blackbrook
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- Comment on Make dinosaurs weirder 5 days ago:
I don’t think you can prove that people can’t do something well, by doing it yourself poorly.
“Look how humorously badly I keep missing the target! See? Sharpshooters could never hit something like this at this distance!”
- Comment on Are spiders turtlely enough for the Turtle Club? 6 days ago:
BTW 100x is only possible with very small arthropods, the larger the ant or spider and the smaller that strength to weight ratio can be.
Now admittedly we can’t really know how large the spider and turtle are, if they are much smaller than I am imagining then my incredulity may be similarly out of proportion.
- Comment on Are spiders turtlely enough for the Turtle Club? 6 days ago:
Every picture of a fishing spider I can find is holding its (smaller than this turtle) prey at the water’s edge, not dangling upside down with it in midair. They hunt by walking on the water, not by dangling and snatching from above. Are we to believe it caught its prey the normal way and then walked it up to that awkward position?
- Comment on Are spiders turtlely enough for the Turtle Club? 6 days ago:
I imagine the weight of that turtle to be considerably more than that frog.
- Comment on Are spiders turtlely enough for the Turtle Club? 6 days ago:
It’s not a spider preying on a vertebrate that is hard to believe, it is the lifting. Even ignoring the physics of the situation, I don’t think fishing spiders hunt that way.
People act like they’ve forgotten that there are other ways than AI to fake an.
- Comment on Succulent flower 1 week ago:
Maybe it’s a “damn, I better reproduce, pronto!”
- Comment on I'd be screaming too lmao 1 week ago:
Probably afraid of an Alec Baldwin incident.
- Comment on Enantiomers 2 weeks ago:
Chirality, Motherfucker! Do you have it?
- Comment on We're but a series of tubes. 3 weeks ago:
Macrocosm and Microcosm
- Comment on Plant shaming should be a thing 4 weeks ago:
Having fire ants in your house seems pretty no bueno. Is this a common hazard in some places?
- Comment on Plebbit Will Never Deliver, Apologies for the Hype, Lemmy's Where I’m Staying 1 month ago:
A few months ago, eh? I know nothing about and have no opinion on Plebbit. But shit takes time, especially open source volunteer efforts.
- Comment on Great come back 1 month ago:
“You can take this dream sequence and shove it up your ass!”
- Comment on aaaaaAAAAAAAAAAAA 1 month ago:
Hyena teeth look like something AI would generate .
- Comment on At least 4,500 Americans per year die from hydroxyl acid exposure 1 month ago:
Chemtrails are full of this stuff.
- Comment on [deleted] 2 months ago:
People think are a lot more rational than they really are. We are wired to very easily start responding something as if it were a living being, develop a relationship with it, start caring about it. We do this with fictional characters, dolls, stuffed animals, etc. , nevermind something designed to mimic one convincingly in real time.
- Comment on conduwuit, “featureful fork of conduit” (Rust Matrix homeserver), is discontinued 2 months ago:
No, really? Reading a document like means you have to believe one of two things: either there is a massive collusion and conspiracy between a ton of different groups against this individual, with a lot of bad actors, or this is a very troubled individual giving a very distorted and paranoid portrayal of what is going on, someone whose behaviors constantly create conflict.
I know nothing about this individual, this app, or any of the history here, but that is the choice I get from reading this, and one of those two options should seem pretty obviously a lot more probable.
- Comment on GitHub - SinTan1729/chhoto-url: A simple, blazingly fast, selfhosted URL shortener with no unnecessary features; written in Rust. 2 months ago:
Please don’t use url shorteners, this hides any information the url gives you about where it is taking you. Also most things on the internet support the concept of a link where the url is hidden behind friendly text but still inspectable without clicking by mousing over it.
- Comment on What is your favourite way to transfer files in your homelab? 3 months ago:
Since OpenSSH version 9.0, so like mid '22. So as long as your not running something more out of date than that.
- Comment on What is your favourite way to transfer files in your homelab? 3 months ago:
SCP, the protocol, is deprecated. scp, the command, just uses the SFTP protocol these days. I find its syntax convenient.
- Comment on the mad hatter 6 months ago:
Stupid sexy caterpillar!
- Comment on wooly bears 6 months ago:
And a common folk lore about their appearance predicting the severity of the coming winter.
- Comment on This feels wrong. I love it. 7 months ago:
You need to add some disclaimer to this diagram like “not to scale”…
- Comment on short kings 8 months ago:
They’re also fun to draw.
- Comment on PLAGIARISM 8 months ago:
I’m the king of the ward!
- Comment on Laptop is depolymerizing -- how can I remedy this? 8 months ago:
Isopropyl alcohol will fuck up some plastics too.
- Comment on Laptop is depolymerizing -- how can I remedy this? 8 months ago:
It’s more of turpentine replacement than an acetone replacement.
- Comment on Let him go!! 8 months ago:
I’ll never know because there was no TLDR.
- Comment on that's a huge sprout 8 months ago:
- Comment on Proud globohomo 8 months ago:
I thought tesla was already taking care of that.
- Comment on Proud globohomo 8 months ago:
They don’t have as large a marketing budget.