BillyClark

@BillyClark@piefed.social

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨North America contains some of the longest continuous decididous forest records on the planet.⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  This is so outrageous that I find it hard to believe. The cost of the entire US Forest Service must be minuscule, especially if you compare it to cost of waging unnecessary, illegal, and unethical wars all over the planet.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Playbird⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  There was an anime this year that had a mermaid character who refused to eat fish because she is half fish.

  And all of the other characters just acted like that made total sense.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Playbird⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  A lot of owls will prey on other birds.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The Struggle⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  It wouldn’t be surprising if a person who was drinking too little water was also getting too little sleep and too little exercise, so they could have multiple sources for the same symptoms.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What would/could the US government actually do if they found out the real identities behind all the "guillotine memes" that people post online?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s possible you’d get on a “no fly” list, which could be a problem for some people.

  There are probably all sorts of ways that a corrupt government like ours can find ways to punish even perfectly innocent people.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What's wrong with Ellen DeGeneres?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Wait, you can learn about something just by searching for that thing on Wikipedia?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Subaru brothers, unite!⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Even walking I can race a house and always win.

  I can see that you’ve never raced a house that was taking it seriously, then.

  Some houses are great sprinters. They’re called trailer homes. I see them racing down highways pretty frequently.

  Other houses only really get a move on during emergency situations like mudslides or floods or hurricanes.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Quiver, ladies, quiver⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  There are all sorts of meditations, so there are probably types of meditation where you pay attention to the voice in your head.

  However, the most common types of meditation are specifically to ignore and let go of your inner voice by focusing on something else. So, if you’re paying attention to the voice in your head, you have most likely misunderstood the assignment.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Real talk⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Yeah, I was going to say that there is nothing inherently illogical about the misanthropic person, despite what the meme implies.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨It works better if you put it in your mouth first.⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  First use: glowing paint
  Second use: cancer

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Scientists uncovered the nutrients bees were missing — Colonies surged 15-fold⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  It just occurred to me that since this is labeled as a superfood, someone out there is going to start marketing and selling this yeast to humans. Learn the secret nutritional hack that saved the bees, and all of that bullshit.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Do boys who had affectionate mothers growing up become more "gentle"?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  In this case, it seems nature and nurture would be pointing in the same direction, though, since mothers generally raise their own children. So if either nature or nurture had an effect, you’d expect it to have a result.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What was the first game you ever bought ?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  They didn’t say it was a video game. I’m also pretty old, and I’m sure the first game I bought was either playing cards or some version of Monopoly, or maybe a D&D starter set.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Exactly⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I heard she likes shiny things.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Trying out the meme that The Last Leg are trying to launch⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I don’t know what Jack Dee looked like in his 20s, but I think he was probably a grumpy old man when he was in his 20s.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨CW: Picture of a severe vaccine injury, NSFL⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  You know, looking at that little scarring in the context of the vaccine, I’m reminded that I heard that there’s this famous idea that milk maidens are historically seen as the very definition of pretty, and that the idea stems from the fact that they tended to get cowpox, which protected them from smallpox.

  So, basically, before smallpox vaccines, the typical woman was so badly scarred somewhere visible like her face by smallpox that a woman who simply didn’t have those scars would be considered extremely pretty.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨It turns out that Juggalo makeup blocks facial recognition technology⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  You know those influencers who are like makep addicts? They often use shading or tape to change the shape of their faces. I wonder whether they could fool facial recognition technology as well.

  The difference being that a person made up like that won’t stand out as much as a person wearing Juggalo makeup.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Every!⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I don’t know if it has a base designation, but there is a way to represent natural numbers without 0. You just use 1, and numbers are distinguished by the number of 1s. So you’d count 1 11 111 1111 11111 and so on.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Great Tits⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  What you want to do is go to a search engine, and do an image search for mind blowing great tits. You’ll probably have to turn the content filter off because the image may be gory. Then, just go to the page associated with the most relevant image.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨4th dimensional jokes⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  You can observe that this dark matter joke is funny:

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Maybe, maybe not⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  This feels like when my phone is guessing who is calling me.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Nvidia's DLSS 5 Is a Slap in the Face to the Art of Video Game Design⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I find it interesting that the AI parts of the video have very little video in them. They have the original game moving along, and then they show the AI version and mostly keep it as a still. I suspect that they did this so that you can’t do a side-by-side comparison and see that the AI version doesn’t actually play as well as the original version.

  Also, I’ve got to wonder about how it must feel to be an artist who worked on one of these games, and watch the thing you carefully hand-tuned to match the artistic vision of the game design be replaced by the mindless addition of wrinkles.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Every!⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Ooh! Now do it in base π.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨send thoughts and peer review⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Religious people aren’t bothered or surprised at all when their prayers don’t come true. On the other hand, if their cell phone or car or air conditioner suddenly stops working without warning, they’re absolutely shocked and dismayed.

  My point is that even the most religious people actually believe in science far more than they believe in their religion. They’re just too stupid to realize it.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨With regards to cutlery, do you prefer a spoon or a fork for eating cake?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I knew a guy like that. We went to a restaurant together and he ordered a salad, and started eating it with a spoon.

  Normally, when a person does something unusual, I don’t say anything, but I was surprised. It had never even occurred to me that a salad with broad leaves could be eaten with a spoon.

  So slightly taken aback, I said to him, “Why aren’t you eating a salad with a fork?” And he replied, “I am accustomed to eating with a spoon.”

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨spoopy figs⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I think I heard recently that one of the mushrooms that is popular as a vegan meat substitute lives off of some sort of living creature like insects or something.

  But realistically, it’s all the circle of life. Animal life is part of the circle. Probably all plants have consumed nutrients that came from an animal in some way.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Ray is basic.⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  “If a tree is so basic, then why aren’t there trees growing in the middle of the ocean?” seems like the sort of argument that would impress Ray.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨i live in this constant state⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I heard somewhere that people who think they’re good at multitasking actually work slower than people who think they are bad at multitasking.

  The reason is that when you switch between tasks, there is a mental penalty each time for that context switch. People who believe they are good at multitasking switch between tasks more often and so they pay the penalty more often.

  Because although most people can multitask, vanishingly few can do it effectively.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Dear Faith IX⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Yes but that means that they’re using evidence that it’s not AI and saying that means it is AI. It’s insanity.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Dear Faith IX⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Does AI use odd words and sentence structure? I think it does the opposite unless instructed otherwise. It uses the most precise common words that work and the most common sentence structure.