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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Literally nobody⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ 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 ⁨week⁩ 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 ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

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

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Poetry⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨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?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨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?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨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 ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨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?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨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 ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨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 ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨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 ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

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

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Thanks, little buddies.⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ 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 ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

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

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨oopsie⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

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

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Guerrilla plantfare⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

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

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨🌈 🏳️‍🌈 🌈 🏳️‍🌈 🌈 🏳️‍🌈⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ 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.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨what’s your best “nitric acid acts upon trousers” moment?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Yes, silver nitrate. Also, she would have had that lesson painted on her face for at least a week.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Lord Lucifer, hear my prayers⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Absolutely! And I never claimed it didn’t. However, the solidification of what “hell” is, and what “Lucifer” looks like, is in large part thanks to popular sources like Dante and Milton.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Lord Lucifer, hear my prayers⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  The person asked the question, specifically, why Christians conflate the two, and whether it is true that they are always the same person. Notice that the question asks not just for a dogmatic response, but a comparative religious analysis. While it is true that “Christians treat them like the same person”, saying “they are the same person” doesn’t answer the question.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Lord Lucifer, hear my prayers⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Literally ignore the other people. They clearly don’t know what they’re talking about. The name Lucifer originally referred to Venus, the morning star. It comes from Roman Latin, long before Christianity was a thing. The Hebrew name for Venus is mentioned a single time in the bible, referencing a Babylonian king who was given the title. You can probably thank St. Jerome for replacing the Hebrew name for the planet with “Lucifer”. Never, not once in the bible, is Lucifer conflated with the devil. In fact, even the original Satan was called the Adversary not because he was YHWH’s adversary, but because he was effectively God’s District Attorney, prosecuting the wrongs of mortals. The entire conflation with Satan as evil happened between the recording of the Hebrew bible and the development of Christianity. Hence why Satan is pretty much only mentioned in the New Testament.

  Pretty much every single thing modern Christians believe about the devil, or especially hell, was made up in the middle ages, and a hefty amount of that by Dante alone.