CarbonIceDragon
@CarbonIceDragon@pawb.social
- Comment on Aspergers officinalis 6 hours ago:
Aren’t the tops edible too? I wonder how the little shriveled bean thing on the end became internationally popular but the juicy looking fruit on top isn’t. Like, every cashew harvested has to have the fruity part too, what do they all get used for?
- Comment on Aspergers officinalis 7 hours ago:
And here I always thought they grew like tiny cabbages
- Comment on Permian Park 14 hours ago:
I would want to see an “ediacaran biota” park, though that one would have to be more like a public aquarium than a park I suppose.
- Comment on When life gives ya lemons. 1 week ago:
When we give life lemons, what is life meant to do?
- Comment on In the Future All Food Will Be Cooked in a Microwave, and if You Can’t Deal With That Then You Need to Get Out of the Kitchen 1 week ago:
Like, just a fan, or like a combo microwave and convection oven? Because the latter is something I sometimes wonder if would be a good idea.
- Comment on I wonder how many people throughout history have confused Floaters with ghosts, UFOs, or other paranormal phenomena 1 week ago:
If someone throws a hat in the air, you take a picture of it before it lands, and you don’t know what it is you’ve seen and photographed, technically you have taken a photo of a UFO.
- Comment on A fair punishment for the obscene hoarding of wealth 1 week ago:
Im no religious person, but given this afterlife punishment has an end to it (once he finally finishes working all those hours), wouldn’t this be more a purgatory than a hell?
- Comment on Humanity will likely survive climate change, but the vast majority of humans won't. 1 week ago:
Climate change is an ongoing process that takes decades to centuries. That’s very fast as far as evolution and natural climactic shifts are concerned, but on a human scale long term. Given that it’s not stopping within the lifespan of one person, and contributes to virtually every health problem in subtle ways, it’d seem a bit difficult to say if a given person has “survived it” or not, even if they live to an old age.
- Comment on If everyone spontaneously became the same race the world would realize that the rich are the real problem 1 week ago:
Or people would simply be divided over what race they used to be.
- Comment on THE FEAST IS NEVER FINISHED LADS 2 weeks ago:
Spore pear spotted.
- Comment on Researchers quietly planned a test to dim sunlight. They wanted to ‘avoid scaring’ the public. 2 weeks ago:
Isn’t that the point of tests? Do something at a more limited scale to see what the results of that are?
- Comment on Mastercard and Visa face backlash after hundreds of adult games removed from online stores Steam and Itch.io 2 weeks ago:
Probably because they didnt go throught the government, which takes a long time to move on anything, and just put pressure on some profit seeking corporations that just want to get a bother to go away, but which also unfortunately have been put in a position of practical power equal to some types of legislation.
- Comment on Phonecall campaign to tell MasterCard & Visa to stop censoring adult content 2 weeks ago:
I think the reasoning is something like this: these companies employ such call center employees for a reason, either they legally have to for one reason or another or they’ve determined that in some way, it is more profitable to have the capacity for people to call them than not. If the call centers are swamped, then they still cost the company money, but their benefit to the company is reduced, because the “real” calls can’t get through in a timely fashion. As such, it’s in the company’s interest to avoid having people spam them, and if the policy those people want changed won’t really cost the company anything to change, then just doing that might be the most profitable option for them.
- Comment on chained 2 weeks ago:
Its a little funny how many conservatives out there will hate on furries and then unironically make memes calling themselves “lions” or “wolves”.
- Comment on well? 3 weeks ago:
Why would the universe being a black hole invalidate religion, any more than, for example, the universe being really big already does? Don’t most religions focus more on some entity or entities they think made or govern the universe more than what physical processes are “used” to do that, or what the ultimate shape of the universe is? Even when a contradiction is found, it’s easy enough for a religion to just say “well, that was metaphorical”, or “just the limited understanding given by (insert deity here) to our ancestors” or something along those lines to make it fit.
- Comment on [deleted] 3 weeks ago:
The one person I’ve met IRL to have a Wikipedia page (as far as I know anyway) got one from writing books and arguing with people (as in like formal debate type ones), so maybe becoming an author? It’s not exactly easy but it’s not unattainable for the typical person either I wouldn’t think.
- Comment on xkcd #3116: Echo Chamber 4 weeks ago:
Ive done it before by mistake tbf
- Comment on Steam is cracking down on porn games, to keep Payment Processors happy. 4 weeks ago:
It was more like hyperbole on my part, I was using as a catch all for whatever kinds of things a business could abuse it’s position by doing. I didn’t want to just say “be able to do businesses or not do business with whoever they want”, because I wanted to say something more broad than just applying to payment processors, even if choosing not to do business with someone and thereby shutting them out of much of the economy is the way a payment processor would do this .
- Comment on Steam is cracking down on porn games, to keep Payment Processors happy. 4 weeks ago:
I don’t think that businesses, not being individuals, should actually have the same rights as individuals I guess. I don’t really agree with the idea that a corporation should be able to do whatever it likes by default, simply because I think corporations in general have too much power to be trusted with such.
- Comment on Steam is cracking down on porn games, to keep Payment Processors happy. 4 weeks ago:
I mean, when your service is fundamental enough to the economy, and centralized enough to make just going to an alternative a major hassle, if an alternative without a similar policy even exists, then why should they get that say? The power to effectively ban the sale of certain types of thing, or force media platforms to censor certain types of content, is the sort of power we generally reserve for governments, not private entities that can do whatever they want. Honestly they’re important enough these days that they should basically be treated like some sort of public utility in my view.
- Comment on Waffles shaped like genitals 4 weeks ago:
- Comment on Stigma or Glory Hole? 4 weeks ago:
Assuming the picture isn’t edited or generated
- Comment on Bring them back!!! 4 weeks ago:
No? Im saying those factors should be understandable, they just need to do the relevant testing to figure it out before building something the public could visit. Hence mentioning due diligence.
- Comment on Get yourself a real man. 4 weeks ago:
Between the pink color, two arms and rounded face, I guess it does kinda look like one of human-descended “All Tomorrows” creatures.
- Comment on Bring them back!!! 4 weeks ago:
I’ve long found the notion that the lesson of Jurassic Park, if a fictional story like that must be taken to have one, should be something like “science/genetic engineering is bad” or “you can’t control nature” to be a bit silly, given that, well, it’s a zoo. With pretty big animals, to be sure, but dinosaurs were animals still, not kaiju or dragons or whatever other fantasy monster, and some genetically modified to be somewhat bigger and lack feathers would still be such. It’s a story about some people building a zoo badly because they didn’t do their due diligence about the animals they had and cheaped out on staff and the systems they had for containing the animals, and somehow people get the take away that “these animals are special and can’t be safely contained” rather than “letting rich people cheap out on safety is a bad idea”.
Were one to write a broadly similar story where someone cheaps out on a park containing elephants and tigers, and they get out and maul some people, it’d be obvious, but give the tigers scales and make them born in a lab and suddenly it’s a monster movie.
- Comment on My mouth suffers for the noms 4 weeks ago:
I feel like I’m the reverse, I used to find salt and vinegar a decent flavor if not the best, but can no longer stand it.
- Comment on Please let it be that the FBI agent surveilling me was on break and he did not just see me get into a fight with the coat rack. 4 weeks ago:
The implication I rarely see explored of the meme that “everyone (presumably excluding the FBI agents) has an FBI agent watching specifically them (and not just a whole group of people, which would presumably mean they were watching someone else most of the time) at all times”, is that half the population would have to be FBI agents.
- Comment on Subnautica 2 publishers Krafton accuse ousted bosses of abandoning duties, and now those ex-leads are suing 4 weeks ago:
Honestly this whole situation seems fishy to me (no pun intended) on all sides.
On the one hand, I get where the sentiment I’ve seen all over that this is just the publishers attempting to screw the devs over to avoid bonus payouts comes from, and it may even be true, there’s basically no reason to trust a big company and the ones in the entertainment industry are notorious for trying to avoid paying the people that actually make the stuff they sell.
On the other hand, the 250 million number I see thrown around is a huge amount of money, even if distributed evenly, and if not distributed evenly, would be a huge amount especially for the people at the top (which sound like the people that were fired for the most part?). I could easily see that creating a strong incentive for those in charge of the studio to release something even if it wasn’t ready. And it wouldn’t really surprise me if it isn’t, just given that virtually every major release of late across the industry seems to arrive both after delays and in a seemingly unready state, even the ones releasing in early access. Were that the case, then the move the company made to delay the game and remove people at the top pushing against that would make sense.
The trouble I have is, both these notions (that the publishing company might be delaying the game without need out of financial motivation, thus screwing over the devs, and that the leadership of the development company might be resisting a necessary delay out of financial motivation, which would presumably screw over the customer) seem self-consistent and plausible to me. The publishers claims are probably a bit more suspect given that from what I hear they have a history with scandal like this, but that isn’t really enough to make me feel confident that they have to be the ones being untruthful here, so jumping on a bandwagon feels premature until we have some information that rules out one of the two sides claims.
I’d make some statement about how this whole incident demonstrates the pitfalls of combining capitalist profit seeking with art, but between how many times the gaming industry has been burned by that already and how anti-capitalist lemmy tends to be, I suspect everyone here probably would be familiar with that anyway.
- Comment on He is cooked 4 weeks ago:
I know these are generally fake, but they always grind my gears a bit. Literally just screenshot the full message with the “not delivered” part and resend the screenshot until it goes through.
- Comment on The word literally makes me so irrationally angry 4 weeks ago:
That used to be the point of it. Over time the added impact that using it out of place gives to hyperbole has changed that point until it is necessary for enough context to exist to make clear that it is used in it’s original manner.
It’ll probably happen eventually to anything that replaces the world as well, sort of like how things like swear words and euphemisms lose their impact from overuse and end up getting replaced only to have the same happen again. At some level a quick way of saying “this is actually true” serves as an easy source of exaggeration if used somewhere where it clearly can’t be so, and as soon as someone does that, the meaning starts being dependant on context.
