Mouselemming
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- Comment on What is the maximum number of potatoes you could grow in your house or on property you own before it becomes a crime? 46 minutes ago:
I’d like to point out that a potato plant has many potatoes growing in its roots. Especially if you’re using pots, and providing rich soil, a cubic foot of dirt could easily contain 3 big baking potatoes, or 20 little baby potatoes.
Unless you’re talking about each potato plant, in which case say so.
- Comment on Investigation: Israel's Unit 8200 built a system to collect millions of mobile phone calls made daily in Gaza and the West Bank using Microsoft's Azure platform 10 hours ago:
Imagine spending all that time and money towards detecting exactly where Hamas agents are, and then shooting children in the head instead?
Also starving the entire population and then complaining the hostages are going hungry too?
- Comment on I wonder how many people throughout history have confused Floaters with ghosts, UFOs, or other paranormal phenomena 4 days ago:
If they’re little wriggly sparkles against the sky, it’s not floaters, it’s …wikipedia.org/…/Blue_field_entoptic_phenomenon
- Comment on I wonder how many people throughout history have confused Floaters with ghosts, UFOs, or other paranormal phenomena 4 days ago:
I thought I could see atoms!
It wasn’t until I was an adult that I learned I was seeing the white blood cells in my retina’s capillaries
- Comment on If everyone spontaneously became the same race the world would realize that the rich are the real problem 6 days ago:
Cholera, mostly, but also violence. It says they were turned away from getting help because the locals feared contagion, so perhaps that’s some of the violence. They also made practically no money but had a generous whiskey allotment, which would likely contribute to violence. They were working on Duffy’s Cut for some time, and the mass grave has been described as a garbage dump for bodies, not like they were lined up and shot or something, not that it makes it any better. smithsonianmag.com/…/irelands-forgotten-sons-reco…
- Comment on Good evening I choose getting the job done. 1 week ago:
Click on all the boxes that contain a VEHICLE
- Comment on [deleted] 1 week ago:
Agreed, it’s just a lot of paying attention to the instance names and scrolling past. Usually the post title is a clue as well, but occasionally something sounds like something else. I don’t want to block the whole term, because it might be a small part of some post I’d otherwise be interested in. In any case, I know better than to drop comments in a topic that’s outside my experience.
- Comment on [deleted] 1 week ago:
Thanks for the no harsh feelings. Blocking is fine. See you in the other instances! (Not a mod, just a woman who appreciates the instance)
- Comment on [deleted] 1 week ago:
How are new women to find it if it never appears in All? Feel free to block/remove it, just as you would any niches that don’t interest you and clog up your feed. Or just scroll past, like I do for Linux and gaming and moe.
- Comment on [deleted] 1 week ago:
That’s okay. I mean, if you want to open it up again and read it to get a perspective on how women speak when they’re in their own space, nobody minds. But if you don’t want it cropping up in your feed, that’s cool. Obviously the reason it shows up in All is so new women can find it. Being reminded not to comment is just that, a reminder of the rules, and not necessarily a criticism of the content. If women didn’t face so much denial of their voices it wouldn’t be necessary.
- Comment on Ah shit 1 week ago:
Joke’s on you, I already was
- Comment on Tesla Robotaxi Stops Mid-Intersection After Running a Red Light… The Influencer Onboard Calls It “Impressive” 1 week ago:
Respect for the capital letters
- Comment on Tesla Robotaxi Stops Mid-Intersection After Running a Red Light… The Influencer Onboard Calls It “Impressive” 1 week ago:
That 50-year-old is still shaking from letting their kid drive to school, and is now going to work where they’ll dread going back to pick their kid up and let them drive home. Or maybe a few more practices in empty parking lots first… Which are fucking hard to find by the way, they’re all full of cars!
- Comment on cookie combs 2 weeks ago:
ONE. That’s how many cookies fit on that tray.
If you’re feeling generous you could break off some sections of your one cookie for your friends.
- Comment on Deserved? Poll inside 3 weeks ago:
They’d agreed to share the plate. And they had the grace to blush.
- Comment on Deserved? Poll inside 3 weeks ago:
Siblings doing something to your food isn’t a sign it’s appropriate, more the opposite. We’re worst behaved towards each other, although we’d defend them against others.
- Comment on Deserved? Poll inside 3 weeks ago:
But those girls are licking their OWN food off their fingers, not pasta sauce from sticking their hand into a co-worker’s spaghetti! Even within an intimate relationship grabbing the other person’s food isn’t appropriate without consent.
- Comment on Kakapos 3 weeks ago:
If you can easily pass for part of a plant, it’s pretty darn effective. Especially if you live where most plants stay green all year.
- Comment on Dik Piks 3 weeks ago:
With a prehensile nose. And fangs. And smelly glands.
And yes, so tiny they would probably roll coal in a lifted truck
- Comment on Dik Piks 3 weeks ago:
The only dick pix I want to see are dik-dik pix.
marybatessciencewriter.com/…/the-creature-feature…
How can you tell a male dik-dik from a female dik-dik?
Look for the dik-dik dick
- Comment on [deleted] 3 weeks ago:
How old-timey were you aiming? Because “it would be most wondrous” sounds more like Bill and Ted.
- Comment on [deleted] 4 weeks ago:
Most adults I know who study a foreign language do so in order to speak it, perhaps visit that country. In languages that build words from letters, the phonemes are important to meaning. Obviously “heresy” is very different from “hearsay,” but sow and sow are different words that sound different, while sew and so are also different but sound the same. It’s especially important in order to appreciate literature, poetry, music, and jokes.
- Comment on [deleted] 4 weeks ago:
When English-speaking kids are taught to read, it’s very much an out-loud process, and covers the various pronunciation of all the letters sounds. “Sound it out” is the first step in decoding written words. Then of course there’s using context clues to figure out what word you’ve heard before could be spelled using those letters’ possible sounds. And it’s not until later, once all the common rules and exceptions of pronunciation are automatic, that you start “reading to learn” and attempt words you’ve never heard before.
- Comment on [deleted] 4 weeks ago:
Tbf, you’re not wrong about the inconsistency of English, it’s because we stole words, phrases, entire dialects from so many sources. And sometimes we kept the original pronunciation, other times we rudely imposed our phonetic expectations of the time and place when we stole them. Also the “correct” pronunciation for many words is different in different English-speaking countries.
On the plus side for you, that means most people are pretty lenient about what we consider “fluent,” and make allowances for accent. Unless they’re a racist asshole in the first place. When you mispronounce a word because you’re following phonetic rules but that word breaks them, most of us can recognize that version because we did the same thing when learning to read.
- Comment on boredom 4 weeks ago:
What do we think this kid really got into?
If he’s really scalded I don’t wanna be laughing
- Comment on That's really not okay 4 weeks ago:
Good points. It’s too bad someone ruined a pretty funny joke with AI slop.
…Or is it perhaps telling us the robots are stealing our boyfriends?!?
- Comment on Date set for millions of phones across UK to receive emergency alert test 4 weeks ago:
Please don’t disable the alerts just because they’re irritating. They have saved so many lives, even though they fuck up sometimes.
Just, instead of panicking, do a quick internet check if you don’t have other evidence of the danger. You might find that you’re not in the danger zone yet but might be soon if the wind changes or whatever.
You can also consider them a message from the Universe to check up on your emergency stuff: How much drinking water and food do you have and is it expired? Do you have a bug-out bag and do the pants in it still fit? What would you use to carry all your regular meds? (Don’t store just a few pills, scoop up all the bottles of what you’re normally using, because it might be awhile before you get refills) Do you have a litterbox and food for your cat, as well as a carrier? What about any important documents, know where they are? And where would you go?
- Comment on What things should I do if I spilled a small amount of scalding water from a kettle on my arm? 4 weeks ago:
Once you’ve cooled it and applied polysporin, you should put a bandage to keep from smearing off all the polysporin onto your clothes and keep it clean. If you don’t have a bandage that clean long sleeve will do, but it might get a greasy mark you’ll need to treat later for laundry: try rubbing in a dab of Dawn before laundering it.
Bear in mind, it may randomly start hurting and feeling burny again later, because the nerve endings hate burns. Cold water will help again. Fridge temp is fine, helps numb it without causing ice damage.
- Comment on Why does it feel like protesting isn't as "extreme" as it used to be? 5 weeks ago:
Shame.
Those in power, and Trump especially, have none. They don’t even understand the concept. And it’s been embraced by his hyenas.
Used to be, when the general population became aware of atrocities, and that they were committed against innocent people, they refused to continue to support those who had done wrong. Now Trump waves it in their face like a banner and they follow him
Used to be,
- Comment on The three musketeers never use muskets 5 weeks ago:
But they privatized the loot