The experimental mat has been out for about a week now, but extremely high winds during a storm last night pulled up a corner of the mat spilling out the contents....
I didn’t look very close at the growing medium, so the “spill” looked like deer poops and I imagined a deer was tricked onto water and literally all the shit was scared out of 'em when they fell in
Happy to see your garden was salvaged and improved, but a little sad that my deer theory wasn’t accurate
Honestly, there’s plenty of reasons to make fun of boomers/millennial/genZ but the reality is each generation has Republican and Democrat voters.
I’m not gonna suggest that Democrats always have the best interests of working class people in mind - but their camp does contain progressives, which is something that Republicans lack entirely.
At the end of the day, all our problems can be traced to income inequality that is largely pushed by Republicans (and a huge dose of “trusted media” espousing outright lies).
You can absolutely have a business oriented economy whose government protects it’s people from abusive and predatory businesses practices while providing great education and healthcare for free.
It’s something we’d all benefit from (even the wealthy, but it’d be less profitable) but something we’ll never have because every generation has Republican voters who show up 100% of the time - and Democrat voters who barely show up, can’t agree on anything, and require emotional inspiration to even begin to participate in politics.
In fact, now that we’re literally watching Nazis take over the Republican party - anyone from any generation who votes Republican now is far worse than anyone who voted R in the past before the middle class was destroyed.
The Republican party is evolving into its final form of purest facisim, something that was plausibly deniable 10 years ago.
Bottom line is we’re at a point in society where feelings and opinions are the only reality for a lot of people. It will be the death of democracy, and they’ll go to their graves in chains they put on themselves believing they made the right choice, because why would anyone ever chose to feel regret or acknowledge the consequences of their own actions?
How dare you! They are not hypocrites!! Democrats are always wrong about everything, so who cares if you have to abandon logic, reality, and consistency in order for the world to make sense?!
Being objectively wrong is an insignificant price to pay when it still feels like you’re right!
If only capitalism could have predicted the types of electric vehicles people wanted were affordable, small, reliable vehicles to cheaply get around town in!
Thank goodness business and industry don’t actually have to worry about that pesky competition part of capitalism, that’s just for workers and small businesses who are the only ones actually competing with each other to the benefit of businesses and industry, instead of the other way around
I totally understand why women would pick bear, as bear society doesn’t bend over backwards to victimize women.
Most power structures cater to the people who abuse power. Police, church, courts, military, etc all tend to go crazy easy on men who abuse women.
Republicans want to take away women’s rights/independence, limit/eliminate divorce, force birth for rape/incest. Police who assault women are protected and don’t face consequences, and most religions literally view women as a subspecies that serve men.
Maybe the average man is totally normal and helpful, but the history of violence between men and women is like 98% men killing women with heaps of Rape, confinement, physical/mental abuse etc.
The worst any Bear could do is kill someone in 1-2 minutes, maybe longer.
It’s also an incredibly loaded situation in that being alone in the woods with a bear is “natural” and being alone in the woods with a strange man already sounds like a horror movie plot/murder news story.
There’s also the constant “stranger danger” fear women will pretty much always experience because men can consistently and easily overpower most women. All women I have met seem to know at least one or more women who have been sexually assaulted, had their drink spiked etc, so it’s not some obsession with crime shows or scary movies driving this fear. It’s actual rapists prevalent in society and emboldened enough by lack of consequences to act.
Even in cases where it seems obvious Rape happened, it’s a brutal gauntlet of gas lighting, victim blaming, “can’t ruin their life for a mistake”, etc that stop a huge amount of reporting and convictions.
Going back to the question itself, answer ratios would probably change depending on the area, would women be less inclined to pick bear if they were in a library instead of the woods because it’s unnatural for a bear to be in that environment?
People need to relax, and focus on the real story. Women have an incredibly long and valid list of reasons to be afraid of men and society needs to do better to make women feel safe
“We’ve almost got some of their telecommunications cracked; the front end even runs on a laptop!” The Mac that sunk a thousand ships could have been merely clunky product placement, not a bafflingly stupid tech-on-film moment....
He ends up taping a plastic sheet over the hole with what I assume is super strong space tape and plastic and then continues to live in the station for 550 more days.
We spend the first half of the movie learning how unforgiving the environment is, and how delicate his ecosystem for life is, but you can also blow half the place up and just tape some plastic over the hole.
They did a much better job of explaining it in the book, but the movie literally went “just tape that bitch up with plastic, then we’ll throw a wind storm at it to prove it’s good forever”
Hundreds of people have been infected with the H5N1 virus since 2003 but, until now, they have all caught it from birds. The current bird flu outbreak in the States has seen herds of dairy farm cows infected in nine states.
I wonder if his symptoms were mild (pink eye) because of a small exposure, because it entered through the eye which is a hostile entry point, or because the cow changed the virus enough to be less/non lethal to humans?
I know this is a massive oversimplification, and that modern vaccines would likely work far better. But seeing as how we’re living in the horse dewormer timeline, I wonder if people who refuse vaccines would prefer to get ‘naturally sick’ from an infected cow
Maybe it played well in focus groups, but I find these kind of videos entirely underwhelming and fake.
Not because I’m detached from reality, or a Trump enthusiast, but because it’s a terrible ad that someone would make when they looked for dirt on someone and find nothing.
Don’t tell me, show me. And I don’t mean footage of people who don’t like Trump saying “TrUmP bAd”, show me Trump being a traitor, show him admitting to crimes, show him being creepy about Ivanka/children, show him hating the military, show him for who he is.
There’s actual mountains of clips/sound bites/direct quotes either from Trump, other Republicans, or praise from Russia that directly expose all the awful pieces that make up Trump.
It’s literally the weakest “attack” ad I have ever seen, to the point where it’s basically a Trump ad. If you can’t show him sleeping in court, show him babbling and fumbling words, drinking water, walking around ramps.
How many cult members leave a cult because their leader “changed” or “is not the same anymore” by… Taking naps?
Yes, a lot of these ads are directed at the population who are on the fence/swing voters - which makes sense in theory, but is actually stupid in practice.
Anyone who isn’t in the MAGA cult should be able to track/map the coordinated trajectory towards facisim driven by Trump, GOP, Russia, FOX/OAN/Qanon etc etc., Everyone with eyes and ears should know exactly how they lie, what they lie about, and it needs to be everywhere.
If you want to create anti Trump Buzz, you can’t just walk into a room, “gesture broadly” and leave, then expect people who haven’t been paying attention to get it.
The non-fascist population needs to be constantly talking about how fucked the situation is, and how aware they are of media complacency. Enough people should feel genuinely scared about the American reality that swing or undecided voters can’t exist because there’s no information vacuum.
Watching movies at home is infinitely superior. You can talk, pause, rewatch a scene, go to the bathroom, have your own snacks, better seats, home TV’s are pretty great these days, and sound bars/headphones are also close enough(better?) than theaters.
I’d prefer not to torrent as I already have streaming services, but if companies are going to put out content that is generally mediocre, with lowest common denominator formulas and then make it hard to watch? then yeah, I’ll Torrent.
I don’t mind owning physical copies of media I really like, but that is also becoming less and less common.
That being said, Dial of Destiny was actually pretty enjoyable! Better than the average movie I’d say, and I watched it on a plane, so not exactly the best viewing environment
So many videogames I enjoyed just ended before last boss
Decent job with lots of down time, and I desperately want to want to learn more things and give myself potential for career advancement and some job flexibility. Like I really want to be able to do it, but I just can’t bring myself to start because I don’t need to, even though I like learning new things.
Even when I complete a home project, or accomplish a life goal, it’s just kind of… Meh? Well that’s done I guess?
There’s also a constant battle of feeling anxious in most social settings, but feeling guilty/lonely without them. Almost like juggling two things you don’t particularly like, trying to find the balance where you’re least mentally uncomfortable.
It’s great having videogames, but you can only do something so much before everything starts to feel formulaic and unfulfilling.
There is always a feeling or sensation that I should/could be doing something else unless I’m hyper fixated on something
I can almost understand the idea when applied to extremely dangerous individuals. There should absolutely be some kind of separate system for people who are too dangerous to be able to reintegrate into society.
A one size fits all justice system is a terrible way to run a society
Because people don’t hate getting scammed by their scam artist.
Conservatives also tend to make politics a core part of their identity, which allows conservative governments to get away with doing everything they accuse Liberals of doing mostly without consequences.
Canada has some of the most apathetic voters in the world, so I don’t expect anything in this country to improve anytime soon.
People will simply trade getting screwed by the letters L/C and be certain they are one election away from all of their problems going away.
It would appear that the so-called “great instability” event that wreaked chaos among the planets, sending the gas giants careening through space until they settled into the orbits we know today, occurred between 60 and 100 million years after the birth of the solar system. This is the conclusion of some careful scientific...
Wake up sheeple, here’s the real history of the moon
Neon Genesis Evangelion History
First Impact (also known as the “Giant Impact”) is an Impact which occurred in prehistoric times when the Black Moon, a giant spherical object, collided with the Earth in what is now the Hakone region of Japan. The collision caused an explosion that launched a massive amount of material from Earth into orbit. This orbiting debris eventually coalesced into Earth’s only moon. The Black Moon is the vessel that carried Lilith, one of the members of the Seeds of Life sent out into the universe by the First Ancestral Race.
Edit: Well that wasn’t well received, guess this instance doesn’t have a lot of evangelion fans 💀
Diamonds actually get their value because a single entity (DeBeers) owns something like 80% of all diamonds in the market.
They dictate the price by throttling supply and naming a price. People are willing to pay as a flex but you are right in that DeBeers markets “real” diamonds and “lab grown”.
It’s mostly done to capture different market segments, and to keep up the value of their stockpile of nearly unlimited diamonds already mined by people who are essentially slaves.
That being said, if there was a market for diamonds soaking in vials of oppressed orphan blood (with provenance of course) DeBeers would absolutely sell it.
If lab grown diamonds became significantly cheaper than slave mined diamonds, DeBeers would still likely keep their mines open to maintain control of the market. Even if they successfully moved consumers on to lab diamonds - can’t have someone else get diamond market share.
I’m not well versed in what is happening at specific campuses across the US - but if people not associated with the school (anyone not current students/Alumni) are protesting on Private property, the school is well within their rights to have trespassers removed.
Students should be allowed to peacefully protest on school grounds, or they can join non students protest that is off campus.
I’m not sure what the answer to Israel//Palestine is, but the US is absolutely directly funding and assisting in a genocide while publicly almost maybe finger wagging Netanyahu.
I would love to see North Americans actually tuck in to protest and figure out how to actually make them work. There’s so much that needs to change but never will until actual consequences come for those responsible.
Disaster with the floating garden (lemmy.world)
The experimental mat has been out for about a week now, but extremely high winds during a storm last night pulled up a corner of the mat spilling out the contents....
Dog date (lemmy.world)
Boomer Rule (lemmy.blahaj.zone)
Watch them fing (lemmy.ca)
Australian wizard stamp (lemmy.world)
GOP tries to 'correct the narrative' on use of mailed ballots after years of conflicting messages (apnews.com)
Small, well-built Chinese EV called the Seagull poses a big threat to the US auto industry (apnews.com)
cross-posted from: lemmy.ca/post/21120107...
GOP Lawmakers in Louisiana Reject Adding Rape & Incest Exceptions for Children to Abortion Ban. Again. (www.jezebel.com)
The Maxx - 30 years later (archive.org)
I wish there was a remastered animation.
Mean world syndrome has reacted a fever pitch. (lemmy.world)
What plot holes could be adequately explained away with a single shot or line of dialogue?
“We’ve almost got some of their telecommunications cracked; the front end even runs on a laptop!” The Mac that sunk a thousand ships could have been merely clunky product placement, not a bafflingly stupid tech-on-film moment....
Shell sold millions of ‘phantom’ carbon credits | Subsidy scheme in Alberta allowed oil major to register carbon credits equivalent to twice the volume of CO₂ captured (www.ft.com)
Bird flu: 'Strong evidence' suggests virus has passed from mammals to humans for first time (news.sky.com)
Hundreds of people have been infected with the H5N1 virus since 2003 but, until now, they have all caught it from birds. The current bird flu outbreak in the States has seen herds of dairy farm cows infected in nine states.
Trump Isn't The Same (youtu.be)
The Biggest Box Office Bombs of 2023 (deadline.com)
cross-posted from: lemmy.ml/post/15188270...
Once I achieve I lose motivation
So I’ve noticed a pattern in my life that I was hoping someone could empathize with....
18+ I made a porn scroller, AMA. (www.infiniporn.net)
Martin Myers tried and failed to steal a cigarette. Why has he spent 18 years in prison for it? (www.theguardian.com)
Highway collapse in China's southern Guangdong province leaves at least 24 dead (apnews.com)
The ground beneath the highway appeared to have caved in, along with the section of the road that had broken off....
Speaker kicks Poilievre out of the Commons after he calls PM a 'wacko' in tense question period exchange | CBC News (www.cbc.ca)
Jupiter may be the reason why Earth has a moon, new study hints | Live Science (www.livescience.com)
It would appear that the so-called “great instability” event that wreaked chaos among the planets, sending the gas giants careening through space until they settled into the orbits we know today, occurred between 60 and 100 million years after the birth of the solar system. This is the conclusion of some careful scientific...
Forget billions of years: Researchers have grown diamonds in just 150 minutes (charmingscience.com)
Seen somewhere else on the Internet. Sorry for the nightmare fuel (files.catbox.moe)
Snoopy from Lubee Bat Conservancy stretching and yawning (lemmy.world)
Emory community ‘ashamed’ after police detain students at pro-Palestine encampment | The Emory Wheel (emorywheel.com)