Deme
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- Comment on Australians doing the country proud again... 5 days ago:
Pepe was also stolen back in 2016 or so, but that one got reclaimed by people “pretending” that it wasn’t a symbol of hate. The ok-sign shouldn’t even need to be reclaimed since it has such strong previous connotations. But if you do think that it is, and that every cheff doing the chefs kiss or a scuba diver saying “I’m ok” with their hand is actually doing a nazi hate symbol, then it too should be reclaimed.
- Comment on Australians doing the country proud again... 5 days ago:
Zach Rehl, leader of the Philadelphia Proud Boys, making the OK gesture in November 2020
He’s doing it like that.
- Comment on Australians doing the country proud again... 5 days ago:
That’s just the ok-sign.
- Comment on Australians doing the country proud again... 5 days ago:
I have not heard of that association for a long time. Mostly it’s just a lmaooo gotem -type of thing.
But sure, do give the nazis more ammo by giving ownership of such symbols to them.
- Comment on A Woodpecker’s tongue is so long that it wraps around its skull 2 weeks ago:
I’d guess that it just needs the space so it can extend that far into the tree, without blocking the airways.
- Comment on A Woodpecker’s tongue is so long that it wraps around its skull 2 weeks ago:
Huh, the link to the research article works for me. Weird. I’ll post the summary below. The woodpecker is trying to break the surface of the tree, whereas a dead-blow hammer “helpful in minimizing damage to the struck surface”, as said in that wikipedia article. The total impulse just means how much energy the bird is expending, whereas the peak force is what breaks the structure of the wood. So it’s beneficial to get as hard of an impact as possible with the highest possible peak force.
The skull of a woodpecker is hypothesized to serve as a shock absorber that minimizes the harmful deceleration of its brain upon impact into trees^1–11^ and has inspired the engineering of shock-absorbing materials^12–15^ and tools, such as helmets.16 However, this hypothesis remains paradoxical since any absorption or dissipation of the head’s kinetic energy by the skull would likely impair the bird’s hammering performance^4^ and is therefore unlikely to have evolved by natural selection. In vivo quantification of impact decelerations during pecking in three woodpecker species and biomechanical models now show that their cranial skeleton is used as a stiff hammer to enhance pecking performance, and not as a shock-absorbing system to protect the brain. Numerical simulations of the effect of braincase size and shape on intracranial pressure indicate that the woodpeckers’ brains are still safe below the threshold of concussions known for primate brains. These results contradict the currently prevailing conception of the adaptive evolution of cranial function in one of nature’s most spectacular behaviors.
Van Wassenbergh S, Ortlieb E, Mielke M … Woodpeckers minimize cranial absorption of shocks Current Biology, 2022; 32, 3189-3194.e4
- Comment on A Woodpecker’s tongue is so long that it wraps around its skull 2 weeks ago:
That is a common misconception. Shock absorption would diminish pecking performance. You want your hammer to be hard instead of soft if you want to get anything done. Woodpeckers have very stiff heads because of this.
- Comment on Made me chuckle when I saw it, so you have to see it too. It cannot be unseen. 3 weeks ago:
Fair enough, yeah a human could also do that
- Comment on Made me chuckle when I saw it, so you have to see it too. It cannot be unseen. 3 weeks ago:
- Comment on Made me chuckle when I saw it, so you have to see it too. It cannot be unseen. 3 weeks ago:
Good call. I’m on mobile and forgot to open the full sized image.
- Comment on I'm going to change the world 3 weeks ago:
The Great Oxidation Event had atmospheric greenhouse gas levels plummet, which resulted in the young and comparatively weak sun not being able to keep the planet warm, resulting in the Huronian glaciation.
- Comment on I'm going to change the world 3 weeks ago:
No. They killed themselves off to near extinction several times as the planet repeatedly froze over.
- Comment on Made me chuckle when I saw it, so you have to see it too. It cannot be unseen. 3 weeks ago:
Difficult to pin down, but I’d say that the drawing looks way too detailed compared to the stylized pencil-like texture that arises due to the uneven surface of a paper, which in turn would be a hinderance to such level of detail.
Also the horizon is at different levels around the left claw. An artist would use a single stroke with a ruler and get a clean horizon.
- Comment on The Floyd Artifact 1 month ago:
We aren’t at that spot, but in space above and behind it. Our horizon is different to the horizon at the prism, and on the surface there the Earth may well be slightly below the local horizon. Hard to say for certain since this is AI slop and the perspective may be wonky.
That being said, the prism is so tall that it would probably still be at least slightly visible from the Earth.
- Comment on The Floyd Artifact 1 month ago:
Only if you take it literally. Usually when people refer to the dark side, they mean the far side.
Although the far side does get a lot darker than the near side during lunar nights, since Earthshine never reaches it.
- Comment on Skeeter me this 2 months ago:
Quality shitpost
- Comment on phonetic alphabet 2 months ago:
I think the joke here is exactly that some of the words are the worst for this purpose.
- Comment on Post your collection of fell for it again award memes here 2 months ago:
- Comment on Real 2 months ago:
I think the point is that they aren’t assuming the planet in question isn’t tectonically activie, as that’s one of the unlikely steps needed for life as we know it.
- Comment on Also no singing preachers 🥀 2 months ago:
Televangelists believe in nothing but money
- Comment on Anon makes some changes 2 months ago:
An ice plunge or rolling around in the snow bith feel great afterwards. Really gets the endorphins going. The same applies to cold showers, although I usually only do that only when I can get back into a 100°C immediately after. That’s double the endorphin rush.
- Comment on Anon wants to live on Super Earth 2 months ago:
I’ve heard that the book was sincere jingoism, which the director of the movie didn’t like one bit and turned it into clever satire of fascism instead? Haven’t read it, but the movie is great, even if there’s a bunch if idiots on both sides (fascist and antifascists) thinking that it’s sincere.
- Comment on Our Commitment to Windows Quality 2 months ago:
Quality shitpost
- Comment on The three archetypes 3 months ago:
True on both accounts
- Comment on The three archetypes 3 months ago:
Musk isn’t even the founder of tesla though.
Good meme regardless.
- Comment on Twitch: "Hey, come back! This commercial break can't play while you're away." 3 months ago:
And here I actually thought that this shitty idea would stay in the realm of Black Mirror…
- Comment on The size of Portugal compared to Spain 3 months ago:
Huh, I wonder how it compares to that other country to the west there.
- Comment on The Ladies love it and it can provide protection during blackouts 3 months ago:
I hope it’s radioactive as well
- Comment on we're all a little gay inside 3 months ago:
Certainly, although it appears to depict the elusive 3rd order rainbow.
- Comment on we're all a little gay inside 3 months ago:
Interesting choice, including the 3rd order rainbow in the middle picture there…
