most dinosaurs can fly, since all living dinosaurs are birds and those very famously tend to fly quite a lot.
well almost, we don't know what they sounded like but we can make pretty decent educated guesses at what they probably sounded like in general.
For example parasaurolophus very definitely seems to have a resonating structure, like a trombone strapped to their face, so it'd be weird if they didn't make some sort of trumpeting sounds.
Another big one is that dinosaurs generally didn't have anything like a voicebox or whatever the thing is that birds use to make their calls, so we can be quite confident that most dinosaurs didn't make any bird-like noises, and they wouldn't have been able to do stuff like roar either.
Which leaves us with t.rex probably just having sounded somewhat like an alligator.
Honestly it's pretty funny to me how people think 4d is all strange and terrifying, when in fact it's (to the degree that it can be said to actually exist, since it's theoretical/mathematical) pretty "simple" and just headache inducing to try to wrap your head around.
like your mind wouldn't shatter from being moved through 4d space, things would just look completely nonsensical and impossible, it's no more lovecraftian than subatomic physics. It's just Kronk saying "by all accounts, it doesn't make sense".
No, time is not the same kind of dimension as space.
I think the thing here that confuses a lot of people is that we need to use movement over time to help our brains get some sort of grasp on how 4 spatial dimensions could work.
Think of it like how document scanners work: the scanner can only see a thin line, so to read the whole document it has to pass that line over the paper, which takes time.
On the other hand you have our eyes which can see a 2d plane, so we can see the entire paper at once, no time needed.
So the time needed to scan the paper isn't part of the paper's 2-dimensionality, but it's needed to represent it in 1 dimension.
In the same way we couldn't directly perceive things in 4d, but we could rotate a 4d item through our 3d slice until we've seen all angles of it, and then try to build a mental approximation of how it actually looks.
A concrete example: to map a 3d sphere into 2d, you'd move it through the 2d plane which results in it looking like a circle that appears out of nowhere, grows until it reaches the widest part, then shrinks again until it dissapears.
Similarily, a 4d hypersphere passing through our 3d space would look like a sphere that appears out of nowhere, grows and shrinks, and then disappears again.
as time goes on i grow increasingly convinced that they are just in extreme denial about themselves: at some level they know they're not completely straight or cis and any exposure to people who are comfortable with being such forces them to confront it in themselves, and due to societal pressure and upbringing this makes them feel terrible, so instinctively they reach for the easiest way out which is to remove the trigger.
it's very difficult when you can't fucking find the required kind of cloth for filtering, i cannot find it in any store here and i refuse to buy it from amazon.
i know it's not a new vegas reference, the song is old, but still this felt like being jumpscared by larson himself
isn't the problem specifically that some people just can't really do intuitive math for small numbers? like all through school everyone else just breezed through memorizing the multiplication tables and i just sat there manually adding numbers together and felt so fucking stupid and worthless in math class
even on a less well-maintained system it's probably not going to be the kernel having a freakout, the kernel is going to be just fine while something else shits itself (probably graphics drivers on a desktop tbh, my vega 10 loves to vomit onto the screen and pass out)
you will live in a box made of ticky tacky, you will drive a subscription tank, you will eat a "hamburger" maed out of 40% sawdust, you will spend 10% of your life mowing your lawn, and you will think you like it
and even then you can at least buy some tippex to censor things, and if you want to get advanced i'm sure there are products that straight up remove the ink from the paper.
I know there are specific extra hard erasers for removing pen ink
or, you know, just put a black bar over it so the information is just completely gone from the image?
scribbling over is never going to actually work, the information is still there for anyone who wants to extract it. It's like shouting over someone instead of just getting them to shut up.
it astounds me that people don't do this, really
like i tend to always pay attention to how nice a property looks when i'm travelling past it, and good god it looks so much more enjoyable when you have a bunch of shade and greenery around you!
Properties without some sort of tree/hedge wall surrounding it out in the open just look absolutely miserable and trigger a long dormant part of my brain that fears being picked off by a giant bird.
