Catoblepas

@Catoblepas@piefed.blahaj.zone

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Honk⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:

  Eel, ray, rat, bat… is this engagement bait for people who think they’re smart the way that AI slop with veterans with no limbs and ‘NOBODY WILL TELL HIM HAPPY BIRTHDAY 😢’ is engagement bait for the moderately senile?

  Or maybe just fake, who knows.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Honk⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:

  No, I get the reply. It’s the initial tweet (what animal has only three letters in it) that I don’t get the point of.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Honk⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:

  Fly, ant, owl, cat, dog, cow… I don’t understand the point of the initial tweet?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨nothing & no one is safe from this plague⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:

  I interpreted it as saying he was ahead of his time for falling victim to AI psychosis before anyone else.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨U.S. Supreme Court declines to hear dispute over copyrights for AI-generated material⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:

  all digital art is not copyrightable as it was created with software that did most of the work

  This is a really weird idea of what making digital art actually involves. Drawing on a screen with a stylus isn’t somehow not art made by a person because it’s digital instead of on paper. Even if you use a mouse to make pixel art or modify 3D models, that’s still human artistic decision making involved. Non-AI digital artwork doesn’t involve just pressing a button and getting art.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Dear Faith II⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Pastels: could be tasteful

  Neon: what happened to your eyes?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨You trying to give me a heart attack? I have warrants for chrissakes!⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  I had to completely drop a PODCAST! that was doing this with background music. I tried to power through it and nearly lost my marbles.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Riddle⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  There have been 400+ pokemon added since this meme was made. My knees hurt.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨No More Neutral ⚛⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Relevant short story: https://www.galactanet.com/oneoff/theegg_mod.html

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨No More Neutral ⚛⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Former situation: there is one electron

  New situation: there are two electrons

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨It makes me shudder⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Everyone pisses, but if you did it 50 times a day you’d go to a doctor.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨YSK What to do if someone’s choking: Evidence says begin with back blows⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  The sources for this are also instructors and doctors, OP listed them. It sounds like this is new research and best prescribes may be in the process of changing if further research bears these findings out.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨AI Is Destroying Grocery Supply Chains⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Isn’t it incredible that “AI” is sold as a product that is ‘PhD level smart’ (lol), but if it doesn’t do the straightforward thing you asked of it then it’s your fault.

  They don’t oficie instructions for it because they can’t provide instructions; what works on one version might not work next week. But it’s still your fault if it doesn’t do what it’s supposed to.

  Are you excited yet??

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Littering 🚯⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  This is untrue, gastroliths are associated only with birds that eat plants. They grind up food, which isn’t necessary for meat. Eagles eat bullets from animals that have either been shot and abandoned, lost, or had parts of them discarded as zqxwas pointed out.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨yes⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Will the doctor help me if it’s hard for longer than 4 hours? 🥺

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Quidk! I need a chili recipe. What would you add to a pound of hamburger, diced jalapenos, chili powder and bloody mary mix?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Beans are definitely legumes, though? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Legume

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Costs of Big Batteries Are Tumbling and Can Boost Clean Power⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Batteries have been the one technology in my experience where ‘5-10 years out’ predictions by scientists have actually consistently come to pass. The batteries I grew up with were shockingly trash, taking half the day to charge if they recharged at all. In hindsight, the amount of batteries we just casually threw away because they were intentionally disposable is incomprehensible.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Piracy communities remain blocked on lemmy.world despite "Unremoval of Piracy Communities" announcement⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  People who want to access that community should leave lemmy.world, since it doesn’t seem like the admins want to unblock it. There are other lemmy instances, along with Piefed and mbin too.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Parents opt kids out of school computers, insisting on pen-and-paper instead⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Anyone that would say that to a student who turned up to learn has no business teaching. You don’t take funding problems out on students. It’s not the teacher’s obligation to self fund their classroom, but many do it because often nobody else is. Reading someone talk about that and the message you decide is important to share with them is ‘lol you’re paying your employer’ is weirdo behavior.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Parents opt kids out of school computers, insisting on pen-and-paper instead⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  They’re pretty obviously supplying it for their students, not their employer. Weird as hell to rub someone’s nose in the fact their students are trapped in a school system that doesn’t even supply teachers with proper access to printed materials. Even Reddit used to run a donor program to help teachers out with the costs.

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

  Thank you for the warning.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨You are allowed flavor⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ 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 ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ 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?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ 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.