Humerous rant or not it seems reasonable to assume its basic claims about the animal are factual. It seems really fucked up to make shit up about an animal in order to rant about it.
Well yes, and what it means for "there to be things" is a whole discussion in itself. But the concepts of space and time are rather deep and fundamental (to our mental models regardless of how or if that maps to objective reality). The preference for right angles is much less fundamental and we can see past and get over it.
All this should tell us is that we have a strong irrational preference for right angles being aligned with each other.
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you would probably end up degrading your own experience; getting irrelevant ads
Irrevant ads = less targeted ads. You seem to think this is a negative. I'm saying it is actually a positive.
Getting more targeted ads is not really in your interest. That is an idea promoted by the ad people.
Creatine is very helpful for reducing the effects of sleep deprivation. I'm not sure what dose would be ideal, but I would expect it to be pretty large, like 20 grams.
I'm guessing ICE likes it, it probably makes their job easier.
What exactly is that last phrase supposed to modify? I find that syntax confusing. Is that ironic or intentional?
All of history is one people taking over another peoples land. I'm not saying its right, but in virtually any part of the world there is a history of some invader or colonizer coming in and displacing or swallowing up the existing people, probably multiple times, down through prehistory as well.
No, but I'd consider it for a large group of states. The US dividing into 2 countries is better than some other outcomes I can imagine.
Hear hear! Shaming Americans for their preference for unhealthy food is pretty racist.
I don't think you can prove that people can't do something well, by doing it yourself poorly.
"Look how humorously badly I keep missing the target! See? Sharpshooters could never hit something like this at this distance!"
BTW 100x is only possible with very small arthropods, the larger the ant or spider and the smaller that strength to weight ratio can be.
Now admittedly we can't really know how large the spider and turtle are, if they are much smaller than I am imagining then my incredulity may be similarly out of proportion.
Every picture of a fishing spider I can find is holding its (smaller than this turtle) prey at the water's edge, not dangling upside down with it in midair. They hunt by walking on the water, not by dangling and snatching from above. Are we to believe it caught its prey the normal way and then walked it up to that awkward position?
Searching F-droid today for 'vpn', something called URNetwork came up, touting itself as better then a VPN, and sounding frankly too good to be true. Duckduckgo searches are finding very little not either going to them (ur.io, or their github, etc) or some site called Product Hunt that I've never come across before. Nothing useful or that gives me confidence even that this isn't a scam.
Does anyone know anything about this product?
So is this Thunder itself or some app it is deferring to whose config I should look at?
Basically videos start out dim for a few seconds until the video controls fade out. This means the first few seconds of every video are basically unwatchable, and with short videos this is all or most of the video. For example https://lemmy.world/post/17884719
Of the many Lemmy clients I've tried, Thunder is the one I like the best, but the one place I have nits is the creating a comment experience.
After typing the comment you have close you keyboard, to have any hope of the create button being visible (if your comment is really short) and then scroll all the way back up to the top. Isn't the bottom the obviously better place for this button?
Even worse, if in trying to scroll the screen, you accidentally hit the little horizontal bar at the top, you just lose your comment.
Finally, it seems to always lose my place in the thread and put me back at the top after entering a comment.