Catoblepas
@Catoblepas@lemmy.blahaj.zone
- Comment on What is the capital of Thailand? 2 days ago:
Back in my day this question was accompanied by a punch to the dick.
- Comment on [deleted] 5 days ago:
That’s the one, Christ almighty what a name. I wonder if it ever got banned or if it’s still going? (No way I’m checking to find out)
- Comment on [deleted] 5 days ago:
There was some sub on Reddit (not beatingwomen, but same vibe) that constantly had videos of women slapping or smacking a guy and then getting absolutely cold-clocked in retaliation and it was always so gross to me. Like damn dawg you were really just waiting for the opportunity.
It’s fine to not want people to smack or slap you, but proportional response exists and knocking someone out over a slap ain’t it. I can’t help but wonder how much violence that encourages to just have stuff like that dropped into the feeds of millions of people.
- Comment on Doing our part 5 days ago:
Ooh I misread that as being on activation, good catch
- Comment on Doing our part 5 days ago:
Do you mean nitrous (N~2~O)? Straight up N~2~ shouldn’t be changing to CO~2~ unless some very interesting chemistry is happening, haha.
- Comment on I'm down with this 5 days ago:
So like a wine walk, but with cheese?
- Comment on Does anyone actually believe this "rogue AI" nonsense? 1 week ago:
It’s silly to pretend AI CEOs are living in a bubble and not responding to things the other CEOs and the market are doing. They’re out of ‘good’ news so they have to scare everyone to convince them their product is super powerful and intelligent, and therefor valuable.
- Comment on Female approached by man 1 week ago:
‘I’m not really here to talk’ and leaving isn’t rude at all, don’t sweat it. If you had screamed at him that he was a creepy POS or something then you’d have a good reason to feel bad if he had some kind of intellectual/developmental disability, but you didn’t, and even if he does there’s a point where you have to learn you’re not a cute kid who can just walk up to people at random and start talking to them anymore (or at least not have everyone be as receptive to it).
- Comment on Anything less than 1 liters is completely unacceptable 1 week ago:
OP, are you just trying to recreate a public bathroom in your home? It’s OK if you are, but in combination with your other meme like this it’s oddly specific lol
- Comment on [deleted] 1 week ago:
I went up and down hills today, and somehow managed to strain a thigh muscle. Jennifer is sadly accurate.
- Comment on My mother-in-law's way of sealing plastic bags. Yes that's been burnt by the stove top 2 weeks ago:
Forget fumes, there’s a 0% chance that none of that is making its way into the bag and onto your food.
- Comment on My right foot is swollen 2 weeks ago:
I’m glad it wasn’t DVT! Hope it gets better soon 🩷🤍🩵
- Comment on My right foot is swollen 2 weeks ago:
Was the ER able to take care of you? I hope you’re doing OK!
- Comment on My right foot is swollen 2 weeks ago:
Hey, please do not fuck around with this, especially if pressing near your ankles causes an indentation that takes a few seconds to go back to normal. They can do a blood test at the ER to see if you have a clot and treat it.
- Comment on 2 weeks ago:
TIL there’s a name for the fancy princess head cone. So much wholesome knowledge to be attained on the fediverse!
- Comment on 2 weeks ago:
Your cat emoticon has a very cute wizard hat =3
- Comment on Not ready 2 weeks ago:
I’ll probably be alive next year, though. Now who’s winning?
- Comment on Eeeep 3 weeks 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 3 weeks 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 weeks ago:
Most expensive meal you’ll eat this year, even if you live in a place with nationalized healthcare :p
- Comment on School Nurses 3 weeks 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 3 weeks 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 3 weeks 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 4 weeks 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 4 weeks 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? 4 weeks 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 4 weeks 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 4 weeks 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 4 weeks 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 4 weeks ago:
Show your work.