LibertyLizard
@LibertyLizard@slrpnk.net
- Comment on Larry Summers resigns from OpenAI board following release of Jeffrey Epstein emails 22 hours ago:
If only there was some way we could have known he wasn’t a good guy. Like if, for example, he had famously said it’s good for the economy to poison poor people. Or if he had resigned in disgrace as president of the nation’s university top university after making bigoted comments and involvement in a case of fraud. Or spearheaded the deregulation of the finance industry that directly led to the housing crisis. Just hypothetically, if someone had done all those things, no sane person would invite them to be on one of the most important and powerful corporate boards.
Right?
- Comment on When she got that hot spathussy 🥵 4 days ago:
I just want to explain the very clever double entendre here because I’m not sure how many people will get it.
Skunk cabbage is notable for blooming in late winter, even when snow is still on the ground. How can a flower bloom in snow? Well, it actually generates its own heat, which can be enough to melt the snow around it and allow pollinators to reach the flower. This heat can be extremely important to early season pollinators, since they can rest and warm up in the flower even when it might otherwise be too cold to fly.
So that spathussy really do be hot.
- Comment on sad but trueueh, yeahh 6 days ago:
Why would this bother me lol
- Comment on The Chat Botanists 1 week ago:
- Comment on Vindicated Iguanas 1 week ago:
This is way more common than wildlife biologists want to admit.
- Comment on The heat... I mean the cold... well, it’s palpable! 1 week ago:
Touché but you know what I mean. It’s the most logical to have absolute zero be zero.
- Comment on The heat... I mean the cold... well, it’s palpable! 1 week ago:
Kelvin is objectively the most accurate. Celsius fans cope.
- Comment on Hrmmmmm 1 week ago:
Call me naive if you want but I think we might want to aim for slightly more than another flavor of illusory democracy.
- Comment on Why doesn't NASA have a go fund me page or kickstarter? Really don't know how they work but would donate. 380 million in the US if everyone gave a dollar would do good? 2 weeks ago:
It has some advantages but I think it will make public services even more subordinated to the interests of the wealthy. Since they would have almost sole discretion on where that money goes.
- Comment on Check your candy 2 weeks ago:
Ouch my teeth 😢
- Comment on Are bots on lemmy? 2 weeks ago:
I’ve never seen real evidence of bots impersonating people here but it’s hard to know. Maybe admins would have more insights.
There are a few ad bots that sneak in but they usually get a ban pretty quickly.
- Comment on Are bots on lemmy? 2 weeks ago:
Sounds like something a bot would say!
- Comment on During the lead up to the Holocaust did the N... regime just kidnap people who they even thought were Jews? Kind of like ICE is doing to citizens today? 3 weeks ago:
I was worried about this with CECOT but I think most everyone ended up being released from there? Does anyone know if other American deportees are still being held there?
Unfortunately, I’ve seen very little reporting on other foreign prison camps, so I don’t know what the conditions there are like and who is being held vs released etc. Someone in the media really needs to dig into this more. Or if anyone has seen such reporting, please link it.
- Comment on Sloe Down 3 weeks ago:
Interesting, thanks. Makes sense since P. cerasifera tastes and looks extremely similar to European plums. But I’ve never tried Prunus spinosa to compare.
- Comment on Dubious Islands 3 weeks ago:
You know it.
- Comment on Dubious Islands 3 weeks ago:
Only if it’s connected by water to the other major rivers. But I’m not sure if it is.
- Comment on Dubious Islands 3 weeks ago:
Thanks. That seems to be the origin of the extra braid that crosses the Rockies on the map.
- Comment on Dubious Islands 3 weeks ago:
I mean making shit up isn’t a joke though. I feel like the humor needs to be based on something real.
Most of the other “islands” are formed by man made canals, so I’m curious what the situation in the Rockies is that allows them to argue those rivers connect.
- Comment on Dubious Islands 3 weeks ago:
Uh… is there a waterway that crosses the Rocky Mountains this way? That doesn’t seem right.
- Comment on Sloe Down 3 weeks ago:
Is the implication here that Asian plums are a different species?
- Comment on mercy merci 3 weeks ago:
Distant cackling
- Comment on mercy merci 3 weeks ago:
The spiders have their corners in my house. Doesn’t bother me. They eat the pesky flying insects that like to fly in my face.
- Comment on Fight me 3 weeks ago:
Well ultimately it all becomes heat. Maybe a tiny amount escapes a window or something. So we could say 99%.
But heat pumps still reign supreme, at least until it gets super cold.
- Comment on How many people would a generation ship need to have for inbreeding to not be an issue? 4 weeks ago:
The obvious solution here is to include frozen gametes in the ship’s cargo to increase the diversity of the population. It would be culturally easiest with frozen sperm but if necessary you could include eggs as well, provided people are willing to be surrogate mothers.
- Comment on Fear their power 4 weeks ago:
Imagine how much easier dating would be if you’re default compatible with over 98% of the population. Making me jealous.
- Comment on Who haunts your home? 4 weeks ago:
Not quite as advertised. Just a list of relevant fossil sites and publications. Very useful for a researcher, I’m sure, but not just a list of species for your area.
- Comment on Oh no my harvest is too bountiful 4 weeks ago:
What’s it got to do with being a nuclear engineer though? It just seems so random, it feels like I’m missing something.
- Comment on Oh no my harvest is too bountiful 4 weeks ago:
I don’t get it. Why furries?
- Comment on Is it possible to be a leftist, but still really enjoy capitalism? 4 weeks ago:
I feel like most anarchists identify as socialists, so I’m not sure about that one.
- Comment on Is it possible to be a leftist, but still really enjoy capitalism? 4 weeks ago:
What would be an example of a non-socialist but leftist school of thought?
