Catoblepas
@Catoblepas@lemmy.blahaj.zone
- Comment on a strong beak, of course 1 day ago:
Not just any tool use either, New Caledonian crows can make and use hooks. That might not seem special, but the amount of planning it takes to make and understand how to use a hook to retrieve something hidden in a nook is much more sophisticated than figuring out that you can poke something in front of you with a sharp stick.
- Comment on Is it OK for a baby's head to be rolled all the way back on its neck? 1 day ago:
It’s a joke reference to The Exorcist, which features a child whose head spins around due to demonic possession.
- Comment on New USA fashion trend just dropped! 1 day ago:
Oh god, their hands are all melting together. Ewwww
- Comment on “It’s a lemon”—OpenAI’s largest AI model ever arrives to mixed reviews 2 days ago:
I’m sure turning on a few more nuclear plants to power shoveling an ever larger body of AI slop-contaminated text into the world’s most expensive plagiarism machine will fix it!
- Comment on John Oliver promoted alternatives to big tech in last night's episode, including Mastodon and Pixelfed 6 days ago:
Wait, the Mozilla guy who got pressured to resign over opposition to gay marriage is the Brave guy?? Fuck him lol.
Unsurprising he’s also a dipshit about COVID.
- Comment on I disagree. 1 week ago:
Relevant Smithsonian article.
I’d probably skip on the animal fat and bitumen, but cedar, juniper, and cypress all smell pretty good.
Apparently the scent could also vary slightly depending on who was being embalmed.
- Comment on check it before you wreck it 1 week ago:
It’s a tweet, but please don’t let that stop you from getting mad about it.
- Comment on Anyone know where this is from? 2 weeks ago:
Was it addressed to you? I’d be cagey about something LGBT related showing up addressed to me without anyone I knew sending it, but that might be overly paranoid.
It looks like it’s a zine made by some New York film company called A24.
- Comment on Is AI making us stupider? Maybe, according to one of the world’s biggest AI companies. 2 weeks ago:
Can’t make me stupid if I don’t use it.
- Comment on HRT Harm Reduction Toolkit Game Bundle - $25 for 30 games 2 weeks ago:
In the collection description I guess it doesn’t, but if you click on any of the games included it’s clear that they’re tabletop role playing games (some even have it in the title icon). I can edit the post to include that if people think it’s misleading, though
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- Comment on Hate speech on X surged for at least 8 months after Elon Musk takeover – new research. 2 weeks ago:
Except the word cisgender. That can’t be allowed to be seen.
- Comment on Tumblr to join the fediverse after WordPress migration completes | TechCrunch 2 weeks ago:
Ignorant question incoming: Would this result in a huge influx of traffic if your instance federates with tumblr, because you’re federating with all of tumblr? Or do individual tumblr blogs need to federate with each instance?
- Comment on people who drink, how long do your hangovers last? 3 weeks ago:
When you’re drinking more water you also need a little bit of salt to balance out your electrolytes, since you’re pissing them all out.
- Comment on Casper the Theoretical Ghost 3 weeks ago:
I hate that I know this, but the 90s live action movie canon is that he died as a child of pneumonia.
- Comment on Olive Garden 3 weeks ago:
Wait, everyone else’s school had breadsticks? What did they serve with them? We only ever got rolls.
- Comment on Can I lose a beer belly working out one day a week? 3 weeks ago:
I agree with the comment saying that 130lbs doesn’t sound overweight, unless you’re 5’0 or under. Does your belly look obviously big to you in photos, or has anyone else ever mentioned it? Your perspective when you look down at your belly will make it look larger to you, so it might only be you that sees your belly as too big.
Keep in mind as well that in any photos of men you see who are body building, they have often dehydrated themselves to make their muscles stand out more. If you’re properly hydrated you’re never going to look like that, even if you exercise every day.
But strengthening your core muscles is really good for your back, so it’s probably not a bad idea to do sit ups and push ups.
- Comment on You Can’t Post Your Way Out of Fascism | Authoritarians and tech CEOs now share the same goal: to keep us locked in an eternal doomscroll instead of organizing against them 3 weeks ago:
The article is full of examples of ways people have organized.
- Comment on I wonder how things are going in America today... 3 weeks ago:
Thanks for the accurate info!
- Comment on I wonder how things are going in America today... 3 weeks ago:
I think it’s from 30 Rock (TV series).
- Comment on [deleted] 3 weeks ago:
In California (and probably other states, but I know here for sure) they have “Spanish for Spanish speakers” classes in addition to regular Spanish classes, presumably so people can’t do that, lol.
- Comment on Fucking pigeons 1 month ago:
Anything above ground level = cliff, to a pigeon. I bet this is a 2nd+ story entrance to an apartment.
- Comment on Actual shitpost 1 month 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 1 month 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 1 month ago:
Can’t be facial-recognized if you always wear an N95 mask in stores ;)
- Comment on Treat taking a dump like a sport 1 month 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 1 month 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 1 month 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 1 month 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 2 months 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.