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  • What's an unscientific opinion that you firmly hold?

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  • 100%, I avoid using plastics as much as possible around anything that I ingest that involved heat somewhere in the production process. Not entirely possible, but I do what I can.

  • What's an unscientific opinion that you firmly hold?

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  • The universe is deterministic. Quantum Mechanics doesn't really disagree with this, it's just not as popular an interpretation as the other ones. Even if deterministic QM interpretations eventually end up being ruled out rigorously, maybe we could someday "poke through" to the underlying substrate, like a video game character figuring out the seed for the RNG that determines their universe.

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  • Sounds like a bubble, which isn't a bad thing but not very common in the US IME. I haven't looked at housing prices in that area, but I'm guessing they would be obscenely expensive for most people. Even where real estate is much cheaper than that, I've only really known a few people that have done that sort of thing and they're all well-off.

    I'm also going to plug the community we've got over at !AskUSA@discuss.online, it's great for casual US-focused questions like this.

  • 2025-11-21

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  • If you rotate him around the vertical axis by 180°, his head will be oriented the same way as the pictures.

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    Where can i find lemmy space like reddits AITA?

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  • Probably the best traction you're going to get is in !asklemmy@lemmy.world. There exist more specific communities as listed in the other comments, but they tend to be much smaller, or defunct.

  • 2025-11-15

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  • Thanks! I appreciate hearing it

  • 2025-11-15

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  • Some background on this comic:

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    A few years ago, the Citizen-Journal in Columbus, Ohio, made a slight mistake regarding which Far Side caption went with which cartoon.

    The caption for the "slug" cartoon, depicting a mass of slugs worshiping their "god" and chanting some nonsensical intonation, was repeated the following day with the "tree house" cartoon. Instead of the version shown in the upper left corner, what Columbus readers saw was the cartoon at left.

    And how many letters did I have forwarded to me asking for an explanation? Don't ask.

  • 2025-11-13

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  • Some background on this comic:

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    After completing this cartoon, I realized one of the apes had to be sucking an empty glass onto his face (as I myself used to be quite good at), so it was necessary to start over.

  • What open source project is the most exciting for you right now?

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  • At a slightly lower level, I'm excited about Servo. Activity died off for a bit but it's gaining steam again. Still behind Ladybird progress-wise, but it will make a very strong foundation for a new web browser.

  • Are you less likely to comment on a bot post?

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  • Yeah, bot posts are good IMO for things that are like once per day or less. More frequently and it can end up being spammy. OTOH, I've browsed all a few times and seen interesting posts from HN that I then went over and read, so there's something to be said for that too. Maybe if there was a more nuanced option, like "don't show me bot posts unless they've been upvoted by a non-bot" or something like that. Or maybe if bots reposting from elsewhere did that filtering beforehand, like top 10 per day or something

  • 2025-10-31

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  • Mummies are often depicted shambling/dragging their legs, which is something you don't want to do when dancing. I think it's just that simple

  • 2025-10-31

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  • Some background on this comic:

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    I took some heat from a few parents about this cartoon, but this is one that remains one of my personal favorites. It's just such a ludicrous situation trying to pull itself off as a serious one.

    I wanted to write back to a couple of these people (I never did) and say, now, c'mon: look at this cartoon: First of all, this cartoon "couple" have not hired a witch-like babysitter to watch their kids—they've hired a witch! Secondly, they're not horrified at what's occurred, as we might suspect, but mostly indignant. And lastly, they're especially upset that the witch ate both their kids—as if to suggest one would have been pretty bad, but both is really unacceptable.

    It's even more interesting to me that fairy tales themselves, frequently full of violence and scary things, are directed at children—which is mostly condoned. This cartoon, on the other hand, is merely satirizing a common fairy tale them (e.g., "Hansel and Gretel") and directing the humor at adults. Now that's confusing.

  • 2025-10-30

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  • If anyone is unaware, from another The Far Side comic:

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  • 2025-10-28

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  • Some background on this comic:

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    A friend of mine related a story of how she once brought a boyfriend of hers to her parents' house for dinner. Her father and her boyfriend (Edgar) apparently didn't hit it off real well, and before the evening was over, her father ended up saying to Edgar, "You know what your problem is, don't you? Your problem is you don't have a purpose! Everyone has to have a purpose in life, and you simply haven't found one!"

    I have no idea if the real Edgar ever found his purpose or not, but if he did, this is how I imagined it.

  • 2025-10-27

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  • I think the joke is just "What if a sleazy door-to-door salesman was a snake? What would he try to sell?"

  • 2025-10-22

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  • Some background on this comic:

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    It's Professor Gilbert- He's come back from the grave to destroy us all!

    Actually, it was only prof. Simmons, the lab practical joker who had discovered a technique of rejuvenating dead tissue

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    I have absolutely no idea what the little doodle above means or where it came from, but it led to this Far Side. (And now I know where the latter came from, but I still don't know what it means.)

  • 2025-10-16

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  • Probably riffing on the movie Free Willy instead of SeaWorld directly

  • 2025-10-16

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  • It's from the site. My guess is that they do it in the cheapest way possible because there's often mistakes like that