blackbrook
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- Comment on Fun bites 3 days 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 5 days 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 6 days 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 ☀️ 6 days ago:
Could somebody point out where the safe rocks are?
- Comment on Spidey Senses 6 days ago:
I would guess it’s to fool their prey.
- Comment on Some worms have bones. 1 week ago:
TIL: worms are metal.
- Comment on Happy Birthday John Turkey 1 week 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 1 week ago:
Because we’re anxious about our investments in soylent green.
- Comment on Happy Birthday John Turkey 1 week 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 2 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? 2 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? 2 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? 2 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? 2 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 3 weeks ago:
Probably afraid of an Alec Baldwin incident.
- Comment on Curious minds want to know!! 3 weeks 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!! 3 weeks ago:
But do they get head-freeze if they eat it too fast?
- Comment on Enantiomers 4 weeks ago:
Chirality, Motherfucker! Do you have it?
- Comment on Tweet tweet 4 weeks ago:
Plague rat and hantavirus rat.
- Comment on Bugs are the tits 4 weeks ago:
Don’t ants bite with their mandibles
- Comment on what is north? 4 weeks ago:
I’d go with “the Antarctic’s Weddell Sea”.
- Comment on We're but a series of tubes. 5 weeks ago:
Macrocosm and Microcosm
- Comment on Einstein-Landauer culinary units 1 month ago:
That doesn’t work anyway, since based on wheat variety, growing season, and grinding method, different flours have different information density.
- Comment on Great come back 1 month ago:
“You can take this dream sequence and shove it up your ass!”
- Comment on Liquid Trees 2 months ago:
Liquid thorn trees!
- Comment on Liquid Trees 2 months ago:
And ameliorating the heat island effect.
But mainly quality of life.
- Comment on aaaaaAAAAAAAAAAAA 2 months ago:
Hyena teeth look like something AI would generate .
- Comment on At least 4,500 Americans per year die from hydroxyl acid exposure 2 months ago:
Chemtrails are full of this stuff.
- Comment on Well, that's no ordinary rabbit! 2 months ago:
That would be dishonest, I’m pretty sure they sourced that from aliens.
- Comment on *aliens* 2 months ago:
A dyson sphere doesn’t happen all at once.