candybrie
@candybrie@lemmy.world
- Comment on gen z gorillas 3 days ago:
Is it because of the kids or the admin/parents/political activists/gun violence/low pay?
- Comment on gen z gorillas 4 days ago:
Maybe the people complaining drown out everyone else. But people like David Hogg and Greta Thunberg are Gen Z and out doing more than most to fix the problems they see. Like maybe people complain that Gen Z has no idea what files on a computer are, but that seems like a different thing than helplessness.
- Comment on Serious statement: I don't understand the argument that not voting for Harris was the morally correct thing to do, because of Gaza. Why does anyone believe this? 1 week ago:
No. The outcome is Trump is president.
- Comment on Serious statement: I don't understand the argument that not voting for Harris was the morally correct thing to do, because of Gaza. Why does anyone believe this? 1 week ago:
That isn’t an outcome.
- Comment on Serious statement: I don't understand the argument that not voting for Harris was the morally correct thing to do, because of Gaza. Why does anyone believe this? 1 week ago:
What’s the other outcome of the US election?
- Comment on Serious statement: I don't understand the argument that not voting for Harris was the morally correct thing to do, because of Gaza. Why does anyone believe this? 1 week ago:
There are the words straight out of Trump’s mouth. If you believe that Democrats will kill more people than Republicans, that’s a completely different conversation.
- Comment on Serious statement: I don't understand the argument that not voting for Harris was the morally correct thing to do, because of Gaza. Why does anyone believe this? 1 week ago:
More people than the Republicans would.
- Comment on Serious statement: I don't understand the argument that not voting for Harris was the morally correct thing to do, because of Gaza. Why does anyone believe this? 1 week ago:
It’s a stupid question. But that’s the reality. So genocide or worse genocide? If you say neither, it’s probably going to be worse genocide.
- Comment on Anon doesn't tip 1 week ago:
I’m so sad we voted against it. Legalizing magic mushrooms had more support than making tipped minimum wage the same as normal minimum wage.
- Comment on And 299999999 is divisible by 13 2 weeks ago:
I think it might be easier just to do the division.
- Comment on The Divine Dick 2 weeks ago:
Uh, pronouns are just words. They don’t have some innate quality that means they had to exist when the entities those pronouns describe began. He/Him is likely about as old as he/him.
- Comment on This feels wrong. I love it. 3 weeks ago:
Considering we’re trying to find lengths, shouldn’t we be doing absolute value squared?
- Comment on Clever, clever 3 weeks ago:
This in reply to a person who took more effort to write a program that wrote out the steps for inverting a matrix so they didn’t have to do the busy work of inverting a silly number of them? Kinda sounds like they prefer really understanding and challenging work to busy work is all.
- Comment on mullenweg, founder of wordpress, claims that the apostrophe we type is actually a prime mark and talks about how he always manually inputs U+2019 instead 5 weeks ago:
This is the WordPress drama you’re focusing on right now?
- Comment on I'm going insane 1 month ago:
Yes, I have.
Have you tried it? Find a mirror big enough to show your whole body and press your face right up to it. Do you see your whole body? Now take a step back, do you see your whole body at the same time without having to look and up and down? Now walk several steps back and notice how much more you can see without moving your eyes.
We’re talking about 2 separate concepts is the problem.
- Comment on I'm going insane 1 month ago:
Ok, I can see the point, but it’s not usually what people mean when they can see their whole body. In that example, you’re looking down or looking up. It’s not the whole body entirely in your field of view. For your whole body to be entirely in your field of view, it absolutely does matter how close or far you are from the mirror.
- Comment on I'm going insane 1 month ago:
The reflection being further is the point? The further away something is, the smaller it looks, so the less of your field of view it takes up, the more you can see of it.
If I put my hand on my eye, I can’t see much of it. If I pull my hand back, I can see more of it. If I put a mirror on my eye, I can only see my eye. If I put it back, I can see my face because the reflection of my face is further (i.e. smaller).
I’m very confused what you’re trying to say.
- Comment on Instruments 2 months ago:
I found this video and I really wouldn’t be able to tell if it was just sound. I think I have like 2 categories I can reliably do for strings: bow or not.
- Comment on Instruments 2 months ago:
Soundwise or visually? I can see the difference (big vs little) but I don’t think I could reliably pick out the sound between the two.
- Comment on Francis Ford Coppola: ‘Megalopolis’ cast purposefully includes ‘canceled’ actors 2 months ago:
It’s at least the same concept. Words can hurt. Don’t use them to hurt people. Why do they seem to get that with the n-word but not other slurs or demeaning language? Do they actually understand that with the n-word, or are they just copying what everyone else does without actually thinking about why?
- Comment on Symptoms of arsenic poisoning 2 months ago:
I think absent bowel sounds generally means no shitting. Bowels are apparently pretty noisy when they’re doing anything.
- Comment on Linguistic Perscriptivists 3 months ago:
You can want it all you want. It’s just not reality. And pretending like it is isn’t helpful to people trying to learn the language anyway.
- Comment on well if you look at it that way 3 months ago:
I have yellow tape measurers that are like a quarter inch wide. It’s not that rare.
- Comment on well if you look at it that way 3 months ago:
I can cover the whole moon with my thumb. Is the moon the size of my thumb?
If I hold a ruler about mid-chest, I can get this effect.
- Comment on Lectures 3 months ago:
The aid is definitely for the audience. Otherwise, the presenter would just have some notes.
- Comment on Lectures 3 months ago:
Maybe for something non-technical that would be reasonable. But if you’re talking to a single slide for ~30 minutes, it’s unlikely to be an adequate aid for most people. Either the content is really complex and would benefit from additional slides that focus on each relevant part. Or a lot of what you’re talking about isn’t really represented, and people are likely to get lost without something to show what it is you’re describing.
- Comment on obesity 3 months ago:
Oh yeah. A PhD means you hyperspecialized for years. You get one by being the expert and advancing your field in, usually, one tiny tiny area. For anything that isn’t that tiny area? Likely to be a stupid as anyone.
- Comment on Statistics 3 months ago:
Dogs kill about twice as many people per year as cows in the US.
- Comment on Interspecies linguistics 3 months ago:
What’s your definition of language?
- Comment on Anon saves their vacation days 3 months ago:
It is. But if you read more than the first sentence of their comment, you can tell that’s what they mean.