xantoxis

@xantoxis@lemmy.world

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Infintiy Infintiy Infintiy Infintiy Infintiy Infintiy Infintiy Infintiy⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  The whole thing is dumb if you accept a premise of “infinite monkeys”. An infinite number of monkeys will type the works of shakespeare immediately, because an infinite number of them will start with the very first key they hit and continue until the end. (So it’ll be complete exactly as fast as a monkey can type it, typing as fast as simianly possible, with no mistakes.) You don’t even need the infinite time.

  It only becomes interesting if you look at the finite scenarios.

  And BTW, the lifespan of the universe is finite due to the eventual decay of all matter, including the monkeys and the typewriters. There’s no infinite time.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How long do you think we'll keep seeing "formerly Twitter"?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  I keep seeing people call it “X, the Everything App” and ngl it’s funny every single time

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Clever, clever⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Is it? If ChatGPT wrote your paper, why would citations of the work of Frankie Hawkes raise any red flags unless you happened to see this specific tweet? You’d just see ChatGPT filled in some research by someone you hadn’t heard of. Whatever, turn it in. Proofreading anything you turn in is obviously a good idea, but it’s not going to reveal that you fell into a trap here.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Eat lead⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  This is exactly what it is. When everything you believe is made up, it’s easily to accidentally make up the wrong number and then believe that instead.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Ash (2025, dir Flying Lotus)⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  This sounds like my bag. The director has done a VHS movie and is otherwise mostly known for being a composer? No idea how that’ll play out. Aaron Paul though.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Alice missing the point yet again⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Okay but seriously why does Alice immediately bring up a hypothetical person getting bitten when I’m in the room bleeding from my actual dog bite? Alice doesn’t give a shit about me.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Halloween Botany⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Knowledge is knowing the common definition of fruit doesn’t include tomato.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Halloween Botany⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  This feels like a case where botanical science should just have picked a different name. If you invalidate everything people think of as a berry and then tell them a dozen things that are clearly not berries are, in fact, berries, you’re just making the word berry meaningless.

  Berry means a tiny, usually sweet, fruit-like growth from a plant. The kind that is usually picked in bunches. The kind that you use to make smoothies. That’s a berry.

  Botany did us all a disservice by choosing the word “berry” to mean “a specific thing which invalidates everything you think is a berry.” Just call it something in latin ffs.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨50% survival rate⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  If you were the patient, you’d still be happy about that. If the surgeon is cheating the stats, but has already accepted you as a patient, then you have the highest chance of survival.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Bitey⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I would want them to let me choose the name.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Is setting a box outside a viable trapping strategy for felines?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  So what did you do with them once they were trapped? I imagine lifting that box would be putting your own life at risk, but even if you survived that you now have a feral cat to deal with.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Anon attends school online⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  You’d rather be the person who decided to randomly unmute to share your actual factual filthy self? At least a soundboard is just a poorly judged joke (that actually landed, if the teacher laughed). Or you can be a fart pervert.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Anon attends school online⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  A fart that serious wouldn’t seem real, and that goes double if it appears that you unmuted specifically to make the noise. Just tell people it was a soundboard.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Eureka⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Admittedly the image quality is “this meme first appeared in a dirty magazine in 1986 and has been re-compressed twice a year since the internet was invented”, but there are falling lines above the cucumber, and a little puff of smoke where it hits the ground. It’s depicted as falling out of a tree.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Eureka⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  A cucumber tree? Sir, this is a science community.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨This might also apply to conferences.⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  We’re censoring out the letters “wtf” now? Fucking seriously?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Anon uses his dad's phone⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Anon discovers that objectifying people you are racist against is pretty much the most common thing imaginable.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Anon is an example⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Fuck the single cousin? I don’t see the problem

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Would it be legal to crowdfund a licensed private detective to investigate a public figure and publish their results publicly?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Is this legal?

  Yes, it’s called “opposition research” (frequently abbreviated “oppo”) and the political parties do it constantly to one another. Because they’re doing it this much, and because they have a LOT less scruples than you do, they’ve probably already uncovered everything you would. But maybe not all.

  In addition, doing this publicly would put the target on alert, so they’d specifically run interference against whoever you hired. This wouldn’t make their job impossible, but definitely harder.

  And, finally, whatever new dirt you do manage to gather might not matter. The things Trump has done that the public already knows about should be enough to put him in prison for life, and yet he’s still in the current US presidential election instead of incarceration.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Magic⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  there’s a way to tie it back to circles

  Not necessarily circles, but conic sections. When you take a series of a fixed exponent over a variable x, and graph it, that graph is a parabola.

  A parabola is a slice through a cone. Tada, pi appears.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Jackhammer⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  You wouldn’t, of course. Hearing, the way we hear, in such an environment would be useless. We wouldn’t have evolved that. This is like saying “ultraviolet radiation from the sun would be everywhere, all the time, can you imagine?” It is everywhere all the time, but as such it isn’t a useful sense to possess, so we don’t.

  This also makes some very weird assumptions about what the sound would be like. If space were a medium sound could travel through then it would–like all mediums capable of carrying a sound wave–alter the wave in many ways. Intensity, frequency, etc. But since we don’t know what kind of medium that would be, and since the comment doesn’t posit any particular medium, we don’t know what the sound would sound like or even how loud it would be.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Blood Meal⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  This is what I came here to say. The clarification on the post is not about humans eating plant food, it’s about idiot fucking pets eating plant food. They eat grass, why wouldn’t they chow down on something that smells like blood.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Anon is Wario⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I mean, how could you not

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Anon casts a healing spell⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Taking away someone’s intentional, roleplayed disability definitely falls under “infringing on someone’s fun”, though. If the player (not just the character) is also disabled and trying to represent themselves in the game, this goes beyond infringing on fun straight into lowkey offensive. I would never let this nat 20 work. Maybe it fixes the wheelchair or something.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Amazon Contractors can't even sing in their cars now. Unions protect against this micromanagement.⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Did you really just blame the drivers for this?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Anon plays Metro 2033⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Hey man, if you find yourself with a Very Serious Opinion after reading one of these, you should maybe say it out loud in a room by yourself instead of posting it as a comment. This has nothing to do with whether you’re right or not. Nobody wants Serious Opinions underneath their jokes, and you will be much happier when you learn this.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I once did a toke at a party and then I died true story⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I feel like “Christians against the pot” gives the game away.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What are some game series you would like to see revived? And if possible, which entry should the new game follow from?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I agree with all of this, but the ending made me so mad I stopped playing them.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What are some game series you would like to see revived? And if possible, which entry should the new game follow from?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Far Cry. Both FC3 and FC4 were great, and then they never made another one after that.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Two words: media illiteracy. They don’t understand the themes in what they are watching; moreover, they can’t connect any themes they do recognize to their own beliefs because they are disconnected from reality in the first place.

  Modern conservatism has noticed that reality rarely agrees with its values, so its response has been to reject reality. That has a lot of side effects, and the inability to hear the message in the media is one of those side effects.