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 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. 6 days 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. 1 week ago:
glances back at the Ice Age movie
- Comment on Just hanging with the boys 2 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 2 weeks ago:
is this what they mean when they talk about x-ray fish
- Comment on Ada Lovelace 2 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 2 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 2 weeks ago:
God I love seals and their weird noises.
- Comment on The speed of light 2 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 2 weeks ago:
It is! Seriously one of the best physics educators out there.
- Comment on The speed of light 2 weeks ago:
Nope. In your frame of reference, they will still be moving at the speed of light.
- Comment on The speed of light 2 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 2 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 2 weeks ago:
Very good point! Would love to see that researched as well.
- Comment on The Definition of Non-Judgemental 2 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? 2 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 2 weeks ago:
As opposed, I assume, to the old Epstein class standby of an underage girl.
- Comment on Feelin like a snack 3 weeks ago:
Okay but is no one going to ask where the fuck the second image is from??
- Comment on Feelin like a snack 3 weeks 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 ???? 4 weeks 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 5 weeks 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? 5 weeks ago:
- Comment on Oh no 1 month ago:
Forbidden Pop-Tart
- Comment on An Arctodus simus that has been affected by the tapeworm parasite, by Hodarinundu 2 months ago:
On the one hand, perhaps this is my own fault for browsing all while eating spaghetti. On the other hand, what were the odds.
- Comment on Anyone have the "resist fascism by making mistakes" copypasta? I can't find it because the internet sucks 2 months ago:
Are you thinking of this?
- Comment on When people recommend Brave browser. 2 months ago:
Got it on both IronFox and LibreWolf. Not perfect, but neither was Brave dark mode. Probably going to have to disable LibreWolf’s anti-fingerprinting feature just so I can tell sites to use dark mode, though.
- Comment on When people recommend Brave browser. 2 months ago:
I got the export step on my own, but I swear IronFox does not have the Manage Bookmarks option anywhere. Starting to think I’m just going to need to grab a Mozilla account, upload my bookmarks to LibreWolf on desktop, sync bookmarks, and pull them to IronFox that way.
- Comment on When people recommend Brave browser. 2 months ago:
I hope WaterFox pans out for you! Do you mind sharing the issues you had with LibreWolf?
- Comment on When people recommend Brave browser. 2 months ago:
Currently trying mobile IronFox. I’m liking the privacy options and how stuff like unlock origin is literally included in the setup process. Their dark mode is nice and they offer a lot of compatibility options.
Two biggest downsides I’m seeing so far (I’ll see about keeping this updated as I go):
- Can’t seem to figure out how to import my bookmarks from Brave, and I have looked extensively.
- No tab groups (not the end of the world, but it was a nice feature)
- Clears your browser history by default on close, which may be undesired behavior. (I personally tend to use incognito for most things and then transfer sites over to tabs in non-incognito (cognito?) modes if I want them available regularly, so for me this was undesired.)
- Comment on When people recommend Brave browser. 2 months ago:
LibreWolf looks promising. No mobile app, but they recommend IronFox for that, so I just downloaded that to play with. Thanks!
