TheTechnician27
@TheTechnician27@lemmy.world
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- Comment on Haxxed 1 day ago:
It’s quite literally a joke about the Antarctica trip. There was one who changed their mind and was heavily ostracized for it.
- Comment on That's some anxiety 1 day ago:
The fact she was on the ship is by its self a reason to test for it
Did you even read the full quote? By the time her tests were back in 24 hours, she probably would’ve been on death’s door had she still been on the ship. They clearly got her medical care as soon as they landed, and I seriously doubt they were sending her home.
I’m sorry, but the fact you’re calling it “Hanta Virus” tells me I should trust the doctors/epidemiologists and Spain’s health minister more than I trust some rando on the Internet spitballing “well they should’ve just done [thing]!!” Her condition began deteriorating literally on the evacuation plane; they didn’t just send her home.
- Comment on That's some anxiety 1 day ago:
I’m anxious you decided to take the out-of-context headline of an article you didn’t read and run with it:
“They were not thinking that these symptoms were compatible with hantavirus. Why? Because what she was telling [them] was [that she had] an episode of coughing some days ago that had disappeared, and what she was having at that moment was kind of like stress or anxiety or nervousness. So it was not catalogued [as hantavirus],” [Spanish health minister] Padilla said.
- Comment on Nice costume 2 days ago:
? He’s dressed as a yellow supercar. What do you mean?
- Comment on They are totally different than they used to be. 3 days ago:
We’re living in a world of Porky’s butthole and we’re idealizing circa Gen X conservatives like this?
- Comment on Games rule 4 days ago:
It’s a difficulty selection menu.
- Comment on Don't look for it! 4 days ago:
(Means “long wings”, FYI)
- Comment on How social medias are reacting to the hantavirus 4 days ago:
The alleged Reddit reaction is the only one actually mirroring the virology community. Good job, Reddit amalgam someone made up.
- Comment on Finally, we have the blueprints! 4 days ago:
I appreciate that the milking room is next to the vegan kitchen. Human breastmilk given with consent is vegan, so line up those Antifa milkers for the cause (and a mouthwatering sundae).
- Comment on I got high and sat in this bus stop for 2 hours waiting for my stop 6 days ago:
Near 18th and Holmes; been there since March.
- Comment on this is real btw 6 days ago:
“Wolf Cola has become the official drink of Atlanta.”
“Atlanta, Frank? Or the official drink of Antifa?”
- Comment on In this family, we repress our feelings! 6 days ago:
Sponges are animals. Phylum Porifera, m8.
- Comment on Unstoppable 1 week ago:
Oh dear god. I’ve never bothered to read much into the anatomy of horseshoe crabs until today, and I had no idea they have an array of photoreceptors along their telson (the long, tail-like segment). That’s so creepy.
- Comment on How many bananas would you need to power a house? [xkcd's What If?; 2:59] 1 week ago:
- Submitted 1 week ago to videos@lemmy.world | 2 comments
- Comment on Anon goes back to Windows 10 1 week ago:
- Comment on Borders 2 weeks ago:
i cited wars as counterexamples against peace.
If your argument is that borders are unnatural because they’re dynamic according to a complex web of interactions, then I’d like to sample whatever meth your ecology professor has been sharing with you.
If your argument is that an uneasy peace enforced by threat of violence isn’t keeping the peace, then I’ll point you back to what the other person initially said about wolves “keeping the peace”.
- Comment on Borders 2 weeks ago:
which I provided counterexamples against.
Your counterexample showed two countries deliberately not keeping the peace by actively disrespecting and changing the borders what the fuck are you talking about. Borders are dynamic (do I even need to say that? are we in 4th grade here?), and they’re extremely often created through violence; nevertheless, borders stabilize when the parties decide to stop fighting. Even the DMZ dividing North and South Korea is static on the basis that total war awaits the country that violates it.
If I meant “keeping the peace” in some kumbaya fantasy sense with no skirmishes or threat of violence, then there would be no parallel to the wolves, because need I reemphasize: we are talking about wolves.
my motivation here is to undermine the idea that national borders are “natural”
And clearly the fuck they are, because here we are in a reality where borders exist and are enforced. The meme is making fun of an appeal to nature, but it’s nevertheless not accepting it as a precondition to support borders. It’s saying even if your argument is stupid enough as “it’s unnatural”, it still makes no sense on its own terms. If you want to argue borders are bad, make an argument that borders are bad; if you want to make an argument that they’re unnatural, 1) you’re provably wrong and 2) even if you weren’t, you’re doing nothing to support your case to anyone rational.
- Comment on Borders 2 weeks ago:
Why are you acting like I said the word “negotiate”? I said “arrived at”; the means – friendly cooperation, terrain, a myriad individualist agreements, brutal violence and intimidation – are irrelevant to the overall point that the wolves have very obviously formed borders. Israel and Russia are no longer keeping the peace, hence they’re actively dissolving the borders.
I’ll be one of the first people who’ll tell you that animals experience real emotions and have real, deep, complex bonds with their fellow animal. I’m sure these wolves’ borders developed along natural formations, inherent population limits, intimidation, etc., and you’d have to be delusional to think the wolves’ borders are totally divorced from the means by which states form borders.
- Comment on Borders 2 weeks ago:
Welcome to Border Peetrol.
- Comment on Do you think Tarzan was a virgin when he met Jane, or was he clappin' gorilla cheeks? 2 weeks ago:
Tarzan definitely was, at least not in the 1999 Disney film. The only female gorilla roughly his age that he was close with was Terk, and it’s clear they have a cousinly, lightheartedly standoffish relationship. The others in the tribe treat him as an outsider.
- Comment on Borders 2 weeks ago:
has nothing to do with formal borders imposed on us by states
You mean the entities who interact with each other and decide to keep the peace as an abstract representation of those residing within them?
- Comment on Evolution 2 weeks ago:
This one. It’s easy enough seeing these, if you’re not familiar with the subject, to overzealously think that this is a widespread phenomenon.
- Comment on Evolution 2 weeks ago:
It is worth noting – as someone who’s reasonably knowledgeable about arguably the main example, king crabs – that carcinisation is really interesting, but I think some people took the meme semi-unironically as this especially widespread example of convergent evolution.
In reality, it’s in the true crabs’ sister infraorder, Anomura. Which is still super cool, but even the faintest notion that crabs are some singularly ideal
male bodybody form is just a runaway shitpost. - Comment on When the fridge stops working 2 weeks ago:
> Fry the vegetables in a homemade beer batter
- Comment on Ballin' too hard 2 weeks ago:
- Comment on Dessert island 2 weeks ago:
“This will truly be the life of pie.”
inspected by Kideo Hojima
- Comment on 🐙 Octopus is Octopus 🐙 3 weeks ago:
It’s technically octopods
This is true for the scientific sense that it’s order Octopoda (e.g. the plural for members of Hexapoda is “hexapods” and “decapods” for Decapoda), but then it’s kind of like saying the plural for “lobster” is “nephropids”. The names are close for Octopoda and octopus, but it’s still taking the colloquial name and pluralizing it into its scientific name. I think it’s a reasonable alternative since it’s so close, but it’s not specifically “to bring it in line with cephalopod”; that’s just how pluralization of taxa ending in ‘poda’ works generally.
- Comment on regime change 3 weeks ago:
