FishFace
@FishFace@piefed.social
- Comment on See meme, post meme 21 hours ago:
Where the nasty ones at? My meme life got very tame after Imgur shat the bed
- Comment on Hello 911, it's me again 1 day ago:
Taking glass to the beach is fine. Leaving it there is a problem.
- Comment on something to be reinvented 2 days ago:
I don’t think you’re really disagreeing with me except on minor matters of terminology.
- Comment on something to be reinvented 2 days ago:
It’s because public transport isn’t always profitable that it needs subsidy, because the indirect effects of a mobile population are extremely beneficial.
- Comment on lifehacks yay ✨️✨️ 2 days ago:
Where can I subscribe
- Comment on What a killjoy 5 days ago:
How does it show that when it’s describing events that didn’t happen?
If the events never happened, the point of the story is to derive some other kind of truth or message, which means the story needs to be interpreted to derive that message. If you interpret it the way it was intended, you get a message about the world being imperfect, even though you might believe in a benevolent God. If you interpret it in a different way, you’ll get a different message.
You should think about the biblical creation myth the same way you would think about any other ancient mythology. We’re not going around making fun of the ancient Greeks and their mythology because Zeus was a ho and the stories don’t make any sense through modern eyes: we generally take them as they are, and use them to understand how the ancients understood the world they were in.
- Comment on What a killjoy 5 days ago:
None of it’s that fucked up if you interpret it as a creation story that’s about why things are the way they are rather than something that literally happened.
Creation stories do tend to involve incest because there weren’t many folks around. And you’re not meant to worry about understanding of deceit because it’s explaining why life isn’t perfect and served that function perfectly well.
Of course, this still presents a problem for literal believers. But they’re a minority (and have been for hundreds of years).
- Comment on GOAT 6 days ago:
Not a shitpost
- Comment on Choose chicken. 1 week ago:
As long as a plant is growing, it is a net producer of oxygen. When plants consume oxygen through respiration, they convert glucose into energy, but in doing so they use exactly as much oxygen as the plant liberated when it created the glucose through photosynthesis.
Meanwhile photosynthesis provides glucose which is built into cellulose which is the plant itself, and this produces oxygen with no consumption.
Net result is net oxygen.
- Comment on Hail math! 1 week ago:
You are useless to me.
- Comment on Hail math! 1 week ago:
So there’s not enough evidence in the 40 years since the Satanic Panic got going for any investigative journalist from any publication to write an article about it.
Referring to “the captured media” doesn’t really dress that up any better. Enjoy your conspiracy theory, I hope you feel superior to the subscribers to all the conspiracy theories you don’t believe in.
- Comment on Hail math! 1 week ago:
I didn’t ask for an “exposé”. An article would be absolutely fine.
- Comment on Hail math! 1 week ago:
Well thank you for your frankness but it sounds like there’s not sufficient evidence to convince me, or the ordinary person.
- Comment on Hail math! 1 week ago:
Source?
- Comment on Hail math! 1 week ago:
That doesn’t sound like a disinformation campaign though.
- Comment on You know this is gonna happen. 1 week ago:
It’s news to me that GTA protagonists are typically upstanding moral citizens… I haven’t played GTA since 2, but I seem to remember going on mass killing sprees. Not to try and equate very different crimes but that’s gotta be at least in the same area code as mass child sex trafficking and abuse…
- Comment on Hail math! 1 week ago:
I can’t find any corroboration of that, can you say more? The D&D thing specifically was started by someone whose son committed suicide and she attributed his death to D&D.
- Comment on First Great British Railway branded train unveiled in Brighton 1 week ago:
I think the primary colours are a bit much for the entire train, but the design is good other than that. The double arrow has always been a great logo. I will miss the muted colours of greater Anglia and GWR trains though, when they go over.
- Comment on 1 week ago:
A granny, if you will
- Comment on 1 week ago:
A faggot originally meant a bundle of sticks or twigs, and they were used to light fires, but I don’t think this has any relation to “fag” as in cigarette. Etymonline says of the latter:
British slang for “cigarette” (originally, especially, the butt of a smoked cigarette), 1888, probably from fag “loose piece, last remnant of cloth” (late 14c., as in fag-end “extreme end, loose piece,” 1610s)
That meaning of faggot, interestingly, comes from the same root as the Roman symbol “fasces” which is a bundle of sticks from which we get the modern word fascism.
Another fun fact: there’s a traditional British dish called faggots which are a kind of meatball made from offal, somewhat similar to haggis but uncased.
- Comment on 1 week ago:
:(
I’ll hope that it was still less common than in the US
- Comment on 1 week ago:
I don’t think minstrel shows with black face were common in Britain?
It’s more likely that white British people took it as “much darker than the skin we’re assuming for people” which is enough to make the simile work.
- Comment on 1 week ago:
Fag still is a term for a cigarette…
- Comment on PAWG P-A-W-G 2 weeks ago:
What does American Wire Gauge have to do with any of these?!
- Comment on Booty shorts 2 weeks ago:
Precious booty indeed!
- Comment on Crazy how it does that 2 weeks ago:
Determinism for the same prompt means you can’t give it context through a conversation, which vastly shrinks its utility.
That said, even that form of determinism can be unreliable: the example of arithmetic still works; you could have it completely deterministic, but if it only performs correctly on 80% of arithmetic problems, it’s still unreliable.
- Comment on Crazy how it does that 2 weeks ago:
Not really… Determinism would only help if you could copy someone else’s prompt and history 100%, which you generally would not be able to.
Because maybe it always gets 1+1 correct, but fails 1+2.
- Comment on We are so close 2 weeks ago:
Water tastes give, but cola tastes better, as do a lot of flavoured things!
- Comment on Parkrun and other sports bodies face legal action over transgender inclusion 2 weeks ago:
Truly idiotic, and will probably backfire because anyone can see there’s no risk to women. If you just had everyone take part in a single category, parkrun would be absolutely fine.
On a more detailed level, this seems like another body that thinks a ruling which says “organisations may choose to discriminate on the basis of sex in order to provide single-sex spaces for certain purposes” means “organisations must choose to so discriminate” which is unbelievably stupid. However, the media doesn’t seem to have understood that either so it’s no wonder.
- Comment on We are so close 2 weeks ago:
Water that tastes fuckin well good? Sign me up