skisnow
@skisnow@lemmy.ca
- Comment on English moment 1 day ago:
That said, the English language shows how messed up its history is.
The irony is that Britain is, to the best of my knowledge, the only country other than Sweden whose mainland hasn’t been occupied by a foreign invader in over 950 years.
- Comment on tiny tot engineering 1 day ago:
The duality of man -
Wholesome: dad gets involved with his kid’s hobby and helps him win
Not wholesome: kid shows up to play with a rigged beyblade someone else made for him, in order to participate in a one-sided competition, predictably breaking the other kid’s toy
- Comment on one bright second 2 days ago:
I dunno, I feel like neither empty space nor vast aeons of darkness are particularly pulling their weight in terms of really doing existing with any real level of conviction. It’s easy to be vast if you’re doing fuck all with most of it.
- Comment on The Duckstein Files 2 days ago:
Ugh why did you have to make Quaxwell hot
This is going to be a complicated wank
- Comment on Anon uses GOG 2 days ago:
I wondered why some guy on my Discord kept giving out tons of free GOG keys. Guess it’s probably that?
- Comment on 3 days ago:
Yeah whenever I see them I think what story are they trying to tell? Are we supposed to believe that this man decided, right, I want to post something online about $TOPIC, so I’ll get my whiteboard, write my post on that, go to the harbour, get someone to take a photo of me holding it up, and then I’ll upload that photo online so people can see what I think?
- Comment on See ya. 3 days ago:
Yeah, fragmenting into groups was an important part of the book.
- Comment on Sunlight special 5 days ago:
Yeah this whole thread feels like either I’ve been dropped into a parallel universe or there’s something wrong with my monitor settings. Is it really that weird to not want your food totally blackened all over? The bacon and hash browns in particular look like they was taken out at exactly the right moment, just as they’re showing the first spots of browning. I wonder if maybe the details aren’t showing up clearly on mobile devices or something and people are reacting to that?
I’m not judging anyone who likes their food overcooked, but there’s no need to be a dick to people who like to taste the meat not the heat.
- Comment on hows keto working out for you 5 days ago:
Yup. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blubber
Blubber is the primary fat storage layer for some mammals, especially for those that live in water. It is particularly important for species that feed and breed in different parts of the ocean. During these periods, the animals metabolize fat. Blubber may save energy for marine mammals, such as dolphins, in that it adds buoyancy while swimming.
Blubber has advantages over fur (as in sea otters) in that, though fur retains heat by holding pockets of air, the air expels under pressure (i.e., when the animal dives). Blubber, however, does not compress under pressure. It is effective enough that some whales can dwell in temperatures as low as 4 °C (40 °F). While diving in cold water, blood vessels covering the blubber constrict and decrease blood flow, thus increasing blubber’s efficiency as an insulator.
- Comment on THE CRAZY PILLS 1 week ago:
that was a good joke, but I don’t think 16 out of 20 people got it (at the time of me writing this).
- Comment on THE CRAZY PILLS 1 week ago:
After the liberation of the concentration camps in 1945, all the people who had been put there for being gay, just got moved to other camps and prisons, since homosexuality was also illegal under the liberators’ laws as well.
- Comment on I will be taking no followup questions. Thank you for your time 1 week ago:
Me at the 19thC Royal Society, all cocky like: Matter is energy, E=mc^2
Michael Faraday: interesting, how would I go about proving that?
Me: no fucking clue. Something to do with either spaceships or massive bombs?
- Comment on I will be taking no followup questions. Thank you for your time 1 week ago:
The reaction in that picture is also bang-on though, because Semmelweis got a huge amount of pushback from the medical community at the time, who took offense at the apparent accusation that they were so dirty they were killing their own patients.
- Comment on Mary E. Brunkow, one of this year's Nobel Prize winners in Medicine, has only 34 published papers and an H-index of 21. 1 week ago:
There’s a guy at IBM who has thousands of patents with his name on.
He works in the department that helps people write patents.
- Comment on Punch Time 1 week ago:
The fan translation of Oruchuban Ebichu added a 2 minute section at the start of every episode, explaining all the puns and cultural references. I’m disappointed that this isn’t more common.
- Comment on Texas National Guard arriving in Chicago 1 week ago:
It’s weirder than that, they don’t seem to have chins at all. Their heads are like perfectly round melons.
- Comment on soda 1 week ago:
Haven’t noticed. Are you using the right syntax? I’m not sure if ‘AND’, ‘OR’ have to be capitalized or what ahrefs.com/…/google-advanced-search-operators/
- Comment on soda 1 week ago:
As a side note fucking Googles LLM make this type of research hard by spitting fake info at you.
The web in general is fucked, since most sites less than 3 years old are now entirely written by AI. :(
- Comment on New EA Owners Hoping AI Will Cut Costs And Boost Profits, It's Claimed 2 weeks ago:
You laugh, but AI is a pretty good fit for EA. Repeatedly churning out new iterations of the same exact thing over and over every year, with the roster changed and the art fucked about with a tiny irrelevant amount? Yup
- Comment on It's official: EA is going private. 2 weeks ago:
I’m more cynical than that, I think it’s that Kushner and the Saudis have both identified gamers as a group susceptible to be influenced by auth-right messaging, and they want a piece of that.
- Comment on Can you fuck off 2 weeks ago:
I think you’re probably going to be surprised when you discover how little that does to stop you getting tracked by the dozens of ad networks running their tracking pixels on that site.
- Comment on It's official: EA is going private. 2 weeks ago:
It’ll be interesting seeing how the worst games company manages to find a way to become even worse.
- Comment on BREAKING NEWS: We did it, guys! 20 poptarts! 3 weeks ago:
So you’re just going to skim over the guy having a child bride?
- Comment on Can you think of any now? 3 weeks ago:
The narrative of the Pacific theater still being an intractable or unbeatable long-term conflict in 1945 was hugely overstated, and also leant heavily on racist notions of the Japanese being “brainwashed”.
Also, most wars could be ended more quickly by committing war crimes, we don’t allow it as a justification when it’s done by the losing side.
- Comment on Can you think of any now? 3 weeks ago:
“The atomic bombings were necessary” was something we were expected to internalize as an indisputable hard fact, like gravity and oxbow lakes.
- Comment on Dinner is ready! 3 weeks ago:
Obviously nobody is saying any of those things. The meaning should be obvious when read in context of the original post.
- Comment on Dinner is ready! 3 weeks ago:
Fair enough, I may have been extrapolating from posts others made on the same lines.
- Comment on Dinner is ready! 3 weeks ago:
the US has stolen foods
Lots of people in this thread seem to be labouring under the bizarre notion that only the US is allowed to count immigrant cuisine as their own.
- Comment on Dinner is ready! 3 weeks ago:
That’s only true if you apply a definition of “from” to the US that you’re not allowing any other country to have.
- Comment on Why is the human body so incredibly bad at responding to colds? 4 weeks ago:
I promise I’m not a bot. People really don’t seem to like it when you say you like something huh.