blackbrook
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- Comment on Meanwhile Ball 2 days ago:
Yeah maybe. Or maybe it’s all a Freemason conspiracy, including the Wikipedia page!
- Comment on Meanwhile Ball 2 days ago:
Well, plastic lined cans, though i’m not sure that affects the thermal properties significantly. And beer coozies exist for a reason.
- Comment on 1.2 Å 1 week ago:
I’m taking a moment to appreciate it right now.
- Comment on Gravity! 1 week ago:
Ha! I am no different than she wrt things like my neighbors cars!
It frequently amazes me what people don’t absorb or remember, like whole sentences of a 4 sentence email or text message. I’m not under any illusion that I am exempt from this, but what we see and others miss is of course more apparent to us.
- Comment on Gravity! 1 week ago:
This is really fascinating to me. Do you mind my asking, with no intended disrespect, how intelligent your wife is? And did she have any kind of unusually isolated situation for much of her life?
- Comment on Oechslegrad 3 weeks ago:
45 degrees in time is about 1:08
- Comment on botanical latin 4 weeks ago:
They are all pronounced ‘throatwobbler mangrove’.
- Comment on fragile masculinity 4 weeks ago:
Just grow an unkempt beard and wear overalls.
- Comment on Nanananana 5 weeks ago:
That’s the ‘here, have a banana gesture’.
- Comment on same, honestly 5 weeks ago:
wears the candles Is that what the kids are calling it these days?
- Comment on Is it wrong that I want one? 1 month ago:
You will fission your sides with laughter!
- Comment on Perplexity.ai is offering a free month of advanced AI access 1 month ago:
About that “cites real sources”: yes it cites its sources but it can still hallucinate. I have had it give me wrong answers, and when l looked through its cited sources, none of then supported its answer.
I do however still use it and find it extremely useful, simply because regular web search has gotten so bad, and sifting through all the garbage from a regular search to find the meat is time consuming drudgery. I think of AI as useful for doing certain kinds of informational drudgery, but you have to always keep in mind how fallible it is.
- Comment on Space is beautiful 1 month ago:
Isn’t the butt end, the end you normally look through? I’d think the end facing the stars would be the front end.
- Comment on Bought to you by the central limit theorem society 1 month ago:
The unfunnyness and homophobia of the joke aside, this kind of joke doesn’t expect people to actually believe that statistics work this way. Part of the joke is the ridiculousness of expecting statistics to work that way. While there may indeed be some people so stupid/ignorant that they DO expect statistics to work this way, that’s not really the way this kind of humor is meant to work.
- Comment on Honestly Bizarre 1 month ago:
Well vegetable used to be used sometimes to mean “plant”.
Most people don’t really understand how words work.
- Comment on Fucking idiots 1 month ago:
You call that counterpoint? Bach’s Mass in D minor. Now that’s counterpoint!
- Comment on I will be taking no followup questions. Thank you for your time 2 months ago:
A light spirit lives in the battery. It reaches out across the wires until it reaches the round window which it uses to show its power.
- Comment on An apple a day, ... Ah well, fuck it. 2 months ago:
“regardless of texture physics…” If I had been drinking milk when I read that, it would definitely have come out my nose!
- Comment on Mid Career Marine Biology 2 months ago:
Never mess with someone trained in gorilla warfare. Those gorillas don’t mess around.
- Comment on Dawg... 2 months ago:
Risky click of the day
- Comment on Dawg... 2 months ago:
I agree with all the comments here, but also, now I’m craving hotdogs.
- Comment on An apple a day, ... Ah well, fuck it. 2 months ago:
However many is fatal.
- Comment on What kind of locomotion is that? What is the evolutionary advantage? 2 months ago:
Example of content evolution.
- Comment on Don't forget to turn purple and remove your arms 2 months ago:
Could you explain what you mean by laying at an angle?
- Comment on What do you think the PPE is for 2 months ago:
Well it seems lazy. And I think elements of accurate realness in contrast to the twist in a cartoon make it funnier.
It also bothers me that they are using the wrong definition of ‘mad’ for the joke. I think it was easier to find a word for a milder version of that ‘mad’, but it detracts from it for me.
- Comment on Don't forget to turn purple and remove your arms 2 months ago:
Doesn’t that put your back into a curve? I feel like that would kill my lower back, but maybe I don’t know how to use a hammock properly.
- Comment on Don't forget to turn purple and remove your arms 2 months ago:
Maybe if it was a small enough pillow? That picture looks exaggerated. Their ears certainly aren’t what I would call over their shoulders.
- Comment on 2 months ago:
And only a fraction of those are jelly filled.
- Comment on Missing banana for scale. 2 months ago:
Oh, sure, no disagreement from me on that. But this looks to me like something from a magazine, so one expects some level of professionalism. Now if this is some 12 year old’s fanzine or something, ok, I feel bad for giving them shit, but a professional journalist should be embarrassed.
- Comment on Missing banana for scale. 2 months ago:
In case I wasn’t clear about this in my other reply, my main point is that a photo of something fake is not the same thing add as a fake photo. If the dinosaur is animatronic, it’s not a fake photo. If the dinosaur is CGI, yeah fake photo.