AwesomeLowlander
@AwesomeLowlander@sh.itjust.works
- Comment on Are Memoirs and Autobiographies partly fictional? How the f do people remember so much detail? 1 day ago:
You may have aphantasia! en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aphantasia
Read archive.is/iMdvd for more info about it
- Comment on Do air purifiers really reduce dust much? 1 day ago:
Name and shame
- Comment on Colonialism be like 1 day ago:
Fun fact! The plant was officially scientifically described in 2010, though it had been known to collectors for a long time beforehand as Nolina ‘La Siberica’. This is due to the plant hailing from a region of Mexico that is uniquely (for Mexico) chilly.
Naming: There are 35 species of Nolina, most of which are endemic to Mexico. Therefore a Mexico-specific name does not make much sense. Hibernica, or Hibernia, is a name for Ireland, but can also be taken to mean ‘Land of Winter’, which is how it came to be associated with Ireland to begin with. It was probably given in keeping with the original nomenclature of the plant of ‘La Siberica’, to both keep the original meaning and bring it in line with standardised scientific naming procedures.
The submitters of the paper officially describing and naming the plant, Fritz HOCHSTÄTTER and Davide DONATI, are German and Italian respectively. Neither of them hail from Ireland.
- Comment on whoopsie 2 days ago:
Oh cmon, mods shouldn’t be spreading misinformation like this
- Comment on They're making the frickin bees gay 3 days ago:
Bidens
- Comment on "...Mommy!!.." (Hades) 3 days ago:
(For the sake of this discussion, we’re talking spoilers in general, not whether a 5 year old game should be considered spoilerable)
Wait, so your solution to spoilers, is to tell everybody everywhere to stop having auto loaded images in their feed? Instead of, you know, having the OP spoiler tag their content? Wow.
- Comment on "...Mommy!!.." (Hades) 3 days ago:
I’m merely pointing out the flaw in what you said. No need to bring up the other arguments when I wasn’t part of them.
- Comment on "...Mommy!!.." (Hades) 3 days ago:
not click links clearly marked
Most users are going to see the image directly without clicking anything.
- Comment on Brazil Proposes a New Type of Fund to Protect Tropical Forests | The multibillion-dollar fund would essentially pay countries to keep forests standing 4 days ago:
Honestly, this is the only practical way to prevent deforestation. Make it worth it for the countries involved.
- Comment on Help finding meme of cutouts of different racoons posted today, something about "when you realize you're trash" 4 days ago:
It’s the top post in !raccoons@lemmy.world
- Comment on UK: China academic intimidation claim referred to counter-terrorism police 5 days ago:
An offence is committed if someone behaves in a way that “intends that conduct to materially assist a foreign intelligence service in carrying out UK-related activities,” or in conduct likely to assist that service.
- Comment on EA insists it will "maintain creative control" and "creative freedom" if sale to consortium goes ahead 6 days ago:
Considering their current level of creative control and freedom, that’s like Kim promising nothing will change for the worse in NK.
- Comment on How many virtual machines can you nest? 6 days ago:
I would like to subscribe to more deep dives on random topics
- Comment on How come NK doesn't just come out and say we are in trouble and need help? Like their lack of food and stuff? I really don't see a downside for a country admit they were wrong and need help 6 days ago:
It’s been a while, but there used to be a joke that whenever NK needed an aid package, they would fire off a missile. This was in the years before the world went bugfuck right wing crazy
- Comment on Why don't cars have a way to contact nearby cars like fictional spaceships do? 6 days ago:
Is there a reason why people on the metric system have a need to be learning imperials? (I know 1 mile = 1.6 km, but that’s another matter)
- Comment on What exactly is the reasoning behind Satan ruling Hell? 1 week ago:
most Christians would disagree with the notion that Satan rules hell,
Doubt. Most Christians have never read the Bible, and their understanding comes from pop culture.
- Comment on Why are Michelin Stars so highly revered when they originated from a tyre company? 1 week ago:
Because everybody wants to invent dynamite
- Comment on Why are Michelin Stars so highly revered when they originated from a tyre company? 1 week ago:
Guinness They got Sir Alec to do lifetime marketing for them, hard to top that.
- Comment on if you're offered a position you can use to advance your career but it involves people without boundaries, do you tell your maybe-future-to-be manager you don't want to work with those people? 1 week ago:
It’s called getting along with others. And like it or not, will be expected of you at any job that doesn’t involve you working alone. Quite honestly, you’re the issue here, not your co-workers. Figure out your personal strategy for dealing with extroverts, or look for a job as a warehouse night security guard.
- Comment on Why don't cars have a way to contact nearby cars like fictional spaceships do? 1 week ago:
Or we can stick to kph for discussion purposes, since that’s what most of the world uses
- Comment on Happy American import day 1 week ago:
The shops aren’t the ones going around saying ‘trick or treat!’. The kids / families are doing it because they enjoy it. And you’re determined to be a killjoy for some weird reason.
- Comment on What do you call the beleif that gods are just higher beings on other planes of existence? 1 week ago:
Gods sounds perfectly usable in this example
- Comment on Happy American import day 1 week ago:
Who’s ‘forcing’ it? It’s spreading because people have fun with it.
- Comment on Happy American import day 1 week ago:
Then by your own logic, why are you blaming this entirely on the US?
- Comment on Would one run faster without arms? 1 week ago:
Surprised nobody has mentioned this yet, but the Paralympics may bear you out to some extent. In a lot of events their finish times are similar to normal Olympians, suggesting the reduced weight burden compensates significantly for reduced physical ability.
(It’s not super clear cut, because apples, oranges, and bouncy prosthetics).
- Comment on visible Schrödinger. 1 week ago:
Well apparently asia is the source of a lot of scraping traffic, and they’re an European focused website, so they went with the nuclear option of blocking the entire continent and change. Never mind that as one of the bigger instances on the Threadiverse, they’re degrading the user experience for an entire continent. I brought the issue up to them previously, but they didn’t seem too concerned about it.
Example of degraded user experience for Asia: Image
- Comment on visible Schrödinger. 1 week ago:
- Comment on Fictional 1 week ago:
Sorry, your reply is still hosted on the feddit.org instance, it’s still unavailable to me :(
- Comment on Fictional 1 week ago:
Can somebody reupload the image at a non-feddit.org host? Feddit is incredibly annoying in that it geoblocks most of Asia.
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Wait what? Why?
Well apparently asia is the source of a lot of scraping traffic, and they’re an European focused website, so they went with the nuclear option of blocking the entire continent and change. Never mind that as one of the bigger instances on the Threadiverse, they’re degrading the user experience for an entire continent. I brought the issue up to them previously, but they didn’t seem too concerned about it.
Example of degraded user experience for Asia: Image
- Comment on Why are people using the "þ" character? 2 weeks ago:
If everyone tried this crap Lemmy would be a wasteland.
