arctanthrope
@arctanthrope@lemmy.world
- Comment on Are achievements still relevant in 2026—especially when mods disable them? 1 day ago:
I’d love to have them go away if only to stop people from leaving reviews that say “easy achievements, quick way to get 1000 gamerscore.” I can’t imagine the type of person who bases their motivation to play games on that
- Comment on 'Let it Die' servers shutting down, but offering players a onetime purchase to keep it alive offline 4 days ago:
third base!
- Comment on Southern California air board rejected pollution rules after AI-generated flood of comments 1 week ago:
CiviClick, which bills itself as “the first and best AI-powered grassroots advocacy platform.”
so the word “grassroots” just doesn’t fucking mean anything anymore, huh
- Comment on Make a note 1 week ago:
I was fine the next day, but I remember almost nothing about that night, and what I do remember from early on in the evening is that I was worried I would get lost on the way to the bathroom
- Comment on Make a note 1 week ago:
alternatively, maybe don’t be with people with much higher tolerance than yourself. my first time with edibles my friends who were huge potheads and about half my size were taking like 80mg, so I said, “oh, I should be able to do like 50 then, right?” and they did not tell me no
- Comment on Surging prediction markets face legal backlash in US: ‘Lines have been blurred’ 3 weeks ago:
“the lines between gambling and investing have been blurred”
🌎🧑🚀🔫🧑🚀
- Comment on meal 3 weeks ago:
ah yes, weed, the stuff that famously makes you not want to eat
- Comment on Sure, Jan 4 weeks ago:
I mean, the original’s not great either, it’s a bunch of guys wrapped in Confederate flags singing about how Watergate wasn’t even a big deal actually, and guys who criticize racism like Neil Young should just shut up
- Comment on Are people still fooled by this dumb quiz's? 1 month ago:
when I see people bragging about their high IQ it reminds me of those people who buy sports cars and then take them around to shows on a trailer with 5 miles on the odometer to talk about how it has 750 horsepower and a top speed of 300mph
- Comment on who's gonna tell him? 1 month ago:
one of the most retroactively embarrassing moments in my life is in like 2015 or '16 I was doing some dumb team-building thing for some school-adjacent activity, and the task was to create a “new Mount Rushmore,” basically as a group nominate four people who are doing good and important work in the world. I suggested musk. at the time most people there hadn’t heard of him, so I gave a little spiel about how he was the “founder” (which I thought was true at the time) of PayPal, Tesla (which people were just becoming aware of), and SpaceX. every time I remember it I cringe and hope nobody else does. although most other people in the group suggested Beyonce as someone doing “important work for humanity” so idk if they have much of a leg to stand on to criticize my choice
- Comment on you're doing ReSeArCh rong!! 2 months ago:
I think equally important is letting students know when they’re being taught a simplified model, and that serious academic discourse of the subject is still evolving and/or involves much more nuance (which is pretty much always). some people who do pay attention in science classes nonetheless think that what they learned is gospel and never re-examine it, or stubbornly refuse to acknowledge when said nuance is relevant because it seems to contradict the simplified model they’ve cemented in their brain as the whole truth. the kind of people who say things like “I know there’s two genders because I learned it in high school biology” and apparently never considered why there would be collegiate and post-graduate studies on biology and gender (or why those are two entirely different fields of study) if we all already learned everything there is to know in high school.
- Comment on iPad babies grew up and are now finding psychs 2 months ago:
Saturn’s coming back around for older gen-z’s
- Comment on Longing, Rusted, Seventeen, Daybreak, Furnace, Nine, Benign, Homecoming, One, Boxcar 2 months ago:
not necessarily. for example we say things like “the lion is the king of the jungle,” but that doesn’t mean there’s only one lion per jungle. sometimes we refer to an archetypal singular to convey something about every member of a group
- Comment on Longing, Rusted, Seventeen, Daybreak, Furnace, Nine, Benign, Homecoming, One, Boxcar 2 months ago:
it always bugs me that this phrase isn’t even grammatically correct. mitochondria is plural. it should be “the mitochondrion is the powerhouse of the cell”
- Comment on This long-term data storage will last 14 billion years 2 months ago:
this isn’t new, “making smaller marks on a rock” has been mankind’s method for expanding data storage for thousands of years
- Comment on Asking the right questions... 2 months ago:
exactly, the real Luddites weren’t opposed to technology, they were opposed to wealthy factory owners using technology in a way that eliminated or cheapened their labor to extract more profit. what Sanders and most others are citing as threats posed by “ai” are actually perfectly in line with the Luddites, but they’re not allowed to say so because the actual history of the Luddites has been smeared and propagandized to make them look like unreasonable morons who are scared of things they can’t comprehend
- Comment on Make me feel like a man 2 months ago:
it’s not a joke, the National Socialist Party of America was headquartered in Chicago. there was a famous supreme court case about their right to hold a demonstration in the mostly-Jewish suburb of Skokie that took place in 1977, three years before the movie came out
- Comment on Tattoo Ink Moves Through the Body, Killing Immune Cells and Weakening Vaccine Response 3 months ago:
would it be possible to solve this problem by making different inks? or would any ink that doesn’t have this problem just inherently be non-permanent
- Comment on Power word: STUN! 3 months ago:
Netflix startup sound