It has always amused me that the tourists to the US that I’ve spoken to are often very excited to see raccoons, and disappointed if they don’t see them before they leave....
Back when I worked at Disney, a subset of the Asian guests would get excited and take pictures of squirrels. Are there parts of Asia that don’t have many squirrels?
What about crocodiles? Alligators are in most reasonably large retention ponds in Florida. Most places just relocate them once they reach a certain size. They’re pretty common. Knew a guy in high school who had a side hustle of removing them from people’s swimming pools. They’re pretty weird if you’re not from a place used to them.
Squirrels are extremely common in (most of?) the US, even in cities. There’s an albino one that lives in my neighborhood, that one was interesting enough to stop and take a picture of.
They’re fairly common in Central Florida. Many large retention ponds have them and they just get relocated once they reach a certain size. It was still fun to be standing on a friend’s apartment balcony and spot an alligator laying next to the retention pond.
I’d probably rank the international date line above sand traps, because (I think) more people have seen a sand trap in person and there’s an interesting naval tradition associated with crossing it traveling west.
Does anyone else think it’s odd that Newman’s Own did this? I’ve never seen much advertising from them in general. And they’re one of the few companies that seems actually okay, kinda the anti-Nestle.
I once had a 9 hour overnight layover in Denver Airport. It’s a cool weird airport to get stuck in. I didn’t bother to walk out to Blucifer. The infamous mural was still up, and it has a lot of detail that you can see a lot better up close in person, but the most memorable parts of that layover for me were the luggage gargoyles (which are fairly small, cute things) and watching the sun rise over the mountains from one of the terminals. Still, I wouldn’t do it again, a 9 hour layover sucks.
I went with the ad supported model, and now I’m thoroughly sick of ads and Amazon, but unfortunately you can no longer root their devices, they’ve really locked them down.
I’m considering buying another tablet just because I’m so sick of Amazon’s crap. I wonder if Free Geek has any decent tablets for sale?
MAGA Republicans say that America is in crisis: The economy is collapsing while the nation is being overrun by hordes of violent immigrants. Not true....
Want to put gas in your car? Ads. That talk and there’s no way to silence them.
Oh, no, wait, that one is real. Are they everywhere yet? I haven’t driven a car in several years. But I definitely remember that was real dystopian shit, similar to how I felt when I started getting ads in Windows.
If you go the NASCAR route, it’d make it way easier to find out who bought your politicians. And which pharma company bought lunch for your doctor last week.
Wow, you’re subscribed to way fewer communities than I am, I’ve got over a dozen posts between this one and the possum. Most of them I wouldn’t necessarily recommend, but someone posted an otter vid to !aww you might be interested in.
I grew up in Florida, where you can buy hard liquor in some gas stations, and now I live in Minnesota, which is now the last state with 3.2 beer - but we got Sunday liquor sales a few years ago (possibly because everyone in the Twin Cities would just go to Wisconsin if they wanted beer on Sunday) and now legal weed. A lot of grocery stores have attached liquor stores and it’s not a big deal, but it’s still silly.
EDIT: we also passed a right to repair law last year. We’re flat Colorado for cheap!
I used to live in a small Minnesota town and the only liquor store was run by the city. The prices were reasonable for how rural we were, and apparently some of the profits helped with city expenses. However, there was a grocery store 15 years ago or so that apparently wanted to open in the town and also have it’s own liquor store, but the town denied their permits for the liquor store for officially unclear reasons, lol.
Getting someone else to buy it isn’t actually the only way kids get it in states with really loose liquor laws - when I was a teen, I heard of a few places, mostly gas stations, that never carded. Eventually they got busted by the cops, but they sold a lot of booze to my friends before that happened. I don’t think that’s justification for exclusively state run liquor stores though. But I bet the people working at government run stores get better benefits and more stable hours than the ones working for private businesses…
who's tried it? what does it taste like? (lemmy.world)
If you had an idle animation like in video games, what would it be?
xi jinping cocksuckerule
The Patriarchy (lemmy.world)
Good boy (sh.itjust.works)
"a pokemon named Goldenite" - Bing (lemmy.world)
https://lemmy.world/pictrs/image/e8eebb69-fcb7-400b-879c-9e4dd2f4f43f.jpeg...
In your country, what "common" animals are tourists most excited to see?
It has always amused me that the tourists to the US that I’ve spoken to are often very excited to see raccoons, and disappointed if they don’t see them before they leave....
xkcd #2931: Chasing (imgs.xkcd.com)
xkcd.com/2931...
EA boss thinks ads in triple-A games would be 'meaningful' growth driver (www.gamedeveloper.com)
What could help triple-A games get even bigger right now? According to EA CEO Andrew Wilson, the answer lies in ads....
TIL there's a rich history of conspiracy theories centered around Denver International Airport (history.denverlibrary.org)
The power of AI (lemmy.world)
lemmings.world/comment/8313173
EA gonna EA (lemmy.world)
Urbanist video about Rethinking I-94 (www.youtube.com)
This is largely fantastic, but I definitely laughed at Ham-line.
Give Me Laundry Liberty or Give Me Death! (www.nytimes.com)
MAGA Republicans say that America is in crisis: The economy is collapsing while the nation is being overrun by hordes of violent immigrants. Not true....
What are your best intrusive ads ideas?
If your job was to come up with greater enshittification for society, what would you do?...
imagine rule (lemmy.cafe)
What do you call a belt made of wristwatches?
A waist of time.
Colorado Passes Its Third ‘Right To Repair’ Bill (www.techdirt.com)