[-] aebrer@kbin.social 11 points 1 year ago

Gotta mention The Thing (1982). Impeccable cinematography, sounds, colors, everything. Practical effects that are still unsettling today, and good old fashioned "humans are not enough and never will be" horror.

[-] aebrer@kbin.social 17 points 1 year ago

You may want to look into that... mine sleeps for a day or two at least typically.

[-] aebrer@kbin.social 31 points 1 year ago

At a similar pay scale, I’ve been required to go into homes where folks had COVID. Coworkers have been shot at. I’ve seen things I really would have preferred not to. No job is perfectly sane in that sense.

American? Because this is not normal up here in Canada.

[-] aebrer@kbin.social 36 points 1 year ago

Additionally being bipedal means that as we run our breathing rate is separate from our gait. As four legged animals gallop the motion of their running expands and contracts their diaphragm, forcing them to breath at the same rate they run at.

Since they can't sweat like us, or breath like us, they have to stop running and start panting in order to cool down.

While humans can just keep going, relentlessly, like the It Follows monster.

[-] aebrer@kbin.social 21 points 1 year ago

I'm not sure how you're getting that impression. The quote you put there doesn't show up in the paper even once, and in fact if you search for "aimed throwing" you'll see several instances where they discuss the aimed throwing accuracy of the monkeys. Even in just the abstract there's a few places where they make it clear the monkeys are aiming (and additionally that's what they were measuring).

For both species we found positive correlations between target distances for throwing accuracy, direction and strength of hand preference, percentage of bipedal vs tripedal throws, and percentage of overarm vs underarm throws.

In fact, they go so far as to clearly state that the monkey throwing is a suitable model of human throwing, meaning that the way they throw is similar enough to us that we can actually learn about ourselves from it.

We believe that the capuchin monkey is an informative nonhuman primate model of aimed throwing in humans and that research examining the throwing behavior of capuchins provides insight into the neurological and behavioral characteristics that underlie coordinated multi-joint movements across the primate order.

Anyway, that's all the time I'm gonna spend on this mythbusting lol.

[-] aebrer@kbin.social 37 points 1 year ago

Seems like while on average a human can be expected to "naturally" throw better than a monkey, most monkeys are perfectly capable of learning to throw with skill comparable to a human.

Sources:

  1. https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0028393200000567
  2. https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20140225-human-vs-animal-who-throws-best (actually a great read)
[-] aebrer@kbin.social 9 points 1 year ago

You could have an "about this website" section that lists the tools and packages you used, and so on. If I saw that on a candidates website (a little section detailing how the page was made and crediting sources) I'd be insanely impressed. That's the kind of person you know you can work alongside.

[-] aebrer@kbin.social 9 points 1 year ago

Afaik they did build it in real life, and the paper in fact is about the process for manufacturing it, not just about the properties or simulations.

People have replicated the simulations so far, but are still working on replicating the manufacturing process, as it has low yeild and some variability apparently

[-] aebrer@kbin.social 9 points 1 year ago

I mean she said she prefers to quilt alone as it's a self enjoyment time. I think it's probably best not to try to insert yourself into that, and respect her stated wishes.

[-] aebrer@kbin.social 12 points 1 year ago

Get rid of periods, it just seems unfair.

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You heard me. I honestly love anime, and even a bit of horniness is fine, but as I watch more and more and run out of "mainstream" things to watch, I find myself in the same situation over and over:

I watch the first few episodes of an anime and then it reveals some unpleasant tropes, often involving either lack of consent, minors, or both.

So I'm just looking for your top 3 anime suggestions that DON'T include loli/misogyny content.

Bonus points for isekai because I love that shit.

Edit: example of an amazing one - "Campfire Cooking in Another World with My Absurd Skill"

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[-] aebrer@kbin.social 9 points 1 year ago

Hmm, I guess I'm wrong but I always felt they were called boomer shooters because they're always full of over the top explosions and everything is always going "boom"

You boom and you shoot it's right in the name

[-] aebrer@kbin.social 9 points 1 year ago

Good luck Godspeed and no poop

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