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@futurebird @bri_seven
now I'm imagining seeing a primary color for every prime number. Maybe Geordi LaForge sees that way, but I don't think anyone else does.
(There are some species of mantis shrimp which are thought to have up to 16 different color sensing pigments in their eyes, which might mean they see in 16 different primary colors, compared to the 4 primary colors that is typical for most arthropods and most non-mammalian vertebrates. )
careful, @futurebird . The galaxy of color spaces contains many strange new worlds and you may fall through the wormhole into the gamma quadrant and voyage for many years without finding a way home ...
@futurebird Æthel ought to have read the prepared text for their speech.
@futurebird pictures think in me, terrible graph!
(that graph is a remarkable combination of the worst features of pie charts and spiral staircases.)
@futurebird @jztusk @catmisgivings
for a long time I was one of those pedants who told people "real frogs jump out, unless their brains have been physically removed." and, you know, I hoped most real people would "jump out" as well. I knew, already, some did not. But ...
*sigh*
these days I usually don't bother to corrrect people.
@futurebird what happens to the "landlord special" stove when you replace it?
Do you need to convince the landlord to come get it and move it out of your place?
(I assume you can't just resell it or throw it away as if you own it?)
@futurebird for every type of ad, there is a meme in which the 3 or 4 most disturbing ads of that type have become concentrated. Sure, sure, isolation tanks lend themselves to disturbing ad collections, but people do this with the most innocuous of things, like, say dining room chairs.
@futurebird I guess the hard part is accounting for context: the built-in biases society has taught us to pretend are neutral.
@futurebird I'm not sure what Fordham gneiss is, but maybe it ought to be buried under a mountain
@futurebird wow. That is such a beautiful model.
@futurebird I can immediately think of 5 people who were 2 or more years into a mortgage 10 years ago, but are now either renting or living on someone's couch. So "paying a mortgage", has, for many, become nothing more than renting in emperor's clothes.
@futurebird I live with 3 other educated adults and none of us has ever had an opportunity to buy a home.
The notion that most americans have a chance to buy a home is fundamentally false, and furthermore, the widespread prevalence of rental homes and apartments, is an open admission that everyone knows it is a lie. The real estate industry insists we all pretend there are five lights, but that pretension serves only to further amplify its fundamental dishonesty.
@futurebird l have a rule of cheap aluminum. It's metal but it's not heavy.
@futurebird @alexwild
unfortunately several interesting extinct ants were found in that highly problematical Burmese amber.
@alexwild
what kind of a book?
At 400 species, it seems you would only get about 1 page per species, which doesn't seem like a lot of space for species.
@futurebird punch it like it was the original JP Morgan.
@futurebird
a mortgage is a measure of how dead you are.
why have a 50-year mortgage when you could have a 150-year mortgage, a debt (peonage) you could pass onto your children, after the house in question has been burned down by global warming amplified fires ...
@futurebird
would buy
someone else
a fraction
of a dream
with a little piece of your soul?
@futurebird having recently moved in with new housemates, I now live in a house with two huge (well, huge by the standards of those of us who grew up before cheap large flatscreens) screens that were clearly intended to be TVs, but they seem to get only about 1-2 hours of on time a day, and 80% of that is console videogames, judging from the sound (I'm not usually in the same room.) And they both have multiple attached keyboards, but said keyboards don't get much use.