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- Comment on Littering 🚯 3 hours ago:
You tend to be generous with what you discard because you don’t want to eat lead.
I could only find one report where they measured Pb in blood. People who self reported eating game meat in Utah had 30% higher lead levels than people who did not.
- Comment on "So what was your veterinary dissertation on?" 3 hours ago:
It’s good that someone studies this so I don’t have to.
- Comment on Littering 🚯 20 hours ago:
For Air rifles you can have a bullet catcher that is basically a funny shaped tin can you put your paper target in front of. It will collect the lead if you hit the target.
- Comment on Littering 🚯 20 hours ago:
Don’t know what they do over there, but we usually get the lungs and guts out as soon as possible in order to keep the meat from spoiling. Long lived predators that likes to scavenge can develop lead poisoning from those remains if it’s their main source of food.
If confusing with rocks was the main source you’d expect it to be just as common in other birds.
- Comment on If someone tells you that communism has led to famines in the USSR and China, that it doesn't have any incentives and that anyone who supports it use products of capitalism, how do you counter this? 1 day ago:
How do you persuade them that you’re right or how do you come up with an argument that makes you feel like your chosen ideology does not have any flaws?
The first: you probably can’t. They are just as set in their world view like anyone else arguing on the Internet, including you and me.
Second: accept that all ideologies have flaws. Policies however well meaning have to survive contact with reality first and foremost.
- Comment on Why do I look like shit some days? 1 day ago:
Your mind is a powerful thing. I’m not saying what you experience is not real, in fact you never experience anything without it being through your mind. It’s a shame we’re not given the operating manual for our minds at birth.
Does it happen on weekends or days when you don’t have to go out too?
And for what it’s worth your eyes look good at least.
- Comment on Quidk! I need a chili recipe. What would you add to a pound of hamburger, diced jalapenos, chili powder and bloody mary mix? 2 days ago:
My chili recepie has beans in it, otherwise it’s not chili in my book. Anyway you did not invite me to eat it so I don’t really have any right to complain.
I’d add onion, paprika, and garlic to your mix.
- Comment on How do I make a dog mean? Not that I want that but would kind of like for him to also be our protector much as his. I don't want to hit him or deprive him though he is just sometimes tooo nice. 4 days ago:
My advice is not to try to make him mean.
If you want him to protect your home you can train him to bark at strangers when at home.
- Comment on me after posting on lemmy excited to read all the replies 4 days ago:
Like an actor bowing on the stage, the crowd cheering and throwing flowers at you, but some of the flowers are cactii and it’s not just flowers there are random underwear and a shoes being thrown at you too.
- Comment on Should I meet the guy I met from online cam modelling a couple yrs ago? 5 days ago:
Sounds like you don’t really want to.
- Comment on Hopefully, he will be 6 underground by that time. 5 days ago:
If the opposite is true we would expect to observe two parties with very different views and tending to drift further and further away from each other to capture the extreme voters.
- Comment on Hopefully, he will be 6 underground by that time. 5 days ago:
You don’t win elections by convincing the far left/ right to vote for you. They will vote for/against you no matter what (or abstain from voting because they see you as equally too far left/right as your opponent).
You win by convincing the undecided voters in the middle. Every vote you gain from the center is also a vote your opponent lose.
Convince them you’ll give them better living standards and they won’t care what you do with foregin policy and minority rights.
Convince them that your priorities is minorities and foregin policy and they will tell you that it’s all good and well but they are about to lose their job and the cost of living is going up so they are just going to vote for the other guy that promises to fix that.
- Comment on Can people irl be as mean as some people online? 5 days ago:
People tend to be less mean irl. Either because they are likely to have to deal with you again or because they are afraid to be punched in the face.
But there are mean people IRL too.
- Comment on Do you think people from more "privilaged" backgrounds have a right to complain about the struggle and/or abuse that they went through? (eg: "Middle Class" or "Rich" family) 1 week ago:
Where do you draw the line? Is only the most miserable person in the world allowed to complain? The bottom 10%? How do you compare someone who was piss poor but loved to someone who was rich but beaten?
Either way I think complaining about the past is a curse you put on yourself and any poor soul that you force to listen. You can tell your story, everyone has one, but complaining should be saved for something that can change in the future.
- Comment on How does one become a entrepreneur? 1 week ago:
Pretty much the definition of entrepreneur. Start a business. Whatever you think you can do better than your competitors is a good start.
- Comment on [NSQ] What are you actually looking forward to this year? 1 week ago:
Looking at buying a house. Will get my first factory new hunting rifle, not pre owned as before. Over all things are heading in the right direction for me personally.
- Comment on Your teenager AND your husband 2 weeks ago:
Yeah that was me. Come home from school after eating a big school lunch, eat a quarter loaf of bread and 1L milk. Have a 2 hour nap, eat 2 servings for dinner, ask if anyone else wants more before scraping the leftovers in the pots and pans onto my plate.
- Comment on I am looking for a Linux OS 2 weeks ago:
I’d probably say mint, reasonably newbie friendly. I’ve not tried Bazzite but I hear good things about it.
I currently run Arch btw, it’s not what I’d recommend as a first distro.
Anyway don’t over think it. Get something easy up and running and after a while get curious or annoyed and try something else.
Hope you have an AMD gpu. Been a while since I had a Nvidia but they were twice as annoying to deal with some 7 years ago.
- Comment on Is it normal I feel embarrassed about being female sometimes because of feminine smells I don't want to be associated with? 2 weeks ago:
It’s probably unusual to feel that way. How much you should worry about it depends on how much you feel like it gets in the way of your life.
If it makes you feel any better I’ve never smelled anyting like that on a woman with reasonable hygiene standards.
- Comment on do most people really like the taste and smell of eggs? 2 weeks ago:
Smell and taste of eggs alone is tolerable but not good. Have to add at least salt to boiled eggs to make them taste OK. Not a huge fan of omelette or fried eggs either but if you put food in front of me I’ll probably eat it.
This has changed over the years. Used to hate them until I was about 25 and just mildly dislike them until 30.
- Comment on Inside me there are two shit takes 2 weeks ago:
You have the self awareness that it’s shit takes.
- Comment on Is it possible that the rich are so rich that they have created inflation? 3 weeks ago:
No. Governments (Central banks usually in charge of this) try to create mild inflation to discourage hoarding money.
The rich also don’t horde money, they hoard assets. Usually stocks in companies.
Inflation is caused by there being more and more money in circulation competing for the same stuff, or less stuff produced.
Wealth inequality cause a lot of problems, inflation is not one of them.
- Comment on Currency 3 weeks ago:
While a big mac has intrinsic value, the value of the coin is based on trusting McD honouring the agreement. Will they still accept the coins 10 years from now when they have forgotten they were issued? Will they be sued out of existence after their meat substitute mushroom burger left in the sun for too long comes alive an eats 9 customers and and a minivan?
The value of the dollar is based on trusting the US central bank and/or governmemt to be responsible enough.
While you should not blindly trust either McD or the government, the latter has a longer track record, even though they seem like they are going to eat a metaphorical minivan soon.
- Comment on Are there any women here who felt they didn't deserve to be called women? 3 weeks ago:
Not sure if it’s relevant to why you feel ridiculous, but feeling like you don’t qualify as what you are is common I think.
In my 20s I felt like a 7 year old boy dressed up in a suit and grandma pinching my cheek and going “well who is this handsome man?”.
- Comment on I consider myself as a left-libertarian who supports limited government and direct democracy. Can left-libertarians support limited government? 3 weeks ago:
It sounds like an inevitable tradeoff.
I’m genuinely curious.
How would a small government ensure economic equality? High taxes and UBI is still the government being responsible for a large portion of your needs, even if the bureaucracy may be somewhat slimmer. - Comment on I consider myself as a left-libertarian who supports limited government and direct democracy. Can left-libertarians support limited government? 3 weeks ago:
I think you’re coming at it from the wrong way. Instead of picking a label (left libert…) and figure out if you can support a policy (lim. gov.) you should think about if you belive a policy is a good idea and let someone else figure out what label to give you if they feel like they want to.
- Comment on If the 2028 election was held today, who would you vote for? 3 weeks ago:
Not the green. Their policies are hostile towards anyone not living in a big city center. Not the “left party” (former communist party). The rhetoric is the hostile to men brand of feminism and they have a dubious economic policy.
Me voting for either is like an immigrant voting for Trump.
- Comment on Can socialism or communism have incentives (even without markets)? 4 weeks ago:
Socialism: what do you call the nordic countries? They have reasonable incentives. If they qualify then yes.
Communism: does China qualify as communist or are they some kind of former communist with capitalist reforms?
- Comment on How do you fight doomerism/pessimism in these trying times? 4 weeks ago:
I guess you could find some place where they only publish posive news, but you would be getting a skewed positive outlook instead of skewed negative from the usual news. It’s more pleasant but probably not better.
The pessimists will say that he will find a way to get a 3rd term. They will probably not say that he looks very healthy for his age. You will be doing a small fight for optimism there.
- Comment on How do you fight doomerism/pessimism in these trying times? 4 weeks ago:
Avoid people who have this pessimistic mindset. This includes the news.
Next step is to think optimistically. There won’t be any election? He will be 85- something by then and he is not exactly the image of healthy living. And that is not even optimistic, it’s realistic thinking.