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- Comment on Dik Piks 3 weeks ago:
Salt, butter, a laurel leaf, a small stick of cayenne, a branch of fresh oregano.
- Comment on Feds in Catalonia, Spain think everyone using a Google Pixel must be a drug dealer 3 weeks ago:
The right (or far right) will probably win the next Spanish elections, which might rekindle independentist sentiment (both left and right have traditionally fucked with Catalonia, but the right has worse excuses), but personally I think we lost our best opportunity when we didn’t follow up on the 2017 declaration of independence.
- Comment on Feds in Catalonia, Spain think everyone using a Google Pixel must be a drug dealer 3 weeks ago:
It’s supposed to be kind of sort of federal(ish) (federalish enough, in theory, to keep Catalonia and Euskadi happy enough that we won’t want to leave). “States” are called autonomías (autonomies) and have their own government, laws, and institutions, though they still have to obey the Spanish government and most of its laws. It isn’t really working.
The article is still wrong when it uses “feds”, though, because the cops doing this are the mossos d’esquadra, the Catalan autonomic police, not the “federal(ish)” policía nacional (the Spanish police proper) or guardia civil (despite the name, the military Spanish police, a relic from Franco’s dictatorship, like most of the country and its institutions).
- Comment on Feds in Catalonia, Spain think everyone using a Google Pixel must be a drug dealer 3 weeks ago:
It’s supposed to be kind of sort of federal(ish) (federalish enough, in theory, to keep Catalonia and Euskadi happy enough that we won’t want to leave). “States” are called autonomías (autonomies) and have their own government, laws, and institutions, though they still have to obey the Spanish government and most of its laws. It isn’t really working.
The article is still wrong when it uses “feds”, though, because the cops doing this are the mossos d’esquadra, the Catalan autonomic police, not the “federal(ish)” policía nacional (the Spanish police proper) or guardia civil (despite the name, the military Spanish police, a relic from Franco’s dictatorship, like most of the country and its institutions).
- Comment on Bring them back!!! 3 weeks ago:
Bird skeletons (or simply plucked birds) are seriously disturbing.
It’s incredible how much work feathers do when it comes to bird appearance.
Makes one wonder.
- Comment on Bring them back!!! 3 weeks ago:
if dinosaurs are similar in breathing to humans
Current living dinosaurs are much more efficient at extracting oxygen from air than practically anything else in the planet.
Birds’ve got a unidirectional respiratory system that ensures oxygenated air is constantly flowing through their lungs (unlike, for instance, us mammals, who must empty our lungs of spent air before we can fill them again), and a system of air sacs to keep the air constantly flowing.
While fossil records of the earliest dinosaurs show no evidence of air sacs, later ones do, suggesting that bird-like respiratory systems evolved multiple times in parallel in different branches.
Sauropods in particular might have had even more complex air sac systems than modern birds, which could explain how they managed to grow so large (i.e., they were full of air, and might have been even more efficient when it comes to breathing, though their long necks might have offset the balance in the opposite direction).
Dinosaurs would have been perfectly fine with current oxygen levels.
- Comment on Bring them back!!! 3 weeks ago:
We’re not talking dogs here.
We’re taking something much closer to birds. I.e., utter evil bastards. Probably smart, too.
No one in their right mind keeps cassowaries as pets, with very good reason.
- Comment on Can reading assholes be considered science? 3 weeks ago:
Are haemorrhoids considered a bad omen…?
- Comment on The signatures are still coming and it's already making an impact 4 weeks ago:
Of course it’s limiting your options!
Screwing up the customer should not be an option you’re allowed to take!
- Comment on [deleted] 4 weeks ago:
I did warn you.
- Comment on [deleted] 4 weeks ago:
Krokodil, probably.
(Seriously, don’t look up images of its effects, it’s extremely NSFL shit.)
- Comment on Meta said it supports proposals for an EU-wide age of digital adulthood, below which minors would need parental consent to use social media 4 weeks ago:
Anything else would be in flagrant violation of the GDPR (and this too, probably, though not as flagrantly).
- Comment on Meta said it supports proposals for an EU-wide age of digital adulthood, below which minors would need parental consent to use social media 4 weeks ago:
Pagers. Kids under 21 can only get pagers.
They get within two meters of a smartphone, both kid, parents, and whoever owns the smartphone go straight to jail.
- Comment on Frieren: Beyond Journey's End Season 2 | OFFICIAL TRAILER 4 weeks ago:
Mild manga spoilers
If I recall correctly (and if I’m predicting the pacing correctly), the first part should be more similar to the first part of season one, while the second part should be more of a single arc like in season one. It’s an excellent arc, though, and it involves finally meeting the fandom’s fourth favourite character according to the manga poll (with Himmel, Frieren, and, uh, the mimics coming up first, second, and third respectively).
Personally I can’t wait (though I’m wondering how they’ll manage to make it look good in colour).
- Comment on Nothing has helped me learn to trust my instincts more than trying to plug in hundreds of USB devices over the years 4 weeks ago:
The USB-A connector has spin ½.
You have to rotate it 360⁰ before it’ll fit (and 360⁰ more to get it back to the original orientation).
- Comment on Enjoy 4 weeks ago:
Not sure if adulthood or chronic depression.
Not sure there’s a difference.
- Comment on Socialist megacorps 5 weeks ago:
No, no, it’s not a bad strategy, see…? If the right implements socialist policies, then the left can’t implement them, because they’re already implemented!
It’s genius, really. Great way to pwn those filthy commies.
- Comment on Why was file search much faster in Windows XP than in subsequent versions? 5 weeks ago:
The index is there (the NTFS file system maintains it automatically) and is fast (as programs like Everything Search demonstrate)… Windows Search is simply not using it anymore, probably so it can shove sponsored shit in the results, or maybe due to lost knowledge due to lay-offs.
- Comment on Microsoft pushes staff to use internal AI tools more, and may consider this in reviews. 'Using AI is no longer optional.' 5 weeks ago:
Frankly, with the garbage Microsoft is producing these days, and the rate at which the quality, for lack of a better word, is degenerating, I’m starting to consider if LLM slop might actually be less worse…
- Comment on Why was file search much faster in Windows XP than in subsequent versions? 5 weeks ago:
Yes, but no.
The NTFS file system does maintain an index, and software like Everything Search or WizTree can use it to produce almost instantaneous results (probably faster than back in the XP days, even with larger discs).
The problem is that Windows Search stopped using the damn index for some reason (probably to provide sponsored web results and whatnot instead of whatever you were looking for).
- Comment on Why was file search much faster in Windows XP than in subsequent versions? 5 weeks ago:
Just get Everything Search and you’ll be able to search just as fast as you could in XP, and with no Bing spam messing up the results.
Funny¹ thing is that Everything (and similar programs like WizTree) can be that be that fast because Microsoft’s own NTFS file system has a built in file index, which is what Windows Search used back in XP; the search programs practically don’t have to do any work, NTFS has already done it for them.
Of course, though, that’ll give you the results you want, not the results Microsoft wants, which explains the change in later further enshittified versions of Windows.
1.– And by funny I mean not funny at all. Sad, in fact. Tragic, even, maybe.
- Comment on wtf 1 month ago:
lizard that can spray blood from its eye, but nothing in the animal kingdom past or present has a human’s innate ability for ranged attack
I don’t know, a hawk plummeting from the sky at 190km/h onto something the size of a small rodent is kind of impressive, too, if you count the bird throwing itself as throwing…
- Comment on wtf 1 month ago:
Also in very short races (up to 100m) if the human is an olympic athlete, though mostly because momentum is a bitch and it takes time for the horse to accelerate all that mass, and by the time it’s done the race is already over (it also probably helps that the athlete knows what they’re doing while the house is just along for the ride and wondering where it can get some grass).
- Comment on wtf 1 month ago:
Most animals know humans are too much trouble to mess with.
Sure, you can kill one human. But next thing you know your whole species has gone extinct, or worse, has been domesticated into pocket yappy dogs that can’t breathe properly.
In places where we’ve been around long enough staying away from humans has practically been bred into every surviving predator’s instincts by now (which is what makes polar bears so terrifying, they’re about the only dangerous predator that doesn’t have this instinct yet, and probably never will, now that murdering whole species has become a bit of a bad look); anything that considered us prey and didn’t learn not to simply doesn’t exist anymore.
Wolves in particular (in the few places where they survive) definitely know not to mess with us, except maybe in the frozen depths of Canada, and so do most bears (again, with possible exceptions in the least populated bits of North America) except polar ones.
- Comment on Minnesota Shooting Suspect Allegedly Used Data Broker Sites to Find Targets’ Addresses 1 month ago:
- Comment on Study: Remote working benefits fathers while childless men miss sense of community 1 month ago:
Not everyone hates life like you do
Work isn’t life.
It’s the opposite of life (no, death is just its absence).
hang out with co-workers all the time
Bonding over shared trauma and Stockholm syndrome is not a good basis for a relationship (though there’s probably no relationship other than you pestering them while they try to work).
- Comment on Study: Remote working benefits fathers while childless men miss sense of community 1 month ago:
Unions aren’t community.
They’re a necessary defence mechanism against capitalism.
- Comment on Study: Remote working benefits fathers while childless men miss sense of community 1 month ago:
So they ruin it for everyone else.
- Comment on Study: Remote working benefits fathers while childless men miss sense of community 1 month ago:
Sounds horrible, glad I have no intention of bringing a child into this torturous world.
- Comment on Study: Remote working benefits fathers while childless men miss sense of community 1 month ago:
Well, just from reading that I can assure you your coworkers don’t.
