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- Comment on Founder of Arkane Studios: "I think Gamepass is an unsustainable model that has been increasingly damaging the industry for a decade"; impacts sales 5 hours ago:
Everything being said on both sides in those screenshots doesn’t really mean much to me without data to show it’s actually the case.
My personal feeling is that I don’t care to own most games in the first place and would be happy getting them all from the library the same way I do with books. Without Gamepass I wouldn’t have played things like Payday 3 or Grounded in the first place because I won’t purchase them. The alternative for me is piracy.
- Comment on Anon watches The Whale 1 week ago:
Similar experience for me with the Babadook. It illustrates that you will never be rid of your mental problems and trauma, that trying to be cured or normal is a fool’s errand. They’re things you’ll have to deal with forever, and the more you confront them the less they’ll control you.
- Comment on Carnivory in Plants 1 week ago:
Genetic evidence suggests that carnivory developed by co-opting and repurposing existing genes which had established functions in flowering plants
- Comment on Dismay as council removes Pride flag in Derbyshire after Christians complain 2 weeks ago:
Coincidentally, this is the latest drama on my WoW server:
- Comment on Dismay as council removes Pride flag in Derbyshire after Christians complain 2 weeks ago:
The new administration has also introduced Christian prayer at the start of its meetings, with a Reform councillor, the group whip Dan Price, saying the UK was a “Christian country”.
Cool.
- Comment on Strawberries are nuts 🍓 3 weeks ago:
I think it should be possible to break the culinary categorisation down to chemistry. That doesn’t tell you anything about the “why” but it’s definitely not random and definitely not all in our heads.
I agree with what you mean in kind of a broad-strokes way, but as individuals our subjective experiences of flavors can vary pretty wildly. There’s genetics, neurology, age, and habit/experience that influence our taste in terms of actually sensing the chemicals. Then there’s what we see, taste, and smell just prior or during tasting that severely impact our interpretation of that chemical sense.
- Comment on Strawberries are nuts 🍓 3 weeks ago:
Strawberries do not have nipples. :(
- Comment on Strawberries are nuts 🍓 3 weeks ago:
No, this post is not even accurate.
The substance in strawberries which causes allergic reactions is the fra a 1 protein which gives strawberries their red color. White strawberries have less of this protein and may be tolerated by people with this allergy, depending on individual sensitivity.
- Comment on Strawberries are nuts 🍓 3 weeks ago:
Achenes are not nuts.
(1) Achene. A small hard indehiscent fruit. The term is strictly only applied to those formed from one carpel, but is sometimes used for those formed from two carpels (e.g. the fruit of the Compositae). The latter is better termed a cypsela.
(2) Nut. This is similar to an achene, but is typically formed from two or three carpels (e.g. dock fruit).
www.sciencedirect.com/topics/…/achene
i. Achene - A one-seeded, dry, indehiscent fruit; the one seed is attached to the fruit wall at a single point.
ii. Nut - A dry, indehiscent, one seeded fruit similar to an achene but with the wall greatly thickened and hardened.
- Comment on Strawberries are nuts 🍓 3 weeks ago:
Sorry if I’m misunderstanding your post, but cashews are not drupes, not nuts. I don’t know whether all true nuts come from trees, but all the ones I can think of do.
- Comment on Strawberries are nuts 🍓 3 weeks ago:
If you took all the seeds off a strawberry, it’d still be a strawberry. A bowl full of strawberry nuts is not a bowl of strawberries.
- Comment on Severance’s Seth Milchick was originally envisioned as a minor character, but Tramell Tillman’s performance changed everything 4 weeks ago:
It doesn’t matter to me whether there was ever a mystery because that wasn’t the interesting part. “What are they working on?” doesn’t need to have an amazing answer; it could just be accounting for all I care. What matters is who the characters are, what they have done and will do and why. And more importantly, the way it highlights issues with corporations by drawing interesting parallels within the story. Maybe people in real life will be inclined to question their own conditions and be inspired to protest for better lives.
- Comment on Anon considers LASIK 4 weeks ago:
Glasses are barely an inconvenience; you can’t compare them to cancer. A 1% drop rate on making my life significantly worse is terrible odds, especially given the monetary cost.
- Comment on Anon goes camping 4 weeks ago:
If you’re going to do all that and still end up with “not great”, why not just distill it?
- Comment on It's a mysteria 5 weeks ago:
Maybe there’s something I don’t understand (I don’t drink coffee at all), but coffee is antimicrobial and doesn’t need to be kept out of the food safety danger zone. I should think it would take an extremely long time to grow pathogens.
Relevant study: researchgate.net/…/388799782_Survival_of_Listeria…
- Comment on Can't fathom it 5 weeks ago:
Prolly trying to trick us into making free co2.
- Comment on Anyone else 5 weeks ago:
Good thinking. The probe goes in easier when you empty you bowels.
- Comment on The UK government is considering mandatory chemical castration for sex offenders – it’s an ethical and legal minefield 5 weeks ago:
It’s already a risk to literally anyone wrongly convicted, trans or cis.
- Comment on The UK government is considering mandatory chemical castration for sex offenders – it’s an ethical and legal minefield 5 weeks ago:
I think it’s fine as an option for people with serious conditions beyond their control, like pedophilia, provided that the scientific community agrees it’s a helpful treatment option. Other than that, I don’t see how it could be helpful.
- Comment on Antony Starr had to knock down 'The Boys' fans glorifying Homelander: 'This guy is not the hero' 5 weeks ago:
Maybe if literacy were actually taught instead of being sabotaged by what I can only assume is a plot to increase the pool of incarcerated slave labor we could then move on to more advanced forms of literacy.
- Comment on That's me 5 weeks ago:
I’m not sure what this person is talking about because I worked the towels area of an American department store not so long ago, and I wanted a lot of those towels because they were great. Maybe they just aren’t shopping at the right places.
- Comment on Stunt Performer Sues Kevin Costner and ‘Horizon 2’ Over Unscripted Rape Scene 5 weeks ago:
No, it was a depiction of fictional rape for the film. Given the coercion, lack of protocol, and the way she was physically handled make it a sexual assault in my opinion, but legally-speaking I think she can only complain about the contract violation and retaliatory behavior causing financial damages.
- Comment on How I discovered my partner was an undercover police officer sent to spy on me 1 month ago:
Davis addressed concerns about his language on his website, stating that “when I fight Satan, I use the sharpest knives I can find.”
I’m not saying I approve of his slur usage, but hot damn is that a quote.
- Comment on It's My Nature 1 month ago:
Hikeback is a visual novel horror game based on the story of the scorpion and the frog that I found very moving.
- Comment on Cloudflare CEO warns AI and zero-click internet are killing the web's business model 1 month ago:
YouTubers are doing webrings again, I shit you not. I love it.
- Comment on Liquid Trees 2 months ago:
I disagree. Pavement is valuable to pedestrians, cyclists, emergency and service vehicles, and the disabled. While it’s important to preserve nature as much as possible, some urbanisation is also a good thing. That said, I’m not sure algae tanks would be necessary in areas where huge tracts of land aren’t dedicated to parking. I can’t really think of where my city would benefit from them.
- Comment on Enshittification of ChatGPT 2 months ago:
Search engine is one of my main uses. Traditional search engines are worse than they used to be at a basic text search, and ChatGPT has the added bonus of being able to parse complex text and “figure out” what you mean when describing something that you don’t have a name for. You have to ask it for sources rather than just reading whatever it generates, and/or do traditional searches on the keywords it provides.
- Comment on Enshittification of ChatGPT 2 months ago:
Making users feel better is one of the usefulnesses of this technology. Factuality and scientific rigor are not something text generators are capable of due to the nature of the technology itself.
I would instead argue that being overly agreeable and not challenging the user may conflict with making the user feel better long-term.
- Comment on Accessibility in Science 2 months ago:
I think it matters in terms of psychological health. Internally thinking that an older teenager is attractive is a pretty normal thing that might happen to an allosexual human, whereas the same attraction for a younger teen or child is clear “get in therapy now before something bad happens” territory.
Please note that I have specified internal thoughts and not making gross conversation about how hot young people are and/or approaching them with sexual intentions.
But I agree that this is really not the context to bring up the difference.
- Comment on Accessibility in Science 2 months ago:
I get what you’re saying, but popular usage is what it is at this point, and pointing out the wider range of accurate terminology is just going to get people accusing you of being a pedophile.
