Catoblepas
@Catoblepas@piefed.blahaj.zone
- Comment on Many parents cab probably relate 9 hours ago:
Has nobody had a talk with them about how they’re raising someone incapable of taking care of himself? Do they plan to outlive him? I come from the opposite end of the parental academic aid spectrum, so I don’t understand the thought process at all. Is it just untreated anxiety on their part?
- Comment on YSK the four rules of firearm safety 3 days ago:
In hindsight it’s a small miracle neither I, my siblings, or my cousins ever got ourselves or someone else hurt with the guns that were casually left out at my grandparents’ house. It was drilled into me to never touch them without someone watching me first, but what if I’d just not given a fuck, you know? I can’t imagine doing the same with a kid today. Different times.
- Comment on yeet 5 days ago:
It’s just your brain warning you about bad things that could happen. Only brains don’t give a pop up notification, it’s just streams of thoughts and sensations. That’s how I’ve chosen to interpret my intrusive thoughts, anyway.
- Comment on ChatGPT Go subscription rolls out worldwide at $8, but it'll show you ads 5 days ago:
I think it was cable TV.
- Comment on And the cold in particular. 1 week ago:
Thanks for the detailed response and recommendations for getting started! The technical aspects of calligraphy are what appeal to me about it as well, which is sort of a running theme with the artistic hobbies I have (ex: weaving). I’ve been trying to get back into physical journaling, so this is probably a good thing to add on top of it.
- Comment on And the cold in particular. 1 week ago:
I did a quick search for some in person classes, but unfortunately the only one near me is to teach Chinese calligraphy! Which would probably be more useful if I read Chinese, lol. I’ll stay on the look out for some, that does sound interesting.
- Comment on And the cold in particular. 1 week ago:
I guess whatever part of my brain that can convert ‘writing’ to ‘art’ doesn’t work, because I spent a considerable amount of time as a child desperately trying to learn decorative handwriting! Going slowly makes it wobbly AF, and going quickly makes it sloppy, and I never could find the middle.
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- Comment on And the cold in particular. 1 week ago:
I’ve been holding a pencil and legibly writing for over 30 years and I still have no fucking idea how people write this nicely.
- Comment on ‘Dangerous and alarming’: Google removes some of its AI summaries after users’ health put at risk 1 week ago:
How can we be held liable for sinking this ship? We put a bandaid on every leak that was reported to us!
- Comment on My tender eyes and ears 1 week ago:
I get these weird ones that have AI generated sounding audio of women talking about their husband’s premature ejaculation and his one weird trick! No idea what it was (other than whatever gas station boner pill shit they’re selling), I skip before then.
- Comment on What are your technology mispredictions? 1 week ago:
I often think about an Arthur C. Clarke book—I think Songs of Distant Earth?—that has a colony of humans that solves all the big debate questions facing their society anonymously through the internet, which has completely solved the problem of judging ideas based on who said them.
Bless the optimists.
- Comment on Dell admits consumers don’t care about AI PCs 2 weeks ago:
I would speculate it means they either run on thinner margins than the companies that are all-in on AI, or they have less money available to throw around in the equipment hoarding wars. Or who knows, maybe someone with actual sense is heading the part of the company in charge of that decision. But I find the first two more likely.
- Comment on Oldest Cremation Pyre Ever Found Reveals Sophisticated Rituals | Ancient Origins 2 weeks ago:
No wonder it was found where it was, I have to imagine this screams ‘point of interest’ if you’re in a hunter gatherer society living off the land:
These hunter-gatherers did not engage in megalithic or other architectural behavior, yet sites were positioned at notable landscape features and used repeatedly in diverse mortuary rituals that spanned multiple generations for at least ~16,000 years
Using unaltered features in the landscape wasn’t something I had ever considered as akin to megalithic monument use, but in that light it makes perfect sense.
- Comment on YSK about Israel’s “Samson Option”: The Nuclear Target List that includes American and European cities… 2 weeks ago:
I’m stretching my memory here but from what I recall this wasn’t based only on the Torah, but on traditional Jewish philosophical thought as well; I couldn’t tell you whether this was, say, 11th or 18th century philosophy, though.
- Comment on YSK about Israel’s “Samson Option”: The Nuclear Target List that includes American and European cities… 2 weeks ago:
Equating the state of Israel with the Jewish faith is antisemitism. Not all Jews are Israeli, not all Israelis are Jewish, and the state of Israel doesn’t speak for all Jews.
If anyone speaks Hebrew please correct me, but it’s been explained to me that in Jewish tradition, there isn’t a single word for Israel the way it’s used in the West. You have the land Jewish people lived on historically, the people descended from Abraham who inhabit(/ed) that land, and you have the modern state of Israel. Overlap between the three definitions doesn’t imply they’re the same thing.
- Comment on HAPPY 2026 3 weeks ago:
It’s raining here so I don’t even have to try to ignore it or crank up the air purifiers to deal with the toxin smoke stank, thank god
- Comment on What activity or pastime of yours is barrels of fun? 4 weeks ago:
What’s fun is going to be individual, isn’t it? I absolutely love going to museums. Science, art, history, whatever. I live somewhere with a lot of museums, so I look into discount programs and plan day trips around seeing exhibits that sound interesting. Obviously that won’t work for you if you don’t care about museums or don’t have many nearby.
There’s nature everywhere, even in cities, and I enjoy using apps like Seek or Merlin Bird ID to help understand what I’m looking at. It’s fun to keep my eye out for new plant species, and helps me learn what’s around me locally.
- Comment on 🎵 It means something something... 🎵 4 weeks ago:
Why does the color saturation on this look like it was taken from a Disney McDonald’s plate that’s been through the dishwasher too many times?
- Comment on Transcribed text of Samantha Fulnecky's assignment, paper, and professor's comments 4 weeks ago:
It sucks you had such a bad experience with your degrees, I’m going back for a second time to college and I feel like I’m learning a ton. My first experience sucked too, I don’t know if I just got insanely lucky this time around with college choice or what.
There’s nearly a 20 year gap between my first attempt and now, and I can definitely see a difference in the other students’ essay writing abilities compared to what I saw 20 years ago. I think part of that is that my high school English classes had large segments of class time devoted only to essay writing, and based on my conversations with younger students it sounds like there’s much less emphasis on that in high school education now.
- Comment on Italians at Christmas 4 weeks ago:
It never stops weirding me out how learning Spanish has also made Italian borderline intelligible to me. I get why, it’s just strange to experience accidentally partially learning an extra language.
This unrelated comment inspired by reading the name and going ‘oh, that means golden bread’
- Comment on PieFed 1.4 is released - emoji, federated stackoverflow and AI content filters 4 weeks ago:
I can’t wait for my instance to update, this all sounds great!
- Comment on Transcribed text of Samantha Fulnecky's assignment, paper, and professor's comments 4 weeks ago:
Same, I’d expect a 650 word response to assigned reading to be more in the weekly homework category than the major project one.
- Comment on The events at hogwarts were just an escalating series of magical school shootings 🤔 4 weeks ago:
I doubt you would call it “dumb politics” if she was relentlessly campaigning against your right to exist in society as a person.
- Comment on Some people prefer corn for some ungodly reason 4 weeks ago:
Fingers crossed for you finding a solution that lets you get all the onion you want! Intestinal issues are so miserable
- Comment on Some people prefer corn for some ungodly reason 4 weeks ago:
If it’s the oligosaccharides or fructans that are fucking you up, you can heat (not fry) onions in however much oil you’re okay with in your final dish, and then just remove the onions. The flavor compounds are oil soluble, but the oligosaccharides/fructans aren’t. Smaller pieces = more intense onion flavor.
- Comment on It's the truth! 4 weeks ago:
I fuckin love rooibos, I don’t know what it is about it because I generally don’t care that much for tea.
- Comment on It's the truth! 4 weeks ago:
See also: ‘robin red breast’ to describe the European robin, which very clearly has an orange breast:
A small brown and white bird with a very orange chest perched on a branch
- Comment on The REAL news 4 weeks ago:
Of course it is, it’s New York. Any bagel seller with floppy bagels will be out of business before the weekend
- Comment on [FTFY] 4 weeks ago:
Not the kitty toe beans!
An emoji loudly crying with hands thrown dramatically up in the air
