Catoblepas
@Catoblepas@piefed.blahaj.zone
- Comment on YSK about Israel’s “Samson Option”: The Nuclear Target List that includes American and European cities… 4 hours 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… 5 hours 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 1 day 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? 1 week 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... 🎵 1 week 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 1 week 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 1 week 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 1 week 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 1 week 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 🤔 1 week 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 1 week 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 1 week 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! 1 week 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! 1 week 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 1 week 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] 1 week ago:
Not the kitty toe beans!
An emoji loudly crying with hands thrown dramatically up in the air
- Comment on uhhh 2 weeks ago:
Finally, the true reason for the creation of the Steam Machine has been revealed!
- Comment on AI-authored code contains worse bugs than software crafted by humans 2 weeks ago:
I can’t believe we need another trillion dollars to fix coding LLMs! Ending the relentless consumption of power and resources isn’t an option!
- Comment on Word. 2 weeks ago:
I am on Linux but haven’t needed to use office software in nearly 20 years, how do you access the pdf printer? Is that different from saving as a pdf through the menu?
- Comment on Word. 2 weeks ago:
Good to know, at the time my brain was absolutely fried so it doesn’t surprise me that I missed it, lol
- Comment on Word. 2 weeks ago:
I used LibreOffice Writer for my coursework the past semester, and when I used my spouse’s Windows computer to double check the images were correctly placed before submitting a paper they were on completely different pages. This was when I saved it as a .docx, because the only two options accepted were .docx or pdf. I wound up doing everything as a pdf if I needed images, but I think LibreOffice doesn’t have a save as pdf option? Or if it did I missed it, I just used Google Docs to save it as a pdf.
- Comment on [deleted] 2 weeks ago:
I definitely thought this was posted to !transmemes@lemmy.blahaj.zone at first
- Comment on home gardening 2 weeks ago:
Does looking at this make anyone else start wheezing?
- Comment on Report Exposes Instacart's Hidden AI Price Experiments That Could Cost Families $1,200 Per Year 3 weeks ago:
I’d be really interested in states pursuing lawsuits over this on SNAP/EBT grounds, if nothing else. Not sure about all states, but in California you can pay for food on Instacart with EBT. Changing the price based on consumer data leaves that wide open for exploiting poor people to get more government money.
- Comment on All hail the corn. 3 weeks ago:
It was pumpkins? I have always been taught squash. Or is this a calabaza = squash and pumpkin translation issue maybe?
- Comment on When a man says anything bad about women online or criticize them based on his experience, Comments: 3 weeks ago:
Really doubt it 😌
- Comment on When a man says anything bad about women online or criticize them based on his experience, Comments: 3 weeks ago:
See also: internet men any time someone uses the phrase “toxic masculinity.” I don’t think I’ve seen it come up a single time without dudes getting Big Mad (and ironically listing a bunch of shit that shows how terrible toxic masculinity is for men with zero self awareness)
- Comment on Big Brother Is Watching Your Online Criticism of ICE Crackdowns 3 weeks ago:
ICE can watch this: 🫱(‿¤‿)🫲
- Comment on Women would rather do drugs than go to therapy 3 weeks ago:
That’s for patient use only! You’ll have to transition first if you want to use it.
- Comment on EU's Top Court Just Made It Impossible to Run a User-Generated Platform Legally 4 weeks ago:
What are the implications for fediverse software hosted in the EU?
