ChonkyOwlbear
@ChonkyOwlbear@lemmy.world
- Comment on DeSantis Calls Special Legislative Session to Get Ahead of Trump Immigration Policies 2 weeks 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 2 weeks 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 2 weeks 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 weeks 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 weeks 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 weeks 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] 4 weeks 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 1 month ago:
Taking aspirin has killed people. Nobody ever died from taking puberty blockers.
- Comment on What's anime has the best romance? 2 months ago:
Toradora!
It’s one of the few anime I rewatch at least once a year.
- Comment on Sea Creature Party 2 months ago:
Planaria?
- Comment on The grand prize 2 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?
- Comment on 4 months ago:
Maybe they will have an upgraded version with a large rubber nose and a moustache.
- Comment on Nintendo and The Pokémon Company are suing the Palworld developers for "infringement of patent rights" 4 months ago:
- Comment on Why Kamala Harris Will Not Bring Prices Down. Her Plan Needs Inflation | dlacalle.com 4 months ago:
Bringing prices down means deflation and that is terrible for the economy. It means the real value of debt increases which does incentives investment. It also risks a deflationary spiral which is a situation where decreases in the price level lead to lower production, which in turn leads to lower wages and demand, which leads to further decreases in the price level.
- Comment on How the migrant crisis drained $150 billion from taxpayers in a single year 4 months ago:
Many immigrants come with children.
I wasn’t complaining about the inclusion of those children. I was complaining of the inclusion of children of immigrants born in the US which constitutionally makes them American citizens.
Law enforcement costs money and pulled away from normal operation.
Which is a choice we make. It is not inherent to immigration. For half the existence of this country we spent zero on regulating immigration.
if migrants didn’t generate net revenues positively in their country of origin, what makes you think they generate a net positive in the new host country?
Failure of productivity results from a corrupt and inefficient government in places like Venezuela. It has little to do with the capability of people. Go to any construction site or kitchen in the US and you will find them staffed with mostly immigrants. Labor created value and anyone can do labor if managed effectively.
Furthermore, why do municipalities like NYC have to cut services? Why do they have to evict migrants from shelters?
Because they don’t have sufficient funds to do so which could easily be fixed if xenophobes in government didn’t block taking action.
Using their logic, we should take in all the people in poverty in the world, and boost the GDP to astronomical levels by funding all of it.
Correct. Labor is the most valuable natural resource on Earth.
- Comment on How the migrant crisis drained $150 billion from taxpayers in a single year 4 months ago:
Services like education, medical expenses, law enforcement, legal costs and welfare were prominent factors FAIR looked at in its study.
Costs for law enforcement and legal expenses would not need to be included if immigration was not illegal, so I don’t see why they should be factored in.
FAIR also included the costs of US-born children of illegal immigrants — something many reports don’t factor in.
Including American citizens in the cost of illegal immigrants is dishonest.
- Comment on Why is Kamala Harris being held at such a higher standard than Trump this election? 4 months ago:
Can you imagine a woman or a black man (let alone a black woman) running for president while being three-times divorced with kids from multiple partners and having cheated multiple times on top of that? Even if they were rich like Trump, it would never fly.
- Comment on Your TV set has become a digital billboard. And it’s only getting worse. 5 months ago:
We need an ad tax. Whatever percent of revenue the company spends on advertising, they need to pay the same in a tax. That would punish the industries that advertise the most aggressively.
- Comment on UK | Girl died from sip of Costa Coffee drink after ‘failure to follow allergies processes’ 5 months ago:
I mean, the server is a victim too, aren’t they? I would be horrified if something so simple I did killed someone.
- Comment on UK | Girl died from sip of Costa Coffee drink after ‘failure to follow allergies processes’ 5 months ago:
While I agree service jobs deserve a lot more pay and better training, it just isn’t fair to put a person’s literal life in the hands of someone who just signed up to serve coffee. They didn’t sign up for that responsibility.
- Comment on UK | Girl died from sip of Costa Coffee drink after ‘failure to follow allergies processes’ 5 months ago:
I’m sorry, but it is entirely unreasonable to put whether or not you live or die in the hands of a minimum wage service worker. If a sip of milk or a bit of egg would kill you, you need to prepare your own food.
- Comment on "The Daily Life of a Middle-Aged Online Shopper in Another World" Anime Adaptation Announced with Teaser Visual, PV 5 months ago:
These titles are getting closer and closer to my exact demographic.
- Comment on Realme’s 320W fast charging can fully charge a smartphone in four and a half minutes 5 months ago:
And you can even fry an egg on the battery at the same time!
- Comment on Britain ignored its far-right threat and demonized Muslims. Now racist mobs have spiraled out of control. 5 months ago:
That a group of people should be killed because of their religion is not a political opinion.
- Comment on Good point 5 months ago:
Why not just have two relationships?
- Comment on Why fed ship do not have dedicate landing team, but send bridge crew on dangerous mission ? 6 months ago:
Remember that in a post-scarcity society, the currency is glory and prestige.
- Comment on Which US presidential elections were generally seen as having terrible options at the time by the American public and/or current historians? 6 months ago:
Hayes vs Tilden had neither candidate winning a majority of electoral votes and the election was basically decided by backroom deals.
- Comment on High ceilings are correlated with a lower exam score 6 months ago:
Higher ceiling means larger room. Larger room means larger class size. It’s well established that larger class sizes are detrimental to learning.
- Comment on Female-to-male rape, (how) does it happen without roofies? 7 months ago:
I remember one guy telling his story that he was raped by a pregnant woman. He didn’t want to hurt the baby so he couldn’t force her to stop.
- Comment on Why Didn't Democrats Do More When They Controlled Both Houses of Legislature, The White House, and The Supreme Court During Obama's First Term? 8 months ago:
While I disagree with it, there is a valid argument that getting rid of the filibuster would become an absolute disaster once Republicans gain the majority.
