dandelion
@dandelion@lemmy.blahaj.zone
- Comment on You can just do stuff. 1 week ago:
this is what it’s like to be gentle-dom’d
- Comment on Feeling blessed wanted a sprite even though the machine didnt advertise it 1 week ago:
praise god
- Comment on Thank you for your service 1 week ago:
yay, a violet08 reference!
- Comment on I wonder why we don't have an NPS score for people? 1 week ago:
yeah, and a NPS score for humans would be even worse tbh
- Comment on I wonder why we don't have an NPS score for people? 1 week ago:
yeah, I don’t think that makes too much sense - we’re social creatures, we probably should care about what other people think
I admit my insecurities are unhealthy, and the way I’m approaching my insecurities is unhealthy, but I don’t think the right conclusion is to think I’m a goddess or a 11/10, nor to completely ignore everyone’s opinions of me.
And besides, part of the reason I feel insecure is because of the feedback I get from society - I’m pretty sure based on the way people treat me that I’m not attractive, etc. - so in some sense I just want confirmation of what my lived experience is already telling me
- Comment on I wonder why we don't have an NPS score for people? 1 week ago:
exactly, it is so enshittified - and I’m not surprised Tinder already had this system on their backend (a hidden ELO score), that’s so scummy
- Comment on I wonder why we don't have an NPS score for people? 1 week ago:
no, I didn’t know about that - but hey, now I know at least I can upload my photos to Tinder and see how attractive Tinder thinks I am 😅
- Comment on new instance, same me🫶 1 week ago:
her resurrection was foretold, she’s the One
- Comment on I wonder why we don't have an NPS score for people? 1 week ago:
don’t you want to know if you’re a good citizen!? 😭
(admittedly I based my sense of self-worth on my grades)
- Comment on I wonder why we don't have an NPS score for people? 1 week ago:
you get one star for saying that: ★☆☆☆☆
- Comment on I wonder why we don't have an NPS score for people? 1 week ago:
it does seem like one of those horrible, but monetize-able, ideas that I can hardly believe hasn’t been introduced already
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- Comment on Piss after drinking black coffee is the worst smelling piss 1 week ago:
then how else are my trees going to get fertilized? 🥺 👉 👈 🫙
- Comment on Piss after drinking black coffee is the worst smelling piss 1 week ago:
I would probably just launch into my findings and results and ask them to share their observations about their coffee pee smells
- Comment on Piss after drinking black coffee is the worst smelling piss 1 week ago:
counter point: I like how fruity it smells, it’s probably just the poor quality of the coffee you’re drinking
maybe I should keep a log of my coffee piss and compare different coffees and how they affect my pee smell
- Comment on If you found out your cousin was a billionaire (non-famous) and the CEO of a Fortune 500 company, how would you react? Would you be mad he didn’t tell you? 1 week ago:
ah, that’s a good point actually … I wonder if this means we need a new community, one that is for earnestly stupid questions - maybe /c/onlystupidquestions or something
- Comment on If you found out your cousin was a billionaire (non-famous) and the CEO of a Fortune 500 company, how would you react? Would you be mad he didn’t tell you? 1 week ago:
lol, doesn’t that affirm they posted in the right sub? this is the community where we openly invite stupid questions - so we can’t complain, can we?
- Comment on If you found out your cousin was a billionaire (non-famous) and the CEO of a Fortune 500 company, how would you react? Would you be mad he didn’t tell you? 1 week ago:
so … a CEO of a company that is valued in the billions of dollars - that CEO is not a billionaire, for context
The CEO is a millionaire, though - a quick search shows his compensation is over $4 million
I’m not saying every billionaire can be picked out in a lineup by a random member of the public, but just pointing out that no billionaire is escaping scrutiny or awareness of the public in some capacity (this is why I started with “even if not ‘famous’”).
- Comment on YSK: The US massacred hundreds & raped children as young as 12 in one day. Only one perpetrator was convicted - later commuted by President Nixon. 1 week ago:
it’s sad when I don’t even know which massacre is being discussed, or even which theater of war or era - there are just too many examples
- Comment on whats the political message of Spongebob? 1 week ago:
I assume here the dichotomy is between Spongebob as an earnest, happy-go-lucky creative type who recovers easily from struggles and keeps a positive attitude, and on the other side is Squidward who hates everything and everyone and is a failed creative who can’t stand Spongebob precisely because Spongebob is happy and doesn’t deserve to be happy because he’s doesn’t meet the creative standards Squidward holds leaving Squidward a sad and unmotivated creative who wallows in his criticism of himself and others rather than overcoming his inner-critique to engage in the life-sustaining creative process?
So Squidward is the Nazi, and Spongebob is the “healthy” alternative?
- Comment on If you found out your cousin was a billionaire (non-famous) and the CEO of a Fortune 500 company, how would you react? Would you be mad he didn’t tell you? 1 week ago:
Why would I be mad? This makes no sense to me. How close am I to this “cousin” in this hypothetical?
Also, there are only a few thousand billionaires in the world, even if not “famous” they are all probably on a list or “known” in some capacity - it’s hard not to be noted when you have the accumulated wealth hoard of a dragon.
- Comment on Red, White and Blue 1 week ago:
allhiphop.com/…/afroman-addresses-patriotic-photo…
Speaking to AllHipHop, Afroman clarified, “I’m not supporting him. I just met him. And yes, my campaign is full effect.” He continued, “We were both at the Libertarian National Conference trying to get nominated and get their votes and we saw each other. We shook hands and talked about the Hunter Biden song and witch hunt raids. That was it.”
just to clarify, the photo alone in the link you sent does not provide sufficient evidence that Afroman has cozied up to Trump or supports Trump. As far as I can tell, so far, no evidence points to him supporting Trump.
That said, he is a Christian and says transphobic things, and he clearly competes with Trump for some of the same right-wing Libertarian voters, so it’s clear Afroman is at least in some right-wing spaces and supports some right-wing ideas, even if I don’t think you have sufficient evidence to say he’s close to Trump or a Trump supporter.
- Comment on That's how the world works. 1 week ago:
Yes, I also used “lazy gardening” and permaculture oriented techniques - I don’t know how to tell you that for most people this is an unreasonable amount of labor. Even if you do no labor on weeding and digging, you are left with significant labor managing harvests, storing your harvest, etc. - for people who work full-time or don’t have much time or energy to give, or for people who are differently abled or become injured or disabled, farming can be inaccessible. It is better to think of it as a full-time job, even when approaching it with permaculture and “one straw revolution” style techniques.
- Comment on That's how the world works. 1 week ago:
hm, I’m not sure in what way you think I avoided the subject 🤔
sunchokes are a low-calorie food, which is why I specifically don’t suggest them as a famine food. It would be better to grow sunflowers that produce seeds, as at least those have oils and will provide calories.
Potatoes are a much better option than sunchokes, but require much more attention and effort, to prevent blight and ensure a good crop, etc. - it’s not trivial to produce your own calories.
I’m fine with suggesting you can pick up producing some of your own food or calories, but as someone who has actually tried doing this in a suburban context, I want to warn people about the intensive time and labor involved.
Farming is best done on a farm, by farmers; more people should think about whether their time and effort is best spent on farming or not, whether they want to farm full-time or not, etc. We need to be clear-sighted that nobody can achieve self-sufficiency on their own, and that everyone has limited time and energy.
We also need to be clear that having a victory garden is not going to replace the reliance on farmers for calories or prevent famine or save people from catastrophic collapse of food production systems or supply chains.
Which is why I am emphasizing our reliance on farmers rather than telling everyone to become a farmer.
- Comment on That's how the world works. 1 week ago:
there was still storage of foods in both cases and both the Great Famine and Late Victorian Holocausts were cases where markets and false austerity led to normal food distribution systems during times of famine not happening, and then lots of deaths occurring
my point is that food production is a separate concern from food distribution - they’re related, and to your point over-production can reduce prices and make distribution more accessible, but when production occasionally fails, it is the economic system that starves people first (not the lack of food)
this is different than in pre-capitalist societies when usually during times when food production failed, stocks of food were released and distribution was ensured in ways that marketized & capitalist societies have not done (where for example in Syria around the time of the Arab Spring, we saw grocers dying from starvation because they couldn’t make enough money selling food to afford to buy food for themselves).
And yes, starvation when food is abundant is a monumental policy failure - this is something we should be driving home more to people, that the US chooses to have starving and homeless people as a policy choice.
Completely agreed that social solutions are the only way to solve food insecurity, individual action like doomsday prepping is a distraction that primes us to victim-blame people who die for not “preparing” adequately.
- Comment on That's how the world works. 1 week ago:
sunchokes are fairly weedy and hard to get rid of, and don’t really produce enough calories to be worth it in a survival situation.
Also, you should grow stuff you already eat - don’t expect to grow a bunch of food that you aren’t used to cooking or eating and to enjoy it.
tbh, it might make most sense to identify what you spend the most money on and what’s easiest to grow that would replace the money you spend with time tending - usually that’s fresh herbs. Growing sage, thyme, rosemary, green onions, basil, etc. is usually fairly easy and will save a lot of money (a bundle of fresh herbs can cost like $5 for a very small amount).
Garlic is also fairly expensive per 100 g, and I found it not too hard to grow - I managed to grow enough garlic in one season in a small area on a suburban plot to not have to buy grocery store garlic for over a year.
But on the other hand, you don’t tend to buy a lot of garlic by weight, so it may or may not make sense given the amount of time it takes to garden.
People need to understand that gardening is a huge amount of labor and time spent - it’s not economical compared to working a job and buying what you need.
So, if you’re unemployed and unable to work, but able to garden, it’s unlikely to be a great way to spend your time if your concern is saving money.
If your goal is to survive a catastrophe, I think it’s delusional to expect gardening to fully provide for your calories, and the same calculus applies: your time will be better spent making yourself valuable to someone who has excess food to give away (like your local CSA farmer friend); even just volunteering on their farm is a better use of time than trying to provide for your own calories by making your small urban or suburban lawn into a food production system.
- Comment on That's how the world works. 1 week ago:
I think this somewhat ignores the way markets kill people during times of famine - see the Late Victorian Holocausts or the Great Famine, in both of which there was plenty of food available, but the problem was the introduction of markets and artificial austerity measures that failed to distribute food to people dying of famine
so, food production might be a solved issue (I think that’s a bit more debatable given soil degradation and the threats to supply chains necessary for the industrial inputs needed to keep those food production systems going in their current, post-Green-Revolution format), but the distribution issue has not been solved and will likely result in many of us dying due to lack of economic power to afford food that will simply expire and rot in storage and then be destroyed and disposed of in a way that denies us access to the waste
- Comment on Can't wait for my demonologist's advice. 1 week ago:
for those wondering what's in the photo
the photo is of a hydrojelly face mask, and it’s probably just seeds - maybe flax seeds or something like that; there are many different kinds of hydrojelly face masks, some of them have rose petals or lavender flowers, etc.
- Comment on Can't wait for my demonologist's advice. 1 week ago:
www.nature.com/articles/d41586-026-00700-y
The American Academy of Dermatology recommends washing the face twice a day with a gentle cleanser, applying a moisturizer and — during the day — putting on sunscreen and protective clothing.
skincare is simple: just wash your face, use moisturizer, and wear sunscreen (and keep out of the sun).
- Comment on That's how the world works. 1 week ago:
just a reminder that none of us can sufficiently “doom prep” and avoid the consequences of large catastrophes like being discussed
beyond typical disaster preparedness: www.ready.gov
probably the best thing would be to develop community ties - get to know your local weirdo farmers doing a CSA, make friends with EMTs, get to know your neighbors, get connected with a local community garden, etc.
We will survive or die together, individual prepping is not going to save you.