Erika3sis

Erika3sis, 3 days ago

Depending on what “we” and “be having sex with robots” is referring to, this has already happened.

Erika3sis, 4 days ago (edited 3 hours ago)

Amanita bisporigera, or the aptly named eastern North American destroying angel, if anyone’s wondering.

From Wikipedia:

The principal amatoxin, α-amanitin, is readily absorbed across the intestine, and 60% of the absorbed toxin is excreted into bile and undergoes enterohepatic circulation; the kidneys clear the remaining 40%. The toxin inhibits the enzyme RNA polymerase II, thereby interfering with DNA transcription, which suppresses RNA production and protein synthesis. This causes cellular necrosis, especially in cells which are initially exposed and have rapid rates of protein synthesis. This process results in severe acute liver dysfunction and, ultimately, liver failure.

I could not confirm that it causes liquefactive necrosis of the liver specifically, however. I wouldn’t doubt it, but I couldn’t confirm it.

Edit: I should clarify, I got this from the original thread on Bluesky, not my own identification.

Erika3sis, 4 days ago (edited 2 hours ago)

Washington Post is @washingtonpost.com, so evidently not.

Edit: Bluesky has this about page which is relevant.

Erika3sis, 4 days ago (edited 22 minutes ago)

Jimmy Neutron “sodium chloride” ass reply, “everything is edible at least once” is a common joke that works precisely because words’ definitions are not rigid

Edit: I think it’s best to leave this comment up as I originally wrote it, but I’m also going to go on the record to say that I could’ve and should’ve phrased this a lot more cordially.

Erika3sis, 4 days ago

Whatever you say, Bazinga Neutron

Erika3sis, 4 days ago

The long awaited sequel to Tako Luka Maguro Fever

Erika3sis, 10 days ago

“Have these gentlemen ever SEEN a” yadda yadda

Erika3sis, 16 days ago

• Thumb-Key — A flick keyboard for mobile phones; a FOSS alternative to MessagEase created by Lemmy’s own Dessalines. It’s not perfect, neither was MessagEase, but for what it is it’s pretty damn good and definitely beats using a mobile QWERTY keyboard.
• Ibis — A federated wiki created by Lemmy’s own Nutomic. It’s currently pretty barebones with little activity, but I’d like to see more interest in the project so that it can grow and improve. I think it has a lot of potential.

Erika3sis, 16 days ago

is there a point where I will be so comfortable as to not need to fear misspelling something without this crutch of autocorrect?

I can’t speak for how long it will take you specifically, but yeah, I absolutely think you can get to that point. I don’t really remember how long it took me to learn, but it couldn’t have been more than a few weeks, and I think I had some factors which were working to my advantage, anyways. Have you adjusted any of the settings?

Erika3sis, 16 days ago

That’s a bit mean, I think Lemmy is pretty good all things considered.

Erika3sis, 16 days ago

The key just to the left of the # key, i.e. the A key in the default Thumb-Key layout, should have a ▲ for the upward swipe. That swipe is how you get into shift mode. Swipe up on that key again to enter caps-lock; swipe down on that key to release the shift/caps-lock.

Erika3sis, 17 days ago

DEBUNKED

Palestinians were actually de-bunked in quite large numbers, you know, on the part of their beds getting stolen by settlers and all that

Erika3sis, 18 days ago

Z stands for zugondese nuts

Erika3sis, 19 days ago

discrete now rhymes with meaty

Erika3sis, 19 days ago

My only dream is for ESL countries to each set up their own regulatory bodies for the English language specifically to codify their own homegrown “mistakes” as equal to whatever Brits and Seppos think is correct, in an effort to hasten the dissolution of English into a neo-Anglic branch of the Anglic languages

Erika3sis, 19 days ago

Du høres ut som meg når jeg var 15. Har du faktisk lest Marx og disse “andre teoretikerne”?

Erika3sis, 19 days ago

och jag är faktiskt 15.

For en tilfeldighet! Jeg kan respektere ærligheten, i det minste. Jeg virkelig burde slutte å tenke at alle på Internett er like gamle som meg.

Jeg virkelig ville anbefalt å lære mer om Marx og Engels sine idéer, for eksempel Engels skrev “Om autoritet” (svensk oversettelse her — veldig kort!)

Erika3sis, 18 days ago

Wasn’t it obvious from the literal start that that person was Irish‽

Erika3sis, 18 days ago

exasperated sigh

Erika3sis, 18 days ago

I’m just gonna be honest, you’re being cringe right now. “No it’s not my fault I mistook this person’s nationality, it’s their fault for coming across to me as the wrong nationality” — no, just own up to your mistake, for God’s sake, it’s not hard. Preferably you wouldn’t have made the mistake in the first place — you might’ve even been able to avoid it if you’d just read more carefully, given it even a second longer of thought, and weren’t so quick to make assumptions.

Erika3sis, 18 days ago

Please don’t think that I’m necessarily agreeing with your stances and attitudes and so forth, but do think that I find ShimmeringKoi to be kind of embarrassing right now.

Erika3sis, 18 days ago

I only just realized that “ETA” in Internet comments stands for “edited to add”