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- Comment on Fucking pigeons 5 hours ago:
Well they don’t really care about nesting in the open, obviously, and the doormat is softer and replicates short lichen and/or grass. Soft is clearly better and it also means that the egg can’t roll away.
Was that supposed to be gotcha or something?
- Comment on Fucking pigeons 6 hours ago:
Apparently theh normally would nest of rocky cliff edges and stuff so they just need enough material to stop the egg from rolling away. It still looks heaps silly, though.
- Comment on How extreme car dependency is driving Americans to unhappiness 3 days ago:
Yup, Montréal is top shit as far as North America is concerned. Metro is king, and so great for when you’re kinda tired and just want someone to drive you around. Like I said, I still have my car but I always choose not to bother with it unless I absolutely have to.
- Comment on I never realized this 3 days ago:
Yikes.
- Comment on I never realized this 3 days ago:
You literally commented first.
Looks like somebody doesn’t like the consequences of their actions. Poor baby.
- Comment on I never realized this 3 days ago:
Fixed it haha
- Comment on I never realized this 3 days ago:
It’s more that it’s kinda missing the point. Everything is something else if you try hard enough but in this case the intention behind it is to honour the mother instead of the mother and that’s still working fine.
- Comment on I never realized this 3 days ago:
“London”: Not too bad, works ok.
“Climax”: …
“Tallahassee”: Pretty frickin’ awesome as a nickname but not sure formally.
“Syracuse”: I syr-acuse that of sounding dumb.
But regardless, besides all the “Von” or “De” or whatever names I’m willing to bet that modified or old spelling last names based on places are totally a thing that we also just decided to stop doing.
- Comment on How extreme car dependency is driving Americans to unhappiness 5 days ago:
I moved to one of the few places in Canada where you can happily function without a car, where in fact I leave my car parked because driving it around would be stupid. I keep it only because driving it on track is a hobby of mine and because I find myself needing to drive to my hometown quite often, to a place where sense has yet to reach, and so I can’t take the train.
Every time I need to drive somewhere, especially with any amount of traffic, it is a battle to keep myself thinking positive thoughts. All my journeys on foot or by metro have so much colour and life, even on grey, rainy days. By car it’s just sad highway for miles while being surrounded by angry, impatient people who wouldn’t allow another person to merge on threat of death.
I hate driving. It is a chore even when I get to drive my fun little sportscar and the fact you need to pay for the privilege makes it all the more absurd.
- Comment on Imperialism, authoritarianism and oppression is bad all around m'kay 3 weeks ago:
You still have to commit to an actual decision when the times come. Adjusting each cycle is what everyone should be doing, knowing that each person will likely stay where they’re at because why wouldn’t they?
- Comment on back to the ocean we go 5 weeks ago:
Our inner ears used to be part of the more complex jaws of something before us, if I remember correctly. I think there’s an arrow on the image showing it. Real cool.
- Comment on Say it again, Dexter 1 month ago:
For someone who doesn’t know much about this but has been watching a tonne of Youtube this doesn’t make a lot of sense and I could use some help.
Like, we’ve found mammals halfway between leggy land-bois and frickin’ whales but this thing that’s largely just a lion cub with mods is somehow special and different? I was expecting some absolutely wild and got a cat.
I tried reading through some stuff but I don’t have the skill to read through the source efficiently.
- Comment on bitey 2 months ago:
We’re also the best marathon runners, as a species.
- Comment on New mobile features are sh*t these days 2 months ago:
Sure thing, my dude. I do hope you guys one day get personalities based on what you like instead of what you hate. You’ll be happier and I’d love that for you.
- Comment on New mobile features are sh*t these days 2 months ago:
Ok? That’s the outside of the phone, and frankly all the other options also look the same just more plasticky. It’s called being recognizable.
- Comment on Walking into Pfizer or Eli Lilly 2 months ago:
Man, you say that like it’s some old, now obscure film.
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:(
- Comment on Parents of malnourished girl were warned she could die, but father dismissed concerns as 'crazy', court told 2 months ago:
The more you read the weirder it gets. It’s like they’re trying to keep her as a child and starving her I guess is part of that since it stunts growth? These people are beyond crazy, they’re “gunna be a Youtube video one day” kinda nuts.
- Comment on Is it normal to feel tired of technological progress? 2 months ago:
Which is part of why I brought up that it’s valuable as a lot of people here seem to have decided that it’s not. My main sentiment is that we hold it from a lot of people, and instead of going Star Trek future we’re careening towards Cyberpunk 2077 and there are morons who are genuinely excited about that.
Somebody once said that “dystopia is just taking current third world/minority situations and applying it to white people”. I’m bringing it up now because so much of the world currently lives without a lot of that technology simply because using it isn’t immediately profitable. Most* white people do have greater access to newer innovations and discoveries.
(The LLM advancement is that we’re getting closer to being able to use plain language to interface with technology but yea, sure, a couple lonely people can do that I guess and we’ll pretend that it doesn’t land in the dystopia category).
- Comment on Is it normal to feel tired of technological progress? 2 months ago:
I’ll keep it short, you got a lot of replies already. A lot of the tech is actually quite valuable and a lot of the promises of people like Elon Musk are, for lack of a better term, nearly complete horseshit.
What I’m personally exhausted by is how we’re doing all this and yet we can’t seem to bring ourselves to use it to help anyone. It isn’t the tech or the pace of development rather it’s the fact that we’ll triple someone’s productivity while keeping a five-day work-week with eight-hour days despite a mountain of studies and real-world examples showing how that’s not beneficial for anyone. So much of the development is going towards making the worst people more money and I fucking hate it so much.
- Comment on How do I plug this in? Old Black & Decker Hedge Trimmer. 2 months ago:
Looking at it more I think they did it that way so when you put a regular cord in the plug is protected and the extra spaces on top and bottom are the get your fingers in to unplug it.
- Comment on OpenAI is now valued at $157 billion 2 months ago:
This work will have lots of applications in the future. I personally stay as far away from it as I can because I just have zero need for it to write souless birthday card messages for me but to act like the work is doing nothing is kinda stupid.
Every stage it’s been at people would say “oh this can’t even do X” and then it could and they’d so “oh it can’t do Y” and then it could and they’d say…do I really need to go on?
The biggest issue with it all right, for me anyway, now is that we’re trying to use it for the absolute dumbest shit imaginable and investors are throwing tonnes of money, that could solve real problems we don’t need AI for, into the grinder while poverty and climate change run rampant around us.
- Comment on Wildlife Photography 3 months ago:
That’s a different person. They’re passing on the message.
- Comment on Rockstar Games DDoSed Heavily By Players Protesting New AntiCheat Code 3 months ago:
Gamers and still buying the same old tired shit while bitching about it, name a more…
- Comment on Hezbollah hits back with rockets as it declares an 'open-ended battle' with Israel 3 months ago:
apnews.com/…/israel-hamas-gaza-war-palestinians-s…
I’m someone else and I’m going to do it anyway. We can all see the hospitals and schools being bombed, the bodies in the videos, and even the Israeli government officials saying they don’t give a shit and will do whatever it takes to eradicate everyone in Gaza.
Yea, I do want to bother, and you can go fuck yourself. That’s what you want, correct? To be a massive tool and when someone rightly tells to sit on a stick and rotate you can act superior because you were “polite” while shitting on an the graves of thousands of children. There ya go, my gift to you, dipshit.
- Comment on 10 years 3 months ago:
Pff, nonsense, if that were real then we would have heard of it by now!
- Comment on That explains it. 3 months ago:
C’mon, bro, be better than that.
- Comment on That explains it. 3 months ago:
That doesn’t count when the known is telling everyone how evil it is and the unknown is only unknown because everyone plugs the ears and closes their eyes whenever any kind of new information presents itself. Then the saying just falls flat on its face.
- Comment on 10 years 3 months ago:
Ah see you said “pregnancy” which one o’ them woman things and see we just don’t got the time and energy to be spending on that stuff. /s
- Comment on [deleted] 3 months ago:
You literally brought it up. I even explained how the other person was not talking about sanitation so that it was clear that it was you who did so. I understood them the first time just fine.
You’re being, like, turbo-stupid right now. Cut it out.
- Comment on [deleted] 3 months ago:
Actually not wearing gloves and washing your hands regularly is, I believe, generally bettee for sanitation. There’s a lot of false confidence and shit with gloves, and they cost money and are technically a limited resource. You should always have them on hand, especially for if you get cut and need to wear a bandaid, but washing your hands as needed is totally fine.
And as it relates to this conversation they have a point in that gloves fucking suck to wear. They’re weirdly sticky and also even tight ones are like wearing loose skin and it just kinda sucks. Again, super great to have around and they can be awesome for some tasks where you just do not want to have to do anything more than removing the glove and rinsing, but the point stands.