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from fossilesque@mander.xyz to science_memes@mander.xyz on 24 Nov 16:45
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cybervseas@lemmy.world on 24 Nov 17:18 next collapse

Chicken thoughts is a great webcomic. I don’t own a bird and thanks to chicken thoughts I never will.

Draegur@lemm.ee on 24 Nov 17:25 next collapse

“Hey look at this cool rock i found” is definitely a valid courting technique for neurodiverse persons :3

but USUALLY never diamonds.

dharmacurious@slrpnk.net on 24 Nov 22:40 next collapse

It’s also good for (at least some?) neurological neurotypical* people. I rarely connect with people romantically, but if a dude just wanted to show me cool rocks he’d found, I’d definitely be well on my way to falling to in love

*Autocorrect made me look like a douchebag! Sorry!

MeThisGuy@feddit.nl on 25 Nov 00:36 next collapse

best I can do is two marbles and a stick

dharmacurious@slrpnk.net on 25 Nov 06:17 collapse

I mean, I’m not saying no. DMs definitely open :p

Draegur@lemm.ee on 25 Nov 03:32 collapse

It’s also good for (at least some?) neurological people.

I would like to preface that I am not saying this to be judgemental and I’m not implying that anyone was hurt by it, but,

I’m not sure if you used “neurological” instead of “neurotypical” on purpose…? Because literally every creature with a brain is neurological.

And while I definitely used “neurodiverse” instead of “neurodivergent” on purpose because it feels nicer, implying that the opposite term is “neurological” might sound to some as though you are implying that neurodivergent/aneurotypical people have no neurological framework and I hesitate to jump to the conclusion that that’s actually what you meant.

dharmacurious@slrpnk.net on 25 Nov 06:14 collapse

That was an autocorrect error, I stg! Was supposed to be neurotypical!

Sorry!

Draegur@lemm.ee on 25 Nov 06:20 collapse

No apologies necessary! I actually thought it was more likely that going on. I hope I did not come across as too confrontational!

dharmacurious@slrpnk.net on 25 Nov 07:18 collapse

Not at all! Let’s both agree autocorrect is real villain here haha

OutlierBlue@lemmy.ca on 24 Nov 22:57 collapse

That’s because diamonds are pretty boring. The only thing they have going for them is sparkling. There are SO many prettier gemstones out there.

wolframhydroxide@sh.itjust.works on 24 Nov 23:23 collapse

Hard disagree: they exhibit 4 perfect octahedral cleavage planes in addition to their adamantine lustre, diamond is one of the most useful materials in existence, and their petrological origins speak to incredibly interesting conditions of formation! In fact, a mineral inclusion within a diamond gave us our first solid evidence of the existence of water at equilibrium with mantle rock at depth on Earth, which was previously largely discounted.

But yeah, fuck De Beers.

[deleted] on 25 Nov 03:34 next collapse

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pseudo@jlai.lu on 25 Nov 07:53 collapse

Is it bad to link to !science_memes@mander.xyz when we are already on !science_memes@mander.xyz ?

AI_toothbrush@lemmy.zip on 24 Nov 18:37 next collapse

No, animals ARE strange. Its just that humans are also animals.

WhiskyTangoFoxtrot@lemmy.world on 24 Nov 21:35 collapse

You and me, baby, we ain’t nothing but mammals.

Atherel@lemmy.dbzer0.com on 24 Nov 21:52 next collapse

Sir, this is a Wendy’s (and not the Discovery Channel)

Hideakikarate@sh.itjust.works on 25 Nov 03:19 collapse

So let’s do it like a Druid in the General Channel.

Iron_Lynx@lemmy.world on 25 Nov 13:00 collapse

(do it again now!)
Hard like heroic, more than you can handle

ColdWater@lemmy.ca on 25 Nov 08:51 next collapse

Pretty rocks are better than diamond

Aceticon@lemmy.world on 25 Nov 12:28 collapse

The amount of effort to obtain the female-impressing rock by the crow is far less than by the human, thus indicating that the crow is the wisest of the two.