arctanthrope
@arctanthrope@lemmy.world
- Comment on Hate it when this happens 1 week ago:
what’s even crazier to think about is that there were likely several thousands of years where our ancestors were about as cognitively evolved as we are now, with language and society and culture, and simultaneously living alongside other now-extinct hominin species, like neanderthals and denisovans, who were likely similarly cognitively capable. makes me wonder if stories were still have from mythology about elves or dwarves or fae are cultural remnants of a time when we actually did live alongside not-quite-human sapient creatures
- Comment on if I rip a fart, will putting a fan facing out the window or facing in from the window clear the stink out faster of the room? 2 weeks ago:
so that air can flow in and out of different sides of the same window, instead of having to have two windows, one with air flowing in and the other with air flowing out
- Comment on Why Should I... 3 weeks ago:
It was hot when I first bit it, hot as a glede, and my mouth was scorched, so that I doubt if ever again I shall be free of the pain of it. Yet even as I write it is cooled, and it seemeth to shrink, though it loseth neither its beauty nor its shape… But for my part I will risk no hurt to this thing: of all the works of ranching the only fair. It is precious to me, though I buy it with great pain.
- Comment on damn 3 weeks ago:
so they didn’t show up to class for 11 weeks?
- Comment on is there a name for when you stop preventing a problem thinking it's solved and it comes back? 4 weeks ago:
I don’t know a specific word, but I always think of it as “closing the umbrella because you’re not getting wet”
- Comment on What's yall's favourite Pythagoras quotes? 5 weeks ago:
Hippasus of Metapontum: “hey, look at this set of numbers which are not ratios of integers”
Pythagoras: “this bitch empty! YEET!”
- Comment on if only people knew how based He is 5 weeks ago:
the problem is Jesus is fucking rad, but God’s an asshole, and apparently you’re not allowed to think there’s a difference
- Comment on Inviting my friends over for dinner and putting this out ❤️ 5 weeks ago:
cow utensils
- Comment on mm yumy... peant putter... butter guy.... :) 5 weeks ago:
slop
- Comment on Day 762 of posting a Daily Screenshot from the games I've been playing 1 month ago:
the first time I did that fight I didn’t realize there were other platforms in the room you could stand on, so like three times in a row all I did was wait for it to come around to the side I came in on, get one hit on it, and then immediately die
- Comment on Might put you out to stud if you're a fast runner for a while, though 1 month ago:
I forget where, but I heard somewhere “the average horse girl’s ass looks like two bowling balls in a plastic shopping bag”
- Comment on All aboard the Pythagorean Express 1 month ago:
my favorite Duke Ellington song, take the A frame
- Comment on YouTube won't let me search for music by musician unless I remove the word "naked" from her name 1 month ago:
a while back I was looking for someone named “Molly Green” on Instagram and they said “we cannot complete this request. here are addiction treatment resources”
- Comment on California just passed a law forcing mandatory DRM in 3D printers 1 month ago:
not much more difficult to make a much more effective gun out of stock metal (or so I’ve heard), but they don’t mandate government surveillance on the personal property of every person who owns a welding torch
- Comment on Subtitles 1 month ago:
I don’t see how representing foreign dialogue with foreign text subverts the author’s intent. sure, they may not intend for their general audience to understand, but they still won’t. and they must have known, and maybe even intended, that a certain part of the audience would understand, and if the foreign text were shown, they could
- Comment on Subtitles 1 month ago:
I’ve definitely seen movies where common Spanish words or phrases that an anglophone audience would be expected to understand are transcribed as simply “[speaking Spanish]”
e.g. “that hombre is loco” becomes “that [speaking Spanish] is [speaking Spanish]”
- Comment on onions 1 month ago:
I’ve never heard of that. do you live in the US? I can’t imagine living here and not being able to eat corn derivatives
- Comment on Delicious 1 month ago:
I sometimes remember this, but then I get to the store and a cheesecake is $17 and I suddenly remember I don’t actually need it that bad
- Comment on One must imagine Sisyphus horny 1 month ago:
is it kinda like, every time you think you’ve seen the last one, suddenly there’s another?
- Comment on One must imagine Sisyphus horny 1 month ago:
one must imagine Sisyphus into edging
- Comment on The size decrease of fast-food over the last 5 years. 1 month ago:
this could be two different angles of the same sandwich for all we know. if you pull everything halfway off the bun, from one side it looks big and from the other side it looks small
- Comment on What's one cliche "Moral of the story" in media that you hate more than anything else? 1 month ago:
when the “villain” is objectively correct, pointing out the failure of the establishment and that change is necessary, and then also skins puppies alive for no reason, and then the points they bring up are never addressed again
- Comment on One Standard Yglesias 1 month ago:
oh, we’re supposed to disagree with this? he’s right, and it’s Bush’s fault. because of “no child left behind” we’re letting kids who can’t read graduate high school. now, that’s not to say they should never graduate, but rather that they should have been taught to read, and not allowed to advance until they can
- Comment on Different strokes 1 month ago:
it’s not as bad as it sounds, he couldn’t have even made that many milkshakes in two and a half years, the machine would have probably only been working a few days in that time
- Comment on Trump says Exxon and Chevron made ‘too much money’ off high oil prices during Iran conflict: ‘I don’t like it’ 1 month ago:
he means he forgot to buy their stock, and would like it to go back down so he can get in before pumping it again
- Comment on It'll be ok. Nobody's going to judge you. 1 month ago:
that doesn’t actually exist in the standard number system; there is no single real number that’s immediately next to 0, you can always get closer. some number systems have infinitesimals, but real numbers don’t. and any very small real number with a terminating decimal expression is simply the inverse of a very large number, which is simply a long string of 1+1+1+1+1…
- Comment on It'll be ok. Nobody's going to judge you. 1 month ago:
the only numbers that actually exist are 0 and 1. everything else is a reference to those
- Comment on Anon orders food 1 month ago:
if an 8 minute round trip saves you $15, then you’re essentially paying yourself $112.50/hr to be your own delivery driver
- Comment on Do americans living in Red States really despise american living in Blue States? 2 months ago:
they learn it in church. from the time they’re tiny children they learn that even the most perfect being that could ever conceivably exist can decide that someone deserves to be tortured for eternity because they wore mixed fabrics, and still claim to love that person unconditionally
- Comment on take their money and arrest those responsible 2 months ago:
if there’s a minimum amount of consuming fossil fuels that’s required to continue to live in society, and the goal is to eliminate that, then we need change on a societal level. individuals alone cannot solve the problem, and therefore cannot be blamed for the problem existing