[-] inspired@kbin.social 10 points 1 month ago

I'm imagining him switching his VP pick to be the dead worm. Do I still need to read the article?

[-] inspired@kbin.social 18 points 2 months ago

This is an interesting question but I don't think it is restricted to green. Isn't the same true of purple, blue and red? I'm not talking about just reddish like human hair or a red panda but truly bright red like a cardinal. I would imagine it has something to do with our evolutionary history. Complete speculation here but laced with a few facts I picked up. I hear the common ancestor of mammals emerged around the time the dinosaurs became extinct and was basically a tiny rodent like a shrew. I wonder if as a small animal that can't fly or swim it had to hide a lot and basically just came in shades of brown. So maybe any genes for other colors were lost before that common mammalian ancestor emerged and although mammals have lots of patterns they don't have many colors.

[-] inspired@kbin.social 16 points 2 months ago

Best I've got is sloths. And they're only green because algae grows on them. And I know it sounds like cheating because they aren't intrinsically green but before you completely discount it there are animals that wouldn't be the color they are in a different environment. For instance, flamingos are only pink because of the seafood they eat. If fed a different diet they can be almost white.

[-] inspired@kbin.social 12 points 7 months ago

The app is Covenant Eyes. https://slate.com/human-interest/2023/11/mike-johnson-republican-speaker-interview-covenant-eyes.html

It gives you a blurred view of the porn the other person is viewing in a near-realtime feed https://www.covenanteyes.com/how-it-works/#activity-feed

It is exactly as bad as it sounds unless they choose to claim to not be using this feature and we choose to believe them.

[-] inspired@kbin.social 8 points 8 months ago

He won't seek consent for either and he's already drafting a bill that that look you're making... yeah, that look... is implied consent.

[-] inspired@kbin.social 31 points 8 months ago

This man looks like he's always about to kiss you full on the mouth but you know what he really wants to do is make a jacket out of your skin. 0 stars.

[-] inspired@kbin.social 13 points 9 months ago

I don't know much about politics but given the situation it sounds to me like he's just hoping to get someone with a weaker hand into that already extremely tenuous position. Democrats shouldn't be fooled thinking "but they're more reasonable". That person will automatically have a weaker position than McCarthy just because they are the second choice so it won't matter much who the speaker is just the fact that they have zero room to maneuver. What might make it worthwhile despite this? I wonder whether Democrats can extract some binding commitments like non-reversible rule changes that survive at least for the session in order to secure their votes to oust McCarthy.

[-] inspired@kbin.social 7 points 9 months ago

The obsolete skills they are learning are "prompt engineer".

[-] inspired@kbin.social 12 points 10 months ago

Here's what I love best: pretend the positions of the characters also line up between the two photos as well. Some of them work pretty well, and some work too well:

Zhaan/Crusher
Chiana/Troi - Yeah, I know you thought Zhaan should be with Troi but the neckline and also there's probably no one in TNG crew you could make chaotic good but if you had to pick, it'd be Troi.
Crais/Riker - Facial hair, of course.
D'Argo/Worf - No, you're wrong! It is actually Sun/Worf. She is clearly chief of security.
D'Argo/Data - Yes, good. I'm sure D'Argo loves cats.
Scorpius/Geordi - Biohackers.
Rygel/Picard - Most definitely in charge and acting like it. Don't let anybody tell you different.
Crichton/Yar - You... you can't see Tasha Yar in the TNG photo? She's right there in the... weird. I mean she was in the show from the first episode to the last one and she held the whole group together. She flies the shuttle. That's like... that's Crichton's whole thing. I don't see how you can't... you really can't see her?

[-] inspired@kbin.social 20 points 11 months ago

Time itself stopped in stage 4. All existence was unmade and remade. The cat who entered the yawn is not the same cat who emerged. This was done for the protection of reality from stage 3. Ask no further questions about stage 4 just be grateful.

[-] inspired@kbin.social 7 points 11 months ago

I like some of the other suggestions better than this but if you've already tried communicating about it and other things haven't worked, I wonder if for some cases you could convince him to take a video or a picture. Like, if it's a cool thing he wants you to see instead of interrupting you record it and share it when you're available instead of right now, interrupting you. Again, I think the other proposals are better but I wonder... if you're right about the motivation at least sometimes being just wanting to share something it might be worth attempting.

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