Deconceptualist
@Deconceptualist@lemm.ee
- Comment on Discuss. 2 days ago:
I’m not sure what there is to discuss. These seem pretty accurate at this point.
- Comment on Xenon 1 week ago:
I didn’t think to check Wikipedia for pharmacology info haha. Thanks.
- Comment on Xenon 1 week ago:
Isn’t that the same as Nitrogen, like Tar_alcaran@sh.itjust.works said? That doesn’t sound like there’s any unique mechanism to Xenon.
- Comment on Xenon 1 week ago:
Xenon is a drug?
Drugs.com calls it “physiologically inert” with some anaesthetic effects at high doses. Most of the coverage is about Xe-133 radiopharmacology and not what most people would think of as a “drug”.
- Comment on After Years of Struggling To Be Noticed, My Indie Game Was Covered By VICE 2 weeks ago:
I don’t disagree with you. But don’t you think there’s a component of it that’s like, “Hey I want to both 1) release a game and 2) put food on table”? Since 99% of players are on Windows, actually doing both kind of necessitates building for Windows first.
As Linux gamers I think we should keep going in the direction we’ve been and making it easier and easier for devs to port to Linux or run their games through Proton and so forth. It’s been amazing and my time as a player has been so good in the last couple years. If we keep showing that, more players will come over and the userbase will grow. I’ve heard from plenty of others who have ditched Windows, because gaming was their last holdout.
The big AAA publishers aren’t struggling for basic needs. We can make demands of them. But the small inside devs? Help 'em out where you can.
- Comment on AI Will Save Dating Apps. Or Maybe Finally Kill Them 2 weeks ago:
I’m no expert and I’ve been out of the game for a while, but as I recall the platforms are all quite different. Maybe it’s common now to only allow messages between matches.
But anyway, I was referring more to the trolls and harassers that need to be banned entirely, not just blocked/ignored by individuals. These people will put nasty inappropriate stuff as their profile pics in the first place, and create new accounts just to pester others.
- Comment on AI Will Save Dating Apps. Or Maybe Finally Kill Them 2 weeks ago:
I think the problem there is moderation. Who is going to do the work of blocking/banning 1000 creepy messages and dick pics per minute on an open platform?
- Comment on AI Will Save Dating Apps. Or Maybe Finally Kill Them 2 weeks ago:
Let’s be honest, what these apps are going to do is boost user engagement (read: waste your fucking time) by pulling you into conversations with AI chatbots. The longer you’re there, the more advertisements they can feed you. It’s going to be harder and harder to find a real person, because investors don’t benefit from that.
- Comment on Favourite games to play around Christmas time? 2 months ago:
Satisfactory usually pulls me back for some Ficsmas construction. Though since v1.0 released I’ve been enjoying a lot more than that.
- Comment on James Webb Space Telescope Finds Stunning Evidence for Alternate Theory of Gravity - The Debrief 3 months ago:
Haha, well if it’s any consolation, nobody fully understands it. That’s why we’re still looking at various theories of quantum gravity or even random gravity.
- Comment on James Webb Space Telescope Finds Stunning Evidence for Alternate Theory of Gravity - The Debrief 3 months ago:
Hypothesis, sure. But it needs to hold up to testing better than Lambda-CDM if we’re gonna call it the best hypothesis.
- Comment on James Webb Space Telescope Finds Stunning Evidence for Alternate Theory of Gravity - The Debrief 3 months ago:
I follow this stuff (as a non-physicist) so I understood it. It’s a pretty shallow article and mentions there there’s still evidence for the widely-accepted Lambda-CDM model. But like most coverage of MOND it declines to give good alternate explanations for specific key observations like the Bullet Cluster, gravitational lensing, and galactic outer rotational speeds.
- Comment on Bears Cave 3 months ago:
I think it’s called a rabbit hole because rabbits live there.
- Comment on Sea Creature Party 3 months ago:
[Obligatory] Your mom.
- Comment on Sea Creature Party 3 months ago:
What if you take off the costume? Humans aren’t entirely bilaterally symmetrical (at least not on the inside) and obviously not radially symmetrical so the paradox continues.
- Comment on Why do all languages share the same intonation for questions? 4 months ago:
Same for German.
- Comment on Why do all languages share the same intonation for questions? 4 months ago:
That’s just emphasis. You can tell because you can shift it to another word.
- What’s your name? (more pointed)
- How old are you? (as if it’s now suddenly important)
- What are you from? (maybe the person has an unusual accent)
- Where are you from? (more pointed)
- Comment on Nintendo Is Now Going After YouTube Accounts Which Show Its Games Being Emulated 4 months ago:
Retro Games Corps got hit, even though Russ only does legal emulation and backups. News from Nerd Nest where he often guests.
- Comment on I'm as white as snow but I'm still not white enough to eat this. 4 months ago:
Different chili varieties definitely have their own flavors. Even blindfolded you’d probably be able to tell apart sauces made with poblanos vs banana peppers (both can have basically zero heat).
- Comment on I'm as white as snow but I'm still not white enough to eat this. 4 months ago:
Chilis have a natural variation in heat, which depends a lot on growing conditions. Jalapeños can range from ~2000 to 8000 scovilles. The hotter ones don’t taste different, they just have more capsaicin. That molecule itself has no flavor, it just triggers the heat receptors in your cells.
Maybe your perception of the heat has gotten entangled with the flavor so cognitively one is less satisfying without the other. But that’s specific to your perception and not how it works at the chemical level of the plant or human sensory cells.
- Comment on I'm as white as snow but I'm still not white enough to eat this. 4 months ago:
So buy the regular variety? They’re far easier to find.
- Comment on Dress Codes 4 months ago:
I needed this. Thanks.
- Comment on Why isn't apple a popular ice cream flavor? 5 months ago:
Even better, bananas foster flavor
- Comment on STAR WARS Jedi: Survivor gets Denuvo DRM removed, plus performance improvements 5 months ago:
Got a link for evidence? I’ve had an overall good impression of Liam and the GoL site; this is the first I’ve heard that’s negative.
- Comment on We Got You 5 months ago:
Dare I ask, why? I mean obviously meth addicts aren’t known for their shrewd decisions in general, but is there some sensory or cognitive change in particular that compels them to put foreign objects in their butts more than say, alcoholics would?
- Comment on Should we consider Jesus a zombie? 6 months ago:
Oh, I re-read your previous comment and understand better now. It’s been a long while since I learned this stuff.
- Comment on Should we consider Jesus a zombie? 6 months ago:
Umm I thought Martin Luther was like, the original protestant.
- Comment on When Harris had to pick a VP, all media kinda agreed it should be a white male, to balance the fact that she is black and a woman. So Waltz is the DEI hire. 6 months ago:
orange person
Oh damn, is oompa-loompa no longer considered acceptable?
- Comment on How does Ohio have stock for the new cannabis stores that just opened? 6 months ago:
There is at least one longtime Ohio business that’s very pro-cannabis. The CEO of Scott’s Miracle-Gro had been outspoken about it for years. Of course it’s profitable – they will gladly sell you fertilizer and accessories!
- Comment on W Earth 6 months ago:
That’s actually amazing that we have eclipse shots from Mars. Anyone know how it was taken? What instrument?