lolcatnip

@lolcatnip@reddthat.com

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I cannot tell you a way my life has genuinely gotten better since the advent of "smart" phones.⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Google Maps was life-changing.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨BACK IT UP⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  As much as I want psychedelics to be legal, I think putting RFK in charge of anything is far to high of a price to pay.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨‘Beyond failure’: WA teen loses legs at school-based work program.⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Not the economy, but “the economy”, i.e. corporate profits.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨It's been 30 years and I still can't get over the fact that the French word for "potatoes" is "ground apples." Have The French never had an apple?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Also what I was taught in US Spanish classes.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Just Terrible⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Hate to break it to you, but almost every language uses 0-based indexing.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Just Terrible⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Mathematicians and computer scientists are natural enemies.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Badgers⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Badgers? We don’t need no stinking badgers!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨THE DEMONS⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Or the Laundry series by Charles Stross.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Couple tried to sell baby for a 6-pack of beer and $1,000 at campground, police say⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I understand wanting to unload one. Not so much the part where someone pays to be the recipient.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Couple tried to sell baby for a 6-pack of beer and $1,000 at campground, police say⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Yeah but they misspelled it, so they lose some points there.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What else is there⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Probably because it’s what they’re called in C++.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Eureka⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  But did they do that in Newton’s time?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨i need it, soz⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  There’s also a mountain range separating Chile from its neighbors.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Move over Harambe⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  This is the ideal male body. You may not like it, but this is what peak performance looks like.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Artificial Life Forms of the Quadrants Unite!⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Not enough Peanut Hamper.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Shadow of the Colossus - The Danish National Symphony Orchestra⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Such a great game. And The Last Guardian is criminally underrated.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Zelda-Inspired Plucky Squire Shows What Happens When A Game Doesn't Trust Its Players⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Then you have to make sure it’s reasonably straightforward to figure everything out without the tutorial, so then why bother with the tutorial at all?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I wish we as a society would stop pretending that justice is blind, when it very clearly is not.⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Or against, depending on your cultural values.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What a FREAK⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Clearly they’ve never seen a hagfish.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Last day for Star Trek Day sale on Steam (Sept 8-15)⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I’m looking at Resurgence on Steam in the US and it doesn’t seem to be on sale.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨unwatchable!!⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I didn’t enjoy it much, but I had a headache at the time, and the three other people with me had a blast, so I think it’s probably not bad.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Magic⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Not really. The left side comes from trying to evaluate the Reimann zeta function at a point outside its domain, and the right side comes from evaluating the analytic continuation of the zeta function at the same point. The deepest truth it reveals is that applying the definition of a function outside its domain can give you nonsense results.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Magic⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s not saying the proof is obvious, just that the result is plausible on its face.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Venom vs Poison⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  This is the flip side of people trying to justify all kinds of obviously incorrect language by saying it’s just the language evolving.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Worst examples of Treknobabble⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  “Polarize the hull plating!”

  What.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why is the community for Honkai Star Rail and Genshin Impact like this?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Man, if I had any illusions about Lemmy being filled with literal children, this thread would clear them right up.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why is the community for Honkai Star Rail and Genshin Impact like this?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Nah, objectification of people is fucking gross. That doesn’t change if you say “it’s just a joke, bro.” And it does matter when enough individually powerless people take up an idea. That’s literally how movements start. Like the MRA movement, for example, and now we have Andrew fucking Tate.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Blocked 🚫⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Historically it was also the art of making precise drawings.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Doctors Remove Woman’s Brain Implant Against Her Will⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  The same rule applies to whenever they sell the IP to. Whoever buys the IP should be legally obligated to continue the experiment as a condition of buying it. The alternative—putting the IP in the public domain—doesn’t do a lot for people who need active, ongoing support for a medical device, implanted in their body. I’d make a separate, stricter rule for that case. I don’t have a clear idea what that rule should be, though, because we can’t require a medical experiment to continue indefinitely if we want anyone to develop new medical devices.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Doctors Remove Woman’s Brain Implant Against Her Will⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Companies that aren’t actively using their IP should be forced to license it to someone who will, or put it in the public domain.