blackbrook

@blackbrook@mander.xyz

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Bought to you by the central limit theorem society⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  The unfunnyness and homophobia of the joke aside, this kind of joke doesn’t expect people to actually believe that statistics work this way. Part of the joke is the ridiculousness of expecting statistics to work that way. While there may indeed be some people so stupid/ignorant that they DO expect statistics to work this way, that’s not really the way this kind of humor is meant to work.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Honestly Bizarre⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Well vegetable used to be used sometimes to mean “plant”.

  Most people don’t really understand how words work.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Fucking idiots⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  You call that counterpoint? Bach’s Mass in D minor. Now that’s counterpoint!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨anyone have a sheet music system/workflow that works?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Give each person a folder in which to stick whatever loose sheets they are currently working with. Keep these folders plus whatever music books are relevant on a shelf. Tell each person to put their shit away when they are done.

  There can be another folder for sheets people fail to put away. Your wife can just stick everything left out into this folder when stuff gets left out and she gets annoyed. People will learn they have to look through all the shit in this folder to find their stuff it they leave their stuff out.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The audacity of my Christmas cactus, trying to bloom before Halloween and Thanksgiving⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Your cactus is being controlled by marketers!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Toxic pollution builds up in snake scales: What we learned from black mambas⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Don’t eat black mambas, got it. That’s the easiest dietary advice I’ve gotten all year.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I will be taking no followup questions. Thank you for your time⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  A light spirit lives in the battery. It reaches out across the wires until it reaches the round window which it uses to show its power.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨An apple a day, ... Ah well, fuck it.⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  “regardless of texture physics…” If I had been drinking milk when I read that, it would definitely have come out my nose!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Mid Career Marine Biology⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Never mess with someone trained in gorilla warfare. Those gorillas don’t mess around.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Dawg...⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Risky click of the day

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Dawg...⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I agree with all the comments here, but also, now I’m craving hotdogs.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨An apple a day, ... Ah well, fuck it.⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  However many is fatal.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What kind of locomotion is that? What is the evolutionary advantage?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Example of content evolution.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Don't forget to turn purple and remove your arms⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Could you explain what you mean by laying at an angle?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What do you think the PPE is for⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Well it seems lazy. And I think elements of accurate realness in contrast to the twist in a cartoon make it funnier.

  It also bothers me that they are using the wrong definition of ‘mad’ for the joke. I think it was easier to find a word for a milder version of that ‘mad’, but it detracts from it for me.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Don't forget to turn purple and remove your arms⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Doesn’t that put your back into a curve? I feel like that would kill my lower back, but maybe I don’t know how to use a hammock properly.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Don't forget to turn purple and remove your arms⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Maybe if it was a small enough pillow? That picture looks exaggerated. Their ears certainly aren’t what I would call over their shoulders.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Perfect little cup hiding in a log⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Blue Velvet moment…

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  And only a fraction of those are jelly filled.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What fungus would do this to a tree? Huge blooms. I know nothing about mushrooms.⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I don’t think any insect would have so many scattered nests of such varied sizes across a tree like this.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Missing banana for scale.⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Oh, sure, no disagreement from me on that. But this looks to me like something from a magazine, so one expects some level of professionalism. Now if this is some 12 year old’s fanzine or something, ok, I feel bad for giving them shit, but a professional journalist should be embarrassed.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Missing banana for scale.⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  In case I wasn’t clear about this in my other reply, my main point is that a photo of something fake is not the same thing add as a fake photo. If the dinosaur is animatronic, it’s not a fake photo. If the dinosaur is CGI, yeah fake photo.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Missing banana for scale.⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  See my reply to the other reply to my comment.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Missing banana for scale.⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  No, this is sloppy use of language, which worked the same 50 years ago. The only thing different today is the range of things that exist that we can infer that they really mean by their sloppy language. There were still ways to manipulate photos, before CGI. One might have called such a manipulated photo a ‘fake photograph’ in that day (though even that is arguably a little sloppy). But a non manipulated photo of a real physical model is not in any way a ‘fake photograph’. You could say a photograph of a fake Gigantopithecus, or of a fake scene but that’s not the same thing. Yes, we can infer what’s meant when people carelessly slap adjectives on the wrong nouns, but it is sloppy writing.

  Notice how much more accurate and well written OP’s description is: “Paleo-anthro sculptor Bill Munns with his Giganto reconstruction”

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Missing banana for scale.⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Caption writer seems to be confused about what a real photograph is and what conceptual means.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨proof of wormholes⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Listen I know the RFK claim is nonsense but that doesn’t excuse faulty logic. This is like saying cancer existed before X so X can’t be a carcinogen.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨be gay, do crimes (in space)⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Best band name ever.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨smol⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  That’s one spicy meatball.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Can't argue that.⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  With my own father and some others I know, I feel like the problem is less with being unable to learn new things then with being unable to unlearn things either which are no longer valid, or which were never valid but it should have become increasing obvious.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Can't argue that.⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Well the ‘myth’ you speak of is based on the fact that the opposite of what you describe is also true. Those who lose any interest in learning new things become progressively more rigid and stuck in their mindset and become less and less likely to learn or adapt as they age. I suspect there are more people leaning towards that than lifelong learners, but I may just be a pessimist.