Mothra

@Mothra@mander.xyz

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨what is this box??⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s a Lost Lemming

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Stray Kids⁩ ⁨⁨19⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:

  Would have been more useful if they used a photo of this kpop group showcasing the pincer pose they’re talking about. For some people, this article is “hey look at these two completely new things” and "trust me they’ve got something in common that is visible but we chose not to show "

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How is Alexander the Great so great he gets that name, but not so great that just “Alexander”doesn’t disambiguate him?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:

  Hm. Guess I didn’t interpret you the right way then, sorry. Bed time for me then, enough Internet

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How is Alexander the Great so great he gets that name, but not so great that just “Alexander”doesn’t disambiguate him?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:

  Caesar (Cesar or Cesare) is still a pretty common name today though.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Is the "everyday stuff" supposed to feel normal? Do y'all just have a parent do things then when you're supposed to be the adult you panic?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Well it feels like that the first time. When in doubt, for most standard procedures such as getting a doctor’s appointment or renewing a passport, you can always search online how to do it. Sites like wikiHow or government information websites exist for these reasons

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Possibility of translating the messages of dogs, cats, and other pets⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Difficult of this to work because animals don’t use sounds as words. They do communicate with sounds, but the only thing you will be able to extract is what you (hopefully) already are capable of understanding: basic emotions, pleading, pain, etc.

  Some animals, on an individual level, have specific calls for specific things. But because it’s a single occurrence you won’t be able to gather enough hypothetical data for your project. And honestly if this is your pet, you are probably smart enough to figure out this type of calls.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Depends. If people can guess your age more or less correctly, then, likely yes. Strange in the sense of weird.

  If it’s obvious that you are on your way to a costume party or some cosplay event, then, it’s probably not considered too weird but it will still be considered unusual.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨When you block someone on Lemmy, does it stop them from seeing your posts?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Hmmm. You may want to check !comicstrips@lemmy.world , where OP keeps posting comics that are allowed by the mods but clearly very unpopular with the community.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Oh No! Now A Federal Bill Wants OS-Level Age Verification for Everyone in the USA⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  I guess what I’m asking for is an ELI5 of the mechanisms involved, which I figured were understood from the comments.

  I already understand that not everyone can bypass something like this, in fact it’s likely I couldn’t either. We also agree that nobody should in the first place. I see anonymity as a right

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Oh No! Now A Federal Bill Wants OS-Level Age Verification for Everyone in the USA⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s the mechanism apparently being impossible to be cheated on what I don’t understand. Or maybe I’m just hopelessly confused.

  I should have replied under the post instead of under your comment, but it was your comment the one triggering the oh wait what moment for me, sorry. Don’t feel like you have to give me an answer if I’m not making any sense

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Oh No! Now A Federal Bill Wants OS-Level Age Verification for Everyone in the USA⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Can someone ELI5 this for me please? I’m clearly not getting what’s going on

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨If I submit a question to /nostupidquestions/ and I get downvoted does that mean my question was actually stupid or is it a paradox?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s either a troll question, bait, not a question, or, alternatively, people are downvoting your legitimate question because they remember you trolling elsewhere.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨ChatGPT’s latest stylistic quirk is sinister, infuriating – and absolutely everywhere⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Same as with an em dash. But also as with the em dash, it’s now becoming much more frequent because of LLM usage. People see stripes and call it a tiger.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why is it that when the graphics driver freaks out in your browser when watching a video, the page always turns this specific shade of green?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Noted, thanks. English isn’t my first language.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How do.contires that use commas for decimals read such numbers aloud?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  What language?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why is it that when the graphics driver freaks out in your browser when watching a video, the page always turns this specific shade of green?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  You are being downvoted because your comment is rude, irrelevant, and neither helpful or funny

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Sent this to my friends flexing a "top 65%" score. The site didn't make it clear that's not a good thing.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Eh… It says that in a room with a thousand people you would be smarter than 345 of them.

  That’s the same as saying in a ranking where no. 1000 is the smartest and no.1 is pretty much the dumbest person, you would be number 346.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Are there any ways to reverse AI brainrot and force myself to do any creative endeavor, even if inspiration didn't strike?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Best way to force something is with a partner in crime. Find someone else interested in doing something creative and work a plan. That teamwork can become motivation. This can be very hard though, I’m going through somewhat of a similar situation. What creative field would you be looking into? Ttrpg is a good start, speaking from experience.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨FUXUZIYXIKHCV⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Weird and I’m surprised it would have such a narrow snout but hey. Aesthetically an improvement I’d say

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What's in a name?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Strange photo. I can’t figure out if he was on a boat, or in front of a print of the opera house and not the actual opera house. The lighting is weird, but it would be ok if he was on a ferry maybe. But the hair looks strange. I’m confused. Confused because out of all images of Harrison Ford out there, they had to pick this specific one that lhas no relation to the snake, which is endemic to Peru.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Is it normal to "like" or at least not care seeing people suffer?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  This question is not stupid, it’s obvious. Everyone knows this is not normal, including you.

  The only thing you get out of this is either shock value entertainment or some sort of self serving narcissistic engagement (which btw fits with the psycho profile you like to paint of yourself).

  As I type this I realise I should block you just so I don’t accidentally lend you my attention in the future. I leave my comment in case other commenters find it useful.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[DCSS] I have identified the last magical staff⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I’ve… Never heard of this game before, I must try

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Samsung is shutting down messages — alternative to Google's messenger?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Yet at the time of my comment, not a single one of the suggestions handled sms

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Samsung is shutting down messages — alternative to Google's messenger?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I couldn’t find it saying it supports SMS, does it?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Samsung is shutting down messages — alternative to Google's messenger?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I would recommend you update the post title to clarify you are looking for an app that handles SMS and not just any regular messaging app. Signal requires the other user to also use signal.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Samsung is shutting down messages — alternative to Google's messenger?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I never figured how to sms through signal, works great as a whatsapp alternative though

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Thanks, I was left wondering if nurses did have to work 32 hour shifts without even a ten minute lunch break in USA

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why does the colour blonde apparently only exist in human hair?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  You may want to give a bit more context. When reading the headline I thought you meant in humans as opposed to in other animals. When reading the text, I got confused. Very. I don’t know whether to answer from a biology or artistic framework.

  What is blonde? As a hair color in humans, you could say we are all pretty much similar in hair color, the difference being the amount of melanin in the hair strands. You have the red melanin type, and the brown melanin type. Typically most people have a combination of both. The more melanin, the darker it gets. Blondes would be those with a medium to low concentration of melanin in their hair.

  You will also find the idea of what consists of a blonde shade or not is also subject to cultural standards. But just to play it safe let’s agree we are talking about the paler shades of blonde. It doesn’t really matter. It’s always a light ochre shade, sometimes slightly more or less red (leaning more towards orange, otherwise to white).

  Lots of animals have hair in a similar tone, see golden labradors or palomino horses for example.

  Artists have been accurately depicting blonde hair in a somewhat realistic manner for centuries, I am sure you have seen paintings with people of blonde hair in them that are centuries old.

  When it comes to cartoons, you can’t afford to paint every frame like an oil painting. The time and cost would go through the roof. This is one reason cartoons are not realistic. (3D rendering can recreate blonde shading realistically at an affordable rate though).

  Another reason, and probably the main reason I would argue, is that cartoons are not meant to be realistic. Stylization is on purpose. Stylization and abstraction open up a universe of possibilities for artists to express themselves and make visual gags and things impossibly beautiful, ugly, interesting.

  So either because of stylization or simplification or both, artists have narrowed down hair color to a single tone (sometimes two tones or three if with highlights and shadows like some animes do) per character, and so for blondes they choose tints and shades of yellows and ochres. It’s the same really, just reduced to its essence.

  Now as to what makes it impossible to create a blonde marker or pen: the same reason you can’t create a marker that automatically shades to perfection whatever you are painting.

  Say you have a white sphere. You will never see it as flat white, you will see greys where the environment casts a shadow over it. The shadows will depending on the light conditions. To make it worse, you will see any color in the environment reflected indirectly on the sphere as light bounces and spills everywhere. If the sky is blue, your sphere now has traces of blue in it. If the ground is red, you now also have traces of red added. And so on.

  The same happens to hair. To make it more complicated, hair is somewhat translucent so you now have to take into account how the light travels through and reflects and refracts when it hits every strand of hair. Plus, not every single strand of hair is exactly the same shade. So it’s impossible to make a “blonde” paint. You can paint an approximation of blonde the same way you can paint an approximation of light, shade, reflection, translucency, etc on any object. You mix different pigments and recreate the illusion, but you can’t create a pigment that automatically adjusts to arbitrary and unpredictable standards, if that makes any sense.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨LEARN THE TRUTH⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I love this truth

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How did carrier pigeons know who to deliver letters to?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  You would raise the pigeon and the pigeon would know how to fly back there always. They weren’t sent to addresses, rather, to one particular spot.

  Say you have five pigeons. You put a ring on them that says the town and owner. You send them in a cage via cart or boat etc. to five different towns, to people you know can also keep pigeons. Those people receive your pigeon, as well as pigeons from other locations.

  When they need to send a message to you or your town, they find your pigeon and attach a message. Then they release it. The pigeon flies back to you. If you want to reply, you need to have a pigeon raised in that particular town. Tough luck otherwise.

  You keep your pigeon for a while again, then you cage it and send it elsewhere - the cycle repeats.

  Bear in mind pigeons can’t carry very long messages. The paper scroll can’t be too large or the pigeon won’t fly properly/the wind drag will tear the scroll away if too large. Think of them as a primitive telegram of sorts. Messages longer than a telegram of course, but nowhere near anything like a regular letter. So they were usually reserved for stuff like “we’re under siege, help”, “this important person passed away”, “we got the plague, keep out”, or any other short messages of importance.