CarbonIceDragon

@CarbonIceDragon@pawb.social

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Entirely too many questions about Mastodon. So sorry.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s not laid out like Lemmy is, because Lemmy is basically the fediverse version of Reddit, while Mastodon is more the fediverse version of Twitter. I’m not very good at using that format myself so I can’t offer much advice, but from what I’ve seen, what your feed is like depends a lot on what instance you join, to a much larger extent than on Lemmy (it’s a much bigger userbase than lemmy as well to my knowledge). I dont know of any equivalent to communities per se, you have to join an instance that is good for the kinds of things you’re looking for, and follow users that post or interact with that content. I think a favorite is more like a like, and reblogging is more like reposting for one’s followers and imstance to see too.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨America last night⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  That’s not how these things work, if anything, the more serious an event is, the more that thing is going to be what people make jokes and memes about, to dampen the stress of the situation if nothing else. I’m not sure there’s actually such a thing as an event so serious that nobody makes jokes about it.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨So um, america just started another war in the middle east. We're going to need a shit ton more memes to americans from the nightmare they are enduring. Thanks in advance...⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  I mean, I dont see how it isnt a war already, this kind of thing is an act of war after all, and the other side doesnt have to be capable of equal retaliation for the term to apply.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What's a good instance to be on at the moment?⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  I’ve been pretty happy with how the instance I use has been run thus far, but it is focused around furries, so it won’t be something most people outside that subculture like I expect. Still, the fandom is big enough that someone in it looking for an instance might look at this thread, so I mention it anyway.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What is your age range for dating? 🤔 😮⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  I don’t really even have an age range I guess, I’ve never met anyone I was interested in dating.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨YSK: Non-violent protests are 2x likely to succeed and no non-violent movement that has involved more than 3.5% of the country population has ever failed⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  If that were true, what happens if two different non violent movements each with more than 3.5% of the population involved, exist at the same time in direct opposition to eachother?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨*pat pat pat*⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  I know albatross are big, but I can’t stop seeing it as an abnormally small man petting an abnormally well-behaved seagull.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Reading is consciousness-altering and a bit toxic.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Literally just imagining things in your head out of boredom does something similar, and that’s something that’s just gonna happen if you sit idle.

  Brains need stimulation to develop and continue to function properly, as creatures with unusually powerful brains, humans benefit from, even need, quite a lot of such mental stimulation. There’s a reason we enjoy and put so much effort into entertaining ourselves, compared to most other animals. Working through imagined scenarios is no more unhealthy for us than exercising our muscles to keep them fit is.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨There's a lot to be known about me by knowing who my exes are, what my favorite songs are to sing in the car, and my fast food orders.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  I imagine that Google, Facebook, and other such companies would agree

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Dirty Lies About Clean Energy⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Sure, but if unforested land is artificially forested, or deforested land is reforested faster than would occur naturally, or human activity causes an increase in plant cover unintentionally (for example, if increased carbon dioxide spurs in increase in plant growth beyond the previous norm), then the photosynthesis done by those extra plants would be caused by humans, surely?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Dirty Lies About Clean Energy⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  I don’t really get why this source first emphasizes that carbon molecules have an effect regardless of source, but then says that it is wrong for humans to “take credit” for photosynthesis. If something, human caused or otherwise causes an increase in plant cover such as to cause an increase in carbon stored in plant biomass, the atmosphere doesn’t care if humans did that or if plants did.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Interesting news⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Is there a context for “sociopath”? like, would a person that actually had that mental condition be disallowed from commenting, or was it saying that you had called someone else a sociopath and that isnt allowed?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨VPN Registrations Increase by 1,000%, less than Hour After PornHub Blocked France From Accessing its Website.⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  To be fair, potentially addictive or not, I wouldn’t support a ban on social media either. The practical requirements needed to effectively restrict access to information in the modern age (both porn and social media being examples of information) are such that I generally view the cure as worse than the disease, so to speak, and view the least bad option as being to just give up on legal restrictions and just deal with the consequences instead. Addiction is harmful, but most consumers of such information aren’t harmed by it, and restriction inherently requires monitoring and removing internet anonymity to a degree that I find unacceptable.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨VPN Registrations Increase by 1,000%, less than Hour After PornHub Blocked France From Accessing its Website.⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Does the rule in question even apply to end users? All I had heard of it was that it put some kind of requirement on the website itself to identify people, which a person seeking out a noncompliant or foreign website presumably wouldn’t be the one violating?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The Game, is just Roko's Basilisk for kids.⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Roko’s Basilisk is just pascal’s wager but with AI.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨"And my dick fucks your wife more than you do. What's your point?"⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  That watch salesman really ripped you off then.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I always hope for a horsey⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I swear every time I play that game, half my army ends up being pawns, the weakest piece.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Kinda fucked up tbh⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Unless you define “on earth” to be "below the Kármán line. The Earth’s atmosphere is probably to be considered part of the planet, else gas planet like Jupiter get difficult to talk about consistently. Atmospheres don’t have a proper “cutoff”, they just get thinner and thinner until they gradually become insignificant, so some cutoff is going to have to be arbitrarily defined to make the distinction useful.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  They dont work, because not lie detectors at all. To my understanding they’re basically just a tech-assisted version of trying to tell if someone is lying by trying to watch their emotional reaction. They might be able to tell you if someone is stressed, under the notion that someone lying will be more stressed than when telling the truth from the effort and worry of being caught, but that isn’t really true necessarily.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨No looky for you!⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  My countertop dishwasher has a window. Not much to see tbh, it’s interesting to watch what it does the first time and then it gets old.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨IT’S THE FEDS!⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I sometimes wonder if really serious reptile hobbyists, the kind that’ll have like a whole room full of terrariums, have to deal with suspicious cops. Reptiles like warmth, heat mats and lamps take power, one of the most popular brands for heat mat thermostats is technically meant for controlling indoor plant heating, and if they want to grow live plants in any of their animals habitats they might need grow lights too.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨does it mean I am a horse?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  A person with only one leg who is unsure of their identity would get stuck, having no options that are not two and four.

  For that matter, a horse with two legs cut off becomes a man, if only it could be taught to read a chart.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The lemming anatomy⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Comparing anything with lemmings is gonna be somewhat unflattering with that stereotype tbh. Which is why it’s a great name for the network imo, it’s got just a little bit of self-depreciating humor to it.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The lemming anatomy⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Implied by the red box with yellow and white text saying “lemming characteristics”, which could subtly be taken as a reference to “socialism with lemming characteristics” given the context and color scheme?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨7 for me⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  No, just a weighted blanket and a regular pillow. I’m not sure why people find this weird tho, jeans are comfy.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨7 for me⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  1, t shirt and jeans.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Hollywood doesn't want you to know this secret.⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Meanwhile, if you’re looking for a somewhat older movie, in my experience you can find it about half the time by going to the “videos” search tab in a browser, using any advanced search options that may exist on that browser to limit it to longer videos, and searching “(movie name) Internet Archive”.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨When you see danger coming⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I mean, wood already biodegrades quite readily, yet we are able to make some pretty long lasting things out of it anyway. Having a bacteria that can break down some variety of plastic doesn’t really imply that all plastic things are going to rot away like old fruit.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨There is significant evidence that Grok actually inserted information about “white genocide” in South Africa into prompts that didn't appear to be related to this topic.⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Human psychology hasn’t changed during that time, so the same kinds of tricks or weakness that can drive a population into that mode of thinking still work today, if the details around them are adapted for some modern culture. If anything, it might be slightly easier, given those trying to achieve it have historical examples of what is and isn’t effective.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Crunchy⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  This is why I only ever get the creamy peanut butter and not the kind with peanut chunks in it.