JohnnyEnzyme
@JohnnyEnzyme@piefed.social
- Comment on What is the probability that the atoms that I am made of once formed someone's penis? 2 days ago:
Well it’s all ‘shit’ from the moment we start eating, if that’s how you measure it.
- Comment on Why do some people (i.e. white conservatives) think all Spanish speakers (especially native Spanish speakers) are Mexican? 3 days ago:
The US has been drowning in assholes & idiots for the longest time. Now it’s official, from the top on down.
- Comment on Why do all night show hosts sit and have their desk to the left of the interviewee? 3 days ago:
*shrug*
- Comment on Why do all night show hosts sit and have their desk to the left of the interviewee? 3 days ago:
TBH, I’d be pretty shocked if the arrangement actually originated with The Tonight Show. In Western-languages cultures (and others), I’m thinking it probably goes back close to the origin of a guest & a host appearing in front of an audience, which could go back… many thousands of years, really.
All things being equal, I would suspect TV simply borrowed from a traditional arrangement that came long before.
- Comment on What is the probability that the atoms that I am made of once formed someone's penis? 3 days ago:
Fun concept. Related to that, I understand that our gut bacteria have some actual influence on how our brains operate.
- Comment on What is the probability that the atoms that I am made of once formed someone's penis? 3 days ago:
We’re all just borrowing recycled particles for a little while, before making them available for others, in future. Just that man started messing with that traditional equation when he came up with burials, and later coffins.
Not just that, but our living bodies are composed of something like ~50% bacteria and other organisms, and with mites living in our pores, eyelashes, etc. Fun stuff to think about, eh? :D
- Comment on Why do all night show hosts sit and have their desk to the left of the interviewee? 3 days ago:
Hmm… did the Tonight Show desk-format change from what Steve Allen originally set up, or the Jack Paar period, before Carson came along?
- Comment on Why do all night show hosts sit and have their desk to the left of the interviewee? 3 days ago:
Could be influenced by the way in English (and various Western languages), script flows from left to right, which has some influence in our scanning things left to right in general, such as imagery, comics, etc. In such a scenario, the host is like the familiar anchor at the end of the sentence.
Not saying this is the only or prime reason, but I imagine it plays a part.
- Comment on Has the scientific community ever reconciled with the fact global warming is going to happen and there is no stopping it? 6 days ago:
Thanks for explaining!
- Comment on Has the scientific community ever reconciled with the fact global warming is going to happen and there is no stopping it? 1 week ago:
We’re continually being defunded
Well, that’s the disaster happening in the States, but the time-stamp here suggests maybe you’re… in Western Europe? Shit, so what’s the trouble with lawyers, in this case?
- Comment on Has the scientific community ever reconciled with the fact global warming is going to happen and there is no stopping it? 1 week ago:
Uhhhh…. they’ve been warning us for many decades, now? (and sounding alarms)
There’s also the fact that Swedish scientist Svante Arrhenius (and others) discovered key mechanisms of the Greenhouse Effect, and CO2’s key role in such, back in the 1800’s. So you know, want to know about a science issue? Maybe ask literal scientists?
It’s not the body of relevant scientists that are letting us down, Dafty…
- Comment on Interview: Rod Roddenberry Has “High Hopes” For What’s Next For Star Trek, Says New Paramount “Gets It” 1 week ago:
Agree with all that, but:
The problem is is Gene Roddenberry Is not who made star trek what it is.
He certainly was the one most responsible, though. Yeah, there was a huge issue of him taking credit for other peoples’ work, but it was indeed him with the vision, and him constantly perfecting scripts before he turned them over to the production team. Without him there is no Star Trek, period.
Humans are complex, and my read is that he was one of those ‘benevolent dictator’ types who was useful for a while, before everyone had enough of his shit. Berman was kind of similar from what I understand…
- Comment on Interview: Rod Roddenberry Has “High Hopes” For What’s Next For Star Trek, Says New Paramount “Gets It” 1 week ago:
I don’t even know what Star Trek stands for anymore. It just seems to be slogging on for money, for quite a while now.
Even in the original sense, Gene Roddenberry’s high-principled ideals was kind of sabotaged by how he actually conducted himself. That said, a lot of great stories and eps were produced along the way, IMO.
- Comment on I designed a board game (creative commons/open source) 2 weeks ago:
Can the board grow dynamically once a milestone is met? That could solve the early game issue?
Something definitely worth looking at, although it might add more complexity.
Since it’s in the testing stage, maybe add the option to start with a smaller board, even if it can become eventually cramped. I’m still trying to memorise what everything does, and a smaller board would help for testing purposes.
I haven’t tested this as actively as I’d hoped so far, but will continue to take stabs at it, here and there. My ambition is to give you better feedback and advice, as someone who likes testing games…
- Comment on what is this 4 weeks ago:
I was addressing OP’s need.
It’s up to Lemmy.World to determine how they want to handle the acct / community.
- Comment on what is this 4 weeks ago:
Every single post in that community seems to be like that.
Seems like it might be a bot acct just following… well, whatever script that might be for.
- Comment on Dinosaur Food: 100 million year old foods we still eat today 5 weeks ago:
Must be morphologically unchanged since its fossil age
That’s interesting. So, genetically it could be significantly changed, but shape-wise, it must appear the same? In any case, I’m thinking certain molluscs might work. Sharks also might fit the bill, altho AFAIK they don’t fossilize well. Or, are there other gymnosperms beside ferns and Araucaria that could fit the bill? I suspect so…
Now, feel free to hate on this, but I’ve found GPT pretty useful for issues like this. Evidently, there’s quite a few more candidates.
- Comment on What Lemmy/Piefed communities are YOUR personal favourites? 5 weeks ago:
I’d argue ‘laudibly active,’ typically involving multiple posts per day, usually with extra info as a comment. Can’t really ask for more!
The various comics communities are fun IMO. Some fine people making sure various dailies and small collections are shared, every day.
- Comment on Is Reddit banning posts with "join-lemmy.org"? 1 month ago:
My approach is to stay on both platforms, make a good-faith effort towards both, and work in Fediverse links, when possible.
Seems to fly pretty well under the Radar O’Reilly…
- Comment on I worked some prison and jails. They always put this big heavy green thing on you if your on suicide or solitary watch. My question is if Epstein was on watch then how did he suicide? 1 month ago:
…on the night he died.
The night he was garroted?
- Comment on what do I need to look for when buying running and pull up gloves? 1 month ago:
I’m no kind of expert, but I love my Bontrager (or other brand) fingerless riding gloves. I originally got them for cycling, but they’re so light and effective that I wear them year-round, pretty much. Unlike cotton (etc), they wick up moisture nicely.
https://www.google.com/search?udm=2&q=%22Bontrager%22+fingerless+riding+gloves
That said, yeah– when it gets much below 0°F, I’d say ditch the dang’ol riding gloves, lol.
- Comment on Do babies learn languages at different rates depending on how hard the language is? 2 months ago:
languages that lack a set of rules to correctly pronounce every word ever are mental illnesses.
Yeah, I don’t know enough about French grammar and pronunciation rules, but I think part of the problem comes from them trying to maintain a written language that got left in the dust by the spoken language ages ago. So instead of updating the written one, they chose to ‘preserve history’ and add a landslide of little rules explaining separate cases, not just for pronunciation, but in a hugely systemic way. Native French-speakers have actually complained to me about that occasionally.
I could give you any Spanish word you don’t know and you wouldn’t miss pronounce it.
I love that about Castellano, just that some regions speed it up so much that I can barely catch it.
- Comment on Do babies learn languages at different rates depending on how hard the language is? 2 months ago:
Well.. I mean… what later become “English” branched off from its West-Germanic roots, long ago, and never did become “High German.” So theoretically, as an English-speaker, I have great familiarity with modern French, and we share the same basic sentence-structure as with modern German. Some of that is actually true. In practice, I could not be more of a complete dumbass upon those other languages.
TBC, I can speak Castellano and Français like someone with heat-stroke, and I can vaguely understand Dutch and German.
- Comment on Do babies learn languages at different rates depending on how hard the language is? 2 months ago:
Like learning Norwegian (bokmål) while living on the west coast.
In all honesty, I’d be absolutely terrified of trying to learn a Nordic language, which is absolutely NOT due to the lovely Nordic people I’ve met across the years.
It’s a “me” problem, and case-closed, please.
- Comment on Do babies learn languages at different rates depending on how hard the language is? 2 months ago:
a lot of swallowed and mumbled consonants
This has been my experience learning French. The written language and the spoken one are pretty wildly out of tune, with up to ~5 letters at the ends of some words either not pronounced at all, or heavily swallowed.
The pronunciation of Castellano (i.e. a sister language) was vastly easier for me.
- Comment on How can we convince Trump voters to NOT vote for Trump (or Vance) in the 2026 midterms and the 2028 election? 2 months ago:
Assholes & idiots are gonna asshole & idiot, but this time around, I reckon some of them will fall off the wagon. We’ll see…
- Comment on If trump is really implicated in Epsteins pedo-ring what is your theory as to why this wasn't leaked by an opposition leader? 2 months ago:
Bullshit.
Hilary Clinton divorced Bill
*Hillary. And that never happened.
Your whole “both parties equally complicit” is such a load of horseshit, too. Russian asset much..?
- Comment on I am so scared of nuclear war, how do I cope with it? 2 months ago:
No one is even hinting at changing that for the future.
That’s not really true, though. AOC, Sanders and others have been ceaselessly vocal about these matters, directly influencing change. And unless there’s systemic, nationwide fraud at the voting booths in November (I mean, much more than the usual), then the so-called “GOP” currently in charge is going to be in deep trouble from that point on. At least going by precedent and current rules, which of course might be somehow subverted by the Orangies, such as a declaration of martial law, etc.
No one in a nation of pussies will stop him.
The people manning the actual equipment are still military lifers, far as I know. From what I understand, it’s those types of folks who’ve historically prevented global nuclear war every time there was a chance of it happening.
- Comment on Non-Americans: what would you do in a situation where a foreign country run by a extremist dictator began producing nukes? 2 months ago:
On 24 August 2024, Durov was arrested by French police on criminal charges relating to an alleged lack of content moderation on Telegram and refusal to work with police, which allegedly allowed the spread of criminal activities. –WP
Did they maybe have a point with that one?
…letting war criminals fly unimpeded through their air space.
I mean, the heads of state of the three most powerful nations in the world (plus various others) arguably hold that status, and collectively they must have flown over dozens of different nations. France may not exactly be heroic in that regard, but it’s a crowded field, far as I can tell.
- Comment on Is ice heavier than water? 2 months ago:
Well, that’s the answer in terms of comparative density, but in terms of comparative weight, I’m wondering if the ice would indeed be heavier since it commonly traps additional gases in the freezing process.
So yeah, I’m not entirely sure if OP was talking more about weight or density.
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