arctanthrope
@arctanthrope@lemmy.world
- Comment on Their wicked despot 4 days 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 5 days ago:
highest DUI rate of any manufacturer (or so I’ve heard)
- Comment on Lawyer here: I concur! 6 days 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 week ago:
me too, I was like, damn this guy had a really bad date at the roller rink
- Comment on [deleted] 1 week 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 ? 1 week 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 1 week 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! 1 week 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? 2 weeks ago:
E1, about 41.2Hz
- Comment on Evolution Factsberg 2 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? 2 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 3 weeks ago:
like a sports commentator desk
- Comment on long live the queen 4 weeks ago:
it’s not “I’m chaff,” it’s “I’m chuffed”
- Comment on Motion of the ocean n all that 4 weeks ago:
the biggest human penis on earth. maybe the Serpent was packing
- Comment on Rare, slightly used 4 weeks 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 5 weeks ago:
you’ve got a neat trick up your sleeve if they try to burn you though
- Comment on Dammit! 5 weeks 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'? 5 weeks ago:
quicky
- Comment on Gotteen 1 month 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. 1 month 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] 1 month ago:
what does that have to do with whether Biden really tweeted this
- Comment on [deleted] 1 month ago:
I was under the impression that that’s the definition of a gangbang. multiple tops and only one bottom is a gangbang, multiple tops and multiple bottoms is an orgy
- Comment on nigri irl 1 month 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 2 months 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. 2 months ago:
Boomhauer actually did guest vocals on those first couple verses of Rosetta Stoned
- Comment on America 2 months 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 2 months 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. 2 months ago:
then where should we live, Ben? fucking Atlantis?!
- Comment on 2 months ago:
base 37
- Comment on You probably want to see this too, doncha, ya freaks? 2 months 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