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- Comment on Christmas Animals 16 hours ago:
Nonverbal people are free to make up their own mind how they feel about it, but calling it “cringe” when people choose to come together over a shared identity and experience is extremely insulting.
- Comment on Christmas Animals 1 day ago:
Puffin
Cormorant
Arctic tern
Common eider
King eider
White-tailed eagle
Kittiwake
Fulmar
Snow bunting
Northern gannet
Sanderling
Black guillemot
Brünnich’s guillemot
Little auk
Arctic skua
Long-tailed skua
Ptarmigan
Great northern diver
Red-throated diver
Glaucous gull
Lesser black-backed gull
Great black-backed gull
Ivory gull
Red phalarope (grey phalarope)
Pink-footed goose
Barnacle goose
Brant goose
Razorbill
Turnstone
oceanwide-expeditions.com/…/22-enchanting-arctic-…
The website has pictures.
- Comment on Christmas Animals 1 day ago:
Obviously autism can vary between people, but it’s not something that’s wrong with me, and I wouldn’t want to cure it. I’m different than what’s widely considered normal, but in a way that I think is fine. It’s like having red hair or being transgender.
- Comment on 🍺 🍻 3 days ago:
I don’t know if you saw Johandea’s reply to me, but it made me realize I was mistaken about what you meant.
I love opening cans of dinosaurs. :D
- Comment on 🍺 🍻 3 days ago:
It took me a bit to understand what you mean, but I get it now! I was looking at it from the perspective of them being quite similar, but they are as different, aren’t they?
- Comment on 🍺 🍻 3 days ago:
Pluto used to be considered a planet, but I’m not going to tell people it is one today. Pisces as a class was abandoned due to the realization that we were mistaken about how similar/related they are to each other. Whales used to be included in pisces.
- Comment on 🍺 🍻 3 days ago:
Not exactly. Humans, birds, and reptiles are all within the phylum chordata, while arachnids and insects are both within the phylum arthropoda.
Fish, interestingly, aren’t a real thing in terms of formal classification. The term is similar to bug in that we apply it to whichever creatures we feel fit the description.
- Comment on 🍺 🍻 3 days ago:
- Comment on Meanwhile Ball 3 days ago:
- Comment on Anon lives on a budget 4 days ago:
Why do you need to drive a giant fire truck down the alley? […] “we need to carry water and I don’t know what a fire hydrant is”
Fire hydrants provide water, but you need to run the water through a pump to increase the pressure, and a fire truck acts as that pump. It also allows for the attachment of multiple hoses so that water can be sprayed in multiple locations.
And if all the roads are very narrow, how are you going to get a moving truck or other delivery vehicle in? What about a plumber’s van? What about a small personal vehicle? Two meters isn’t wide enough for any of those, especially not with outdoor seating. Six meters gives space for service vehicles to coexist with pedestrians, cyclists, and seating.
I don’t agree with not having tall buildings either though. If the majority of housing is dense apartments above ground-floor businesses then there’s much more open space left for nature preserves, parks, and gardens. I mean, they don’t need to be skyscrapers, just 3-10 stories maybe. You can also save a lot of space with row houses.
- Comment on Anon lives on a budget 4 days ago:
While admitting that my recollection is flawed as hell, I remember it being the case that you couldn’t get a full 40 hours, but that you could easily get 30+ hours so long as you didn’t hit 40 enough times to count.
I’m not trying to agree with OOP that the ACA ruined everything, but it is a truly bizarre and flawed alternative to universal healthcare.
- Comment on Anon lives on a budget 4 days ago:
Working two jobs can be difficult to impossible. The schedules usually aren’t fixed and cause frequent conflicts. A lot of places aren’t even willing to hire you if already work elsewhere because they don’t want the hassle.
- Comment on Anon lives on a budget 4 days ago:
I agree with you in general, but 2m isn’t wide enough for fire truck access. Some regulations are based on the prevalence and nature of natural disasters in a given area.
I’m also not sure about your 20 meters figure because I can’t find that there is a federal minimum. 20 feet is the minimum for fire trucks though.
- Comment on Anon lives on a budget 4 days ago:
I can’t recall the details because it’s been too long since I worked in the States, but it was something like if you work more than 30 hours per week the employer has to pay certain benefits. It’s cheaper for them to hire two 20hr workers than one 40hr worker, and then the two employees aren’t seeing any of the benefits they’re supposed to be getting. I assume that loophole is by oligarchical design.
- Comment on I support this 1 week ago:
Not saying thank you isn’t having a meltdown or making a scene, nor is it analogous to unsafe driving practices. Are you thinking this up just because they said they’re autistic?
My advice is only to not be passive-aggressive when people don’t behave the way you think they should, which is pretty low-effort.
- Comment on 1 week ago:
I think it’s interesting to dream of “before we were gendered” when Wendy is so heavily gendered despite being a non-grown-up child the same as the others. None of the boys are expected to assume the role of mother, and none of the boys have been conditioned by society to accept it as their place.
- Comment on I support this 1 week ago:
I agree that we should all work on ourselves to the best of our ability, but I think the point myself and others are sticking on is the idea that this person deserves to be punished with revenge rudeness if they fail to perform politeness a specific way.
- Comment on I support this 1 week ago:
I don’t think “cease interacting with humans” is the best advice.
- Comment on I support this 1 week ago:
Delighted to realize that my default internal voice for this man is the one from South Park.
- Comment on The Sensory Biology of Plants 1 week ago:
That’s not a problem. The idea is to define practical categories along the spectrum of consciousness so that they can be discussed without having to re-define terms prior to every discussion. There’s no reason any given organism should or shouldn’t fall into a particular category except for its properties directly regarding that category.
- Comment on The Sensory Biology of Plants 1 week ago:
I think the big dividing line between what many animals do and what cells or plants do is the ability to react in different ways by considering stimuli in conjunction with memory, and then the next big divide is metacognition. I feel like there should be concrete words for these categories. “Sentient” and “conscious” have pretty much lost meaning at this point, as demonstrated by this discussion’s existence.
I will call them reactive awareness, decisive awareness, and reflective awareness in the absence of a better idea.
- Comment on The Sensory Biology of Plants 1 week ago:
Conscious: aware of the delineation between self and not self
I don’t know whether this applies to plants and fungi, but it applies to just about every animal. There’s a minimum basic sense of self required in distinguishing one’s own movements from the approach of an attacker. Even earthworms react differently when they touch something vs when something touches them.
- Comment on Pika Pika 1 week ago:
They’re the same. The “pika” is from “hika”, which refers to light.
- Comment on Google is experimentally replacing news headlines with AI clickbait nonsense 2 weeks ago:
- Comment on mmm... tastes like chimkin 2 weeks ago:
Everyone eats baby birds. They’re full of delicious little bones, which plants are famous for lacking.
- Comment on I dunno 3 weeks ago:
- Comment on I dunno 3 weeks ago:
But there is logic behind them.
1+2+3=6 and 2+3+1=6 also.
But 1+23 and 23+1 won’t come out the same if you do the calculations in just any order. It’s not always possible to order them left to right like in the second version, and if we use parentheses for everything we can end up with an illegible mess. I actually tried to type an example of how silly it could look and lost track of my own parentheses nesting before I got very far.
Do you have any other suggestion for how to notate an equation which would make memorization of PEMDAS unnecessary?
- Comment on I dunno 3 weeks ago:
I sometimes like to add unnecessary parentheses or brackets to section things off and improve legibility, but I don’t do any math stuff collaboratively, so I have no idea whether others would find that disruptive or helpful.
- Comment on OnLy tWo eLemEnTs 3 weeks ago:
I’m pretty sure they have an agenda, yeah. I just wanted to think about the premise on its own terms, like how one might think about the definition of a fish? I feel like it’s both personally enriching and better equips me to respond to such arguments. Even though I don’t think they’ll listen to anyone, I don’t think anyone’s responses to them were a waste of time because I really feel like I’ve learned a lot from reading them, and I’m sure plenty of other people did too, so thank you for your labor.
- Comment on OnLy tWo eLemEnTs 3 weeks ago:
You are misunderstanding, but I don’t blame you in the slightest. I don’t seem to have communicated very clearly. Someone else in this post has a comment making the argument that there are two sexes and that all humans either produce one of two gametes or have the potential to based on their body’s design, and at the time I thought it would be very obvious what I was referring to and why I would make a separate post instead of replying in that chain. I’m sorry for the confusion and any offense.
What I’m thinking about with my question is whether any humans can truly be considered as capable of producing eggs if they must be present at birth, if even people who already have eggs can’t make more.
