CarbonIceDragon

@CarbonIceDragon@pawb.social

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The doctor then had to go and treat that lawyer for being a burn victim⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Would it really be (serious question, as I dont know a whole lot about legal matters)? My limited understanding was that perjury is lying under oath, and sarcasm, while it does involve saying untrue statements, isnt considered lying in everyday speech because what it actually communicates is the opposite of the literal meaning of the words. Since laws deal with humans and not computers, my assumption would be that it probably works in such a way as to depend on what message a person is actually communicating rather than the precise syntax by which they communicate it?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Curves⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Its the “c” in the text portion

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Clever, clever⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Something I saw from the link someone provided to the thread, that seemed like a good point to bring up, is that any student using a screen reader, like someone visually impaired, might get caught up in that as well. Or for that matter, any student that happens to highlight the instructions, sees the hidden text, and doesnt realize why they are hidden and just thinks its some kind of mistake or something. Though I guess those students might appear slightly different if this person has no relevant papers to actually cite, and they go to the professor asking about it.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Infinite Suffering⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Arguably these are different amounts of bad even before considering this: We generally consider existing preferable to non-existence to some extent when suffering isnt taken into account, consider that if you murder someone quickly and painlessly in their sleep without waking them, they dont really themselves suffer from it, but people will still find you to be a murderer, and would object to the idea that you might do it to them. In the top example, killing the people actually kills them, but in the lower example, it arguably doesnt, because the experiences of the people involved never actually cease, therefore, the lower paths seems to me to be preferable because you supposedly get equivalent amounts of “suffering”, but different amounts of time that people spend in non-existence.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨50% survival rate⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Plot twist: 50% of each individual patient survives. Hope you get lucky with which organs make it

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Cambrian Park!!!⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Every company wants to make a profit. There are those that actually build stuff that works, even if only because having it not work would lose them money. Theres a reason that most planes dont crash for example, and things like Boeing having bad quality control are considered major scandals rather than an unavoidable and unremarkable norm.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Cambrian Park!!!⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Honestly I get frustrated when people (mostly my extended family admittedly) take from that movie the idea that the message is “dinosaurs are impossible to contain safely and we should never try to somehow recreate one”. Like, no, we can make zoos for large, fairly intelligent predators or even bigger herbivores just fine, we do it all the time with things like lions and elephants, dinosaurs arent godzilla or anything. The issue with Jurassic park was that it was run by cheapskates that wanted to get something done fast on a budget without concern for doing it right. It would be like making a movie about the Oceangate disaster and having people conclude the moral of the story was “You shouldnt want to build a submarine because humans arent meant to go down there and it will inevitably go badly” rather than “You should spend the money to build your submarine the right way”

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Please stop⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  So by this logic, twitter is a roblox game?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Thank you Skövde⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Sweden in general seems to have way more good game dev companies than most countries, especially most of similar size. I kinda wonder why.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Consume⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  I guess photosynthetic life has been responsible for catastrophic climate change before

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why is space 2 dimensional?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  The last bit about the big bang isn’t really how it works to my understanding. The big bang is compared to an explosion, but its actually more like a balloon inflating, if you imagine the surface of the balloon as analogous to space. The galaxies don’t all move away from some original center to the universe, new bits of space get “added” in between every bit of space, so that every object gets farther away from every other object. If you go backwards in time far enough, every point sees itself as being the center. At least, that’s how I’ve seen it explained.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨under the ice⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Kinda reminds me of a salp

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Platypuses⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  No stomach? Hadn’t heard that one before

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Burning Up⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  By that metric, kelvin would be even better though.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Australia's internet watchdog says she received "death threats" and that her children were doxxed after she was targeted by Elon Musk for attempting to regulate Xitter⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  And that’d be reasonable for you to do. However, having a network choose to remove something, or cut ties with servers in the network that don’t in an attempt to persuade them to remove that thing, isn’t exactly the same as a government ordering a thing be removed. The former doesn’t give much avenue for a malicious actor to suppress something that isn’t in their interest, because they can hardly control the collective actions of users on the network, but the latter does by creating a single point of decision making on the network’s content from the outside. Not that the motivations in wanting that video gone were bad, but there is an element of risk to making it possible for a government entity to remove something from a social network, even if the thing they want gone this time is something that really shouldn’t be there.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨No Man's Sky adds fishing, a fishing skiff, a new expedition, deep-sea diving and loads more⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Doesnt really tell you what it is tho, beyond something very vague. Its not like promising some feature, getting hyped over it, then finding it isnt as much as what was hyped up

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨No Man's Sky adds fishing, a fishing skiff, a new expedition, deep-sea diving and loads more⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I’ve honestly kinda come to appreciate how NMS doesn’t really publicize their updates much beforehand. It’s not super hyped up for a month where one hardly feels like playing the game cause it will have more later, and it’s hard to be let down over something you didn’t anticipate being different before. It’s just “oh cool, they added more stuff to the game again”

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Honey⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Wait, is it really just nectar with less water content then? Could make honey ourselves without all the bees by just collecting a bunch of nectar and evaporating off some of the water?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨. . .⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Fair. It does seem a bit inefficient to make the crust and then not eat it though

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨. . .⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Empty carbs in moderation are fine, it’s not like they’re poisonous or anything.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Anon wants to play a game⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  A bit less, partly because it’s easier to be sympathetic to those people, and partly because, in my experience, it can be helped by getting out google translate on one’s phone, if one can figure out which language it is

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Anon wants to play a game⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Hey, it could always get worse. I could also specify that these items are purchased on a Sunday that a locally favored football team happens to be playing a game, during the rush of people buying snacks and soda.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Anon wants to play a game⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  As a former cashier (grocery store not walmart admittedly, but I doubt things are that different), I dont think weird uses for the items are the way to go, the cashier is barely even going to notice or care what you’re buying. what I bring to freak out the cashier, are some item that needs ID to buy, some big heavy item with the barcode removed so that it will take a bunch of lifting and turning in a hopeless effort to find it before someone eventually has to go find another one and bring it over, and a propane refill if walmart does those (at my grocery store the process to go find a full one was a pain, especially in the winter since they were outside). Further, I try to buy these items with the help of a ton of expired and unexpired coupons mixed together, several gift cards, and a stubborn half-deaf old person who wont take no for an answer.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨choosing violence⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  This makes me wonder: if you give them nicer soil than they evolved in, can they still use those nutrients instead, or do they require insects to survive now?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Gecko⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  That I’m not sure about, I know a lot less about skinks than I do geckos, but some quick searching suggests that at least some skinks can regrow a dropped tail

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Gecko⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Pretty much yeah. Heres an example from leopard geckos:

  The top is one with the original tail, and the lower is one with a regrown tail

  (Neither of these are my pictures, I just googled some for an example)

  In this case at least (I’m unsure if every species is like this), the regrow tail doesn’t really regrow the bones or original bumpy texture, it’s just a smooth fat blob in generally the shape of the tail, though often a bit thicker, shorter, and more blunt at the end. Image Image

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Gecko⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Should be noted that it isn’t geckos in general that don’t grow it back, just that kind (crested gecko). Though a regrown tail in other species still will be substantially different than the original

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Boopable⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Nobody talks about it? There are entire myths about sea serpents.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨As advertised⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Vore.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Have rock⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I mean, you can’t really say that we’re going to drive ourselves to extinction, until we’ve been driven to extinction. Most things people list as likely to do this, climate change, nuclear war, are things that could conceivably do so, but honestly aren’t likely to. Destroy civilization maybe, but that just takes disrupting supply lines hard enough. Extinction means nobody, anywhere on the planet survives, even if it’s some little pocket of people in some corner of the world whose climate is good after warming is considered and which isn’t a target of any nuclear arsenals, because in a number of generations such a little pocket can grow to repopulate the planet again. It’s not an impossible thing for sure, but killing off a species capable of surviving in almost any climate zone found on the planet, with the ability to manipulate the growth of it’s own food supply, and adapt new tools actively in response to problems within a single generation, is a difficult task.