Deconceptualist
@Deconceptualist@lemm.ee
- Comment on It's insidious 2 days ago:
It’s not TIFF. This isn’t NASA imagery. PNGs do alright on compression for photos.
- Comment on It's insidious 2 days ago:
Nice find. That one tells me 1401x1705 and 0.86 MB.
- Comment on It's insidious 3 days ago:
Why is that PNG file 1.3 MB? Is it huge or just unoptimized? Is someone using it as a fullsize Quark poster or something?
- Comment on Are movies where the time loops over and over considered time travel movies? 1 week ago:
I say yes. It’s one of my favorite genres (if you can call it one) and definitely includes loop-based plots like Groundhog Day and Primer. But I also enjoy the Terminator Series and Back to the Future and Army of Darkness. I imagine most fans are similar.
- Comment on Woke up today to find out my demo has 100% Positive rating (from 10/10 reviews) 1 week ago:
I could go give it a negative review if that would help you feel more grounded.
Just kidding, congratulations :)
- Comment on [deleted] 1 week ago:
If it’s labeled “holy” I assume a priest stuck his willy in it, so no.
- Comment on Which language was spoken in ancient empire armies ? 1 week ago:
I went there a couple months ago, and it seemed like all the native folks spoke Irish (Gaelic) to some degree. It was pretty surprising, I thought I’d have to go to the west coast to get away from English, but nope, even the first cabbie I encountered in Dublin was more than happy to chat about linguistics!
- Comment on Which language was spoken in ancient empire armies ? 2 weeks ago:
No EU member has English as its main language
Ireland?
- Comment on Bears Cave 2 weeks ago:
I think it’s called a rabbit hole because rabbits live there.
- Comment on Nuclear Demonology 2 weeks ago:
lol, fair enough!
- Comment on Nuclear Demonology 2 weeks ago:
Eh, I don’t even want to give credence to Carlson’s garbage by repeating it. But even if we imagine Otto Frisch was somehow there alone making drawings in the snow, we still know when it happened.
- Comment on Nuclear Demonology 2 weeks ago:
Marie Curie didn’t discover fission; that was Lise Meitner and her nephew Otto Frisch and colleague Otto Hahn. But yeah, same problem. Meitner was left out of the publications and overlooked for a Nobel Prize.
- Comment on Nuclear Demonology 2 weeks ago:
Curie was brilliant but she didn’t discover fission.
- Comment on Nuclear Demonology 2 weeks ago:
This isn’t ancient history. Links in my top level comment, but the answer is right around Christmas 1938.
- Comment on Nuclear Demonology 2 weeks ago:
In case anyone wants the answer, it’s 1938.
Further reading: Lise Meitner – the forgotten woman of nuclear physics who deserved a Nobel Prize
- Comment on Sea Creature Party 3 weeks ago:
[Obligatory] Your mom.
- Comment on Sea Creature Party 3 weeks ago:
What if you take off the costume? Humans aren’t entirely bilaterally symmetrical (at least not on the inside) and obviously not radially symmetrical so the paradox continues.
- Comment on Life imitates art? 5 weeks ago:
Moi non plus
- Comment on Life imitates art? 1 month ago:
Mais bien sûr
- Comment on Life imitates art? 1 month ago:
Ceci n’est pas un signe
- Comment on 50% survival rate 1 month ago:
That’s sort of why I asked. I thought I was missing something but no, the meme is apparently assuming academic professionals are dummies. Not to say that we should expect nuance and robust portrayals from a meme.
- Comment on Heavy Metal Darwin 1 month ago:
They say he was Hellbent for Leatherback turtles
- Comment on 50% survival rate 1 month ago:
Thanks. I suspect a mathematician would consider the latter point too though.
- Comment on 50% survival rate 1 month ago:
Can somebody explain the difference between the mathematician and the scientist parts of this?
- Comment on Consume Saddam 1 month ago:
What’s fucked up is that this was actually a popular thing to do in Victorian times.
- Comment on Why do all languages share the same intonation for questions? 1 month ago:
Same for German.
- Comment on Why do all languages share the same intonation for questions? 1 month ago:
That’s just emphasis. You can tell because you can shift it to another word.
- What’s your name? (more pointed)
- How old are you? (as if it’s now suddenly important)
- What are you from? (maybe the person has an unusual accent)
- Where are you from? (more pointed)
- Comment on I'm as white as snow but I'm still not white enough to eat this. 1 month ago:
Different chili varieties definitely have their own flavors. Even blindfolded you’d probably be able to tell apart sauces made with poblanos vs banana peppers (both can have basically zero heat).
- Comment on I'm as white as snow but I'm still not white enough to eat this. 1 month ago:
Chilis have a natural variation in heat, which depends a lot on growing conditions. Jalapeños can range from ~2000 to 8000 scovilles. The hotter ones don’t taste different, they just have more capsaicin. That molecule itself has no flavor, it just triggers the heat receptors in your cells.
Maybe your perception of the heat has gotten entangled with the flavor so cognitively one is less satisfying without the other. But that’s specific to your perception and not how it works at the chemical level of the plant or human sensory cells.
- Comment on I'm as white as snow but I'm still not white enough to eat this. 1 month ago:
So buy the regular variety? They’re far easier to find.