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- Comment on 16 hours ago:
The reason I doubt that is because I can’t smell ants “all the time”. And I can definitely smell them when they’re disturbed. But most people who talk about smelling ants describe the smell as “damp” or “mouldy” or “earthy”, and I have never smelled an ant that smells like that.
The only smell I’ve ever smelled from them is acrid and acidic, and that only happens when they’re disturbed or dead.
- Comment on 1 day ago:
I don’t think they’re talking about the dead/distressed ant smell. To the best of my knowledge, everyone can smell that. They’re talking about a general smell of ants
- Submitted 4 days ago to pics@aussie.zone | 0 comments
- Comment on 2 weeks ago:
What’s proven is that our current mathematical models do not accurately represent the universe due to the way things move and effects of gravity
This is actually the bit that Vera Rubin discovered. The summary of her discovery in the quote is the issue :)
- Comment on Doesn't each community being local to each instance split the audience? 4 weeks ago:
Federate communities are literally the point of lemmy. They were there from the beginning?
- Comment on IF NO HEN 4 weeks ago:
My brain read it correctly on the first glance, but then when I looked at it more closely, I assumed I had misread it, and then had to work out how to read it, only to arrive back where I started…
- Comment on What should I do with 2 old machines (Mac Mini and HP Pavilion g7)? 1 month ago:
then you can always just set up a Jellyfin on the server and stream to your TV, which would allow you to use your normal remote.
Or simply laptop to the TV via the HDMI output and run it directly.
- Comment on ‘Miracle’ of Zealandia: chick is born to rare takahē pair thought to be infertile 1 month ago:
Zealandia is an absolute treasure of a place doing amazing things for Aotearoa’s bird life.
- Comment on In 2015, the Fortingall Yew, one of the oldest trees in Europe, decided trans rights are tree rights and switched its sex to female 🏳️⚧️ eat shit transphobes 1 month ago:
Yep. I removed their comment locally after replying to it. The reply was because those removals won’t federate
- Comment on In 2015, the Fortingall Yew, one of the oldest trees in Europe, decided trans rights are tree rights and switched its sex to female 🏳️⚧️ eat shit transphobes 1 month ago:
Not so much.
Sex and gender are distinct elements. So whilst they’re not the same thing, they do interact with each other and influence each other to some extent or another. If they didn’t, then the world wouldn’t be full of people whose gender and sex are in alignment. For that matter, if they didn’t, we wouldn’t even understand the concept of sex and gender being in alignment.
Also, “transgenderism” is a term popular with transphobes, because it frames trans people as a belief/ideology, rather than acknowledging their identity.
no non-sapient creature can ever be trans, because you need consciousness to have a gender identity in the first place.
But for all of that, strictly speaking, this is true.
- Comment on In 2015, the Fortingall Yew, one of the oldest trees in Europe, decided trans rights are tree rights and switched its sex to female 🏳️⚧️ eat shit transphobes 1 month ago:
Were it a “curious, socratic style question” you wouldn’t have framed your question with loaded terminology designed to make trans people sound unreasonable and fake.
- Comment on I’m small down there and get my fiancé off with a big dildo. Do you see any issue with this? 1 month ago:
Are you happy? Is your partner happy?
There’s your answer
- Comment on It’ll be a while 1 month ago:
They’re more likely to be Hawking bits
- Comment on [deleted] 2 months ago:
Racism/White As The Default
- Comment on Very high resolution indeed 2 months ago:
I don’t know, it looks kinda swampy to me…
- Comment on 2 months ago:
It’s very possible I’m confusing it with Sydney.
- Submitted 2 months ago to melbourne@aussie.zone | 4 comments
- Comment on Why do some people have so many tabs open on their browser? 2 months ago:
You can also use ^ to search your history instead, and do away with the tabs!
- Comment on Why do some people have so many tabs open on their browser? 2 months ago:
It is possible to develop ADHD like symptoms from a TBI of some kind. It’s not ADHD from a technical definition standpoint, but from lived experience of symptoms, it can line up with ADHD
- Comment on Why do some people have so many tabs open on their browser? 2 months ago:
It’s also most likely not an explanation. I’m ADHD too, and I hate having browser tabs open. I keep them as few as possible, closing them as soon as I don’t know what they are or why they’re open.
- Comment on Why do some people have so many tabs open on their browser? 2 months ago:
I mean, you can scan the page titles in your history just as easily as you can scan the titles of 400 tabs. So it’s kind of same same if you can’t remember any pertinent details
- Comment on Why do some people have so many tabs open on their browser? 2 months ago:
I have 2 or 3 open at once at most. If I can’t remember what it’s for, it gets closed. And if I need to find it again, searching my history is easier than searching my open tabs
I just can’t handle tab frenzy
- Comment on Assuming humanity last another few hundred years; How many human languages do you think are gonna be left in 100 years? In 200 years? 2 months ago:
So, it’s not only me that does that…
- Comment on Is there a word for when someone is not capable of, or doesn't try to understand verbal communication in a language, they are fluent in similar to functionally illiterate but for speech? 2 months ago:
That’s ADHD/Autism
- Comment on Is there a word for when someone is not capable of, or doesn't try to understand verbal communication in a language, they are fluent in similar to functionally illiterate but for speech? 2 months ago:
It’s not really a thing is it?
I mean, language learners often have a disparity in their ability to read vs their ability to understand spoken language, but that’s mostly because of things like accents, speed of speech etc, all of which improve with practice/exposure…
- Comment on Question: I don't agree with what Pauline Hanson did, but doesn't it kind of challenge the senate's stance on the issue to have reacted the way they did? Imagine if they had shrugged what she did off. 2 months ago:
Inaction on racism and islamophobia isn’t a senate stance I want to see…
- Comment on Caption this. 2 months ago:
An apple in the hand is worth 4 doctors and 2 curious onlookers in a hospital?
- Comment on me_irl_conflict 2 months ago:
I’m pretty sure Einstein just copied Hubbles test results
- Comment on The wait for GTA 6 has now been so long it must be some kind of record - right? [Eurogamer] 2 months ago:
laughs in Duke Nukem
- Comment on Banana 3 months ago:
I’m with you! The texture is a horror.
