LovableSidekick
@LovableSidekick@lemmy.world
- Comment on Why does tea taste different when I drink it outside? 1 day ago:
Maybe it’s a delusion you create because you know you’re outside. Because a mind is a terrible thing.
- Comment on How do you pronounce "centaur" and why? 1 day ago:
I pronounce it like sen + tar, and accent it like boxcar.
- Comment on I need help guys 2 days ago:
A couple examples would go a long way toward helping people help you. Old footage is easy to find - just google old photos, vintage photos, antique photos… but what does “unique style” mean?
- Comment on I'm looking for a no frills, physical key EV. Am I looking for something that no longer exists? 2 days ago:
If you’re in China you can probably get one.
- Comment on Division 3 days ago:
Cunk is my life guru.
- Comment on RISE FROM YOUR GRAVE 4 days ago:
That is not dead which can eternal lie.
And with strange eons even Death may die. - Comment on [deleted] 4 days ago:
I think of myself as nudish about prudity.
- Comment on Unstable 5 days ago:
I would have included the double-bonded oxygen in the circle, but yeah.
- Comment on I'm leaving the US for good, anything I should do before I leave? 6 days ago:
You finally did it, you melted it, you maniacs!
- Comment on I'm leaving the US for good, anything I should do before I leave? 6 days ago:
Korean bbq is the shaznatz.
- Comment on Rock Identification 6 days ago:
Speaking of this, my wife has a dark gray rock about the size of a silver dollar she found many years ago in our front yard, within a mile of the shore of Puget Sound. It’s broken, with a reflective crystalline-looking structure inside, and a magnet attracts it. Anybody know how likely it is to be meteoric iron?
- Comment on Rock Identification 6 days ago:
I spent the last two years building up an immunity to garnets in a mica schist.
- Comment on Rock Identification 6 days ago:
At the small college I attended, Geology 101 was known as “Rocks for Jocks” because it was the class jocks took to satisfy their science requirement. In one hallway was a big display board with a bunch of labeled rock samples on it. If you memorized all of them well enough to identify them you were almost guaranteed to pass the final. So there were always football jocks standing there studying that board.
- Comment on 'vegetative electron microscopy' 6 days ago:
Also, look how people jump to the conclusion that you’re one one extreme side or the opposite extreme side of any issue because they’ve saturated themselves with memes that reduce every complex issue to a clear-cut black and white binary choice between good and evil. Not that memes or AI are bad, people just lazily apply them way beyond their level of precision.
This is why we can’t have nice things.
- Comment on Skill issue 1 week ago:
Understandable - management has a natural affinity.
- Comment on He's just eccentric 1 week ago:
LOL I’m 70, talking about books from the 40s and 50s that my small-town library had in the 60s.
- Comment on He's just eccentric 1 week ago:
Yes I think it’s just a substitute term for “piece” of wire. But distinctly I recall “length” being commonly used in those old science books from the 40s and 50s. To me Professor Farnsworth seems cut out of that mold, the classic black and white movie scientist character.
- Comment on adhesive tape to the buttocks 1 week ago:
Slashdown must have been rough with a big one in the chamber.
- Comment on Blobfish 1 week ago:
But a photo of a normal-looking fish has extremely limited entertainment value.
- Comment on He's just eccentric 1 week ago:
“Silica gel packets?”
Ohhhh, you mean DO NOT EAT bags!
- Comment on He's just eccentric 1 week ago:
I’ve always loved the “lengths of wire” line. As a kid I used to check out lots of outdated library books about building a home science lab, and they consistently called a short piece of wire a “length” of wire. I don’t think I ever saw that term in any other context until Futurama, so it really brought back my nerdy beginnings.
- Comment on Is it better to leave a country, or stay behind to fight for it? And what about the ethics of fleeing instead of staying behind? 1 week ago:
There’s no single correct answer, and as with most issues there are a lot more than two sides. You already implied a third one here - fleeing without being a coward. Question: assuming you’re not a low-paid doctor in a free clinic, providing much-needed healthcare to people who can’t afford it… do you feel like a coward for that? Truth is we aren’t all suited to actively and effectively fight the system, any more than we’re all suited to be doctors or lawyers or athletes. You’re allowed to make life decisions without beating yourself up for not being a saint.
- Comment on adhesive tape to the buttocks 1 week ago:
Apollo 11 was the first moon landing, so if this transcript is really from Apollo 10 the bags of shit are still in the lunar module, which was jettisoned on the way back to Earth. According to Google it’s in a heliocentric orbit, “drifting aimlessly around the solar system.”
Even more details: the abbreviations CMP, LMP and CDR in the transcript mean Command Module Pilot (John Young), Lunar Module Pilot (Gene Cernan), and Commander (Tom Stafford), all now deceased. Young and Cernan each returned to walk on the moon in Apollo 16 and 17.
- Comment on adhesive tape to the buttocks 1 week ago:
Space-Lax 2 - Projectile Boogaloo
- Comment on Happens every time 1 week ago:
Schrödinger’s Nuclides.
- Comment on Why aren't there mass protests in the USA? 1 week ago:
Did you forget BLM already?
- Comment on Fossils on Fossils 2 weeks ago:
“Hey, isn’t that Dave’s skull?”
“Can’t be, I just saw him this morning. Sure looks like him though. Weird.”
- Comment on Cathy, do the math. 2 weeks ago:
When somebody insists, “X doesn’t matter because my salary depends on X,” it’s time to stop beating your head against a wall to teach them anything.
- Comment on Free Him! 2 weeks ago:
I’m learning what having no sense of humor looks like.
- Comment on Free Him! 2 weeks ago:
My question is why they anesthetize hedgehogs. Sick hedgehog? Smack with brick, get new hedgehog. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯