CuddlyCassowary
@CuddlyCassowary@lemmy.world
- Comment on what books about personal boundaries do you know that don't mention god? 4 days ago:
It’s slightly academic, but check out Eric Berne’s “Games People Play” about Transactional Analysis theory. There’s a short series on YouTube by a user called TherminTrees (a little cheesy and dated looking) that can give you a quick intro if you’re not sure what it’s all about. Its concepts really helped me.
- Comment on Beyond Beef? Impossible Beef? I Can't Believe It's Not Beef? 1 week ago:
I’m going to beet you up.
- Comment on Magic Rocks 3 weeks ago:
You’re likely thinking of this quote from a 1981 BBC interview in the series The Pleasure of Finding Things Out:
“I have a friend who’s an artist and has sometimes taken a view which I don’t agree with very well. He’ll hold up a flower and say, ‘Look how beautiful it is,’ and I’ll agree. Then he says, ‘I as an artist can see how beautiful this is, but you as a scientist take this all apart and it becomes a dull thing.’
I think he’s kind of nutty. First of all, the beauty that he sees is available to other people and to me too, I believe. Although I may not be quite as refined aesthetically as he is … I can appreciate the beauty of a flower.
At the same time, I see much more about the flower than he sees. I could imagine the cells in there, the complicated actions inside, which also have a beauty. I mean it’s not just beauty at this dimension, at one centimeter; there’s also beauty at a smaller dimension.
The fact that the colors in the flower evolved in order to attract insects to pollinate it is interesting — it means that insects can see the color.
It adds a question: does this aesthetic sense also exist in the lower forms? Why is it aesthetic? All kinds of interesting questions which the science knowledge only adds to the excitement, the mystery and the awe of a flower. It only adds.
I don’t understand how it subtracts.”
- Comment on xkcd #3100: Alert Sound 2 months ago:
God I miss the OG ThinkGeek so much.
- Comment on Can you scare a flamingo? 3 months ago:
I’d like to think there’s a lovely evil cheese plate and demonic crudité on this sideboard.
- Comment on Can you scare a flamingo? 3 months ago:
I’d like to think there’s a lovely evil cheese plate and demonic crudité on this sideboard.
- Comment on YSK if you have a library card or are a student, there's a free streaming service called Kanopy 3 months ago:
My library (Denver) also offers Mango, an online / apps language learning program.
- Comment on Is Duolingo the face of an AI jobs crisis? 3 months ago:
Check out Mango. I was able to get a free subscription through my library.
- Comment on A completely useful compulsion I have. 3 months ago:
I’m not autistic or OCD, and I do this too. It’s just common sense and mildly entertaining.
- Comment on The crossbow 😭 3 months ago:
Really makes me wonder what she’s pregnant with.
- Comment on Good advice for parents 4 months ago:
Ah, reminiscent of Maddox.
- Comment on [deleted] 4 months ago:
I’d like to shit on her lap and go, “Hey what’s the big deal, it’s only a couple hours of your life or whatever. Just go wash it off, nbd.”
- Comment on Today's Survey. One point for everything that you have NEVER DONE 4 months ago:
I wouldn’t think so on the movie thing. I think it would have to be a video rental store, although not necessarily specifically named Blockbuster. Technically I still “rent” movies at my library through their Kanopy streaming service, but I don’t think that’s in the spirit of the list.
- Comment on Today's Survey. One point for everything that you have NEVER DONE 4 months ago:
Same. I’m actually surprised at the number of people who have owned them based on these responses. I used them at the library, and probably had a digital one that came with a computer (like Encarta or something), but never owned a full set, which is what I’d guess this list means.
- Comment on Today's Survey. One point for everything that you have NEVER DONE 4 months ago:
I’m at 1 as well for never owning an encyclopedia. I’m actually surprised how many have. I used the ones at the library. I’m assuming this means the physical book kind, and not a digital one like Encarta or something.
- Comment on Forever exists ♥️ 4 months ago:
Not much to worry about in terms of getting pregnant either.
- Comment on Is there any negative consequence to wearing socks inside out? 5 months ago:
Sometimes the way the seams are sewn makes them more comfortable to have on the “right way around” so the sock material is a buffer between the seam and your foot. May not apply to all socks.
- Comment on X (Twitter) is down in worldwide outage. 5 months ago:
But wait, isn’t this some sort of official government communication channel now? Sure there must be uptime agreements and penalties for such a thing, right? Right?!?
- Comment on Dancing in the dawn 5 months ago:
Phat ass.
- Comment on What car stickers say about you 5 months ago:
Sorry I’m doing such a shitty job of it. I’ll try to step up my game tomorrow. I should have brought Strongmad with me. He’d get the job done.
- Comment on What car stickers say about you 5 months ago:
Damn. You figured me out. Now I need to change my username to CuddlyTortoise.
- Comment on What car stickers say about you 5 months ago:
Oooh…I need sparkly unicorn and Pegasus stickers now!
- Comment on What car stickers say about you 5 months ago:
Not even close. Well, I mean, it’s close like within 100 years!
- Comment on What car stickers say about you 5 months ago:
LOL - Oh no! My privacy has been breached!!! Destroy the compy!
- Comment on What car stickers say about you 5 months ago:
I wonder what my Trogdor the Burninator sticker is secretly telling people about me.
- Comment on fingerme 5 months ago:
There was an Alan Buser at my last company…yep, abuser@company.com. Not only did he have to live with that as his email, but he would occasionally receive reports that definitely should have gone to HR. Eventually they let us alias it to alan@company, but as far as I know when I left he was still getting anything sent to abuser@company too. He was such a nice guy too!
- Comment on [deleted] 5 months ago:
While I’m not a political scholar to understand the limits of their power, their leaders can certainly express their own stances.
- Comment on Thinking of those times I wasn't strong enough to say no to going out. What a waste of money. 5 months ago:
What mythological place can I go out where $20 goes so far?!?
- Comment on Upset with the lack of necessities in life and no representationin government? Time to go in the funny box. 5 months ago:
I LOVE grippy socks and seek them out whenever I can. A long long time ago in an anti-social media far away, the first subreddit I joined was r/hospitalsocks. sigh those were the days…
- Comment on I started doing sketches for fun. Got so many compliments I'm going to do it full time and quit my real job 5 months ago:
Stunning! Breathtaking! We have nothing to fear from AI as it could never top this creative genius.
