TheOakTree
@TheOakTree@lemm.ee
- Comment on 360 Degrees Owl 1 month ago:
You made me doubt myself lol, I was like “you’re right, 540° neck turning range seems excessive so I should do a searcg”
- Comment on 360 Degrees Owl 1 month ago:
I know it’s a scientific paper or anything, but a quick search led me to Smithsonian Magazine’s article:
“Owls, on the other hand, can rotate their necks up to 270 degrees in either direction without damaging the vessels running below their heads…”
- Comment on wtf Cambrian 1 month ago:
So what you’re is that power creep and meta chasing ruined the creativity in the Earth server?
- Comment on 360 Degrees Owl 1 month ago:
I mean, if they can turn 270 degrees in either direction then I suppose they can cover 360 degrees, just not from resting position.
- Comment on Google creating an AI agent to use your PC on your behalf, says report | Same PR nightmare as Windows Recall 2 months ago:
Nope, still need that training data to sell to self-driving car tech.
- Comment on Disposable vapes to be banned in England and Wales from June 2 months ago:
Maybe I’ve just been lucking out, but every concert venue I’ve been to recently has let me in with my vape. I usually tell the security person I have it on me, and then they tell me it’s fine and pass me through. You’re right though, it would suck to have to toss it.
I don’t agree with the “smaller” part though. Most of the disposable units I see are thicker and wider than my refillable one, since they need to be long-lasting as a value proposition. I think the main draw is probably pure convenience.
- Comment on Disposable vapes to be banned in England and Wales from June 3 months ago:
As someone who is using a nicotine vape to wean off of nicotine, I still don’t understand why people buy disposable ones.
It’s less cost-effective, less customizable, and more sketchy.
- Comment on Mom of the year 3 months ago:
Yes, and Your Grace’s (my) pronoun is “Your Grace,” also always inflected and conjugated in whichever way is convenient to Your Grace.
You mean to suggest that the first person and third person of your pronouns are conjugated exactly the same. So the sentence “Drag’s pronoun is Drag” exists as the first, second, AND third person version of the statement. At that point, what is the point of having distinctions in perspective? It almost seems like your system of pronouns changes the grammar of the language into a different version of the language… hmm…
- Comment on Mom of the year 3 months ago:
Oh no, I hurt two dragon-sexuals with one comment! Your argument is stupid. If someone repeatedly injects their foot fetish into unrelated conversations and I write a comment of a similar nature about the foot fetish material, does it really take someone to make me write about it? No, it doesn’t, I’m entitled to say what I want about it, and it’s reasonable to bring up the issue at hand.
How else do you want me to address it? Jfc.
People who identify as dragons or wolves cause the same kind of harm as “I identify as an attack helicopter” jokes. You are delegitimizing HUMAN gender issues so you can fictionally identify with a fictional creature.
- Comment on Mom of the year 3 months ago:
Every time I see you refer to yourself that way, I want to gouge my eyes out.
Firstly, we don’t consent to engaging with your dragon kink. I’ve seen your comments that reaffirm that this is the core of your ‘identity’. Your screen name is another clear example. Leave us out of this “Dragon Rider” nonsense - I don’t care what your kinks are, keep it private without consent.
Second, why do you still use third person perspective here? Your bio clearly states that “Drag” works in the first, second, and third person, so why leave it in third person instead of speaking about yourself in first person? You are writing in english, right? Or is this Dragspeak/Dragtongue/[some other fantasy bullshit]?
If you’re going to make up rules, put on an act, then submit everyone else to it, at least try thinking through it for longer than a few seconds. I get the feeling you never properly considered how poorly “Drag” works in first person. “Drag keep Dragself happy by exposing unconsenting strangers to Drag own dragon kinks!” Perhaps that’s part of it: adopting a lizard’s attention span.
- Comment on Ah yes, regression 3 months ago:
Germanium My Ass
- Comment on Horrors We've Unleashed 3 months ago:
I think it’s a genius solution to the explicity problem, but a terrible solution in a larger scope. There are many animals that feed on mosquitos, and they would suffer from massive decreases in mosquito population. This includes birds, frogs, bats, fish, and other insects (many aquatic animals eat mosquito larvae). I would hate to see a cascading reduction in animal populations as a result of these tactics.
- Comment on Horrors We've Unleashed 3 months ago:
The idea is to introduce this genetic expression into wild mosquito populations. That way, the inevitable act of mosquito reproduction lowers the next generation’s population size.
- Comment on Explains a lot... 3 months ago:
Starfish is a sphere?
- Comment on There you go little guy 3 months ago:
Did it convince him to change his mind on that his policy on the cameras? Or did he just continue on?
- Comment on PC gaming fan Steven Spielberg says he "can't do controllers," prefers keyboard and mouse 3 months ago:
+1, very much enjoying using keyboard for Tekken. Haven’t had much luck with games like SF that might require 360/720 inputs.
- Comment on PC gaming fan Steven Spielberg says he "can't do controllers," prefers keyboard and mouse 3 months ago:
I can handle any action game, platformer, etc. using a controller, despite heavily preferring a keyboard and mouse. I still can’t play FPS/TPS games on a controller… it has to be m&k.
- Comment on fwiends 3 months ago:
lovin u is complicatED, lovin u is complicated 🎵
- Comment on Home Depot 3 months ago:
I thought they meant to use “genre”, which makes more sense because who calls a type of meme a “genus?”
- Comment on Tripling renewables globally by 2030 is doable, says new IEA report 4 months ago:
I really hope to see more developments in the realm of gravity batteries. In many cases they are not geographically constrained, given that it only requires vertical space and mass. Ideally, the land already has high variation in elevations, but the storage capacity can still be increased in areas with little vertical space by increasing the mass of the weight being lifted/lowered.
I’m sure you know this, but for curious readers: pumped hydro is also a gravity battery, but it requires two bodies of water at differing elevation. This means it’s limited to coastal areas and places like dams. It’s also limited by the smaller capacity reservoir between the two bodies of water; the amount of water moved cannot exceed the maximum capacity of the upper body, nor can it exceed the extra capacity of the resevoir of the upper body.
- Comment on Finding Caves on the Moon 4 months ago:
I thought this was a Nutty Putty Cave incident reference.
- Comment on Recommendation engine: Downvote any game you've heard of before 5 months ago:
A small and simple semi-idle frog collecting game where you simply collect rare frogs and let them generate buckaroos so you can collect rarer frogs. There’s a free demo that got me hooked to occasionally logging on and collecting more frogs.
- Comment on There is no fix for Intel’s crashing 13th and 14th Gen CPUs — any damage is permanent 5 months ago:
I got a 12700KF for free.
I’m not one to complain :)
- Comment on Ironing 6 months ago:
I came here to say this. I go into zen mode when ironing my clothes because I only have to do it when I’m either celebrating or doing something very important to me.
All these other things to worry about, but right now, my only enemy is this wrinkle next to the collar.
- Comment on Galaxy S10 til the wheels come off 7 months ago:
BTR5 on LDAC + wired headphones/IEMs have been doing wonders for me.
- Comment on Another mystery solved. 7 months ago:
That is basically what a seamount is, yes.
- Comment on Economics 7 months ago:
This almost seems like the middle point between Desmos’ scientific and graphing calculators.
- Comment on Tea Time 7 months ago:
+1 for coffee machine cup ramen, a very useful technique that I implement often.
- Comment on People left seriously creeped out after woman shares how to find out everything Google knows about you 8 months ago:
I checked my throwaway/spam account. Apparently, I’m a high-wage tech employee at a large company, and I’m also a homeowner.
Damn, they think too highly of me.
- Comment on It must confuse English learners to hear phrases like, "I'm home", instead of "I am at home." We don't say I'm school, or I'm post office. 8 months ago:
Well, backyards are in the back of the house, so I figure that’s why it feels natural.