Lumidaub
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- Comment on Wikipedia articles could have Context boxes 1 week ago:
Pages can “trend” on Wikipedia…?
- Comment on Truly Lossless Music 1 week ago:
You’re bad at masking that ADHD ;D (tone indicator friendly ribbing)
- Comment on What's your thoughts on this? 1 week ago:
Sounds like it wants me to not care about trees because what did they ever do for us?
- Comment on How would one exit a black hole? 1 week ago:
I agree, definitely. But here we are, the reality is that people read first paragraphs at best (which there can be valid reasons for) and take away “ah yes, Hawking radiation is a thing black holes do, science says so”. A reader who is interested further and has the mental capacities after working 8 hours 5 days a week to scroll down and read about experimental observations might also realise “oh wait, it isn’t actually clear whether it does exist” but you can’t expect that from everybody (unfortunate as that may be).
This particular instance may be harmless because it probably doesn’t affect anything in everyday life. But in general I think a first paragraph in an encyclopaedic source that wants to inform the general public should be very clear about it when a thing is hypothesised and hasn’t been shown to exist.
- Comment on [deleted] 1 week ago:
They… don’t like cars? I suppose?
- Comment on How would one exit a black hole? 1 week ago:
Okay, might have worded tat better. It says “The radiation was not predicted by previous models” and “is predicted to be extremely faint”, not “it is predicted to exist” - and also “[it] is many orders of magnitude below […]” which sounds like a statement of fact. I realise this may be nitpicky but I don’t know if people who don’t know anything about the subject would interpret that as “we don’t really know if it even exists yet”.
- Comment on How would one exit a black hole? 1 week ago:
Yes, I know, but realistically, many (most?) people just want brief, general information, which is what the introductory paragraph is for, no? So I’d argue it should say “hypothesised” or “predicted” somewhere in the, ideally, first sentence.
- Comment on How would one exit a black hole? 1 week ago:
That’s a hypothesis though, right? They haven’t detected any yet afaik (which the article could make clearer in its introduction).
- Comment on this is exactly what copper would say 1 week ago:
Thank you, I am now reassured in my DuckDuckGo-fu after looking this up because I don’t watch the Simpsons.
- Comment on Truly Lossless Music 1 week ago:
Headcanon accepted. I choose to believe that John Williams spends his time on some bus in (what looks like, judging from the surrounding ten pixels) some central European city reading sheet music.
- Comment on Truly Lossless Music 1 week ago:
This is exactly like when we sat in the car on the way home from the shop, reading the manual of the video game we just bought, already practising in our heads the button presses.
- Comment on this is exactly what copper would say 1 week ago:
We all thought it. ¯\(^_^)/¯
- Comment on this is exactly what copper would say 1 week ago:
If you’re a copper, you have to tell me.
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Something something Ea Nasir.
- Comment on Just in case you still don't realize that men regardless of their age will always have a grammar school view of sex 1 week ago:
I should’ve realised. Desktop UIs REALLY need user tags.
- Comment on Just in case you still don't realize that men regardless of their age will always have a grammar school view of sex 1 week ago:
I’m a wife and I’d buy that. Maybe tone down the heteronormative boomerisms?
- Comment on Any ideas as to why they choose a dinosaur symbol to tell you this? 1 week ago:
is that why we call them predators?
- Comment on About Star Trek Starfleet Academy blacklash 1 week ago:
Everything gets a “backlash” on the internet. If it says Star Trek on it, I’m going to at least try it. That easy.
(Disclaimer: Unless it’s absolutely blatantly not Star Trek. And even then I might be curious. Section 31 was difficult.)
- Comment on Ah minthi spikchur anadón likit 1 week ago:
Where’s the lie?
- Comment on Episode Discussion | Star Trek: Strange New Worlds | 3x05 "Through the Lens of Time" 1 week ago:
Fellow Whovians may have noticed the pointed use “dancing”.
(also “exterminated” but well)
- Comment on Episode Discussion | Star Trek: Strange New Worlds | 3x05 "Through the Lens of Time" 1 week ago:
Robert Bloch
Who was friends with HP Lovecraft (!) and who features, as “Robert Blake”, in my favourite short story by HP, The Haunter of the Dark! This is tickling my brain in the best way <3
- Comment on A small art gallery in Japan just happened to have these pictures next to each other. And then it morphed into a popular meme template 1 week ago:
It’s okay, go clean up, we’ll be here when you come back.
- Comment on A small art gallery in Japan just happened to have these pictures next to each other. And then it morphed into a popular meme template 1 week ago:
Are you saying this was intentional, that someone did this with some kind of ulterior motive, and OP is sadly mistaken? Preposterous!
- Comment on [deleted] 2 weeks ago:
You’re being exploited and scammed. Stop while you can.
- Comment on Think about it 2 weeks ago:
Don’t do this before I’ve had caffeine.
- Comment on Imagine being a billionaire, running one the most powerful, corporations in the United States, and prostrating yourself to Donald Trump in this very public and embarrassing way. 2 weeks ago:
Goddammit Tim Apple, it doesn’t even look like anything remotely interesting.
For a split second after he stepped aside to reveal it, I actually thought it was a cool dragon figure. Must’ve been my mind desperately seeking any meaning in this nonsense because I was looking at the phones.
- Comment on capital letters are 99% useless 2 weeks ago:
Languages that have more thought put into them than English use capital letters to help guide the reader’s eye, structure the sentence, and differentiate between types of words. They also use more commas, for similar reasons. You just don’t know what you’re missing.
- Comment on Transgender, nonbinary and disabled people more likely to view AI negatively, study shows 2 weeks ago:
ITT: “this study doesn’t say anything interesting about ME, it must be bullshit!!”
- Comment on Marco Rubio orders US diplomats to launch lobbying blitz against Europe's tech law 2 weeks ago:
You do with your laws whatever the fuck you want. We have different approaches to things and if US based companies don’t like that, they’ll have to find somewhere else to sell their stuff instead of relying on your government to help them bully other countries. Capitalism, small government, and all that.
- Comment on Marco Rubio orders US diplomats to launch lobbying blitz against Europe's tech law 2 weeks ago:
Thank you for this bit of wisdom. Why did you feel the need to share it here?
- Comment on Marco Rubio orders US diplomats to launch lobbying blitz against Europe's tech law 2 weeks ago:
ugh fuck off