NielsBohron
@NielsBohron@lemmy.world
- Comment on Images leak of Valve's next game, and it's an Overwatch-style hero shooter 15 hours ago:
I’m inclined to agree with you, but Valve doesn’t often miss
- Comment on Pdf partee 1 week ago:
I figured, but I love Jagger and I can’t stand Clapton, so I legitimately felt compelled to “correct” the joke.
- Comment on Pdf partee 1 week ago:
Man, I tried so hard to not ruin the joke, but I can’t stand Mick Jagger getting confused with that right-wing nutjob, so fuck it:
That’s Mick Jagger as JSTOR, not Eric “Asshat” Clapton
- Comment on 2x2 lumber at Home Depot is now 1.28x1.28. Nominal size is supposed to be 1.5 1 week ago:
Depends. The cheap houses, yeah, there’s as fair bit of noise, but you can’t hear everything. From downstairs, you can hear when someone walks across the room above you, but not when they’re walking in other upstairs rooms. And from rooms on the same level, you can hear if someone is talking loudly in the room next door, but not enough to make out what they say unless they’re yelling.
Well-built houses or buildings made for occupancy by multiple families usually have better sound insulation between the units, so it’s not always an issue.
- Comment on Physics 1 week ago:
I will not stand for this Planck erasure! Sure, Einstein and Maxwell are great, but how can you leave off the father of quantum mechanics when a third of the poster is a direct result of his research
- Comment on Rules for Life 1 week ago:
The more drugs I consume, the less I worry about performing medical procedures on the cat, so problem solved! Now where’d I leave the ketamine?
- Comment on Mad Palaeontologists 1 week ago:
If I had cancer, I would see that as an absolute win.
Shit, even as a healthy (if overweight) man approaching middle age, I’d be tempted to volunteer for dino-gene therapy. “You mean I could continue life as I am and watch my health slowly fall apart or I could be a dinosaur? Can I still talk to my family? You know what, nevermind. Where do I sign up?”
- Comment on Anon hates aluminum 1 week ago:
You know, while sitting around avoiding work on a Monday, I remembered my source: some British dude living in the American Midwest talking about random words on YouTube (I think his channel is “Lost in the Pond” or something like that). The specifics he referenced were “axe/ax,” “kerb/curb,” and “tyre/tire.” In each case, there was a settled spelling shared Great Britain and North American English (the latter of each pair), and for some reason England made up a new spelling or reverted to an even older spelling in the late 19th century (Wikipedia source)
So I wasn’t completely fabricating things, but it was much more specific than I remembered.
- Comment on Anon hates aluminum 1 week ago:
There you go. That’s what I get for trusting random bits of unsourced memory.
- Comment on Anon hates aluminum 1 week ago:
yet another instance where American English decided to be different for the sake of it, without any rhyme or reason.
I actually read somewhere that lots of those instances were actually England deciding to be different so they could look down on “the colonies.” The extra u in color and favorite, all those random e’s, etc. were actually added later to look “old-timey.”
Now, on a lazy Sunday afternoon, I can’t be bothered to actually find a source, but I remember the source being trustworthy, so take that however you like.
- Comment on Anon hates aluminum 1 week ago:
Fluorine. Fluorine is definitely oxygen’s dom.
- Comment on Academic Rizzlers 2 weeks ago:
Thank you. Let’s not forget that at it’s root, “meme” just means “imitated thing” and is just an idea that can be communicated from one consciousness to another. It’s a scientific concept, defined by a term coined by an evolutionary biologist to describe the way that ideas move through a culture/society. Memes are not new and have likely been around in some form since before spoken or written language existed
- Comment on Take-Two Interactive shuts down the Studios behind Kerbal Space Program and Rollerdrome 2 weeks ago:
It’s sad to see the sequel get abandoned like this.
Especially when KSP has had such an active and vibrant community for a decade
- Comment on I finally got access to the catholic AI 2 weeks ago:
It’s got what plants crave!
- Comment on 🔔 SHAME 🔔 2 weeks ago:
I misread that as “absolute immunity” and thought you had posted to the wrong community.
The meme works just as well, “absolute immunity” is just more topical and political than mathematical
- Comment on Starship Troopers 3 weeks ago:
At least Paul Verhoeven is aware his work is satire. Heinlein seems like he can’t decide whether fascism is a way to discuss interesting ideas or the best possible form of government.
- Comment on New best friend for life! 4 weeks ago:
Now, this is the episode the world needs
- Comment on LEARN THE DIFFERENCE PEOPLE 👏👏👏 4 weeks ago:
Thank you. Linguistics is not my field, obviously
- Comment on LEARN THE DIFFERENCE PEOPLE 👏👏👏 4 weeks ago:
Good to know! I took years of Spanish classes and my kids are in a Spanish immersion school in California, but I’ve only ever heard lagarto for smaller lizards and cocodrilo for anything resembling crocodilians
Thanks for the info
- Comment on LEARN THE DIFFERENCE PEOPLE 👏👏👏 4 weeks ago:
Fun fact about the etymology of “alligator:” When the Spanish first landed in what is now Florida, they found alligators and simply called them “el lagarto,” which literally translates to “the lizard.” While there were many reptiles in the swamps and bayous, only one was enough of a problem to be called “THE lizard,” and after several mistranslations into other languages, “el lagarto” morphed into “alligator”
Or at least that’s what I read somewhere once.
- Comment on A bad influence 4 weeks ago:
It’s useful for me to keep track chat conversations with coworkers, but it doesn’t really do anything that Discord can’t. It just has the benefit of being pre-installed on our work computers and it already has everyone’s contact info (plus then I don’t need to juggle multiple Discord accounts or teach my Boomer coworkers about Discord). Especially since I work in a building and location that has little to no cell service inside the building, it’s nice to be able to get ahold of people in a faster and less formal way than email.
But for any of the other advertised functions, it’s trash.
- Comment on orinthologists search history 4 weeks ago:
I’ve got one that’s pretty close, but she just goes “Backstreet’s back…” and the male’s corresponding mating call is to respond “ALRIGHT!”
- Comment on isopods are friends 4 weeks ago:
Yeah, I have a deep-seated irrational fear of bugs large enough to “pop” when you step on them, and I think it stems from growing up around these monstrosities. They’re not as bad as bugs in a lot of places, but goddamn does it hurt to get bit by them, especially as a child.
- Comment on isopods are friends 4 weeks ago:
In Nor Cal where I grew up, potato bugs are a totally different bug that looks like a cockroach fucked a grasshopper.
- Comment on One of the problems of working on the weekends. 4 weeks ago:
I mean, shit, Evan Williams makes a damn fine Old Fashioned at a whopping $20 per handle.
- Comment on 卄乇ㄥㄥ ㄚ乇卂卄 5 weeks ago:
This feels like what Fear and Loathing would have been like if they were more into (slash had knowledge of) dissociatives.
- Comment on 卄乇ㄥㄥ ㄚ乇卂卄 5 weeks ago:
Relevant username?
- Comment on Truly an exquisite bass (i dont know what they do at bass pro shops) 5 weeks ago:
Well, when “hunting and fishing gear” includes boats, ATV’s, deer blinds, guns, etc., then yeah, you kinda do.
Plus, a large chunk of the space is taken up with “decor” which is mostly taxidermy, aquariums, and reproductions of all sorts of big game trophies.
- Comment on This is a Test 1 month ago:
W-w-what?
- Comment on Gameplay mechanics were also a lot better with more replayability. 1 month ago:
I do. The only time I ever play online is playing PvE games with my good IRL friends that live in different countries and states now.
No randoms, no tantrums when we make noob mistakes, no toxicity. When my friends aren’t around, I play single player games or play with bots instead of people. I highly recommend it.