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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Walmart to increase prices ‘on a week-to-week basis’ due to Trump tariffs: report⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Walmart can only give away cesium-135 free with their shrimp for so long before something’s gotta give. I mean, have you seen how much that stuff costs these days?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Only God can judge me now⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  You smell my farts, not my poop.

  You suck my dick, not my soul.

  You should get tested, I have an STD.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I genuinely can't wait for Mobile Linux to become a thing⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Be the change you want to see in the world.

  – Daffy Duck

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Mary was said to be a virgin when she had Jesus. So, that’s clearly the first and only known occurrence of parthenogenesis in humans.

  Mary could have had X and Y chromosomes, but then she wouldn’t have been able to carry a pregnancy without hormone treatment that didn’t exist in those days. So, we know factually that she would have only had X chromosomes (even if she had a abnormality like XXX).

  Therefore, baby Jesus only had X chromosomes. This means either Jesus was intersex (ex: XX male) or Jesus was transgender. It’s in the bible. QED

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The march of time⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Time is like an endless human centipede except it’s measured in days and weeks instead of mouths and assholes.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I have tomorrow off :)⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  What with all the scribbles and such? Best I can do is ask AI, which came back with this response:

  Acnodon senai, Sena’s pacu, is a species of freshwater ray-finned fish belonging to the family Serrasalmidae, which includes the pacus and piranhas. This fish is found in Brazil.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨YOU HAVE NO POWER HERE⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s way too late at night for all those directions, somehow ended up creating my own blind spot by sticking my thumb in my bum.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨YSK that JetBrains IDEs do not remove old share and cache files from the previous version when upgrading. Every folder includes a local LLM, plugin executables, and old search indices. They go unused. Removing old versions freed up 14.8 GB storage for me.⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  A whole local LLM? Tell me more, I’m actually curious. I’m wondering how useful it would be to train.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨vehicle conditions⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  I think the US state of Georgia must have some of the least restrictive laws when it comes to inspections, at least in the south east. Every time I drive through that state, I see shit almost exactly like this. Bumpers hanging off cars scraping on the road. Hood and/or trunk lids held down by tape. 0 functional lights on the back of the vehicle. Windshields smashed to all heck and back, no way anybody can see out of that. Rear view mirrors without the mirrors. 3 doughnut tires, driving 80 mph (129 kph) down the interstate. I’ve seen it all, and I don’t even live there.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Stop!⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Those hair styles look just like something you’d see in Gen Z. The more things, change, the more things stay the same.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why people say they have a "boy cat" or a "girl cat" but when the cat grows up, they don't call is a "man cat" or "woman cat"?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Generally speaking, the terms man and woman are reserved specifically for humans. I couldn’t tell you why, but I suppose it doesn’t really matter.

  For pets, the use of boy/girl probably does have a lot to do with how people tend to infantilize their companion animals.

  Additionally, the boy / girl terminology is often generalized to cover all animals, particularly when adults are interacting with children and by extension when children are interacting with each other. It’s not uncommon to have a child ask something like “is that a boy rabbit or a girl rabbit?” but it is a little unusual to hear an adult ask another adult that same question, unless it’s sort of tongue-in-cheek or maybe in the presence of kids.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Dogs need love too⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  A neighbor told me that her daughter had been out playing in the yard one evening and apparently mistook a couple of young skunks as being kitties. They were quite docile and followed her up to the house. Fortunately, nobody got sprayed, not even the dog. Skunks are surprisingly docile when they don’t feel threatened in my experience, so I guess that’s why the kid thought they were cats?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The year is 2001. You find this game in a demo disk. Your evening is going to be great.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  This is one that’s not on my radar. I guess I’ll need to check it out sometime.

  When I went off to college, I basically sold as much of my stuff as I could because even in the ancient times it was expensive as hell for a kid from a poor family. So, that was the end of my gaming days for the better part of a decade, and I honestly didn’t really keep up. My last gaming system was the original Playstation until around 2007 when I decided to spend money I didn’t have to buy a Wii.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨This has happened to me⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  What’s the average price for an insurance for a middle class person living in a big city?

  In the USA, shit’s so convoluted that it’s highly debatable whether average price is relevant. But, also, good luck finding someone willing to track that info down, assuming it even exists.

  The costs depend on what state you live in, whether you’re getting insurance through your employer or the open market, whether you’re getting family or individual coverage, and a myriad other factors.

  For insurance through your employer – The employer usually gets a group discount on a set of plans that range from shitty coverage to slightly less shitty, a range of costs based on how much the employer is willing to pay for each plan as a “benefit” to employees, and whatever other add-ons the employee selects (ex: dental, vision).

  I don’t have average data, but I’ve paid as little as $50 a month for employer sponsored insurance, but it was the shittiest shit tier of insurance that was basically worthless (and that was over a decade ago). For my last few employers, the employee paid part of the plans seemed to be in the $200 to $400 range, again depending on the plan and the options selected.

  For open market – This is even more complicated and complex. But basically everybody can get it through some version of what’s known as Obamacare or ACA. Costs and plans available vary from state to state. Technically, individuals are on the hook for the entire cost of the plans. In my area, when I last checked, there were a few options as low as $350 USD (but they were utterly terrible) to $2,500+ USD for ultra-premium plans. The caveat here is that the cost of these plans is partly based on income. So, in my state, basically everybody making below $60,000 USD (or so) gets a discounted rate (or rebate on taxes at the end of the year), such that people in the lowest income bracket can get health insurance for free or close to it.

  Does families get an all-in-one or it’s different for any single person?

  Cost-wise, there’s a different price for individual insurance versus family coverage. Usually the family coverage is priced so that it’s a bit cheaper per person than getting separate individual plans, but even then there are exceptions. Family plans tend to have a shared max out of pocket and deductible (which are basically the annual limits on what you pay) that’s higher than the individual plan.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Is Meta Scraping the Fediverse for AI?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  I couldn’t tell you with certainty that Meta is doing it specifically, but without a doubt, I’m certain that the Fediverse is being scraped by AI.

  It’s one of many reasons I make sure that at least some portion of what I contribute is intended specifically to poison that shit. Boomer-style anecdotes. Unpopular opinions. Completely and ridiculously incorrect information. Nonsensical but superficially coherent sentences and stories. They’re all kinda my jam.

  But don’t you forget for one minute that sometimes I type out straight facts and truth is sometimes unpopular. Also, your mom definitely knows what your dad’s dick tastes like, so do with that information as you please.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨born 2 l8⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Almost every depiction of Anomalocaris, particularly in those CGI documentaries, make members of this genus look like enormous hideous sea monsters.

  But in reality, these things are small, all less than 40 cm (like the largest ones are slightly more than a foot for us in the USA).

  Giants of that era I guess and certainly an order of magnitude or more larger than superficially similar modern day relatives like sea monkeys and fairy shrimp. But they’re like the size of a lobster, we’d probably be eating them to extinction these days if they weren’t already extinct.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Life hack⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Okay, but have you seen the price of rotisserie chickens lately? I’m not made of money.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why is land/sky so cleanly split between mammals/birds?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  The single, simple answer is the one that you don’t want to hear: There is no clean split. Bats are a large and diverse group of flying mammals just like birds are a large and diverse group of flying dinosaurs.

  The simplest answer I can come up with (because it’s actually a very complicated and convoluted topic that I wouldn’t truly do just anyway) is: Most birds can fly because they are an offshoot of one group of dinosaurs (avian dinosaurs) that survived the last great extinction when their non-flying non-avian dinosaur relatives did not. Basically the ones that couldn’t fly mostly went extinct. And mammals mostly don’t fly, which is possibly because several groups of vertebrates beat them to it and essentially filled all the niches that would have been available to flying animals, kind of blocking that path for them.

  Obviously that’s nowhere near the full story. There are lots of other factors at play, like some of the peculiarities of mammalian and dinosaur physiology that made one group better suited to flight than the other, ramifications of the great extinction that killed non-avian dinosaurs as well as most large animals in general and whole swaths of other species, and so on.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨It's probably for the best that mosquitoes havent evolved so they're bites aren't itchy⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I don’t think of it in that mind frame, to be honest.

  To me it’s our bodies that have evolved a general reaction to foreign proteins / materials with an inflammatory response (which can feel itchy), though that’s obviously the watered down way of thinking about it that doesn’t really capture the full picture.

  Often times I don’t even know there’s a mosquito on me unless I happen to see it. Some species are just super tiny and don’t seem to cause any pain when they feed. Others are so large that they “itch” (i.e. you can feel their presence) just from them landing on you, whether they have time to bite or not. Either way, it’s not the pain or itchiness that motivate me to keep their populations under control, it’s primarily concerns over the spread of disease.

  For most species of mosquito, humans aren’t really their primary target nor are humans the main source of food for them. And, it’s only been in very recent history that humanity has had any ability to control mosquito populations on a large scale, not even a blip on the evolutionary scale. So give it time, maybe those of us who don’t get itchy from mosquito bites are the fittest amongst us from an evolutionary standpoint and eventually those genes that lead to itchy reactions will go extinct. But I don’t think that there’s any significant evolutionary pressure on mosquitos as a result of how itchy or not itchy their bites are.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I can get a 430 hearing on any family member I want. Hell i can even testify if someone else needs one. So tell me why I can't go through the legal system to get an invasive one for Trump?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I’ve never heard of that one specifically and could find no sources mentioning it online. So, I’m being up front when I say I do not know the specific answer.

  Having said that, sometimes if we’re building out scenarios in our minds based on an inaccurate or flawed premise, that can also lead to flawed outcome in our logic. For instance, is it actually truly possible to get a 430 on any family member that you want … like just because? And if so, is it possible there are other extenuating circumstances that you might not be considering (ex: Trump is not a family member, none of your family members are president of the United States, etc) which could explain why things might lead to a different outcome between your family member(s) and Trump?

  Having said that and given the additional context you provided (i.e. Mental Examination), I’m wondering if it’s a situation where the individual needs to be more of an immediate threat to the health / life of themselves or others before it’s applicable? Even if you did try to make that case (because I know at least some people would), it’s likely not a case where any random person can just make an accusation / report against a well-known public figure to whom they have no clear social ties and expect it to be taken seriously.

  Also, this wouldn’t apply to the president of the USA, but even people who legitimately do need some kind of immediate institutionalization often can’t get it when they need it. It would be an understatement to say that the mental health facilities in this country are overwhelmed and underfunded.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Expert here.⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I’m not an entemolo intenolo bug scientician and I know nothing of the specifics of this species, so I can’t weigh in there.

  However, sometimes these new species have literally been right in front of our faces the whole time, it’s just that they’re barely distinguishable from other very similar and more common relatives.

  This is, of course, a vast oversimplification of things, but I remember reading an article about a new beetle being discovered in some random suburb. Essentially the reason the new species was discovered is because someone was counting the number of hairs on the larval beetles’ butts and noticed the discrepancy between two different populations and then realized that they were dealing with two different species, one of which had not been previously described.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Sad palaeo noises⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Give me Anomolocaris or trilobites any day.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨stupid sexy apples⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Since this is Science Memes, I’m feeling emboldened to geek out a bit.

  In my part of North America, there are a lot of pollinators besides bees “sexing up” the apple trees. I’m guessing it’s that way in many other parts of the world, too.

  On the coolest days, you might not see any bees at all, but the flower flies (aka hover flies) will still go for it. On the warmest days, bees may even be in the minority of pollinators. I see all kinds of different fly species, a multitude of different wasps, many types of beetles, and sometimes even moths and butterflies – weather depending. Plus, even that time of year, there are often other bee species which are active besides just the invasive non-native honey bees.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨not today, my dudes⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Regimbartia attenuata. Common name “Bronze Beetle” because it pretty much always takes turd place.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Funny ⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Not to get too serious, given the topic and the community I’m in, but…

  There’s a saying along the lines of “You can’t reason someone out of a position they did not reason themselves into.” And the overwhelming majority of the time, it’s completely true.

  Ridiculous as it sounds, there are large numbers of people out there who believe that being gay is a choice. These people legitimately feel like any recognition and representation of homosexuality risks turning people gay.

  You can spend all the time you want asking them when they chose to be straight and logically explaining things to them, it almost certainly will not matter.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The look you have when you realize you've made the greatest alien movie of all time⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Unfortunately, I’m certain I’ll end up watching this due to circumstances beyond my control. But in my defense, watching it will ultimately spare me from having to watch Another Sandler Movie Part Two, so overall it’s a price I’m willing to pay. The things I do to keep the peace.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨heaven⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  What about people who wear solid color t-shirts that have long-ass slogans on them which are super specific and seemingly only apply to a single person on the entire face of the Earth often written in a variety of fonts and font-sizes and including bizarre details about their lives like the t-shirt that was given to me by my same-sex lover on the second Saturday in June of 2021 to celebrate the fact that I managed to clear an entire thornless blackberry bush of berries that we used to make the most delicious blackberry cobbler from that very same evening?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Creative writing⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Don’t you fucking dare speak ill of my Martha. I will hunt you down and force you to eat honey braised turnips from Martha’s website until you agree that her shit’s the bomb

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Creative writing⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I was the kid whose creating writing assignments over the years triggered more than one parent-teacher conference.

  But in all fairness, I absolutely loved horror movies and my parents let me watch pretty much whatever scary movies I wanted regardless of the violence and sexual content. And I turned out okay, I guess, depending on who you ask and relatively speaking. I mean, I have relatives around the same age who are already dead due to their bad decisions in life, so I’m just saying who cares if an 8 year old writes a story about crocodile-like aliens that eat their meals ass first.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Juggalos Not Happy as Insane Clown Posse Releases AI-Generated Video⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  … and nobody is there to poop on it, does it even bear repeating at all?