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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨owo⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Red has dohminatrix vibes.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨So What's Wrong with Getting Reborn as a Goblin? Manga Gets TV Anime⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  It isn’t a typo, they live a single week.

  As for conservation of matter and energy… well.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨So What's Wrong with Getting Reborn as a Goblin? Manga Gets TV Anime⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Cool, I like the manga series. It’s mostly the goblin out-playing a bunch of humans in politics, while trying to ensure his goblindom thrives through commerce and the likes.

  (Just don’t tell Orcbolg about it.)

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Reborn as a Vending Machine Season 3 Drops Main Trailer and Key Visual, Premieres on April 1⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  This is one of those series with a silly premise, but actually fun implementation. I hope season 3 keeps it this way.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Anime Questions, Recommendations, and Discussion Thread [2026, Week 11]⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  I joke this sort of work is like Neapolitan flavour: it’s vanilla, but it has one or two interesting twists (like you said, the vampire intrigue) to make it more interesting.

  And I fully agree with what you said about the characters. Specially their interactions! Like, Kotoyama improved by a lot in this aspect, you don’t see Hotaru or Kokonutsu changing meaningfully because of the other, but Nazuna and Kou do. They grow, a lot like the ones in Sono Bisque Doll. (…that had a better ending. Yeah, I also agree the ending is a bit unsatisfying.)

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Anime Questions, Recommendations, and Discussion Thread [2026, Week 11]⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  I mentioned this across the Fediverse, but recently I’ve binge watched Yofukashi no Uta (Call of the Night). Both seasons, and then I read the manga, and frankly? I had a blast, I loved the series.

  The story is about a 14yo called Kou. He is a good student, or at least he was — eventually he got bored with school, and decided to sleep at day and roam the city at night. And one of those nights, Kou meets a vampire called Nazuna. He wants her to vampirise him, but for that Kou would need to fall in love with Nazuna, and yet he’s clueless about love.

  The soundtrack is filled with earworms from Creepy Nuts; in fact the story was inspired by one of them, that eventually because the ending song of the first season.

  The art style of Yofukashi no Uta looks like a refined version of Dagashi Kashi (from the same author, Kotoyama). But don’t expect the same gag humour as the later; it’s like they replaced the sugar with actual substance. And although it is a series about love, don’t expect all that emotional baggage and “woooosh” associated with romantic stories.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[Serious] Can a fire atronach, a elemental bound by magic to you, give consent?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Got it — then they have agency, much like anyone else. So they should be able to consent, and to get that consent violated by the spell.

  Thanks for the info!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[Serious] Can a fire atronach, a elemental bound by magic to you, give consent?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Are the atronachs from atronachy and atromancy identical?

  If yes, I think consent applies to both. It would be like humans reproducing; a child still has their own agency, even if they were “created” by the parents.

  If not… it depends, really. Hypothetically speaking, if you create one through atronachy, and release [it? they?] free, would [it? they?] be able to take autonomous decisions?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[Serious] Can a fire atronach, a elemental bound by magic to you, give consent?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  I don’t play Elder Scrolls so I had to dig this up.

  Flame atronachs are apparently elemental daedra (divine beings who are not ancestors of human beings, unlike the aedra), summoned through Atromancy. Apparently they are able to make their own decisions, so they have agency.

  But I couldn’t find how much the conjuration process removes their agency; if they’re forced to obey the conjurer’s orders to the letter, if they can creatively interpret those orders, or if it’s a single order.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Broad claims about gender and behavior fall apart when studies include ethnically diverse samples⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  More than enough to falsify the hypothesis that those differences in behaviour are innate, and sex-based; otherwise they’d be more consistent across ethnic and racial groups.

  It also shows that what’s expected from gender roles varies wildly. This is kind of common sense, but it’s good to have studies showing it.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why is Lemmy so damn small??⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  idk im just kinda upset and at a fuckin loss. What kinda website perma bans a user for life and logs all their info just to make sure they don’t come back?!

  The same sort of website that permabans all accounts from a user except the one he uses to moderate some small comm subreddit. Fuck Reddit and fuck everything Reddit.

  And, like, I get you didn’t like the Fediverse. Yes, it could use a bit more activity. …but to be frank, it’s probably the best alternative to Reddit you’ll find. And sorry for my uncalled advice, but: if that isn’t enough then at least don’t go back to Reddit, that place is a shithole and it’ll make you feel like shit.

  (I actually got a few specific questions answered here in the Fediverse. Orchid identification, spider identification, a bunch of Linux questions. In Reddit getting the actual info is always a chore, that place is too noisy for my tastes.)

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨ard⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  I’m not sure but I think the suffix in this case would yield “fuckard”. With “fucktard” being interpreted as “fuck [re]tard”. And given the later is nowadays interpreted as a slur, I’d discourage it.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨what is with the "I personally" epidemic!?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  That “personally” emphasises some matter is subjective, that you are not treating it as incontestable truth.

  I’m not certain but I also think it’s increasing in usage. And I also think it’s part of a trend where people pre-emptively shield their statements against assumptions others might come up with. You know, people really love to screech at the others not because of what the others said, but because of their assumptions = lies = bullshits over what the others said.

  I also believe a few other ongoing trends are basically for the same reason: “though” at the end of sentences, “basically” (eh, self-demonstrating example), the modern usage of “literally”, etc.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨That Time I Got Reincarnated as a Slime Season 4 Previews Eir Aoi Opening Song in New Trailer⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  I wonder if we’ll ever see the Clayman’s Revenge spin-off being animated. I’m following the manga, and it’s fun.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨ard⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  The -ard is basically “fucking” + nominaliser (if necessary):

  • wizard - fucking wise one
  • drunkard - fucking drunk one
  • coward - fucking tail (the initial part is from Old French “coue” tail, itself from Latin “cauda” tail. Who shows the back in a fight? Someone running away!)

  The “nominaliser” part is an artefact of the borrowing, the suffix is from French. Romance languages often use adjectives as if they were nouns, but that doesn’t quite roll in English. In turn French borrowed from Frankish.

  The etymology of “mustard” is disputed. The first part is likely from Latin “mustum” must; it used to be prepared with young wine. The -ard is typically explained as ardens (fiery, hot). So basically “mustum ardens” hot must. …Capsicum peppers are from the Americas, black pepper and long pepper were expensive, European mediaevalards didn’t really have a lot of spicy flavours to work with, so… I guess mustard was spicy for them?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Changes in forest area by world region (1990-2025)⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  but tropical forests are declining (presumably due to climate change).

  At least in South America it’s human-made deforestation. Namely: transforming rainforest into pastures.

  If I had to take a guess most of that loss is in territory controlled by Brazil, and in the skirts of the Amazon biome. Last president (Bolsonaro, a fascist) actively promoted it, and the current one (Lula — as braindead as Trump and as senile as Biden) lacks the balls to put some bloody export tax on beef, Argentina style. Because this increase isn’t even due to local consumption.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Botanic nomenclature⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  related to temporal, not temporary

  That would explain it. But it still sounds funny

  Copromorphidae

  I stand corrected. Shit-shaped moths!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Botanic nomenclature⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  I have no idea on why they decided to call the common European frog Rana temporaria, but “temporary frog” sounds really funny. “Eh this species name is just temporary, I swear”.

  I’m also kind of surprised I couldn’t find a single species called merdicula (little shit). Seems like the sort of humour some would have.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨ConcernedApe wins my funny bit of the year award for making Clint a marriage candidate in Stardew Valley's 1.7 update⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Three weeks ago I threw some guess on which characters would become marriage candidates. Well, the guess was spot on.

  …although to be fair there wasn’t a lot of room to be anyone else. And damn, I wish he added new characters.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Iron Age grave site discovered in northern Serbia reveals evidence of a 2,800-year-old mass killing; 40 of more than 77 victims were younger than 12 years old⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  This is puzzling me:

  • Why were victims gathered from multiple settlements?
  • Why is there such a sex disparity; or, what happened to the men?
  • Why were they buried with food and belongings, if the deaths were all violent and some victims show signs of trying to run away or fight back?

  I couldn’t find a single good explanation for all three things. Specially the last one, it seems contradictory.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I love funsubs so much!⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Fun to see this while messing with subtitle translation!

  I picked the three seasons of Nights with a Cat to watch. Thought “my mum would love this”, so I’m translating subtitles into Portuguese. (She loved the first two seasons, by the way.) And wow, it made me see the effort the group (pspspsps) poured into it — replicating the cat and Moon logo, animating everything, a thousand gradients, so goes on. I had to sacrifice a wee bit of the aesthetics (not much though) for the sake of making the translation viable, plus because I was merging the files, but it was clear the group did that as a work of love, I’ve seen plenty professional translators (incl. myself) doing a sloppier job.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The Spread of Homo sapiens⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Apparently Madagascar was discovered before this picture says, potentially as early as 8500 BCE. The date there is for unambiguous continued human presence, that starts at 490 CE.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The Spread of Homo sapiens⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Well, it’s also possible they simply missed it out. But I find it unlikely given how skilled they were at navigation, and the East Australian Current:

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  A third possibility is that they were aware of those lands, but for some reason didn’t bother with them. Either due to conflict with the locals, or because neither side had anything to benefit the other.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The Spread of Homo sapiens⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I don’t think they “missed” it. I think it happened with Australia the same as here in South America: Polynesians were aware of the existence of those lands, sometimes even traded with the locals, but long-term settlements would be impossible because those locals would kick them out. And the locals couldn’t invade Polynesian lands either because the “lands” in question were the sea, and they’d rather focus on land tech instead.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Sam Altman would like remind you that humans use a lot of energy, too⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  “Now that we don’t do that, you see these things on the internet where, ‘Don’t use ChatGPT, it’s 17 gallons of water for each query’ or whatever,” Altman said. “This is completely untrue, totally insane, no connection to reality.”

  He knows he’s a con artist, he knows people know he’s a con artist, and yet he’s talking as if we were supposed to trust him to not be a con artist. That’s basically to call everyone stupid/gullible/trash by proxy.

  He added that it’s “fair” to be concerned about “the energy consumption — not per query, but in total, because the world is now using so much AI.” In his view, this means the world needs to “move towards nuclear or wind and solar very quickly.”

  Even before those huge datacentres, “don’t reduce consumption, increase production” is how we’re cooking the planet.

  There’s no legal requirement for tech companies to disclose how much energy and water they use,

  That’s something that could be fixed. At least in Europe, China, Japan; probably here in Latin America, too.

  Altman also complained that many discussions about ChatGPT’s energy usage are “unfair,” especially when they focus on “how much energy it takes to train an AI model, relative to how much it costs a human to do one inference query.”

  Whataboutism at its grossest.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Roman-era Mithras sanctuary discovered in Regensburg’s Old Town⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  The coin evidence dates the sanctuary to between about 80 and 171 AD, during the period of the Roman cohort fort in Kumpfmühl and the associated Danube settlement, before the establishment of the legionary camp at Regensburg.

  This is interesting because it shows how widespread the “mystery cults” (like Mithraism) were back then.

  Originally the Romans built a small fort in the place, near the Celtic settlement of Radasbona. But then by 171 Marcus Aurelius had it rebuilt to host the Italic Third Legion. And given legions back then had 5200 soldiers, this means the fort was considerably smaller than the necessary to hold 5k people; if it was just a bit smaller, they’d extend, not rebuild it.

  For reference: in the 1st century it’s believed the city of Rome had ~1M inhabitants, and Alexandria had ~500k. The empire as a whole had, like, 60M? 75M? inhabitants. So even for the standards of back then, this sanctuary was found in the middle of nowhere, and yet there was social pressure to build a shrine for Mithras there.

  the sanctuary provides valuable new evidence for the rituals and material culture of the enigmatic Mithras cult across the Roman world.

  That’s important because we know practically nothing about the cult. The initiates swore an oath of secrecy, so written info from those times is rather scarce.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Dinosaur Food: 100 million year old foods we still eat today⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Araucaria araucana Monkey puzzle tree nuts

  There’s also Araucaria angustifolia (aka Paraná pine). Dunno if it counts as either a separated entry or same entry as the A. araucana, both are phylogenetically close to hybridise, and the genus as a whole is what’s dino food.

  Some pics:

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  (Yup, it’s my cover picture. See the big tree?)

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  (Open and closed pines, full of edible nuts.)

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  (Pine kernels with and without the shell.)

  I go crazy for those once May* hits — they’re delicious even simply boiled, but they can be also prepared into dishes. (I even adapted Roman burgers to use those.)

  *They actually start producing in April, but as there’s a non-zero chance the pine nuts from April are from felled trees, I avoid it. The species is critically endangered; eating some nuts is not a big deal, but falling the tree is.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨between medicine and this, we do not honour rats enough⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  My cats, in the meantime: train themselves to know when humans dispense food, everything else be damned!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨When DinoCon is doing more than the US Gov⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Nah. The guilt by association fallacy is more like:

  • [P1] Hitler ate bread.
  • [P2] Hitler was a bad person.
  • [C] Thus if you eat bread, you’re as bad as Hitler.

  That is not even remotely close to what the DinoCon is doing. If we interpret their actions as an argument, it’s more like:

  • [P1] Knowingly associating yourself with a bad person makes you a bad person.
  • [P2] Those people knowingly associating themselves with Epstein, a bad person.
  • [C] Thus those people are bad people.

  You might disagree with the first premise (it’s a moral premise, so it depends on your values), but the argument is perfectly logical.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨When DinoCon is doing more than the US Gov⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Sure thing, buddy. Whatever you need to tell yourself.\

  …since you’re insistently lying (yes) about what I need: I don’t “need” him to be innocent, and I don’t “need” him to be guilty. From my PoV he’s simply some old guy, with a bunch of hypotheses that range from “this is interesting” to “nah, bollocks”, always backpedalling when proved wrong. That’s it.

  Is this clear?

  We all knew who Epstein was by that point. He should know better.

  Yes, and? Myself said so in another comment dammit. The question here is how much he should be blamed. Should we blame him for:

  1. Abusing some children himself?
  2. Not abusing them, but actively helping Epstein to do so, in matters directly related to the abuse?
  3. Not directly helping Epstein with the abuse, but knowing to be associated with a paedophile, and not giving a fuck about it?
  4. Not knowing he was associated with a paedophile, but being in a position he should have done so?
  5. Nothing?

  Are you getting the picture? It’s a fucking gradient of shit. Both #1 and #5 are likely bollocks; but from #2 to #4 it’s all “maybe”. We don’t know what he did, and we don’t know what he knows.

  And before some muppet says “but you said «I guess he’s still in the “when in doubt, treat them as innocent” category for me.»!!!”: I was clearly talking about what I formalised as #3. This is bloody obvious by context dammit, check the comment I was answering to!

  How self deluded do you need to be in order to convince yourself that Chomsky reached out to the most notorious convicted pedophile in American history for some help with his taxes?

  That is not even remotely close to what I said.

  You don’t even know what you’re screeching at.

  At this rate it’s safe to ignore you as dead weight and a noise. Feel free to keep screeching at your own assumptions, as if you were screeching at what I said, but don’t expect me to read it.