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- Comment on Recycled Plastic is a Toxic Cocktail: Over 80 Chemicals Found in a Single Pellet 2 days ago:
What’s the point of specifying ‘in a single pellet’? All pellets of a batch are the same. You don’t get 160 chemicals in two pellets.
- Comment on The Cosmic Owl: Astronomers discover a peculiar galaxy merger 4 days ago:
[…] only a few hundred of them have been detected in the local universe
Why haven’t they checked other universes?
- Comment on How do you think early humans survived without water bottles? Did they just live next to water sources all the time? 6 days ago:
I think it’s more accurate to say that water is readily available in places where humans are likely to go. Because, you know, humans don’t tend to go where there is no water.
- Comment on Radio transmissions 1 week ago:
Isaac Asimov, “Hostess” (1951):
There were four fingers but no thumb. Each finger had five independent ball-and-socket joints. In this way, the flexibility lost with the absence of the thumb was made up for by the almost tentacular properties of the fingers. What was even more interesting to her biologist’s eyes was the fact that each Hawkinsite finger ended in a vestigial hoof, very small and, to the layman, unidentifiable as such, but clearly adapted at one time to running, just as man’s had been to climbing.
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“[…] Look, there are five intelligent races in the Galaxy. These have all developed independently, yet have managed to converge in remarkable fashion. It is as though, in the long run, intelligence requires a certain physical makeup to flourish. […]”
[…]
“Now when the differences among the intelligences are closely investigated, it is found over and over again that it is you Earthmen, more than any of the others, who are unique. For instance, it is only on Earth that life depends upon metal enzymes for respiration. Your people are the only ones which find hydrogen cyanide poisonous. Yours is the only form of intelligent life which is carnivorous. Yours is the only form of life which has not developed from a grazing animal. And, most interesting of all, yours is the only form of intelligent life known which stops growing upon reaching maturity.”
- Comment on There's no wrong way to stroke it 1 week ago:
- Comment on If you consider yourself a Christian and act in self-defence, you don’t truly believe 1 week ago:
“as you would have them do”, not “as they do”
- Comment on Zwei Mettbrötchen bitte! 1 week ago:
I’ve never heard of an open sandwich, but then again English isn’t my mother tongue. To me, a sandwich has always been food between two slices of bread.
- Comment on Zwei Mettbrötchen bitte! 1 week ago:
Shouldn’t a sandwich have two halves of bread? There’s only one here. Canapés and Hors d’œvre are usually small, aren’t they? A Mettbrötchen takes several bites to eat and is usually eaten as a meal, not as a starter.
- Submitted 1 week ago to showerthoughts@lemmy.world | 9 comments
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- Comment on Pinkwashing is cancelled 1 week ago:
Well, surprise. They’re expecting retaliatory attacks.
- Submitted 2 weeks ago to showerthoughts@lemmy.world | 6 comments
- Comment on Why do low framerates *feel* so much worse on modern video games? 2 weeks ago:
The TV might refresh the screen 60 times per second (or actually refresh half the screen 60 times per second, or actually 50 times per second in Europe), but that’s irrelevant if the game only throws 20 new frames per second at the TV. The effective refresh rate will still be 20Hz.
That’s just a possible explanation. I don’t know what the refresh rate of Majora’s Mask was.
- Comment on In North Korea, your phone secretly takes screenshots every 5 minutes for government surveillance 3 weeks ago:
Recall stores an image every few seconds. 5 minutes is indeed much worse. Think of all the content they’re missing!
- Comment on (・∀・) 4 weeks ago:
Apparently it’s become a thing to copy and paste the same koala information everywhere, which thankfully leads to a debunk as a response. See, for instance, lemmy.world/comment/8270878 or lemmy.ca/comment/16408551
- Comment on I have a terrible memory for numbers so: 5 weeks ago:
1357! is even.
- Comment on God damn it 1 month ago:
Once you learn about the ubiquitous neck collar all cartoon characters used to have, you can’t unsee it.
- Comment on Pope Joan 1 month ago:
I’m sad that I live in a world where people think they need the word “transvestigate.”
- Submitted 1 month ago to science_memes@mander.xyz | 47 comments
- Comment on Liquid Trees 1 month ago:
The problem even with that is that an old, standing tree and a young one are very different in their ability to provide the services we seek from them.
- Comment on We don't need AI 1 month ago:
Which part of AI is actually going to make our lives easier? I use it occasionally to get me out of a coding problem
- Comment on We don't need AI 1 month ago:
We don’t need bag clips, either. But they make life easier.
- Comment on I don't mind! 1 month ago:
Don’t worry, I can hold my breath until I’m done.
- Comment on Nintendo seeks default judgement and $17,500 in damages from pirated game streamer who ignored court summons 2 months ago:
Are you saying that the data has no value just because you can’t touch it?
- Comment on Nintendo seeks default judgement and $17,500 in damages from pirated game streamer who ignored court summons 2 months ago:
It’s a company that targets kids. Their prices are ludicrous
How does any of this make a difference?
Also for a company targeting kids there sure are a lot of whiny adults in these conversations.
- Comment on Nintendo seeks default judgement and $17,500 in damages from pirated game streamer who ignored court summons 2 months ago:
Why is everyone pretending like they have a right to play Nintendo games? Nintendo says they want $X, you say their game isn’t worth $X, so you get something different instead. What’s the problem?
- Comment on Nintendo seeks default judgement and $17,500 in damages from pirated game streamer who ignored court summons 2 months ago:
What’s even more funny is that you’re downvoted into oblivion, while Iheartcheese @lemmy.world gets praise for the same stance.
- Comment on Nintendo seeks default judgement and $17,500 in damages from pirated game streamer who ignored court summons 2 months ago:
I guess “Fuck around and find out” doesn’t apply here.
Don’t forget to mention bootlicking in your replies, lemmys.
- Comment on Do I need to choose a language when posting on Lemmy? 2 months ago:
If a user doesn’t want to see an English post, accurately tagging your post allows them to filter it. So it’s a matter of being nice, but not strictly necessary to tag your post correcly.
- Comment on Does 'attempted murder' require a viable method? 3 months ago:
Depends on your jurisdiction. In Germany, the bar for murder is one of [1]:
- an [inner] desire to kill
- killing for sexual reasons
- greed
- “other despicable motivations”
and one of:
- cruelty
- insidiousness
- using “tools dangerous for public safety”
- the motivation to conceal or enable another crime.
In my layman’s understanding, pressing the button checks the ‘insidious’ box, since it is not at all expectable by the victim.
As for the first set of conditions, it would probably be down to a court ruling if the person checked the ‘desire to kill’ box (as I understand it, they wouldn’t) or the ‘other despicable motivations’ box – is killing for no reason a despicable reason?
