FuglyDuck
@FuglyDuck@lemmy.world
- Comment on "So what was your veterinary dissertation on?" 17 hours ago:
In high school, I once got to tour the zoo with zookeepers guiding and taking us back in the more private spaces.
(Standing 2 feet away from a 500 pound still-growing tiger is a memorable experience. Especially when the keeper reaches through the grate to pinch the sleeping fella’s toe bean.)
One of the exhibits we got more in depth was this endangered wild horse, where they were part of a breeding program.
The zookeeper was laughing his ass off as a dad was trying to explain what the horse was doing (rocking back and forth…) to his kids.
When the family left, the zookeeper turned to us, and apologized and said “the stallion is masturbating.”
- Comment on Ayyyy 👉👉 22 hours ago:
Hey.
Why wasn’t the Slime Mold invited to the party?
Tap for answer
It wasn’t a fungi.
- Comment on Liminal Space 22 hours ago:
I get what you’re saying, but DOOM can run on anything.
- Comment on Liminal Space 22 hours ago:
Needs vocal cords and lungs for that.
- Comment on Strange Times 22 hours ago:
I mean, you don’t need arms if your a vicious killing mouth with legs.
- Comment on We're just scanning for the bear... 22 hours ago:
Even if this was a conclusive study (sounds like there’s some issues there with selection and methodology,)….
This is probably because women are more likely to be harassed/assaulted/raped/mugged/etc.
Other vulnerable groups (trans, immigrants, etc) are probably are also scanning and maintaining better situational awareness.
It’d be nice to be able to walk down a street without making other people uncomfortable because men in general are less assholish than bears.
- Comment on Top DuckDuckGo Image Result for "Morse code chart". It gets worse the longer I look at it. 1 day ago:
Freedom Code!
- Comment on Top DuckDuckGo Image Result for "Morse code chart". It gets worse the longer I look at it. 1 day ago:
Pretty sure that’s a full on genocide if it is.
- Comment on 3 days ago:
apparently, that Mara Lago face has a long history…
- Comment on Consumerism ahhhhh moment 3 days ago:
You don’t really see advertisements for things like mega yachts or helicopters. Or private jets.
Most things that you’ll have to talk to a dealer or rep for, you don’t actually see ads. Except maybe cars.
- Comment on Is Reddit banning posts with "join-lemmy.org"? 1 week ago:
It might be on the subreddit mods.
You can set up the auto mod to automatically nuke and hide posts with certain phrases or links; and most will use Reddit’s spam list just because it’s easy.
- Comment on How do you cut a cucumber so that the round slices don't roll all over and off of your cutting board? 1 week ago:
Not really, no.
Water stones are designed to braid off. Their reason they were the gold standard is that the slurry it formed from that abrasion is what removed material (and it did so quickly.). But it abraded only where you used it so it would eventually need to be lapped back into flat.
Diamond stones are diamonds that are sintered or otherwise imbedded into steel plate. Once they’re worn in (basically weakly bound diamonds rubbing off,) they’re generally going to last.
Sometimes there’s issues with them, and the thin ones (like what I linked,) sometimes get bent or whatever (which is why it’s common for woodworkers to glue them to a board,) but with a modicum of care, they’ll last a long time.
(keep some water on the stone, wash it off and dry it, don’t store it someplace it’ll get rusty,)
For the record, diamond stones are now the lapping plate for most people who still fork over for the water stones. Another option that was good enough was to go outside and find some concrete that looked flat.
- Comment on How do you cut a cucumber so that the round slices don't roll all over and off of your cutting board? 1 week ago:
So, I would recommend starting with Basic knife skills.
I have a few guesses here, the first being is that you’re moving the knife weirdly. Maybe it’s a Dull knife and the extra force required is making things go whonky.
Maybe you just have a small cutting board. And would benefit from a large one that just lives on the counter. (Small boards are for presentation, imo.)
- Comment on How do you cut a cucumber so that the round slices don't roll all over and off of your cutting board? 1 week ago:
So I got myself a mandolin, and the hippie who sold it to me asked if I wanted to join his band. Now I play the mandolin (very badly,) for a hippie band. The music sucks but the weed is great.
- Comment on How do you cut a cucumber so that the round slices don't roll all over and off of your cutting board? 1 week ago:
The sharp knife is for later. To deal with the giant brick that’ll come. Eventually.
- Comment on When did it become normalized to start passing credit card processing fees to the customer? 1 week ago:
They always have.
In the past it was just by increasing the prices of things to cover it.
Now they’re talking about why they’re doing it in the hopes we won’t be pissed at them and pissed at the credit card people.
- Comment on Is it really dangerous to fall sleep in the bath? 1 week ago:
Or less. All it has to do is cover your mouth and nose.
- Comment on Why does google decide to log people out of all their google accounts all at once with no warning? 2 weeks ago:
Google hates you.
They hate most people, really.
- Comment on What would happen if a person proved in a lab they're gaining weight while in a verified calorie deficit? 2 weeks ago:
besides besides just drinking more water than you piss?
bad kidneys,
- Comment on What would happen if a person proved in a lab they're gaining weight while in a verified calorie deficit? 2 weeks ago:
1 and 2 are very easily ruled out simply by increasing the length of observation. eventually, they’re gonna have to, uhm. piss or shit. for 3, well. uhm. yeah.
though I did have an exasperated conversation with a friend of mine who insisted his insulin resistance kept him from not losing weight once he reached 270. he was confiding that his doctors didn’t understand and refused to check it (again.)(yes, that’s doctors plural. he bounced through three or four because they kept trying to explain that insulin resistance didn’t do that.)
It finally got to the point where I was like “Then you should call some physicists because as we understand the laws of the universe, that’s a literal impossibility.”
he… did not like that.
- Comment on Hehehe 2 weeks ago:
The Greeks were making communist jokes long before it was even a thing!
- Comment on Hehehe 2 weeks ago:
Eh.
This is how you know the universe wasn’t intelligently designed.
No one would pass up the opportunity to make it 69 earths inside Uranus.
- Comment on Why is Minecraft able to be forced to put restrictions on online servers, but web browsers aren't held accountable for providing access to the web? 2 weeks ago:
what restrictions are you talking about?
chances are, those are restrictions Microsoft is demanding. (for example, child safety. or “child safety”, considering gates is a pedo.) It uses game files that are controled and licensed by Microsoft.
The browser on the other hand is an application that uses a standard, open, protocol to take information and turn it into a readable page with all the content you like to see.
It’s not the browser’s fault that pornhub uses the same protocol as, I dunno… whatever biblestory website evangelicals think is “safe”. (do Song of Solomon next!)
Regardless, Microshit owns Minecraft, and they get to decide what restrictions it has on it.
- Comment on jellyfish go to hell 3 weeks ago:
I agree, mostly because we know what happens after exploration.
(Exploitation)
- Comment on How did "ancient humans" got the idea to pierce their ears/body ? 3 weeks ago:
originally, it could have been not consensual, in point of fact.
Frequently, piercings were ways of marking people as being property or similar. Frequently, also, it was a way of marking tribal affiliations.
- Comment on How did "ancient humans" got the idea to pierce their ears/body ? 3 weeks ago:
Otzi had ear piercings- ~3300 b.c.e.
so yeah. that checks out.
- Comment on How do I keep a brand new one of these mats from wanting to keep curling up on the ends? 3 weeks ago:
These things usually are stored rolled up, and they curl when new because of that.
Usually they’ll lay flat in their own inside of a week. I have seen people hasten that with a heatgun or small portable room heater- just enough to warm it a bit.
I’ve also seen people melt them trying that.
- Comment on I'll do it 3 weeks ago:
Somebody get that bird a baggie!
- Comment on Why are americans taking health advice from a former heroin addict ? 3 weeks ago:
I dunno. I think it’s really too bad they melted down the demon core. I’d probably trust him to run a supercriticality experiment all on his own.
- Comment on Why are americans taking health advice from a former heroin addict ? 3 weeks ago:
Most of us aren’t.
The ones that are, are already so far down the rabbit hole they wouldn’t recognize reality anyway.