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- Comment on mercy merci 2 hours ago:
I’m sorry, spider, but it’s this or the mercy of the cats.
- Comment on Jurassic Park 3 hours ago:
I wasn’t able to find a reference to the park’s inaccurate name in either book or film, but this Reddit post explains my feelings about it:
Okay, you’ve noticed that the name given to the theme park by the arrogant old man who thinks he can harness the forces of nature for fun and profit does not accurately reflect the animals bred to live in the park. Now take that next interpretive step.
Everything that goes wrong is entirely the fault of a billionaire doing billionaire things.
- Comment on Jurassic Park 3 hours ago:
According to Wikipedia, this line comes from the film Jurassic Park 3.
Also:
The scientific accuracy of the dinosaurs is referenced in Crichton’s novel when Henry Wu, chief geneticist for the dinosaur theme park, notes that the animals are hypothetical reconstructions created with modified DNA.
The whole point of the story is an asshole techbro doing dumb shit, so I seriously doubt the name was a mistake on the author’s part.
There’s also a fan theory that there was never any dinosaur DNA in the first place and that these creatures were actually complete fabrications, which I believe is what just happened recently with the dire wolf?
- Comment on It's just a fancy new name for a lobotomy 19 hours ago:
Yeah, this is why I stick with breathing through my mouth. Truly horrifying.
- Comment on ANTI PEE PAINT 20 hours ago:
What do you mean? Do the bison, caribou, sheep, etc native to North America resist domestication somehow? (Like how zebras do?) I’ve always been under the impression that they didn’t civilize by happenstance and lack of pressure to do so, since they seemed to be getting along just fine without it.
- Comment on Velma can't math. 1 day ago:
You start by dividing both sides by 2a, and then you can multiply both sides by 2a to get rid of the 2a’s from both sides. Doing this will give you a sense of accomplishment whenever you don’t know how to proceed.
- Comment on Banana 2 days ago:
You can absolutely eat banana peels, cooked or raw. They’re full of fiber, antioxidants, all your basic fruit goodness. I don’t eat them, but I understand the people who do.
- Comment on Trump claims ‘wind mills’ kill whales but quietly torpedoes the science 2 days ago:
I bet torpedoes are pretty good for killing whales.
- Comment on Apple’s Next-Gen AirPods with Brainwave Monitoring 2 days ago:
I also don’t mean to defend Apple, but isn’t this the same idea behind that children’s game where you levitate a ball with your brain, combined with a fitness band? None of these readings can be used to interpret your state of mind.
Although if they are able to use them in concert to detect something like a panic attack, I would welcome the technology from a more health-focused device. I can think of multiple instances I would like to have bad mental times softened with a warning, especially now that I know paracetamol helps dampen mental distress.
- Comment on Smells Great 2 days ago:
Don’t worry. It’s a black deck, so the graveyard is exactly where the pineapple wants to be.
- Comment on arborholing 4 days ago:
This is why I don’t like determining an organism’s value based on how “sentient” it is. I prefer to admit that I treat dogs and pigs better than carrots and fish because I empathize with them more, entirely of my own bias. I don’t think I have any more or less value than a blade of grass; we’re both products of happenstance just running our programming, and we won’t be around long.
- Comment on Mom they're fighting again 5 days ago:
Maybe we just disagree on what color “salmon” is, but the meat is what I would call that color. They’re like flamingos in that they take on pigment from their diet. For this reason, farmed salmon will not be “salmon” color unless their diet has been supplemented with the pigment.
- Comment on eco-vengeance iconoclast 1 week ago:
This is why I don’t agree with calling cops pigs.
- Comment on Just let me back up my games! 2 weeks ago:
Music purchases are DRM-free on both services. The guides are referring to local downloads while subscribed to Amazon’s streaming service, which are DRM-protected as you’re only renting them.
- Comment on it's true! 2 weeks ago:
When you said “modify the DNA”, I thought you were referring to genetic modification in a laboratory, which is capable of enacting dramatic change in a single generation, including unintentional changes. Selective breeding enacts mild iterative changes over a long period of time, and is therefore much less risky.
- Comment on Just let me back up my games! 2 weeks ago:
You can buy DRM-free music files from various services including Bandcamp, Amazon, and iTunes.
As far as I know, the three you mentioned are streaming services only with no option for purchase.
- Comment on Just let me back up my games! 2 weeks ago:
In addition to what else they said, (depending on the service) you can just download an actual music file and copy it onto as many drives as you like, almost like you own it or something. This is how video and games should work also, especially with regard to lack of exclusivity.
- Comment on it's true! 2 weeks ago:
In my area we have communal lawns for lounging, soccer, etc. so that individual homes have smaller gardens, and areas not needed for human activity are allowed to grow wild while in season.
- Comment on it's true! 2 weeks ago:
Because releasing genetically modified organisms into the wild can have absolutely disastrous consequences on an ecosystem. I think there are cases where the benefits are worth the risks, but pretty lawn is not one of them. Might be nice in the future when we have a better grasp on what we’re doing.
- Comment on 3 weeks ago:
I’m a little too good at acting as living food storage.
- Comment on No conclusive evidence linking acetaminophen to autism, says Health Canada in rebuke to Trump 4 weeks ago:
I sincerely doubt that’s an accident.
- Comment on PUT THE TRAINS IN THE BAG 4 weeks ago:
Based on the latest Silent Hill, a lot.
- Comment on PUT THE TRAINS IN THE BAG 4 weeks ago:
Thank you. I was kind of offended with the other one for implying I would neglect a huge region.
- Comment on proof of wormholes 4 weeks ago:
Wow, thank you for bringing that up. That’s potentially very helpful in some situations.
Specifically I’m thinking that it might be worth taking a preemptive dose prior to contact with a known trigger, to assist with exposure therapy.
- Comment on proof of wormholes 4 weeks ago:
Alcohol can’t cause birth defects in adults because they’re already born, but it can and does damage the adult brain and other organs.
- Comment on But also, the correct answer is Devil's Due 5 weeks ago:
I only very casually like Star Trek and have never been confused when watching any series from the first episode.* I don’t know about all these fancy new Treks, but TOS, TNG, and DS9 were intentionally designed to be picked up during any random episode because that was how TV worked at the time. If you found a show during its fifth episode, you had no means of going back to the first four unless you happened to know someone who recorded them on VHS.
Lower Decks was also completely enjoyable to me even though my knowledge of the franchise is limited.
- I think it was Discovery we tried watching somewhat recently (not 100% sure on the title) where I was confused from the first episode, but it was in a “What the fuck are these creative choices?” and “Do people like this?” way.
- Comment on It's always Brassica 5 weeks ago:
I recently took in one of these that was found on commercial produce, and turns out they will starve themselves to death if they’ve learned about the most premium crucifers and are denied them.
- Comment on It's always Brassica 5 weeks ago:
No, the joke is that people would potentially believe anything about brassicas at this point because everything else is a brassica.
- Comment on It's always Brassica 5 weeks ago:
In the leaves, yes. The white part is flowers.
- Comment on It's always Brassica 5 weeks ago:
You are what you eat, so dinosaurs are a type of broccoli too.