a grand fool!

i will never stop wanting to commit severe crime every time i try to see what’s using the processor and every single fucking system monitor tool just says it’s xorg

YES THANK YOU VERY USEFUL GOOD

are they fun guys?

i know.
The dichotomy is between the knowledge that they’re closer to animals than anything else, yet they don’t behave anything like animals and they permeate basically every part of the earth.

the more you learn about how different species work the more your current worldview absolutely crumbles into dust and you see reality for the lawless mess that it is.

Barnacles are crustaceans, if you slice one in half you see that it’s a fucked up deformed crayfish sitting inside the shell.

fungi are conceptually lovecraftian horrors but in practice they’re basically just strange plants, and i find that neat.

this is what peertube tries to fix: everyone watching a peertube video (by default) will help server the data to other watching, so instead of the server needing to send all the data the viewers share the load.

those are unlabeled, have you ever seen a ruler?

people (like me) who only have abuse-tolerant plants are like druids who failed to keep their creatures alive and thus turn to necromancy so they won’t be responsible for further deaths

for the same reason that rulers start with 1, it would be utterly pointless to use anything else.

honestly it’s less magic and more cosmic horror, fungi are literally the source of most of the organic decay we’re used to (especially rotting trees), and the fact that they effectively are the ground in many places is not in any way magical because aaaaaaa

i wish they’d at least compare it to a computer network instead, there’s no intelligence, just information being passed along.

well why is it good? why not just assume the boilerplate as the default and require the user to override it if they want to do something fancy?

it’s just busywork to always need to write the same stuff, and it also makes the code less readable and many people look at all that boilerplate and nope the fuck out.

This is why python is so good for getting people to realize that programming isn’t magic, you just write the equivalent of one short sentence and BAM text in the terminal, no need to import the basic ability to print text which is so incredibly inane.

maybe some people use similar-looking pumpkins with way more woody flesh?

wait a minute

as a swede i have to say some of these groupings are a bit odd, like “södra götaland” which makes no sense whatsoever neither in name nor in area, or having västra götaland stretch into jönköping municipality…

isn’t that technically how it works for all arthropods? Anything vaguely limb-like is in fact a heavily derived leg, including antennae.

shoutout for using thorn and eth, but man using just eth as a short for “the” took me a couple seconds to figure out.

afaik it’s supposed to be pronounced “boo-opps”

i would NEVER suggest burning down factories, as those can be quite easily reconfigured to produce useful things or simply be converted into quite nice neighbourhoods.