otter
@otter@lemmy.ca
I live in Canada on the west-coast. I waddled onto the beach and stole found a computer that I could use.
- Comment on Bean virus 1 day ago:
Brushing is an actual scam / misleading practice, which involves receiving items you didn’t order
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brushing_(e-commerce)
It doesn’t usually happen with beans
- Comment on 1 week ago:
At the same time, they became a lot more palatable to the rest of the world and companies that want to avoid bad press / boycotts
- Comment on Ilhan Omar Condemns Arrest of State of the Union Guest 2 weeks ago:
:(
Aliya Rahman, a U.S. citizen who was dragged from her vehicle after an ICE agent shattered its window during President Trump’s immigration crackdown in Minneapolis, attended the president’s speech on Tuesday night at the invitation of Ms. Omar. As Mr. Trump was speaking, Ms. Rahman was seen being escorted from the gallery above the House floor by Capitol Police officers. She could be heard shouting for someone to call Ms. Omar, and that all she had done was stand up.
Ms. Rahman, 43, Ms. Omar and the U.S. Capitol Police said in separate statements that Ms. Rahman had been charged with unlawful conduct by disrupting Congress. The misdemeanor charge is punishable with a fine of up to $500 and up to six months in prison.
Ms. Rahman — who is disabled and has autism, according to a written statement she provided to Congress earlier this month — told Democracy Now in an interview that the arrest aggravated injuries that she had sustained when federal agents dragged her from her vehicle last month while she was headed to an appointment for a traumatic brain injury.
- Comment on too many creators not enough destroyers 2 weeks ago:
Or the reaction videos where the original video plays in the corner while the person points, nods, and makes faces
- Comment on I don't know the reason why. 2 weeks ago:
I should have included the tag, I made it up 😄
- Comment on I don't know the reason why. 2 weeks ago:
Fun fact, the ketchup chips in Canada were inspired by these
- Comment on Dinosaur Food: 100 million year old foods we still eat today 2 weeks ago:
They actually start producing in April, but as there’s a non-zero chance the pine nuts from April are from felled trees, I avoid it. The species is critically endangered; eating some nuts is not a big deal, but falling the tree is.
Good to know! I’d hate for these to suddenly become a fad and then endanger the tree even more. Knowing about the issue ahead of time means that people might check for it when buying it
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- Comment on The simulation is coming apart 3 weeks ago:
Does anyone have the original photos of each, especially the second one?
- Comment on Pan Galactic Gargle Blaster 5 weeks ago:
I’m also thinking of video games:
- Comment on Work smarter, not harder 5 weeks ago:
RadioShack is still around. Not sure how good it is.
Interestingly, it started as a mail order business in the 1920s, switched to retail stores in the 1960s, and then in 2017 it switched back to an online only / mail delivery business.
- Comment on No low ballers, I know what I have 5 weeks ago:
Maybe it’s a banana pepper? The yellow green thing under the crust at the bottom right
- Comment on No low ballers, I know what I have 5 weeks ago:
Is it normal for the jalapeno to still be, normal
- Comment on Ciiiiircle of liiiife 5 weeks ago:
For anyone confused, click the link
- Comment on Sleep 5 weeks ago:
!taneggs@lemmy.ca is leaking
- Comment on xkcd: Chemical Formula 1 month ago:
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Empirical_formula
In chemistry, the empirical formula of a chemical compound is the simplest whole number ratio of atoms present in a compound
In this comic, the “compound” is the entire observable universe. So it’s the simplest whole number ratio of every atom in the observable universe
A more in depth explanation for this comic (and all other xkcd comics) is here: www.explainxkcd.com/…/3200:_Chemical_Formula
- Submitted 1 month ago to science_memes@mander.xyz | 8 comments
- Comment on Volvo invented the three-point seat belt 67 years ago; now it has improved it 1 month ago:
Volvo’s new central computing system, HuginCore (named after a bird in Norse mythology), runs the EX60 with more than 250 trillion operations per second. It has been developed in-house, together with its partners Google, Nvidia, and Qualcomm.
“With the HuginCore system we can collect a lot of data and make decisions in the car instantly and combine that with the belt’s ability to choose different load levels,” says Åsa Haglund, head of the Volvo Cars Safety Center. “A box of possibilities opens up where you can detect what type of crash it is and who is in the car and choose a more optimal belt force.”
- Comment on Why are americans taking health advice from a former heroin addict ? 1 month ago:
Being a former heroin addict doesn’t make someone a bad source of information, especially if they’ve turned their lives around.
But I agree otherwise
- Comment on I took a picture of the back of my pizza box for you guys just in case you were stuck home because of the snow and needed something to do. 1 month ago:
I saw this exact box recently and I was thinking about how I’ve missed seeing these 😄
- Comment on I feel like I'm being watched 1 month ago:
Oh, no worries then
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- Comment on low beans 1 month ago:
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🫘
~low beans~
- Comment on I feel like I'm being watched 1 month ago:
I saw a mountain lion in the closet, which means it’s not hunting me. Who else is hiding in the room…
- Comment on Be fabulous 1 month ago:
Yup, it looks like generative AI + image editing after the fact
Image generators have trouble juggling multiple colors and patterns on clothing. It would be a weird stylistic choice to create that effect with image edits alone
- Comment on Important video of a pudú fighting a rhinoceros you should watch 1 month ago:
TIL 😮
- Comment on I implore you to stop using the drake meme template 1 month ago:
What is this other template called?
- Comment on it's so fluffy 2 months ago:
For people that actually want something like that, check out !taneggs@lemmy.ca
- Comment on Study Featuring AI-Generated Giant Rat Penis Retracted, Journal Apologizes 2 months ago:
Generative AI “anatomy” diagrams gross me out almost every time. It has a similar effect as those old trypophobia images
- Comment on Why is sharpedo blocked in image searches on DuckDuckGo and Bing, but not Google? 2 months ago:
So interestingly, slight misspellings will show the pokemon with a “Showing results for Sharpedo”, but if you click on that link the results will disappear. I also can’t find any other blocked examples with different made up words.
It’s weird, like it has been manually blocked
