TheTechnician27

@TheTechnician27@lemmy.world

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Middle Tennessee firefighters sue city over retaliation, free speech violations after they were fired during union campaign⁩ ⁨⁨12⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:

  I’m glad they’re fighting their firing.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨But Alex, we just met! I'd be lying if I said I wasn't flattered though. Middle America would never understand.⁩ ⁨⁨22⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:

  Two things:

  • Real quote. Thought this was a shitpost.
  • Why does he look like dollar store Javert?
• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Upstaged by an invertebrate⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  The open-access study in question.

  Cuttlefish are cephalopods (cephalopods are a class under the mollusc phylum), as are squids, octopodes, nautilus, etc. As octopodes have demonstrated high intelligence, this research is welcome but, to me, unsurprising.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨spoopy figs⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Good question. I wouldn’t (we’re assuming casual foraging for fun and not a survival situation); it’s still not vegan, but it’d be arguably less unethical on a spectrum.

  A con compared to the apiary is that these wild bees aren’t being artificially supplemented by e.g. sugar water; it’s live-or-die for them, and that’s their food. It’s not in me to take that away from them when I don’t have to.

  If someone took like a teaspoon of honey (still the lifetime output of about a dozen bees) while giving the bees something greater in return, then I don’t think most vegans would think it’s inherently wrong, but like any ethical framework, whenever you try to find contrived boundaries, it’s kind of like “okay, but why?” It’s kind of engaging on the armchair but rarely in practice.

  A huge pro compared to the apiary is avoiding, in addition to the physical mistreatment of the bees themselves, the perpetuation of the exploitation. If you one-and-done plunder a hive, that’s not vegan, but you’re not giving money to someone as a way of telling them “thanks, and keep doing this”.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨rules⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Project member here to confirm these are the rules for the PCSX2 server; we don’t want our competition getting a foothold in our turf.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Bean virus⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Extremely valid point, and I forgot to bring this up: I read the NYP article (god help me), and I could find no evidence of that claim (which surprises me NJ.com cited it for that). In fact, there’s even counterevidence within the article:

  Some Goya owners have also asked the board to present a motion to remove Unanue as CEO because he’s been using the company to promote his political views, sources said.

  “More than 50 percent of the shareholders do not want Bob to be the CEO,” a Goya source said. “All these political statements that Bob is making is dangerous for the company and for us personally as owners,” this person added.

  “It will hurt the Unanue name and company if he continues,” a second Goya source and shareholder said. “He should be thrown out as CEO. I think it’s really hurting us.”

  In an interview with The Post last week leading up to Friday’s vote, Unanue acknowledged that his job may be on the line.

  “I’m attacked by my own family” he said. “I could be fired tomorrow … whatever. It’s touch and go.”

  As The Post exclusively reported last year, Unanue narrowly escaped losing his job when he nixed an effort to sell a minority stake in the company to a private equity investor that would have brought in a non-family member CEO for the first time in the company’s 85-year history.

  It’s still possible that there’s some other source describing this alleged restriction, but I don’t know of it.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Bean virus⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Oh, hey, the shithead who caused me to boycott Goya apparently got the boot last year. Too bad Goya waited five too many years; I’ll be keeping my business elsewhere indefinitely.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨spoopy figs⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Which is why I’m surprised that so many vegans are on the fake meat bandwagon. The fact that they eat so much processed food clearly shows the claim that they’re doing it for health is poorly thought out.

  This a fundamental misunderstanding of what veganism is. Veganism is:

  a philosophy and way of living which seeks to exclude—as far as is possible and practicable—all forms of exploitation of, and cruelty to, animals for food, clothing or any other purpose; and by extension, promotes the development and use of animal-free alternatives for the benefit of animals, humans and the environment. In dietary terms it denotes the practice of dispensing with all products derived wholly or partly from animals.

  A plant-based diet for health is normally a “whole foods plant-based diet”, for which a mountain of well-studied health benefits exist. But vegans who are vegan for the animals can have any level of care about their own health that they want just like any omnivore can; that part is a spectrum.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨spoopy figs⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  they won’t eat honey, and that’s only because you’re stealing the fruits of the bees’ labor

  Not the only reason. For example, an infamous and common practice in the honey industry is to cut off the queen’s wings, ensuring the hive has no choice but to stay there and produce honey.

  I’ve never met a vegan who won’t eat figs; their relationship with fig wasps is symbiotic, and yes, excluding fruit on the basis that “eating the fruit of a pollinated plant is exploiting the pollinator” probably far oversteps the “practicable” part of veganism:

  Veganism is a philosophy and way of living which seeks to exclude—as far as is possible and practicable—all forms of exploitation of, and cruelty to, animals for food, clothing or any other purpose; and by extension, promotes the development and use of animal-free alternatives for the benefit of animals, humans and the environment. In dietary terms it denotes the practice of dispensing with all products derived wholly or partly from animals.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Tasty Product 🍔⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  At least “product” is honest framing: it’s passionless, mass-produced garbage sold by an international megacorp.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨This community in one meme⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  The killer almost had me, but I learned in self-defense class that “poisonous [organism]” only inherently means ingested in colloquial usage and that venoms are more properly a subset of toxins (naturally-occurring poisons) which are a subset of poisons. Consequently, it’s like the killer showed me a square and told me it was a quadrilateral: I’m too pedantic to be affected.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Anon quotes a movie line⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Some people argue this line was one of Bateman’s hallucinations and that he really said “I’m Paul outta options here.”

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I know. Somehow, I've always known.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  “The Strongest Jedi” definitely isn’t right. At best, he’s evenly matched with Obi-Wan. If you apply stupid “power scaling” rules, then sure, Obi-Wan got ganked by Dooku during their fight while Anakin handily beat him. But at the same time that Dooku pushes Obi-Wan, he easily kicks and downs Anakin who’s behind him; Obi-Wan was just the one he subdued by crushing him, ostensibly seeing him as the greater threat.

  We’ve seen Anakin lose to Obi-Wan at the (inherent) height of his combat prowess, and it was his own fault. Windu and Yoda probably also take Anakin one-on-one. (Windu, of course, was totally defenseless when Anakin severed his arm.)

  If we’re talking about things like the Force, Yoda is clearly much more powerful. There’s an argument Anakin was the most powerful pilot, but that combined with being very Force-sensitive and a very good duelist doesn’t make him “the most powerful” overall. Most potential? If he could keep his emotions under control, probably.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨An old excuse⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Also Saddam watching someone make a meme with that line break:

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Ubisoft Finally Confirms Assassin's Creed: Black Flag Resynced, the Remake We All Knew Was Coming⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Wow, what crazy timing for AskYourUncle’s video about AC4.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨ard⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  This largely true. English takes ‘-ard’ from Old French. MW defines it as:

  one that is characterized by performing some action, possessing some quality, or being associated with some thing especially conspicuously or excessively

  The main point is that it’s generally just a pejorative suffix.

  Citing the Trésor de la langue française informatisé, however, Wiktionary puts forward a surprisingly cogent counterargument and alternative etymology to the “packsaddle” one for “bastard”.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨big facts⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  “It’s funny how people will believe in Newton’s laws of motion but still think the Force from Star Wars is mythical nonsense.”

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨2022 was a bleak year 😢⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  What did you expect? It says “beyond fried” right there, as in “so far past fried that it’s condensed into rubber”. (I’m sorry, Beyond, I love you, and you’re perfect.)

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨what a coincidence⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  a diffusion model thing, not a transformer?

  Not only are these not mutually exclusive, but Sora (as the most prominent example) is a diffusion transformer.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨i unapologetically love male pits⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Yes, and my comment was assuming the partner washed – unless it’s to the standards I wash my fucking toilet bowl with at least.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨i unapologetically love male pits⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Agreed. Armpit fetishes are weird and gross to me, but they’re a distinct rung down from “I want to shove my face between someone’s asscheeks and aggressively mop up microscopic flecks of their shit with my tongue.” I’m giving ass-eating people the side-eye if they make fun of armpit stuff.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨too many creators not enough destroyers⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Raiden, turn the game console off right now.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Fck it, we ball⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I mean I’ve read that the giant marine isopod Bathynomus giganteus is popular in Vietnam, so probably – although there’s probably a good reason beyond scarcity that it’s not a widely popular delicacy. I might be concerned about bioaccumulated heavy metals in terrestrial ones, they’d be highly inefficient to prepare, and I’ve never heard of any culture that eats them. But I’m sure it’d be doable. Just to what end, you know?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨whatever tf this is⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  So was I. “Yes, and”, as we say in improv. (I’ve never done improv.)

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨whatever tf this is⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Yeah, hence “a translator”. You didn’t think I meant from Rennaissance-era Italian to modern Japanese, did you? No one person could probably do that. I meant a translator from this plane to the next.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Fck it, we ball⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Fun fact: woodlice are terrestrial isopods, meaning they share a class (Malacostraca, the second-largest crustacean class after Insecta) with the decapods like crabs, shrimp, etc. Orders Isopoda and Decapoda are far away within the class, but they’re still in there!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨whatever tf this is⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Given a translator, can you even imagine Leonardo DaVinci and Hideo Kojima in a room together?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨First president of USA⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  And to be fair, “Getty” isn’t unbelievable at all for the given name of a Founding Father:

  • Gunning Bedford Jr.
  • Elbridge Gerry (fuck this guy in particular btw)
  • Button Gwinnett
  • Titus Hosmer
  • Francis Lightfoot Lee
  • Gouverneur Morris
  • Robert Treat Paine
  • Charles Cotesworth Pinckney
  • Richard Dobbs Spaight

  And plenty of non-Founding Fathers had similarly peculiar names. If “Images” weren’t such a common English word, I’d say even that would be arguable.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Not a shitpost, OP. Correct me if I missed something.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Sextina Aquafina’s distant ancestor.