Catoblepas
@Catoblepas@lemmy.blahaj.zone
- Comment on Fucking pigeons 3 weeks ago:
Anything above ground level = cliff, to a pigeon. I bet this is a 2nd+ story entrance to an apartment.
- Comment on Actual shitpost 3 weeks ago:
You’re gonna take a girl home and fuck her in the ass and then get mad when you find poop?? This is an occupational risk of ass fucking. Do you not have access to a shower and washing machine?
- Comment on I still don’t think companies serve you ads based on spying through your microphone 3 weeks ago:
Wasn’t his face revealed in cab footage where he’d taken his mask off within like, a day?
I think there is also probably a difference of scope in what is leveraged when Kroger is trying to get your facial pattern while you’re in the store to track where you go and get more data to sell advertisers vs like, the lengths gone to by the state in order to catch someone who shot a rich person dead in the street.
- Comment on I still don’t think companies serve you ads based on spying through your microphone 3 weeks ago:
Can’t be facial-recognized if you always wear an N95 mask in stores ;)
- Comment on Treat taking a dump like a sport 3 weeks ago:
How is everyone but me doing this on command?? I poop when I poop!
- Comment on Plebbit is a peer-to-peer Reddit alternative that allows you to self host and own your own community 3 weeks ago:
According to OP’s previous comments the dev of this has spent 600k of their own money on this. If that claim is legitimate then feel free to draw your own conclusions about why someone with 600k to burn would spend it on an NFT crypto reddit, but without images.
- Comment on Don't let this happen to you 4 weeks ago:
That’s absolutely tame compared to the AIDS joke in Rocko’s Modern Life, honestly.
For any unfamiliar: When Rocko’s car gets towed it shows the impound lot as car jail. The car calls Rocko to tell him it’s scared as it’s menaced by a much larger car that calls it “fancy fenders”. After Rocko gets the car back from the impound lot it starts to get sick, and when the car dies the wooden beams in the garage wall spell out “HIV’’.
- Comment on Beautiful 4 weeks ago:
People are going to say AI, but it’s too consistent with the design for AI IMO. It’s most likely just whatever software those print on demand companies use to insert designs into photos of blank pillows/bedspreads so that they don’t have to do a million photo shoots to show every single design. Still questionable from a consumer standpoint since it’s not a real photo of the product.
- Comment on Anotha one 1 month ago:
One end for cooking, the other end for tasting. Gotta keep your cooking and tasting separate. Or don’t, I’m an internet poster, not a cop.
- Comment on Fashion is cyclical 2 months ago:
And then the younger orcas won’t get why it’s ironic and will think it’s actually cool and wear them sincerely, and it will slowly become unfashionable again. Until another 30-40 years pass.
- Comment on Bat Drip 2 months ago:
I’m glad you got seen by a doctor!
- Comment on Bat Drip 2 months ago:
A bat being active during the day and colliding with you is very abnormal behavior. If rabies exists where you are (this includes the UK for bats) see a doctor ASAP. Like, I wouldn’t go to bed without doing it. It’s possible for you to be bitten without feeling it because of how small they are, and disorientation is a sign of rabies in bats.
It’s totally fixable even if it did have rabies and bite you, you just have to go get a (normal, NOT in the stomach) post-exposure shot.
- Comment on Archaeologists discover 4,000-year-old canals used to fish by predecessors of ancient Maya 2 months ago:
Did other areas of the world ever develop aquaculture this extensively before the modern era? I’m not an archaeologist or anything but I can’t think of any well known ruins like this. Very cool.
- Comment on Is it possible to use an Android device entirely as "black box" (without touching it looking at it)? 2 months ago:
I don’t know if this is still the case, but I know years back iPhones were preferred by a lot of blind people just in terms of accessibility. Digging through accessibility settings, it looks like you can use Voice Control to tell it to open Lemmy, and VoiceOver to read all the text on the screen without touching it. I don’t know about the example you added to your OP, adding phrases it would need to interpret seems more like a Siri thing (which I don’t use), do I don’t know how well that plays with Voice Control.
I wouldn’t rush out to buy anything unless some Android people confirm it’s not doable. Apple does have people that know the software working at their stores, so they could tell you specifics for sure. And check that I’m not totally wrong, lol.
- Comment on Is it possible to use an Android device entirely as "black box" (without touching it looking at it)? 2 months ago:
Someone who knows more about how to/if you can do this on Android will have to answer the specifics for that; I know on iOS you can use custom voice control actions (along with default voice control phone navigation mode) to do more or less what you’re describing. I’m surprised if Android has no accessibility features that work similarly.
- Comment on Is it possible to use an Android device entirely as "black box" (without touching it looking at it)? 2 months ago:
Sorry if I’m overlooking something obvious here, but you’re basically asking about accessibility features, right? Whatever settings and features blind users use should let you navigate without looking at it.
Although I will say you probably would need to get used to listening to text at a very high speed to use it at the speed you read.
- Comment on We're not going to terraform Mars, but we're doing a good job of venusforming Earth. 2 months ago:
Great argument for and example of how the US government isn’t taxing wealth nearly enough, if we have homeless people and billionaires funding sci fi fantasies for their own amusement in the same country.
- Comment on YSK: US Senate offices pay attention to how many constituents are calling them on a topic. Democracy doesn't end at the ballot box 2 months ago:
If anything that makes it more important. We already know how essentially all the Democrats are going to vote. A couple of Republican defections is all it takes to hold the Senate.
- Comment on YSK: US Senate offices pay attention to how many constituents are calling them on a topic. Democracy doesn't end at the ballot box 2 months ago:
God, the doomerism in here fucking sucks. If you won’t even pick up a phone why am I expected to believe you’ll be the hardest antifa soldier there ever was when the revolution comes (which, conveniently, is never)?
This is more embarrassing than those people who spend real life money prepping for a zombie apocalypse. At least those people have things that might actually be useful in a real disaster.
- Comment on X rival Bluesky gains 1.25 million users following U.S. election 2 months ago:
It is literally night and day for queer people. Large accounts can’t post about queer subjects on Twitter without harassment anymore due to how the algorithm works, but if you subscribe to a couple of block lists on Bluesky that is GONE. You might run into the odd freak, but community run block lists will keep the tide at bay.
When Mastodon takes user safety practices as seriously as Bluesky does I’ll consider switching.
- Comment on People born after 2000 have never seen the cosmic microwave background on their TV set. 2 months ago:
My memory of the exacts here are fuzzy, but I think this depended on whether or not your TV picked up digital signal, analog, or both. I remember around that time we had a TV that would pick up static on some channels and have a blue input screen on others.
- Comment on People born after 2000 have never seen the cosmic microwave background on their TV set. 2 months ago:
Yeah, my youngest sibling has definitely seen CRTs. My niblings probably haven’t, though.
- Comment on Hey, smoothbrain! 2 months ago:
- Comment on lab toys 2 months ago:
Oh man, do you think spilling some FBS once is what cursed me? I think that might be what cursed me.
- Comment on Researchers discover localized pain relief using known chemical reaction 2 months ago:
Thanks for the info! I’ll bring it up with my doctor.
- Comment on Researchers discover localized pain relief using known chemical reaction 2 months ago:
Gabapentin is cool and everything, but if this new stuff doesn’t have any bad side effects I’d love to try it. Gabapentin gives me slow brain at effective doses, and it seems like something that only activates at the pain site could potentially avoid systemic effects like that.
- Comment on Drab Breasted Bamboo TYRANT 2 months ago:
I don’t know if this is true of all species in the family, but the North American tyrant flycatchers are absolutely named that because they’re bossy little shits and very territorial, they won’t hesitate to attack and terrorize larger birds. They’re the chihuahuas of birds.
- Comment on Tiny pp 2 months ago:
In primates small testicle size is correlated with how many males a female typically mates with. More males mating with the same female means the male that produces the most sperm has an advantage. So gorillas have tiny balls because every troop only has one silverback male, and chimps have horrifically huge nuts because there’s a lot of competition for mates from other males in the troop.
Interestingly, humans fall roughly in the middle of the scale in terms of ball size!
- Comment on Amateur Entomologists 2 months ago:
Isn’t this just Chrono Trigger?
- Comment on [deleted] 2 months ago:
So he’ll stop “trying” to get there (using the hype to scam people) if Harris wins, right?
