blackbrook
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- 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?