Mothra
@Mothra@mander.xyz
- Comment on What's with "*checks notes*" everywhere? 1 day ago:
It’s just a fad. Speech mannerisms also come and go with the times. Right now it’s popular to use it, and people use it.
- Comment on How long does it take for someone to reach a high level of drawing? 2 days ago:
This depends on the amount of time and dedication you put into it plus your natural ability to understand and represent the world visually. Which isn’t the same for everyone. Nature and nurture both make a difference.
In short I’ve seen most people make significant progress in the first year or two of their art journey, but after that you sort of hit a plateau. Here’s where the difficult stuff begins and it’s a life journey. Whether or not that is good enough for you and what you want to draw is only for you to decide.
- Comment on Who would win in a fight, a Gorilla or a Bear of equal weight? 3 days ago:
Bear primarily because of the claws. It means it can deliver a deadly slashing attack without getting its mouth, head and neck (its most vulnerable spots) within the gorilla’s grasp.
- Comment on Sleep Scream Die 4 days ago:
Is that a photo of CiChada?
Also I thought they were awake while underground most of the time
- Comment on use it on strangers 4 days ago:
Love this one
- Comment on Is the person who winks the Winkor and the person who receives the wink the Winkee ? 1 week ago:
I would say Winker nor Winkor but English isn’t my first language so let’s see what the consensus is for this matter.
- Comment on What efforts would it take to strip the name Americans from the folks inhabiting the US? 1 week ago:
Similarly in Spanish OP, we say estadounidense as the demonym for something from USA. We often use americano interchangeably though, but that gives room for confusion sometimes.
I think you should have posted this in Unpopular Opinions hah. I don’t give much weight to it and, as long as everyone knows what you mean by American when you say it is fine, so I don’t necessarily agree with your opinion that it hurts the rest of the continent. But as far as semantics go we both know the question is about as old as the country itself.
We’re gonna get downvoted to hell. See you there :)
- Comment on What efforts would it take to strip the name Americans from the folks inhabiting the US? 1 week ago:
Agree, I also don’t know of any USA residents doing so. But outside it’s a very different story especially in places where the language isn’t English.
What is the demonym for something that can be found or belongs to “The Americas”, comprising both North and South America (and potentially Central if you go by the Three Americas way of splitting the continent)?
Why is it that you have terms such as “North American” to describe something related to USA+anything north in the continent, then you have another term such as “South American” for anything Mexico and south of it in the continent, but when you say American , that’s right, the generic one that doesn’t specify and encompasses it all then it is presumed to be exclusively USA? I understand the history that explains that, but as far as semantics go, it’s still a legitimate question. Languages other than English have different answers for it.
- Comment on What efforts would it take to strip the name Americans from the folks inhabiting the US? 1 week ago:
True but it has no other countries in it. Which is the whole point OP is making.
- Comment on What efforts would it take to strip the name Americans from the folks inhabiting the US? 1 week ago:
Mexicans call themselves mexicans in Spanish, and refer to their country as just Mexico even if it is formally " united mexican states". Also note is “mexican” and doesn’t say “american” anywhere, so I still don’t see where the confusion would be, at least not in Spanish language ( which mexicans also speak). The only country in the world that refers to itself as a continent both formally and colloquially is USA.
- Comment on What efforts would it take to strip the name Americans from the folks inhabiting the US? 1 week ago:
I’m not OP. As someone whose native language isn’t English, I agree with OP that something like “united statesians” would be more specific than just “american” to refer to someone belonging to the US. A united statesian would be only from US, whereas someone just american could be referring to anyone in the American continent - both North and South.
And that’s exactly how Spanish language deals with the issue. Native Spanish speakers understand that colloquially, american means someone from US and wouldn’t call a Canadian or a Brazilian an American. However it does lend itself to confusion, it is a question often raised by children when learning adjectives, and as far as adjectives go, things other than people (animals for example) usually follow the regular rules of language. Finally, Spanish speakers also say “united statesians” ( * estadounidense* ) instead of “american” when referring to people living in US.
- Comment on Is this picture idea immature? 1 week ago:
Many would find it stupid, but those people don’t share your sense of humor and you would never get along with them in the first place.
So go and put the picture, it will help weed out people you don’t want to waste your time with. You’ll only get those who either don’t mind or who actually think it’s funny too.
- Comment on [deleted] 2 weeks ago:
Okay so I don’t know if you’re into birdwatching at at all but that’s about the top speed of a peregrine falcon. Have you ever seen a bird of prey dive to attack?
That’s also about the stalling speed of a passenger airplane, that is, the minimum speed it must fly at before losing lift.
I couldn’t think of anything else that goes at around 300kmh but if I get new ideas I’ll let you know.
- Comment on How do you pronounce "centaur" and why? 2 weeks ago:
This is the only way in English I’ve ever known
- Comment on I need help guys 2 weeks ago:
I’ve no idea about what cover you’re talking about. But recently I stumbled across this site called Artvee.com . They have a very fine collection of public domain images you can browse.
No idea on how it works if you plan on using one, but it’s public domain so that’s a good start
- Comment on How does Google make money from Gmail, the google calendar, drive or other services when used with third party front ends? 2 weeks ago:
I had similar results to you. In my case the deal breaker was navigation, because I need to be able to make changes to the route on the fly which these apps don’t allow. In fact, you need to tap like ten times through menus to finish a trip and search for something else.
- Comment on H&M to use digital clones of models in ads and social media 2 weeks ago:
That’s just the model getting paid- which is good - but the pay rate isn’t the same as the one for the shoot. It’s the rate they get paid for the images to be used, something similar to royalties so to speak. It will greatly benefit a minority of popular models, and drastically reduce the job pool for new models.
The photographers are getting totally screwed though, as well as the make up artist and anyone else involved in a shoot.
- Comment on H&M to use digital clones of models in ads and social media 3 weeks ago:
I agree with you in sentiment, but unlike you, I DO believe AI can easily get your child slave work shirt to fit better on the non existent model made out of an amalgamation of all your previous photoshoots plus stolen data.
It keeps getting more and more accurate every day.
Even if it doesn’t fit great straight out of the generator, you already have a Photoshop touch up artist who will fix that and any extra fingers. It works out. H&M may have to pay some extra 20% to the Photoshop designer in India, but will spare themselves paying a photographer and a model by 100%. Plus any other people in charge of recruiting models and organizing shoots now can get their hours reduced too.
I really really hope things end up like you say they will. Nothing would make me happier than seeing these idiots hitting a wall.
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- Comment on [deleted] 3 weeks ago:
TLDR: [Country] Citizen
Australian citizen for sure, but to say I am Australian would mean identification and full comprehension of its culture, which I don’t. I’ve been here for about 15 years and although my understanding of its culture has improved a lot, I don’t think I’ll ever come close to “getting” it like I get the culture of my country of birth.
- Comment on Hey, do americans just want to take a break from normal politics for a bit and focus all our efforts solely on the wild boar problem? 3 weeks ago:
When? Where have you made this question? Any hunting, foraging and gathering activity can be translated as an RPG quest
- Comment on Why are Maries Sues hated while Gary Stus are loved? 4 weeks ago:
Can’t say I relate or that I’ve watched much isekai. The only I’ve followed for a while was Overlord and it doesn’t fit your bill that’s for sure. Momonga is overpowered but morally mega flawed, which is precisely what keeps the plot interesting.
- Comment on NEW TAPEWORM JSUT DROPPED 4 weeks ago:
That’s very similar to the myxozoan I read about the other day. The more you know
- Comment on NEW TAPEWORM JSUT DROPPED 4 weeks ago:
Seems like March 2025 has been an exciting month for parasitology. This and the non breathing myxozoan are rather unusual finds
- Comment on People are using Google's new AI model to remove watermarks from images | TechCrunch 4 weeks ago:
Ahh, great news, fellow artists and photographers. We don’t need to waste time watermarking our work anymore
- Comment on what’s the deal with nicole? 5 weeks ago:
You can’t block “nicole” because the user spamming these direct messages (not public posts) changes every so often. I got three of the messages in my inbox, they’re from different users but the message is the same. The pictures are different but clearly the same person and from the same footage.
So yeah, I’ve no idea what the point of these messages are, they are spam but if it’s phishing then it’s not very effective. It could also be a means to offend whoever the person in the footage is.
Lots of people have been making public posts about it asking what’s the deal with it, memes, etc.
- Comment on would getting back with an ex be a bad idea? 5 weeks ago:
Don’t. Leave him in the past. You both still have feelings for each other, but that doesn’t mean it will work. It’s going to be like last time if not worse, because snowballing any issues from the first time into this hypothetical second time.
You deserve better. Mental health issues and being a social media hermit are no excuses. He probably didn’t mean to hurt you but he did, and will keep doing so over and over again until YOU set some boundaries.
Set those boundaries, send him away. This has nothing to do with your preference, just stay open and listen to what you want in terms of a partner. Beyond sex and gender you deserve to be treated fairly.
- Comment on Acorns! 5 weeks ago:
This is amazing. I have a question though: How come only the author woodpecker can remove the acorns but not other woodpeckers? What kind of ID tech are these guys using?
- Comment on The landlord special 5 weeks ago:
I’ve also lived in houses that had the entire bathtub/shower painted over with high gloss paint. It looked tacky af and it flaked obviously. Not that we had the time to complain about it though, that was very low on the list of issues. Have you ever seen mushroom caps sprouting from the ceiling? Same house
- Comment on Trouble uploading images 5 weeks ago:
Let’s test
Hmmm yes I also get an error upon trying. I’m using Boost though. Not sure how else I can help