Mouselemming

@Mouselemming@sh.itjust.works

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨where we putting these?⁩ ⁨⁨23⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:

  Don’t eat the rich. You could get prion disease. Feed them to the wolves.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How do I stop laughing at stupid shit all the time⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  “Sometimes I just think funny things.”

  If they insist,

  But what were you thinking that’s so funny?

  “No,that is it. It’s a quote from Arthur, (do a drunk voice this time) sometimes I just think funny things.”

  It’s not that funny but it’s clean and reusable.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Mitosis⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  I love OP and updooted their meme.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Mitosis⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Well, I have to say I think it’s okay because generally we do capitalize the first letter of a sentence. But my phone of course autocorrected it. And since it’s a name, we should defer to the preference of the person or thing being named. If I said “e e cummings was a poet perhaps best known for his rejection of capitalisation and punctuation,” it would be stupid and perhaps rude of me to type it as “E. E. Cummings,” and yet that’s how he appears in Wikipedia. So I guess I come down on the side of, “I’ll allow it.”

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Mitosis⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  That definition doesn’t fit this example either.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Mitosis⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  But not metaphorically, which is what we’re seeing here, in this visual pun.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Mitosis⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Okay I’ll be that guy. Not literally.

  It’s still a funny visual joke, and loses nothing by being simply

  iPhone went through mitosis

  Or if you’re even more pedantic than I,

  iPhone camera went through mitosis

  Are there many more urgent problems in the world than proliferation of misused "literally"s?

  Absolutely. And I do my tiny part. But focusing for a moment on something small like this helps me step away from the abyss.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Infuriating update to the broken lift plea. Signatures were added two days ago. And now someone has added a note.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Our apartment is in a building on a rise/hill. There’s an elevator to take us up one floor from the street level lobby and 2 floors from the garage/basement/laundry. But at the other end of the building, there’s an exit directly to the street, because of the hill. So when the elevator is broken it’s an inconvenience to go around, but at least my husband can get in and out in his chair!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Infuriating update to the broken lift plea. Signatures were added two days ago. And now someone has added a note.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  I am an even older fart, and I TAUGHT cursive. The only “cursive” here is the angry scrawl of someone who’d prefer to be cursing.

  Look, for example, at the word immediately after HOLY MONTH. The closest correct cursive letters to fit the scrawl are:

  “itreit”.

  It’s only by context, and allowing for the angry misplacement of the tittle, that we can read it as “that.”

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What job do you need this hard hat for?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  I agree, but I fear that would require a comically large exterior. Ten gallons, as it were.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What job do you need this hard hat for?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Is it because the strength of the arch is diminished by the crease? Or because it could channel a falling sharp object into rather than away from one’s skull?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨List: Examples of Trump’s Actions That Are Defying Legal Limits⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s already out of date

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Americans are weird.⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s a mirror

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Ain’t driving 400 miles to Sacramento when there’s a perfectly good Federal Building within a mile. Also it’s not the State of California I’m mad at.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The one drawback to walking at night⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I know LA is worse, but I do feel safer in my neighborhood simply because it’s familiar, so I’d spot trouble, and an escape route, more easily.

  In your familiar territory, you feel that assaults on women “just do not happen here” because you haven’t seen them personally.

  I also know that men don’t even realize how much personal safety they take for granted simply because they aren’t targets.

  Even in a relatively safe city, it only takes one femicide if that woman is you.

  And if a woman did go around with the attitude you’re espousing and got raped or killed, a disgusting number of people would think, “she should have been more careful, she was asking for trouble.”

  I’m sure you’re not that kind of guy. You seem like a good person. But your experience is not the same as any woman.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The one drawback to walking at night⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I have been to Canada twice, Quebec and Toronto, and I wouldn’t walk alone at night in either.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The one drawback to walking at night⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I’m going out on a limb and saying you’re not a woman. There’s no place on earth I could say I’d never feel unsafe walking alone at night. Although I’m less nervous in my own neighborhood in Los Angeles, just because it’s familiar.

  I did delve into your history to check before I spoke. I now know a lot more about Myanmar, (which was fascinating and took me so far back into your posts as to get creepy, my apologies ) and the NFL, and btw you’re doing great at adding content to Lemmy, but the only posts about women’s issues were the Toronto Tempo and one about abortion pill access that’s consistent with your sound views on the present shithole US administration, and you didn’t add any personal comments to.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The one drawback to walking at night⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  The 184 murdered Canadian women of 2024 might disagree with you. Especially Indigenous women, 24% of the total. Of course some were murdered by their husbands/partners, probably not our walking, but the majority were killed by strangers or mere acquaintances.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The one drawback to walking at night⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Easy solution: bring a bear. Much less chance of being murdered, and the bear gets to shit in the woods. Well, park, but close enough.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The one drawback to walking at night⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  That’s not murder, it’s defense of innocents

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨It really is like this⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Except on Antiques Roadshow follow-up episodes!

  (Anything Chinese has gone up in price, Japanese not so.)

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Every time my wife pees, she flips the lid up. Every time I pee, I flip it down. Never been discussed. Dare I say anything and break the spell?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I’m confused, what about the seat?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Putting the die in diet⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  In my experience “nutritional advice” changes completely every 7 years on average. In 2032 we’ll probably be saying “nutritional advice used to be wild” about a lot of what we’re taking for granted right now.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Putting the die in diet⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Another of the 3-day diets on this list (and to be fair, they said don’t do any of them for more than 3 days!) was:

  Ice cream. As much as you want. But only vanilla, and no extras like fudge sauce or sprinkles.

  I remember, because I’m old.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I feel stupid asking this. But cities and countries who have smog and a major amount of air pollution. Why doesn't the wind blow it away or move it overtime? Is there that much pollution?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Good map!

  You’re getting an unusual pattern in Southern California right now though. Usually our winds blow from the ocean, forming an inversion layer and trapping smog over the Los Angeles Basin as they hit the mountains. But atm the southeasterly Santa Ana Winds are pushing the smoke from the fires (which they exacerbated) out to sea.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Would voluntary euthanasia benefit society?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  “Ugh, too much trouble to kill myself, if I have to live in this fucking world I might as well try to make it a little better.” That’s my thought for today.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Would voluntary euthanasia benefit society?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  No. The horrible people would never choose it. They’d revel in making the good people so miserable they’d kill themselves. Society would crumble because only the selfish assholes would be left.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨"I don't think he knows about the second LA fire"⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I am. And I get LAFD pings all the time, mostly about hiker/biker rescues above Mandeville Canyon, as if I could do anything about that. I did get alerts about the Palisades Fire, and we did evacuate as soon as they texted we were in the yellow zone. But with the direction of Santa Anas, a fire in the Pass has a much greater chance of getting to us, and I wonder if it’s a zone-boundary thing.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨"I don't think he knows about the second LA fire"⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Woke up this morning to KCRW talking about the Sepulveda Fire, near the Getty Center. They’re holding it surrounded at 40 acres, but I didn’t even get a ping and I’m near the edge of the Evacuation Warning zone, downwind.

  A fire there is exactly why our bug-out bags are still packed and sitting in the living room, along with the portable medical equipment. (They’d be in the car but I don’t want to risk them being stolen.)

  I guess I should be glad I got a good night’s sleep, and I am glad for the firefighters’ great work, but I’m definitely awake now!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What is the best post sort for Lemmy?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I like All Top of the last 6 hours. In the Old Place I did Top of the last hour, but it’s a little slower here. If I can’t bear to read the article (too often these days) I can go straight to the comments and there will be some. If I run out of blue posts, or want to catch an unfolding event, I switch to Top.