southsamurai

@southsamurai@sh.itjust.works

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Can pets tell who's petting them without looking?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:

  Of course, at least under normal circumstances.

  Like humans or wild animals, a pet is going to have their full sensory array available. Even a blind and deaf animal can pick up vibrations as someone approaches then, feel changes in air movement, etc.

  Since hands are different sizes, even if they were asleep at the moment of contact, it wouldn’t take long to figure out whose hand was on them. Obviously , that might be negated if the hands are similar enough, but I would suspect that even then the differences in how a person pets them would be useful.

  You could likely create a situation to bypass everything and “fool” a pet, but that’s what you’d have to do.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Humid Acid⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Oh damn! That was a fun ride lol

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Do it.⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  This is the first I’d heard of skype a scientist, but holy shit am I in love with the project. Fucking brilliant!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Humid Acid⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  The “wook” thing? What is that, a typo?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What dude in your life has the most Michael Landon-esque full head of hair?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Not important to me. I dig the skullet I have, and the shape of my head works for me overall.

  Plus, my beard is fucking epic :)

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why do US airports have a lot more jet bridges than EU airports?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  I love that reference :)

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Ġ̵̻ͅį̴̹̜̼̙͍͋̈̕m̷̦͎͈̎̄̄̿̈ṁ̶̭̫͓̞̻̾̂̚ë̶͚́̍̀͆ ̴̻͗̈́̿̂̚͝f̴̧̳̝͓̫̆̍͌͠u̸̧̖̠̗͔̽̽̾ȇ̶̝̠̎̔l̵̡͙͔̀́̃́̓͘,̵̠̜̽͛ ̴͙̜͇͚̥̜̑͛͐̓͆͒ḡ̸̮͝͠ḯ̸͍̩͛͗̍͝ṁ̶̛͎̖̭̖̓̃͑̃ḿ̵̫̇e̸͈͕̍̍͒ ̸̧̣̣̣̹̺͌̃ẇ̴̤̳͇̪̝̑̈́̏̚i̶͖͒̒r̶̢̪̙͉̭̥̂̐e̵̞̳̻̍͘⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Yeaah-heah!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What dude in your life has the most Michael Landon-esque full head of hair?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Used to be my grandfather.

  The man had magnificent salt & pepper hair right up to his death, though the salt was well into taking over in his late seventies. Absolutely amazing hair. Alas, the genes for male pattern baldness hit me because that’s how it works.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨mistake⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Pfft, doesn’t matter, still counts

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Is there a name for the vocal technique used for characters like Sméagol?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Pretty much, yeah, though it doesn’t have to be low, iirc. It can come from higher in the throat, and thus sound higher pitched as well.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Is there a name for the vocal technique used for characters like Sméagol?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Isn’t that a version of fry?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What unique thing bothers you about politics in general?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Human stupidty and arrogance.

  Even when I share the purported beliefs of someone, the vast majority of people are so fucking smug and insistent on being right, that discussing politics ain’t likely with me.

  Then, you run into the fact that people tend to treat it like an identity and just mouth what they think they’re supposed to believe without ever actually thinking about it. It isn’t even just the people that are raised in one party/bloc/whatever and stick with it. Even the ones that change allegiance tend to treat it as some kind of granfaloon, but not the harmless kind. Shit, that’s that case with unaffiliated people too, it isn’t limited to party members.

  Like, yeah, we all think we’re right, but when that turns into smug self aggrandizement, fuck that.

  That’s the shit that bothers me about politics, that people can’t just fucking chill and vote their conscience, they gotta be right, and feel superior about it.

  That may not seem to be the kind of thing you’re asking about, but it’s one of the sessions those abysmal laws happen.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Ideal Beach Body⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I see no difference

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Chilis 🌶⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  This may be my favorite science based meme ever

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Feeling that groove⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  You hear about the dwarf psychic that escaped prison?

  He’s a small medium at large

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What OS does the Batcomputer use?⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Ahhhh, iirc, it’s one he built himself.

  It’s actually come up in comics before, more than once if my mind isn’t playing tricks.

  I don’t doubt that he would have at least taken lessons from open source type projects if Linux doesn’t directly exist in the comic universe.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Anon lives in 2056⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  I mean, dude does seem pretty rapey. I wouldn’t leave my chickens alone with him.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Anon lives in 2056⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Nah, it’s only gay if you like it

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨monch monch monch⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  🎶Immanuel Kant was a real pissant, who was very rarely stable 🎶

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨People who don't wear earphones outside - why, and what do you do instead?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  My thing is that if I’m outside relaxing, I want the birds and bugs and wind. If I can’t have those, headphones aren’t an acceptable replacement, so I’ll fuck off back inside.

  If I’m outside as in going about town, I don’t want my hearing compromised. It’s a fate safety issue. Even bone conduction gear is a distraction that I’m not okay with. Like, it isn’t even about being hit by a car or whatever, it could be something as simple as a shopping cart that’s loose banging into me. My crippled ass would be in the floor.

  My brain is enough stimulation for me. If I’m out in the world, my brain is going to be going a mile a minute scoping everything out. Doesn’t matter how many times I’ve been in a given location.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨pwned: do you pronounce it as "pohned" "pawned" or "owned"⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  That’s true, but I would argue that the player owned definition of it came so quickly on the heels of the typo that both could count as valid, with the caveat that the first usage being a typo would have to be considered a mistake, rather than the coining of the slang term itself.

  Which is stretching things a bit, but still fun to think about.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨pwned: do you pronounce it as "pohned" "pawned" or "owned"⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s pronounced pwned, as all right thinking people know

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Do air purifiers really reduce dust much?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Air purifier? That’s a less than ideal term since it gets applied to stuff like ionizers that are of dubious efficacy.

  But a straight up filter, hell yeah they work. Just check the filter on your furnace/heater sometime. Same with any AC unit.

  If you have something that has a filter, it will reduce dust, period. Without a filter, you aren’t going to reduce dust worth a damn, if at all.

  But you also need to make sure it’s turning the air over often enough. I haven’t looked the info up in ages, but if you want a decent reduction in particulates, the device has to move air fairly significantly it it isn’t going to about to much.

  Like, my house is right around a hundred years old. Four humans, and various animals over the years. Shit is dusty what with the dead skin, particles from things like carpet, pollen, dander, etc. Enough stuff gets produced that even with the regular furnace/ac filter, and a handful of one-room filters spread throughout the house (which tends to be better than one big one imo) we still get dust buildup on everything. But if we don’t run the filters, you can both visibly and nasally tell the difference.

  A newer house isn’t going to have as much, so you can likely get away with less air turnover, short term, and need to dust less. But you’ll never be totally dust free just because you can’t move enough air to prevent at least a little settling.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨If "James Bond" is a codename, would a hypothetical female operative filling the same role receive the same codename?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Gods, the first time heard Elba get suggested as a possible Bond, I flipped out. Then it eventually reached a point where it was definitely not going to happen, and it made me really not want to see any more Bond movies at all. There’s some actors born to play a role, and if they don’t, it’s kinda horrible. Like, if Pierce Brosnan had never had a chance to be Bond, it would have been a miscarriage of cinematic justice, no matter how the movie actually turned out (I enjoyed his turn personally).

  The fact that it’s essentially impossible to have Elba do even a single bond film now ruins the franchise for me

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Is there an anti- sleep-paralysis device?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  You can try looking into a sleep position trainer. It isn’t what you’re asking about, but it has had good results in reducing or eliminating the paralysis episodes, so it’s a similar outcome.

  The problem with what you’re specifically asking about is that nobody has gone into production afaik. There’s patents for things like they, but they’re either junk (and obviously so), or would be way too complicated to set up and use reliably. Sleep paralysis isn’t usually responsive to just shaking by itself.

  But you could try something similar to the alarms made for deaf people, if you have a consistent timing with your episodes. Or do something like strap a massager to your hand where you can cut it on and hope that the vibration breaks through. People have made that work, though it isn’t consistent afaik.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I didn’t see the title at first, and “fuck yeah” was exactly what popped into my head

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Think about her⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Annnnd ear wormed

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Anon thinks it's over⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I’m a fairly recent jazz convert, and there’s absolutely no way I would be able to tell the difference. None.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Took me a moment⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Much appreciated!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Took me a moment⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I almost get this one, but I’m not sure why LOGe would be In

  Just don’t speak enough maths lol