Catoblepas
@Catoblepas@piefed.blahaj.zone
- Comment on That's how the world works. 1 day 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 2 days 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 days 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] 4 days 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 5 days 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 6 days 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? 1 week 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 1 week ago:
That sounds like something that someone who was serving another’s interest would say!
- Comment on Put the shoes on 1 week 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. 1 week 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. 1 week 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. 1 week 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 🍎 1 week 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 🍎 1 week ago:
I had no idea persimmons came in blue, neat!
- Comment on if you google Chicxulub (the dinosaur killing space rock) a meteor will fly across your screen 1 week ago:
Aw, so it does. Cute!
- Comment on if you google Chicxulub (the dinosaur killing space rock) a meteor will fly across your screen 1 week ago:
In elementary school in the 90s I remember an exercise where we had to imagine what killed the dinosaurs. I came up with an implausible scenario of overpredation, and because I grew up in the south a classmate of mine said the Biblical flood killed them all and was praised by the teacher 🤷♂️
- Comment on end times are here 2 weeks ago:
Mr Beast is the best modern candidate for the Antichrist for sure. I’ve never seen grown ass adults get more defensive over some random YouTube guy.
- Comment on Honk 2 weeks ago:
Eel, ray, rat, bat… is this engagement bait for people who think they’re smart the way that AI slop with veterans with no limbs and ‘NOBODY WILL TELL HIM HAPPY BIRTHDAY 😢’ is engagement bait for the moderately senile?
Or maybe just fake, who knows.
- Comment on Honk 2 weeks ago:
No, I get the reply. It’s the initial tweet (what animal has only three letters in it) that I don’t get the point of.
- Comment on Honk 2 weeks ago:
Fly, ant, owl, cat, dog, cow… I don’t understand the point of the initial tweet?
- Comment on [deleted] 2 weeks ago:
I interpreted it as saying he was ahead of his time for falling victim to AI psychosis before anyone else.
- Comment on Dear Faith II 3 weeks ago:
Pastels: could be tasteful
Neon: what happened to your eyes?
- Comment on You trying to give me a heart attack? I have warrants for chrissakes! 3 weeks ago:
I had to completely drop a PODCAST! that was doing this with background music. I tried to power through it and nearly lost my marbles.
- Comment on Riddle 3 weeks ago:
There have been 400+ pokemon added since this meme was made. My knees hurt.
- Comment on No More Neutral ⚛ 3 weeks ago:
Relevant short story: https://www.galactanet.com/oneoff/theegg_mod.html
- Comment on No More Neutral ⚛ 3 weeks ago:
Former situation: there is one electron
New situation: there are two electrons
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- Comment on It makes me shudder 4 weeks ago:
Everyone pisses, but if you did it 50 times a day you’d go to a doctor.
- Comment on Littering 🚯 4 weeks ago:
This is untrue, gastroliths are associated only with birds that eat plants. They grind up food, which isn’t necessary for meat. Eagles eat bullets from animals that have either been shot and abandoned, lost, or had parts of them discarded as zqxwas pointed out.
- Comment on [deleted] 4 weeks ago:
Will the doctor help me if it’s hard for longer than 4 hours? 🥺
