NottaLottaOcelot
@NottaLottaOcelot@lemmy.ca
- Comment on *decline* 1 day ago:
When they are concise and with purpose , phone calls are great. But I have so little patience to draw it out into an hour-long affair. And even less for video calls, because then I can’t even be tidying up or doing anything while it happens
- Comment on Do you think that Trump is the most hated U.S. president? 3 days ago:
No, but I think it’s a reasonable inference that someone who voted for him might not disapprove, let alone call him the worst of all time.
- Comment on Do you think that Trump is the most hated U.S. president? 3 days ago:
And there is no way to know what the people who didn’t vote in think of them. We cannot assume that they all disagree with him or would consider him the worst.
- Comment on Do you think that Trump is the most hated U.S. president? 3 days ago:
Currently? Perhaps, but if you are taking a poll of the general population you need to keep in mind that almost 50% of the population voted for him and would pick someone from the Democratic Party.
Forever? Probably not. I remember when the world thought nobody could ever be a dumber president than Dubya. And frankly, if Trump didn’t have a snivelling need for love and approval, he would probably implement more of the horrible things he talks about. One day the US could elect that very combination of evil and self-confident.
- Comment on The same adult daughter who has trouble loading a dishwasher efficientlyly... 5 days ago:
In what way? Natural peanut butter requires refrigeration, as does any peanut butter you make at home. Maple syrup requires refrigeration. And pizza sauce is perfectly usable after freezing.
- Comment on The same adult daughter who has trouble loading a dishwasher efficientlyly... 5 days ago:
I agree - maple syrup needs to be refrigerated
- Comment on The same adult daughter who has trouble loading a dishwasher efficientlyly... 5 days ago:
That’s not maple syrup. That’s American syrup-like product
- Comment on The same adult daughter who has trouble loading a dishwasher efficientlyly... 5 days ago:
Peanut butter and syrup should need refrigerating - only the preservative laden crap is shelf stable (which admittedly, is what is pictured).
Pizza sauce freezes very well in silicone cubes.
- Comment on May not buff out 1 week ago:
Yeah I agree that it’s a hard thing, even when it is ultimately the best thing for society. I think in our minds, we are always our best selves with the same capabilities as we have already had. It’s hard to accept if your reflex time is no longer adequate or if you aren’t as strong as you were before…even worse to accept it when dementia is involved.
I hope I’ll be able to set my life up to allow me to give up my drivers licence when the time comes, but I totally get why it is such a struggle for some. It’s going to involve moving to a more walkable area for me, and that’s got a big price tag that many can’t afford.
- Comment on May not buff out 1 week ago:
That’s a bit dehumanizing. Some people go grey early in life and the guy is probably crumpled over because he’s in shock. Someone with long grey hair deserves to be part of society as much as anyone else.
Second, I can sympathize with older people who avoid giving up their licenses. We have built an individualistic society that expects everyone to fend for themselves. It would be difficult to find/pay a driver every time you need something at the store, have a medical appointment, want to get your hair cut, want to take a walk by the water, etc. Even if they had the social network for it, they’d feel like a nuisance. Nobody wants to close the chapter on the independent part of their life, even when it is time.
- Comment on Neil the Seal 1 week ago:
Poor Neil does not like the changes to his neighbourhood. He just wants to lie down in the shade
- Comment on Fingies 1 week ago:
They were wildly disturbed by walking on finger tips (like pretty much every four legged creature), but skipped right over lungs bleeding???
- Comment on When will the all white home with grey floors trend be over? 1 week ago:
Same. I saw the $1000 to get my car in not-black and then figured I should instead get my kids snowsuits and winter boots and drive a black car.
- Comment on When will the all white home with grey floors trend be over? 1 week ago:
If your friends call your taste weird, gross, or old, then perhaps it’s time to expand your social circle and move towards less shitty friends .
Even if my friends’ house/car/wardrobe isn’t to my taste, I’m not rude enough to tell them that. Because really, it’s for them to like, not me.
- Comment on When will the all white home with grey floors trend be over? 1 week ago:
It also might be that when the economy is bad, you’re more likely to tolerate the default colour rather than pay $1000 extra for a premium colour.
- Comment on Genius 1 week ago:
I want to make fun of this person having a phone-in-drain problem, but I’ve lived long enough to witness the universe dole out instant karma to people teasing others.
A friend’s mother-in-law told her a story about watching lots of small children and not being able to herd them all to a washroom fast enough, which led to her shitting her pants. My friend made fun of her mother in law, incredulously wondering what kind of adult ever poops their pants. That very night she shit her bed.
- Comment on Anon tries to lose weight 1 week ago:
Me too! When I was a kid, my grandmother would give me a little bowl of frozen peas and corn to snack on. Now I give my kids the same and they strongly prefer them cold.
- Comment on Every fucking time 1 week ago:
I just don’t understand why the international foods are a separate aisle. Can those sauces not sit next to the other sauces? Can all types of noodles not co-exist in the same aisle? Why can’t masa flour live next to wheat flour?
The more I think about this, the more it annoys me.
- Comment on "influencers" are setting us back 2 weeks ago:
I don’t think it’s elitism to believe that a scientist understands their field better than an influencer. And I also don’t think this is a new phenomenon - as a society we have been buying remedies from carnival attractions and Hollywood celebrities for centuries.
Humans en masse tend to listen to those who yell loudest, not those who appeal to common sense. We can be smart as individuals, but we are dumb as fuck as a group
- Comment on Sound of silence 2 weeks ago:
I went to see the leatherback sea turtles nesting a few years ago. They guide themselves by the light of the full moon and we were explicitly told not to use flash photography, as it disorients the turtles. As I’m sure will not surprise you, as the turtle ladies crawled up onto the beach, about 100 blinding flashes went off right in their faces.
- Comment on This is gonna go just fine 💯 3 weeks ago:
I was wondering why she looked so messed up
- Comment on I use Ubuntu btw. 3 weeks 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 🌱 3 weeks 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 🌱 3 weeks 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 3 weeks ago:
It looks like a felt art project! Yet another reason to conserve the rainforest
- Comment on bone 3 weeks 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! 4 weeks ago:
In a world where CGI can make a full-length live action Lion King movie, he’ rather choose dog murder?
- Comment on Nice 4 weeks 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 4 weeks 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 4 weeks 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.