Hawke

@Hawke@lemmy.world

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨u WoT m8⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Username checks out.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Butter⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Nah, probably corn syrup.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Hard choices. Who would you choose?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Then you already know your answer to “are there any female dog companions in cartoons?”

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Hard choices. Who would you choose?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  You mentioned Blue’s Clues but you ignored the main character? Or do you not consider Blue as a “dog companion”?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Association of Home Appliance Manufacturers wins lawsuit against Colorado. Judge claims there is no evidence that gas stoves cause or contribute to health issues⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Not entirely true: some people will change with smaller warnings, even just this news. Others require graphic warnings plastered on the front to change. More warnings, more impact.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨seven⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Three.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Internet picture of a monkey⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Ticket Me Elmo

  Is that the cop version?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨"Refrigerate after opening and store in the refrigerator door." Why the door for this mayo?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Only if you rarely eat them. They’ll last a few months before going rancid which is fine for many people.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How much money should one person realistically make or have?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Ah yes the famous 100% tax. /s

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How much money should one person realistically make or have?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Great, they did it and were successful. Now they can fuck off and do something else with their money, hopefully not something so destructive to society.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How much money should one person realistically make or have?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  If you taxed Zuckerburg, Musk, or Bezos 90% of their wealth, they would lose control of their companies

  Not seeing the downside here.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Birbs & Dinos⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  That was a brilliant explanation, thank you.

  para- and mono-phyletic were indeed the problem words. I can tell they are related to phylum but “phylum” doesn’t mean much to me except to know that it’s a word for some grouping of species.

  The other part where I was snagged is the significance of cladistics and the new/old classification methods. I knew both terms as “words for groups of species and hadn’t dug further.

  Between the family tree example and the diagram — got it, thanks to you and your sibling reply.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Birbs & Dinos⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I kinda know what some of those words mean.

  Can I get a picture?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Sea Level⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  That is pretty severely exaggerated though to emphasize the form.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Who shops at small businesses?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  This, although I wish my town still had a local bakery and a hardware store.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨why⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  I think it’s to make it less ambiguous.

  In English you just use the same word and figure it out from context. Someone else gave some other Spanish examples but I like “right” (direction) = “la derecha” vs “right” (human rights) = “los derechos”.

  Of course there’s still so many variants of meaning that grammatical gender doesn’t help much.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Valve Addresses Steam Machine Anti-Cheat Concerns, Says It's Working Towards Support⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Looks like a standard IEC C8 plug. Image

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨When you wake up, how long does it take for your brain's "OS" to "resume from hibernation"?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  If you are not familiar with the concept of sleep and/or waking up you may want to do the same.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨When you wake up, how long does it take for your brain's "OS" to "resume from hibernation"?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  They’re talking about sleep.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨It's OK to just like lemon water.⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Light brown aka tan.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Exterminate⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  You the real MVP.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨anime titles be like⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Letters writ by a Turkish spy, who lived five and forty years undiscovered at Paris: giving an impartial account to the Divan at Constantinople, of the most remarkable transactions of Europe: and discovering several intrigues and secrets of the Christian courts (especially of that of France). Continued from the year 1637, to the year 1682. Written originally in Arabick, translated into Italian, from thence into English, and now published with a large historical preface and index to illustrate the whole

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why do so many hand dryers not dry hands? Am I doing something wrong?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  That’s… not at all how those work. It’s literally a roll of clean dry towel.

  If the towel is wet it’s because you didn’t pull out fresh towel and just decided to use old towel for some reason.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why do so many hand dryers not dry hands? Am I doing something wrong?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  It has a clean roll and a dirty roll. Someone takes out the dirty roll and replaces the clean roll periodically. Apparently they typically have about 30 meters of cloth, enough for about 200 uses.

  How often that is, depends on how frequently it’s used.

  There are cleaning services that wash the cloth and swap them for you.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why do so many hand dryers not dry hands? Am I doing something wrong?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I mean someone would still have to go and open it up, swap the rolls around, plus it wouldn’t work well since the towels don’t wind up cleanly in the cabinet and they’d still be wet.

  If you’re gonna send someone in to do anything they might as well change the towels while they’re at it.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why do so many hand dryers not dry hands? Am I doing something wrong?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  A towel dispenser?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why do so many hand dryers not dry hands? Am I doing something wrong?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  They don’t go around more than once… there’s a take-up roll and the clean roll. Of course it also relies on someone changing it when it gets to the end…

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why do so many hand dryers not dry hands? Am I doing something wrong?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Eh, not really. Certainly not difficult.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why do so many hand dryers not dry hands? Am I doing something wrong?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Cloth towels are even better still.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Was the fall of Rome this stupid?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Thanks for the explanatory postscript, I was gonna ask…