pomegranatefern
@pomegranatefern@sh.itjust.works
I don’t know what the fuck I’m doing. New to the Fediverse, literally just picked the instance that seemed the most frictionless. Progressive new urbanist vegan in New England.
- Comment on 5 days ago:
At first I thought that, surely, this was just someone reheating pizza in a skillet with a splash of water added, which is a time-honored tradition that can have very good results if done right, but I’m looking at the water level compared to the rivets and the height of the pot, and no, someone is just. Boiling a pizza. This is why God has abandoned us.
- Comment on I am someone who works out daily and sweats a lot. Just doing laundry doesn't seem to adequately clean the underarms of my shirts. What are some ways to clean these areas of my clothing better? 1 week ago:
A couple of other people have commented on this, but no one’s fully explained the mechanism, so:
Fabric that’s petroleum-derived like polyester and most other synthetics traps odors and resists washing in ways that natural fibers don’t. Some people think this is because synthetics are less breathable than natural fibers, and while this is often the case, that’s not actually the main cause. Rather, this is because being oil-derived makes the fibers water-resistant, which keeps them from being thoroughly cleaned, and also traps body oils, resulting in food for odor-causing bacteria.
Here’s a good video explaining this in more detail, for the curious: www.youtube.com/watch?v=zJVYTnFjiFg
Honestly, I don’t think there’s much to do about that one beyond making sure to get 100% natural fiber clothes. As a bonus, it’s often less irritating to the skin and helps reduce a major source of micro plastics.
Some antiperspirants are further much tougher to wash off and will tend to resist washing, but I don’t know the mechanism behind this one, so I can’t really advise on it, apart from saying that I’ve not encountered the issue with natural deodorants.
- Comment on Are atoms, protons, electrons, neutrons, and cells (in a human body) in a constant state of flux? If so what is the measurement we have for them and do they at one point have a certain state of speed? 1 week ago:
What would completely utilizing it look like to you?
- Comment on Are atoms, protons, electrons, neutrons, and cells (in a human body) in a constant state of flux? If so what is the measurement we have for them and do they at one point have a certain state of speed? 1 week ago:
Everything moves, except me. I am at rest in my reference frame at all times! Everything just moves around me.
- Comment on Niche meme alert 🚨🚨🚨 1 week ago:
Interestingly enough, I know multiple queer fans of wrestling. They enjoy the storylines despite the cheese factor and appreciate the skill involved in a lot of the moves, considering it as its own kind of performance art. Like maybe you’re not winning any Oscars for selling your moves, but when you look at things like the Tombstone Piledriver, which are so difficult to pull off both convincingly and safely that use was restricted for a while to just two wrestlers, I can understand that.
I have, however, never encountered a single wrestling fan who did not hate Vince McMahon’s guts.
- Comment on How do I get the damn cat to understand I can feed myself? 2 weeks ago:
My family used to have the view that keeping cats indoors was cruel until one of our indoor/outdoor cats came back after being attacked by some unknown animal in what seemed like a safe suburban area. He was fully vaccinated and recovered mostly without incident, but he had to have a surgery and spend extensive time in the Cone of Shame with limited movement so he could recover.
And once we started keeping the cats indoors? It was unbelievable how much nature outside recovered. It was more than just songbirds everywhere (though we did have plenty of those). We saw hawks and owls. Woodchucks and deer would wander in (yards weren’t really fenced at this area… it was more on the rural side of suburban). Foxes and rabbits and wild turkeys. I once saw pawprints in the snow that I think were from a stoat. We could not believe how visible a difference just keeping the cats inside made.
And honestly, the cats didn’t really miss being outside after a week or so adjustment period. Once, a year or so in, Mom accidentally left the door to the outside open, and one of our cats just got this resigned look like “oh, I guess I have to go patrol the area, huh.”
Now, this was a two-story house with like five bedrooms and a basement, so it was more territory than, say, an apartment, which can make a difference. We also had two cats to keep each other company, so the house being empty during the work/school day wasn’t as big a deal. Space concerns are a bit tougher to address (though I will recommend catification, catios, and leash training for cats to do supervised outdoor walks), but if the concern is a cat getting lonely during the work day, then I’m just saying that two cats are not appreciably harder to take care of than one and after the introduction period they can do wonders for keeping each other entertained.
- Comment on How do I get the damn cat to understand I can feed myself? 2 weeks ago:
Cats are anarcho-communist
I knew that cats doing this were bringing back excess food for the colony (in their point of view, anyway) but this is the funniest way I have ever seen someone put it and I’m stealing it.
- Comment on Since light cannot pass through a black hole does that mean light has mass? Also why does light form a singularity in a black hole? Is that like a fixed point on a map or something? 2 weeks ago:
- Light in a vacuum does not have rest mass, because there is no frame of reference where you can measure light at rest, because light famously always moves at the speed of light in any reference frame. You could define mass as including the kinetic energy, and physicists did at one point define mass that way, but it led to less intuition and more complicated math and definitions, so they dropped it to only really consider rest mass. (Good video on it here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=wiBsfvW5AWY)
- What exactly do you mean by the velocity of a black hole? Do you mean the velocity it’s moving through space with respect to an observer? Is this about how the universe can expand at a speed that’s calculated to be above the speed of light?
- Once it’s in a black hole, it’s not coming out.
This is a long playlist but I recommend watching the videos that jump out at you: FloatHeadPhysics is really good at helping explain relativity and quantum mechanics without complicated math and building intuition. www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLawLaqps30oAcpVd4r…
- Comment on Tensions Are Rising Between States That Rely on the Colorado River | A prolonged drought means the nation’s largest reservoirs are dwindling, and litigation over access to water could lie ahead. 3 weeks ago:
I commented this on another post with this link, but Climate Town has a really good video on how we got into this mess in the first place, and it’s wildly messed up even before you factor in climate-crisis-related issues. www.youtube.com/watch?v=XusyNT_k-1c
- Comment on Ancient Squirrels Ate Woolly Mammoth Meat. The Proof Is in the Poop. 4 weeks ago:
glances back at the Ice Age movie
- Comment on Just hanging with the boys 5 weeks ago:
In discussion I heard someone say that cleaner wrasse will sometimes eat the protective slime coat off of fish when they are alone, but when other cleaner wrasse are with them they wont because the others will punish them, which suggests they may experience shame or have a sense of socially appropriate vs inappropriate behavior, but I haven’t verified that fact with any reputable sources yet so take it with a grain of salt
I recall also hearing, I think from a DW documentary on fish intelligence, that cleaner wrasse will have different “tiers” of customers, where big predators get the fastest service, then visitors from another reef, and then the locals who don’t have anywhere to go, and that cleaner wrasse are more likely to take bites of the protective slime off of the “lower tier customers.” I also recall that they’ll give a soothing little massage immediately after taking those bites to keep their customers calm.
Fish cognition is really so underappreciated.
- Comment on Just hanging with the boys 5 weeks ago:
is this what they mean when they talk about x-ray fish
- Comment on Ada Lovelace 5 weeks ago:
I’m not saying I couldn’t see cases where I would seriously consider using calculus in a sewing pattern, but it’s really not used in sewing pattern creation basically ever unless someone already knows it and had a very specific use case. I suspect the OP meant “calculations” or something similar and mis-typed.
Source: I still remember a fair amount of calculus and I sew
- Comment on The speed of light 5 weeks ago:
I suggest watching these videos from Float Head Physics. They’re just some of the clearest and most intuitive explanations of relativity I’ve seen, and any other explanation I give here would just be me attempting to paraphrase him.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zkv8sW6y3sY www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vitf8YaVXhc
He has a whole playlist on special relativity which is really insightful if you want an even deeper dive, as well as playlists on other things like general relativity and quantum mechanics, all of which are based on building intuition instead of starting with complicated math equations.
- Comment on Mysterious creatures have been SPOTTED on earth, living their best life. We should NOT interfere with this 5 weeks ago:
God I love seals and their weird noises.
- Comment on The speed of light 5 weeks ago:
He’s the first one to get me to understand the Twin Paradox’s solution! Everywhere else was just like “because of the acceleration,” which never made sense to me and is in fact NOT related to the solution! Hell, his videos are responsible for [the only science meme I’ve made and posted here myself.] (sh.itjust.works/post/56185740)
It’s relativity of simultaneity. It’s always relativity of simultaneity.
- Comment on The speed of light 5 weeks ago:
It is! Seriously one of the best physics educators out there.
- Comment on The speed of light 5 weeks ago:
Nope. In your frame of reference, they will still be moving at the speed of light.
- Comment on The speed of light 5 weeks ago:
A) www.youtube.com/watch?v=wiBsfvW5AWY
B) www.youtube.com/watch?v=i88ipC8GebA
And just for good measure on a more intuitive understanding of special relativity, www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zkv8sW6y3sY
I love this guy’s videos; the best I have ever seen difficult physics concepts explained, based on intuition and not equations.
- Comment on DOGE cut 20% of APHIS the agency that protects U.S. agriculture and now the screwworm parasite that wipes out livestock has returned to the U.S 5 weeks ago:
I like a good bowl meal. The template is grain/pseudo-grain, legume, two or three veggies, sauce. So you could have a quinoa and chickpea bowl with pickled red onions, kale, and roasted red peppers, topped with a hummus tahini sauce. Or a black bean and rice bowl with pickled jalapeños, grilled corn (which is also technically a grain but it still works as a vegetable) and chopped red tomatoes, with an avocado crema sauce. It’s extremely flexible, easy to make, and good for meal prepping. You can add an additional protein if it’s still not filling enough, like fried tofu or crumbled tempeh or seitan “chicken”.
It’s far from the only way to make an easy, filling veggie meal, but it’s one of the easiest frameworks for people used to the “meat, carb, vegetable side dish” style of meal.
- Comment on The Definition of Non-Judgemental 5 weeks ago:
Very good point! Would love to see that researched as well.
- Comment on The Definition of Non-Judgemental 5 weeks ago:
Does this imply that pigeons don’t experience the Uncanny Valley? Does it mean that we can determine whether non-human animals experience the Uncanny Valley? Because I would love to see a deep dive into how common that is in the animal kingdom.
- Comment on Is there a way to view the comments on a deleted Lemmy post? 5 weeks ago:
You are my hero of the day.
Also, @aramis87@fedia.io, do you mind if I repost this to c/bestoflemmy?
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- Comment on New Polycule Just Dropped 5 weeks ago:
As opposed, I assume, to the old Epstein class standby of an underage girl.
- Comment on Feelin like a snack 1 month ago:
Okay but is no one going to ask where the fuck the second image is from??
- Comment on Feelin like a snack 1 month ago:
Ah yes, but you see, if teenagers don’t start school early, then how are they going to get out of school early enough to go to their minimum wage jobs after work? Think of the poor corporations!
(Yes, this is the real reason in the US. I believe it was also so teens could work on farms after school back when that was common. Also now some families that are struggling to make ends meet rely on the extra income from their teenagers’ part-time jobs, which is a special extra level of dystopia.)
- Comment on ???? 1 month ago:
Hamsters are specialty pets which require specialty care and knowledge and I wish to God that more people understood this.
- Comment on Washington man arrested for allegedly throwing rock at seal in Maui 1 month ago:
You may need to take a second read of the comment you’re replying to.
- Comment on I am not a high drug user. I mean I smoke and drink that's it. But it seems to me that the US president is using uppers midday and keeping him up at night and crashing half thru the day? 1 month ago: