Swedneck
@Swedneck@discuss.tchncs.de
- Comment on stylish 13 hours ago:
ok nerd
- Comment on on owls 16 hours ago:
okay so the cool thing is that humans are effectively self-domesticated, there are no “wild” humans and haven’t been any for at least hundreds of thousands of years, and we might even have self-domesticated before becoming anatomically modern humans!
Ancient paleolithic hunter-gatherers wouldn’t just leave people to starve or shit like that, if you couldn’t do any work your tribe would still take care of you because it would be fucking disgusting not to, there’s archeological evidence of individuals who would have been outright carried around and hand-fed who survived for many years after their injuries!
the fact that people in the modern age have to worry about getting enough food to survive is fucking insane, if our ancestors saw what we’re doing they’d kill themselves out of shame and disgust.
- Comment on stylish 20 hours ago:
that’s how you tell them apart from crocodiles
- Comment on Octopi 2 days ago:
at this point i just spite everyone and call them something like “octopodii” or “octopiuses”
- Comment on Octopi 2 days ago:
i can do you one better: language doesn’t have rules, if it sounds good it’s valid, who cares
- Comment on How to become the king 2 days ago:
and then someone invented the bow, just to show off.
yeah fuck it why not, let’s give a man the ability to shoot sticks clean THROUGH things if they so want. - Comment on Guidance 2 days ago:
“Have you tried seducing exotic-looking people? maybe knapping a nice flint knife? That’ll help with seducing the exotic people as well!”
- Comment on The Circle of Life 3 days ago:
downside: still got bugs
upside: holy shit adorable - Comment on The Circle of Life 3 days ago:
“i cannot tolerate you but i do not hate you, therefore i will grant you as swift and painless a death as i can manage”
- Comment on The Circle of Life 3 days ago:
can confirm, anything with long thin legs makes me want to cry profusely, but if the legs are short and wide then i’ll at worst be a bit grossed out.
- Comment on The Circle of Life 3 days ago:
jumping spiders are also a about the perfect size for a spider: small enough that it doesn’t elicit a deep primal horror inside me, large enough to feast on other gross bugs.
add to that their intelligence and not spinning webs, and hell yeah spiderbro.them and proper orbweavers (who spin their web and straight up stay there forever if they keep finding food in their web, you can trivially easily keep them as pets by putting them on a little U shaped contraption and putting a bug in their web every now and then) are so compatible with humans that i hope we borderline domesticate them.
- Comment on Real 3 days ago:
also leaving it at “don’t use your phone” is mid-tier sciencing, if you want your research to actually help people you follow that up with “and here’s how to avoid using your phone”
- Comment on Dragonflies 3 days ago:
well then tough shit i guess, you’ll just have to accept that no one else gives a shit what you think.
- Comment on Dragonflies 3 days ago:
Ok what’s happening, it’s the second reply to this 7 months old comment that I get this week
and yet you had to say this, so clearly people do care about old posts, and you’re the odd one out.
- Comment on where?? 4 days ago:
you’re talking about the order from the sun, but that’s not necessarily how it has to appear in our sky. It’s like how the stars in orion’s belt are actually stupidly far from each other, and from their perspective they have absolutely nothing to do with each other.
- Comment on Dragonflies 4 days ago:
i mean yeah evolutionarily we have a better setup, but i’m talking about how things are right now.
right now most people are constantly stressed out and feeling like absolute dogshit, and it’s no wonder when we’re all so miserably isolated. Humans are absurdly social creatures, we need contact to survive, and yet society is built in a way that makes it extremely difficult. - Comment on Dragonflies 4 days ago:
bro 7 months is fucking nothing on the internet, people reply to 7 year old comments all the time. This is a forum not a chat
- Comment on Dragonflies 5 days ago:
i mean, dig holes? obviously?
the fuck kinda question is this - Comment on Dragonflies 5 days ago:
harpoonis
- Comment on Dragonflies 5 days ago:
when you realize this it makes a lot more sense how fucked up the world is, of course everyone’s going to be miserable when they’re evolved to have sex at least 3 times per day with 5 different people and yet things look like they do!
- Comment on Dragonflies 5 days ago:
i mean yeah, if your tribe goes around raping other tribes’ women that’s going to get everyone you know and love put on the “kill on sight” list.
- Comment on Mushroom Guides 5 days ago:
i mean porcinis really are basically impossible to get wrong, presuming it’s the same as here in sweden there is like 1 species that will give you stomach issues and it’s fucking bright red. Again it depends on area but here it’s literally as simple as “if the underside of the hat looks like a sponge, it’s safe to eat” and a proper food-quality species will taste nice and nutty.
IMO the best usage of mushrooms is drying them and putting them in stuff like stew and sauce, either in big chunks so it gets a meat-like texture or ground up to maximize flavour extraction.
- Comment on Mushroom Guides 5 days ago:
my conclusion is that they’re a feature of our evolution that helps the species identify dangerous things, either they eat a mushroom and explode and the rest of the tribe can go “holy fuck don’t eat that mushroom” or they go alone on a run through the forest and get mauled by a tiger and the rest of the tribe goes “holy fuck a tiger time to leg it in the opposite direction while it’s busy eating Fred”
- Comment on Mushroom Guides 5 days ago:
it’s like eating random meat from the ground, it’s impossible for you to know what the fuck species it is or even if it’s all a single species.
- Comment on Mushroom Guides 5 days ago:
also even completely safe raw mushrooms are kinda difficult for us to digest, especially when not used to it, so do be prepared for some stomach annoyances if you pick 5 liters of boletes and chow down on it…
- Comment on Mushroom Guides 5 days ago:
the general rule is “look up what is 100% safe and trivial to identify with 0 toxic lookalikes in your area, from several sources you trust with your life. Don’t touch anything else out there.”
- Comment on wooly bears 5 days ago:
good things lawns don’t have to just be grass, over here lawns have at least like 5-6 species in them and as a result the only thing that makes it look bad is mowing too much.
like i’ve seen people talk about how mossy lawns will dry out and die but it’s just bog standard to have mossy lawns with 0 shade around here, the diversity in the soil makes everything more robust.
- Comment on wooly bears 5 days ago:
go forbid your yard not be a sterile wasteland
- Comment on Unusual Pollinators 5 days ago:
i love the concept of animals getting zooted on nectar so they end up drunkenly pollinating flowers until they snap out of the daze and wonder where the fuck they are
- Comment on I want to know. 5 days ago:
i don’Ł wanŁ Ło beliere
