Catoblepas
@Catoblepas@piefed.blahaj.zone
- Comment on Anon teaches you about their culture 17 hours ago:
It’s telling that it’s always tikka masala, though, isn’t it?
- Comment on 15 points to microsoft! 1 day ago:
- Comment on Catch 22 vs. Rosenhan 1 day ago:
Call that peer reviewed diagnosis
- Comment on Channel Islands National Park on the chopping block 2 days ago:
I’m sure it’s just a coincidence that both are in California. Can’t wait for The Event.
- Comment on how things become science 2 days ago:
Not unless you can find some people that believe Starfleet Academy is a real place and just skip right over all the times the paper literally overtly states it’s made up.
- Comment on Average weeknight 5 days ago:
I’ve never been more adventurous than weed and mushrooms, what happens if you mix k and Xanax? Since they’re both depressants I assume it kills you?
- Comment on What are the most confusing false friends from your language to another that are spelt exactly the same? 1 week ago:
Actual. English: real. Spanish: current
Sensible. English: reasonable. Spanish: sensitive
- Comment on Second and final day of cheesecakeposting. Here. You degenerates. 1 week ago:
Do you know what this is from? The art style looks cool
- Comment on Oracle fired up to 30,000 workers via email after a 95% profit surge. Tech companies are cutting almost 1,000 jobs/day 1 week ago:
They must be cumming buckets once they realized journalists are gormless enough to blindly regurgitate their press releases about how these are AI driven job losses and totally not layoffs due to typical business fuckery.
- Comment on Meanwhile in California 1 week ago:
due to them not attacking Iran when they were in power
Ah yes, before the Strait of Hormuz existed 😂
- Comment on No, I don't know what a rabbit is, nor do I care. 1 week ago:
I wonder at which point ‘where did I leave my eggs?’ becomes a greater evolutionary pressure than ‘I need to hide my eggs’, because I’m assuming cassowaries haven’t had to worry about the latter for a while!
- Comment on Meanwhile in California 1 week ago:
Population of CA: 39 million
- Comment on get zapped, idiot 2 weeks ago:
I wonder if it would kill them or just shock the absolute shit out of them?
- Comment on Let it out!! 2 weeks ago:
That’s why once they start they only stop when they die 😊
- Comment on Might as well bring it full circle 2 weeks ago:
Doctors can probably be bargained with in this scenario if you have the beans to pay.
I’m old enough to remember a republican Senate candidate getting dragged for suggesting this as an alternative to the ACA.
- Comment on Might as well bring it full circle 2 weeks ago:
Definitely not, it’s bad for the most vulnerable portion of society to not have access to money. You can’t pay rent or a doctor with corn and beans.
- Comment on That's how the world works. 3 weeks ago:
You should always feel free to grow a garden, but you shouldn’t necessarily expect it to be cheaper than buying food. Especially the first year, if you don’t live in a place where you can just dig up some dirt and chunk seeds in it. Even if you do you should make sure the soil isn’t literally toxic first, especially since it’s common to have a buildup of things like lead or arsenic from now-outlawed fertilizers that can be absorbed by plants.
My grandparents planted maybe half an acre? Of crops for 10 people, and it was supplemental, not a complete replacement. It also takes a lot of work and can go to shit if the weather is bad. You can account for some of this by planting a variety of crops, trying to head off drainage and shade issues before they start, and with supplemental watering. But don’t expect everything to be super productive every year, especially in the age of climate change. My sister had some plants not put out at all last year (peppers).
- Comment on Me with my first edition harry potter 3 weeks ago:
Mass printed paperbacks aren’t sacred texts. Everyone should feel free to write on them, highlight them, cut them apart, paint on them, and make art with them. Especially books made by a trash bigot.
- Comment on Catastrophe 3 weeks ago:
Yeah, I was gonna ask why someone cut it, that’s the part that cracks me the fuck up. I’m pretty sure this was literally the first image I saw on the fediverse that made me absolutely lose it:
same as OP image, but a second passenger is screaming in terror as they lean against a broken window
- Comment on [deleted] 3 weeks ago:
Because it would be weirder to end on it: sexual predator, cheater, nonprofit bankrupting, racist white Christian nationalist, and public urinator.
- Comment on somehow i don't make any progress 3 weeks ago:
My second round of college has been so much easier when I trick myself into doing a little work every day instead of all of it at once right before it’s due. Downside is no day off, upside is better grades and less anxiety.
- Comment on Nvidia Announces DLSS 5, and it adds... An AI slop filter over your game 3 weeks ago:
Are you really asking why compressing and uncompressing art made by a human being is different from slop produced by the slop machine?
One exists to reconstruct an image as closely to the original as possible while saving space, the other is meant to insert arbitrary changes to the initial image and produce something else.
- Comment on Is it actually healthy for people to have a place to confess things anonymously? 4 weeks ago:
I absolutely wouldn’t post anything online I wouldn’t feel comfortable having read out in front of a judge.
- Comment on 14,000 routers are infected by malware that's highly resistant to takedowns 4 weeks ago:
That sounds like something that someone who was serving another’s interest would say!
- Comment on Put the shoes on 4 weeks ago:
As someone diagnosed with PTSD that also has nightmares related to it, I think it’s way underplayed how much public schools give people long term emotional trauma. Not even just bullying, a lot of the expectations schools put on kids are just developmentally unreasonable. It’s not random that so many people have school related nightmares decades after they’ve graduated.
I think nakedness in dreams is just a common theme for vulnerability, but there’s a reason it’s so tied to school for many people, and it’s not because they’re healthy environments that produce well adjusted young adults.
- Comment on Nuclear energy enjoyers vindicated again after the rise in oil and gas prices. 4 weeks ago:
Thanks for making me aware of it, I dunno how active the humanities side of it is but I’m definitely going to be checking my sources on it when I’m doing class work 👍
- Comment on Nuclear energy enjoyers vindicated again after the rise in oil and gas prices. 4 weeks ago:
Mining for the rare earth elements used in solar panels is pretty ugly, too. But once they’re taken out they can be reused, it’s not like coal or oil where you use it over and it’s gone forever.
- Comment on Nuclear energy enjoyers vindicated again after the rise in oil and gas prices. 4 weeks ago:
Excellent breakdown of flaws, this one is the most damning to me:
Cancer sites are not considered. Exposure to radionuclide pollution from Uranium fission products is known to be associated with specific tumors (thyroid cancer, lung cancer, leukemia) due to the chemical nature of the products of its decay chain (radioactive isotopes of Iodine, Radon, Cesium). Stratifying by tumor site would have provided evidence to support the assumption that tumors are caused by radiation exposure.
Who cares if you find more bladder cancer if this radiation isn’t associated with bladder tumors? This makes the study absolutely stink of a conclusion looking for evidence, especially in combination with the failure to use the actual radiation data readily available from nuclear sites.
- Comment on 🍌 GET YER NFTS HERE 🍎 4 weeks ago:
It looks like the saturation was cranked up on the OP image, the pictures on Wikipedia of Texas persimmons show them as ‘blue’ in the way that blueberries are blue, very dark and almost black. But I only knew of them as orange, so as far as I’m concerned that’s pretty blue!
- Comment on 🍌 GET YER NFTS HERE 🍎 4 weeks ago:
I had no idea persimmons came in blue, neat!
