NottaLottaOcelot
@NottaLottaOcelot@lemmy.ca
- Comment on omg hes just like me 1 week ago:
I also find that to be a weird question to consider, as though something must have a purpose to be worthy of existence
In that vein, what is the point of humans? To bring on the 6th mass extinction?
- Comment on Me with my first edition harry potter 2 weeks ago:
Sometimes when I do this, I imagine an archaeologist finding my book millennia from now and surmising my diet from the accidental smears.
“We have found that Canadians circa 2000-2050 enjoyed a diet that included tangerines and microwave burritos”
- Comment on Wonder what their cousins liked to snack on... 2 weeks ago:
There was a human study in the 1920s by Clara Davis where they followed a group of children in self led eating habits. They offered a range of healthy foods each day and let the kids choose what they ate - generally kids fed themselves a healthy diet with appropriate portions as long as the food offered was healthy. They would even eat fish oil voluntarily and maintained good vitamin D and omega 3 levels.
Now the author never had the opportunity to try it with processed foods or junk foods, so this may not hold true when items specifically formulated to keep you eating come into play. However, it’s entirely possible that the crocodile in the image has some instinct that drives it to eat a healthy diet. Or you’re correct, maybe it is playing and using the pumpkin as a toy, but it is unusual that it would consume it then
- Comment on CW: Picture of a severe vaccine injury, NSFL 2 weeks ago:
Facebook mom groups perpetuate this pseudoscience. You are a young mom and want to commisserate with people, but half of them will scold you for things totally not scientifically sound.
I recall posts suggesting cow’s milk would poison your baby if used before 1 year old, yet cheese or yogurt was no problem. I went down the rabbit hole and it was essentially a bastardization of recommendations that breast milk or formula should be the bulk of your baby’s diet rather than cow’s milk, not that cow’s milk was poison.
Another time they scolded a mother for making a fruit smoothie, because they felt she could have overdosed on vitamin A. I’ll point out that dietary vitamin A mostly has to be converted from beta carotene to its active form, so it is incredibly hard to overdose unless you are using vitamin supplements. And yet fruit smoothie mom was in trouble, but eating 10 Big Macs was no big deal, as the magic guidelines never said no.
- Comment on CW: Picture of a severe vaccine injury, NSFL 2 weeks ago:
I wonder if it’s that most of us alive today have very little memory of people who suffered the diseases themselves. Our parents and grandparents knew people who died or had long-term negative effects from measles, polio, smalllpox, etc.
We are insulated from that to the point where some flirt with the idea that maybe the disease isn’t that bad. Combine that with mistrust in the medical system and nobody enjoying getting a needle, and you have some people that WANT vaccines to be a bust to justify avoiding something they don’t want to do.
- Comment on wir suchen dich‼️‼️🗣️📢📢 2 weeks ago:
They’re not, but it’s the wurst kept secret in all of Europe
- Comment on When you are talking with a moron and want to back slap them with a satirical complement 2 weeks ago:
I’m offended on behalf of platypi
- Comment on Genius. 3 weeks ago:
I suppose you’re right - it could be done on a small scale. I’m so used to seeing massive vats at the sugar bush that I didn’t even think of a small volume in a pot
- Comment on Chinese parents love to dismiss mental illness, but simultaneously love to threaten to "send their 'misbehaving' kid to a mental hospital". 3 weeks ago:
Definitely not China specific. At minimum, let’s add my Indian parents to the list
- Comment on Human experimentation, one way or the other. 3 weeks ago:
I can’t describe how many patients I see in an average week who are taking homeopathic stuff for their dental diseases and ask me hopefully if it’s working. No, magic toxin water has not cured your gingivitis or rebuilt your cavitated tooth.
- Comment on Human experimentation, one way or the other. 3 weeks ago:
I think about that often. The people who have the most kids are generally the ones who can’t afford them and have a harder time providing extra-curricular activities or those with more extreme religious beliefs who may opt out of scientific education. If your average Mormon has 3-4 kids and your average astrophysicist has 1-2, the population trend must eventually follow.
- Comment on Sam Altman Thanks Programmers for Their Effort, Says Their Time Is Over 3 weeks ago:
If you scoured the world for the most punchable face, you’d surely come up with Sam Altman
- Comment on Horrorposting 3 weeks ago:
We awkwardly completed her filling without speaking much. Just another shitty day in healthcare
- Comment on Genius. 3 weeks ago:
Darwinian evolution is as much luck as it is skill
- Comment on Gaysadilla 3 weeks ago:
No, but bagels are a lesbian food
- Comment on Genius. 3 weeks ago:
The question remains - how hungry must they have been to still eat that?
- Comment on Genius. 3 weeks ago:
They clearly had good cardio if they were agitating it that vigorously for long enough to make butter! Forget fitness watches, maybe I should wear a sack of milk at the gym to see if I’m working hard enough.
- Comment on Genius. 3 weeks ago:
Right? And trees that leak, like pines, have sap that tastes like absolute ass. You’d think they’d avoid tasting tree sap at all costs
- Comment on Genius. 3 weeks ago:
I’m fascinated by the existence of so many foods. Who decided to boil tree sap for 3 weeks to make maple syrup? Who agitated cows milk vigorously for 20 minutes to discover butter? Who saw cheese for the first time and decided to still eat moldy milk?
I thank those nameless humans for their service to society.
- Comment on Horrorposting 3 weeks ago:
So I worked at a dental office, and in the middle of a filling, a patient jolted up and ran to the bathroom. She was in there for 20 minutes or so, and then walked out of the office.
When we checked the bathroom, there was shit everywhere - hand prints smeared on the wall, footprints on the floor, the entire surface area of the toilet. I don’t know what evils occurred in there, but she didn’t clean a thing.
But here’s the part that really stunned me. An hour later she returned and said she was ready to finish her filling, like nothing ever happened
I think of myself as a reasonable person. If I shat all over someone’s bathroom, I’d rather spend an hour cleaning it than leave a mess like that. But if for some reason I did leave that mess, I would never show my face at that office again. I would go to some new office and ask to fix my weird half filled tooth and never speak of it again.
- Comment on [deleted] 3 weeks ago:
Hear me out: enforcement via lions
- Comment on [deleted] 3 weeks ago:
Speaks to human selfishness that “nobody gets it” means to nuke it rather than turn it into a wildlife preserve or something…
- Comment on I want, nay *need*, to see your favourite pet photos 3 weeks ago:
It’s the challenge of parenting - trying to equalize the public expressions of love. Some kids run away from photos!
- Comment on A sudden epiphany. 3 weeks ago:
I also work in healthcare. The science was challenging, but achievable with effort. The hand skills took practice and repetition. But the people skills are truly never mastered.
I’ve been in my field for 17 years and it’s still a daily fire walk trying to avoid setting expectations too high, setting expectations too low, or somehow inadvertently inviting litigation with the wrong choice of words. The same verbiage doesn’t work on everyone, and you have about 20 seconds to decide which variation of unreasonable you have to sidestep on every person.
I feel like I am fortunate to have employment and not worry as much as many people about affording groceries and the mortgage. And yet, I really hope my children don’t choose patient care for their career.
- Comment on We don’t have room in the carbon budget for a world war. 3 weeks ago:
Well, you see, it works like money. You go over budget and plan to pay later. Then, when you go beyond what you expected to borrow, you change the debt ceiling and borrow more. And then when you are beyond your ability to pay off the debt, you change the rules such that you can take a few extra decades. Keep doing this until you have kicked the can down the road beyond your anticipated lifespan. And then your grandchildren can just get fucked for all you care.
- Comment on “ChatGPT said this” Is Lazy 3 weeks ago:
I suppose you’re right, which is odd to me as the phrase “ChatGPT says…” automatically makes me question the validity of the information
- Comment on “ChatGPT said this” Is Lazy 3 weeks ago:
I’m flabbergasted that they admit that ChatGPT said it, rather than copy-pasting it and pretending it’s their own work and hoping you don’t read it closely.
Even plagiarism has become lazy these days.
- Comment on 18-26 year olds, How do you plan to dodge the draft? 4 weeks ago:
People in this comment thread seem to think it’s like one commanding officer in a room with them, so they do 1v1 combat like it’s a flipping video game.
- Comment on so cozy 🐟 4 weeks ago:
The main risk is that they can be very well camouflaged if they are sitting on the sea floor, so if you step on them by accident they may sting. Steve Irwin’s situation was a real oddity, as he was stung in the heart (he was swimming over top of the ray and it must have gotten spooked) - more commonly people are stung in the foot which is painful but not deadly.
Like most wildlife, they should be given space if you are unsure. But there are many tame ones that are fed regularly near tourist resorts, and they tend to swim up and tickle your legs when you stand in the water.
- Comment on Bean virus 4 weeks ago:
I love pranks like this - completely off the wall, nobody gets hurt