CombatWombat
@CombatWombat@feddit.online
- Comment on why am i like this 2 weeks ago:
Thanks boo.
- Comment on why am i like this 2 weeks ago:
If it were from distress I would not have so responded.
- Comment on why am i like this 2 weeks ago:
It’s because you’re a dumb fucking slut.
(Please don’t be offended, I mean that with all the affection one stranger can have for another across the internet, it’s just so clearly the correct answer)
- Comment on Potata Salad 2 weeks ago:
The secret ingredient is: Staphylococcus aureus
- Comment on Slopmaxxing 2 weeks ago:
The word “slop” is mutating so fast I’m having serious trouble keeping up with what it means from day to day. I saw a movie referred to as “quality slop” to mean something like “oscar bait” and I’ve fully given up on trying to make sense of it.
- Comment on Newest Testament: So Hot RN 2 weeks ago:
There is a significant portion of the lds membership who believe the “lost ten tribes of israel” were taken to other planets, to be returned as a sign of the second coming 🤷♂️
- Comment on After 9/11 America was afraid of a Improvised Nuclear Something made out of used uranium. How would that work? Just get a piece of dynamite and some nuke dust and light the dynamite? 2 weeks ago:
Basically. The uranium isn’t to make the explosion larger, the explosion is to disperse the radioactive material over a large area quickly. The fear is you’d make, like, metro Boston uninhabitable for a generation and give a million people cancer.
- Comment on Checkmate fishies, I'm coming for you 3 weeks ago:
🎉🥳👏🎊🙌
we did it, lemmy
- Comment on Checkmate fishies, I'm coming for you 3 weeks ago:
I was really hoping to set up someone to respond with the original image? But I guess I wasn’t transparently pedantic enough :/
- Comment on Checkmate fishies, I'm coming for you 3 weeks ago:
Are you going to limit it only those who are as pedantic as possible, or just those people who are annoyingly pedantic in general? Because I don’t think there are many occasions available when folks can be as pedantic as possible, just a bunch of situations where they are an above average amount of pedantic.
- Comment on Conclusions from doing your own research 3 weeks ago:
If AI companies were “burning cash” that would significantly increase the amount of total circulating money. “Burning cash” in this context means “spending money very quickly,” and that is the definition of circulating money. The fact that the AI companies are not burning cash, but instead signing complicated deals passing around promissory notes for future revenues, is what makes it look like a capital strike.
- Comment on Why did Trisha Paytas make a video calling out Keemstar when her own husband is a rapist, and she herself has defended actual predators? 4 weeks ago:
I’ve never been more sorely tempted to post an old man fedi rant that you should get off youtube and onto peertube in my life.
- Comment on How should a news article website financially sustain itself? 4 weeks ago:
I get my access to most of my news through my local library. My library card comes with access to NYT, WaPo, and the Seattle Times, amongst others. I pay my taxes, my library pays a deal with the news site, and everyone’s happy. Seems like a good setup to me.
- Comment on Don't Starve Elsewhere - World Premiere Trailer 4 weeks ago:
I’m so hype. I’m most excited about the elevation system, and most curious about the predation engine — do you think there’s implications on the prey populations if you kill the predators?
- Comment on First Satellites 4 weeks ago:
Sure. What words am I allowed to use when relating this anecdote in the future without being called a nazi? A simple blocklist and allowlist is the easiest format for me.
- Comment on First Satellites 4 weeks ago:
By “Germans” I mean “the early Germanic peoples who occupied the region that became Germany” and “Russians” I mean “the early Slavic peoples who occupied the region that became Russia”. I kinda just assumed folks would understand the modern federal German state didn’t exist when early Slavs first encountered other ethnic groups and could work backwards from there.
- Comment on First Satellites 4 weeks ago:
If the “pa” part of “companion” comes from path it’s basically exactly the same: “s” and “co” are both “with” and “nik” and “ion” are similar noun endings.
- Comment on First Satellites 4 weeks ago:
I might translate it that way in some contexts, but if you told me Lewis and Clark were “sputniks” I’d assume you meant they got married in secret, rather than that they were explorers.
- Comment on 4 weeks ago:
You reversed the polarity just for me? 🥺 👉👈
- Comment on First Satellites 4 weeks ago:
The Russians call Germans “nemtsy” or “the mute ones” because allegedly the Germans were the first ethnic group the Russians encountered who didn’t speak their language and so they assumed they couldn’t speak at all. The sausage sounds delicious, though, so maybe they just weren’t speaking because they were eating cheese-stuffed bacon-wrapped sausages.
- Comment on 4 weeks ago:
I’m just a little guy and the vibes are already so bad, can you stop please?
- Comment on First Satellites 4 weeks ago:
Sputnik is a fun word in Russian. It comes from the prefix s- (with), the suffix -nik (one who), and the root -put- (path). A sputnik, then, is someone or something who travels a path with you, and it is also a model of train (because it travels with the tracks) and a word for spouse (because they travel your life’s path with you).
- Comment on Is it the American way to complain about the US, or is it that other countries aren't worth complaining about? 4 weeks ago:
Most people, Americans included, prefer to speak well of their country to foreigners and complain to countrymen. My hypothesis is that Americans perceive online spaces as uniquely American spaces where we complain to our ingroup, and folks of other nationalities tend to think of online spaces as “international waters” and are more guarded as a result.
- Comment on which job should i work? tutor or barista? 5 weeks ago:
No one teaching style works for everyone. What makes you a poor tutor for one student makes you an excellent tutor for another. I can tell you for certain, no-one can deduce whether you’re “good enough” to be a tutor via reddit.
- Comment on which job should i work? tutor or barista? 5 weeks ago:
I would say tutor. I think it’ll be a better long-term career move, and there are so many students on the spectrum who could benefit from someone who has a similar experience sharing the techniques they’ve learned that work for them. Barista might be more comfortable, but I think tutoring will build your skill set more long-term. And you can always change! No shame in trying the one, deciding it’s not for you, and switching to the other.
- Comment on Or equivalent sport team 5 weeks ago:
It can be difficult to find something to complain about when we’re winning, but luckily we’re in last place so it’s easy right now. Go Torrent just the same.
- Comment on So I was doing this chick one time, right… 5 weeks ago:
If it’s any consolation, most of my favorite facts I’ve learned about my closest friends have been because they lost the plot while telling a story.
- Comment on How does one who doesn’t have a ‘home’ choose their team? 5 weeks ago:
I strongly believe that you should have a connection to the place that your sports team is affiliated with, but I think you should be very liberal about what you consider a connection. If you’ve moved a lot, it gives you a lot of teams to choose from when you’re choosing your alliances. I think it also makes sense to choose other sorts of connections as well — a grandparent’s alma mater, the team your dad followed when you were a kid. I know a lot of people who recommend watching a league and letting the team choose you, which also seems reasonable, but I prefer the place-ness of sports fandom. The only way to choose a sports team to follow that is objectively wrong is bandwagoning.
- Comment on What did people think dinosaur bones were before we officially recognised dinosaurs? 1 month ago:
The earliest known english-language account of a dinosaur bone is in Robert Plot’s 1677 The natural history of Oxford-shire: being an essay toward the natural history of England. This is what he says about what we now know as a megalosaurus thighbone:
There happily came to Oxford while I was writing of this, a living Elephant to be shown publickly at the ACT, An. 1676, with whose Bones . I compared ours; and found those of the Elephant not only of a different Shape, but also incomparably different to ours, though the Beast were very young and not half grown. If then they are neither the Bones of Horses, Oxen, nor Elephants, as I am strongly persuaded they are not . It remains, that (notwithstanding their extravagant Magnitude) they must have been the bones of Men or Women: Nor doth any thing hinder but they may have been so, provided it be clearly made out, that there have been Men and Women of proportionable Stature in all Ages of the World, down even to our own Days
The whole account is pretty interesting. He speculates about the origin of the bones and their medicinal uses and discusses the particulars of a few giants.
- Comment on Do I have to? Ok, fine... 1 month ago:
Oh of course🤦♂️
I was wondering when in the world that exchange rate would make sense. That’s definitely correct.