Catoblepas
@Catoblepas@lemmy.blahaj.zone
- Comment on Not ready 6 hours ago:
I’ll probably be alive next year, though. Now who’s winning?
- Comment on Eeeep 1 day ago:
Our boy is the same way, absolutely bomb proof. He didn’t even notice the 4th of July happening. He has some mistrust of the vacuum and gets out of the way if it’s coming towards him, but otherwise just sits and stares at it like ‘the fuck is this thing so loud for?’, whereas our previous girl would flee under the furniture the second the vacuum emerged.
The way I knew he actually might have hurt himself after a recent tumble during his antics was that he crawled under the furniture to hide, something he hasn’t done in almost a year with us. He was fine, he stopped limping in less than a day and learned absolutely nothing!
- Comment on Me_IRL 1 day ago:
There is a very real chance I’d OD if I didn’t use my oil organizer, haha. For whatever reason my brain absolutely can’t retain a timestamp on when I last took my meds.
- Comment on Legos. 3 days ago:
Most expensive meal you’ll eat this year, even if you live in a place with nationalized healthcare :p
- Comment on School Nurses 4 days ago:
Once when I went to the school health center for anti-diarrhea meds they told me they couldn’t give it to me without me seeing the doctor first, and the soonest appointment was in a few hours.
They told me I had to make an appointment… for diarrhea. Motherfucker, what???
- Comment on Hard Out There For A Woman 4 days ago:
There actually was a stunt where they let Helen Keller ‘fly’ a plane (hold the stick while they were already in the air with the pilots monitoring).
The conspiracy that she wasn’t actually blind or deaf is frustratingly common among people under 30, who I assume have all picked it up from TikTok.
- Comment on Some mums be like 6 days ago:
Fortunately linguistics has studied this a fair amount, and not only is baby talk nearly universal among cultures, it’s developmentally important for babies learning sound differentiation, plus a bunch of other benefits. youtu.be/-Z24GxW-mG4
- Comment on why don't pandas exist in Chinese history prior to 1869? the creature "Mo" that is referenced looks nothing like a Panda 1 week ago:
academic.oup.com/mbe/article/32/1/4/2925562
The problem pandas have is people, not themselves.
It is commonly argued that giant pandas are an evolutionary cul-de-sac because of their specialized bamboo diet, phylogenetic changes in body size, small population, low genetic diversity, and low reproductive rate. This notion is incorrect, arose from a poor understanding or appreciation of giant panda biology, and is in need of correction. In this review, we summarize research across morphology, ecology, and genetics to dispel the idea, once and for all, that giant pandas are evolutionary dead-end. The latest and most advanced research shows that giant pandas are successful animals highly adapted to a specialized bamboo diet via morphological, ecological, and genetic adaptations and coadaptation of gut microbiota. We also debunk misconceptions around population size, population growth rate, and genetic variation. During their evolutionary history spanning 8 My, giant pandas have survived diet specialization, massive bamboo flowering and die off, and rapid climate oscillations. Now, they are suffering from enormous human interference.
- Comment on Bound to Isaac 1 week ago:
Henry and Isaac would be a weird name for two mommies, but I support them ;p
And no idea how common it is, I live in the US so uncircumcised dicks in my age group are unusual.
- Comment on As I don't say I will kill the president, can I at least allude to threatening? Like the 86 47 guy? 1 week ago:
‘86’ is a colloquial term for being unwelcome, fired, or otherwise getting kicked out, the same way getting axed is. The people claiming it’s a violent term are liars or rubes.
Wikipedia has a good list of historical usages of the term, including in politics prior to now: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/86_(term)
- Comment on Bound to Isaac 1 week ago:
When one daddy and another daddy love each other very much… en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Docking_(sex)
- Comment on New York sues prediction market Polymarket, calling it an unlicensed gambling operation 1 week ago:
Yeah, it absolutely is. Hopefully they knock it out of the park.
- Comment on Capitalism is all about using state power to protect capital by force 1 week ago:
Not ‘every company of a certain size’, all of the means of production would be worker owned. In practice what this would mean is that if you run a business you can’t continue to extract profit from workers without compensating them or allowing them a collective voice in what the profits are used for. Whether they want to run that as a co-op (which can include consumers and not just workers, eg REI) is up to them. There isn’t a central government directing this under communism, as the eventual goal is for the state to no longer be necessary. I think that part is unlikely to happen naturally and communists are pretty vague about it IME, I’m more of the opinion that capitalism needs to be legislated out of existence and kept that way with a strong government. But implementing more widespread adoption of worker-owned companies is going to be necessary if we want to get out of this goddamned mess, because letting one guy (or a board of guys) decide what quality of life tens of thousands of people have clearly isn’t working.
I don’t believe the owners of a company should be compensated, because they’ve already been vastly overcompensated by the wealth they extracted from the workers and they should count themselves lucky if they’re not in an Ayn Rand situation afterwards. Because the thing is, if you’re actually wanting to do something cool, you don’t care if it’s going to make you rich as long as it’s not tanking the company. Think about how many scientists, engineers, artists, etc have been held back or had incredible projects canceled because some CEO decided that x% profit on it wasn’t a good enough return. Do you imagine that would happen with nearly as much frequency if, say, the organization was entirely owned and run by the highly skilled professionals actually doing the work and interested in it?
- Comment on Capitalism is all about using state power to protect capital by force 1 week ago:
Show your work.
- Comment on Capitalism is all about using state power to protect capital by force 1 week ago:
Capitalism requires private, profit based ownership of the means of production. Not all worker owned businesses are profit seeking, or any profit they obtain beyond operating/wage costs is redistributed to the workers/voted on for how to use it. Without a profit motive and private ownership you’re cutting out a huge portion of what makes capitalism so destructive.
- Comment on Capitalism is all about using state power to protect capital by force 1 week ago:
Presumably the same way worker owned businesses work now.
- Comment on Capitalism is all about using state power to protect capital by force 1 week ago:
Nope, and that’s not what I said. The claim was that capitalism is the only system that has ever worked at a nationwide scale. The fact you brought up feudalism as an alternative shows it clearly wasn’t the only system that ever worked. And just like the divine right of kings was eventually found distasteful and overthrown throughout most of the world, so too can people come to find the capitalist system distasteful and replace it. It’s not a law of nature that people must operate under capitalism.
- Comment on Bleep bloop 1 week ago:
I once had a dude working on monitoring the self checkouts get mad at me for having a bag that made the machine freak out and lock itself down when I sat it in the bagging area. Nothing crazy, just a normal canvas grocery bag. I don’t control your manager setting it so that anything heavier than the paper store bags set it off, dude!
- Comment on Capitalism is all about using state power to protect capital by force 1 week ago:
If you’re using capitalism to mean monetary trade, you’re the one redefining words. See the generally accepted meaning here on Wikipedia; it specifically revolves around private ownership of the means of production for the purpose of profit. Maybe you could name a capitalist society in existence prior to the 1600s, if you think everyone else is just defining capitalist wrong?
- Comment on Capitalism is all about using state power to protect capital by force 1 week ago:
Psst: workers own the means of production under communism.
- Comment on Capitalism is all about using state power to protect capital by force 1 week ago:
Crazy that nowhere in the world had functional societies until the past couple of centuries. Just wild.
- Comment on Is that good? 1 week ago:
The weird thing is that’s not even a tarot card. It just showed up when you did.
- Comment on wet the drys 2 weeks ago:
All that work just to put pregrated cheese from a shake carton on it?? If you’re weirdly in love with it you do you, but otherwise do yourself a favor and grate some real parm onto that.
- Comment on "I am an ancient nobleman and need some coin made prove to me youre a craftsman that can make quality coin" "check this thing out." 2 weeks ago:
Ask the people who think the dodecahedrons are for knitting, because that’s the only thing they’d be able to knit with it :p
- Comment on "I am an ancient nobleman and need some coin made prove to me youre a craftsman that can make quality coin" "check this thing out." 2 weeks ago:
I don’t think most knitters would be able to do anything with a bunch of wire, and it doesn’t seem like the dodecahedrons have the kind of wear that wire crafting would entail. I also don’t know that crafting wire into a necklace would necessarily translate to skill in knitting gloves, or even mean people would have the idea for it.
- Comment on "I am an ancient nobleman and need some coin made prove to me youre a craftsman that can make quality coin" "check this thing out." 2 weeks ago:
Is this really considered knitting and not metalworking?
- Comment on "I am an ancient nobleman and need some coin made prove to me youre a craftsman that can make quality coin" "check this thing out." 2 weeks ago:
There is no evidence of knitting in the Roman Empire, which if it was there is weird when you consider how much art they made that shows other parts of their daily lives and how many deities they had for every aspect of life.
The solid ones would also be completely useless for knitting gloves. And why are these typically found in hoards of money if they’re a part of domestic life? It just doesn’t fit the available evidence. I don’t think it’s a bad idea, but it doesn’t work to explain all of them.
- Comment on How Three Brothers Built an AI Slop Empire by Buying Legitimate News Sites and Turning Them Into Zombie Content Farms That They Say Get 50 Million Page Views per Month 2 weeks ago:
“I think that one of the big dangers is that AI is going to take many people’s jobs,” Brown muses to the camera as he hikes through a national park in Australia. “This includes writers, by the way.”
Motherfucker, you did that!
- Comment on The man suspected of pushing a woman into the path of an oncoming bus killed himself. He told his family that the police investigation was “murdering him”. 2 weeks ago:
His sisters said there was no forensic evidence linking Brandram to the Putney incident and that he had a prominent military tattoo and a withered calf which, they said, distinguished him from the man in footage of the attack on 5 May 2017.
That morning, Brandram had walked from his home in Notting Hill Gate to his office in Bond Street and sent his sisters an email from his work account, which they said he could only access from his workplace. They said that evidence was passed on to the police.
They added that Brandram had volunteered to take part in an identification parade and provided his DNA for comparison with a sample recovered at the time of the incident. Hicks said detectives told Brandram just days ago that they still did not know when the DNA analysis would be completed.
If the details of this are true I’m betting police just did some AI “analysis” to find someone to blame it on without any deeper investigation.
- Comment on Football. 2 weeks ago:
One of us knows we can only say this shit online and it’s not me :)