octoperson

@octoperson@sh.itjust.works

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Microplastic overdose⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  I’ve never heard of Chester cheese. There’s Cheshire cheese, but that’s quite crumbly and wouldn’t hold up to being packaged like this. You might also be thinking of cheddar. A genuine cheddar would be too brittle, but in modern marketing, cheddar is often shorthand for any homogenous, yellow cheese. So this stuff might be described as cheddar on the packet.

  I think this stuff is more of a cheese-flavoured sauce, that they inject into the bags and leave to set. It’s more an invention of the convenience food industry, than any culinary tradition.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Microplastic overdose⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  I’ve just realised why that stuff always tastes like plastic

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Bread⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Bunch of people ain’t getting curly hair!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Is there a way to have a link to a post resolve to a users home instance?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Answer from @thegiddystitcher@lem.ee when I asked the same question;

  Good question, and sorry to disappoint but I believe the answer is still no. This has been talked about a lot ever since the initial exodus over from Reddit, so I can only assume there’s a complicated technical reason why it’s not a thing yet.

  If you’re Lemmying from a browser there’s a tool called Lemmy Universal Link Switcher that I’ve heard good things about, although full disclosure I’ve not used it myself. It doesn’t solve the problem of generating instance-agnostic links but it does try to solve it from the reader’s side.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How Do I Get Back Into Facebook?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  I got the same trying to make an instagram login earlier this year, having never used insta before. I think Meta just has some overzealous automoderation of new accounts.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Can bots upvote?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  That work on the honour system, so the bots can choose to not self-identify.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Excuse my ignorance, but could someone explain why that tween Elon agreed with recently is considered antisemetic?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Dunno. They’re probably all on X these days.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Excuse my ignorance, but could someone explain why that tween Elon agreed with recently is considered antisemetic?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Can’t find any evidence of that being a term prior to the tweet. I’d guess one of

  • they meant something simple like ‘hateful dialogue’ or ‘hateful diatribe’, and thought it was a smart person way of saying it.
  • it’s the dog whistle du jour. Somewhere on stormfront or voat they’re getting terribly worked up about ‘dialectical hatred’ as the new current threat to the white race.
  • it’s used in some niche context where it has meaning. But our tweeter thinks it’s got more reach than it actually does.
• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨This Captcha⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Most pictures lack snow. Out of all the pictures in the world, most of them lack snow.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨This Captcha⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Nope. It asked which appears warmer. Warmth is about subjective feelings of comfort - it’s not a direct synonym for temperature. No-one describes getting burned as being lovely and warm.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨This Captcha⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Most pictures lack snow. You’d expect the interior of a room to lack snow. Lack of snow alone does not communicate anything unless it’s in a context where you’d normally expect there to be snow.

  If I was a visual designer, and I was tasked with providing a picture to represent warmth, I might choose, I don’t know; hands in mittens clutching steaming mugs of cocoa, a cat snoozing in front of a roaring fire, or what else? Welcoming light shining from the windows of a house in a snowy landscape! If I submitted a nondescript photo off of a real estate listing, and said “look bro! No snow”, I’d be looking for a new job.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨This Captcha⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Only number 3 conveys the concept of warmth to me. A wintry scene contrasted with orange tinged light visible through house windows is a classic trope to evoke warmth and cosiness. The interiors are undoubtedly a physically higher temperature at the location of the photographer, but the picture is not working to communicate that.

  What “of the same type” means, I have no clue.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨this⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  What type of dice has a mix of pips and numerals?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why using the search bar to find emojis, does it display the male and female forms, but never show the gender neutral version even though such an emoji does exist?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  I don’t get the gender neutral either (using Gboard on an older Android). Which is a bit odd because as far as I can tell gender neutral is the base character, and the male and female versions are customisations that are applied as if they were accented characters.

  I’d rather have them all as no-gender, no-race, generic little yellow peeps but eh…

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What happened to the flat earthers who demonstrated that the earth is round in the netfilx documentary ?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s not specifically about those same individuals, but I want to mention Dan Olsen’s documentary In Search of a Flat Earth, which touches more on the ideology of the flat earth movement, and how it’s developed in recent years. No spoilers, peeps!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Assuming a button that, every time you push it, your intelligence goes up. The obvious and sane thing to do is to push the button all day. Yes? No? Maybe? Is there something that I'm missing here?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Tap tap tap. Tap tap tap tap tap tap tap tap tap tap tap tap tap tap tap tap tap tap tap… Tapatapatapatapatapatapatapatapatapatapatapatapatapatapatapatapatapatapatapatapatapatapatapatapa…
  Tap.
  Tap tap…
  Tap …

  “I’m wasting my time”

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The Sacred Hole⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Boys? Don’t dig deeper than you are tall, ok? Sand can fall in on itself. If it’s up to your waist, we dig you out. If it’s over your head, we don’t get to come to the beach again.

  Got that, boys? Okay. Grab a spade.

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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Tall, short, whatever—we're all screwed⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s cloudy up there

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Does anyone else hoard memes on lemmy for no apparent reason?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  YOINK!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Voyager 1's Golden Record⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  I’ve often heard that there was a specially recorded song by The Carpenters (usually in the context of jokingly complaining “why The Carpenters? The aliens are going to think we suck”). But it’s not on the list. Is it an urban myth? Were they on a different spacecraft?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Could feral chicken take over the Amazon ?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  That’s only a concern for one generation tho, which afaik for commercially bred chickens might be just a matter of weeks

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What would life be like if we had 2 moons? With 2 different lunar cycles, how would we tell which time of the year it is without months?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Earth’s moon is notably big. Relative to the size of its parent planet, it’s easily the biggest* in the solar system (or second biggest if you Stan Pluto as a planet). If there was a second moon, it would likely be a lot smaller. So, I don’t think it would have much practical effect on things like tides or timekeeping. It would still have cultural significance in things like mythology and astrology. If we could observe moon-moon interactions we might have discovered gravity earlier.

  /* in absolute size, there are a couple of larger moons, but they’re moons of giant planets so Luna still wins in relative size.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What would life be like if we had 2 moons? With 2 different lunar cycles, how would we tell which time of the year it is without months?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  I’ve heard people describe the asteroid Cruithne as earth’s second moon (the chat show QI did a bit on it, and it’s in a Steven Baxter novel). But I think that’s kind of a misleading description - it orbits the sun not the earth, just in a way that regularly syncs up with the earth’s orbit.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What does .: come from / what does it mean?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  I can see 4 top level comments earlier than yours that address the OP, without being involved in the ie eg debate. I’m on the same instance as you too so idk why you wouldn’t see them. caching problems with your app or browser?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Fantasy rednecks⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Has nobody here seen The Wizard of Oz?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Panik⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Oh yeah? Factor zero into primes then poindexter

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Panik⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  11 is alternating sum
  So, first digit minus second plus third minus fourth…
  And then check if that is divisible by 11.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How did living in caves not backfire on cavemen?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Here’s your answer. It’s likely there’s more people living in caves in modern times than there ever were in prehistory

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Outrage after Greta Thunberg arrested at London oil summit protest⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  So what do you think is the plod’s angle? Is it a blunder? A flex? Or are they deliberately trying to lose this one?