bleistift2
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- Comment on THIS happens way too often 1 day ago:
Thunderbird warns you if you use certain words that hint at attachments, but don’t attach anything. Awesome feature, has saved me multiple times.
- Comment on I'm doing my part! 1 week ago:
What’s the point here? Shitting on a good deed because someone else has done something bad? Arguing that small contributions don’t matter because others cancel that out? Great, now everbody feels entitled to shitty behaviour because they’re not the most rotten apple in the barrel. I’m sure many good things will come from that line of thought.
The rule is “Don’t be a jerk”, not “Don’t be a jerk if you’re the only one”
- Comment on It's always the same. 1 week ago:
I think you’re talking about society.
- Comment on poaceae 1 week ago:
Have you ever tried grass or not-bred-for-eating-leaves? I think they taste awful.
- Comment on salty 1 week ago:
There’s a fixed version: xkcd.com/851_make_it_better/
- Comment on It’s the little things 1 week ago:
Oil doesn’t have surface tension and it stays in the cloth. At a certain point it’s not surface tension that keeps liquids together but friction.
Says my uneducated ass.
- Comment on USA 🇺🇸 USA 🇺🇸 USA 2 weeks ago:
*State. It was Indiana. * 3.2.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=bFNjA9LOPsg – How Pi was nearly changed to 3.2 - Numberphile
- Comment on Caption this. 2 weeks ago:
I guess this is rinsing an infected ear. The eyes are protected to prevent droplets of possibly infected goo entering them.
- Comment on ‘The vehicle suddenly accelerated with our baby in it’: the terrifying truth about why Tesla’s cars keep crashing 3 weeks ago:
it has come in clutch a few times
Massive disrespect for not learning a thing.
- Comment on Recycled Plastic is a Toxic Cocktail: Over 80 Chemicals Found in a Single Pellet 5 weeks 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 5 weeks 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? 5 weeks 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 month 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.
[…]
“[…] 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 month ago:
- Comment on If you consider yourself a Christian and act in self-defence, you don’t truly believe 1 month ago:
“as you would have them do”, not “as they do”
- Comment on Zwei Mettbrötchen bitte! 1 month 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 month 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.
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- Comment on Pinkwashing is cancelled 1 month ago:
Well, surprise. They’re expecting retaliatory attacks.
- Submitted 1 month ago to showerthoughts@lemmy.world | 6 comments
- Comment on Why do low framerates *feel* so much worse on modern video games? 1 month 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 1 month ago:
Recall stores an image every few seconds. 5 minutes is indeed much worse. Think of all the content they’re missing!
- Comment on (・∀・) 1 month 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: 2 months ago:
1357! is even.
- Comment on God damn it 2 months ago:
Once you learn about the ubiquitous neck collar all cartoon characters used to have, you can’t unsee it.
- Comment on Pope Joan 2 months ago:
I’m sad that I live in a world where people think they need the word “transvestigate.”
- Submitted 2 months ago to science_memes@mander.xyz | 47 comments
- Comment on Liquid Trees 2 months 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 2 months 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
