Catoblepas
@Catoblepas@lemmy.blahaj.zone
- Comment on Stay on the designated path 4 hours ago:
No, that’s fish and amphibians. Reptile eggs are enclosed by a soft shell and they get fertilized by doing the hanky panky.
- Comment on Web publishers brace for carnage as Google adds AI answers 2 days ago:
I’m not using “AI” in web searches no matter how much any VC bro’s golden parachute depends on it, sorry. Refusing to partake or even using tools to filter out LLM trash are perfectly fine ways to adapt to search engines leaning on AI hype to try to convince you that their inability to combat SEO spam is good, actually.
- Comment on Am I supposed to ask stupid questions here, or *not* ask stupid questions? 5 days ago:
There are only stupid questioners 😊
- Comment on Moon dust 6 days ago:
Burned, according to the astronauts. I don’t know if the exact mechanism has been published anywhere, but since spent gunpowder has been oxidized I imagine that’s what’s going on with the dust as well.
- Comment on Moon dust 1 week ago:
It also reportedly smells like gunpowder.
- Comment on Dashcam footage clears man of felony charge after showing constable injuring himself 1 week ago:
Is it me or does the legal analyst at 1:25 in the video bear an uncanny resemblance to John Waters?
- Comment on Petroglyphs 1 week ago:
I wonder why one of the hind legs is missing a dew claw when they made sure to add it to every other foot?
- Comment on All cheap smartphones have a fingerprint sensor but all laptops dont have one. Why? 1 week ago:
When fingerprint tech first hit the consumer market (I want to say early/mid 00s?) it was more common to see laptops with fingerprint sensors. I think they fell out of favor for security reasons, IIRC at one point Mythbusters had an episode where they fooled it.
- Comment on Imagine denying other living and breathing lifeforms agency to thrive amd change lol lol lol 1 week ago:
Dude’s lived how ever many hundred years and never even heard of mineral rights, smh.
- Comment on NHS charter to stress biological sex when placing patients in wards 2 weeks ago:
Competently treating trans patients is more than knowing what medications someone is on. I know trans people that have had doctors strongly push medical detransition for having minor temporary health problems completely unrelated to their HRT. Immediately hitting the ‘medically detransition’ button every time one value goes out of range on one blood test isn’t competent care. Google ‘trans broken arm syndrome’. This stuff all has an effect on whether or not trans people seek care and how competent the care they receive is. If you set up in the minds of medical professionals that trans people are ‘actually’ their birth sex then you’re setting trans people up for receiving bad care, period.
- Comment on NHS charter to stress biological sex when placing patients in wards 2 weeks ago:
I’m one of the people that would be forced into a room with women and I have no tits and grow facial hair my dude. It doesn’t make me or them safer. Your position is simply stupid and coming from a place of bigotry.
- Comment on eyecandyn't 2 weeks ago:
- Comment on NHS charter to stress biological sex when placing patients in wards 2 weeks ago:
You obviously cared somewhere along the line till it comes to something that actually matters
What are you even trying to get across here?? lmao
- Comment on NHS charter to stress biological sex when placing patients in wards 2 weeks ago:
If a trans woman thinks there’s even the possibility that she’s going to be stuck in a ward with men then odds are she’s not going to go unless she feels like she’s about to die. This means preventable stuff spirals, which is one part of why trans people are more likely to die of preventable illnesses.
In addition for someone who is on hormones, if you treat them as their birth sex medically then you’re going to be missing signs of illness or interpreting normal things as a sign of illness. Ex: it’s extremely common for trans men on testosterone to have “high” hematocrit levels, which can be a symptom of all kinds of problems and a risk for other problems… if you compare it to the typical range for cis women. If you compare it to the levels of cis men, for most people it’s completely normal. Focusing on non-problems like that instead of what brought someone in is going to result in a lower quality of care and make someone less likely to seek care in the future.
- Comment on NHS charter to stress biological sex when placing patients in wards 2 weeks ago:
Didn’t ask, don’t care 🤓
- Comment on histories mysteries 2 weeks ago:
The best suggested explanation IMO is that it’s a way for blacksmiths to demonstrate their skill.
“lol stupid scientists don’t know what knitting is” I would file under “actively anti-intellectual”.
- Comment on NHS charter to stress biological sex when placing patients in wards 2 weeks ago:
Trans women aren’t men so that’s irrelevant here.
- Comment on NHS charter to stress biological sex when placing patients in wards 2 weeks ago:
This is the right behind “Martha’s rule”, which is being introduced in the NHS, to ensure patients know they can ask for a second opinion, with[ the government providing funding to hospitals for posters and leaflets informing patients and their families.
Martha Mills died aged 13, after being admitted to King’s College Hospital, south London, in 2021, having injured her pancreas slipping on to the handlebars of her bike while cycling.
She later developed sepsis - but with better care, could have survived, an inquest found.
So they’re using the death of a child who was killed due to NHS incompetence to make trans people more likely to receive incompetent care or no care at all. Very cool and normal country.
- Comment on Royal Mail waives £5 penalty charge for fake stamps 2 weeks ago:
Right?? You’re telling me I could have been sending JKR letters with fake stamps this whole time and SHE’D have been charged actual money for it? My new greatest regret in life is missing the timeframe where I could have done that.
- Comment on Recognize the mother of Wifi 2 weeks ago:
Least sexist blue check
- Comment on haha same 3 weeks ago:
- Comment on Fossil prep 3 weeks ago:
I feel less bad now for knocking over and spilling an expensive reagent. At least they can make more of that! 🫣
- Comment on Does middle name on plane ticket gave to match passport? 3 weeks ago:
For what it’s worth I’ve never run into an airline that prints middle names correctly on the ticket, I’m pretty sure anyone that’s been working security more than an hour is used to it.
My husband’s middle name starts with A, so his name straight up gets changed to the feminine version of his name on tickets sometimes! He’s had a comment about it maybe once ever, and it was just the TSA agent joking about it.
- Comment on Blast from the past 3 weeks ago:
Thankfully she is now a gender neutral toilet 🙏
- Comment on stegosaurus 3 weeks ago:
You’re in for a treat if you haven’t heard about the Bone Wars until now!
- Comment on fossil fuels 3 weeks ago:
Oh, you meant bananas and only bananas? Every other prepared fresh food is fine? 🙄
But yes, there are people who can perform some tasks but not others. Until you have a solution for them that isn’t “just don’t have fresh food lol” or “just hire someone to do it for you lol” then the problem is and remains the plastic, not the person who is buying food.
- Comment on fossil fuels 3 weeks ago:
The $300 ticket is for a coach seat for a trip that takes 70-90 hours one way. Hope you don’t like laying down to sleep or showering!
I can only assume you’ve never taken Greyhound if you’re suggesting it for a cross country trip. In addition to having the same problems as trains but worse (try spending 12 hours in a bus stop halfway through your trip because of overbooking!), if you do want to take Greyhound then be sure to sleep on top of anything on your person that you don’t want stolen. Once I had shit stolen from me before I even made it onto the bus!
- Comment on fossil fuels 3 weeks ago:
Environmentalists remember that disabled people exist challenge: impossible.
- Comment on bug weddings 4 weeks ago:
Would a longer exposure do the same without shining a bright light through it?
- Comment on nailed it 4 weeks ago:
Man, the renditions of the Bolton coat of arms are getting really weird.