CarbonIceDragon

@CarbonIceDragon@pawb.social

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Trump's Big Beautiful Bill⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:

  This whole saga is like Trump found a cursed monkey’s paw and wished that the internet would believe he’s had sex with a consenting adult.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The House Of The Guy Calling You A Libtard⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Im not saying the stereotype of “conservative people living in trailer park style homes” isn’t classist, I’m suggesting that actively spreading it might not have been the objective of the OP, and that them doing so might have been more a case of not thinking through all the implications of what they were saying than an actual antipathy for people who live in cheap housing. I do realize its problematic even if so, I’ve spent a portion of my childhood in a place like that myself, I just felt a bit uneasy seeing some people here appear to assume the worse interpretation was the intended one when it still seemed ambiguous to me which it was, and that discomfort made me a bit defensive about it.

  This may be a naivety of mine, but I struggle to communicate myself a lot and as a result I tend to look for the most benign intent that could lead to a given statement and assume that one until proven otherwise, because whenever I end up being the person phrasing something poorly or in a way that causes offense, it feels a lot easier to handle and address when people calmly point out what is wrong with it and why than when people jump on it as proof of a character flaw, and it’s very easy to project one’s own struggles and modes of thinking onto other people one runs across, I guess. I’m probably overthinking it all.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The House Of The Guy Calling You A Libtard⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  If one wanted a generous interpretation, it could be pointing out the irony in a poor person advocating for the interests of the rich that keep people like themselves in that position.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨better act fast!⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  protogen snacks

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨whoopsie⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Oh it wasnt my intention to make it sound like climate change doesnt negatively impact anything, but “these things get more expensive” is a very different thing than “these crops are going extinct and theres nothing that can be done about it” the way that headline seems to imply.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨So much...⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Even fusion constrains you to the limits of the rocket equation. Laser sails on the other hand, could let you put the bulk of your propulsion system in orbit of the sun or something where you don’t have to carry it with you.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨p'rule'us⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Honestly the newest version of them does look kind of cool, though maybe it’ll get stale once they’re like 10 years old and everywhere.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨whoopsie⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  That’s not what that seems to say at all. It doesn’t even look like it says “if we do nothing, we can’t grow these crops anymore”. It seems to be specifically about stratospheric aerosol injection (a specific geoengineering technique that we haven’t even committed to trying as yet), and suggests that if you use it to keep global temperatures stable, there can still be changes in where these crops can grow because changes to things like rainfall and humidity. I’ve not read the entire thing but from a glance at it’s conclusions, their simulations suggest that the crops would remain economically important to their growing regions under all their simulations, just with the viable amount that can be grown and the specific areas for doing it changed ler region, and that using SAI to offset warming doesn’t simply result in the same yields as not having the warming would have the way one might otherwise expect.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[Technology Connections] I was right about dishwasher pods, and now I can prove it [41:26]⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Mine doesn’t even have a detergent door, just a divot to fill with powder before closing. It’s one of those countertop ones though, so I guess the available space and complexity was a bit limited.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Come the fuck on.... please?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I may be an optimist in some ways, but I honestly expect civilization will persist through “all this”. Though of course, that isn’t really much comfort considering that doesn’t mean that it won’t absolutely suck for the people within it all.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Fucking genetics⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Is there something that does the reverse? I’m not personally a fan of the look and feel of facial hair (for myself that is), and I find it annoying having to shave all the time only for the hair to come right back before too long.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I like to fit a full portion of hot garbage in there too ⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Or in a more literal reading, nitroglycerin

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨beta-tetra-eel⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  But how does the tetra obtain your financial information in the first place? Phishing.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I tire of this life⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I bet if you blasted a crab with a strong enough beam of UV you could get it to sunburn eventually. Or at least suffer some equivalent injury

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨engagement⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I disagree, I sometimes do laugh at explained jokes, if the reason is something I can understand but didn’t connect the dots on rather than an in-joke that I don’t have the context for.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why do so many hand dryers not dry hands? Am I doing something wrong?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I once found a random food court bathroom that has hand dryers that work amazingly well, and I was genuinely surprised by that when I stumbled on it. I’m guessing it probably is just more expensive or uses more power or something and places cheap out on them.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Just in time⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Bold of you to assume the guys crewing that spaceship aren’t just doing some job they hate to pay the bills

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨excuse me????⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  ah, right, forgot about hornbills

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨excuse me????⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Do any birds have horns? (Rather than just horn shaped tufts of feathers)

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Fear not, and enjoy this mere interlude to its fullest!⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Memes like this just make me get anxious thinking about the past

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨OK what is your Roman name?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Falafel gyroius just sounds silly

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨booming⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  I’ve just realized: if the classic boomer meme is “wife bad” stuff, does that mean only the boomer men are making memes? Or is there a whole genre of “husband bad” memes made by the boomer women that are flying under the radar?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I love authoritarians yum yum⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  It also includes idiots who survive but permanently render themselves unable to reproduce, but I don’t see that counting here either as I think you get disqualified for harming others, so stupidly getting your kid killed wouldn’t count.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨be gay, do crimes (in space)⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  To my understanding, she wasn’t determined to have actually committed it, just was accused

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Ay, chihuahua!⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  I’m not really a dog person, more a fan of cats and reptiles, but I remember being very attached to an old Chihuahua my family had for awhile. Never did get the hate for them, my experience with them has been that they can be very cuddly and a good size to come sit in your lap while watching tv or something. Never noticed the one I had to be particularly mean, though she was pretty old when we got her so maybe she just didn’t have the energy.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Based and Red Pilled Gigachad, many such cases 😔⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  To be fair, everyone’s views are shaped by propaganda of some kind, it’s quite literally unavoidable if you exist within any society. Lots of people like to think that their ideas are just the product of their own independent thinking, but that isn’t really how people work.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Is it just me or does this look more appetizing than a watermelon?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Kinda looks like a kiwi tbh

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨fools, the lot of ya'⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  What happens if Simon says to disobey Simon?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨breakfast⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s just not good at room temperature, it’s decent enough if it’s a fair bit warmer than that.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨choice⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Technically any human was already capable of doing that, the pill doesn’t say that it’s necessarily something you can just instantly do at a distance with your mind.