cattywampas
@cattywampas@lemmy.world
- Comment on (serious) What would we be losing in a world where most people didn't own a car? Please read the OP before posting. 12 hours ago:
Road trips. The ability to visit National Parks.
You included hauling cargo, which opens up a whole new can of worms. Moving would be impossible. As would stocking stores and businesses, as there would be no last mile options for freight. Unless we’re including horse-drawn wagons.
- Comment on Make sure you know what your kid is getting themselves into 1 day ago:
Really though. It’s crazy how much high is at your fingertips these days. Back in the day you had to buy weed and usually roll it into a joint or blunt, or at the very least pack it into a bowl. And either way it was getting smoked. Maybe you had a brownie once in a while if someone you knew was making them.
- Comment on Finally a movement I can get fully behind. 1 day ago:
The way that people are currently obsessed with protein is really how they should be feeling about fiber.
- Comment on big facts 2 days ago:
Meditation is awesome and useful. But it doesn’t need to be mystical and magical to be great, and I wish more people realized that.
- Comment on 🐲 mg 4 days ago:
There is more time between Stegosaurus and T. Rex than there is between T. Rex and humans!
- Comment on 😢 😭 😿 😢 4 days ago:
It saddens me that some dinosaurs probably had gregarious colors and fleshy structures that we’ll never know about.
- Comment on iykyk 🪰 4 days ago:
It’s got a mouth though 😏
- Comment on Pokémon Winds and Waves announced, releasing 2027 4 days ago:
I think I tried Platinum for a bit but yeah it was too cumbersome to play on my phone.
- Comment on Pokémon Winds and Waves announced, releasing 2027 4 days ago:
Sounds good, I’ll continue to emulate Soul Silver and Emerald on my phone 😁
- Comment on Pokémon Winds and Waves announced, releasing 2027 4 days ago:
As someone who hasn’t played a pokemon game since Gen 3, what are they like these days? Have they totally jumped the shark?
- Comment on method acting 5 days ago:
Paywall so I can’t read the author’s main points, but it’s all relative when you say “bad at baseball.” Compared to the average person or even the average pro athlete? Yeah it’s extremely impressive to play AA ball after not playing since high school, I think he was 14 years removed from the sport. Absolutely an athletic freak with crazy work ethic and natural talent. I’d argue that anyone who makes it to AA is far more than decent. And I think Space Jam kinda gives his baseball skills a bad rap.
But in the context of professional baseball, he wasn’t major league caliber. He slashed .202/.289/.266 in 497 plate appearances at 31 years old. If he had continued to play I bet he would have been promoted to the majors at least once for the spectacle, a la Bronny playing on the Lakers with his dad. But I doubt he ever would have been truly serviceable.
Hitting against major league pitching is really, really hard. Like one of the hardest things in sports imo. Like so hard that the best players in the world have to spend years in the minors or foreign leagues to even sniff an MLB roster.
- Comment on How come in American classrooms they make another language an elective. Why not teach our kids as many languages possible that way if we go somewhere we will kind of have uper hand? 5 days ago:
How common is it for students in non-English speaking countries to learn a second language that isn’t English? I would imagine not very. Learning a second language isn’t very useful if you’re not going to use it, and learning it won’t be easy if you aren’t immersed in it.
- Comment on Mandala coloring 5 days ago:
I didn’t know Nelson Mandala was such a talented artist.
- Comment on I have a suspicion that most of men's problems and their ability to handle their lives stems from their incapability of sucking their own d***s. 5 days ago:
Sucking your own dick feels a lot more like sucking dick than getting your dick sucked.
- Comment on Are there regions of the world where local men and women have divergent accents? 1 week ago:
I think OP means a notable difference in accent between men and women of a given region.
- Comment on Singing is just talking with more tone variations. 1 week ago:
Well…yeah
- Comment on [deleted] 1 week ago:
It’s possible she’s just wrong, not lying.
- Comment on Human Nature never changes 1 week ago:
Do we need customer complaints to survive?
- Comment on Nomenclature 1 week ago:
Bord
- Comment on Nice horsie! 🐎 2 weeks ago:
Yes, people have tried to domesticate zebras before and they’re just too ornery.
- Comment on cant take it anymore 2 weeks ago:
Go outside and you won’t have to ask.
- Comment on In Pulp Fiction Vincent made a big deal about a $5 milkshake, which is less than a crappy one from a fast food joint costs today. 2 weeks ago:
Oh for sure, and I’m sure I’d react to that like Vincent did to a $5 shake in 1994.
- Comment on In Pulp Fiction Vincent made a big deal about a $5 milkshake, which is less than a crappy one from a fast food joint costs today. 2 weeks ago:
Maybe. Chicago is fairly high CoL, but so is CA. And we have a lot of dairy just north of the cheddar curtain, it’s usually priced either the same as other goods or cheaper.
- Comment on In Pulp Fiction Vincent made a big deal about a $5 milkshake, which is less than a crappy one from a fast food joint costs today. 2 weeks ago:
My bad, I meant to say cheaper. McDonald’s looks to be the cheapest fast food shake near me in Chicago.
- Comment on In Pulp Fiction Vincent made a big deal about a $5 milkshake, which is less than a crappy one from a fast food joint costs today. 2 weeks ago:
What fast food places near you have more expensive shakes than McDonald’s? I just did a quick check and McD’s was cheaper than Culver’s and Shake Shack near me.
- Comment on In Pulp Fiction Vincent made a big deal about a $5 milkshake, which is less than a crappy one from a fast food joint costs today. 2 weeks ago:
$5 in 1994 is $11 in 2026.
- Comment on Is there a culture/country that doesn't have sarcasm in its language? 2 weeks ago:
This made me think, and I realized that non-tonal languages actually do have a tonal aspect to them.
- Comment on Wtf 2 weeks ago:
Ore-uh-GAH-no? Huh
- Comment on Don't sell yourself short. Money isn't everything 2 weeks ago:
It’s true, having a big dick makes the world a better place.
- Comment on Let's take a moment to remember the time period when everyone had to adjust to using dual-joysticks on controllers. 2 weeks ago:
I tried it once and I hated it.
