Whats_your_reasoning
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- Comment on Your majesty 7 hours ago:
Pictured below: one kinky little fucker
- Comment on Liquid Trees 19 hours ago:
I recently learned that there’s a group dedicated to planting 1000 trees in the city of Trenton, NJ, USA. I’m really glad to see a city working to bring back a little nature!
- Comment on The hills are alive with the sound of music! 🎶🎵 21 hours ago:
Yes and no. A lot of the sounds are mating calls, but there’s so much more being communicated.
Some sounds are warnings, like when squirrels see a cat and start to chirp. If you watch them, you’ll see them run up a tree and pause upside down on the trunk, chirping an alert to others. Other squirrels in the area will repeat the behavior and amplify the “message” until the threat (the neighborhood cat) goes away.
Some sounds are intended to trick others. Blue jays mimic the sounds made by birds of prey in order to scare other birds away from their feeding grounds. It works really well - I’ve seen a jay clear a whole flock of starlings from my yard before. He then swooped down and plucked a bunch of worms from the soil.
- Comment on I am sick of seeing the rich and powerful on my screen. Where are all the TV shows about normal people? 2 days ago:
Bob’s Burgers breathes class consciousness. There’s an episode where the kids are forced to volunteer through school, and the rich landlord makes no secret that he’s exploiting their free child labor to clean up his beach. The concept of collective bargaining is played with when the kids decide they don’t want to do that work for free. That episode also includes the lesson that the rich will absolutely use you and screw you over to further their own desires.
The rich landlord is frequently shown dicking around as if the people around him are playthings. In another episode, his tenants decide to hold a rent strike. The landlord uses classic divide and conquer strategy to turn the other tenants against Bob, the leader of the strike, via a water balloon contest (it makes sense in context.)
That’s not even touching the realistic struggles that Bob, Linda, and their family have to live with day-to-day. Despite characters sometimes being, well, completely wackadoo, it’s probably the most relatable animated show I know of.
- Comment on Hotdog for Scale 2 days ago:
“Arthropleura (Greek for ‘jointed ribs’) is an extinct genus…”
Thank fuck
- Comment on Hotdog for Scale 2 days ago:
Thank you for reminding me that Lemmy needs a “Fierce Flow” community, for men with long hair to celebrate their amazing locks.
- Comment on Excellent tip 1 week ago:
I’m glad it makes sense. I’m sorry people are downvoting you for having a different opinion and/or for daring to ask a question about something you don’t understand.
- Comment on Excellent tip 1 week ago:
It hurts when it decides to show you photos of dead pets or people that you’ve had a falling-out with. Sometimes, sweet memories can come from it. But sometimes, it’s a punch to the gut.
- Comment on 4chan Is Dead. Its Toxic Legacy Is Everywhere 1 week ago:
Did you read archive link with the full text? It talks about how the culture of 4chan started and then spread out across other social media platforms. Other sites weren’t always as toxic as they are today, yet 4chan began rotting much earlier on. The problem is that the rot, which originated on 4chan, has become mainstream. That’s why we see this shit everywhere now.
- Comment on Anon uses Windows 1 week ago:
That lines up. I’m in my fourth decade of life, always lived in the US, and this is the first time I’ve ever seen that word.
Though I don’t make a habit out of socializing with racists, so I can’t rule out that some people here might use it.
- Comment on [deleted] 1 week ago:
It’s been years since I’ve crossed the Canada/USA border, so things may be different today. But when I went, the Canada side was more concerned about smuggled weapons, while the USA side was more concerned about smuggled drugs.
Apparently if you go from New Brunswick in the morning, spend the day driving through Maine/New Hampshire/Vermont, and cross into Quebec the next day, that’s suspicious enough to get detained for several hours and to have your entire car searched at the border. To me it just made sense to do a straight line drive through those states, since staying inside Canada between those two points would have been a much longer, more convoluted route. Silly me, being logical about my route without considering how others break international law.
- Comment on Anon is staying at a hotel 3 weeks ago:
I wish we had more information. Of course it could be a sting, but it could also be a safety thing. Maybe there’s a history of johns refusing to pay after services are rendered. Maybe there’s a history of violence against prostitutes in that region, and this is the hotel’s way of saying “If you try anything, we’ll know it was you.”
But we don’t even know how anon hired the prostitute, let alone where he is and what the local laws and attitudes are toward sex work. It’s possible he solicited an undercover cop and this was all a set up. It’s also possible the hotel knows prostitution happens within its walls and they’ll permit it, but they’ve seen things go south before and this is their strategy to avoid that trouble.
I don’t know, but it’s probably good that anon didn’t go through with the transaction. To me the sketchiest part isn’t any specific thing that happened, but the fact that anon wasn’t informed about what to expect. Which makes me think these are barriers the hotel put in place and acted on when they recognized a sex worker, not something the sex worker planned to deal with. But again, we just don’t have enough information.
- Comment on This gay tortoise is older than the word “homosexual” 3 weeks ago:
That is definitely funny. I was just thinking, “How many fads and fashions has this one tortoise seen in his life?”
- Comment on This gay tortoise is older than the word “homosexual” 3 weeks ago:
Do you have a source for that date? Those cars in the background don’t look like anything that would’ve existed in 1886. In fact the first car put into production was patented in 1886 and it looked like this:
Black and white image of the Benz Patent-Motorwagen, an early three-wheeled automobile
- Comment on Why do people insist on not answering ALL the questions in an email or text message? 3 weeks ago:
That’s what you get for not buying the very latest edition of the textbook. /s
Seriously though, you’re clearly trying to actually comprehend the material, but even the professor was too checked out? I wish I were surprised, but that’s just upsetting. Nobody takes responsibility for education anymore, not the instructors, not the administration, and none but maybe a handful of students who get zero support from either of the above. I’ve learned more from reading on the internet for free than I have from any classroom. But learning for free on one’s own doesn’t give them a fancy paper that attracts employers. Gotta spend money to make money, yet again.
- Comment on Why do people insist on not answering ALL the questions in an email or text message? 3 weeks ago:
You’re right. The illiteracy is everywhere. It’s a very troubling sign.
I wonder, were there any other points in history, post-literacy, where a significant amount of people went to school yet still lacked literacy skills? If it has happened, would it even be recorded? Or is this aspect of modern society truly novel?
It’d be nice to know how such a situation would’ve been rectified in the past, but I get the feeling the solution would be the same thing I’ve been calling for since my own childhood - a comprehensive public educational system with a focus on critical thinking.
- Comment on Why do people insist on not answering ALL the questions in an email or text message? 3 weeks ago:
They probably didn’t do it by default because of Rule 4. However, I think there should be an exception when other users ask for links. (Maybe the rule should be, “No unsolicited self promotion”?)
For the record, I would also like to see this rant.
- Comment on 'There Are So Few Of Us Left': Even Full-Time Games Journalists At Big Websites Are Feeling It In 2025 3 weeks ago:
When search engines started putting lists of videos in response to every query, I fumed. Trying to find a solution to the game issue you’re having? Here, scan through this 10 minute video and hope you come across the part that discusses your specific issue! Oh, it didn’t actually talk about the thing you need? Lol well at least you watched some ads.
I think next time I have a game issue, I’ll be asking about it here on Lemmy. Yeah, the audience isn’t as big as on Reddit, but we’ll never know the depth of the knowledge fellow Lemmings have to offer if we never ask.
- Comment on carlos for scale 3 weeks ago:
Okay but is Carlos standing on a platform with a wall behind him, or is Carlos planking on a platform with the floor behind him?
- Comment on Teachers warn AI is impacting students' critical thinking 4 weeks ago:
Then when you factor in society’s approach to children who do think critically, it gets even worse. Kids in school are encouraged to stay silent and accept what they’re told. A kid who openly questions something a teacher says is liable to get into trouble, both officially by the teacher, and socially by their peers who can’t yet grasp the concept of an authority figure being wrong.
Teachers can share false information all they want, and if a student dares to call out an urban myth, the student can be sent away to the principal’s office. Now the teacher can continue spouting whatever non-fact-checked nonsense they like, the rest of the kids are discouraged from speaking out if they recognize something false, and the critical thinker is labeled a trouble-maker both by the administration and by classmates. It’s an authoritarian hat trick that keeps a lot of kids in line.
- Comment on Why aren't there mass protests in the USA? 1 month ago:
The revolution will not be televised.
- Comment on The gentrified forest near me removed the bins. .. From their café/picnic area 1 month ago:
I feel the same way, but about places that sell coffee having an obligation to provide a public bathroom.
Glares angrily at 7-11
- Comment on Consider the following... 1 month ago:
You were downvoted for making assumptions about the person you were responding to. All they did was make a lamentful comment about the state of nature, and you came in accusing them of having (or being supportive of having) a pesticided lawn with automatic sprinkler system. Then you seemed to doubledown on blaming everybody else of shirking personal responsibility, while conveniently avoiding answering the simple question of if the “we” in your quote “we completely fucked up the environment” also applied to yourself.
- Comment on Least extreme biophysics phd 1 month ago:
Having the testee measure their own penis is prone to error.
To be fair, testicles aren’t designed for that task.
- Comment on How come in most school in the USA (at least mine) they teach Spain Spanish instead of Mexico Spanish? Would not Mexico Spanish be an obvious choice to teach? 1 month ago:
I don’t know about OP. I went to a public school on the eastern seaboard and we certainly weren’t taught “Spain Spanish.” The pronunciations we were taught would’ve been very different if that were the case.
If any specific dialect was taught in my old schools, it would’ve been because a teacher spoke that dialect natively. All of our teachers were either non-native Spanish speakers, or from somewhere in Central or South America. Maybe OP had teachers from Europe?
If there were regional differences for vocabulary, we were told about them. For example, for the English word “bus,” we were taught that “autobus,” “guagua,” and “camion” all work but in different countries/regions. To be clear, we weren’t expected to remember all the variations, but we were informed that they exist.
- Comment on What are some of the things someone permanently relocating away from the US should be aware of? 1 month ago:
Excellent comment and very informative!
Just a quick note on the last sentence: 1 yard = 3 feet, which means a yard is approximately one meter, not 100m.
- Comment on Anon sees a happy couple 2 months ago:
Ugh, I just had a flashback to middle school, when my very attractive friend (who was already a model) complained that she was ugly because of an itty, bitty little zit she got one day.
Meanwhile I sat there, a relative pizza-face, thinking: Seriously? If you are ugly, what does that make the rest of us?
- Comment on Ow ow ow ow ow 2 months ago:
I’m glad to be of service.
- Comment on Ow ow ow ow ow 2 months ago:
I always figured mermaids would be more like cetaceans than fish. Having scales on their tails would be inaccurate, but breathing air, growing hair, and having a horizontal tail fluke are all in-line with mammals/cetaceans.
Not to mention, it would mean mermaids have regular genitals (albeit hidden inside a genital fold, to increase hydrodynamics.) So that’s, uhh… a thing to consider.
- Comment on Anon wants to be a singer 2 months ago:
I work with preschoolers. Autistic preschoolers.
It would be a huge help if the makers of slime would go back to making unscented versions. Whenever I look in stores for these things, it’s like companies straight up stopped manufacturing anything without a scent.
I’m trying to discourage kids from putting toys in their mouths, especially sticky toys that tend to gather all sorts of oils and gunk through regular play. It would be so much easier if there were more unscented, nontoxic options.
