CarbonIceDragon

@CarbonIceDragon@pawb.social

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:

  Virtually nothing in politics or economics is ever permanent.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Lost dog⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:

  I have been known to not get humor, I thought the joke was in sharing someone else documenting a stupid decision of theirs unwittingly, and therefore if it was itself fake it wouldn’t have the same impact

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Lost dog⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:

  Would a wild (I think coyote?) even let someone wash it? I suspect maybe a tame one that someone used a picture of to make a funny story.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Mages be like:⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:

  What happens if you put the cursed forbidden knowledge book through a photocopier and just read the copies rather than the original I wonder

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Mages be like:⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:

  Also known to more modern, less superstitious cultures as a proctologist

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Google’s electricity demand is skyrocketing⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  First they’d have to get fusion power to produce net electricity, and then for it to produce it economically compared to other sources. We’ve made progress but it’s been decades in the making and I’d be willing to bet will be a few decades more, even if I do expect it to get there one day.

  But what’s dystopian about fusion? It’s just another energy source. A bit cleaner than some of the older ones, but not really anything fundamentally different.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Might be time to put your life in perspective⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Imagine how grand and rewarding a task it would be for us to reach out and grab more than a few grains of that desert.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Bro literally ran out⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  What if I’m saying names out of order, and say my last now but will say the beginning or other entries on the list later?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Its likely a very large percentage of people would choose to have been born earlier than they were if given the choice.⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Frankly, I would not be terribly surprised if some descendant of our species, almost certainly incredibly, unimaginably divergent from what we are now but still someone, literally dies with the universe, however that ends up ending.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Costco changed the bag to plastic!!⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Sure, but a crop merely being bioengineered does not imply that that specific tweak has been made

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Costco changed the bag to plastic!!⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Why? Tweaking the genes of something doesnt magically make it dangerous

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Its likely a very large percentage of people would choose to have been born earlier than they were if given the choice.⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Im fairly doubtful of that tbh.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Its likely a very large percentage of people would choose to have been born earlier than they were if given the choice.⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  I feel the inverse. I kinda want to see what it would be like to be born, like, one million years into the future, or something like that.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Anyone else enjoy Captain Dan and the Scurvy Crew?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  I bet stereotypical pirates would love orange juice, if they could get their hooks on any.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Nothing has helped me learn to trust my instincts more than trying to plug in hundreds of USB devices over the years⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  I always just look at the cable/device and the port to see which half of the connector is empty and which has that plastic bit

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Ted Cruz's plan to punish states that regulate AI shot down in 99-1 vote⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  States rights was never really an ideal (in general, if it’s wrong to allow something in one state, it’d be wrong to allow it in the rest, after all). It was just a thing to bring out whenever the federal government disagreed with something they wanted but someone states didn’t. But now that they control the federal government, it becomes a liability, so they drop it.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨gmod⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Is this what health insurance CEOs do in their spare time these days?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Lemmy devouring the artist⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  I’ve heard the name but don’t know what it is, other than that I think it’s something fermented?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Lemmy devouring the artist⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Either he’s vomiting beans into that can or those beans have been congealed into a single semisolid mass that sticks together.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Look at my french popsicle!⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Doc Hopper’s ice cream business looks even more dubious than his restaurant.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Entirely too many questions about Mastodon. So sorry.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ 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 ⁨weeks⁩ 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 ⁨weeks⁩ 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?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ 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? 🤔 😮⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ 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 ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ 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*⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ 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.⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ 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.⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

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

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Dirty Lies About Clean Energy⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ 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?