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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The march of time⁩ ⁨⁨14⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:

  Time is like an endless human centipede except it’s measured in days and weeks instead of mouths and assholes.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I have tomorrow off :)⁩ ⁨⁨15⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:

  What with all the scribbles and such? Best I can do is ask AI, which came back with this response:

  Acnodon senai, Sena’s pacu, is a species of freshwater ray-finned fish belonging to the family Serrasalmidae, which includes the pacus and piranhas. This fish is found in Brazil.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨YOU HAVE NO POWER HERE⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s way too late at night for all those directions, somehow ended up creating my own blind spot by sticking my thumb in my bum.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨vehicle conditions⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:

  I think the US state of Georgia must have some of the least restrictive laws when it comes to inspections, at least in the south east. Every time I drive through that state, I see shit almost exactly like this. Bumpers hanging off cars scraping on the road. Hood and/or trunk lids held down by tape. 0 functional lights on the back of the vehicle. Windshields smashed to all heck and back, no way anybody can see out of that. Rear view mirrors without the mirrors. 3 doughnut tires, driving 80 mph (129 kph) down the interstate. I’ve seen it all, and I don’t even live there.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Stop!⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:

  Those hair styles look just like something you’d see in Gen Z. The more things, change, the more things stay the same.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why people say they have a "boy cat" or a "girl cat" but when the cat grows up, they don't call is a "man cat" or "woman cat"?⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Generally speaking, the terms man and woman are reserved specifically for humans. I couldn’t tell you why, but I suppose it doesn’t really matter.

  For pets, the use of boy/girl probably does have a lot to do with how people tend to infantilize their companion animals.

  Additionally, the boy / girl terminology is often generalized to cover all animals, particularly when adults are interacting with children and by extension when children are interacting with each other. It’s not uncommon to have a child ask something like “is that a boy rabbit or a girl rabbit?” but it is a little unusual to hear an adult ask another adult that same question, unless it’s sort of tongue-in-cheek or maybe in the presence of kids.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Dogs need love too⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  A neighbor told me that her daughter had been out playing in the yard one evening and apparently mistook a couple of young skunks as being kitties. They were quite docile and followed her up to the house. Fortunately, nobody got sprayed, not even the dog. Skunks are surprisingly docile when they don’t feel threatened in my experience, so I guess that’s why the kid thought they were cats?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨So Long to Tech's Dream Job: It’s the shut up and grind era, tech workers said, as Apple, Google, Meta and other giants age into large bureaucracies.⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Based on what I’ve seen, that seems to be how it’s always gone within an individual business (and also not exclusive to tech). Maybe right now we’re calling it an era within tech because it’s happening simultaneously to some big players, and that’s the difference?

  For a lot of businesses, things start out small, stressful, and maybe a bit grindy while folks are trying to get things off the ground. If that works out, then there’s usually a huge push to grow. Business moves into the “great places to work” phase, basically dream job, though depending on the business and industry this can sometimes also be the “we don’t pay the best but we’ve got an onsite arcade and mini-bar” phase. It’s usually an economic boom time, best numbers ever type situation. And then the tiniest little bump, and that all comes crashing down. Cut backs, more stringent rules, everything has to be measured, lay-offs or mass exodus, place becomes a low morale corporate hellscape and suddenly every thing is “we’re a family”.

  Been around the block more than once, I’ve seen the process and know the signs.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Anon goes home⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  I’ve kind of been on both sides of this.

  For me, returning to and then leaving my home town triggers feelings of melancholy but also relief. I didn’t grow up in a stable, solidly middle-class (or higher) lifestyle, so I’m sure that’s a factor.

  While I had a good childhood and loving parents, things got complicated the older I became. And even when I happen upon a reminder of the good times or a fond memory, way too often it’s tainted by how fucked up things were at the time.

  On the other hand, “the kids” … it’s wonderful when they’re home for summer. When they’re at my house, at least I know they are safe, happy, and that all their needs are being met, in as much as possible. It’s sad to see them go, when I know it’s going to be months before they’re back.

  But also, it’s a sigh of relief when my life can go back to being on my terms sans drama and chaos. It’s almost total bliss when I can go out to the kitchen in my undies for a cup of coffee fully confident that the milk jug won’t be sitting in the fridge completely empty (or with a minuscule amount of milk remaining so as to be practically useless but also technically not empty).

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨This has happened to me⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  What’s the average price for an insurance for a middle class person living in a big city?

  In the USA, shit’s so convoluted that it’s highly debatable whether average price is relevant. But, also, good luck finding someone willing to track that info down, assuming it even exists.

  The costs depend on what state you live in, whether you’re getting insurance through your employer or the open market, whether you’re getting family or individual coverage, and a myriad other factors.

  For insurance through your employer – The employer usually gets a group discount on a set of plans that range from shitty coverage to slightly less shitty, a range of costs based on how much the employer is willing to pay for each plan as a “benefit” to employees, and whatever other add-ons the employee selects (ex: dental, vision).

  I don’t have average data, but I’ve paid as little as $50 a month for employer sponsored insurance, but it was the shittiest shit tier of insurance that was basically worthless (and that was over a decade ago). For my last few employers, the employee paid part of the plans seemed to be in the $200 to $400 range, again depending on the plan and the options selected.

  For open market – This is even more complicated and complex. But basically everybody can get it through some version of what’s known as Obamacare or ACA. Costs and plans available vary from state to state. Technically, individuals are on the hook for the entire cost of the plans. In my area, when I last checked, there were a few options as low as $350 USD (but they were utterly terrible) to $2,500+ USD for ultra-premium plans. The caveat here is that the cost of these plans is partly based on income. So, in my state, basically everybody making below $60,000 USD (or so) gets a discounted rate (or rebate on taxes at the end of the year), such that people in the lowest income bracket can get health insurance for free or close to it.

  Does families get an all-in-one or it’s different for any single person?

  Cost-wise, there’s a different price for individual insurance versus family coverage. Usually the family coverage is priced so that it’s a bit cheaper per person than getting separate individual plans, but even then there are exceptions. Family plans tend to have a shared max out of pocket and deductible (which are basically the annual limits on what you pay) that’s higher than the individual plan.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨born 2 l8⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Almost every depiction of Anomalocaris, particularly in those CGI documentaries, make members of this genus look like enormous hideous sea monsters.

  But in reality, these things are small, all less than 40 cm (like the largest ones are slightly more than a foot for us in the USA).

  Giants of that era I guess and certainly an order of magnitude or more larger than superficially similar modern day relatives like sea monkeys and fairy shrimp. But they’re like the size of a lobster, we’d probably be eating them to extinction these days if they weren’t already extinct.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Life hack⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Okay, but have you seen the price of rotisserie chickens lately? I’m not made of money.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why is land/sky so cleanly split between mammals/birds?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  The single, simple answer is the one that you don’t want to hear: There is no clean split. Bats are a large and diverse group of flying mammals just like birds are a large and diverse group of flying dinosaurs.

  The simplest answer I can come up with (because it’s actually a very complicated and convoluted topic that I wouldn’t truly do just anyway) is: Most birds can fly because they are an offshoot of one group of dinosaurs (avian dinosaurs) that survived the last great extinction when their non-flying non-avian dinosaur relatives did not. Basically the ones that couldn’t fly mostly went extinct. And mammals mostly don’t fly, which is possibly because several groups of vertebrates beat them to it and essentially filled all the niches that would have been available to flying animals, kind of blocking that path for them.

  Obviously that’s nowhere near the full story. There are lots of other factors at play, like some of the peculiarities of mammalian and dinosaur physiology that made one group better suited to flight than the other, ramifications of the great extinction that killed non-avian dinosaurs as well as most large animals in general and whole swaths of other species, and so on.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I can get a 430 hearing on any family member I want. Hell i can even testify if someone else needs one. So tell me why I can't go through the legal system to get an invasive one for Trump?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I’ve never heard of that one specifically and could find no sources mentioning it online. So, I’m being up front when I say I do not know the specific answer.

  Having said that, sometimes if we’re building out scenarios in our minds based on an inaccurate or flawed premise, that can also lead to flawed outcome in our logic. For instance, is it actually truly possible to get a 430 on any family member that you want … like just because? And if so, is it possible there are other extenuating circumstances that you might not be considering (ex: Trump is not a family member, none of your family members are president of the United States, etc) which could explain why things might lead to a different outcome between your family member(s) and Trump?

  Having said that and given the additional context you provided (i.e. Mental Examination), I’m wondering if it’s a situation where the individual needs to be more of an immediate threat to the health / life of themselves or others before it’s applicable? Even if you did try to make that case (because I know at least some people would), it’s likely not a case where any random person can just make an accusation / report against a well-known public figure to whom they have no clear social ties and expect it to be taken seriously.

  Also, this wouldn’t apply to the president of the USA, but even people who legitimately do need some kind of immediate institutionalization often can’t get it when they need it. It would be an understatement to say that the mental health facilities in this country are overwhelmed and underfunded.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Expert here.⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I’m not an entemolo intenolo bug scientician and I know nothing of the specifics of this species, so I can’t weigh in there.

  However, sometimes these new species have literally been right in front of our faces the whole time, it’s just that they’re barely distinguishable from other very similar and more common relatives.

  This is, of course, a vast oversimplification of things, but I remember reading an article about a new beetle being discovered in some random suburb. Essentially the reason the new species was discovered is because someone was counting the number of hairs on the larval beetles’ butts and noticed the discrepancy between two different populations and then realized that they were dealing with two different species, one of which had not been previously described.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Sad palaeo noises⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Give me Anomolocaris or trilobites any day.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨stupid sexy apples⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Since this is Science Memes, I’m feeling emboldened to geek out a bit.

  In my part of North America, there are a lot of pollinators besides bees “sexing up” the apple trees. I’m guessing it’s that way in many other parts of the world, too.

  On the coolest days, you might not see any bees at all, but the flower flies (aka hover flies) will still go for it. On the warmest days, bees may even be in the minority of pollinators. I see all kinds of different fly species, a multitude of different wasps, many types of beetles, and sometimes even moths and butterflies – weather depending. Plus, even that time of year, there are often other bee species which are active besides just the invasive non-native honey bees.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨not today, my dudes⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Regimbartia attenuata. Common name “Bronze Beetle” because it pretty much always takes turd place.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Funny ⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Not to get too serious, given the topic and the community I’m in, but…

  There’s a saying along the lines of “You can’t reason someone out of a position they did not reason themselves into.” And the overwhelming majority of the time, it’s completely true.

  Ridiculous as it sounds, there are large numbers of people out there who believe that being gay is a choice. These people legitimately feel like any recognition and representation of homosexuality risks turning people gay.

  You can spend all the time you want asking them when they chose to be straight and logically explaining things to them, it almost certainly will not matter.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The look you have when you realize you've made the greatest alien movie of all time⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Unfortunately, I’m certain I’ll end up watching this due to circumstances beyond my control. But in my defense, watching it will ultimately spare me from having to watch Another Sandler Movie Part Two, so overall it’s a price I’m willing to pay. The things I do to keep the peace.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨heaven⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  What about people who wear solid color t-shirts that have long-ass slogans on them which are super specific and seemingly only apply to a single person on the entire face of the Earth often written in a variety of fonts and font-sizes and including bizarre details about their lives like the t-shirt that was given to me by my same-sex lover on the second Saturday in June of 2021 to celebrate the fact that I managed to clear an entire thornless blackberry bush of berries that we used to make the most delicious blackberry cobbler from that very same evening?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Creative writing⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Don’t you fucking dare speak ill of my Martha. I will hunt you down and force you to eat honey braised turnips from Martha’s website until you agree that her shit’s the bomb

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Creative writing⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I was the kid whose creating writing assignments over the years triggered more than one parent-teacher conference.

  But in all fairness, I absolutely loved horror movies and my parents let me watch pretty much whatever scary movies I wanted regardless of the violence and sexual content. And I turned out okay, I guess, depending on who you ask and relatively speaking. I mean, I have relatives around the same age who are already dead due to their bad decisions in life, so I’m just saying who cares if an 8 year old writes a story about crocodile-like aliens that eat their meals ass first.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Back in my day this MF was .29 cents and was THICK with INGREDIENTS⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Yeah, I just commented before I saw yours. Taco Bell has declined the most, by far, of the fast food places I’ve eaten at in the past 5 or so years.

  I gotta give their corporate overloads credit – it’s kind of impressive that they figured out so many ways to make trash tier food so much worse, charge triple or more for it, and still remain in business.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Back in my day this MF was .29 cents and was THICK with INGREDIENTS⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  If that’s a Taco Bell 5-layer burrito, I don’t remember them being 29 cents (grew up poor, we rarely ate out). But by the time I was out on my own as an adult, I could get two 5-layer burritos and a drink for around $3 - $4 USD and some change. It was enough food to sustain me for a day if it came down to it.

  But yes, these days the 5-layers are more like dried out 3-layer mini-burrito abominations that cost $3 or $4 a piece. They are pretty much nothing like the large succulent many layered dollar / value menu beasts of the past.

  I guess if typing up this post is considered yelling and web hosting is basically all cloud-based these days and I’m an old man by 2025 standards, then yes, I am indeed an old man yelling at clouds. But mostly I’m an old man avoiding Taco Bell now that it’s completely ruined its brand.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Bird⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  If I’m being completely fair and objective, not all birds eat “bird seed” and not everyone is well-informed about the diets of various types of bird. But also, at least where I live, some parks have signs that specifically say not to feed the ducks/geese at all, and I can totally understand how that might lead people to conclude that it’s not safe to feed them.

  On the other hand, I’m reminded of the time that I was at an insect exhibit when one of the educators running the booth referred to “these animals” and the woman behind me asked something like “bugs is animals?” And it still leaves me perplexed that otherwise seemingly fully functional people make it to adulthood thinking that insects are not animals.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Have most people never seen a full starry night sky⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  People living in cities sometimes leave and many have not lived in a city their whole lives. Additionally, the power can go out at night in cities. For instance, where I live we sometimes get tropical storms, winter storms, and other disasters that can knock out power for hours (and even days) even inside the city – I imagine that’s not uncommon elsewhere. A lot of cities in poorer nations ration power or only have electricity available during certain hours.

  So, overall, I would say that it’s probably not the case that “most” people have never seen a full starry night unless you’re getting super technical and pedantic about the word “full” to where you’re specifically asking about a completely unobstructed view with 0% light pollution, in which case then I would say that almost nobody has seen a full starry night in that case, regardless of whether or not they live in a city.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨U can make a difference⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  My granny used to snatch them things out the air with her hands and shove them in her mouth. Said they tasted good. But she stopped after one time she accidentally caught a palmetto bug instead and bit down before she realized what was happening.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Spare a moment for all the children who were never born because their would-be fathers sterilized themselves imitating this show⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Who am I to judge the will of Darwin’s Fury?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Your Lemmy Weather Forecast⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Low pressure front will be moving in from the west early next week so we can expect things to be a few degrees more abysmal and overcast.