faythofdragons
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- Comment on Do I need to make it anymore obvious? 5 hours ago:
Both actual moths. The black and white one is Haploa clymene, and the colorful one is Dryocampa rubicunda.
- Comment on Tesla In 'Self-Drive Mode' Hit By Train After Turning Onto Train Tracks 8 hours ago:
I just don’t know how they’re getting away with calling it ‘full self driving’ if it’s not fully self driving.
- Comment on YouTube’s new anti-adblock measures 1 day ago:
On the other hand, I really do wonder how many of those 300m views were also not human views.
- Comment on I throw hands (grabbing my soup) 3 days ago:
Part of me is so done with humanity I feel like a lot of these kids deserve the consequence of being self-absorbed and undisciplined.
That’s understandable, considering the amount of propaganda that has always been generated about the kids these days. The best propaganda has a grain of truth in it, and preys on the fear that you’re being taken advantage of, that your efforts are for naught.
There will always be ignorant people, there will always be lazy freeloaders, there will always be room for improvement. If you feel this means some people do not deserve solidarity, you cannot expect others to stand with you, and this is how the left crumbles.
If the internet is making you lose faith in humanity, you should get off the internet.
- Comment on Make dinosaurs weirder 3 days ago:
I agree, and think this ties into my pet peeve, if I may stroke it for a bit; The fact that science is so isolated from the outside world, that the only way the average person can access it is through pop culture interpretations. Pop culture science needs to be held to a higher standard if we won’t fund good science communicators. We’ve left it to ‘market forces’ to fill the gap, and they’ve decided the most cost-effective way of doing that is stuffing it with garbage and slapping a pretty veneer on it.
People go “yeah, but you can read the studies online”, but that ignores that 1) paywalls are a problem and 2) even if you don’t run into a paywall, you need the education to understand what you’re reading. The average american can barely read common english and is exhausted from work, expecting quality self-education to be the standard is a fool’s errand.
- Comment on Millions of Americans Who Have Waited Decades for Fast Internet Connections Will Keep Waiting After the Trump Administration Threw a $42 Billion High-Speed Internet Program Into Disarray. 3 days ago:
Hnnng, I’m so glad I don’t have to pay for a static ip
- Comment on Millions of Americans Who Have Waited Decades for Fast Internet Connections Will Keep Waiting After the Trump Administration Threw a $42 Billion High-Speed Internet Program Into Disarray. 3 days ago:
I’m getting 270 down and 40 up. Fucking comcast has a monopoly in my area, so I’m paying $120/month for it unless I want to go back to DSL.
- Comment on :-) 5 days ago:
If you film it, you gain followers
- Comment on Trump team leaks AI plans in public GitHub repository 1 week ago:
That’s the combo on my luggage!
- Comment on So close! 3 weeks ago:
I think it’s more that a stew is a kind of soup. Bisque is a kind of soup, chowder is a kind of soup.
The real question is how many noodles can you eat it with before you have to start calling it a sauce.
- Comment on Australia’s bowel cancer rates are world’s highest for under-50s. Scientists wonder if the gut microbiome is to blame 3 weeks ago:
I feel like it’s something use to make food, like, idk, cyclodextrins or something.
- Comment on [deleted] 3 weeks ago:
As a counterpoint, I’ve been with my partner for 15 years, and we started as a one-night-stand. It’s backwards from how it usually happens, but he was particularly cool so I took him to breakfast the next morning, and then we got to know each other better. We became FWB, broke it off, dated other people, then got back together for real and haven’t quit since.
Yes, sex can’t be the only reason for love, but you can start there and find mutual interest after.
- Comment on Ironically, people making fun of the "Gnu/Linux" copypasta is probably one of the main ways people know what Gnu is 3 weeks ago:
I thought gnu was another name for a wildebeest. How do you even put a wildebeest on your computer?
- Comment on Same old shit 3 weeks ago:
When you’re slidin’ into first, and you’re feeling something burst…
- Comment on Late 3 weeks ago:
And scare the poor student even more???
- Comment on IT’S THE FEDS! 3 weeks ago:
- Comment on the 'it' in 'it snows' doesn't refer to anything 3 weeks ago:
You don’t live where it snows or rains?
- Comment on The Telegraph has deleted this sob story 4 weeks ago:
Even in STEM. Who gets the Blue Origin job, the person with a 4.0 and zero references, or the person with a 3.5 that partied with Bezos in college?
- Comment on Valve CEO Gabe Newell’s Neuralink competitor is expecting its first brain chip this year 4 weeks ago:
Yeah, if we were putting billionaires against the wall, GabeN would probably be near the end of the line.
- Comment on The Telegraph has deleted this sob story 4 weeks ago:
Honestly, this is why I’m always peeved when I hear parents telling their kids that school isn’t a social club. I followed that advice, only to find out that the real world cares more about networking than test scores. Whoops.
- Comment on On trees... 4 weeks ago:
Beavers are also fish.
- Comment on Black Mirror AI 4 weeks ago:
Feels good to be on an instance with Anubis
- Comment on "You can't just have Geralt for every single game" says his voice actor, and if you think The Witcher 4 making Ciri the protagonist is "woke," then "read the damn books" 4 weeks ago:
I’ve only played Witcher 3, and I thought it was obvious that it’s Ciri’s story being told from the perspective of the supporting cast, and that is an incredibly cool literary device.
- Comment on 7 for me 5 weeks ago:
I’ve been sleeping as 20 since I got chickenpox as a kid. The itchiness was completely unbearable, and I never liked how much pajamas bunch up when I toss and turn anyways. Now I only wear them on the rare night that it drops below freezing.
- Comment on Industrial Light & Magic's Chief Creative Promotes AI Slop During His TED Talk 5 weeks ago:
You wouldn’t be calling it “slop” if you thought a human made it in photoshop, which means your judgement isn’t actually based on the quality of the image.
- Comment on Love this 5 weeks ago:
I remember patty-cake games being super popular in elementary school, and it switched to hacky sack games in late middle school through high school. I think the graph is accurate.
- Comment on ‘Doom: The Dark Ages’ DRM Is Locking Out Linux Users Who Bought the Game 5 weeks ago:
Man, they’re taking the “dark ages” part seriously.
- Comment on How are roundabouts made? 5 weeks ago:
You’re asking about something called surveying, if you want a term to search for. Modern surveying equipment uses lasers to measure the land, then they do a bunch of trig to create an accurate map. Once you have an accurate map that’s keyed to known reference points, you can design the roundabout. When you’re ready to build it, it’s just following the map and using the reference points to measure it back out.
- Comment on [deleted] 1 month ago:
Yeah, Duterte just got reelected, and he’s in prison at the Hague rn.
- Comment on Life is unfair to landlords 1 month ago:
Really, you pull a “what about wheelchairs” then turn around and talk about how people should pay more if they value not taking the stairs?