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I live in Canada on the west-coast. I waddled onto the beach and stole found a computer that I could use.
- Comment on Scientists discover how narwhals grow nature's only straight tusk 5 days ago:
I was curious about what the tusk is even used for
oceanconservancy.org/…/exactly-narwhal-tusk/
There’s research that suggests the narwhal tusk is used primarily for hunting, but contrary to what you might be imagining, they don’t actually spear their food. In fact, there’s video evidence indicating that they instead give a quick and firm “tusk tap” to momentarily stun their prey (usually fish, shrimp or squid) and then quickly suck them up.
TIL that narwhal tusks are for smacking and not stabbing
The video link, although I haven’t watched it myself and didn’t find the timestamp: m.youtube.com/watch?v=OoTjLIN67Bw
- Comment on Bunnies are metal 6 days ago:
Is this a certain type of rabbit or is it normal to shave them while leaving a moustache?
- Comment on found this helpful map of which countries are turkiye on turkiye's government website 1 week ago:
To be fair, wikipedia does this too and I find it helpful. The problem is the color scheme
- Comment on Is it time for eggposting 🥚 1 week ago:
My friend managed to find a compatible eraser at some stationery store while travelling, but he couldn’t tell me exactly which one he went to. This was before we could just order everything online, The best part was that you could use up the eraser a little bit to get a snug fit, you can’t do that with the yolks.
I don’t know why more stores didn’t carry those erasers
- Comment on mean, lean, dean machine keeping you animals under control 1 week ago:
Why is this marked nsfw 😄
- Comment on Delish 1 week ago:
:(
- Comment on Republicans are arguing over if trans people can play sports while the world laughs at us 2 weeks ago:
As a Canadian, I do want to point out that it’s not enough to be above the united states, considering how their bar is dropping lower and lower.
I am very thankful for our existing healthcare system, and I want to see people protect it against the american inspired groups that are trying to privatize parts of it.
There are also areas where we were originally SUPPOSED to have coverage based on the original plan decades ago (ex. pharmaceuticals, homecare, dental), but those phases never got implemented.
- Comment on How does Nostr work, and what are the pros/cons compared to ActivityPub? 2 weeks ago:
That was a very helpful deep dive, thank you for taking the time to write it :)
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- Comment on It do be like that 2 weeks ago:
What is the gameplay like, the screenshots make it look like a mosquito simulator 😄
- Comment on It's taking forever 2 weeks ago:
Sometimes full sedation is too risky, or at least not worth it for factors other than cost
- Comment on tbh as a Canadian, I deplore the current US federal administration and basically the entire GOP, but I still admire the US Constitution and those who fight for it 3 weeks ago:
Its a troll account, see their other posts.
They’re looking for attention. Just block and move on
- Comment on How can MicroSD cards store so much data? 3 weeks ago:
This channel is excellent, always has good content
- Comment on Stripe Buys A.I. Start-Up OpenRouter for $7.5 Billion 3 weeks ago:
It’s actually pretty useful for those who need that use case.
They have one API for all the models, and when a few companies are offering the same models, they will send it to the one that is cheaper or faster, depending on the settings. That’s pretty much why Stripe got popular too.
They have a lot of data on which models are popular, which ones are being used by specific tools, etc. Now that open weight and international models are getting popular over the american big tech ones, it seems like a lot of companies want something that can redirect their usage to whatever model fits within their preferred parameters.
- Comment on Your boyfriend's teddy bear 3 weeks ago:
This one needs an NSFW tag imo
- Comment on Get in my cup! 3 weeks ago:
While I still don’t really understand it, topological equivalence?
- Comment on And... 3 weeks ago:
What do you mean by that?
- Comment on I need an adult 4 weeks ago:
Which part of the world are you from? I’m in Canada, and we call them green grapes and red grapes
www.safeway.com/shop/aisles/…/grapes.html?sort=&p…
Meanwhile Wikipedia notes ‘“Black” (dark blue) and “white” (light green) table grapes’
- Comment on Subtitles 4 weeks ago:
Or when it spoils a joke or jump scare a few seconds early
“You’re not going to shoot me, you don’t have the…”
- Comment on Power 4 weeks ago:
The Flintstones ones are very memorable, I wonder if the marketing was helped by the fact that the vitamins look like rocks 😄
That way when they are exposed to the air and begin to discolor (which is harmless from what I understand), it doesn’t become unpalatable to children
- Comment on [deleted] 1 month ago:
Also the proportions of the kid, the cart, and the milk is all off.
The cart is way too short and long/wide, and you can’t stack milk on top of other milk that neatly
- Comment on modern classic 1 month ago:
The TV even kept the same reflection on it
- Comment on modern classic 1 month ago:
Unless someone has more information on this, I’m going to chalk this up to AI-generated rage bait.
The kitchen area still has the same items on that shelf, there’s an ugly hole where the old CRT TV still exists (despite the room being “finished” looking), the reflection on the TV is still the same, and the patio turned into an office meeting room. I’m not going to spend time on perspective calculations, but something about the beams on the roof and the placement of the railing look off.
- Comment on The best salmon in 65 years 1 month ago:
I didn’t realize that Ruby Tuesdays was a chain restaurant, so that’s probably the reason it’s a shitpost
It’s still wholesome though. Maybe that particular Ruby Tuesdays has an excellent team
- Comment on [deleted] 1 month ago:
Why though, this strengthens his argument about the harassment
Unless the alt is being used to evade bans, or trying to steer the conversation, I don’t see the benefit in chasing around the dev on different accounts. Report it to mods/admins as needed, but don’t share it in this thread where a lot of people are already upset at the person
- Comment on [deleted] 1 month ago:
This bit:
Over the course of the last several days, I have received a constant stream of harassing messages, death threats, and threats of doxxing over DM, Matrix, Github, and Codeberg
I don’t know the extent of it, but I can definitely see this happening. Its not a fediverse thing, or a social media thing, some people take things too far.
- Comment on How to summon a group of gym bros (100% working tutorial 2026) 1 month ago:
If you have a community center nearby, you can see if they have gym equipment. Those memberships should be simple to get and cancel.
- Comment on How Octopuses Hacked Their Ribosome To Become Smart 1 month ago:
This was a cool read, if anyone wants incentive to read it, here is the key bit
The highly advanced nervous system of octopuses is a good example here, displaying levels of intelligence and capabilities far beyond those of other cephalopods and matching that of primates, despite no evolutionary link here. Exactly how octopuses developed this rather unique capability remained a mystery, though recent research by [Rishav Mitra] points at the rather unique ribosomes in these animals.
Ribosomes are the molecular machinery at the core of each cell that enable the synthesis of proteins. Due to their highly crucial role, they tend to remain evolutionary unchanged, which makes the big change observed in the octopus (i.e. order Octopoda) in the form of this H88 rRNA break quite remarkable.
Ribosomes are the molecular machinery at the core of each cell that enable the synthesis of proteins. Due to their highly crucial role, they tend to remain evolutionary unchanged, which makes the big change observed in the octopus (i.e. order Octopoda) in the form of this H88 rRNA break quite remarkable.
- Submitted 1 month ago to videos@lemmy.world | 1 comment
- Comment on [deleted] 1 month ago:
This is actually a pretty interesting video, I think the clickbait title killed the post.
This community does allow you to modify the title, may I suggest something like “How space control can help a player score in a football game, with data analysis and visualizations”
