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- Comment on Fuck you in particular 23 hours ago:
wait he’s the guy responsible for the bean? damn. at least that one is interesting to look at.
- Comment on Fuck you in particular 1 day ago:
what the fuck is this even supposed to look like…? the entire point is that it turns an object essentially to its silhouette, and he couldn’t come up with an interesting silhouette?
- Comment on Star Citizen fans sigh deeply, rub their foreheads as developer casts doubt on Squadron 42's 2026 release: 'I don't know if we're going to make it' 1 day ago:
- Comment on Star Citizen fans sigh deeply, rub their foreheads as developer casts doubt on Squadron 42's 2026 release: 'I don't know if we're going to make it' 1 day ago:
damn that’s good, we should have been using it for this game particularly but also pretty much every pvp survival game as well.
- Comment on Star Citizen fans sigh deeply, rub their foreheads as developer casts doubt on Squadron 42's 2026 release: 'I don't know if we're going to make it' 1 day ago:
this is why you should buy games that are released
- Comment on Star Citizen fans sigh deeply, rub their foreheads as developer casts doubt on Squadron 42's 2026 release: 'I don't know if we're going to make it' 1 day ago:
hahahahahaha
- Comment on Who plays like that x_x 2 days ago:
some old-school players because they learned mouse/controller camera movements on simulators. think what a pilot does when they want to tilt up: they pull, so you pull the mouse toward you, ie “down”
- Comment on if charlie kirk is so pro life then why is he dead? 3 days ago:
yes, his last word was violence. apt.
- Comment on xkcd #3140: Biology Department 3 days ago:
that’s amazing because I’m pretty sure he probably based it on real life; there are tribes that count very similarly to this (also covered in Ifrah’s book). there are languages with words for one, two and many, or 1-4 and many, but they can use combinations like two-one to mean three and two-two to mean four etc.
- Comment on xkcd #3140: Biology Department 3 days ago:
that makes so much sense! rabbit hole time…
one of the best nonfiction books i read was The Universal History Of Numbers by Georges Ifrah. years, even decades later, every now and then i learn a new thing about some linguistic quirk that ties back to what I learned from that book.
apparently, people (and some animals!) can instinctually and instantly “count” up to 4 objects! well, this is not actually counting, it’s just instantly knowing the quantity of a group of up to four items.
so if I showed you an image of 4 cubes flashed for a fraction of a second, and i ask you how many objects were in that image you’d probably have no problem saying four. once you get to 5 or more though it becomes very hard unless you can mentally group it into smaller chunks of 4 or less. the most obvious result of this is probably tally marks. the whole point of grouping in tally marks is to quickly be able to discern how many notches there are at a glance, so we put marks up to 4, and then a fifth one marks the end of the group for easy 5-by-5 counting except the fifth mark is usually put across the previous four, so you don’t have five marks in a row. that’s because it really becomes confusing once you go over 4. see if you have any trouble reading this “number” sequence:
I - II - IIII - I - III - IIII - II - IIII - I - IIIpretty easy. now see if you have any trouble with this one:
I - III - II - IIII - I - IIIIII - II - IIII - I - IIchances are it was the sixth one that made you double take.
turns out this inherent ability we had way before math was even a thing naturally affected not only numeral systems but many aspects of language as well in different cultures.
you can find many cultural and linguistic features that suggest numbers up to 4 are more notable than 5 or more. in Latin for example a common practice was to give proper names to things up to the first four, and just use numbers for the rest. this may have included children, which is probably why you have names like Quintus, Sextus, Septimus, and most famously Octavius, named after the numbers 5-8.
they did the same with months of the year, the first four got named: #1 being March after the god Mars, April probably for spring (as it most likely comes from the verb “to open”), May after Maia the mother of Hermes, June after the god Juno. Then the rest were numbered: Quintilis, Sextilis, September, October, November and December, literally just the months #5-10. Quintilis and Sextilis would later be renamed after Julius and Augustus, which is why we don’t have those months numbered anymore but the bigger quirk is January and February being added to the front of the calendar, pushing March to 3rd position and the rest following it. so know we have a calendar that has months #9-12 named after numbers 7-10…!
while many languages have singular and plural, some languages can have specific forms for 2, 3 or 4 before getting to plurals for more. and here you can see Czech also having in some cases different rules for up to 4 things.
- Comment on The Job Market Is HellYoung people are using ChatGPT to write their applications; HR is using AI to read them; no one is getting hired. 5 days ago:
yeah take a fucking sword to the interview that’ll get you hired
- Comment on The correct way 6 days ago:
because if it was, the white “X” would look like it’s merely a border to the red, which is not supposed to be the case because it’s a separate symbol.
- Comment on [deleted] 6 days ago:
none of the talented rappers are Nazis. you can find washed as fuck ones though.
- Comment on Like a heart 1 week ago:
why Eddy
- Comment on Age check 1 week ago:
no one’s saying Epstein’s victims, some of whom were likely Clinton’s as well, got a better deal.
they’re saying this was hardly consensual, which was the claim by the top level comment.
- Comment on Age check 1 week ago:
SA* funny. I don’t care that she fell in love with him. The power dynamic is as strong as it possibly can be outside of parenthood.
Lewinsky went through so much sustained bullying and harassment by the entire world in her twenties, it’s incredible she’s still alive honestly. And now she’s an activist. Can’t respect her more.
- Comment on It's a whole genre! 1 week ago:
ben stiller is funny, especially cause he has a serious looking face. this comedy doesn’t have to lean into “oh look I’m a funny face”.
- Comment on Rogue.site is a new worker-owned, reader-funded gaming site 1 week ago:
is also great, recently launched by SkillUp and friends. reviews and news articles are free, but there’s a second tier of special articles available for paid readers.
- Comment on Good news. :) 1 week ago:
i love that the health guy looks like the most illnesses possible in one person
- Comment on Good news. :) 1 week ago:
i love that the health guy looks like the most illnesses possible in one person
- Comment on Gen Z are dipping into their retirements, skipping meals and selling their belongings just to get by, new reports find 1 week ago:
so the plan is working
- Comment on No brainer 1 week ago:
so i can say inside your skull? Ayooo
but seriously it’s the teleport assuming there’s no or negligible cast time. the only thing you can’t do is tp through a thick obstacle but you can repeatedly use it through continuous routes to travel long distances in very fast.
if not then toaster control ain’t that bad either.
- Comment on Hollow Knight: Silksong Will Release for Only $20, Release Times Revealed 2 weeks ago:
no matter how many times I see it, that’s still a wild fucking spelling and shouldn’t be allowed. in fact you should go to jail for it. fucking ghoti-ass spelling.
- Comment on Without unions, they'd have us working around the clock 2 weeks ago:
definitely don’t thank autocorrect though
- Comment on Jeez, it's like there's no appeasing you tyrants 2 weeks ago:
doesn’t matter what you call it, collaborating with fascists must bring you to a fitting end
- Comment on Are you not entertained? 2 weeks ago:
yeah but what i said extend to everything women and especially young women and girls like.
- Comment on Are you not entertained? 2 weeks ago:
better Taylor than a politician. also y’all need free healthcare.
- Comment on Are you not entertained? 2 weeks ago:
i don’t care about it but i also find the air of superiority from people who boast about not caring about this to be worse than actually caring about it. everyone cares about stupid shit. people just talk about this because it’s more demographically aligned with women. there’s disproportionate hate towards things women tend to like because we’re taught from childhood that it’s uncool.
guarantee most of the people shitting on it here either mald about some ladder they’re unhealthily trying to climb, or have a pokemon card collection, or treat that one movie they found to be super cool as their bible or some shit.
let people enjoy what they like. don’t act you only care about the environment and world hunger.
- Comment on Are you not entertained? 2 weeks ago:
look how much i don’t care guys, i made a monument to the things i don’t care about.
not caring about things is not a virtue. you want people to care about something else you should work on that messaging. “you’re stupid to care about this” is reddit atheist coded bullshit that has never worked in the history of mankind.
- Comment on STRAIGHT 2 JAIL 2 weeks ago:
wait what does this mean
