IMongoose
@IMongoose@lemmy.world
- Comment on #notaseagull 3 weeks ago:
Birds actually have scientific common names and it’s completely acceptable to refer to them with those names. They even have standardized bird abbreviations using those names, like Red-tailed Hawk is RTHA. They of course use the latin names too, and those have their own abbreviations (Buteo jamaicensis is BUTJAM) but the common names are handier.
- Comment on #notaseagull 3 weeks ago:
Annoy naturalists with these other animal names too: Jellyfish, crawfish, starfish, Killer Whale, Canadian Geese, and American Buffalo.
- Comment on TikToxic 4 weeks ago:
I’ve been waiting for new bird names to drop for months!
- Comment on No further questions your honour 1 month ago:
Anyone ever seen a Dracula?
- Comment on Audubon 2 months ago:
Speaking of Harris’s Hawks, what a stupid name. So awkward to say. I really want them to change them to Baywing Hawks, so much cooler and at least slightly descriptive.
- Comment on This post 2 months ago:
Right, sometimes you need to be actively dying to receive care, not just at risk of dying.
- Comment on Some subreddits could be paywalled, hints Reddit CEO 3 months ago:
Reddit has over 1,000,000,000 active users per month. Lemmy has about 50,000. The API fiasco was a big deal for lemmy, but it was not a big deal for reddit. Lemmy is a rounding error to them.
I would also bet that a lot of lemmy users still visit reddit for their niche communities. I know I do, even though I host a server for my own niche hobby, but I’m the only one who’s ever posted anything to it.
- Comment on blane 3 months ago:
- Comment on LAPD warns residents after spike in burglaries using Wi-Fi jammers that disable security cameras, smart doorbells 3 months ago:
FCC is gunna start blasting
- Comment on i loled 4 months ago:
One report has a cop surprising him too, and he pointed the gun at the cop. So it was turn around for cop > turn back around > aim > fire. I don’t think I’ve seen the time between the cop and firing but I think it was quick. Dude was probably shaking like crazy.
- Comment on [deleted] 4 months ago:
Dudes got hitler bangs
- Comment on Arizona toddler rescued after getting trapped in a Tesla with a dead battery | The Model Y’s 12-volt battery, which powers things like the doors and windows, died 4 months ago:
I think I just saw an article saying that dog mode is currently broken lol
- Comment on The fine art of negotiation 4 months ago:
- Comment on checkmate, big geology!! 6 months ago:
The Yellowstone volcano is about 8 times larger than the entirety of park that has Mt St Helens in it (~860,000 acres of volcano vs ~110,000 acres of park).
- Comment on Come on, science! 6 months ago:
Sorry, I’m sure there are other features that you like for this, but just the ones in this thread; long life, always on display, shows the time, sits on a desk, no notifications. That’s a clock. Like, a clock clock. Put a clock on your desk.
- Comment on Come on, science! 6 months ago:
- Comment on When in the dark, think of the monarch (See body.) 6 months ago:
- Comment on Or we could do metric time 6 months ago:
People used to wake up in the middle of the night for a couple of hours then go back to sleep:
- Comment on The Helldivers 2 bot faction has been eradicated. What do now? 7 months ago:
Go back to fighting bugs with rovers instead of bots with shield packs. I heckin love fighting bugs with the rover.
- Comment on mimic 7 months ago:
I used the wrong word and you had no idea what I was talking about, you got me. Debating a word over Greek vs Latin origin on what suffix to use in the English language, which is always consistent and true to its root words, is worthy of such pedantry. I concede.
- Comment on mimic 7 months ago:
Mountain lions have like 30 different names and no one gets into entomology fights about them. If there is no scientific standard name like birds have use whatever makes the most sense to you.
- Comment on mimic 7 months ago:
Right, when there is this much controversy over a plural there will never be a consensus, especially when it doesn’t actually matter. The truth is that as long as people understand what you mean it doesn’t matter what you use.
- Comment on mimic 7 months ago:
www.dictionary.com/e/octopuses-or-octopi/
Octopuses, octopodes, and octopi are fine.
- Comment on *So far* 7 months ago:
The honey starts to crystalize. If you put it in some warm water it will return to normal:
- Comment on Apple Vision Pro Owners Are Struggling to Figure Out What They Just Bought 9 months ago:
I didn’t see anyone mention this, but while this headset depicts the outside world when you are wearing it, you are viewing a camera feed of that world. True AR would be like google glass where it is a piece of glass with data projected onto it. Apples thing recreates the world around you and then adds in the applications, you are viewing the world through a filter.
It could also just be marketing too because it seems like they are trying really hard to not make this look like some nerd shit.
- Comment on A round of applause for Mike Drucker. 9 months ago:
I think that’s when she endorsed some Tennessee Dems.
- Comment on xkcd #2888: US Survey Foot 9 months ago:
In the comic, he looks to be about 20ft away, maybe. The last two panels are feet apart (same bush, same bank) lol.
- Comment on Wi-Fi 7 quietly took off while everyone was looking at AI 10 months ago:
Currently video is being transmitted compressed with up to 50ms of lag, from what I can find. Wifi 7 should be able to fix both those issues.
- Comment on Wi-Fi 7 quietly took off while everyone was looking at AI 10 months ago:
The biggest benefit to wifi 7 that I’m excited about is streaming wireless VR headsets without extra equipment to a PC.
- Comment on Gamecube is the most underrated console while it was in circulation. 10 months ago:
Anyone remember when GameStop was selling refurbished GameCubes for $30? I think I bought 2.
