“I like to close the bathroom door when I’m taking a shower. Doesn’t mean I’m doing anything immoral in there. I’m just entitled to privacy.”

They can extrapolate from there if they’ve got two brain cells to rub together.

The way I recall it being taught was that “elastic deformation” was deformation that didn’t compromise the integrity of the original shape of the object (typically a rigid body in most of my textbook’s examples, which could be where our understandings are deviating).

One example my professor used to illustrate the concept in-person was with a paper clip. Bending one end the paper clip ever so slightly (such that it springs back into its original shape when you let go) was “elastic deformation” of the material. Bending the end of the paper clip enough such that it can’t return to its original shape afterward was “plastic deformation”.

It’s been a long time since I took material science, but if memory serves, the terms “plastic deformation” and “elastic deformation” are applicable to any number of materials. Metal alloys have a range of “elastic deformation” as well as “plastic deformation”. Plastics and elastics also have those ranges. It’s unintuitive in everyday parlance, but it wouldn’t be inaccurate in the mechanical sense to say “this plastic is elastic” because plastics do have ranges where their deformations are defined as elastic.

Curating one’s feeds does not inherently lead to ignorance.

I’ve been aggressively filtering my newsfeed for years now and I didn’t suddenly forget about all the corruption and injustice. I just have no need for those headlines to overwhelmingly dominate my day-to-day ingestion of news. “Corrupt Oligarch Continues Campaign Against Human Rights” isn’t news to me; it’s the status quo. I don’t need a dozen headlines to remind me the sky is blue every day.

In addition to Fedidb, there’s also Fediverse Observer’s statistics page: https://lemmy.fediverse.observer/stats

I can’t agree with the description “PizzaCake for men”. I read PizzaCake as well and the similarities to Penny Arcade are surface level at best. The comics about parenting are similar insofar as many comics about parenting are relaying an experience that many people can relate to, but outside of that, I would say Penny Arcade’s comedic range is far broader than PizzaCake’s. And I don’t mean that as an insult to PizzaCake; PizzaCake just tends to focus primarily on parenting and politics while Penny Arcade will covers a much wider berth of topics (in addition to just having many comics be glorified shitposts carried by erudite prose).

Frankly, my biggest criticism of PizzaCake is that when they do choose to make political comics, they’re typically really unfunny. They’re just blunt statements about Republicans being stupid/evil/hypocrites/etc with no real setup or punchline. I enjoy bashing conservatives as much as the next guy, but I can’t consider PizzaCake’s political comics to be funny or insightful. They’re mostly just variations on this:

I agree with the other comments here saying the comic just might not be your cup of tea, which is totally fine.

But since you’re asking for people to share their favorites, I’ll share some of mine here. I think it’s a fun comic, but they’ve also been making comics consistently since 1998 and they can’t all be zingers. Most of my favorites tend to be on the absurd side, leaning on the characters’ respective weird idiosyncrasies or their #relatable moments with getting older and having kids.

• https://www.penny-arcade.com/comic/2012/03/26/space-is-still-the-place
• https://www.penny-arcade.com/comic/2006/04/10/i-hope-you-like-text
• https://www.penny-arcade.com/comic/2012/01/02/side-effects-may-include
• https://www.penny-arcade.com/comic/2016/02/08/decrepitude
• https://www.penny-arcade.com/comic/2017/08/02/the-age-of-gabriel
• https://www.penny-arcade.com/comic/2017/07/31/the-seventh-axis
• https://www.penny-arcade.com/comic/2015/12/18/i-am-not-your-father
• https://www.penny-arcade.com/comic/2008/10/06/behold
• https://www.penny-arcade.com/comic/2009/11/25/retales-part-one

I’ll probably edit this comment to add more later cause I know I’m forgetting some bangers.

There’s only 1 Caesar

Not necessarily. I originally thought the phrase “Render unto Caesar what is Caesar’s” from the Bible referred to Julius Caesar, but apparently it refers to Tiberius.

Though in modern times “Caesar” almost ubiquitously is referencing Julius

The stark contrast between the “scénario optimiste” and “scénario pessimiste” feels like they really didn’t want to suggest French would decline in use.

“Absolute worst case scenario? French sees an extremely minimal decline over the next 30 years. Virtually zero change. Best case scenario? TO THE MOOOOOOOOOON! 🚀🚀🚀🚀🚀🚀”

I got a lot of downvotes for suggesting that English will not forever be the world’s lingua franca.

I thought it was common knowledge that French would eventually surpass English (or even Mandarin) in terms of total users.

Perhaps you were downvoted for suggesting that one projection by one research group is both “common knowledge” and constitutes a scientific consensus when it is neither. A more accurate and honest title for your post would be, “YSK: The French language is projected by some research groups to be the world’s most widely spoken language in the world by 2050”

The most widely used language in 2050 could be Pig Latin for all I know. But I wouldn’t read one paper arguing as much and treat it like it’s the gospel.

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As long as it’s not slathered in honey, it’s probably pretty tasty. I’ve had steak with a drizzle of sweet glaze before and the flavors can complement one another nicely

This, and standardizing what “this Thursday” and “next Thursday” mean. These terms have become functionally useless (to me) because of how they’re used differently by different people. Whenever someone uses these terms to try to intimate a particular date to me, I just ask for the exact calendar date rather than the day of the week to avoid ambiguity.

Yes, I’m an American. Are you speaking from personal experience, or going off of what you see online? Because the horror stories you see online are not representative of the whole of society. The scary and outlandish stories make headlines and get shared around by people. Nobody shares links to videos or writes articles about “Father goes to park with kids, everybody is chill and nobody panics”.

Don’t buy too much into all the ragebait on the internet. I take my kid to the park all the time and no one has ever so much as looked at me sideways. And no other fathers solo-parenting their kids at the park have ever been accosted during the many, many hours I’ve spent there.

Yes, some idiots foolishly assume man+kid=danger, but this is not a typical reaction at all. People who react negatively and make a scene are an extreme minority.

Watching Dragon Ball reruns is legitimately hard for me some days since Toriyama’s passing. His death hit me harder than any other I can recall. The global outpouring of grief and camaraderie was a sight to behold. It was comforting to know so many other people loved him and his work and were mourning together.

I remember I was driving when the news about MJ’s sudden death broke over the radio. I was on my way to grab some lunch before meeting up with some friends to see a movie. I think we were gonna see the “Transformers” sequel.

I pulled into a fast food joint and they had the news on TV. I felt bad cause Farah Fawcett died the same day but her death was entirely relegated to the little news ticker at the bottom of the screen.

The scientist is a hipster who uses the 2155-equivalent of a flip phone. Through a lifetime of grit and determination, he’s extended his attention span to 6 entire seconds (the global average is 4) so he could complete the time machine and save the world (by asking someone else to do it)

its not. Its mediocre and needs time travel to work.

This mentality misses the point, IMO. Even if the Harry Potter books were written in such a way that made even the staunchest critic go, “Wow, these books rival the works of of J.R.R. Tolkien and Shakespeare,” that should have zero bearing on whether or not any given individual makes the decision to boycott an author’s work on idealistic grounds.

I like plenty of art that could be classified as schlock; not everything we enjoy has to be masterpiece theatre. I’ve boycotted all HP content ever since Rowling became a professional asshole, but I won’t pretend I didn’t enjoy the books or the films as a teenager.

Here’s a hard pill to swallow: shitty people can make good art. We can condemn bad people unequivocally without simultaneously needing their art to be bad. Michael Jackson was my favorite musician for many years, but hearing his music in 2026 always leaves a bad taste in my mouth. But I won’t pretend that it wasn’t my jam and I certainly won’t suggest that the music was mediocre.

Microsoft SwiftKey on my phone. I’ve been using it since before it was acquired by Microsoft. It is an incredible keyboard and after using it for years, I am very fast on it. I ditched it for about 6 months last year for the FOSS alternative HeliBoard, but it negatively impacted my typing speed so much that I recently gave up and reverted to SwiftKey.

Google Maps also on my phone, because it works really well compared to the alternatives I’ve tried. I’ve used (and contributed to) OSM, but it’s just not a drop-in replacement for Google Maps yet.

I “verified my identity” on LinkedIn a while back because I’m job hunting.