arctanthrope
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- Comment on Terrorbird 2 hours 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 23 hours 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 5 days 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 5 days ago:
neither are you apparently
- Comment on "influencers" are setting us back 1 week 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 1 week 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 2 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. 2 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 2 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 3 weeks 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 3 weeks ago:
highest DUI rate of any manufacturer (or so I’ve heard)
- Comment on Lawyer here: I concur! 3 weeks 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. 4 weeks ago:
me too, I was like, damn this guy had a really bad date at the roller rink
- Comment on [deleted] 4 weeks ago:
I try to do an activity that requires attention, both mentally and physically; for me that’s usually playing guitar, but it could also be cooking, organizing, some kind of craft, whatever. usually what’s keeping me stressed out is thinking about how stressed out I am, so if I can distract myself from that and force myself to think about something else, it breaks the feedback loop, and doing something physical gets some energy out. not sure if it works for everyone, but it often helps me
- Comment on Can energy be associated with/related to spacetime ? 4 weeks ago:
the simple forms of conservation you probably learned in school are not entirely accurate. you probably learned that neither energy not matter can be created or destroyed; whatever you do, the mass you begin with will be the same as the mass you end with, and the same is true, separately, for energy. that’s not actually true; mass can be converted into energy, and vice versa. the correct form of conservation is that the combined mass-energy is constant. mass can be destroyed, but only if a proportional amount of energy is created. the coefficient of that proportionality is the square of the speed of light. that’s what E=mc² means. that’s how nuclear weapons work, and why they’re so powerful. c² is obviously a pretty big value, so when a small amount of matter is destroyed, it creates a large amount of energy
similarly, energy can be converted into mass, but doing so makes it much “smaller.” c² units of energy will become 1 unit of mass. and mass, of course, interacts with space-time
- Comment on Rare 4 weeks ago:
jam is made from mashed fruit, jelly is made from fruit juice. basically the same process except the solids are strained out
- Comment on Aha! 4 weeks ago:
I’ve often imagined a little comic strip where a dentist goes to the doctor. the doctor draws blood for tests, or gives an injection, or just pokes/cuts the dentist for no reason. the doctor then says “you’re bleeding because you don’t shower enough”
- Comment on If i were a bird, how high could I go? 5 weeks ago:
E1, about 41.2Hz
- Comment on Evolution Factsberg 5 weeks ago:
so basically it’s a language problem, not a biology problem? people are incorrectly assuming that any group of species with a word to describe it must be monophyletic, and therefore include all unrelated species which would make it monophyletic?
- Comment on why is it never the 'close friend' who gets shit on? 5 weeks ago:
I suppose that makes sense if your interpretation of “bros before hoes” is simply “men are to be preferred above women in any circumstance.” but if you consider that “bros before hoes” is actually supposed to mean “loyalty to your friends is more important than the arbitrary pursuit of fleeting sexual pleasure,” that’s actually a condemnation of the friend for doing the exact opposite as efficiently as possible
- Comment on upgrades 5 weeks ago:
like a sports commentator desk
- Comment on long live the queen 1 month ago:
it’s not “I’m chaff,” it’s “I’m chuffed”
- Comment on Motion of the ocean n all that 1 month ago:
the biggest human penis on earth. maybe the Serpent was packing
- Comment on Rare, slightly used 1 month ago:
it’s not what you think, you only put your toes in it. it’s a toe-mater
- Comment on It is the "devil's brew" burn her 1 month ago:
you’ve got a neat trick up your sleeve if they try to burn you though
- Comment on Dammit! 1 month ago:
trust me, it’s even worse from the other side. my last job was in industrial production, and I only took it because I knew there would be an opening in their quality department in about a year, and I could get a leg up by learning about all the processes and such. so over the next year I work up to the second-highest position in the production department. the quality position finally opens up, I apply for it, all of the non-management peons in both production and quality departments agree I’d be the best bet out of all the internal applicants. after two interviews they tell me they’re going to look for an external candidate; they said I had everything they were looking for, but a lack of “project ownership experience.” whose fault is that? this was the second job I’d ever had, and the first laid me off after only a few months during covid; if you want me to have experience you have to give me the opportunity. anyway they hired some other guy, and I kept working in production. a year later the other guy was still coming to me at least weekly to ask really basic questions about production procedures. I quit not long after that
- Comment on How do you pronounce 'Niche'? 1 month ago:
quicky
- Comment on Gotteen 2 months ago:
“stroking your cock with a folded up pancake” are you trying to hit a word count or something? just call it “flapjacking” like everyone else
- Comment on American workers are tired of waiting. 2 months ago:
a lot of people assuming that the implied message of the meme is “Charlie Brown should stop trying to kick the ball” instead of “Lucy should stop pulling the ball away”
- Comment on [deleted] 2 months ago:
what does that have to do with whether Biden really tweeted this