captain_aggravated

@captain_aggravated@sh.itjust.works

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨In this thread: GIFs you've been waiting to post but the occasion never arises⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:

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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨More chickens!⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  amazing to me how few creatures have learned to not be assholes while delicious. It’s like “do you want to be honey barbecue or spicy buffalo? I’ve got a choice of sauces available.”

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Perception is everything.⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Reminds me of a picture I saw of an owl that was missing a lot of feathers on its head, captioned “…bless you.”

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Probably accurate⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Xhamster isn’t American.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The Old Car Summertime Struggle⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  I would also like to autopsy this car.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Satan's Ballsack⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  The Northrop-Grumman B-2 Doomerang.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨More chickens!⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Sounds delicious.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Perception is everything.⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  I thought it was a horse with some weird hair going on.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Do you think they charge extra for this?⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  One of the most important race tracks in the United States is in Daytona Beach, Florida. The entire motor racing culture of Daytona sprung up because the local beach sand is actually hard, densely packed and worn very smooth by the waves. The earliest car races there used a significant portion of the beach itself as the track.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Do you think they charge extra for this?⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  You need somewhere to piss. What are you going to do, go in the ocean?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Probably don’t give the dog A1 sauce but yeah make waffle treats for your dog. Sounds like an afternoon of wholesome fun.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨This Apple Lie at the grocery store⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  The grass and/or grain the cow eats does though.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨"influencers" are setting us back⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  When you have enough charlatans trying to push corporate or religious agendas, you’ve got two choices:

  1. Every single human being needs to repeat every single experiment they rely on for their work or pleasure because there is no such thing as trust, only the scientific method and the power of repeating experiments to verify results, or

  2. We need to have institutions to do this shit for us whose reputations MATTER at the flesh and bone level. What that looks like, at this point I’m not sure, because criminals always win.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨"influencers" are setting us back⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  I’ve gone to college. I’ve been taught buy people who are supposed to know this shit how to find scholarly sources. I’ve cited such sources in essays. Something I’ve never been shown are those peer reviews. Hell, it seems like half the experiments I was taught about in school come with a “And here’s why we ethically CAN’T repeat this study” like the Stanford Prison Experiment.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨"influencers" are setting us back⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  The “intellectual elite” did a lot of the damage themselves.

  I want you to go watch a youtube channel called The Octopus Lady. She’s a member of Nebula, young woman with some marine biology credentials who zilennials her way through science communication mostly about ocean life. And she does the legwork, or tries to. She makes a running gag out of sounding out all the latin. “Nootfish are in the order pi…pisca…pis-caen-id-ae? And the phylum Pis-caein-in-ae? Piscaieninae.” And it’s not difficult to find an episode where she’ll talk about reading published research papers and completely failing to understand them, because they’re written in space catholic. She’ll read excerpts like “The phyringial jaws are motulidated lantitherally from the up end of the distal and caudal sclipera. When feeding, they linticulate joternimously in a cirratic fashion.” She has a habit of damning basically any scientist in any field other than marine biology to turbohell because she understands their work even less.

  “Cite your source.” “Okay. 5.8th dimensional pile of moon runes Hope this clears it up.”

  It raises the problem of science-shaped bullshit. The MLA or APA style guides are manuals on how to fake scientific literature. It’s very easy to make bullshit look credible. This happens a lot; industries hold fake scientific conferences where bullshit research is presented before being published in bullshit journals so that you can find the bullshit people cite when lying on behalf of a corporation.

  Hell just go to a doctor. Make an appointment months in advance to have someone dead inside prescribe you whatever SSRI their office is wallpapered with ads for as treatment for astigmatism. Women commonly complain of having their problems outright ignored, meanwhile men pretty much just give up and just…live with three knees on one leg out of not unfounded fear the hospital will just maim them further. After all, if you cut a patient’s dick off during a tonsilectomy, you get to charge them for reattachment. The healthcare system managed to make themselves the worst part of a forklift accident.

  Universities selling out en masse offering bullshit degrees like Musical Psychology casts a certain “What the fuck are you doing?” shadow over everything they do. But what do you expect out of our nation’s classroom-themed minor league professional sports franchises?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨This Apple Lie at the grocery store⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  I was being serious; figure up the tons per hectare per year of butter production.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨This Apple Lie at the grocery store⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Do butter.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Then a drone collapses the waveform⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  He might have been hung but he was definitely hanged, I saw the video. Surprisingly loud.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Finally an explanation⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Illinois Nazis. I hate Illinois Nazis.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I am el french⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  When you grew up in suburban North Carolina and your high school French teacher was a southern belle and self-proclaimed “chauvinist piglet” so to this very day you perley vew freyansay.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Sound of silence⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Man, I went to a coffee shop with a girl once. This coffee shop sat maybe 24 people, okay? It’s a shallow, wide building. There’s the counter with two baristas working, in front of the counter along the front wall of the building are those narrow “table for two” booths, like 2 or 3 of them. Both the counter and those booths run to the right wall of the building. To the left is a small more open area with maybe 4 four-seat tables.

  There was this guy. This male homo sapiens. Who brought an acoustic-electric guitar. A microphone. And two, count them in the eyes of sweet zombie Jesus TWO. 60+ watt amplifiers. Because this was the artistic opportunity of this existing organism’s life. This creature, this placental mammal, was going to REACH his audience on this night. Through all the noise of a commercial AC unit and the single digit number of people that I ever saw in the building, his Green Day covers would be HEARD!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨me looking at my 190 cm/110 kg daddy⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I dated a girl who had been raised by a single mother, one sister no brothers, then she went to an all-girl’s college. At 25, I was her first boyfriend. I’m not sure I convinced her we’re the same species. A 5’7" 200 pound man dating a 5’1" 110 pound woman, I was almost twice her size and casually lifted or moved things she utterly couldn’t. She very nearly screamed the first time I picked her up.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨porch of geese⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  🇧🇷 Portuguese.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Happy birds⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  They’re predators, but they’re the “I’m adapted to hunt in one environment but I hang out in another” kind of predator, so they’re these amazing fish seeking torpedoes in the water, but they’re these delightfully ridiculous footballs in dinner jackets waddling around on land. And they’re licensed under the GPL which is always cool.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨🦀 🦀 🦀⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Or a capybara that is just sick of that pelican’s shit.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨porch of geese⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I’m not “trying” anything. I’ve encountered a lot of websites with Choose Your Language dropdowns where English is represented by Old Glory and not the Union Jack.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨porch of geese⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I was specifically referring to this which proposed many of the changes you’re talking about, but very few were actually adopted.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨porch of geese⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  The Voice Of America has a standardized Simplified English they use for broadcasting to regions where English isn’t commonly spoken.

  There was also that attempt at destupifying English spelling, a very small amount of which stuck. Color.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨porch of geese⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Nothing. I’ve heard it used occasionally for decades.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨porch of geese⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  🇺🇸 English