NielsBohron
@NielsBohron@lemmy.world
- Comment on Rover 2 weeks ago:
On a Saturday morning, no less.
- Comment on Images leak of Valve's next game, and it's an Overwatch-style hero shooter 1 month ago:
I’m inclined to agree with you, but Valve doesn’t often miss
- Comment on After announcing increased prices, Spotify to Pay Songwriters About $150 Million Less Next Year 1 month ago:
I have tons of playlists and saved music on spotify; how is Tidal at importing data from other services? It’s not really a deal breaker, but I’m really picky about my music (so I don’t really care about “radio” features or curated playlists), so it’d be a real pain in the ass to start from scratch.
- Comment on Academic Rizzlers 1 month ago:
Thank you. Let’s not forget that at it’s root, “meme” just means “imitated thing” and is just an idea that can be communicated from one consciousness to another. It’s a scientific concept, defined by a term coined by an evolutionary biologist to describe the way that ideas move through a culture/society. Memes are not new and have likely been around in some form since before spoken or written language existed
- Comment on Take-Two Interactive shuts down the Studios behind Kerbal Space Program and Rollerdrome 1 month ago:
It’s sad to see the sequel get abandoned like this.
Especially when KSP has had such an active and vibrant community for a decade
- Comment on I finally got access to the catholic AI 1 month ago:
It’s got what plants crave!
- Comment on 🔔 SHAME 🔔 1 month ago:
I misread that as “absolute immunity” and thought you had posted to the wrong community.
The meme works just as well, “absolute immunity” is just more topical and political than mathematical
- Comment on New best friend for life! 2 months ago:
Now, this is the episode the world needs
- Comment on LEARN THE DIFFERENCE PEOPLE 👏👏👏 2 months ago:
Thank you. Linguistics is not my field, obviously
- Comment on LEARN THE DIFFERENCE PEOPLE 👏👏👏 2 months ago:
Good to know! I took years of Spanish classes and my kids are in a Spanish immersion school in California, but I’ve only ever heard lagarto for smaller lizards and cocodrilo for anything resembling crocodilians
Thanks for the info
- Comment on LEARN THE DIFFERENCE PEOPLE 👏👏👏 2 months ago:
Fun fact about the etymology of “alligator:” When the Spanish first landed in what is now Florida, they found alligators and simply called them “el lagarto,” which literally translates to “the lizard.” While there were many reptiles in the swamps and bayous, only one was enough of a problem to be called “THE lizard,” and after several mistranslations into other languages, “el lagarto” morphed into “alligator”
Or at least that’s what I read somewhere once.
- Comment on orinthologists search history 2 months ago:
I’ve got one that’s pretty close, but she just goes “Backstreet’s back…” and the male’s corresponding mating call is to respond “ALRIGHT!”
- Comment on isopods are friends 2 months ago:
Yeah, I have a deep-seated irrational fear of bugs large enough to “pop” when you step on them, and I think it stems from growing up around these monstrosities. They’re not as bad as bugs in a lot of places, but goddamn does it hurt to get bit by them, especially as a child.
- Comment on isopods are friends 2 months ago:
In Nor Cal where I grew up, potato bugs are a totally different bug that looks like a cockroach fucked a grasshopper.
- Comment on One of the problems of working on the weekends. 2 months ago:
I mean, shit, Evan Williams makes a damn fine Old Fashioned at a whopping $20 per handle.
- Comment on 卄乇ㄥㄥ ㄚ乇卂卄 2 months ago:
This feels like what Fear and Loathing would have been like if they were more into (slash had knowledge of) dissociatives.
- Comment on 卄乇ㄥㄥ ㄚ乇卂卄 2 months ago:
Relevant username?
- Comment on Truly an exquisite bass (i dont know what they do at bass pro shops) 2 months ago:
Well, when “hunting and fishing gear” includes boats, ATV’s, deer blinds, guns, etc., then yeah, you kinda do.
Plus, a large chunk of the space is taken up with “decor” which is mostly taxidermy, aquariums, and reproductions of all sorts of big game trophies.
- Comment on This is a Test 2 months ago:
W-w-what?
- Comment on Math and Physics Majors 3 months ago:
Need to make a new compound? Use a carcinogen
Need to neutralize a reactive compound? Carcinogen
Need to clean your glassware? Believe it or not, carcinogen.
Chemists have the most applicable skills of any science majors, and it’s all because of carcinogens.
- Comment on Math and Physics Majors 3 months ago:
Yes, they just lack morals and empathy.
- Comment on Altered Carbon 4 months ago:
Companies: 🥩🥩🍔🍔💲💲
- Comment on My pick is Rubberband Man by the Spinners. 4 months ago:
Misery Index is a strong choice. Now that I’m thinking of the metalcore vein, I’d go ETID’s “People Verses” or “Planet Shit”
- Comment on My pick is Rubberband Man by the Spinners. 4 months ago:
I know, it’s really too bad. Vulgar Display of Power is really good and had some absolutely filthy riffs, but there are so many other amazing metal bands that don’t have the problematic associations that I have a hard time justifying spending my limited time on Pantera
- Comment on My pick is Rubberband Man by the Spinners. 4 months ago:
Beating up racists to a soundtrack written by a racist? It’s a bold move…
- Comment on My pick is Rubberband Man by the Spinners. 4 months ago:
“Hacker” is a pretty basic Grips song, but c’mon, its perfect. Sometimes you gotta teach those bitches how to swim.
- Comment on My pick is Rubberband Man by the Spinners. 4 months ago:
I teach chemistry at a community college, and you would not believe the…maybe not “self-incriminating”, but at least “highly suspicious” things I need to google on a weekly basis.
I joke with my students that you can’t get a chemistry degree without ending up on at least two watch-lists, but it’s not really a joke.
- Comment on My pick is Rubberband Man by the Spinners. 4 months ago:
“Mastered economics, cuz you took yourself from squalor (slave)”
- Comment on My pick is Rubberband Man by the Spinners. 4 months ago:
Clarence Thomas probably used to be tough as shit, considering he was a conservative Black man in the 80’s.
That said, he’s had it coming for at least a decade, and I’ll take my shot. Even if I lose, it’s a fight worth fighting.
Soundtrack: “Ju$t” by Run the Jewels, “Sleep Now in the Fire” by RATM
- Comment on My pick is Rubberband Man by the Spinners. 4 months ago:
Naw, he’s the type to pick a fight in a bar, stand up to go outside, and then look to see if his friends are going to hold him back or at least come with.