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- Comment on 1 day ago:
I’m a little too good at acting as living food storage.
- Comment on No conclusive evidence linking acetaminophen to autism, says Health Canada in rebuke to Trump 1 week ago:
I sincerely doubt that’s an accident.
- Comment on PUT THE TRAINS IN THE BAG 1 week ago:
Based on the latest Silent Hill, a lot.
- Comment on PUT THE TRAINS IN THE BAG 1 week ago:
Thank you. I was kind of offended with the other one for implying I would neglect a huge region.
- Comment on proof of wormholes 1 week ago:
Wow, thank you for bringing that up. That’s potentially very helpful in some situations.
Specifically I’m thinking that it might be worth taking a preemptive dose prior to contact with a known trigger, to assist with exposure therapy.
- Comment on proof of wormholes 1 week ago:
Alcohol can’t cause birth defects in adults because they’re already born, but it can and does damage the adult brain and other organs.
- Comment on But also, the correct answer is Devil's Due 2 weeks ago:
I only very casually like Star Trek and have never been confused when watching any series from the first episode.* I don’t know about all these fancy new Treks, but TOS, TNG, and DS9 were intentionally designed to be picked up during any random episode because that was how TV worked at the time. If you found a show during its fifth episode, you had no means of going back to the first four unless you happened to know someone who recorded them on VHS.
Lower Decks was also completely enjoyable to me even though my knowledge of the franchise is limited.
- I think it was Discovery we tried watching somewhat recently (not 100% sure on the title) where I was confused from the first episode, but it was in a “What the fuck are these creative choices?” and “Do people like this?” way.
- Comment on It's always Brassica 2 weeks ago:
I recently took in one of these that was found on commercial produce, and turns out they will starve themselves to death if they’ve learned about the most premium crucifers and are denied them.
- Comment on It's always Brassica 2 weeks ago:
No, the joke is that people would potentially believe anything about brassicas at this point because everything else is a brassica.
- Comment on It's always Brassica 2 weeks ago:
In the leaves, yes. The white part is flowers.
- Comment on It's always Brassica 2 weeks ago:
You are what you eat, so dinosaurs are a type of broccoli too.
- Comment on 1 month ago:
I don’t know how anyone could read Moby Dick and not come away convinced of their obvious fishness. Surely one’s nature and behavior are more important than one’s reproductive organs.
- Comment on HELP HIM. 1 month ago:
It’s been put forth that we should have other kinds of censor tags on Lemmy, but NSFW is currently the only one supported. It’s been used here and on other sites for disturbing imagery of murders, spiders for arachnophobes, etc. Even without that, a text tag of [animal abuse] facilitates the use of client-side content filters.
- Comment on HELP HIM. 1 month ago:
Do I need to look at images of dead Palestinian kids too? Does wanting to go about my day in a measure of peace mean I don’t really care?
- Comment on HELP HIM. 1 month ago:
I’m literally eating vegan nuggets right now, but thanks for being an ass.
- Comment on HELP HIM. 1 month ago:
Can images of animal abuse please be labeled as such and get a NSFW blur please?
- Comment on HELP HIM. 1 month ago:
The rat is safe in that it can’t hurt itself or others, but they feel the same about this kind of confinement as humans do. I guess whether that counts as humane is a matter of opinion.
- Comment on It's just loss. 2 months ago:
Something I pretty much never see pointed out is that we don’t need billions of humans. Our governments keep encouraging us to have children, but they should be working to end the culture of pressuring people (especially women) into having children because they’re somehow incomplete without them. There should be more programs offering access to birth control and family counseling services. This endless and meaningless growth is as harmful to us as it is to the rest of our planet.
- Comment on It's just loss. 2 months ago:
I believe pets are counted as livestock, but it’s not specifically referenced as far as I have the interest to read.
- Comment on USA 🇺🇸 USA 🇺🇸 USA 2 months ago:
But what if she had four wheels?
- Comment on USA 🇺🇸 USA 🇺🇸 USA 2 months ago:
No. What is or isn’t a vegetable is determined entirely by whether we collectively consider any given plant or plant part a food item.
- Comment on Plant Slurs 2 months ago:
In Swedish the prefix for bad stuff is the same as the prefix for not or un-. So a monster is a not-animal and a weed is ungrass. Which is especially interesting to me because that same prefix (o) is for better versions of things in Japanese.
- Comment on Plant Slurs 2 months ago:
It definitely counts as invasive if we put it there though. I don’t see rabbits swimming to Australia.
- Comment on Dismay as council removes Pride flag in Derbyshire after Christians complain 3 months ago:
Coincidentally, this is the latest drama on my WoW server:
- Comment on Dismay as council removes Pride flag in Derbyshire after Christians complain 3 months ago:
The new administration has also introduced Christian prayer at the start of its meetings, with a Reform councillor, the group whip Dan Price, saying the UK was a “Christian country”.
Cool.
- Comment on Strawberries are nuts 🍓 3 months ago:
Strawberries do not have nipples. :(
- Comment on Strawberries are nuts 🍓 3 months ago:
Achenes are not nuts.
(1) Achene. A small hard indehiscent fruit. The term is strictly only applied to those formed from one carpel, but is sometimes used for those formed from two carpels (e.g. the fruit of the Compositae). The latter is better termed a cypsela.
(2) Nut. This is similar to an achene, but is typically formed from two or three carpels (e.g. dock fruit).
www.sciencedirect.com/topics/…/achene
i. Achene - A one-seeded, dry, indehiscent fruit; the one seed is attached to the fruit wall at a single point.
ii. Nut - A dry, indehiscent, one seeded fruit similar to an achene but with the wall greatly thickened and hardened.
- Comment on Strawberries are nuts 🍓 3 months ago:
Sorry if I’m misunderstanding your post, but cashews are not drupes, not nuts. I don’t know whether all true nuts come from trees, but all the ones I can think of do.
- Comment on Strawberries are nuts 🍓 3 months ago:
If you took all the seeds off a strawberry, it’d still be a strawberry. A bowl full of strawberry nuts is not a bowl of strawberries.
- Comment on 7th century: "I, master of the runes(?) conceal here runes of power. Incessantly (plagued by) maleficence,(doomed to) insidious death (is) he who breaks this (monument)." 3 months ago:
So many ancient writings are shitposts though. This could very well just be OOP trolling the kind of people who would be scared of such a message, or even making a joke we no longer have the references for.
