stelelor
@stelelor@lemmy.ca
- Comment on Believing you will retire before you die now requires the same faith as believing in heaven 12 hours ago:
got an HR manager fired
Please share, so we can live vicariously through you.
- Comment on Deuterostomes 2 days ago:
That looks more like spina bifida.
- Comment on xkcd #3200: Chemical Formula 2 days ago:
The formula starts with CH, which means the universe is organic.
- Comment on Real and True 6 days ago:
I’m in a GIS-adjacent field and I’m delighted to see both my home (#9) and my work (#13) setups represented!
- Comment on YSK that no form of United States ID, no matter how valid, guarantees protection when ICE decides you look like an immigrant. 1 week ago:
This is the 21st century version of Manifest Destiny. Their immigrant status doesn’t matter because they’re white and therefore superior.
- Comment on LLMs are already doing fascists a favor by ensuring that anything that is reasonably eloquently formulated on social media is automatically suspected of having been written by LLMs. 2 weeks ago:
In other words, AI is great at emulating form over function (meaningful content). For someone who can’t grasp logic, the next best thing is apeing its form.
- Comment on If pant is made of shirt, they're inside only. 3 weeks ago:
You know what, that makes sense. It’s one those things that you don’t hear everyday so you have no reason to investigate the meaning.
- Comment on If pant is made of shirt, they're inside only. 3 weeks ago:
Well what did you think it was
- Comment on There should be more negative awards. For example: the most pathetic nation or the most monstrous person of the year. 1 month ago:
It’s not as much a negative award as it is a funny award. The winners do real research and continue meaningfully to science.
I’d like to see an “Andrew Wakefield-Monsanto” award for intentionally bad science.
- Comment on The ability to be massively efficient with todays computers would have probably made you $250k/yr 25-30 years ago. 1 month ago:
- Comment on Scientific Exposure 2 months ago:
Everyone makes mistakes
Except psychopaths who know their claim is garbage but lie through their teeth to get it published. That’s not a mistake, that’s corruption.
- Comment on Feeling that groove 2 months ago:
your brain does that, not the speaker
This is fascinating. I never realized that sound is processed like this. Not that different from sight then, which is processing a bunch of electromagnetic frequencies.
- Comment on Feeling that groove 2 months ago:
So it’s not the record or the CD or whatever that is magic. It’s our brains. Holy shit that is so cool. Thank you for explaining it so well!
- Comment on Is it normal to be able to shut your nose from within? 2 months ago:
Oh ok, I thought you meant pulling the eyeballs “inwards” as in towards the back of your head! What you describe, I’d normally call “crossing” my eyes.
- Comment on Is it normal to be able to shut your nose from within? 2 months ago:
Moving your eyes inwards
Details, please. 🤨
- Comment on Is it normal to be able to shut your nose from within? 2 months ago:
I just tried that and I can definitely say the closure happens at the pharynx for me, which is also what I do consciously when I hold my breath. I didn’t feel any air “popping” out of my nose when I released.
- Comment on Are you familiar with that thing where you eat popcorn and you get a tough little piece lodged way back in the depths of your mouth right by the base of your tongue? 2 months ago:
I am intimately familiar with that feeling. Because it’s not just popcorn that causes it. In apples, the seed chambers are lined with a hard membrane that is extremely similar in size and texture to a popcorn hull. If you bite too close to the core, or if you eat apple slices from uncored apples, youwill get one stuck in your throat.
- Comment on xkcd #3167: Car Size 2 months ago:
“And here is the data to prove it.”
audience gasps
- Comment on xkcd #3164: Metric Tip 2 months ago:
gestures wildly to Canada
- Comment on Twinkle twinkle little star 2 months ago:
I like him too.
- Comment on We never stop being kids. Our playground just gets bigger. 2 months ago:
Today is my birthday and this is very much how I feel about growing older. It’s not at all what I thought it would be.
- Comment on YSK - the crazy questions all jobs on usajobs.gov now ask 3 months ago:
What if I choose another president’s EO’s and policy initiatives? The question doesn’t restrict itself to only 45/47.
- Comment on one bright second 3 months ago:
“Eh, worth it.”
- Comment on Mary E. Brunkow, one of this year's Nobel Prize winners in Medicine, has only 34 published papers and an H-index of 21. 3 months ago:
Some wear lab coats and blue nitrile gloves!
- Comment on It's interesting that we have multiple appliances in the kitchen who's sole job is to turn electricity into heat. 3 months ago:
Oooh I love debating semantics. Is a sieve an appliance? A slotted spoon? They both work in the same way as your water filter.
Common usage of the quantifier kitchen appliances indicates use of electricity. I would describe my electric coffee grinder as a small appliance, but not my mortar and pestle.
- Comment on How did Luke Skywalker learn to communicate with Astromech droids? How did he learn the language whilst living on Tatooine? 4 months ago:
It says a lot about the culture of the 60s and/or Pohl himself, that the first conceivable use for “instant ordering” would be for drugs.
- Comment on How did Luke Skywalker learn to communicate with Astromech droids? How did he learn the language whilst living on Tatooine? 4 months ago:
… Pocket bar? Googling it gets me nowhere. Surely he didn’t mean a bar of alcoholic drinks? Maybe a pocket pry bar?
- Comment on xkcd #3138: Dimensional Lumber Tape Measure 4 months ago:
Oh yeah, we use these “decimal feet” rulers at my job, for surveying. Nobody bothered to tell me ahead of time, so my first few days out in the field were pretty much a complete waste.
- Comment on Who is the enemy? 5 months ago:
Will this blue obsidian crystal amplify my positive energy?
- Comment on What are the most useful things you've printed? 5 months ago:
Fair enough, life is complicated enough as it is! 🫡 Glad you were able to simplify at least one part of it. I completely understand not monetizing a hobby, as it would suck all the joy out of it.