arctanthrope
@arctanthrope@lemmy.world
- Comment on Anon orders food 1 day 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? 1 day 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 days 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
- Comment on take their money and arrest those responsible 2 days ago:
because not purchasing anything that is produced or transported with energy from fossil fuels means fucking off into the woods to starve to death naked in a hut made of mud and twigs
- Comment on Hell yeah. 3 days ago:
fox once again imagining a much more based world to get mad about
- Comment on Getting learnt 4 days ago:
ah, I see. I often forget that there are people who are somehow entertained by simply saying something that doesn’t make sense without being underlain by any implication that could actually be construed as humorous
- Comment on Getting learnt 4 days ago:
I think you mean, better to have it and not need it than to need it and not have it
in all cases, regardless of other factors, a situation where you do not need a gun is better than a situation where you do
- Comment on Carenheit 5 days ago:
I feel like that would have come up at some point during my two years of thermodynamics classes where we were constantly using ∆T. just did a search for “C°” in quotes, and for delta T; first one returned nothing, second showed a bunch of sources where the units of ∆T were °C. any idea where you might have heard this?
- Comment on Carenheit 5 days ago:
you’ve got me, I don’t know what C° is, I only know °C
- Comment on Howdy 5 days ago:
close, it’s actually Bugweiser
- Comment on RAM crisis averted 6 days ago:
but that would only be a quarter of one breast
- Comment on 1 week ago:
there’s a type of German meat dumplings called Herrgottsbescheißerle, which literally means “little things that bullshit the Lord” for the same reason
- Comment on Marcus 1 week ago:
am I missing something, or is the joke “black people steal things”?
- Comment on After laying off thousands, Ubisoft says losing "key talents and skills" is a big danger for the company 2 weeks ago:
it isn’t like the quality of the games themselves nosedived
I would argue it has. the early games were very story-driven and well written. the latest few, if they’ve continued the trend from Odyssey, which is the last one I played, are bloated, repetitive, boring, the writing is terrible, and the story is almost impossible to follow because you can play for several hours between consecutive plot points, and sometimes have to because of level-gating
- Comment on [deleted] 2 weeks ago:
if you want to remove them from the area entirely because they consume to many resources, why would you go to the trouble of performing surgery and re-releasing it to consume more resources instead of just killing it. the former solves the problem in the future, the latter solves the problem now
- Comment on [deleted] 2 weeks ago:
a neutered animal still consumes resources
- Comment on Terrorbird 2 weeks ago:
- Comment on Terrorbird 2 weeks ago:
dinosaurs are a group that includes the subgroup of birds. most dinosaurs are extinct, but birds still exist
homo erectus is a single species within the group known as hominins. most hominins are extinct, but homo sapiens still exists
apples are fruits. I like apples, but that doesn’t mean I like every kind of fruit
- Comment on 50,424 AD 3 weeks ago:
this is a misconception, “carcinization” doesn’t mean that literally everything eventually becomes a crab, people or dogs or sharks will not turn into crabs over the next hundred million years. it only applies to marine arthropods; things like lobsters, shrimp, and isopods have a strong tendency to fold their tails under their body, and get wider and flatter, becoming crab-like. the creature in the image, with its long straight tail, is more lobster-like than crab-like, and thus is actually a counterexample to carcinization
- Comment on ENHANCE 3 weeks ago:
I would guess it refers to the fact that we used to think atoms were the smallest things, and then we found protons, neutrons, and electrons. then we thought those were the smallest things until we found quarks and gluons. and maybe some day we’ll find out that there’s something smaller inside quarks
- Comment on I made a full Ai Movie Can y'all Review it 3 weeks ago:
neither are you apparently
- Comment on "influencers" are setting us back 4 weeks ago:
completely tangential, but this is actually an interesting grammatical point. I’m guessing you’re German by your username; “stop to listen to idiots” would mean “aufhören, um Idioten zuzuhören.” “aufhören Idioten zuzuhören” would be “stop listening to idiots.” it’s interesting because “to [verb]” and “[verb]ing” are often interchangeable, but in this case they actually mean the opposite
- Comment on "influencers" are setting us back 4 weeks ago:
I see the point, but I don’t think intellectual elitism is the same as anti-anti-intellectualism. I think intellectual elitism creates a sense of alienation from science that in fact leads to anti-intellectualism. “I have more specialized knowledge than you” is not the same as “I’m better than you,” and acknowledging that is the solution
- Comment on Day 709 of posting a Daily Screenshot from the games I've been playing 5 weeks ago:
not as good as the first one imo. new combat styles is a cool idea, but being limited to two at a time just means I’m always going to use the two that I already know from the first game, because figuring out how to use a new one inherently means failing more often, which just feels not fun in the moment. really wanted to like the crossguard style, but it’s unbearably slow
- Comment on So wise. 5 weeks ago:
taking x% is just multiplying by x/100, and multiplication is commutative. x% of y is just y×x×1/100, which is the same as x×y×1/100
you can also ignore the % and divide by 100 at the end. for example, what’s 5% of 5? that might take a minute to work out. what’s 25/100? you instantly know it’s 1/4
- Comment on SEGA under fire for Sonic the Hedgehog ARG, as its terms of service reveals participant data is harvested for AI model training 5 weeks ago:
maybe my understanding of ARGs is limited, isn’t it kinda weird for one to have a ToS? doesn’t that sort of contradict the AR-ness of the G?
- Comment on Their wicked despot 1 month ago:
me reading LotR: such a shame that Denethor son of Ecthelion, Steward of Gondor, was driven to madness and despair by the misleading visions of the Palantír
me picking up my phone 5 seconds after waking up: alright, let’s see what fresh hell is going on in the world this morning
- Comment on [politics] racist rammers 1 month ago:
highest DUI rate of any manufacturer (or so I’ve heard)
- Comment on Lawyer here: I concur! 1 month ago:
ceci n’est pas une truck
- Comment on I just realized that I can both make myself sneeze and make myself vomit. If I can do this simultaneously, I could spray partially-aerosolized stomach acid when I feel threatened. 1 month ago:
me too, I was like, damn this guy had a really bad date at the roller rink
