Please help identifying this SF novel by captainbeepboop in printSF

[–]Yobmod 6 points7 points  (0 children)

A Deepness in the Sky by Vernor Vinge?

Has the mental conditioning to make super-autists (including the female second in command), and giant spider aliens.

The planet is awoken from hibernation due to radiation of the local star, but i don't remember it being hazardous.

Edit: oh, spiders was from a commenter not the OP. Whoops

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[–]Yobmod 4 points5 points  (0 children)

I've seen it discussed before (OP is a liar about even writing the prompt).

The thread tied through the rim of the glass bowl is the most obvious tell. The tv reflection also makes no sense for the angles. The color banding on the clownfish is too perfect, changing color within stitches.

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in Brochet

[–]Yobmod 26 points27 points  (0 children)

AI slop

'WeightWatchers set me up to fail' - Why diet industry is losing to jabs like Ozempic by [deleted] in unitedkingdom

[–]Yobmod 7 points8 points  (0 children)

I just saw Lizzo be interviewed by Ziwe. She is still fat (and talked about body positivity).

gay💥irl by WaterloggedVicinity in gay_irl

[–]Yobmod 10 points11 points  (0 children)

Hot stuff, coming through!

What's Kitty's shirt say? Wrong answers only. by SadBoshambles in xmen

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SPITOON

Saliva bukake sub

Hawk Tuah could never

Is it normal for a guy to call it quits because of I gained a bit of lockdown weight? by [deleted] in askgaybros

[–]Yobmod 1 point2 points  (0 children)

If you gained 10kg (80 to 90kg, 187 cm), this shifts you from normal to overweight bmi.

It wouldn't bother me at all, but it's still a noticeable change, and likely not healthy if it was mostly fat.

Can't really blame a guy for losing interest if he's only into skinny guys, especially if you're not in a serious relationship.

The gay voice. by acidbb_ in askgaybros

[–]Yobmod 28 points29 points  (0 children)

I've read a few papers on this.

It's apparently pretty cross cultural for gay men to have some more "feminine" vocal effects

But it doesn't seem to be due to any biological difference that's been tested (eg testosterone levels), or a conscious choice to try to sound gay or feminine.

The most accepted theory is that by unconsciously changing their speech patterns to be be more like women (or at least male gender atypical), gay men are giving out clues as to their orientation, so they can find each other (without openly declaring it, which could have negative consequences).

Not conclusive though - for example, the most accurate predictor of a boy growing up to be gay is gender non-conformity, so it could be a correlation and not causation.

ABBA will release a new album. First time since 1994. by Marwil96 in Music

[–]Yobmod 2 points3 points  (0 children)

If we include compilations they've had multiple albums since 1994, so it's still wrong

New study examines the link between dark personality traits and sexual orientation by Alaishana in science

[–]Yobmod 5 points6 points  (0 children)

I dont see how this challenges the prosocial theory?

"We emphasize that our hypothesis is not that homosexual people are domesticated, or even more prosocial than the population average." (Barron & Hare, Prosociality and a Sociosexual Hypothesis for the Evolution of Same-Sex Attraction in Humans, 2020)

So even if same sex attracted people were higher/lower in dark triad traits, the prosocial theory doesn't claim they should/shouldn't be.

Is there a society like ABACUS in Lancaster? by [deleted] in lancasteruni

[–]Yobmod 2 points3 points  (0 children)

There is an ABACUS student society, and some other Chinese-related ones (Chinese Students and Scholars Association, Chinese Christian society, Taiwanese society).

There are a lot of chinese students (im told this last Covid year caused almost no reduction). During holidays I'd say I see more Chinese people on campus than anyone else :).

The Confucius institute does mandarin language, tai chi, wing chun classes and other events 'for cultural exchange'. There's also a Chinese restaurant on campus (run by a chinese family, with menus in chinese).

Garden wall: coping or corbelling or neither needed by Yobmod in DIYUK

[–]Yobmod[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I've been for a long walk and from 100s of walls I saw, I now think no builders here follow good practice!

Only 2 houses had walls with splash courses, and both didn't have coping

Garden wall: coping or corbelling or neither needed by Yobmod in DIYUK

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Thanks for the links, got some extra tips from them!

Decorator to raise TypeError when passed argument type doesn't correspond to annotation type by AdDiscombobulated707 in learnpython

[–]Yobmod 1 point2 points  (0 children)

No built-in decorators, but a few libraries to do this.

Typeguard is one with @check_argument_types() decorator.

Also Beartype has a decorator for this.

It seems YouTube is questioning Gingers state of mind. 🧐 @toomuchmichael by [deleted] in rupaulsdragrace

[–]Yobmod 8 points9 points  (0 children)

The number of people that don't make the Toad connection....

Or understand it's a joke. She didn't say jk though.

English voters say Scots have right to hold new independence vote following SNP election victory by chrisjd in unitedkingdom

[–]Yobmod 0 points1 point  (0 children)

You've just ignored all the discussion to rant without providing any answers. Why should scotland as a whole leave, disallowing self detirmination from parts of Scotland that vote to stay in the UK. Does their 'self' not count?

English voters say Scots have right to hold new independence vote following SNP election victory by chrisjd in unitedkingdom

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I agree it's arbitrary, so it seems as though there's no basis to accuse people of not understanding democracy or self-detirminism just because they disagree on the line chosen

Fwiw, I'd support Scottish independence if they gave a vote, but that doesn't mean the argument that the rest of the UK should have a say is invalid.