blackbrook
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- Comment on What kind of locomotion is that? What is the evolutionary advantage? 4 hours ago:
Example of content evolution.
- Comment on Don't forget to turn purple and remove your arms 12 hours ago:
Could you explain what you mean by laying at an angle?
- Comment on What do you think the PPE is for 12 hours 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 1 day 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 1 day 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 4 days ago:
Blue Velvet moment…
- Comment on 4 days 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. 1 week 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. 1 week 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. 1 week 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. 1 week ago:
See my reply to the other reply to my comment.
- Comment on Missing banana for scale. 1 week 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. 1 week ago:
Caption writer seems to be confused about what a real photograph is and what conceptual means.
- Comment on proof of wormholes 2 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) 2 weeks ago:
Best band name ever.
- Comment on smol 2 weeks ago:
That’s one spicy meatball.
- Comment on Can't argue that. 2 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. 2 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.
- Comment on tall tails 3 weeks ago:
If you take out the word ‘completely’ you’ve got it.
- Comment on The Woofstream 4 weeks ago:
Or maybe viralness is just proportional to stupid and so the stupid ones simply get copied and reencoded lossily more.
- Comment on Good news. :) 4 weeks ago:
Who else could offer more distraction?
- Comment on Any FLOSS alternative's to Ground News? 5 weeks ago:
This isn’t FOSS but it makes a case for making an effort to do good www.allsides.com/about
- Comment on STRAIGHT 2 JAIL 5 weeks ago:
I have no idea of this person is expert enough to tell the difference, but there are loon species in Europe that sound pretty similar to the common loon.
- Comment on 🦈🦈🦈 5 weeks ago:
How do any of these sharks function without a cloaca?!?
- Comment on Where is Immich going to be in 1 year? What's your prediction? 5 weeks ago:
I’ve never used it, but one should also ask a what kind of 90 degree rotation does it do. Good image editors can do lossless 90 degree JPEG rotation, meaning they don’t compound the JPEG lossiness and potential artifacts every time.
- Comment on KATHLEEN 5 weeks ago:
Katy is also kinda-sorta-not-really short for Kathleen. It’s short for Katherine.
- Comment on Actors that have been the least believable scientist castings, I’ll start. 1 month ago:
RFK jr?
- Comment on Actors that have been the least believable scientist castings, I’ll start. 1 month ago:
To be fair, he’s just as unbelievable playing anyone with an average IQ.
- Comment on Working Overtime at the Disease Factory 1 month ago:
Seriously! When I put in an order for a plague, I don’t want to get sent an inadequately infectious one.
- Comment on When life gives ya lemons. 1 month ago:
Lemon x mexican (key) lime