Catoblepas

@Catoblepas@piefed.blahaj.zone

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The weak should fear the strong⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  The weak are meat; the strong eat.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Slice radishes, toss them with a little olive oil, salt, and seasoning, and air fry at 380°F for 10-12 minutes, shaking halfway⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Do they get super soft or are they still firm? When I tried putting daikon in curry it kind of turned into neutral mush, which was fine but not what I was expecting.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨xkcd #3204: Dinosaurs And Non-Dinosaurs⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Getting a little outside my area of knowledge at this point, but my understanding is the main reason is that clades allow for much more granularity than the Linnean taxonomic system. Linnean classification gives a maximum of 7 ways of classifying a species, while clades are only limited by the number of scientifically sound distinctions you can make between groups of species and their ancestors/descendants.

  Example: check out the wikispecies entry for mallards, which are part of 40+ clades (hit the expand link under the Taxonavigation heading)

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What Happened To WebAssembly⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Me after realizing the premise I hinged my entire essay on was faulty and just writing around it instead of starting over

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨xkcd #3204: Dinosaurs And Non-Dinosaurs⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Clades are used for classifying birds and everything else, it’s just a little messier than the neat Kingdom/Phylum/Order/etc way of laying out evolutionary history. If you think of a species as being a specific pinpoint on the tree of life, clades are more like drawing a circle around a lot of pinpoints and branches.

  But yeah, biology is nothing but ‘the last thing we taught you was an oversimplification!’ all the way down.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨xkcd #3204: Dinosaurs And Non-Dinosaurs⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  What am I missing here?

  That untangling evolutionary history is really messy :D It’s not part of Kingdom/Phylum/Class/etc classification, but biologists also use clades to understand evolutionary history. Birds and theropod dinosaurs belong to the clade Theropoda, and to the clade Saurischia which includes some more dinosaurs, and they all belong to the Dinosauria clade which includes all dinosaurs.

  The division (as interpreted by evolutionary biologists) between birds and the rest of Saurischia is smaller than the division between Saurischia and the rest of Dinosauria. So, if everything in Dinosauria is a dinosaur, so are birds.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Building OpenWatch: an open-source alternative to YouTube⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Thank you for the warning.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨You are allowed flavor⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  other than not having enough shipping and having to prioritise feeding troops

  That is a choice he made, not something that just happened, and it resulted in at least a million (likely much more) civilian deaths in their own territory.

  The provincial government

  Gee, I wonder who put the provincial government in charge in a British colony? 🙄

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨You are allowed flavor⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Probably referencing this, and similar: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bengal_famine_of_1943

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Is Wikipedia's Volunteer Model Facing a Generational Crisis?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  They already do that with a lot of hot topic articles. As is, there are a lot of protections in place and it’s very difficult for real vandalism or propaganda to stay on Wikipedia for long without someone noticing it and flagging/removing it.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Is Wikipedia's Volunteer Model Facing a Generational Crisis?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  simple.wikipedia.org exists for anyone who wants easier to understand articles.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Everything was indeed brown.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  The biggest point a relative of mine made when building a house in the mid 90s, at which point people were getting colorful with home decor again, was that there was NOT going to be anything brown in it, haha.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Do people eat this?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I gag every time I see one of those pies drowned in mystery sauce and mushy peas. Texture hell!!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨YSK that a general strike is one of the most effective ways to push for change. There is a general strike in the works across the US for this Friday.⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Oops, I didn’t realize last Friday was a no purchase day. I only spent $5 at a secondhand store, so the spirit was still there.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What's the cure to doomerism?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  The rest isn’t possible without doing this first: limit your doom scrolling. Unless reading the news is your job, don’t live your life like it is. You can stay informed without spending a huge portion of your waking hours doom scrolling.

  With all the non-doomscrolling time in your schedule, get involved in your local community. See what events are going on at the library, you can often find organizations through them that are connected to your interests. Colleges often have events open to the community as well. Find places that work around issues that concern you, and volunteer with them if you can. Get therapy if you can access it, god knows enough is going on right now to need it.

  These are all things that will increase your resilience and help you find people in your local community to trust. Remaining isolated, afraid, and unable to act is what every fascist government wants of its opponents, so do everything you can to avoid giving them that.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨An Intact 1,400-Year-Old Zapotec Tomb Discovered in Oaxaca⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  A stone figure jutting out of a wall portrays a stylized owl holding the head of a person in its open mouth. Some red pigment remains visible on the human head, any other pigment has faded

  Image credit: Luis Gerardo Peña Torres

  The entrance to the antechamber is presided over by a powerful representation, clear in its meaning: an owl, a bird that in the Zapotec imagination encapsulated the concepts of night and death. This figure is not a mere ornament; its beak ritually covers the stuccoed and painted face of a male individual, a probable portrait of the principal figure interred in the tomb.

  Paging @anon6789@lemmy.world ! This seems relevant to your interests 😁

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨✨️ DIVA ✨️⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Wow, the wintering grounds on that range map are split pretty far apart! I wonder if the individual cranes ever switch it up, or if they always go to the same one.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Banan⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Family size banana

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Oldest cave painting could rewrite origins of human creativity⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I can sort of see it, but the enhanced version is much more obvious for sure. I assume it’s easier to perceive in person as well.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Many parents cab probably relate⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ 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 ⁨weeks⁩ 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 ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ 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 ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I think it was cable TV.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨And the cold in particular.⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ 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.⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ 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.⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ 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.

• YSK: listening to audiobooks and reading books both activate the same language related areas of the brain
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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨And the cold in particular.⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ 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 ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ 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 ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ 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.