blackbrook
@blackbrook@mander.xyz
- Comment on Check mate, creationists 4 days ago:
One of the lost books of the bible featured Satan picking some especially sinful dude and telling him to build an ark too.
- Comment on Checks out to me. 1 week ago:
comradesharkfucker very almost doesn’t like jokes.
- Comment on Cracked Piece of Metal Heals Itself in Experiment That Stuns Scientists 5 months ago:
Yes, and it’s particularly obnoxious when they seem to have twisted a quote as an excuse for this: ‘“This was absolutely stunning to watch first-hand,” said materials scientist Brad Boyc.’ I’m pretty sure that use of the word means “beautiful”, not “shocking.”
- Comment on Outliers 5 months ago:
Yotten
- Comment on Google sues people who “weaponized” DMCA to remove rivals’ search results 5 months ago:
But they are doing that themselves already. I think they care because handling takedowns creates work for them and because they may be taking down search results that generate them ad revenue.
- Comment on 🌿👀🌿 5 months ago:
Plants: “Eat more phosphorus and potassium!”
- Comment on 🌿👀🌿 5 months ago:
But wouldn’t they be, like, “yum, fertilizer!”?
- Comment on Oopsie! 5 months ago:
It’s not the size of your arboretum…
- Comment on I dunno, still might be aliens with this one. 5 months ago:
They can get some idea from the bones of muscle attachment points and how strong of a muscle would have been attached.
- Comment on The harvest is ready! 5 months ago:
That’s what the shrink-ray is for.
- Comment on 3,000-year-old necropolis found in Batman 6 months ago:
No one expects you to have a necropolis in your bat utility belt.
- Comment on Archaeologists in Turkey Have Unearthed Human and Animal Sculptures That Are the Earliest Examples of Prehistoric Art | Artnet News 6 months ago:
The byline directly under the title says they could be the oldest examples of painted sculpture. Of course some shameless scumbag editor turns that into a title about “oldest art”.
- Comment on The Moon is far older than we thought, scientists say 6 months ago:
Yeah, it puts it in better perspective to say they changed the estimate from 4.44 to 4.46 billion years ago. “Far older” my ass.
- Comment on xkcd #2846: Daylight Saving Choice 6 months ago:
Where did you get the idea that the Julian calendar doesn’t have months? The Gregorian calendar we use now made a tiny tweak to it to reduce drift, but is nearly the same.
- Comment on xkcd #2846: Daylight Saving Choice 6 months ago:
You both just have present your working or availability hours beforehand. Honestly this works better for me than someone assuming I’m available for an 8am meeting. I live on the US east coast, but my sleeping schedule is more west coast.
- Comment on Why do many folks play follow the leader even into adulthood? 6 months ago:
Well “it’s human nature” can indeed be a cop out. It shouldn’t be a discussion ender. And it shouldn’t be a justification. Murder is a part of human nature too. However it is a reality to be worked with. And one can ask, in what conditions is this behavior brought out, and in what conditions discouraged?
- Comment on Why do many folks play follow the leader even into adulthood? 6 months ago:
Oh I agree with you. I didn’t mean asking why was flawed, but specifically asking why with the implicit assumptions we tend to carry about human actions being rational and conscious. I agree that asking “why is this a part of human nature?” is a good question.
- Comment on Why do many folks play follow the leader even into adulthood? 6 months ago:
Asking why like this has the implicit flawed premise that human behaviors like this are products of conscious thought. They are not. (I don’t mean this as a criticism of you particularly, it is inherent in our culture to look at everything humans do as if it were rational and conscious, despite the reality that so much is it is not.)
I’d answer this by saying it is human nature. Most people don’t think about it and are not aware they are doing it. Many might even deny it. This is not to say individuals can’t stop and reflect and be conscious and rational about. Some do but most don’t.
- Comment on xkcd : Timeline of Temperature Changes on Earth 6 months ago:
Reaching all those low-IQ climate deniers that read xkcd should really help.
- Comment on City-size comet racing toward Earth regrows 'horns' after massive volcanic eruption 6 months ago:
I think they are. I checked the comments before clicking on the article and that comment prevented me from rewarding that clickbaiter.
- Comment on Is Consciousness Part of the Fabric of the Universe? 7 months ago:
“It’s [physicalism] doing just fine, as progress in consciousness science readily attests.” Can anyone tell me what that progress is?
- Comment on Tire Dust Makes Up the Majority of Ocean Microplastics, Study Finds 7 months ago:
Read the first sentence: “Lost and abandoned fishing gear which is deadly to marine life makes up the majority of large plastic pollution in the oceans, according to a report by Greenpeace.” I added the italics. Note also that the OP article is about _micro_plastics.