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TheTechnician27

@ TheTechnician27 @lemmy.world

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"Falsehood flies, and truth comes limping after it, so that when men come to be undeceived, it is too late; the jest is over, and the tale hath had its effect: [...] like a physician, who hath found out an infallible medicine, after the patient is dead." —Jonathan Swift

  • TIL there's a subspecies of rat whose scientific name is Rattus rattus rattus

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  • Not nearly, actually! Exact tautonyms are pretty uncommon, all things considered. Trinomial tautonyms even less so, like Bison bison bison. I don't think I can give you actual data, but I can say knowing a fair bit of marine taxonomy that it's the exception there.

    Edit: It's also prohibited in botany and, I learned today, used to be prohibited for bacteria.

    Edit 2: Wikipedia maintains an incomplete list, incidentally.

    Edit 3: Forgot to mention I was specifically talking about binomial/trinomial tautonyms. Near-tautonyms are very common as you go up toward the middle of the tree of life, e.g. a family, superfamily, and order sharing basically the same name, just with a different prescribed suffix.

  • TIL there's a subspecies of rat whose scientific name is Rattus rattus rattus

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  • Crucially, I forgot to note the taxonomist who described it:

  • kit trying to scare mama cat

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  • "Sentry online"

  • ICE Handed Over Specific Iranians at the Islamic Republic's Request

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  • Colbert doesn't care. Neither should we.

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  • Source for the quote. To clarify, this was from February 2025, although this quote is evergreen enough that it doesn't make much difference.

  • Shockwaves as another top aide announces exit from Trump admin

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  • As Raw Story continues to be a tabloid piece of shit that won't even say the name or role in the headline.

    Should be disallowed here for how shitty, sensationalist, and unreliable it is.

  • What's your favorite obscure example of ludonarrative harmony in a game?

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  • I think The End is obscure enough for people who haven't played it. Fun fact: this is one of the very few uses of the RTC setting on the PS2 affecting gameplay.

    I exhausted all the ones I know in the PCSX2 2.4 blog post:

    The PlayStation 2 uses a real-time clock (RTC) to keep track of the date and time in the real world. Games often use the RTC in order to seed pseudorandom number generation (RNG) because of its high variability. Additionally, save files show a timestamp in the BIOS, and these timestamps are sometimes shown in-game too. However, some games use the RTC in a more interactive way. Ratchet & Clank 2 and Ratchet & Clank 3, for example, let you teleport to the post-game Insomniac Museum area from 03:00–04:00, bypassing completion checks. The Simpsons: Hit & Run, The Simpsons: Road Rage, SpongeBob SquarePants: Battle for Bikini Bottom, and Scooby-Doo! Night of 100 Frights have holiday-exclusive Easter eggs. Need for Speed: Hot Pursuit 2 displays the date and time on a camera recording when you get busted. And Metal Gear Solid 3... if you know, you know.

    Kingdom Hearts has a similar mechanic, but it uses your in-game time's hours mod 12 to give you a reward at the clock tower.

  • What's your favorite obscure example of ludonarrative harmony in a game?

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  • Correct!

  • What's your favorite obscure example of ludonarrative harmony in a game?

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  • In Pokémon Mystery Dungeon: Explorers of Time/Darkness/Sky, there's a cutscene where you're about to be executed by a group of Sableye using the move Fury Swipes.

    In the main series games, this would make no sense. Fury Swipes has piddly power, and Sableye have middling physical attack.

    In the Mystery Dungeon games, multi-hit moves like Fury Swipes are unbelievably busted, physical attack is far less dependent on the base stats of the Pokémon using the move, and a bunch of Sableye would definitely kill someone using it over and over again.

  • Squid pro quo - Non Sequitur

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  • Thanks!

  • Squid pro quo - Non Sequitur

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  • Hi, Picard. Per Rule 4, you're supposed to either credit the original artist or at least attempt to determine who they are and disclaim as much if you can't.

    The signature is illegible and therefore does not properly identify the artist to most people.

  • ‘We detected unusual activity’: the scam that uses AI to exploit your holiday photos

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  • McAfee, the producer of anti-virus software, used two freely available AI models to test more than 21,000 travel images. One of the models identified 91% of images accurately while the other got 87%. Staff were then asked to replicate the experiment with their own pictures and became uncomfortable with how easy their travels were pinpointed.

    There's no reason a GPT can't be just as accurate as an expert GeoGuessr player if not moreso, so it checks out.

  • Picky eaters of Lemmy: Why?

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  • Canned black olives are the single ingredient I can think of that totally ruins a pizza for me flavor-wise. I've discovered I even kind of like mushrooms on pizza – and that it's maybe the one context where I'm fine with baby bella. Shit, I'm even kind of okay with green olives on pizza.

    Canned black olives are one of the three Hell foods to me along with chicken liver (odor) and cottage cheese (texture).

  • Picky eaters of Lemmy: Why?

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  • Mushrooms as well, I hate them with a burning passion.

    Mushrooms were completely disgusting to me until I realized it was white buttons and baby bellas that I hated. I discovered that what I really liked are enokis, shiitakes, and especially oysters. There's a world of difference in flavor and texture, and I still have to use them in the right meals.

    If I could recommend one thing, the next time you make a sauce (I've found marinara sauce on pasta works well):

    • Take fresh oyster mushrooms (not referring to king oyster, but might work?).
    • Remove the cap (don't use the stem).
    • Finely shred it by hand.
    • Then put it in the sauce and cook.

    When you tear it by hand and add it to sauce, the flavor is incredibly savory, and you don't feel the texture at all because it tears so finely.

  • Picky eaters of Lemmy: Why?

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  • Autistic and the total opposite here for home cooking. The (allegedly greater) magnitude of those flavors and textures makes trying new things so enjoyable that it's worth the risk.

    That said, I used to be similar, having a rotation of a few select meals; I'd get "hooked" on a specific food for an unreasonably long time. But nowadays, I get the benefits of both.

    I make whatever at home because I know exactly what's going into it and roughly how it'll taste, and I'm naturally limited to a few vegan options at restaurants so I can live the dream of having one or two favorites I get every time. It's a win–win.

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    Google co-founder Sergey Brin has spent $102 million fighting a proposed wealth tax on billionaires in California

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  • Not only that, but it affects his cronies too, and once it's shown to be successful, it's an incentive for other places to adopt something similar. Not Onion-y at all.

  • Onions

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  • Your mom will live on through the aeons to tell of my bones.

  • Jucika is having a ball

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  • Shagadelic, szivi!

  • Nvidia AI Chip Found in New Russian Missile, Ukraine Says

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  • Oh yeah? Well Russia found a copy of The Sims 3 in a Ukrainian Neptune missile, so now they're even!

  • Tonight's Dumb Napkin Cartoon [Bill Amend]

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  • Honestly, I liked that you didn't. It felt like a little adventure and discovery of my own.