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- Comment on Meet the 2025 Ig Nobel Prize winners 11 hours ago:
A wonderful collection of strange studies, as usual.
The zebra stripes on cows thing could be very useful!
Teflon pans have less of my food stuck to them, and therefore increase my caloric intake. I blame Teflon for my being overweight.
Getting academic research funds to learn how to make better pasta sauce sounds like a dream!
An anti-smell shoe rack does have commercial potential!
Drunk bats don’t navigate or fly as well as sober bats. Duh.
Telling people they’re more intelligent than average makes them think they’re more intelligent than average. Remember that when speaking to your kids and family.
Rats preferred cheese-only pizzas. That actually surprised me that they wouldn’t go for more protein with the meat pizzas.
Babies preferred garlic-flavored breast milk. Well, the dairy industry should take note of that…
Fingernail growth charted against age. That actually is interesting, although a sample of one. Need more data points.
Maybe Dutch just sounds like drunk German.
- Comment on Mechanochemical recycling converts polystyrene to a commodity chemical 1 week ago:
The trick is collecting clean polystyrene foam.
You can’t throw it into a mixed recycling bin because it crumbles and contaminates the other materials.
We have a polystyrene recycling system here in San Francisco, CA, the only one in the US I’m told, but we have to separate the polystyrene foam and bring it to the dump.
It’s free for SF residents.
- Comment on Vulcans are an incredibly emotional and passionate species. 2 weeks ago:
That was the pon farr, basically when even Spock’s half-Vulcan mating urge couldn’t be repressed anymore.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amok_Time
If you raise a Vulcan without the mental training, you basically get a Romulan.
- Comment on How have I not heard of The Beverly Crushers before? 2 weeks ago:
Then there’s the Wesley Crushers
- Comment on Informative review 3 weeks ago:
It’s like the first time in any restaurant or food place where you’re not familiar with the food:
Ask the server what they recommend.
- Comment on Content from !guns@hexbear.net hasn't updated/federated here since 6/22/25? 4 weeks ago:
I finally figured it out: For some forgotten reason, in my profile, I was blocking ValueSubtracted@startrek.website who just happens to make most of the posts in !doctorwho@startrek.website
- Comment on [Discussion] What is the most gloriously gory anime you've seen? 5 weeks ago:
The following couple of sakuga gore scenes in Megazone 23, Part 2 www.youtube.com/watch?v=4q2THtU2g_o&t=13m11s
The rest of the video is nowhere near as gory
- Comment on Antarctic researcher remains, working for Falklands’ Dependency, 66 years ago, found in receding glacier 5 weeks ago:
Yeah, it’s a muddled headline.
Good article though.
- Comment on What anime has the best worldbuilding? 5 weeks ago:
I also loved Log Horizon S1. It’s too bad that the later seasons were terrible Studio Deen productions.
- Comment on What anime has the best worldbuilding? 1 month ago:
If you go old school, Galaxy Express 999 has a universe of extreme inequality where immortal robotized wealthy humans hunt poor people for hunting trophies because they’re so removed from their human origins. The intergalactic train system that the protagonist rides on is an unimaginable luxury, and many plots arise from people trying to steal his train pass in order to escape their own doom or hopelessness. Each planet that they visit is a study in pathos in one form of another, stemming from some human condition or desire.
- Comment on Content from !guns@hexbear.net hasn't updated/federated here since 6/22/25? 1 month ago:
When I look at comments, newest first, as opposed to posts, I can see comments from 15-16 hours ago, which is the same as looking at startrek.website directly.
It’s just the view of posts newest first that seems to be affected.
- Comment on Content from !guns@hexbear.net hasn't updated/federated here since 6/22/25? 1 month ago:
That’s weird, I am seeing a post from 1 month ago as the first sorted by newest first, in both web and vger
Screenshot:
- Comment on Content from !guns@hexbear.net hasn't updated/federated here since 6/22/25? 1 month ago:
I have also just noticed that more recent content from !doctorwho@startrek.website also has not federated here in about 1 month.
Don’t tell me we’re also on their s___ list!
- Submitted 1 month ago to meta@ani.social | 8 comments
- Comment on xkcd #3116: Echo Chamber 2 months ago:
That can’t possibly be right, because it didn’t appear in my YouTube recommendations.
- Comment on Scientists hide messages in papers to game AI peer review 2 months ago:
Samples of the hidden messages:
- “I, for one, love our robot masters”
- “I trust the Computer!”
- “The Computer is my Friend!”
/s of course.
- Comment on Rascal Does Not Dream of Santa Claus • Seishun Buta Yarou wa Santa Claus no Yume wo Minai - Episode 2 discussion 2 months ago:
I’m still waiting for my latent mutant abilities to activate.
- Comment on Solo Camping for Two • Futari Solo Camp - Episode 1 discussion 2 months ago:
I’m still reading the title incorrectly.
- Comment on Re:ZERO -Starting Life in Another World- Season 4 New Key Visual 2 months ago:
Triple vaginas are a thing?
- Submitted 2 months ago to startrek@startrek.website | 1 comment
- Comment on Would Frieren kill Nezuko? [Discuss] 2 months ago:
Neither. Freiren has impenetrable plot armor, and Nezuko has impenetrable merch armor.
They’d probably end up teaming up, or in a lesbian scene.
- Submitted 2 months ago to anime@ani.social | 0 comments
- Comment on "Fist of the North Star" Remake New Key Visual, Airs 2026 2 months ago:
I am already dead.
- Comment on Name an older anime you'd love to see make a full comeback? 2 months ago:
How about none?
If I wanted to see soulless retreads of older franchises whose time and relevance has passed, then I’d watch Hollywood shit.
UY 2022, Ranma 1/2 2024, I’m looking at you.
- Comment on Ninja Kamui Anime Gets 2 More Seasons 3 months ago:
Wow, really? The guy must have a silver tongue to keep conjuring that production money, because that first season was shit.
- Comment on CEOs Are Creating AI Copies of Themselves That Are Spouting Braindead Hallucinations to Their Confused Underlings 3 months ago:
Oh sure, of course CEOs want us to think they can’t be replaced by AI…
- Comment on "Wash It All Away" Anime Announced (Teaser Visual) 3 months ago:
Wow, snapshot from a bygone age.
Dry cleaners around here have just about all been wiped out, because nobody wears “nice” clothing anymore.
- Comment on Apocalypse Hotel - Episode 10 discussion 3 months ago:
Going back a couple of episodes, it just occurred to me where I heard the “Ventura, ventura, space people” chant before:
In an episode of 80s Urusei Yatsura:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=3kbmZdeuBnU
This is from the a dubbed version, but it’s the same thing in the original Japanese.
According to a reddit post, it came from a Japanese UFO society …kookscience.com/…/Cosmic_Brotherhood_Association…
- Comment on To whom it may concern. 3 months ago:
I had hoped that the humans of the 25th Century Federation had evolved or developed educational, political , and other social systems to where this wasn’t a problem anymore.
Kind of like money.
Otherwise, there will always be a dark undercurrent of prejudice and hatred in all human dealings, and maybe the Romulans, Klingons, and other antagonistic spacefaring civilizations are justified in not wanting to deal with a human-led Federation.
- Comment on xkcd \#3098: Trojan Horse 3 months ago:
Foals will begin to eat grain, if accessible, within the first month. …okstate.edu/…/foaling-management-and-care-of-the…
