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- Comment on Every song has that one comment 4 weeks ago:
Tbh if there’s a musician that deserves this sort of comments, Eno is definitely one of the best candidates.
- Comment on Kids these days are too soft. Can't even roll with these guys. 4 weeks ago:
This has to have some weird ass allegorical meaning.
- Comment on tikatalik 5 weeks ago:
:(
- Comment on tikatalik 5 weeks ago:
Maybe the artist just screwed it up, but there’s a snake species that really does have eyes positioned like that, on top of its head. Arabian sand boa:
- Comment on Windows users don't want copilot on their taskbar 1 month ago:
Ehhhh, if you have expertise in ANY field outside of like programming, you can easily test various models and see that they produce crap. That doesn’t require you to understand how LLMs work exactly.
- Comment on Pierogi were good though 1 month ago:
It can vary from place to place…
- Comment on The later books are really something 2 months ago:
I get the frustration but it’s still funny.
- Comment on the fuckgraph 3 months ago:
For anyone who can’t find them… :D
- Comment on the fuckgraph 3 months ago:
It’s a 90s high school, somewhat rural and religious, according to the article. Either there really were few homosexual relationships there, or the students didn’t want to reveal them.
- Comment on the fuckgraph 3 months ago:
Wow, that’s literally not me.
- Comment on the fuckgraph 3 months ago:
There’s a male-male one on the rightward branch of the ring structure.
- Comment on Anon notices what they've taken from us 3 months ago:
The illustration of that patent practically a meme, many on Lemmy should know it.
Though it should be kept in mind there’s thousands of patents that were never actually applied, and this one was filled back in 2009.
- Comment on Friendly Reminder 4 months ago:
If anyone’s curious: the illustration is from Codex Seraphinianus by Luigi Serafini. It’s a pseudo-encyclopedia filled with this sort of bizarre images, schemes, diagrams…
- Comment on Steamboat OceanGate Titan 4 months ago:
But where are the air vent, the fan, and Saddam?
- Comment on Has google stopped working for finding anything? 4 months ago:
The last part of your post sounds like an ad straight out of those overlong YT videos.
- Comment on I feel this 6 months ago:
I’m not having any success with the former :/
- Comment on I feel this 6 months ago:
Is it meant to be used to find useful stuff, or just random neat and archaic sites?
- Comment on Why do dinosaurs have big heads and tiny arms? 8 months ago:
Idk, I’ve read some relatively popularly-oriented stuff on dino paleontology and classification, and some of those areas are shockingly shaky, so I don’t think this is meant to be some special “diss” at the researcher. E.g. when I was a kid I knew very well what Troodon was, it was shown in all those dino encyclopedias and “documentary” films (Discovery Channel’s Dinosaur Planet), noted for having the largest brain-to-body ratio, but it turns out that the whole species was reconstructed based on vague fossil fragments (like many other species, mind you) and tenuous connections between them (i.e. without good reasons to assume they belong to the same animal), and the current consensus is that the species literally did not exist at all. Having your taxonomic reclassification rejected seems pretty negligible compared to erasing a whole damn species…
- Comment on Why do dinosaurs have big heads and tiny arms? 8 months ago:
Which dinosaurs? Predators usually had relatively large heads because big head > big jaw > kill better and bite off more meat. But herbivores usually did not, as they could just focus on plants (instead they could develop longer necks to reach them in various places); some species such as Stegosaurus had rather famously tiny heads.
Tiny arms are associated with Tyrannosaurus and similar large theropods, but lots of other dinosaurs had relatively large arms, such as Dromaeosauridae (“raptors”). Of course discussing “arms” of various gigantic four-legged sauropods is pointless…
Basically there’s too much variety among dinosaurs to answer your question directly.
- Comment on [OC] My feeling as European reading news on Lemmy/Reddit 8 months ago:
OP’s gif literally talks about ‘world news’, that’s why I focused on that sub. The division between ‘news’ (=American news) and ‘world news’ (=non-American) has been established on reddit probably like a decade ago because American news indeed used to overwhelm the rest; today there’s not much of a point to complain or act surprised about this “system”, considering that almost everyone is used to it.
- Comment on [OC] My feeling as European reading news on Lemmy/Reddit 8 months ago:
I dunno. As a Euro, I think World news (on Lemmy) is fine as it is. The most important events in the world will be covered in English, and the texts will be formed in an appropriate way - as I’ve said previously it can be difficult to grasp the specific national context for many events, and a good news article will compensate. E. g. if a country has chosen a new president, a foreigner first has to learn if the country has a presidential or parliamentary system, or the info won’t be understood properly.
I guess one could pick out the articles with more context, or add some context themselves?
- Comment on [OC] My feeling as European reading news on Lemmy/Reddit 8 months ago:
Good question, though this was my first comment in the chain, I personally wasn’t complaining (yet).
To be honest, I’ve just checked the “Top Day” sorting of /c/world@lemmy.world, and the news are all about non-USA topics. So in hindsight I guess OP was just doing the usual “lol self-centred Americans” dunking. It is a fact that American news have pushed out the other countries’ news from the default news sub on reddit and here (or more likely the system was just replicated on Lemmy by default during the migration), so it’s a sort of folklore reaction… :D
- Comment on [OC] My feeling as European reading news on Lemmy/Reddit 8 months ago:
but nothing I see in the world news rules about posting in languages that aren’t English
Isn’t it pretty obvious? If literally any European posted news in their native language, outside of the Brits and the Irish, it would be literally incomprehensible to 80-90% of the continent.
Not to mention ^(proceeds^ ^to^ ^mention)^ the problem that we don’t care about each other’s internal politics and don’t know enough about their context to follow them. People might follow the EU topics and the large-scale shitfests such as Brexit, French protests and of course the Russo-Ukrainian war. But that’s it.
E.g. I just realised that my country borders six other countries and I can’t name the current PM/president of two of them. (for somewhat excusable reasons, but regardless of that it’s not a good look)
- Comment on On this day in 1908, the first animated film was released: Émile Cohl's "Fantasmagorie" 8 months ago:
Here’s one example of an original musician for the silents, playing some fragments: www.youtube.com/watch?v=5lwsA0n8OBY
The overall sound was like that, but of course different pianists had different styles and repertoires of typical melodies that they’d improvise with.
Some more ambitious feature length films would employ ensembles or an entire orchestra, which is what Griffith did first for the Birth of a Nation. Of course in that case the music had to be written in advance, though I’m not sure how much of it has been preserved over the decades.
- Comment on On this day in 1908, the first animated film was released: Émile Cohl's "Fantasmagorie" 8 months ago:
Then I realized it was pre audio
Probably it was screened with largely improvised live music (piano), so this isn’t quite the original experience. There’s a version with some music on archive.org linked in this thread. Watching the silents without any audio feels weird, “empty”, and the original audiences must’ve felt the same.
And yeah, early films were a bit similar to circus attractions, so the comparison is pretty good. They wanted to show something visually striking, so e.g. they filmed many variants of “serpentine dances”, or fights between a chimney sweeper covered in coal and miller covered in flour.
- Comment on On this day in 1908, the first animated film was released: Émile Cohl's "Fantasmagorie" 8 months ago:
I linked the video on Wikimedia in OP. Here’s the link again: …wikimedia.org/…/La_Fantasmagorie_(1908).webm
- On this day in 1908, the first animated film was released: Émile Cohl's "Fantasmagorie"upload.wikimedia.org ↗Submitted 8 months ago to moviesandtv@lemmy.film | 15 comments
