ChonkyOwlbear
@ChonkyOwlbear@lemmy.world
- Comment on Jack Dorsey and Elon Musk would like to ‘delete all IP law’ 1 week ago:
About 163 million out of 340 million people work. The rest are subsidized.
- Comment on Other than a faulty charging port, is there any reason to use a wireless phone charger over wired? 4 weeks ago:
The amount of times I have tripped on a charging cord and sent my phone flying…
- Comment on [deleted] 4 weeks ago:
Look at what humans have done with breeds of dogs. Before we even knew what genetics was, we understood that if you bred two small dogs, the offspring would be small. Then, if you bred those offspring with other small dogs, they would be even smaller still. That’s how we got from a wolf to a Chihuahua. That is how we manipulate the forces of evolution for our benefit.
There are countless little “tells” that species evolve. Human skeletons have a tiny tail. All embryonic mammals look virtually identical. Whales have vestigial pelvis bones. Bacteria become resistant to antibiotics after generations of repeated exposure. Sickle cell anemia is an evolutionary adaptation in human populations frequently exposed to Malaria. Moths have been observed becoming darker in color so their camouflage matches trees darkened by pollution.
- Comment on Why aren't there mass protests in the USA? 5 weeks ago:
I think that the thing that made the protests for George Floyd and Covid policies so widespread was people were out of work. The capitalist system has done a very good job of binding us to our jobs. we need a change that will put large amounts of people on the streets with little to lose. An economic collapse might do it.
- Comment on What are some slow acting poisons? 5 weeks ago:
There was a theory a while back that Napoleon died from arsenic poisoning due to the damp Mediterranean climate causing the decay of a green wallpaper using an arsenic based dye. It didn’t end up being entirely true but he may have been slowly poised by environmental arsenic throughout his life. Here is an article about it.
Arsenic is a naturally occurring element in the Earth’s crust as metallic crystals or combined with other elements. Being a heavy metal, arsenic bioaccumulates. That is, it builds up in the body over time, so slow poisoning is possible.
- Comment on Is using MicroSD cards a good way to store data that you can destroy quickly incase an adversary is about to seize control of it? 1 month ago:
Stick it between the prong of an electric plug, then plug into an outlet. Instafried
- Comment on Jeff Bezos is scared to have an open debate on economics 1 month ago:
Open debate topic: what marinade is best for cooking billionaires?
- Comment on is it wrong/selfish to cut contact with my trump-supporting father? 2 months ago:
Living in white suburbia and cable news mostly.
- Comment on is it wrong/selfish to cut contact with my trump-supporting father? 2 months ago:
When I found out my mom voted for Trump the first time, I didn’t speak to her for a year. I only did then because she reached out to say she was wrong (a first for her).
When I explained (more like yelled) why I wasn’t going to have anything to do with her, I told her in detail how she was betraying everything she raised me to be. She used to sponsor the LGBT club at the school where she worked and I told her she was betraying all those kids she said she cared about.
It isn’t a choice between you and Trump. It is a choice between your dad being the type of man he raised you to be, or not.
- Comment on DOGE's next target revealed after $59 million spent to put illegal migrants in luxury hotels 2 months ago:
“Musk gave no evidence to support his claim, and information from the city of New York indicated that money it’s received to care for migrants was appropriated by Congress and allocated to the city last year by FEMA.”
”It was not clear where the $59 million figure came from, and officials did not provide details to AP. "
abcnews.go.com/…/fema-halting-payments-migrant-ho…
Totally unsubstantiated claims by a prolific liar should not be trusted.
Garcia said the city has never paid luxury rates. The vast majority are outside Manhattan, and the government has paid on average $152 a night for rooms, according to a 2024 city comptroller report. In comparison, 5-star hotels in Manhattan for the coming weekend run from $400 a night to well over $1,000.
The “luxury suite” part of the story is definitely false.
- Comment on The US Treasury Spent HOW MUCH Illegally? Now You Know Why the Left Wants to Stop DOGE. 2 months ago:
Ah yes, the author that argues there shouldn’t be a minimum wage and that systemic racism isn’t real. He knows how to make money by telling wealthy white people what they want to hear.
Usually when I hear people complain about the government funding “useless projects” it is either something they don’t understand or something that ends up saving money in the long run.
- Comment on The US Treasury Spent HOW MUCH Illegally? Now You Know Why the Left Wants to Stop DOGE. 2 months ago:
Which of the listed programs do you think is a waste and why?
- Comment on The US Treasury Spent HOW MUCH Illegally? Now You Know Why the Left Wants to Stop DOGE. 2 months ago:
It’s not like the people in the government didn’t know about it. If anyone objected to these programs continuing all they had to do was say something. Seems like a bunch of necessary programs nobody in their right mind would object to.
- Comment on Reddit in shambles. You just love to see it. The wind change. So refreshing. Wonder if the reddit mods will loosen up a bit after they tasted their own medicine. 2 months ago:
They have the right idea.
- Comment on DeSantis Calls Special Legislative Session to Get Ahead of Trump Immigration Policies 3 months ago:
Ah Epoch Times, the newspaper run by a Chinese cult that believes their leader is a deity that can fly, walk through walls, and see the future.
- Comment on Python [Snake] Meat Could Be a Sustainable, Nutritious Food Source, Scientists Say 3 months ago:
All the more reason to pursue food sources from existing invasive species like pythons.
- Comment on Python [Snake] Meat Could Be a Sustainable, Nutritious Food Source, Scientists Say 3 months ago:
Tuna and tons of other fish are food sources and we don’t breed them. They just grow natively in sufficient numbers. Often invasive species don’t have a natural predator in the new ecosystem, so their population grows unchecked.
Why use CRISPR, birth control, nest culling or other methods which cost resources instead of eating them which is a net gain in resources?
- Comment on Python [Snake] Meat Could Be a Sustainable, Nutritious Food Source, Scientists Say 3 months ago:
At this point they are a widely spread invasive species in the southern US. There are an estimated 100,000 to 300,000 pythons in the Everglades alone. They commonly eat raccoon, opossum, rabbit, fox, bobcat, and other mid-size mammalian species. I think the idea is less to farm them and more to cull them from the wild where they grow unchecked and damage the native ecosystem.
- Comment on Capricorn Two 3 months ago:
During Desert Storm I did something similar. I took an old water heater, jammed it in a neighbor’s yard, and painted it like a SCUD missile.
- Comment on Choosing pink is chaotic evil? 3 months ago:
My first instinct was pink, but on second thought blue. There is no saying that because the pill makes them my friend that it couldn’t ever change. If not, I could always use more hot friends who could hook me up with their hot friends.
- Comment on [deleted] 3 months ago:
First of all, you actually know what your son is into and want to connect with him which is awesome. That makes you a good dad right away.
He likes cooking and you like outdoorsy stuff, so BBQ sounds like a good overlap.
Anime is a wide enough genre that it has options for you. Blue Lock is a currently popular show about soccer players. That might be something you both could watch. Also, just watch Cowboy Bebop with him. Everyone likes Cowboy Bebop.
For games, Stardew Valley has lots of fishing, foraging, and dungeon delving elements that you would probably enjoy if you game at all. (You might also see if your son just wants to take walks in the woods since it’s such a pastoral game that might appeal) Minecraft is something everyone can enjoy. It’s digital Legos more or less.
Personally I find knitting oddly enjoyable in a lot of the same ways as woodworking. You are making something tangible which is great. It takes a lot of patience and persistence. You are working with a medium that doesn’t always cooperate the way you want but that’s part of the challenge.
- Comment on Take Two Puberty Blockers and Call Me in the Morning? Justice Sotomayor Under Fire For Aspirin Analogy in Oral Argument 4 months ago:
Taking aspirin has killed people. Nobody ever died from taking puberty blockers.
- Comment on What's anime has the best romance? 5 months ago:
Toradora!
It’s one of the few anime I rewatch at least once a year.
- Comment on Sea Creature Party 5 months ago:
Planaria?
- Comment on The grand prize 5 months ago:
Just to be a troublemaker, everyone is assuming this a solid cube, but what if it was something like 1/4 inch tungsten plates and hollow in the middle?
What would it weigh? Would it float in water?