arctanthrope

@arctanthrope@lemmy.world

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨nigri irl⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:

  these things kinda freak me out tbh. they’re all pink and cute and fluffy until you get to the enormous murder claws

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Teenis⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  wiener is the correct spelling, it comes from the German Wiener meaning Viennese, i.e. from Vienna, indicating a specific type of sausage originating in that city

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨You read it in his voice.⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Boomhauer actually did guest vocals on those first couple verses of Rosetta Stoned

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨America⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  I’ve been thinking for a while about getting a slow watch, a 24-hour watch that only has an hour hand

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨America⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  the standard time that almost everyone uses is metric, i.e. is part of the metric system, its units are SI units. there was a system of decimal time, if that’s what you mean, developed in France during the revolution, where a day is 10 hours, each 100 minutes, each 100 seconds

  so a decimal hour is 2.4 standard hours
  a decimal minute is 1.44 standard minutes
  a decimal second is 0.864 standard seconds

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Full circle.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  then where should we live, Ben? fucking Atlantis?!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  base 37

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨You probably want to see this too, doncha, ya freaks?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  would it be too generous to posit that this may not be what most others seem to be thinking, but instead a “it is imperative that the cylinder remain unharmed” situation

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Me Irl⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  where I live it’s gone from freezing, up to 70°F, back down to freezing four times, and heading for a fifth, in the last five or six weeks. I’m getting sick of it. warm up or don’t

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  that’s what we call ketchup

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨hey there, hot stuff⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I know I know this, but I can’t quite place it. it’s a Rush song, right?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I've had enough shimmying along ledges and squeezing through cracks sideways to last me a lifetime⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  what pissed me off about Jedi fallen order was when they would put in an elevator to hide a loading screen, and then when you got to the end it would still stutter for a couple seconds to finish loading. don’t make the elevator a real fixed distance dumbass, just make it a looping animation that continues arbitrarily until the loading is completely done

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Population per capita of US states⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  you know what they say, “there’s someone for everyone”

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The difference is real⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  do you think he realizes he’s written his own eulogy

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨No but seriously⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  fun fact Transylvania literally means “the place on the other side of the forest” in Latin

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Happy 3.14 Day⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I’ve somehow never seen anyone mention that π day is also Einstein’s birthday, I only found out recently when I went to look for something else on his Wikipedia page

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨i guess lunar eclipse got an update too..⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  took me a second to realize it wasn’t a weird old-timey sea plane

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Anon beats his meat⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  you can tell they’re not actually British because in Britain people who have “willies” do not have “fannies”

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Are achievements still relevant in 2026—especially when mods disable them?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  I’d love to have them go away if only to stop people from leaving reviews that say “easy achievements, quick way to get 1000 gamerscore.” I can’t imagine the type of person who bases their motivation to play games on that

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨'Let it Die' servers shutting down, but offering players a onetime purchase to keep it alive offline⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  third base!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Make a note⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  I was fine the next day, but I remember almost nothing about that night, and what I do remember from early on in the evening is that I was worried I would get lost on the way to the bathroom

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Make a note⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  alternatively, maybe don’t be with people with much higher tolerance than yourself. my first time with edibles my friends who were huge potheads and about half my size were taking like 80mg, so I said, “oh, I should be able to do like 50 then, right?” and they did not tell me no

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨meal⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  ah yes, weed, the stuff that famously makes you not want to eat

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Sure, Jan⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I mean, the original’s not great either, it’s a bunch of guys wrapped in Confederate flags singing about how Watergate wasn’t even a big deal actually, and guys who criticize racism like Neil Young should just shut up

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Are people still fooled by this dumb quiz's?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  when I see people bragging about their high IQ it reminds me of those people who buy sports cars and then take them around to shows on a trailer with 5 miles on the odometer to talk about how it has 750 horsepower and a top speed of 300mph

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨who's gonna tell him?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  one of the most retroactively embarrassing moments in my life is in like 2015 or '16 I was doing some dumb team-building thing for some school-adjacent activity, and the task was to create a “new Mount Rushmore,” basically as a group nominate four people who are doing good and important work in the world. I suggested musk. at the time most people there hadn’t heard of him, so I gave a little spiel about how he was the “founder” (which I thought was true at the time) of PayPal, Tesla (which people were just becoming aware of), and SpaceX. every time I remember it I cringe and hope nobody else does. although most other people in the group suggested Beyonce as someone doing “important work for humanity” so idk if they have much of a leg to stand on to criticize my choice

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Anon watches Super Size Me⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  there’s the ortolan bunting, a small bird similar to a finch or sparrow, which in France is caught wild, fattened, drowned and marinated in brandy, plucked, roasted, and eaten whole, liver (and bones, and everything except the beak) included

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨ai will surely save us all⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  what do you call it when you put the seed in the pot if not “planting”?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨you're doing ReSeArCh rong!!⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I think equally important is letting students know when they’re being taught a simplified model, and that serious academic discourse of the subject is still evolving and/or involves much more nuance (which is pretty much always). some people who do pay attention in science classes nonetheless think that what they learned is gospel and never re-examine it, or stubbornly refuse to acknowledge when said nuance is relevant because it seems to contradict the simplified model they’ve cemented in their brain as the whole truth. the kind of people who say things like “I know there’s two genders because I learned it in high school biology” and apparently never considered why there would be collegiate and post-graduate studies on biology and gender (or why those are two entirely different fields of study) if we all already learned everything there is to know in high school.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨iPad babies grew up and are now finding psychs⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Saturn’s coming back around for older gen-z’s