Signtist
@Signtist@bookwyr.me
Formerly /u/Signtist@lemm.ee
- Comment on Evolution 2 weeks ago:
Polaris is only up to about 70 million years old. So, technically it’s likely to be way younger than the rings of Saturn, but it’s still crazy to me to think that a star was just… not there until it showed up one day, and sharks were there well beforehand.
- Comment on Evolution 2 weeks ago:
And Polaris! (the North star)
- Comment on Ballin' too hard 2 weeks ago:
That’s why your therapist said to try. So often people think they’re only trying if they’re succeeding. Just being at the party is a hell of a lot better for gaining social experience than being at home. You’ll fail countless times before you succeed, but it gets easier and easier the longer you do it. Trying just means not giving up, so good on you for continuing.
- Comment on Literally shitposting 2 weeks ago:
My cat’s certainly was. Switching to wet food with extra water mixed in cleared it up nicely.
- Comment on Open Carry Loophole 3 weeks ago:
“Ain’t no rules says the dog can’t hire a hooker.”
- Comment on Wake up sheeple 3 weeks ago:
She probably assumes the landing location is entirely random, which is ridiculous to anyone who has even the slightest understanding of the amount of planning needed for space travel, but those people and the people who believe space travel is fake are not the same people.
- Comment on We thought it would be free forever 4 weeks ago:
I was very lucky my family had a Mac growing up. I fell for just about every scam as a kid.
- Comment on North America contains some of the longest continuous decididous forest records on the planet. 4 weeks ago:
At least apologists, yeah. The amount of people who I’ve seen say “Yeah, the Epstein files are concerning, but…” has killed any hope I had that they might come around someday. Instead I’m all in for getting kids into politics early enough for them to form their own opinions instead of those of their parents.
- Comment on didnt do it 4 weeks ago:
I wake up at 5 for my workout simply because I’m a morning person, and I like getting it out of the way first thing. It’s also a nice, calm time, which helps me rest more effectively between reps. Plus I’m still half asleep when I start, so I skip over the feelings of “I don’t want to do this,” since I’m already doing it by the time I’m awake enough to have those thoughts.
- Comment on The Art of Surrender 4 weeks ago:
Live in America
Have enough money to become immune to legal repercussions
Do whatever you want, knowing you’ll never have to face any sort of real punishment for it - Comment on Wasted potential. 4 weeks ago:
Just grabbed a couple albums from the Tejon Street Corner Thieves the other day - good stuff! I’ll have to give those other bands a listen as well!
- Comment on Dumb stance 5 weeks ago:
In what way?
- Comment on Dumb stance 5 weeks ago:
Morality is subjective, and as a result moral condemnation carries no weight to anyone but those who already agree with the condemnation. Condemnation isn’t meant to directly change the behavior of those who disagree, it’s meant to spur those who agree into taking action to combat what they view as immoral.
- Comment on Me watching someone on Lemmy getting cooked for having the same opinion as me: 1 month ago:
Yeah, I understand that frequently arguing with people isn’t ideal, but if you’re not field testing your opinions against someone who’s actively trying to disprove them, then how can you really know they’re right?
There are plenty of things I was sure about until someone argued with me well enough to make me think harder about it and come to a different conclusion. Isolating yourself with only people who agree with you is convenient, but stifling; community is uncomfortable.
- Comment on College core: you sit in the class for attendance then go home and teach yourself 1 month ago:
Man, I’m glad it wasn’t like this for me. I went to school in the middle of nowhere North Dakota and nearly all of my professors were active and attentive. My genetics class was the only one where the professor was phoning it in, just reading the textbook as a lecture, but me and the other students complained, and he got replaced with another much better professor a few weeks into the semester.
- Comment on My friend Charlie is back.... 1 month ago:
This trick has become a reflex for me, to the point where I barely even wake up when I get a Charlie horse in the middle of the night, since I start flexing my foot automatically when I feel it coming on.
- Comment on Anon wants to live on Super Earth 1 month ago:
A lot of people I’ve met would honestly happily take a 50% chance to be sacrificed to ensure that those who aren’t chosen live a happy life. I have no doubt that they’d think that right up until they’re actually chosen, then they’d scream bloody murder about how unfair it is.
- Comment on Me with my first edition harry potter 1 month ago:
I had a lot of nose bleeds as a kid, so my sister would never let me borrow her books because I’d always give them back with drops of blood on random pages.
- Comment on Frying chicken? Taking a leak? It's a mystery. 🤔 1 month ago:
- Comment on Straight up spiritual 1 month ago:
I keep people guessing. Need something big and heavy? Try my dick! Need something short and thin? Try my dick! They both make my wife roll her eyes, so I might as well use them.
- Comment on Horrorposting 1 month ago:
Honestly, doing my best to hold back the incoming splatter while desperately trying to scan the crinkled-up receipt that I haphazardly stuffed in my pocket on the way to the bathroom because I didn’t think it was important sounds like such a traumatizing experience that I’d probably never eat there again, and would be a lot more likely to result in the mess that caused the policy in the first place.
- Comment on 1 month ago:
Poor air didn’t stand a chance…
- Comment on Makes you think 🤔 🦵☕️ 1 month ago:
Yup. A lot of guys, especially teenage boys, would say that the left picture is normal, and the right picture is “saggy.” They’re the same people that look at a woman wearing plenty of makeup and say “You look great without makeup!” and when she’s not wearing makeup say “Woah, are you sick or something?”
It’s such a common occurrence on the internet that I honestly think the people who are “confused” about the post are just pretending not to know about it to appear even more separated from the idea than simply disagreeing with it.
- Comment on Did your wife ever go home to mother? January 19, 1949 1 month ago:
This is the “great” that the hats are referring to.
- Comment on [deleted] 2 months ago:
From what I understand, her previous relationships had all been transactional, where the guy made her feel like she owed him for every nice thing he did. She’s still working on allowing herself to receive without feeling a sense of debt.
- Comment on [deleted] 2 months ago:
My wife hates giving blowjobs, to the point where she doesn’t even want me to go down on her since she feels bad for not wanting to reciprocate. It’s like, I don’t do it because I want to get something in return, I just want to make you feel good, haha!
- Comment on Americans: How the hell do you meet new people or get into relationships after college? 2 months ago:
I spent a good few hours every day on a dating site, making sure to really read through profiles and think of something interesting and engaging to talk about. I might’ve just been lucky, but I got a good amount of responses despite my less-than-ideal looks. Found one girl I clicked with, and 9 years later she’s now my wife.
- Comment on Go ahead, take one 2 months ago:
Got a huge bag for Christmas one year and ate the whole thing in a few days. The inside of my mouth was white with canker sores for a good while.
- Comment on The green lean mean killing machine 2 months ago:
The damage is permanent on a cellular level - the affected cells will either die, or in the case of radiation exposure, can become cancerous instead. If you got a small enough exposure, and immediately sought medical attention to remove the toxin from your body in the case of amatoxin ingestion, then only some cells will be affected, and maybe your organs can continue functioning and eventually recover after the affected cells die off. If the damage is significant, you might survive if you get a liver transplant and dialysis, since the liver and kidneys are the most affected due to their role in filtering and removing toxens.
- Comment on The green lean mean killing machine 2 months ago:
It’s not just similar, it’s the same symptom - they both kill you through damaging your cells’ ability to create proteins, radiation through damage to the DNA itself, and amatoxins from deadly mushrooms through blocking of the cell’s ability to read DNA to create mRNA, which is necessary for protein synthesis.