Catoblepas

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[–] Catoblepas@lemmy.blahaj.zone 4 points 2 months ago

The taste is perfectly fine to me, but the similarity in smell while cooking it to fresh but wet hay always throws me a bit.

[–] Catoblepas@lemmy.blahaj.zone 38 points 2 months ago

Somewhere there’s someone opening up a bag of monocolor rotini

[–] Catoblepas@lemmy.blahaj.zone 3 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

The cow/graveyard game, finding signs that start with each letter of the alphabet, finding license plates from the most states, punch buggy of course, and if my parents were pissed off the silent game was enforced.

But NEVER counting the number of cars you see. That was bad luck.

[–] Catoblepas@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 points 2 months ago (1 children)

That sounds rad tbh

[–] Catoblepas@lemmy.blahaj.zone 20 points 2 months ago (2 children)

People will say it doesn’t make a difference, but it apparently made enough of a difference that they still can’t find the guy that was putting pipe bombs around the US capitol. I think at least a portion of the “they can still identify you under your mask with computers” claims are based on very niche situations (high quality footage of someone wearing a thin, fabric mask) and exaggeration or allowing people to incorrectly draw their own conclusions.

[–] Catoblepas@lemmy.blahaj.zone 0 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Did you have a point? Data shows it’s safer to cyclists to yield and not stop at both.

[–] Catoblepas@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 points 2 months ago (3 children)

Do you remember if any of his other work was with it, or just the one piece? In context with his other work I feel like it’s beautiful. But a lot of the work of his that was on display was huge, so it would be understandable if they only showed one or two pieces.

The other art of his on display at The Broad mostly included found objects from unknown Native bead artists which he had also placed beadwork around, and painted similar boldly designed textual elements. It’s not that none of the art worked without the others, adding them all together just layers on the messaging and style of his in a way that’s pleasing to me.

Almost everything was very boldly colored, though, so if that’s not your jam that’s understandable!

[–] Catoblepas@lemmy.blahaj.zone 4 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

Where are motorcycles limited to 25 kph, the way bicycles (including e-bikes) are? There is also an inherent weight difference between a motorcycle and a bike, even an e-bike, which changes how dangerous they are.

[–] Catoblepas@lemmy.blahaj.zone 8 points 2 months ago (2 children)

It is at first, but it makes sense when you consider that bikes take longer to come up to speed than cars do, and have a much more limited capacity to get out of the way when they’re not at speed. So if you make bikes lose and regain that speed many times while riding, multiplied by many bikers, eventually one of them is going to wind up encountering a driver that’s not paying attention while they’re leaving a stop sign.

I’m sure that’s not the only reason, but I’d be surprised if it wasn’t a reason.

[–] Catoblepas@lemmy.blahaj.zone 18 points 2 months ago (12 children)

It should be, because it’s actually less safe for bikes to come to a full stop at red lights and stop signs.

[–] Catoblepas@lemmy.blahaj.zone 11 points 2 months ago

Gonna be honest, I somehow missed all the dates on this post because I zeroed in on freecupholder.exe, lmao. Late 90s was when I saw it first, but it’s totally believable to me that people were doing this in 2006.

[–] Catoblepas@lemmy.blahaj.zone 407 points 2 months ago (6 children)

Funny that they’re calling them AI haters when they’re specifically poisoning AI that ignores the do not enter sign. FAFO.

 

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.blahaj.zone/post/18287301

If you want to attend, they ask that you RSVP through the Google form on this page.

 

If you want to attend, they ask that you RSVP through the Google form on this page.

 
 
 

Ocean Alliance began working with drones in 2013. Within the last few years, they began collecting exhaled breath condensation, also known as "whale snot."

The whale snot is a biological jackpot with DNA, microbiomes, and hormones. This data was nearly impossible to collect from a live whale. 

"I've seen more unique behaviors from a drone in the last five years than I've seen in the previous 25," Kerr said.

They’re apparently also using the drones to tag them for GPS tracking, really cool use for them.

 

Inspired by me learning that I can check out solar panels (hiking sized, not house sized) at the library.

 

More information on CicLAvia’s website here.

Even if you don’t have your own bike, there are lots of Metro bikes to rent near the route for $1.75/30 minutes. You can find a map of bike stations here.

 

The LA LGBT Center has released a proposition voting guide with their recommendations.

 

You can get involved by using the iNaturalist app and joining the challenge.

The primary objective of this is to both get people more engaged and aware of their local wildlife, and to eliminate white areas with no observations on the iNaturalist observation heat map. This will help researchers learn more about urban ecosystems.

 

Apparently it’s a promotion for Clean Air Day, I had no idea it was going on until I got on the bus to go to the store today.

 

Obviously learning a couple of words in another language doesn't really make you bilingual, or being able to say a few phrases. But there's also clearly some point before full fluency where you can be considered bilingual, but how is it determined (formally or informally)? Is it purely vibes based, you'll know when you see it kind of thing?

I'm vaguely familiar with the CEFR levels measuring how much of a language you speak, but if there's a cutoff point for counting as bilingual in there somewhere I don't know where.

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