stelelor
@stelelor@lemmy.ca
- Comment on Scientific Exposure 5 days 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 1 week 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 1 week 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 weeks 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 weeks ago:
Moving your eyes inwards
Details, please. 🤨
- Comment on Is it normal to be able to shut your nose from within? 2 weeks 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 weeks 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 weeks ago:
“And here is the data to prove it.”
audience gasps
- Comment on xkcd #3164: Metric Tip 3 weeks ago:
gestures wildly to Canada
- Comment on Twinkle twinkle little star 3 weeks ago:
I like him too.
- Comment on We never stop being kids. Our playground just gets bigger. 5 weeks 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 1 month 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 1 month 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. 1 month 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. 1 month 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? 2 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? 2 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 2 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? 2 months ago:
Will this blue obsidian crystal amplify my positive energy?
- Comment on What are the most useful things you've printed? 2 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.
- Comment on What are the most useful things you've printed? 3 months ago:
Dude. We are about to sell our home because clearing snow off our long, steep driveway is a massive pain. It has taken years off our lives. We were seriously looking into snow removal robot but inflation and tariffs put that way outside our price range. You might be underestimating a potentially huge market. I would’ve never thought that’s something that could be DIY’d!
- Comment on Let's hear it, little lemmings. 3 months ago:
Feynman, mainly because he was an amazing professor and knows how to talk to people.
Einstein and Newton disliked people, so they would be terrible conversationslists outside their areas of expertise. I think that was true of Leonardo as well. Edison is also out because he was a dick.
- Comment on Real Talk 3 months ago:
My thought sas well! I’d rather stumble upon this than shit like “vegetative electron miscroscopy”.
- Comment on Remember to 2FA your kidneys. 3 months ago:
I mean, isn’t that what we basically all do for at least 8h a day anyway? Except that our machinery has screens and Internet.
- Comment on Epstein puts my morality into perspective 3 months ago:
“Only those who do not seek power are qualified to hold it.” Plato knew what was up.
- Comment on kingdom come 4 months ago:
I could see water chestnuts in a fruit salad, although they’re technically corms, not tubers.
- Comment on kingdom come 4 months ago:
A salsa of tomatoes.
- Comment on xkcd 2682 for linguists 4 months ago:
“schwa” is true neutral aaaaand now I need to see the vowels’ alignment chart
- Comment on i liek turdles 4 months ago:
Works perfectly on my phone, maybe try landscape orientation and vary the distance?
- Comment on I have searched far and wide 5 months ago:
You might be onto something with the knock-off theory. I had Walmart shirts and underwear with the cornucopia logo.