NottaLottaOcelot
@NottaLottaOcelot@lemmy.ca
- Comment on sacrifices 3 hours ago:
My mom was 5 years older than my dad. She was so ashamed of it that she told all her in-laws that her birthday was the same year as his, and therefore she was 6 months older. We celebrated all her milestone birthdays 5 years early with them because she was raised to believe her value was tied to her age.
To this day, her sisters will not tell me their age and I have no clue how old my aunts are. When a culture tells you that getting older makes you irrelevant, it breeds odd behaviour like that.
- Comment on I might shit my pants just a little if I saw this 4 days ago:
I’m here thinking that if I came across a severed finger, I wouldn’t pick it up…
- Comment on me genius 1 week ago:
I hesitate to add this about such a cute post, but honey bees are native to Africa and Eurasia
- Comment on Hee Hee Ho Ho Ha Ha 1 week ago:
But then he might chip his manicure
- Comment on Anon teaches you about their culture 1 week ago:
It’s not for me…I’d faster do it with melted butter and toast if I were going to. But then again, I eat hot pepper soaked pineapple rings…
- Comment on Some neighbors have no chill 1 week ago:
I’m going to guess it relates to their neighbour trying to get the mayor and 911 to evict them from their legally owned home…
- Comment on Anon teaches you about their culture 1 week ago:
I had a Dutch roommate once who routinely ate sprinkles on toast for breakfast — she called it traditional.
Half my family is from the Caribbean and I’ll admit we eat some odd things (all manner of salted fruit for example), but I have a hard time computing sprinkle toast as a complete meal
- Comment on Interesting park sculpture 1 week ago:
What is the title and what is the city claiming it is?
- Comment on Fuckin bummer 1 week ago:
I’m pretty sure mine did too, but I’m learning to make it work to my advantage where possible and to keep myself away from places I don’t thrive.
- Comment on Fuckin bummer 1 week ago:
Oh my goodness, this hits close to home. I’m having to donate so many tea sets, figurines, and decorative plates from my grandparents. I feel guilty because they clearly loved them and paid good money for them, but I just can’t house this amount of clutter if I’m never going to use it. Royal Doulton must have made a fortune off their generation.
- Comment on Perhaps the only appropriate use of AI 1 week ago:
The wetter the sound, the higher the praise!
- Comment on North America contains some of the longest continuous decididous forest records on the planet. 1 week ago:
Ah, thank you for the clarification. I am not from the US, so I didn’t realize those were different departments. Hopefully the restructuring has minimal impacts
- Comment on North America contains some of the longest continuous decididous forest records on the planet. 1 week ago:
It’s such a shames. The US had such an exemplary park system, and now I anticipate the days where they bulldoze Yellowstone for a community of golf course condos that advertise their hot spring spa.
I hope the employees steal the data on the way out and give them to a university or some entity who can save them.
- Comment on The Art of Surrender 1 week ago:
Toddlers usually stop if you give them a blankie and a cup of milk. Can someone get him his blankie and sippy cup please?
- Comment on Some things were better in the good old days 2 weeks ago:
That’s why my grandmother made such overdone roasts. I just thought I didn’t like roast beef much until I tried it medium rare instead of charred to a grey cube of leather.
- Comment on Keeping it classy for my 1000th post 2 weeks ago:
Yogurt, cucumber, dill, lemon, garlic. Really nice with grilled meats or roasted veggies
- Comment on UwU🥺👉👈 2 weeks ago:
I think people are taking issue with the way she uses some of the vocabulary to sound better than the dick shower. Now, she probably is better than the dick pic dude, but she is bragging a little by using some niche terminology.
I have no doubt it is jarring to be a tissue bioengineer and not receive better courtship than a picture of an erect schlong. Where I think she may have offended is when she said the person couldn’t even pronounce saponification.
In your example, I think a lawyer might be fine in and of itself, but less so if they said “you dummy, you don’t even know what caveat emptor means”
Regardless, I’m only trying to see the opposing argument. I still would say that most of the fault is on dick pic, but the poster might have been a bit of a terminology-dropper to gain some clout.
- Comment on An intelligence of pure malevolence. 2 weeks ago:
We had a great 10 year old office-grade printer that kicked the bucket two years ago. Since then we have been through 5 office-grade printers of varying brands and they are all crap.
If you have something that’s been around for a decade, stroke it gently, give it some treats, and tell it what a good printer it is, because that printer is irreplaceable
- Comment on Curious 🤔 2 weeks ago:
When my youngest was about 3, I told him to behave one day, and he screeched back “I AM being have!”
- Comment on A lot less blue too... Hmmmm.... 2 weeks ago:
The magnetic poles must be moving substantially. Africa has rotated almost 90 degrees in a few short decades!
- Comment on 🫤🤬🥴 2 weeks ago:
What are they supposed to do? Turn away sick people?
“Sorry you think you have an infection. Just deal with it for a few more weeks until I have time”
- Comment on [deleted] 3 weeks ago:
A game for the plane ride - can you name all 152,489 states?
- Comment on It hurts. 3 weeks ago:
Looks like everyone started a new road perpendicular to the shore line, and the mess occurred when the roads got long enough to meet.
- Comment on It's totally healthy and safe 3 weeks ago:
When I was a teenager I’d write down questions that occurred to me throughout the day in an agenda, so I would be able to look them up next time I went to the library. I still did the same when we got internet - I’d have a list of things to search at home that evening.
Now we have the bulk of human knowledge at our fingertips and we use it to get likes and followers.
- Comment on "Science isn't political!" 3 weeks ago:
Same! If it’s an errant argument against glyphosate, I guess I’ll take it? Or is it a stance that celiac is no big deal and we should put more glyphosate in our food?
- Comment on "Science isn't political!" 3 weeks ago:
Despite the world flora, the digestive system is largely populated by bacteria, not plants
- Comment on [deleted] 3 weeks ago:
There are worse things than having your butt hole gently cleaned with a cool spray of water for 4 millennia.
- Comment on [deleted] 3 weeks ago:
He’s now 4000 years old. He had to bide his time until Lemmy came into existence.
- Comment on Wonder what their cousins liked to snack on... 3 weeks ago:
Yes, I’m totally with you there! For all the recommendations I’ve seen about snacking throughout the day, I have not found that it works well for me to be able to listen to my body’s hunger cues. Similarly, longer gaps between meals seem to promote better self-cleansing of the small intestine, improved nutritional absorption, and better hormonal regulation.
I find there is a big psychological component to food enjoyment as well. If you decide you don’t like a food in advance, you will go in hating it. Make the grimace that a 4 year old makes eating kale and bite into anything - the muscle activation sets off a cascade of emotional reactions that could make you hate your favorite food. I have enjoyed learning to cook and trying different ways to prepare foods that can be more difficult to love - now I enjoy the Brussels sprouts that I hated so much as a child.
My ground rule that helped me most with weight loss was to avoid single serve packaging and any foods that are shelf-stable that should not be without many added preservatives. If I’m craving sweets, I will make my own granola bars or banana bread - and likely with a fraction of the sugar of a pre-packaged alternative. But when I’m only choosing less processed foods, my body seems to know what to eat when the added-sugar noise is mostly eliminated.
- Comment on omg hes just like me 3 weeks 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?