abir_v

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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨tall tails⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Yeah, this is the distinction I’m trying to draw between “common” and “scientific” terminology. Scientific taxonomy is based on evolutionary history, rather than just superficial traits like “has gills, fins, and lives mostly in water.”

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨tall tails⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Yeah, I’m not really arguing for or against the word fish technically fitting all land animals. I think that using it that way showcases the problem of trying to fit common terminology like “fish” into the scientific taxonomic system. The definition of fish has no use in that context.

  Also, there are fish which are also arguably tetrapods en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sarcopterygii

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨tall tails⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Hank Green went off about this recently. “Fish” just has no scientific meaning, and there are fish tetrapods.

  I don’t necessarily disagree, but ultimately there is a problem in classifying “fish” in the modern scientific taxonomy system - it has no good phylum to fit in as its a term that’s a bit more broad than that, but not broad enough to make for a kingdom.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨tall tails⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Birds are reptiles. Commonly, we wouldn’t say so, but they’re in the same clade. The avians are closer related to the crocadilians than the crocs are to other reptiles like the squamates - lizards and snakes.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Sexualized video games are not causing harm to male or female players, according to new research⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Fair enough and agreed. I don’t have much else to talk about with this, so have a great day, captain!

  As for RFK, I hope he has has a horrible terrible fucking day, the cretin.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Sexualized video games are not causing harm to male or female players, according to new research⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  I saw, but this is the admin to bring back up such heinous bullshit.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Sexualized video games are not causing harm to male or female players, according to new research⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  The violence discussion comes and goes every couple years. It has since the 80s at least. It’s never had any ground in reality, it’s just fear of whatever media they don’t understand.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Posting for the "Now guys he was MURDERED! Don't celebrate!" Crowd⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Given who he was, probably the latter as a to-him socially acceptable racist dog whistle.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨language learning⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Yeah, outside the joke and old complaint, I’ve been liking uv for my small Python projects.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨what boss in any video game has an insanely cool intro to them before fighting?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Oh man, and the environmental component hearing the clash of metal get louder as you approach the arena. FromSoft has always been good at it, but that was really peak environmental design and story telling.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨language learning⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  He tried to deploy his project. Legends say, it’s still not deployed.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Who is the enemy?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Many IT people love computers. They hate computers that other people use.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Who is the enemy?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Windows and Microsoft in general does things to a man.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨do what you love⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Then the cyclists and marathon runners can actually get some respect to make up for the free time they lost to training.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Bill and Melinda French Gates and Warren Buffett’s Giving Pledge after 15 years: Only 9 of the 256 billionaires actually followed through on giving away half their wealth⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Yes, 8 bit indexing. We should have Null billionaires.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨It would get old fast⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Man, this. I moved in with a friend to my first apartment like 10 years ago. With two more a couple floors down.

  Nowadays all 4 of us live in a big house together and it’s great. Sure there’s some conflict, but at the end we’re still friends and we can reconcile like adults. I’d move more of our close friends in if we had the space. We even briefly had a 5th housemate when he was between apartments and that was cramped, but still actually very nice.

  Good friends is the key - to me, this sounds great. I have plenty of friends I’d love to have this close, it might even be hard to pick “just” 6.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Itch.io is delisting NSFW games due to pressure from payment processors⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  The Rust community just knows what’s up.