blackbrook

@blackbrook@mander.xyz

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨cursed knowledge⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Not a great day for having eyes.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Let's get Physical⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  What was that claim? And is there some equivalent of TLDR I can preemptively use about whatever news coverage contains this info which I don’t want to look up and wish to ignore if I eventually come across it?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨electrostatic spider flight⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  But how common are windless conditions, really? It seems incredibly rare that there would be so little air movement that the effect of it wouldn’t far overwhelm the electrostatic effect. I’m no meteorologist, though.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Panama Proxima⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Sorry I was being unecessary obnoxious. I just meant they could have written it saying “this could happen” rather than presenting it as “this will happen.”

  I’m just really triggered lately with everything online being exaggerated for clicks.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Panama Proxima⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  The English language has words and grammar for speculation, “will” is not one of them.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Dik Piks⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Words were considered slurs even before there were social consequences for using them.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Dik Piks⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Damn, those noods are practcally naked! Come to think of it, it’s that they are not quite naked that makes them so hot.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Dik Piks⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Always include a self-addressed, stamped envelope.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Microwave Intensifies⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s a fake photograph. It’s actually a woodcut cleverly done to mimic one. It’s quite good, you can hardly make out the crosshatching.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨It's just loss.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Clearly Big Invertabrate was behind this.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Caption this.⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  When your brain explodes out your other ear, you don’t want to be getting any in your eyes. Also, its not a plug, it just ties them to the table so you don’t steal them.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨rude.⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Scientists have been known to be materialist.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨it's a war out there⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Gorm!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Fun bites⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Humerous rant or not it seems reasonable to assume its basic claims about the animal are factual. It seems really fucked up to make shit up about an animal in order to rant about it.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Cursed⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Well yes, and what it means for “there to be things” is a whole discussion in itself. But the concepts of space and time are rather deep and fundamental (to our mental models regardless of how or if that maps to objective reality). The preference for right angles is much less fundamental and we can see past and get over it.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Cursed⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  All this should tell us is that we have a strong irrational preference for right angles being aligned with each other.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨☀️ Hellbender Summer ☀️⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Could somebody point out where the safe rocks are?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Spidey Senses⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I would guess it’s to fool their prey.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Some worms have bones.⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  TIL: worms are metal.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Happy Birthday John Turkey⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I get and appreciate that joke. I actually meant the last phrase of the quote (the unintended irony of my question’s vagueness now noted!), “which can always be made more precise.”

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Custodians⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Because we’re anxious about our investments in soylent green.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Happy Birthday John Turkey⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  What exactly is that last phrase supposed to modify? I find that syntax confusing. Is that ironic or intentional?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Make dinosaurs weirder⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I don’t think you can prove that people can’t do something well, by doing it yourself poorly.

  “Look how humorously badly I keep missing the target! See? Sharpshooters could never hit something like this at this distance!”

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Are spiders turtlely enough for the Turtle Club?⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  BTW 100x is only possible with very small arthropods, the larger the ant or spider and the smaller that strength to weight ratio can be.

  Now admittedly we can’t really know how large the spider and turtle are, if they are much smaller than I am imagining then my incredulity may be similarly out of proportion.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Are spiders turtlely enough for the Turtle Club?⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Every picture of a fishing spider I can find is holding its (smaller than this turtle) prey at the water’s edge, not dangling upside down with it in midair. They hunt by walking on the water, not by dangling and snatching from above. Are we to believe it caught its prey the normal way and then walked it up to that awkward position?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Are spiders turtlely enough for the Turtle Club?⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I imagine the weight of that turtle to be considerably more than that frog.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Are spiders turtlely enough for the Turtle Club?⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s not a spider preying on a vertebrate that is hard to believe, it is the lifting. Even ignoring the physics of the situation, I don’t think fishing spiders hunt that way.

  People act like they’ve forgotten that there are other ways than AI to fake an.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I'd be screaming too lmao⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Probably afraid of an Alec Baldwin incident.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Curious minds want to know!!⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Thank you for this!

  And, ok, check, cross ice cream off my list of ways to defend against shark attack.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Curious minds want to know!!⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  But do they get head-freeze if they eat it too fast?