comment on Literally nobody 3 weeks 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 3 weeks 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 5 weeks ago:
Came here to ensure this fact was present. Thank you for your service.
- Comment on Poetry 5 weeks 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? 5 weeks 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? 5 weeks 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 5 weeks 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? 5 weeks 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 5 weeks 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 5 weeks 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 1 month ago:
Founded by Ghislaine Maxwell’s father, yes, that Ghislaine Maxwell.
- Comment on Thanks, little buddies. 1 month 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 2 months ago:
Those also look very similar to pokeweed. You probably had a pokeweed infestation.
- Comment on 🌈 🏳️🌈 🌈 🏳️🌈 🌈 🏳️🌈 2 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 2 months ago:
A very well - reasoned answer, thank you!
- Comment on The Matrix 2 months ago:
Thanks. Good point!
I’m just a peon on mint.
- Comment on The Matrix 2 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 2 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 2 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.
- Comment on Pitching or catching? 2 months ago:
Be forewarned: it’s definitively from the 1870s. They didn’t yet understand cellular respiration, there are a couple of seriously racist paragraphs (most notably one in which the article author states as a well known fact that the “hyperborean” people are all candle thieves, because supposedly they ate the candles. They didn’t yet understand the nature of dinosaurs, either. However, the chemistry experiments seem fun, if potentially deadly at times, including some terrifying instructions on how to make chlorine gas, capture it, combine it with hydrogen gas, seal the container, then expose it to light and watch it explode as the photosensitive reaction makes hydrochloric acid. Fun times. Anyway, it’s a very entertaining read, and there are six volumes of the stuff. I’ve only gone through the first thus far.
- Comment on Pitching or catching? 2 months ago:
It would be like sticking your penis in pineapple juice. It contains digestive enzymes that are very similar to stomach acid. The reason that butterwort (another carnivorous plant) is called by that name is that you can use the plant’s dew to curdle milk. Just like how you can use acid or enzymes to cure food, it would cure your penis. Not very quickly, but it would happen, and that tingly, prickly feeling of eating a pineapple that you get on your lips and in your mouth when you eat a bunch of pineapple at once? That would happen to your penis, but it would happen faster, and burt more, because the penis is a very sensitive organ.
- Comment on history repeats itself once again 2 months ago:
I agree with most of that, except for this: Theseus clearly didn’t give a flying fuck about angering the gods, because right after kidnapping Helen, he went into the underworld to try to kidnap Persephone, the wife of the Lord of the Dead. You can’t expect me to acknowledge that Theseus was devout enough to think a fever dream was a sign to abandon Ariadne and that she’d be fine, but not afraid enough of the gods to try to kidnap a goddess out from under the nose of the lord of hell.
- Comment on history repeats itself once again 2 months ago:
“Ship of Theseus”? It’s in reference to a ship which was used to row out to Delos every year for a ritual, but it was very specific that it had to be the same boat that Theseus used. So, as the pieces broke and had to be replaced, eventually every original plank, nail and line would have been replaced. After all of those replacements, which occurred one at a time over decades, is it still the same boat? If you collected all of the old replaced bits of the original boat, then put them together into a boat, would that be the original ship? At what point does it stop being the “ship of Theseus”?
- Comment on history repeats itself once again 2 months ago:
Also kidnapped Helen of Sparta when she was prepubescent so that he, already in his later years, could groom her and forcibly wed her. Also left the person who gave him the thread, who betrayed her entire family to save him, on an island in the middle of nowhere, as far as he was aware, left to die, without even giving her the decency of a goodbye, according to some sources. And no, don’t come back at me with “Dionysus told him to do it in a dream”. First, not in all sources, and second, do you make it a habit of immediately doing whatever your drunken night terror tells you to do, as long as you dreamed it, when the life of your paramour is on the line?
No, fuck Theseus.