[-] Kitathalla@lemy.lol 9 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago)

In the defense of the ancients who were naming things like other things they sort of looked like.... what OTHER substance was around at that time that was both white and liquid?

...

Because maybe we should be grateful for the milk metaphor instead of the option that only nuts would choose...

\ >.> Would you rather it be called after dough?

[-] Kitathalla@lemy.lol 2 points 5 days ago

I mean, I agree with you, personally, but I would make a bet that the amount of people trading sex toys is both bigger than you think, but still so small that you'd never meet one in your dating life.

I sort of want the stats on who trades toys now, just to compare to the amount of people buying dragon-like objects in the first place.

[-] Kitathalla@lemy.lol 5 points 6 days ago

Lol, the community over in reddit basically had as many people buying/selling as they did posts of people using the products. I think they had it in the forums for the bd site as well.

[-] Kitathalla@lemy.lol 38 points 6 days ago

So, interesting and maybe-not-so-fun fact? Most parasites that kill their hosts do so without caring because they can survive elsewhere. We call it a reservoir of infection.

REALLY fun fact, there's some cool life cycles involved. You remember our old friend anthrax? One of its favorite tricks is killing its host, the zebra. When it dies, the anthrax bacteria go down into the soil beneath the corpse, and put on a fresh new coat of paint and open up shop again. Only, this time, they act as a super friendly bacteria that participates in the nitrogen cycle and ensure that the plants in the soil can get everything they'd ever want out of that oh-so-convenient zebra corpse rotting away up above. Why do they do this? Because in their 'friendly' infection of the plants growing (oh, did I forget to mention what plants they infect/cooperate with? It's grass), they get offered right up to the hungry mouths of the next zebra to come along and see an exceptionally vibrant area of green grass.

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submitted 1 month ago by Kitathalla@lemy.lol to c/games@lemmy.world

I've been on a 'retro' kick recently, and big-mech time has rolled in.

There's a game that I cannot remember the name of, but played at a friend's house like one time and I still remember how insane it was (at the time). The premise that I can remember is either 'big mechs fighting kaiju' or 'big mechs fighting other mechs in a war,' but the twist was that it wasn't from the perspective of the cockpit or third person over the shoulder. I remember you had to run around the city (I remember something like an elevated train platform) with your human character to get a visual of the fight, and then you controlled your mech while looking at it from your little human perspective. The mech fighting felt slower paced, almost like controlling a really giant construction wrecking machine. I think it was mid 00s, and maybe the xbox?

[-] Kitathalla@lemy.lol 30 points 1 month ago

No, no, he clearly meant hooved animal speech. Maybe an odd looking sheep that you just can't shear.

[-] Kitathalla@lemy.lol 76 points 1 month ago

People you know online know your address or you know their address? Freaky as shit. My IRL friends barely know my address.

[-] Kitathalla@lemy.lol 82 points 1 month ago

It's amusing how things you never expect to be seen by others suddenly go intercontinental because your company likes them. I have a friend who retired from her corporate job about 15 years ago. She had an excel document (that I guess became some sort of super document, I dunno, I'm not into that sort of stuff), and it worked so well for her work that it became the company standard for a gigantic multinational corporation (they're one of the ones you always hear involved in US wars), and whatever she did couldn't be changed once she left.

That means she occasionally still gets contacted about her mildly suggestive name for the file. It references testicles and corporate greed in one go round.

[-] Kitathalla@lemy.lol 51 points 2 months ago

It's been a long time since I had to deal with texas laws about firearms, but I think there is a clause about having a handgun/firearm while in commission of another crime. Yup, here's the relevant one. Then there's the plate one which is what triggers that 'other than... Class C' part of the first one, since having a fictitious plate is a Class B.

So basically, the seizure they're doing is legal, although as we all know, *cough cough*, legal ain't always right.

[-] Kitathalla@lemy.lol 40 points 2 months ago

A half gallon every three days? Bitch, that's like a full oil change every week. This isn't a leak so much as an open tube slowly pissing on the ground. I'm actually going to do the math, so hang on a tick.

Three days, 72 hours. 72 hours, 4320 minutes. 4320 minutes, 259200 seconds. Okay, now, we're just going to say a quart is equivalent to a liter so my math is 'easier,' don't judge me. 2 liters, 2000 mL. 2,000 mL, 2,000,000 microliters. So 2,000,000 microliters / 259200 seconds = 7.7 microliters/second.

That's probably a difficult amount to visualize, so to put it in perspective it is roughly equivalent to a milliliter every two minutes, a shot (of liquor, size) every hour. A hospital page I just not-googled said males average ~21 mL/sec pissing in young adulthood, declining throughout life, while women average 18 mL/sec for their adult lives. So, fine, we're not exactly at human pissing rates here, but still.

[-] Kitathalla@lemy.lol 26 points 2 months ago

Maybe I'm just too immersed in the culture of my youth, but the only ones that don't look 'good' are the horse and the deer. The horse could be fixed by styling the mane, and the deer might be better with a more vertical angle.

Fuck smoking and smokers, but yeah it looks 'cool' to me.

[-] Kitathalla@lemy.lol 44 points 2 months ago

It's going to be a zoom call. Though it would be hilarious if the governor actually hated CEOs, got them all in one place, and tried to consistently leak the info ahead of time.

[-] Kitathalla@lemy.lol 24 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

https://inv.nadeko.net/watch?v=0CFuCYNx-1g

Can you imagine knowing that people refuse to help you because they think ghosts are real? Dying of preventable causes because some idiot was told something invisible existed? ~~Medicine~~ Aid right at your fingertips from qualified professionals but quasi-religion ensured it didn't happen?

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