NottaLottaOcelot
@NottaLottaOcelot@lemmy.ca
- Comment on This is gonna go just fine 💯 1 day ago:
I was wondering why she looked so messed up
- Comment on I use Ubuntu btw. 2 days ago:
That must have been really fun! The Toronto zoo has an awards plaque for “Nice Penguin of the Month” and “Naughty Penguin of the Month” which leads me to believe that they must be characters
- Comment on Sprout 🌱 2 days ago:
That’s very helpful, thank you! I’m going to try for option 1 if I can help it, though unfortunately these cucumbers had a pretty prickly stem last year. At worst, it’s all getting trellised. What would you use for a sling support if they are too far along to un-trellis?
- Comment on Sprout 🌱 2 days ago:
I am having this problem right now. My kids made it rain cucumber, pumpkin, and honey nut squash seeds in the garden. I can’t tell what should have a trellis and what needs to be on the ground
- Comment on Bee fly 2 days ago:
It looks like a felt art project! Yet another reason to conserve the rainforest
- Comment on bone 4 days ago:
Because then they would be immobile without any joints between the bones. If they were one big bone, they’d essentially be a block of wood shaped like a hand/foot
- Comment on Wow! 1 week ago:
In a world where CGI can make a full-length live action Lion King movie, he’ rather choose dog murder?
- Comment on Nice 1 week ago:
I think you should respond thanking it for its useful answer so that the positive feedback makes it keep giving dumb answers
- Comment on Brehh 1 week ago:
They aren’t just hanging out. They were driven to extinction by the early 1900s and repopulated into the wild by zoo breeding programs. It’s a textbook bottleneck genetics scenario and very nearly failed had then not found 1-2 wild horses to increase genetic diversity in the 1960s.
Although their population has been increasing successfully, the biggest reason it is working is because they live in areas of Mongolia that are not heavily populated by humans. For the counter example, watch Montana get rid of its re-introduced wolf population. Humans love animals in so far as they don’t inconvenience us. But our societies will happily get rid of animals that get too close, even though we’ve left wildlife with so few places to go.
- Comment on Buzz off 1 week ago:
Many wasp species are quite gentle. We get a lot of great golden digger wasps on our spotted bee balm and despite looking quite scary, they are quite gentle and avoid human contact.
We have a bird bath and when the water has evaporates, the blue mud dauber wasps will sit on the side and very patiently watch me refill it.
They eat parasites and protect the garden. Truly, the more the merrier.
- Comment on Why exactly are nursing aids paid so poorly? 2 weeks ago:
I agree with you - if you need to pay someone a full time wage to go out and earn a full time wage, the sum will be nearly zero. The same issue applies for long term care facilities where a team of multiple specialized providers is needed to care for someone around the clock. The assumption that care should be cheap implies that care work is less valuable than whatever the worker themself does.
Much like mail delivery, daycare and elder care would be better as publicly funded services. They can’t necessarily turn a profit, but still need to exist for the betterment of society
- Comment on [deleted] 2 weeks ago:
I hated telling my dad when I was pregnant. Admitting to your father that you have had sex is awkward, even if you’re 28 and you’ve been married for a few years.
- Comment on [deleted] 2 weeks ago:
It’s interesting how in the Ancient Greek stories, the Gods would appear as mortals and impregnate people, whereas in the Christian tradition it’s supposed to be more of a magical conception.
It highlights the community values quite well that an unmarried Ancient Greek lady may not have been ostracized for a pregnancy without a father, whereas in Bethlehem 2000 years ago we can infer that this was unacceptable.
- Comment on Guerrilla plantfare 2 weeks ago:
Seems like we should add kudzu bugs and giant pandas to North America, and all will be well 😄
- Comment on Guerrilla plantfare 2 weeks ago:
Oh god, keep the bamboo and kudzu in their native environments. The ecosystem has been through enough!
- Comment on Guerrilla plantfare 2 weeks ago:
RIP to the Endangered Species Act
No chance the US government will forego money for their broligarchs because of environmental laws.
- Comment on why is it never the 'close friend' who gets shit on? 2 weeks ago:
I can see why you would stop hanging out with someone who treats people so little respect
- Comment on why is it never the 'close friend' who gets shit on? 2 weeks ago:
It’s so weird to me that people pre-plan cheating. You always hear the story that “it just happened”. However, now that I’m in my 40s, I’ve found that it is so often someone who spends lots of time considering it and shopping the idea around to their friends to see if they can find someone to tell them it’s ok.
- Comment on why is it never the 'close friend' who gets shit on? 2 weeks ago:
If that happened to me, I’d be dropping both those relationships - I also expect my platonic friends not to fuck me over
- Comment on Can't prove environmental issues if you don't have the data 2 weeks ago:
But is there any reason to expect things will suddenly get better when he does? His allies will fight each other for the throne when he dies and the most unscrupulous will win it
- Comment on Can't prove environmental issues if you don't have the data 2 weeks ago:
To follow the true traditional method, you should ask a witch for a forecast, and when she gives one you burn her at the stake for witchcraft.
- Comment on Well said 3 weeks ago:
Yeah I think it was more of a hyperbolic comment to the reporter rather than an official recommendation. He thinks we should eat more greens and less fried stuff, which is in line with pretty much every nutritional guideline out there
- Comment on 👴☝️I did that 3 weeks ago:
- Comment on borger 3 weeks ago:
Maybe they hate the idea of showering with headphones
- Comment on Literally a shitpost. 3 weeks ago:
Worked for the Titan sub
- Comment on Insomnia 4 weeks ago:
They were dropped off by aliens. The very same ones who returned millions of years later to build us pyramids. It’s a very philanthropic extra-terrestrial community
- Comment on Hail math! 4 weeks ago:
Finally, you can play your records in reverse to hear the sermon of the devil
- Comment on What is a game you can’t understand why its so popular ? 4 weeks ago:
Watching my kids play, Roblox seems like 3 basic games with about 700 theme/character variations.
The business model seems to be:
A) spend nothing on game design - make a handful of blockoid graphic options and let your users believe they are really rising in the world
B). Create a game that is much like gambling - you get little wins just often enough to keep kids stuck in the loop, but rarely enough that they want to buy Roblox to get the thing they want
C). When they buy said gift card, ensure Roblox can only be purchased in packages that add up to awkward amounts so they can retain 2-5% of the gift card value in unusable dollars that sit on the account. For every $50 gift card there is about $2.50 that just has to sit on the account until the next gift card (or for them, better yet if you forget about it)
- Comment on It's definitely an acquired taste 4 weeks ago:
Nose-to-tail eating has gone mainstream
- Comment on Break the conditioning, maximize your horsepower. 4 weeks ago:
You mean I shouldn’t be eating the “Top 10 Superfoods Your Doctor Doesn’t Want You to Know About”??