TheTechnician27
@TheTechnician27@lemmy.world
- Comment on I'm there! 1 day ago:
Oh hell yeah. I don’t do too much research into shrimps, but if you ever fall way too far down that rabbit hole, the guy to go to is Sammy De Grave at the University of Oxford. He works on WoRMS (the World Register of Marine Species) and absolutely loves them. Really nice guy.
- Comment on I'm there! 1 day ago:
Congratulations on iNaturalist! We use images from iNaturalist on Wikipedia all the time, so we’re intensely grateful for the work y’all do. Did you see any crabs by any chance?
- Comment on I'm there! 1 day ago:
What kinds of critters? 👀
- Comment on Star Citizen is on course to reach $1 billion in player funding in 2026, and we still might not get to play its singleplayer campaign next year 5 days ago:
You don’t have to pay more than the 45 € beginner pack
That’s an absolutely obscene ask for a game that has no prospects of being finished in the foreseeable future – let alone that it intentionally puts you at a disadvantage to players who paid hundreds of euros for this stupid piece of shit grift.
- Comment on Speedy Delivery 1 week ago:
NGT’s not even going to mention that Santa probably solved or approximately solved the traveling salesman problem for a complete graph of several hundred million vertices?
- Comment on Al hg g y8vivoycoxt7 ez6ez6rxrx;;; lol 1 week ago:
You ought to link the Retraction Watch source, OP. Fostering a culture of responsible sourcing is incumbent on all of us.
- Comment on Birbs & Dinos 1 week ago:
Any particular words you don’t know? Probably the most likely ones are para- and monophyletic. For a taxon (scientific grouping) to be valid, it needs to be monophyletic, meaning it contains the most recent common ancestor of the group’s other members and all known descendants of that common ancestor. Paraphyletic, by contrast, means not all the descendants are in there. For example, imagine if the mammals just randomly excluded the bears – that would be paraphyletic, because the bears also share a common ancestor with the other mammals.
- Comment on Gotta Catch 'Em All 1 week ago:
Dusion is Gen V – the middle stage of Reuniclus.
- Comment on The REAL news 1 week ago:
> Claims to be Fox News
> Covers news about rats instead
- Comment on Diabolical 2 weeks ago:
- Comment on Being in love is like... 2 weeks ago:
Well, was the dad wrong?
- Comment on How I imagine mathematicians... 3 weeks ago:
FYI for the alt text, that’s Vince McMahon.
- Comment on How i meet your mother 3 weeks ago:
Crab kind of looks like a cross between the Japanese giant spider crab and a king crab (the latter on account of only having three pairs of walking legs).
- Comment on Fun Otter Fact 3 weeks ago:
Here’s the thing. You said a “North American river otter understands semiconductors.”
Is it in the same subfamily as the other otters? Yes. No one’s arguing that.
- Comment on I estimate my power perfectly 3 weeks ago:
I can be then academic association this kind of magic?
- Comment on Well, it’s funny if you can read Egyptian signs! 3 weeks ago:
The person I responded to already mentioned Loss.
- Comment on Well, it’s funny if you can read Egyptian signs! 3 weeks ago:
I was debating whether that one was distracted boyfriend, but I see now that it’s just mirrored horizontally.
- Comment on Well, it’s funny if you can read Egyptian signs! 3 weeks ago:
- Top left is a dab.
- 3rd column, 1st row is T-posing.
- 5th column, 1st row is the butterfly “is this a [thing]?” meme.
- Bottom left is a UFO.
- Bottom above the water vase is Dat Boi.
Not immediately sure about the others.
- Comment on Well, it’s funny if you can read Egyptian signs! 3 weeks ago:
… Do you care to read 160 words into the article they linked?
- Comment on My Religion 4 weeks ago:
For what it’s worth, that’s not an especially relevant passage here, as it’s less to do with being open about your faith and moreso about intent. For example, those who would go to the synagogue to pray but who wouldn’t in private or who would give alms to make themselves feel better and appear righteous. The Bible is crystal clear that you should be openly expressing your faith to others should the intent be to spread the religion. Mark 16:15–16, for example, reads (NIV):
He said to them, “Go into all the world and preach the gospel to all creation. Whoever believes and is baptized will be saved, but whoever does not believe will be condemned."
Probably more relevant for your case are the passages along the lines of: “Look, give it the old college try, but if they aren’t willing to listen, don’t be a bitch about it; just move on.” For example:
“You have heard that it was said, ‘Love your neighbor and hate your enemy.’ But I tell you, love your enemies and pray for those who persecute you,
“Do not judge, or you too will be judged. For in the same way you judge others, you will be judged, and with the measure you use, it will be measured to you.
“Why do you look at the speck of sawdust in your brother’s eye and pay no attention to the plank in your own eye?
If the home is deserving, let your peace rest on it; if it is not, let your peace return to you. If anyone will not welcome you or listen to your words, leave that home or town and shake the dust off your feet. Truly I tell you, it will be more bearable for Sodom and Gomorrah on the day of judgment than for that town.
Etc.
- Comment on Peas plz 4 weeks ago:
- Comment on I mean... they work on me 4 weeks ago:
- Probably cheap as dirt.
- Entertains very small kids who are statistically going to be the loudest, most impatient ones.
- Engaging for those small kids neurodevelopmentally.
- Hard to damage.
- Not ingestible.
- Hard to otherwise hurt yourself or others with it.
- Can put it basically wherever and even screw it down onto a side table.
- Too big for someone (especially a kid) to steal.
- Almost totally quiet.
It’s got too many things going for it.
- Comment on Anon asks out a girl 4 weeks ago:
The phrasing heavily implies that they worked up their nerve over the course of three hours. And I’m not assuming they were attentatively listening; what’s problematic is that they leveraged (unsuccessfully) what they overheard to swoop in like a creepy vulture and try to pick this woman up while she was just trying to have a nice time with her friends.
- Comment on Anon asks out a girl 4 weeks ago:
Also… what world are you living in where talking to someone you haven’t previously met, in a bar, is a social faux pas?
It’s not inherently. That’s why the sentence had more words than just the ones about being strangers. I expect you to know how to read sentences given your comment is a fucking wall of them.
- Comment on Anon asks out a girl 4 weeks ago:
Yeah, this is what you should ideally do in this scenario if you want a date. My comment was starting from “assume you’ve already walked up to her table; how do you even possibly salvage this?”
- Comment on Anon asks out a girl 4 weeks ago:
No, walking up to and interrupting a group at a bar after listening to them for three hours, telling them you’ve been listening, then asking one of them to dinner next week like they need saving by you is extremely rude. No one’s saying you aren’t allowed to talk to strangers; you just shouldn’t be this goddamn weird and intrusive about it.
“How are you supposed to find a partner?”
Get to know the strangers first in a capacity whose end goal isn’t a date, then ask them out when you know them somewhat? Or ask a stranger out at a place and in a context where it’s expected they might be open to it? Anyway, I’m going to go ask out random women on the street, because it’s not rude; I mean fuck, man, how else can you find a partner in this economy?
- Comment on Anon asks out a girl 4 weeks ago:
“Hey, I heard you talking about wanting to date. I’ve been feeling the same way and wanted to see if I could get us a couple drinks?”
That’s still bad because this is still pretty weird, but just be a bit casual about it instead of: “M’lady most fine, I heard of your plight and wish to save you. Please allow me take you out to dinner next week.” She’s with her friends, sure, but it sounds like she’s been bringing down their night by complaining, so they probably wouldn’t mind if she said “yes”.
- Comment on Anon asks out a girl 4 weeks ago:
The point of going on a date is getting to know somebody better because you’re interested in them. Why on Earth would this woman be interested in this weirdo who she knows nothing about except, at most, that he sat alone at a bar for three hours straight, listened to her conversation, and interrupted her to ask her to dinner on the premise that she needs saving from being single specifically by him?
- Comment on Anon asks out a girl 4 weeks ago:
Super rude on her part, but it’s also extremely intrusive, rude, and weird to walk up to a total stranger you’ve never even talked to and ask her to dinner solely because you’ve been overhearing her complain to her friends about being single. I’m not saying it can’t work if you’re physically like an 8–10/10, but that’s effectively all she has to go on besides this obviously weird thing you’re doing.
“I’m not desperate” could totally be referring to what he did rather than how he looks.
- Comment on My backlog is devastated 5 weeks ago: