CarbonIceDragon

@CarbonIceDragon@pawb.social

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Kinda fucked up tbh⁩ ⁨⁨8⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:

  Unless you define “on earth” to be "below the Kármán line. The Earth’s atmosphere is probably to be considered part of the planet, else gas planet like Jupiter get difficult to talk about consistently. Atmospheres don’t have a proper “cutoff”, they just get thinner and thinner until they gradually become insignificant, so some cutoff is going to have to be arbitrarily defined to make the distinction useful.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How do "lie detectors" work (I mean Polygraphs). If I'm loyal specifically to the constitution of my country, and the interviewers ask if I'm "loyal to [My Country name]", how would that work?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:

  They dont work, because not lie detectors at all. To my understanding they’re basically just a tech-assisted version of trying to tell if someone is lying by trying to watch their emotional reaction. They might be able to tell you if someone is stressed, under the notion that someone lying will be more stressed than when telling the truth from the effort and worry of being caught, but that isn’t really true necessarily.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨No looky for you!⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:

  My countertop dishwasher has a window. Not much to see tbh, it’s interesting to watch what it does the first time and then it gets old.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨IT’S THE FEDS!⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:

  I sometimes wonder if really serious reptile hobbyists, the kind that’ll have like a whole room full of terrariums, have to deal with suspicious cops. Reptiles like warmth, heat mats and lamps take power, one of the most popular brands for heat mat thermostats is technically meant for controlling indoor plant heating, and if they want to grow live plants in any of their animals habitats they might need grow lights too.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨reptile⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  I would absolutely download a reptile.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨does it mean I am a horse?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  A person with only one leg who is unsure of their identity would get stuck, having no options that are not two and four.

  For that matter, a horse with two legs cut off becomes a man, if only it could be taught to read a chart.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The lemming anatomy⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Comparing anything with lemmings is gonna be somewhat unflattering with that stereotype tbh. Which is why it’s a great name for the network imo, it’s got just a little bit of self-depreciating humor to it.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The lemming anatomy⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Implied by the red box with yellow and white text saying “lemming characteristics”, which could subtly be taken as a reference to “socialism with lemming characteristics” given the context and color scheme?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨7 for me⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  No, just a weighted blanket and a regular pillow. I’m not sure why people find this weird tho, jeans are comfy.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨7 for me⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  1, t shirt and jeans.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Hollywood doesn't want you to know this secret.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Meanwhile, if you’re looking for a somewhat older movie, in my experience you can find it about half the time by going to the “videos” search tab in a browser, using any advanced search options that may exist on that browser to limit it to longer videos, and searching “(movie name) Internet Archive”.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨When you see danger coming⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  I mean, wood already biodegrades quite readily, yet we are able to make some pretty long lasting things out of it anyway. Having a bacteria that can break down some variety of plastic doesn’t really imply that all plastic things are going to rot away like old fruit.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Crunchy⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  This is why I only ever get the creamy peanut butter and not the kind with peanut chunks in it.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Rare insults dropped⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I mean, the guy is a lawyer, I’m not sure I can think of a profession with a more “generic person in a formal but not fancy outfit” stereotype than that.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨velosaur⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Shouldn’t the raptors cancel though?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Tech Companies Apparently Do Not Understand Why We Dislike AI⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Id argue that to some extent, its foundational to capitalism, such that any effort to actually abolish it would almost necessarily require destroying or significantly curtailing capitalism to succeed anyway. Virtually every company based on selling information, such as software and media companies that are some of the biggest on the planet right now, would find such an effort an existential threat, and even companies not based on such things may have patents or designs that give them an edge and that they would expend a lot on avoiding giving competition free range to copy. If you’re able to overpower them on something so important to them, in so consequential a fashion, then their grip on economic and political power would have to already have been greatly reduced, and some other basis of such power to draw on for support would have to exist.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Tech Companies Apparently Do Not Understand Why We Dislike AI⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Some of that is down to the general culture of the furry fandom I think, it tends to be a fair bit more sex-positive and less inhibited society at large, and while porn is a thing fairly common to humans in general (obviously not every human engages with it and the degree varies with the person, but still, it isnt exactly rare), if you have one group of people who have far less of a taboo about talking about and sharing it than those outside that group, thats the thing that outsiders are going to notice about them, especially if the stuff they make in that category is visually distinct from adult content found elsewhere. Its not universal of course, there are definitely puritanical furries out there if you look for them and the fandom is big enough that I cant say with certainty that the people Ive encountered are entirely representative of it, but thats the notion I get. To be honest, Ive come to get it over time, it can be nice to feel like you can just be open about every interest one has without having to think about which things are and arent suited to sharing with other people, but the natural consequence of choosing to reject a social norm is looking cringey or worse to those that still value it.

  As far as where the subculture goes outside the fetishey stuff, theres a lot of digital art made that isnt sexualized, but beyond that Id point to some of the more “irl” stuff furries are known for, like conventions, fursuits, and other related crafts like that (ive seen people with things like custom made plushies or other physical art). While some do bring adult things into those, it isnt really the norm. More or less all the sorts of creative or social aspects that you might expect of a media-based fandom, like star trek fans or such, just without any one big IP franchise behind it and instead an emphasis on making your own stuff with an informal set of shared themes and tropes.

  I wont try and point out specific events and craftspeople, since I am an extremely shy and anxious person irl and most of my interaction with other furries has been online spaces, mostly with my specific friend group that happens to be made up almost exclusively of them, but there are quite a few, especially in the US and EU. Anecdotally, that shyness is part of why I got into it in the first place, it somehow feels easier for me to make friends and generally interact socially, by creating a character that represents a more idealized version of myself that is more outgoing and less anxious, and pretending to be that character. Which is one of the things a fursona is, its partly an internet avatar and an outlet for creative expression, partly a subculture identity signifier to help find like minded people, and partly a sort of mask and social tool for self-reflection. If I had a blog, Id represent myself using mine just like the person in the OP is, get used to presenting yourself that way long enough and doing so ends up just feeling natural to you.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Tech Companies Apparently Do Not Understand Why We Dislike AI⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Wait, wouldn’t it make sense for an anarchist to opposite intellectual property law on the grounds that the only way you could possibly enforce it beyond those in one’s immediate community would be with a larger state and associated law enforcement apparatus, which an anarchist would be expected to be against the existence of?

  I’m not sure that has much to do with AI, and if anything, AI companies should somewhat like copyright since what they are ultimately selling is a form of software, which is harder to profit off without such law. They just want the concept to apply selectively so as not to impede them.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Tech Companies Apparently Do Not Understand Why We Dislike AI⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  It’d only be a fetish to the people who only like furries for the porn they make and don’t have an interest in the rest of the subculture that it comes from, which probably isn’t the sort of person to use a fursona to represent themselves on a tech blog in the first place.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Tech Companies Apparently Do Not Understand Why We Dislike AI⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  We don’t exactly force other people to use one, and it doesn’t hurt anyone for us to, so why should we care?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨aaaaaAAAAAAAAAAAA⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  eh, Id say theres some pretty ugly mammals out there, at least in my opinion. most primates for instance, mole rats, some but certainly not all bats…

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Players Have Too Many Options to Spend $80 on a Video Game⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  To be fair, while paradox games like Stellaris or the crusader kings games you mentioned, certainly have a lot of replayability (I don’t really care much for CK myself but have over 1000 hours on both Stellaris and EU4), they’re not great examples for where cheaper games by smaller companies offer more than expensive ones from bigger ones. Partly because paradox is fairly sizable and well known these days, but mostly because those games are quite expensive, just split into numerous expansions that come out over time. One can opt out of getting them, sure, but they’re where a lot of the different options that bring the replayability come from.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨aaaaaAAAAAAAAAAAA⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  yet also kind of cute

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Seriously Jesus, who was doing that for that to be added 😭⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s been a long time since I read any of the bible, but wasn’t there some story in it somewhere where some guy uses that and is immediately killed by god or something? (albiet I think the justification was some sort of tradition obligating him to have a child with a specific person, and his behavior was supposed to be exploiting that without fulfilling his end or something like that).

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Do you understand how many people 350 million is? How did this worm ridden ball sack float to the top?⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  To be fair, the vast, vast majority were never really in the running. Were the chances anything close to even, would you expect to have so many at least somewhat well known politicians with his last name?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Believe It Or Not, Black Licorice⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  When I was a kid, a sibling and some friends of mine would occasionally play “jelly bean Russian roulette”, wherein we would get a number of jelly beans equal to the number of us playing, with one of them a black licorice, have one non-playing kid scramble them and “randomly” give one to each player, and then eat them eyes closed without seeing what the flavor was. Whoever got the licorice was the loser.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Could you grind up a loaf of bread back into a flour and make a new loaf of bread?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  I’ve heard of some bakery somewhere doing “recycled bread”, where they supposedly take the leftover bread that didn’t sell that day, dry it out, grind it up, and mix it with fresh flour to make new bread, but I don’t know for sure if the story is real.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨purpose⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  I mean, has the system ever not eventually stabilized in another state? The fact that we have had extinctions, quite a lot of them even involving most species that have ever existed, and yet complex life and ecosystems still exist, would suggest that life will find a way to adapt around such a loss given time.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨purpose⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  How many species of birds and bats eat just mosquitoes though, or a high enough percentage that they would go extinct rather than shift to rely more on their other prey species, even if at a smaller population? And are those particular species of birds and bats worth the consequences of having mosquitoes?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Couldn't be worse than what we have now...⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  If he were a chicken, he’d probably care more about dealing with bird flu, even if for purely selfish reasons.