Skua
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- Comment on Fake history porn 5 days ago:
Tom Scott's game show! https://lateralcast.com/
He has always had a real love for game shows and has done quite a few different ones over time, but Lateral seems to be his main project just now. The format is dead simple, it's Tom plus three guests (usually other youtubers or podcasters that he has met throughout his career) taking turns asking the each other some kind of a question that requires, as the name suggests, some lateral thinking to puzzle out
- Comment on Fake history porn 5 days ago:
Every time video game things come up on Lateral he's more or less stumped because he has just never been into games, which is totally fair enough, but I feel like if he were going to enjoy any video game at all it'd be Portal
- Comment on Teen girls are being used as hitwomen in Sweden's organized crime wars: "Young kids are thirsty for blood" 1 week ago:
Unless something drastic has happened in just 2025 that isn't reflected in the data yet, the actual murder rate in Sweden hasn't really changed much in the past 30 years. It's high by Nordic standards, middle of the road for European standards, and low by global standards. Sweden is still just a normal country with normal human problems, even if it is very prosperous and has a lot of sensible government policies
That there are Swedish rappers definitely isn't that weird either. I don't even enjoy rap and I've heard of a Greenlandic rapper. I've got a Togolese metal band on my main playlist. There was a Black American blues singer who went to Tuva in Russia to learn throat singing and got nicknamed "Earthquake" becauseof how low his voice was. People like music from all over
- Comment on All the fruits so far. 1 week ago:
That sounds delightful! I know what you mean about the jams, I get a steady supply of it just because my brother's friend makes it and has so much that he has no idea what to do with it. Maybe I should get him some yeast
- Comment on All the fruits so far. 1 week ago:
Is this all stuff you've been able to forage/harvest yourself?
- Comment on Internet discourse is wonderful 1 week ago:
Presumably being less orange in some way. None of it actually means anything, all of Orange's words are a parody of that incel terminology, it's just that in the comic being orange or green is a desirable characteristic
- Comment on production line 1 week ago:
Wait what the fuck, they really did switch a bakery over to drone production and put them on a conveyor belt like that
- Comment on redwoods 1 week ago:
https://cdn.imgchest.com/files/y8xcnjxrg24.jpg
I'm glad to report that they're still standing! These photos aren't great, but they do at least show how much taller they are than every other tree in the area and the incredibly confusing presence of an old phone box is a helpful comparison for how chunky they are
However, I also found out that these are dawn redwoods, the smallest variety of redwoods. These don't even get to half the height of the giant ones in California and they're still the biggest trees I've ever seen in person
Also tagging @shalafi
- Comment on [fluff post] If lemmy users are Lemmites, what would we like to call piefed users? 2 weeks ago:
I see this as even more reason to use my idea
- Comment on [fluff post] If lemmy users are Lemmites, what would we like to call piefed users? 2 weeks ago:
I like the idea of pieons, from peon (which I promise I don't mean derogatorily seeing as I'm not on piefed myself)
- Comment on What strategy would you use to estimate the number of hazelnuts 2 weeks ago:
I think that this is more or less the approach I would take, but you shouldn't worry about the actual diameter of anything. It's not important, after all - if everything was scaled up twice as big, the answer would be the same. Just call the diameter of the cup a nice round number and then see how the hazelnuts compare to it. In this case I think there's about five hazelnut widths to the glass, so I'm gonna call the glass diameter 50, the nuts 10, and the glass height 80.
You'll need to change your formulae, though.
pi*dis the circumference of a circle, but we need the area here, sopi*r*r(and then multiply by height for volume). That gives me 157,050 whateverunits cubed for the volume of the cup. For a sphere it's(4/3)*pi*r*r*r, so 524 for the hazelnuts. Now, I know that spheres don't pack perfectly into a volume, but I don't remember the factor even for optimal packing, so I'm just gonna take a wild guess and say that 70% of the internal volume of the cup is actually occupied by hazelnuts. That gives me... 209 hazelnuts in the cup. Which seems worse than your answer on a gut level, but I can count 86 visible ones so it's maybe actually not bad - Comment on Four wheels good, two wheels bad: why are there no exciting cycling games? 2 weeks ago:
Just tried this out recently. It's good fun. I do wish it explained itself a little better at the start - I had no idea that it was essentially a roguelite for about the first hour I played - but it gets that feeling of momentum at the edge of wiping out just right
- Comment on redwoods 2 weeks ago:
Oh holy shit, we have half a million of them‽ I was under the impression it was just a few scattered around the place
- Comment on Who is the enemy? 2 weeks ago:
Then WordArt loves you too
- Comment on redwoods 2 weeks ago:
I'm not sure what qualifies as a "proper" storm for you - the UK never gets anything like the cyclones in India or the Caribbean - but we did have one of our worst on record at the start of this year. I actually haven't been along to the place since then. If I get a chance this weekend I'll go have a look, see if I can get some photos for shalafi elsewhere in this thread too
- Comment on redwoods 2 weeks ago:
Not naturally, but a fair few of our landed gentry got really into trees while we were doing the whole empire thing and since we have a wet temperate climate here the trees seem to like it
- Comment on redwoods 2 weeks ago:
There's an old stately home near me (in the UK) where a few redwoods were planted some time around 1900. The scale of those things is genuinely bewildering. They're so much bigger than every other tree that it messes with your sense of perspective a little
It's also weird how squishy the bark is. It's like a giant funfair plushie tree
- Comment on Best Co-Op Games? 2 weeks ago:
Enjoy the bean juice when you can get some. I think I'll go brew some myself
- Comment on Best Co-Op Games? 2 weeks ago:
Lovers in a Dangerous Spacetime in particular is hilarious if you get four people playing it
- Comment on Best Co-Op Games? 2 weeks ago:
Since OP mentioned it, how may of these can do offline co-op? I don't think DRG does, and it's the only one I've done multiplayer on (though it is otherwise a great suggestion)
- Comment on [deleted] 2 weeks ago:
Is your bunker pineapple-shaped?
- Comment on How fast could a human accellerate (while staying alive)? 2 weeks ago:
Isn't that what the different G force limits at the end are about? Like, 10 G is way beyond what is survivable for that sort of duration, so it's provided as a lower limit for the time
- Comment on [deleted] 2 weeks ago:
Putting soy sauce on my houmous and washing it down with coffee just to beanmax
- Comment on I went to the UK last week. Nothing about my trip was legal. 2 weeks ago:
Good point!
- Comment on I went to the UK last week. Nothing about my trip was legal. 2 weeks ago:
I expect that it's straying much too close to dicussion of the ongoing hot-button political issue of asylum seekers and small boat crossings for Casual UK's "no politics" rule. Glad you could still post it here without re-typing it though
- Comment on The least problematic early black metal band 3 weeks ago:
Oh, right. I meant it as in "I hate that there are so many fascists in the genre that checking for them becomes a necessary evil of listening to the genre". I do check because I don't want fascists in my playlists
- Comment on The least problematic early black metal band 3 weeks ago:
There is definitely plenty of non-Nazi black metal. It's just that there's also a lot of actual Nazi BM, including some of the foundational figures of the genre. The general themes of the genre being very misanthropic and usually interested in the various kinds of paganism that Nazis cribbed a bunch of their symbolism from can also make it difficult to spot the Nazis at a glance if they're not being overt about it
- Comment on The least problematic early black metal band 3 weeks ago:
"Do they hate all of humanity or just specific colours of humanity? Please be the first one"
- Comment on The least problematic early black metal band 3 weeks ago:
I'm pretty certain it's a joke
- Comment on The least problematic early black metal band 3 weeks ago:
I enjoy black metal, I enjoy much less having to become a freelance investigative journalist each time I find a new band that sounds cool
