58008

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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨alpha⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I’ve heard this debunk a lot over the years, and I don’t disbelieve it, but is it not the case that one or two animals (wolves or otherwise) in a group will be the “bosses” or something close to being dominant over the others? Is all of that internal power struggling we see in groups/families of animals not really what it seems? Or is the “alpha” stuff different from that? Or does it only apply to wolves, and “alphas” do exist in other animal species?

  Yours, confused and uneducated,

  u/58008

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨This world is cruel…⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Also fails to mention mastery of nunchucks?

• Could Joe Biden use his remaining time as president of the US to do away with presidential pardons?
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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨FAQ: Yes We Suppirt Kinect⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I feel only *slightly *less ridiculous asking for Steam Controller support in games 😆 But I will keep asking because I fucking love that controller.

• reddit cat subs be like:lemmy.world ↗
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• Why, in English at least, is the letter W called "double U" and not "double V"?
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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Can relate.⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I’ve been working through a few biographies of the top brass of Nazidom, and even with the rather perfunctory understanding I’ve gained from these books of Hitler’s seizure of power and all that followed in Nazi Germany, my ears are pricking up in horror every day as I listen to the latest news from around the world. And I’m not even going so far as the Holocaust. If the Holocaust and WWII never happened, the Nazi regime would still have been an unmitigated nightmare.

  The language certain politicians are using is plucked directly from the mouths of Goebbels’ and Himmler’s rotting corpses. How can they not see what lies ahead if they continue with this shit? We know how this story ends. We have examples of it from recent memory, we don’t even need to cast our minds back to the 1930s 🤷‍

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Jazz hands⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I believed this was real until I searched for it 😂 To be fair to my own credulity, Plutonium Jazz would not be the most insane thing people did with radioactive materials back then. The “medicines” alone make Plutonium Jazz sound pretty tame.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨When you inhale helium from a balloon, do you weigh less?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Thank you, really interesting!

  On a side note, I always through Stack Exchange was just for computery stuff. Didn’t know it covered everything!

• When you inhale helium from a balloon, do you weigh less?
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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Lifeprotip⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  This is why I keep my front door key in my foreskin. Either I evade the pickpocket, or I make a new friend. I cannot lose.

  As a younger man, I was able to unlock the door hands-free. These days, I need to fish the key out of my floppy beige KKK hood like a sock trapped in a duvet cover on laundry day.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Which are the lesser-known movies that are well worth seeing?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Known to horror aficionados, but not to general movie watchers: Lake Mungo (2008)

  I highly recommend you don’t read up on it. Besides the fact that the film just works so much better when you come to it fresh, most reviews - both in print and YouTube videos - spoil pivotal scenes, including in the artwork they choose to use as a thumbnail/heading. Just watch it. Even if the horror doesn’t work for you (many people report being bored by the film), it’s still a great film with surprising depth and heart. It’s worth checking off your list for sure.

  The basics: It’s a mockumentary set in Australia, made by a director/writer who hasn’t done anything before or since, featuring actors who probably aren’t known to you, even if you’re an Aussie. Much of the dialogue is improvised, so it feels very real and natural.

  Try to watch it alone, in the dark, with no distractions (turn off your phone). This will help maximise your chances of being one of the lucky people the film has managed to scare in a profound way. I’m one of those lucky people, I’m happy to say!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Dozens from UK take up Putin’s offer to ditch ‘woke’ West and move to Russia⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  You can laugh, but the drywall installers of the UK ain’t laughing. Patching up the headbutt dents in the homes of these angry potatoes is their bread and butter.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Just heartbreaking⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  😭 the only thing worse than an animal going extinct, is being the last member of the species who still has a life left to live. Jesus, that’s some profoundly, cosmically depressing shit. And I’m not sure if it’s better or worse for the animal to be aware that it’s the last of its kind. Fruitlessly calling for a mate, or knowing there’s no point bothering.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Important information⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  You just use two forks, with the prongs on one fork filling in the slots of the other. They call this practice ‘spooking’.

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• Would it be legal to crowdfund a licensed private detective to investigate a public figure and publish their results publicly?
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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Meetings⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I have a question about the waggle dance: How do the other bees see and read it? Looking at it from a top-down perspective, humans can see it clearly, but the bee standing on the same plane and looking at the dancing bee - which is the same size as he is - surely can’t see the details? Especially when there’re 50 other bees moving around.

  Another question is how does the information propagate through the hive? Or does it only need to be seen by a few and then those bees can just say “follow me” in chemical speak?

  Cheers!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨With the amount of microplastics we're carrying around in pretty much every tissue in our bodies, is our weight measurably different as a result?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Holy shit… 😬

• With the amount of microplastics we're carrying around in pretty much every tissue in our bodies, is our weight measurably different as a result?
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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Is mafia 3 really that bad?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  If they had added fast travel, it would have been a really solid game (to me, at least). The excruciatingly-long driving sessions were interminable, and it was this that made me abandon the game in the end, even though I was already about 2/3 of the way through it. The characters, acting and story were really good.

  It’s quite repetitive, but no more than any other middling open world game. I happen to enjoy stealthily murdering people with a giant combat knife, so the repetition didn’t bother me. The constant criss-crossing around the map to go to/from objectives bothered me a lot. 90% of the checkpoints in each quest could have been a phone call.

  I wonder if there’s a mod that lets you teleport to map markers 🤔 If so, I would play the game again.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What the fuck happened to YouTube!?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  The ad industry is truly one of the most reprehensible and insidious things humans have ever invited unto themselves. It’s beyond dystopian how much of our ability to move through the world is now contingent on us allowing our brains to be bukkaked with ads that are designed specifically to bypass our rationality and embed themselves in the very fabric of our beings like psychological rootkits.

  I believe conspiracism is the root of all evil. But ads are gaining on conspiracism like they’re Usain Bolt being chased by an angry bee.

  I have to hand it to those soulless fucking devils though, they might have pulled off one of the most brazen but successful mindfucks I’ve ever seen: they convinced lots of people that seeing ads about topics they were interested in was some sort of concession from the ad industry, like they were begrudgingly implementing measures to make ads “relevant” to us, and that we were somehow gaming the system because of it. It was a “win” for us to have the ads being served into our eyeballs and ears be tailor-made for us. “I’m so sick of seeing ads for products I don’t even care about! I wish there was a way to make the ads be relevant to ME” said no cunt ever. But they managed to convinced us that everyone else was saying that, and that we’d won some sort of victory against them to have their advertising have the precision of a sniper rifle, versus what it was before, like some sort of shotgun fired from 150 feet away in the dark.

  An entire species of marks.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨This is the Lincoln Nautilus. Look at that shape. As a cephalopod, I am highly offended.⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Is it supposed to? I mean, a Jaguar doesn’t look like a jaguar either 🤔 But if they market it as being designed around a nautilus’ shape, then yeah it sucks haha

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Caption this.⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  When I threatened to give you a lead implant just behind the ear, this isn’t exactly what I had in mind.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Do Krimes⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Their fingerprints would be about the size of a toddler’s, maybe smaller. I doubt there’s much confusion.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨GLAMour⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Haha I’ll take it!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨GLAMour⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  My first reaction to seeing these objects was “they look like jointing frames for combining multiple rods”. You’d feed long cylindrical rods into the holes, then use the little knobs to affix them, using them as anchor points for tying the rods into place with string/rope (presumably the rods would have grooves in them to take the rope). Maybe you could make a little tent in this manner, something light, perhaps a bug net for your bed, or something along those lines. Or maybe they were already describing atomic structures 🤓

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  Complete nonsense, of course. But that was just my first reaction!

• The theory that we live in a simulation involves simulants running their own simulations; wouldn't that require impossibly more resources for the main sim?
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• Why do many search engines seem to ignore operators (e.g. exact phrases, term exclusions, OR, etc.)? Is there a good reason for having a dumb 1997-level search logic that I'm not seeing?
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• When a magazine goes out of print and/or out of business, do the original 'master files' for each issue still exist somewhere?
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• What's the rule for which 'national identity adjective' suffix to use?
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