rob_t_firefly

joined 2 years ago
[–] rob_t_firefly@lemmy.world 2 points 15 hours ago* (last edited 15 hours ago)

Alert: the Wi-Fi has detected high-waisted mom jeans.

[–] rob_t_firefly@lemmy.world 7 points 15 hours ago

Yes, Popeye will eat his spinach and rescue her.

[–] rob_t_firefly@lemmy.world 2 points 4 days ago

Because my country's egg supply chain makes them require refrigeration.

[–] rob_t_firefly@lemmy.world 5 points 4 days ago

I'll try my best to not be venuarable, then.

[–] rob_t_firefly@lemmy.world 4 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago) (1 children)

Rule 1 is "No bigotry," and trying to force rules and speech limitations imposed by your own religion onto those who don't share them seems like a pretty bigoted thing to do.

[–] rob_t_firefly@lemmy.world 2 points 4 days ago

Thank you for the additional info!

[–] rob_t_firefly@lemmy.world 21 points 4 days ago (2 children)
[–] rob_t_firefly@lemmy.world 11 points 5 days ago (1 children)

Careful, they might be those Legend of Zelda chickens that'll mess you up real bad.

[–] rob_t_firefly@lemmy.world 3 points 5 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago) (3 children)

This is a scorpion replaced by copper, found in a copper mine. A scorpion likely got buried in some mud or sediment, and over the years became fossilized in copper as copper-rich mineral deposits replaced the original organic material. So, this is copper coalesced in the shape of the scorpion in that pose, and it stays posed that way forever.

It's like when you see dinosaur fossils; you aren't seeing the original bones, you're seeing everlasting minerals which deposited in the exact shapes of the buried bones over time, replacing the buried organic bone matter as it decayed away. As this buried scorpion decayed away, copper filled in the gaps where it used to be.

EDIT: maybe it's questionable? @Evil_Shrubbery@lemmy.zip adds perspective in a reply below.

[–] rob_t_firefly@lemmy.world 2 points 5 days ago

I bet it's a better actor.

[–] rob_t_firefly@lemmy.world 11 points 5 days ago (1 children)

An easy way to tell whether it's an alligator or a crocodile is by noting whether you see it later, or in a while.

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submitted 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) by rob_t_firefly@lemmy.world to c/comicstrips@lemmy.world
 

By Nigel Auchterlounie. source link

 

Me to a bookstore clerk: There's this book I'm looking for about "Star Trek: Enterprise."

Clerk: ISBN?

Me: A LONG ROOOAD getting from there to here...

 

Excerpt:

I hate all of this in almost every way a thing can be hated. I hate the factless waffle that surrounds Big AI’s every improbable goal. I hate how insipidly stupid, or just plain evil, those goals so often are, and the yawning chasm between them and any form of achievable reality. I hate that Big AI’s successes are inflated and its failures ignored — or are even categorised as hilarious mis-steps, like when AI chatbots tell people to eat poisonous mushrooms, put glue on pizza, or make air diffusers from chlorine gas.

I hate that Big AI consumes so much energy that every time you generate a six-fingered portrait of Anne Frank or a scene from the Vietnam war in the style of Studio Ghibli, you might as well just kill a polar bear with a crossbow. I hate that it can run roughshod over every copyright law and environmental protection on the planet in pursuit of the data it needs to continue failing, with no consequences save for the enrichment of the worst people on Earth, who have managed to make all of this magical bullshit seem sensible to an intellectual class comprised of people I wouldn’t trust to print an email.

 
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submitted 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) by rob_t_firefly@lemmy.world to c/comicstrips@lemmy.world
 

Because at that moment, there will be 20 2024 hours to go.

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submitted 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) by rob_t_firefly@lemmy.world to c/comicstrips@lemmy.world
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