Sludgehammer
@Sludgehammer@lemmy.world
- Comment on Peter Dutton says he'll never stand in front of an Aboriginal flag as prime minister 1 week ago:
The opposition leader stated that the flag’s presence in press conferences is a symbol of division.
Translation: “Those ***** need to learn their place”
- Comment on Intruder 2 weeks ago:
- Comment on Why did the first people to settle in very cold climates decide to settle in such a harsh climate? 3 weeks ago:
They were repeatedly being selected for the people who could handle a slightly colder environment, so by the time the population reached the polar regions, all that was left was people with traits to handle the cold. Any remotely beneficial recessive gene would quickly replace dominant alleles in the population.
Although I’m sure there was some genetic adaptation, I’d argue it was more technological advancement. The northernmost tribe discovers a better make of clothing, or a better housing structure and suddenly the colder winters farther north are now tolerable so people settle there. The new northern tribe refines their technology and knowledge and now that they know how to… ice fish or something they have a winter food source, and now their descendants can settle even farther north.
- Comment on don't be a coward 3 weeks ago:
Complex limb? Let me see an elephant tie a granny knot. Maybe with training? OK. Do a square knot.
Complex communication? Elephants have communication skills on par with a 3-4 year old human. An intensely trained dog might top 200 words. My vocabulary is an easy 50,000 words. Yours is too.
Now apply both of these challenges to a chimpanzee. I doubt one could tie a knot very well. Washoe the chimp we taught sign language had a vocabulary of only 450. Yet, I have I on good authority that a very close relative of chimpanzees have developed complex thought, complex language and advanced tool use and creation.
- Comment on don't be a coward 3 weeks ago:
They must have limbs skilled enough to handle and construct this technology, a complex communication system, and a binocular vision system (for this reason the most used in all species) to perceive their environment. The humanoid shape is one that best fits these maxims and therefore it is quite possible that an advanced species would also have a more or less similar shape.
Elephants meet all of these criteria as well. A complex limb (their trunk), a complex communication, and binocular vision (although I don’t see why this is necessary).
- Comment on Half-Life 2 is currently 100% for its 20th anniversary 4 weeks ago:
Close enough I suppose.
- Comment on Half-Life 2 is currently 100% for its 20th anniversary 5 weeks ago:
Holy crap, someone who actually didn’t have it yet!
- Comment on Nintendo sues a streamer for streaming ten games before their release 5 weeks ago:
Nintendo has been cracking down on emulators this year.
I’m guessing it’s because the Switch 2 will be a “Gamecube to Wii” sort of upgrade. Gruntier CPU and GPU, minor hardware changes, but same basic system. So Nintendo has been cracking down on Switch emulators so there won’t be a zero day Switch 2 emulator.
- Comment on Stardew Valley 1.6.9 Changelog 1 month ago:
Placing a bomb and then switching to a weapon no longer applies its enchantments to the bomb damage.
Huh, never knew about that one.
- Comment on Is there a conversational AI chat bot that isn't... So horny? Preferably free, but I'll pay a little bit of it's good. 1 month ago:
Just be aware that the Gemini is rather limited in the logic department, even as chat bots go.
Image - Comment on World of Warcraft adds $90 mount to in game store 1 month ago:
There’s also a pack containing every ship they’ve sold which you can only see/purchase if you’ve spent one thousand dollars in their ship store. I’ll spoiler the price so you can try and guess how much it is first:
spoiler
$48,000, not counting the $1000 you have to spend to be able to see it.
- Comment on World of Warcraft adds $90 mount to in game store 1 month ago:
At least it’s not Star Citizen prices:
- Comment on Horrors We've Unleashed 2 months ago:
I mean it’s cheap easy protein. I’m not gonna judge.
- Comment on Horrors We've Unleashed 2 months ago:
But keep in mind there are a lot of invasive populations of mosquitoes and some of them are disease carrying species. Since they’re invasive, by definition they’re not vital to the natural ecosystem and those populations could be safely wiped out.
- Comment on He's just lucky I guess 2 months ago:
My best guess is that it was on some of the equipment and somehow got transferred in during the colonoscopy.
- Comment on Gender 2 months ago:
If you go far enough back, “Data corruption”
- Comment on Illegal voting by noncitizens is rare, yet Republicans are making it a major issue this election 3 months ago:
Don’t forget the voter suppression before the election. They’ll have long list of blue voters that must be purged because maybe one of them is illegally voting.
- Comment on Would you like a receipt? 3 months ago:
My response is usually “Sure, I can always use an alibi!”
- Comment on Honey what’s wrong, you barely touched your Philly Cheesesteak Cheesecake 5 months ago:
My thought is some sort of rosemary heavy crust with whole wheat bread crumbs instead of graham crackers, a garlic and onion flavored (and sugar free) cheese cake and then standard Philly cheese steak filling for the topping. Add in a dollop of cheese wiz on the top and some sort of balsamic/worcestershire reduction drizzled onto the top.
- Comment on Honey what’s wrong, you barely touched your Philly Cheesesteak Cheesecake 5 months ago:
That… could work?
I mean it’d be a real challenge, but some sort of savory cheesecake, with a savory crust, topped with cheese steak fillings and I could see it being… okay-ish. I don’t think it would gain mainstream appeal, but I could see it being some sort of local delicacy that all the locals say is delicious but also a acquired taste.
- Comment on [deleted] 6 months ago:
IIRC it’s because they classified the bong water as the controlled substance. As such it’s treated as if she were smuggling a half pound or so of meth rather then bong water that tested positive for methamphetamine.
- Comment on Metal Slug Tactics - New trailer | Coming Fall 2024 6 months ago:
If you liked the SNES Megaman X games you’ll like 20XX.
- Comment on Tower of Babel 8 months ago:
And once again God fucks everyone over because he can’t stand not being the most special boy ever.
- Comment on Like a novelty 8 months ago:
I wonder how good of a wooden axe you could make? Like what if you carved the axe head out of lignum vitae or something.
- Comment on Would you drink breast milk if it was commercially available? 8 months ago:
That opens up the possibility of vegan cheese, butter, etc. but as true dairy products.
There actually are vegan dairy-ish products out there. Several startups have inserted the gene for casein (the main protein in milk) into yeast. So you just harvest the casein, add a little bit of some sort of fat and sugar and you have something that’s 99% the same as milk, and can be used in the same sorts of processes.
The only product that I’ve actually tried was some Brave Robot ice cream, which was well… ice cream.
- Comment on Why is alcohol legal if it's much more harmful than marijuana? 8 months ago:
Two things really.
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Tradition. Alcohol has a long history in European culture and by immigration the United States. It’s common to have a glass of wine or a beer with dinner, the rich will impress their friends with the extravagant alcohol they drink serve, you take a glass of wine at communion… heck at one point weak beers were drunk more than water, because at the time nobody knew what made water safe to drink but everyone could tell if beer smelled rotten.
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Production. Marijuana is easy to grow, but it takes a lot of time and space to produce. Alcohol on the other hand you need something with sugar and some yeast or starter. It can be fermented in some corner of the basement or even a cupboard. It’s hard to control the production of alcohol even in prisons there’s usually someone fermenting pruno somewhere and that’s one of the most controlled and monitored environments. It’s really hard to prevent people from brewing some form of alcohol because it’s about as easy as making bread.
When you combine these two you end up with the disaster that occurred when the United States tried to ban alcohol during prohibition. An easy to produce intoxicant with a large market was suddenly banned, when people started looking for more organized crime stepped in to fill the void.
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- Comment on Plastic tea bags 9 months ago:
Are you sure those aren’t nylon bags? Anyway I’ve found PLA’s biodegradability highly over rated. When Sunchips were doing those PLA bags I threw one into a worm bin, when I emptied the bin a year later it looked pretty much unchanged.
- Comment on Plastic tea bags 9 months ago:
Don’t I know it. My house is right next to a highway and was apparently placed by someone who loved the sound engine breaking. I probably have tire rubber dust settling on everything outside.
- Comment on Plastic tea bags 9 months ago:
Well shit. I guess I’m gonna have a lot of micro plastics in my compost then.
- Comment on Plastic tea bags 9 months ago:
God I hate those. Paper tea bags you can toss into the fireplace or in the compost depending on the time of year, but those plastic ones you can’t do anything but chuck them into the trash.
