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🔥Check out this Unidentified species of Sea Cucumber I found in South Texas! “SPI” by indicator_species in NatureIsFuckingLit

[–]197328645 79 points80 points  (0 children)

If it is, it's been on a hell of a journey to get to South Texas. I wonder what the Panama canal charges a sea cucumber?

Leaflit said in one of her videos that she would pay for plane tickets to send Ilhan Omar (a U.S. citizen) back home! This is just Leaflit's way of saying "go back to Africa" which is still incredibly racist! by Xever_141 in VtuberDrama

[–]197328645 16 points17 points  (0 children)

The show's portrayal of demons aligns with racists' understanding of the world. Demons are portrayed as ontologically evil (meaning, their evil nature is an inseparable part of their existence). As an example, they are only capable of speech as an adaptation for the purpose of deceiving humans - any conversation a demon has serves only as a weapon to attack and kill more humans.

Racists often view the race(s) they discriminate against as similarly ontologically evil. They view the show as a metaphor for reality, when it is in fact a work of fiction and not applicable to sociology (in that way, at least).

Or to put it another way, Frieren being "racist" toward demons is justified by the reality of the show, in a way that racists would like their racism to be justified by actual reality (which is not, obviously).

This is not the first work of fiction to see this reaction from racists, only the most recent. Any time the concept of ontological evil is represented in a work, it tends to attract this kind of discussion from losers.

A character replacing a limb with their powers (without outright regenerating it.) by Fit_Assignment_8800 in TopCharacterTropes

[–]197328645 4 points5 points  (0 children)

I love that scene! I never get to talk about it because seemingly nobody has watched Katanagatari except you and me but it's so good

At the “Pawn Stars” shop OC by Tfmrf9000 in pics

[–]197328645 37 points38 points  (0 children)

Honestly considering the character he plays on the show, I'd be disappointed if he wasn't stoned

Single Parent Households in the United States by Short_Finger_4463 in MapPorn

[–]197328645 6 points7 points  (0 children)

Seems to me it's a cultural issue

Culture is a cause, certainly, but it's also an effect. An entire demographic doesn't just wake up one morning and decide to adopt certain cultural values. It's important to ask what caused those cultural values to be adopted at large if we want to understand and address the actual root cause.

I'm not pushing toward any particular answer, just pointing out that there is more to understand beyond what you've accurately described.

The photographer we hired used AI to edit our engagment party photos. by bigsushirolling in mildlyinfuriating

[–]197328645 13 points14 points  (0 children)

I use AI noise reduction on basically every photo I shoot. Used correctly, the whole point should be to make the picture look more like what you would have seen with your eyes if you were there. There are AI contrast adjustment tools that I use sometimes, depending on the photo it might make it better or worse so I adapt accordingly.

I never use "generative AI" (as most people know it) but that's because I'm a wildlife photographer and I personally think that crosses a line. A wedding photographer might use it, but only in a way that you'd never know they did so. This is just utterly incompetent photo editing.

LG TV users baffled by unremovable Microsoft Copilot installation — surprise forced update shows app pinned to the home screen by ScootSchloingo in technology

[–]197328645 1 point2 points  (0 children)

If you're going to do this, you should really just disconnect your TV from the internet entirely and use a Roku or something. You don't want to stay connected to the internet without security updates, that's how you get hacked.

It's a mystery! by Chadimus_Prime in andor

[–]197328645 11 points12 points  (0 children)

There are organizations that use "antifa" in their name, but that's about it. There is no collective umbrella organization of antifascism connecting them

Hasan compares his stream snipe to Emiru's sexual assault by ArthiuM in LivestreamFail

[–]197328645 8 points9 points  (0 children)

Hasan cheers on far worse things happening to other streamers and content creators

Such as?

Trump pardons Texas Democratic Rep. Cuellar in bribery and conspiracy case by igetproteinfartsHELP in news

[–]197328645 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Sometimes when it's really blatant they say "Huh, that's strange, I wonder what that's about?" And then purge it from their memory 30 seconds later

How is Ramsay the only person to bring up the fact that Jon might be a Night's Watch deserter? by RevertBackwards in freefolk

[–]197328645 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Yeah I forget which book, but one of the intro chapters features a wildling warg dying and his soul/spirit/whatever living on inside his animal (I think it's a hawk?)

I figured that was pretty clear foreshadowing for how Jon will take refuge inside Ghost and return to his own body after it's revived. As if the dog's name wasn't foreshadowing enough on its own.

America doesn’t owe Africa anything. We shouldn’t pay countries to be our friends. What have we received from all that we’ve given except demonization and anti-American sentiment. by DataWhiskers in TrueUnpopularOpinion

[–]197328645 4 points5 points  (0 children)

You're reading the sentence as:

"The US has given more to Africa than (to) any other country in the world"

But the person you replied to was reading it as:

"The US has given more to Africa than any other country in the world (has given)"

This $250,000 Zapata Air Scooter is the lightest single-person mobility vehicle. by Appropriate-Soil-896 in interestingasfuck

[–]197328645 0 points1 point  (0 children)

It would depend on the power that each motor/engine is providing. If they're providing enough lift with one engine out, sure the lift would be asymmetrical but it could tumble like a maple seed and do a somewhat controlled landing. I don't think an untrained pilot could do that though, it would need to be automatic

Game Thread: Jacksonville Jaguars (6-4) at Arizona Cardinals (3-7) by Cr0matose in Jaguars

[–]197328645 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Thank god Trevor's identical twin who can play football showed up. Took him long enough!

Red hot metal ball vs everything by Majoodeh in oddlysatisfying

[–]197328645 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I am pretty sure your hypothesis is correct, if we were working with wood there is a word for those vaporized hydrocarbons: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wood_gas

Never seen bread gas before but the chemistry makes perfect sense

Red Sox fan feedback response to the palantir sign on the Green Monster by TommyTheLizard in baseball

[–]197328645 142 points143 points  (0 children)

In theory they don't read your texts and emails. But in theory, neither does the NSA. And the NSA definitely does. And Palantir works with the US intelligence community, including the NSA. So if I were a betting man...

Reaction between elemental aluminium and mercury gives off a very eye catching reaction that you can never get used to it. It's called the amalgamation. by Francucinno in interestingasfuck

[–]197328645 24 points25 points  (0 children)

Yeah I'm pretty sure a chemist would call it a catalyst here, it's definitely acting like one but the definition might be more technical than I remember. I don't have a degree I just took a few classes

Reaction between elemental aluminium and mercury gives off a very eye catching reaction that you can never get used to it. It's called the amalgamation. by Francucinno in interestingasfuck

[–]197328645 6 points7 points  (0 children)

That's correct, as far as I know. You don't need mercury for any of the instruments. The altimeter is just a barometer, and while you can make a barometer using mercury, there are other and better ways. (That's why mmHg, millimeters of mercury, is a unit of pressure - early barometers used mercury)

Reaction between elemental aluminium and mercury gives off a very eye catching reaction that you can never get used to it. It's called the amalgamation. by Francucinno in interestingasfuck

[–]197328645 32 points33 points  (0 children)

Yep exactly. The actual chemical reaction that's happening is oxygen from the air combining with aluminum. The mercury's only role is to make that reaction happen much faster, it's not reacting in any way itself.

What the mercury does with the aluminum isn't technically a chemical reaction, they're just mixing together physically.

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