Liz
@Liz@midwest.social
- Comment on (・∀・) 4 days ago:
I think they do it for the gut bacteria, but I’m not an elephant gut ologist.
- Comment on (・∀・) 5 days ago:
Elephants will eat each other’s shit. I’ve seen an elephant reach onto another’s anus and pull out some delicious shit to eat.
- Comment on [deleted] 1 week ago:
The first check I got from my first job was for $0.00 because I hadn’t worked enough to pay off my uniform. I still have it framed. I was also being paid a sub-minimum training-period wage. America’s labor laws are fucked.
- Comment on For the little guys. 1 week ago:
It’s my understanding that ecologists generally agree we could eradicate human-biting mosquitos and it wouldn’t cause any real problems. Yes, other species eat them, but they’re not a critical species in any ecosystem, apparently.
You know how there’s those stories of scientists introducing a species into an ecosystem for one reason or another, and all sorts of unintended consequences happen? Ever notice how those stories are all from around the 1950s and earlier? It’s because we actually got pretty good at thinking through all of the possible significant impacts. We only introduce/eradicate species now when we know doing so is a good idea and have worked through the consequences. But I want to be clear that I agree with your sentiment. You shouldn’t intentionally change an ecosystem without serious planning and consideration for what will happen when you do.
- Comment on Every toddler becomes a hackerman when they find a tablet 1 week ago:
Modern UX is all slip-on shoes. Not even Velcro.
- Comment on Why is it so hard to buy the same toothbrush twice? 1 week ago:
Same reason software will make pointless UI changes. Keeping things fresh gives their users the “exciting” feeling of novelty without having to switch platforms.
- Comment on Oof 2 weeks ago:
They’re a very small minority.
- Comment on Microsoft rolls Windows Recall out to the public nearly a year after announcing it 5 weeks ago:
They will eventually change the default to “on.”
- Comment on Slate, a no-nonsense EV pickup for $20k 5 weeks ago:
I love this thing too hell and back. This is exactly what I want in a car/truck.
- Comment on Do it 1 month ago:
The California High Speed Rail Songin my ass.
- Comment on European police say KidFlix, "one of the largest pedophile platforms in the world," busted in joint operation. 1 month ago:
It’s not an overpass. A loose brick falls off a truck going in the opposite direction, bounces off the pavement once, then goes through the windshield.
- Comment on Ninja sword owners will be paid to surrender weapons before ban 2 months ago:
I hope they haven’t.
- Comment on Framework’s first desktop is a strange—but unique—mini ITX gaming PC 2 months ago:
Yeah that touchscreen tablet convertible machine is what has me psyched. I’m not the target for it, and already own a 16, but I could see that thing selling well. I honestly think they came out with the desktop because they just kinda felt they needed a desktop.
- Comment on nuked from orbit 3 months ago:
Here’s the thing, we scientists need our cheerleaders. We spend our time getting good at doing science, so it’s worth it to hire someone who is good at hyping and advocating for our work. Go listen to the recordings of James Webb trying to explain to JFK that we need to do a shit-ton of science before we can get to the moon. JFK just plain doesn’t understand the magnitude of what he’s asking for. He thinks we could do it in 6 months. This lady is our champion.
- Comment on my version is better 3 months ago:
To be clear “up above in my head” are the actual lyrics, but I only learned that fact a few weeks ago. I like my version better.
- Comment on my version is better 3 months ago:
Yeah my bad, that was a little ambiguous. Very funny to accidentally blow this person’s mind though.
- Comment on my version is better 3 months ago:
'Cause I’m in too deep
And I’m trying to keep
up above in my head
All the thoughts in my head
'stead of going under - Comment on 2025 trailer be wild 4 months ago:
And left their car parked in the photo.
- Comment on 2025 trailer be wild 4 months ago:
And that they would be mostly right-wing folks, which has generally been true, in part because the bush administration deprioritized going after them.
- Comment on Even better than a cart of apples 5 months ago:
Clearly you weren’t paying attention in English.
- Comment on BACK IT UP 5 months ago:
Obviously if he did say no, they wouldn’t make him eat it. But the thing is, he’s not gonna say no, because of the implication.
- Comment on BACK IT UP 5 months ago:
I’m literally taking hydroxychloroqine right now. There’s no difficulty in accessing it. Not unless you consider needing a prescription difficult.
- Comment on What's Mastodon precious? 6 months ago:
You’re hanging out with the wrong people.
- Comment on What's Mastodon precious? 6 months ago:
Didn’t BlueSky come up with their own federation system because… Fuck you?
I mean, what was wrong with using the ActivityPub standard?
- Comment on Sympathy for their PTSD 7 months ago:
They have mandatory service, though I’m sure very few people serving their mandatory term are a part of the invading force.
- Comment on Baidu CEO warns AI is just an inevitable bubble — 99% of AI companies are at risk of failing when the bubble bursts 7 months ago:
Same thing happened to the Dot Com bubble. The fundamental technology has valid uses, but we’re in the stage where some people are convinced it can be used for literally anything.
- Comment on Concerns Raised Over Bitwarden Moving Further Away From Open-Source 7 months ago:
Nah, the timeline looks like this:
- use account on main
- create backup
- use account on main
- account goes missing from main.
- check backup, account also missing from backup.
Like, it should be in the backup, I proved it was in the original before and after creating the backup. Heck if I know why they went missing.
- Comment on Sympathy for their PTSD 7 months ago:
Dave Grossman is full of shit. This is independent to the potential trauma from killing people (there’s a wide range of reactions to that experience). Dave Grossman is full of shit.
- Comment on Concerns Raised Over Bitwarden Moving Further Away From Open-Source 7 months ago:
I used to keep a copy of my kepass file in a free Dropbox account.
- Comment on Concerns Raised Over Bitwarden Moving Further Away From Open-Source 7 months ago:
I switched from keepass to Bitwarden because individual entries started randomly disappearing. I’m still discovering missing accounts after switching a couple of weeks ago. Sometime to do with how keepass was opening the files, because when an entry went missing it was gone even from backup files I hadn’t touched since before the entry disappeared.