vatlark
@vatlark@lemmy.world
- Comment on The lost generation is truly lost 6 days ago:
Arguably this millennial generation is the second one. The true millennials died ~1000 years ago.
- Comment on Gotta go fox taming 2 weeks ago:
Draw me a sheep, please.
- Comment on Introducing UniFi OS Server for MSPs 3 weeks ago:
They were working pretty hard to wall their garden. This looks promising but I remain sceptical.
- Comment on Ancient filament, salvageable? 4 weeks ago:
This is helpful. I’m just about to start a print with 2 year old filament.
- Comment on Software engineering may have been one of the few modern engineering roles that combine both engineering (designing) tasks and technical craftsmanship (coding) tasks. Maybe until LLMs gets perfected. 5 weeks ago:
Ever since CAD software was invented the role of mechanical/electrical engineer and drafter has largely been merged into one.
- Comment on [deleted] 5 weeks ago:
This gets posted pretty frequently and I agree with it. However, it’s not obvious to me that there is a clear line where something moves from showerthought to unpopular opinion, making it hard to enforce. You could say that no opinion is a shower thought but that’s even tough to enforce.
Using an example: “if you dot your t’s and cross your i’s, you still have i’s and t’s.”
I would say that’s a good shower thought. I don’t want to pull that down, but it’s not an objective fact. I would understand if some people thought that was an opinion, because you would have really tall i’s and really short t’s.
All rules are subjective, I’m just trying to tease out my understanding of this common critique.
- Comment on If we developed dairy platypus. 1 month ago:
Wow, TIL.
The platypus’s mammary glands lack teats, with milk released through pores in the skin. The milk pools in grooves on the mother’s abdomen, allowing the young to lap it up.[16][71] After they hatch, the offspring are milk-fed for three to four months.
- Comment on I have discovered chat IS cute and so are you <3 2 months ago:
This post was reported for spam.
Its not a typical showerthought, but it doesn’t seem to be doing harm, just people having good fun, so I’ll let it go for now and let the votes do the talking.
- Comment on It was only a fish! 2 months ago:
Now I’m walking with feet, she keeps her young in a bag. Wow, he just made smoke. And she’s tamed a stag. Now they invented a cure for when my stomach is sick. And there’s math in my head, and she’s discovered the Higgs.
- Comment on An alien who sees in the radio part of the light spectrum would probably be blinded by all our wireless communications 2 months ago:
Not that power input and light output are exactly the same but the Las Vegas sphere is 28MW
- Comment on Announcements on the train should refer to "port / starboard side" instead of "left / right in the direction of travel", when pointing to the exits. 2 months ago:
Good point, the lights on a boat or airplane (probably not a train) are red on the left and green on the right. Not sure how international that is.
- Comment on Announcements on the train should refer to "port / starboard side" instead of "left / right in the direction of travel", when pointing to the exits. 2 months ago:
My favorite mnemonic: “We have some red port left”
- Comment on What is the cutoff distance when you point and say [thing] is "here" or [thing] is "there"? 2 months ago:
So “here” is close enough for your needs. “There” is too far away to be useful.
- Comment on What is the cutoff distance when you point and say [thing] is "here" or [thing] is "there"? 2 months ago:
Arguably you are touching, or nearly touching, both of those things.
- Comment on Denying uniqueness is both a compliment and an insult. 2 months ago:
- Comment on Denying uniqueness is both a compliment and an insult. 2 months ago:
Yeah, some people want to be seen as different to stand out from the crowd, but if you call someone out as different it can be considered “othering”.
en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Othering
I don’t have a good idea where the line is.
- Comment on TACO Taxes are delicious you DeMoCrAps! 2 months ago:
Goose
- Comment on If the Romans had put Jesus in a box with Schrödinger's cat, Christians’ souls would be in a quantum superposition of saved and damned. 2 months ago:
Haha, what a thought
- Comment on Pee pee is never poo time. But poo time is always poo time. 2 months ago:
ha, cool, fits the post
- Comment on Here's for 2 years since I joined Lemmy 2 months ago:
hey me too! All the best!
- Comment on Pee pee is never poo time. But poo time is always poo time. 2 months ago:
Why the youtube link? Am I missing something?
- Comment on In Argentina the far right never mentioned anything about immigration, since the immigration is so high that speech would work 2 months ago:
Rule 3 is no politics. “Far right” is a pretty good sign the post is political
- Comment on [deleted] 2 months ago:
In this comic xkcd used the equation: half your age + 7 imgs.xkcd.com/comics/dating_pools.png
It’s fun to reference but it’s not a hard rule. The fact that you are thinking it over means that you are probably in a healthy mindset to at least go on the date and feel it out. You have your daughter batting for you! You got this!
- Comment on The history of societal collapses are all just examples of Universe 25 2 months ago:
What is universe 25?
- Comment on I'm so tired. 2 months ago:
Sorry I had to run and didn’t get to wrap up my thought.
I don’t really mind if a post isn’t a perfect fit. I try to give benefit of the doubt. If we had hundreds of really strong posts every day then I imagine I would be more strict. Lemmy is small so at least we can be friendly and supportive in decisions that aren’t clear cut.
- Comment on I'm so tired. 2 months ago:
This post is certainly outside of the norm of shower thoughts. I think in general people want posts that score a little higher on the scale of funny and interesting. Taking the sidebar strictly:
- Does this thought pop into people’s heads? yeah, probably
- Is it lighthearted? Not really, but its friendly.
- Is it clever? No
- Is it true? Yes
- Comment on It's best to take a piss before eating a hot chip. 3 months ago:
Interesting that your default unit of chips is ‘a chip’ and not ‘a handful of chips’ or ‘a bag of chips’.
- Comment on i truly believe that there's an open war between Humanity vs. Advertisers and their allies. 3 months ago:
.ml many loofahs
- Comment on French culture 3 months ago:
Not sure if you are poking fun at it but I like Bigflo & Oli dommage
- Comment on French culture 3 months ago:
Got any more?
