acockworkorange
@acockworkorange@mander.xyz
- Comment on If you are a young person you have no idea how bad everyone and everything smelled until at least the 1990s. 4 weeks ago:
And it was usually next to the kitchen and the restrooms. Worst tables all around.
- Comment on Astronauts of the underworld: The scientists venturing into the deep, dark Earth 2 months ago:
That’s mixing greek and latin.
And we never do that. Ever.
- Comment on Earth bids farewell to its temporary 'mini moon' that is possibly a chunk of our actual moon 2 months ago:
We literally did, you just weren’t paying attention. That should teach you!
- Comment on Microsoft is scraping Word and Excel data to "train AI models" 2 months ago:
Oh it’s good. AI can’t do complex spreadsheets worth a damn. But making run of the mill bullshit? That’s right up its alley.
- Comment on Nanopasta: electrospinning nanofibers of white flour 2 months ago:
Ultimate sauce/pasta ratio.
- Comment on Fossil collection found in Neanderthal cave suggests abstract thinking 2 months ago:
Collecting objects simply for their aesthetic interest is considered a very human thing to do
I thought crows and other animals engaged in collecting things with no apparent utility.
- Comment on Uses for a SBC (When You Already Have an x86 Mini-PC?) 2 months ago:
Add to the list running a Kodi home theater box.
- Comment on Postiz v1.6.12 - open-source social media scheduling tool 2 months ago:
What’s a social media scheduling tool?
- Comment on Always happy when the holiday cactus flowers 2 months ago:
My mom used a teaspoon to water it every week or so.
- Comment on Richard Flanagan wins Baillie Gifford prize but rejects £50,000 over sponsor’s fossil fuel ties 2 months ago:
No, dude. You get that money and publicly announce you’ll finance whatever MP wants to impose regulations on oil.
- Comment on What did the snowball Earth look like? 2 months ago:
White?
- Comment on Always happy when the holiday cactus flowers 2 months ago:
My mother kept one hanging under an awning in front of the house. That plant lived over 40 years.
- Comment on Pakistani religious body declares using VPN is against Islamic law 2 months ago:
No shit.
- Comment on Post your setup. no matter how uggo 2 months ago:
Where do you source your diagnostic dust?
- Comment on Post your setup. no matter how uggo 2 months ago:
Just a NAS for now. Plan to add PiHole at some point.
- Comment on Final update on my pineapple plant journey. Time to eat this little guy and replant the top to do it all over again hopefully! 2 months ago:
Maybe the pineapple is normal sized, but the leaves are positively gargantuan.
- Comment on Peppery Bolete *Chalciporus piperatus* (PNW) 2 months ago:
Why not? Peppers are delicious and I’m not alone in thinking that.
- Comment on Peppery Bolete *Chalciporus piperatus* (PNW) 2 months ago:
Do they taste like peppers?
- Comment on Universe would die before monkey with keyboard writes Shakespeare, study finds 2 months ago:
I’ve been called worse. Thanks for the link!
- Comment on Universe would die before monkey with keyboard writes Shakespeare, study finds 2 months ago:
Really? Til.
- Comment on The midlife crisis is not universal: Study of thousands of people in rural communities shows that many do not experience a slump in well-being during their forties and fifties. 2 months ago:
- Their life expectancy is around 70.
- Who’s romanticizing? The study says that mid life crisis isn’t a biological imperative. Therefore, there is a way to avoid it.
- False dichotomy. It’s not an either-or scenario. We can build more options. Several, actually.
- Comment on Universe would die before monkey with keyboard writes Shakespeare, study finds 2 months ago:
An ape *
- Comment on Dittofeed - open-source messaging automation platform 2 months ago:
Do you have federated channels? Like matrix, lemmy, mastodon, etc.?
- Comment on Dittofeed - open-source messaging automation platform 2 months ago:
I think this is an integration platform so you can automate a newsletter.
- Comment on Dittofeed - open-source messaging automation platform 2 months ago:
Because Google sucks ass. Other search engines are better only because Google got so bad. And I speak from someone who stayed on the internet just after BBSs became ISPs with blazing fast 14400 baud modems.
- Comment on Reshi, girl for scale 2 months ago:
Placebo is a powerful non-drug.
- Comment on Reshi, girl for scale 2 months ago:
Ewwww, a tree scab!
- Comment on Reshi, girl for scale 2 months ago:
What you see here is the mushroom, basically the gonads of the organism (technically the “fruiting body”, something that is there to spread the spores). The bulk of the fungus is inside the dead tree, putting out digestive juices and eating it.
There’s no real harm to it to take it out. It’s common practice to use porous bags to carry them so you’re helping it spread the spores around as you’re foraging.
- Comment on The great outdoors 2 months ago:
I was just guessing. You act just like him.
- Comment on The great outdoors 2 months ago:
It’s a joke, son.
