IrateAnteater
@IrateAnteater@sh.itjust.works
- Comment on 2 days ago:
I’m wondering if they got France and Germany mixed up. I don’t remember all the French I was taught growing up, but it didn’t sound right. So I googled it and got “droigts” and “orteils” for “fingers” and “toes”.
- Comment on imagine 6 days ago:
Well now you just triggered a false vacuum decay on the far side of the galaxy. Way to go.
- Comment on Shut up science!! 3 weeks ago:
What does the validity of the circadian rhythm concept have to do with creationism? Being wrong about one thing doesn’t suddenly mean you believe in ghost stories.
- Comment on Crucial is shutting down — because Micron wants to sell its RAM and SSDs to AI companies instead 3 weeks ago:
You can try, but I don’t see how they’ve done anything that makes them liable to a lawsuit. I’m just adding them to my list of companies I won’t do business with when they inevitably come back to consumers after the bubble pops.
- Comment on Shout out to my engineering homies. 3 weeks ago:
What I meant is that wielding new science and technology against people is in no way unique to capitalism. Every system we’ve ever tried has done that at one point.
- Comment on Shout out to my engineering homies. 3 weeks ago:
No. That evil has nothing to do with whichever socio-economic system is your particular choice of boogie man.
- Comment on Ya yeet! 3 weeks ago:
“Assuming a spherical child and no air resistance, how far will the child travel?”
- Comment on Existential cowposting 3 weeks ago:
At this point, I’d even be willing to forgo the punishment, if they’d just stop fucking doing it.
- Comment on Trure 3 weeks ago:
Yes, I understood some of those words.
- Comment on One man's trash is another man's garbage 4 weeks ago:
Is there any other universal icon that is at all related to throwing things away? The recycling icon might just be a win by default.
- Comment on It improves the morale of the future worker. 4 weeks ago:
How it possibly be “bog standard” when it’s the only developed nation on the planet where it’s true?
- Comment on It improves the morale of the future worker. 4 weeks ago:
assuming she has one
Aaaand there’s the rub. Poor and pregnant? You can just go fuck yourself.
- Comment on Might not be efficient, but at least it... Uhhh, wait, what good does it provide again? 4 weeks ago:
Every once in a while I try to use it at work. It has yet to actually provide me with anything useful.
- Comment on Maybe they should double down and blame trans pedophiles. 5 weeks ago:
That’s a new one. Don’t think I’ve ever heard of a narrative where Democrats blamed anything on trans people.
- Comment on Windows 11 to add an AI agent that runs in background with access to personal folders, warns of security risk 5 weeks ago:
I’m lucky that the type of competitive shooters that all seem to be using kernel level anti-cheat, have never appealed to me. I ditched windows on my home stuff last year and there’s definitely no going back. Now if only industrial software writers would make Linux variants. Not going to hold my breath on that one though.
- Comment on Scandal 5 weeks ago:
Doesn’t have to actually be on the island to acquire the pictures.
- Comment on We shouldn't have to go to college in order to afford a house by 30. 1 month ago:
They didn’t say “find a job”, they said “learn a profession” it’s a different thing. It’s learning a skilled trade. You have to learn a trade first, then you can find the high paying job. Your early 20s will be relatively low paying, but by the time you are 30, you should have multiple years of being a journeyman under your belt and should be making good money.
- Comment on It's OK to just like lemon water. 1 month ago:
Slightly better for the teeth maybe? And maybe a slight benefit if heartburn is an issue.
- Comment on It's OK to just like lemon water. 1 month ago:
Yeah, but with lemon flavour. I think the idea is if you started with plain water, then added lemon, you’d now have lemon flavoured acidic water. If you start with alkaline water, you’d end up with lemon flavoured neutral water.
- Comment on 3-bean soup 1 month ago:
What about tomato soup?
- Comment on #environmentalist 1 month ago:
Yes, because nobody ever took their drink to go after finishing their meal.
- Comment on Great Depression: Part Deux 1 month ago:
It could still be very much middle class. Parents make it out of nostalgia from when they were kids, instead of making it out of necessity.
- Comment on #environmentalist 1 month ago:
The odd time I end up eating fast food and getting a paper straw, it’s the fact that it goes mushy before I finish my drink. I think that’s the texture issue people are talking about.
- Comment on I'm too stupid for this 2 months ago:
The problem I had is that taking one assortment of numbers that had no meaning, doing a bunch of operations on them (never actually finishing the operations though, because the last steps were “obvious”) leading to a different arrangement of numbers that also meant nothing, was not a good method of teaching. The pass/fail rate of that course relative to all the others reflected that. Every other teacher/professor I had before or since would include context when introducing an entirely new concept.
- Comment on I'm too stupid for this 2 months ago:
I had a linear algebra professor who did that all the time. Never did figure out what an eigenvector is not why I would want 14 ways of finding one. Brilliant man, terrible teacher.
- Comment on one bright second 2 months ago:
The chances of me living long enough to actually be effected by it are so slim that I’m completely unconcerned about it.
- Comment on one bright second 2 months ago:
The last stars will burn out in 120 trillion years
We think. We still haven’t solved things like the dark matter/energy problem. The answer to that alone could drastically change what we estimate will happen in the distant future.
- Comment on Windows 10 support has ended, but here's how to get an extra year for free 2 months ago:
There is for now. Microsoft is working on closing the various loopholes.
- Comment on Some are too young to understand 2 months ago:
True, but most consumers aren’t doing bulk storage. Most people just have cell phone and laptop
- Comment on Some are too young to understand 2 months ago:
Gotta keep them on their toes.