blackbrook
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- Comment on great grandaddy bur oak 2 days ago:
Serious question: I know many oaks can crossbreed with each other, but do oaks actually crossbreed with non-oaks?
- Comment on great grandaddy bur oak 2 days ago:
Well it seems safe to say it’s at least as unlikely as a terran species being able to breed with some randomly selected other terran species.
- Comment on Boxelder bugs are relentless lil critters 6 days ago:
You can get an attachment for your garden hose that would let you spray soapy water over a large area very quickly.
- Comment on Fascism bad. 1 week ago:
Well they are afraid of the system, which they think is out to get them. See white nationalists who claim they are being persecuted, “deep state”, various conspiracy theories, need for guns for self protection, etc, etc. I don’t see anything hard to reconcile.
- Comment on US border officials seize 4,000-year-old Bronze Age weapons looted from Iran 2 weeks ago:
It’s there for your convenience.
- Comment on Just one more square bro 2 weeks ago:
I can imagine that being really good! Hazelnut is under appreciated in the US.
- Comment on Just one more square bro 2 weeks ago:
We don’t put plain sugar syrup on waffles, we use maple syrup or sometimes a fruit syrup such as blueberry. Maple syrup has a very distinctive flavor.
- Comment on Just one more square bro 2 weeks ago:
It’s really volume you care about, for filling with syrup.
- Comment on The Human Flatus Atlas: Join the study today! 2 weeks ago:
Dudes. It is clear we should be talking about _ass_onance here.
- Comment on Name this Paper 2 weeks ago:
Could be. A little char can make things easier to light. But I’ve never tried lighting a greasy dough block, so I don’t know whether it needs help or not.
- Comment on I'm using my home server and coding to rebuild my brain after a stroke. 2 weeks ago:
This sounds like a great idea. I would suggest doing also other things that simulate the brain in other ways, like listening to music (or even playing an instrument), visual stimuli (art, nature), physical motion and coordination activities (dance, sports). You may well already do these things, I just felt I should mention it since our culture is so prone to associating brain with mental logic specifically and forgeting how much these other things involve the brain.
Learning a language is another thing with really strong evidence for brain development /preservation.
- Comment on Name this Paper 2 weeks ago:
That suggests you could mix flour and vegetable oil and maybe dry it into bricks which might be cheaper than donuts usual are. I wonder how dirty that burns…
- Comment on Cows are magnetic and it's about time we accepted that 3 weeks ago:
Mag-cow disease.
- Comment on Gottem 4 weeks ago:
This cartoon shows the real reason why that is the gold standard.
- Comment on mullberry figs 5 weeks ago:
That’s pretty syc!
- Comment on Not that limit 5 weeks ago:
Like an AI’s idea of what a font looks like.
- Comment on Taste the flavor 5 weeks ago:
Just put lots of hot sauce in your pancakes. Duh! Problem solved!
- Comment on lemmy irl 1 month ago:
At first glance I thought that was a giant plate of pancakes with a giant pat of butter on it.
- Comment on How to avoid bird droppings while birdwatching 1 month ago:
Man, I don’t know where he got it, but that it requires a tripod to smoke, is pretty impressive.
- Comment on Does smelling your food while you cook it make it taste bland? 2 months ago:
I have never experienced this as a problem. However one does learn to compensate for differences between the eating experience and the tasting-while-cooking experience.
For example, when it comes to heat (chili heat), I’m cautious, knowing that what is tolerable for a taste, may not be tolerable for a whole meal since the heat tends to build as your eat. I also adjust for my audience’s taste, for example if I think they can take less heat then I can, or like things less salty.
- Comment on WAT DA 2 months ago:
That each bigger bear is also standing forward of the smaller ones and with it’s hind legs hidden behind them exaggerates how much bigger they are.
- Comment on Gravity! 3 months ago:
This is really fascinating to me. Do you mind my asking, with no intended disrespect, how intelligent your wife is? And did she have any kind of unusually isolated situation for much of her life?
- Comment on Quitting Spotify for Navidrome 3 months ago:
I have no idea about Navidrome, but I completely agree with the gist of this article. Actively choose the music you listen to. When the music you’ve chosen has run out, if you’re not motivated to make another choice, let the music stop and enjoy quiet for a while.
- Comment on How do you handle junk email? 3 months ago:
I use POPFile, open source software that classifies email into whatever categories you set up using a Bayesian algorithm (so you train it). It works as a proxy so it does it when your download email, so not a solution to your inbox filling up unless your can figure out how to run it on the server automatically.
It tags the email with a header and I use Thunderbird filters to move mail to folders for spam, adverts, political spam, and regular inbox.
It’s abandonware but it still works and doesn’t really need any more features IMO.
- Comment on Quantum teleportation between photons from two distant light sources achieved 3 months ago:
So how would this mechanism (“quantum physics allows information to be transferred from one photon to another as long as the information stays unknown”) interact with the feature of being able to detect interception (“Because photons follow the laws of quantum mechanics, their polarization cannot always be completely read out without leaving traces. Any attempt to intercept the transmission would inevitably be detected”). If intercepted and read it is no longer unknown. Does that not make the transfer between photons fail? And will that be distinguishable from other failures or would not this transfer lose the interception detectability?
- Comment on The entire body of a sea urchin is what researchers are now calling an “all-body brain,” with neurons that function as a brain throughout its anatomy. 3 months ago:
This is such a shit magazine. They are not “all brain”, its more like their brain is just scattered evenly throughout their body.
- Comment on Archaeologists Find Tools Contradicting the Timeline of Civilization 3 months ago:
Despite our potential for these accomplishments we’re still pretty dumb most of the time. And get amazed by anything we don’t immediately understand and blame it on God or aliens.
- Comment on Oechslegrad 3 months ago:
45 degrees in time is about 1:08
- Comment on Nanananana 4 months ago:
That’s the ‘here, have a banana gesture’.
- Comment on same, honestly 4 months ago:
wears the candles Is that what the kids are calling it these days?