skisnow

@skisnow@lemmy.ca

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Liquid Trees⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Thanks for that. It looks from that like a relevant detail OOP missed out is that these thing (purportedly) claim to produce as much oxygen as 15 trees, which isn’t nothing.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Liquid Trees⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  I think the problem is putting them in those dumb tanks where a tree would be, as if to say “do this instead”. The principle would be fine if they got a bit more creative with it and played to its strengths, e.g. if you make a train platform out of it, or the railings of an overpass, or the external wall panels of buildings etc.

  Ofc OOP didn’t actually provide a source so we’ve no idea what the creators were actually thinking…

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Pearson complaining about using Linux to access my course material⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  I was talking about all those downvotes you got by people who got whooshed

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Pearson complaining about using Linux to access my course material⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Too many users on here don’t know about the old magics

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Transitioning in STEM⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I used a scientific approach in the science memes community.

  The issue is that your application of “the scientific approach” is to dismiss the entire field of research up to now, and demand that OP prove their point from first principles. It’s not a reasonable response to what they posted.

  What we’re seeing here is an example of how it’s possible to be both right and very wrong at the same time.

  You don’t seem to care about actual science.

  …and the second issue is that you’re now attacking the integrity of the people calling you out on it, for no clear benefit other than to put them down.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I'm a 6'1" man with size 3 feet which means every they measure my feet at a shoe store, the Brannock device gatekeeps my gender⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  The first few decades of my life I assumed that there’d been all sorts of important orthopaedic/podiatry research done into the difference between men and women’s feet, gaits etc that meant wearing sports shoes sold as “women’s” would in some way cause my feet long term harm. Nope, it was bullshit marketing all along.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨1994 white Kevin⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  “not all of them actually do sex work” is one of those fictions that everyone on all sides is happy to play along with.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Aussie Fauna⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  A lot of people think of “venomous” as being a one-dimensional property like strength or speed that you have to build your way up towards. But really it’s just how this substance your body produces that reacts with another substance in another creature who evolved on a whole other continent to you.

  There doesn’t need to be a strong evolutionary imperative to be able to kill a herd of elephants, it’s enough for there to not be a strong disincentive not to produce enough venom to do it.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨It's a fun new game⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  There’s numbers for testing CC software.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨As a US citizen who was born in the UK, how risky is it to leave and reenter the US right now?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Consult the chart

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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨America is fucked⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  It took a sinister turn right at the end…

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The good old days⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  To be clear, when you say doctors endorsed cigarette smoking, a small percentage of doctors were duped into endorsing it and their recommendations boosted by the tobacco industry.

  I’ve got my Grandfather’s old copy of The Boy’s Companion published before the date in that meme, and it’s very clear in its message that smoking is bad for you. They’ve known it was harmful to health since at least the 17th century, and tobacco was only brought to Europe in the 16th.

  The cunts who sent that mascot to the hospital fucking KNEW.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I had no idea y cunt was this powerful⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  It was a major plot point on one of the seasons of The Sopranos. Junior ordered a hit on Tony Soprano after Tony found out that Junior ate pussy and teased him for it.

  Of all the notions that exist around hypermasculinity, this one is the weirdest.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Max pulling THIS shit every time I finish watching Last Week Tonight⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  From 2013 to 2020 I didn’t have bittorrent installed anywhere, and paid for Netflix, NowTV, and Crunchyroll. Then the enshittification kicked in, and now most of what I watch is from bittorrent.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  One of my friends is married to a Chinese woman only two years his junior, but because she, like most Asian women, looks a lot younger than her European contemporaries he still gets lots of dirty looks and untoward comments from judgy fucks who think it’s any of their fucking business.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Nintendo Switch 2 Launches on June 5th Worldwide; 1080p Screen With 120 FPS and HDR Support, Docked Mode 4K Resolution Support Confirmed⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Or it’s rendered at 1080 and upscaled…

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨At least Quark had some integrity.⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  If you’re talking about animals it doesn’t matter.

  Not even that it doesn’t matter, it’s almost entirely the point. The reason why using ‘females’ as a noun to refer to women is dehumanizing is because it’s a noun we use for animals.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨We are so cooked⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Bees live less than two months, so if 80% of bees died in the last 8 months that would suggest a sharp recent increase.

  I’m not saying there isn’t a bee crisis, just that this factoid is very badly worded.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Virgin Physicists⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Simple, all you need is a 6 ohm resistor and a 0.18457216 ohm resistor in series.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Anon is chasing an old high⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Also, 256 colours