Taniwha420
@Taniwha420@lemmy.world
- Comment on Dormice 1 month ago:
It’s other common name is the European Fat Dormouse.
I don’t see why the need to shame. Some of us like our dormice with some fat on them.
- Comment on Tripling renewables globally by 2030 is doable, says new IEA report 1 month ago:
Hydroelectric dams. Pump water uphill when the energy isn’t needed for something else. Hydroelectric is a good variable energy source too. Probably not very efficient, but simple.
- Comment on Earth may have had a ring system 466 million years ago 2 months ago:
Mollusks and arthropods ruled the oceans at this time. The first land plants appeared on land.
- Comment on Update on my pineapple plant. Check out the head of hair this baby grew! 2 months ago:
Aren’t you worried you’re going to start attracting swingers with that thing in your window?
- Comment on CrowdStrike offers a $10 apology gift card to say sorry for outage | Some of the people said that when they went to redeem the offer, they got an error message saying the voucher had been canceled 3 months ago:
I believe that “Indian Giving” is sourced in a cultural misunderstanding between Indigenous and European societies. Indigenous societies were reciprocity based, so giving gifts should be reciprocated with a gift of like value to strengthen relationships, or increase honour (social standing). The Europeans were working in a patron-client system so a gift was seen as a way of purchasing access to power through a patron. The Europeans thought the Indigenous people were paying for access to power (like a tributary), so there’s no expectation of returning a like gift. The indigenous people thought they were entering into a mutual relationship, and when a like gift wasn’t returned that was seen as reneging, so they took back their ‘offer’.
Glad to have an anthropologist kick my ass.
- Comment on Horse 3 months ago:
I suspect round one is like eating milk, and round two is a fine cheese. Or eating cabbage, and later experiencing it as a well-aged kimchi. I’m sure it’s full of probiotics.
- Comment on Horse 3 months ago:
A longer digestive system is necessary to properly break down plant cellulose. This is why some small herbivores are copraphagic (eat their own shit, like rabbits): it takes two times through to extract adequate nutrients.
- Comment on Lol. Lmao, even. 4 months ago:
I’ve been wondering a lot about absurdism in humour. There are people who laugh when they see something disastrous happen, like a man reflexively trying to stop a cement truck from tipping and getting squashed dead. Or a recent news story of the only fatality in a school bus crash: it was an observer who got hit by a vehicle as he ran across the highway to see if the kids were ok. A lot of the time this laughing response to a disaster is interpreted as schadenfreude, but a good portion of the time I believe it’s absurdism.
We try so hard to have agency, to do something, but the World doesn’t give a fuck. You have two choices when shit goes so wrong: you can wail about the unfairness of it all, or you can laugh at the absurdity of our efforts in the face of the colossal chaos of it all. The laughter is stronger.
It’s interesting to me that some cultures seem to have absurd humour baked in. The Aussies and Kiwis seem to have it. They just make jokes about and laugh at the most horrific situations.
- Comment on Lol. Lmao, even. 4 months ago:
I’ve been wondering a lot about absurdist humour. Dan Carlin relates a story of an old Air Force colonel who
- Comment on How did we switched from "Dinosaur are giant lizards" to "Dinosaur are giant birds" 4 months ago:
Birds are reptiles.
- Comment on Restore a garden back to life in Horticular coming in July 5 months ago:
Oh, this is something I love doing IRL. Love getting in there and pruning and shaping until things have been restored. I love being the chance to rejuvenate a neglected apple tree over the course of a few years.
- Comment on Coconuts 🥥 5 months ago:
IRC the genetics don’t support that. It looks more like Polynesians originate from the area around Taiwan, sharing DNA with the indigenous Taiwanese. Again IRC there are some South American genes present in the Easter Island or Tahiti area, which seem to have been introduced pre-European contact. It’s tricky to tell though because there has been so much sharing of genetics since then. It looks like maybe some Polynesians went to South America one or a few times and returned.
- Comment on The evidence against Drake keeps stacking 6 months ago:
“Vamipre”.
- Comment on Marsupials are the gymnosperms of the animal kingdom 6 months ago:
They’re naked seeds. I get you.
- Comment on Dahlia Help 6 months ago:
I’m no Dahlia expert, but I’m offer some thoughts.
Transplanting is a bit traumatic. Did you give it lots of water?
It’s interesting though because the leaves and the buds look pretty good (not water stressed).
It may just that it was a bit stressed and have to on that flower.
Is the flower stem damaged in any way?
- Comment on What's a small cleared space in a forest where people can live called? 7 months ago:
Old English was ‘den’. Place names ending in ‘den’ or ‘don’ were originally farmsteads cleared in the forest, i.e. Wimbledon, or Camden.
- Comment on acceptable screws 7 months ago:
I don’t know what you’re talking about. They’re naturally superior.
- Comment on mOLecuLaR maN 7 months ago:
That sounds like Gabor Maté’s work.
- Comment on English may be a hot mess but at least we don't have to worry about this nonsense 8 months ago:
He he he … No. It’s closer to skwurl.
- Comment on English may be a hot mess but at least we don't have to worry about this nonsense 8 months ago:
No. It’s feminine because you put dirty things in it.
- Comment on Something's fishg about religion... 8 months ago:
Catholics every Friday.
- Comment on Russia's Africa Corps marches in to replace Wagner group in the continent's coup belt 9 months ago:
Ahh … Ok. You’re suggesting that this piece of news is being played up right now because someone invested in the US military-industrial complex is seeing the stage for US military involvement in Africa. That’s plausible.
- Comment on A crowd destroyed a driverless Waymo car in San Francisco 9 months ago:
Oh. Are you telling me the anti-robot revolution hasn’t actually begun? Well, that’s disappointing. Thanks for taking the time to straighten me out.
Wait … That’s exactly what a ROBOT would say!
- Comment on A crowd destroyed a driverless Waymo car in San Francisco 9 months ago:
I want as few cars as possible, mixed zoning, and walkable cities.I don’t believe in a technocentris utopia. I want more quality relationships, and technology in our lives to be more restrained. I am in no way an advocate for the status quo (which by all accounts is AI and robot cars). Robot cars are a step in the wrong direction.
- Comment on A crowd destroyed a driverless Waymo car in San Francisco 9 months ago:
Not unless that human driver was blindly following their navigation app like a total idiot. A person would have said, “oh shit, I want to get out of here.”
Anyway, I believe under it all we’ve got a tension between generally two different worldviews: those who believe Star Trek is utopia, and those who would rather life was more Hobbittish.
Personally, The Shire sounds like a nice place to live. Can we choose that please? You can still have computers, let’s just chill on the whole racing to meet our cyberpunk future.
- Comment on Russia's Africa Corps marches in to replace Wagner group in the continent's coup belt 9 months ago:
Someone else has downvoted, but I’m going to at least ask: are you implying that the US military-industrial complex is somehow behind Russian involvement in Africa?
- Comment on A crowd destroyed a driverless Waymo car in San Francisco 9 months ago:
The article states that there was no known motive, but it also states that automated cars in SF have been attacking people and emergency vehicles, in addition to blocking traffic for human drivers.
It’s pretty clear that this is the beginning of the anti-robot revolution.
- Comment on Mongolian. Like the barbecue. 9 months ago:
Except all those apostrophes are like whole Latin phrases that the French just ate!
- Comment on Mongolian. Like the barbecue. 9 months ago:
Actually, I blame the Franks.
- Comment on Mongolian. Like the barbecue. 9 months ago:
In Viking’s defense: of all the Romance languages French is the most like Latin being spoken and written by a drunk hick with no formal education.