fireweed

@fireweed@lemmy.world

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨7⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:

  The bird on the left hand side is actually a shoebill, a fellow Pelecaniforme.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  I assume it wasn’t drilled into them by whoever taught them to drive. Using turn signals is so natural to me that I don’t think I could stop using them without an extended effort at deprogramming myself.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Fr Fr on.... God⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  What is this painting? A gay knockoff of The Last Supper?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨This Apple Lie at the grocery store⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  I was planning to eat this pie as my sole food over the course of 2 days for my One-Meal-A-Day (OMAD)

  ???

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨This Apple Lie at the grocery store⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  You seen very focused on the “cost per calorie” measure. Have you never heard the phrase “empty calories”?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  I’ve seen them at “classy” parties, such as for Christmas or new years, when there’s a lot of people expected, because you can write your name on them with a sharpie and prevent a million abandoned drinks from accumulating everywhere.

  But usually I’d agree, I associate them with college dorm parties and house parties for teens-20-somethings, who don’t want to deal with the mess and/or may not own a sufficient number of glasses for all the guests.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Flat Screen TV's are a waste of money⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  *TVs

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Ez gg⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Oh no, that’s a separate treatment: salamander larvae. Fortunately they cohabitate with tadpoles quite harmoniously.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Ez gg⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Tadpoles.

  The ensuing frog plague upon the capital would be a nice little bonus.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Growth⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Please see my edit.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Growth⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Nope, that’s multilingual or polyglot.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨When foreign countries try to reproduce US brans⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  US brans

  OP is one of the foreign countries

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How do I re-establish peaceful relations with a family of crows?⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Best foods to give crows

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Sold out to whom, though… customers or scalpers?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨My son job lowered their hiring wage instead of raising it.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  For reference, the highest state* minimum wage in the US is Washington State at $17.13 (in Seattle it’s $21.30).

  *not counting Washington DC

  Wage laws across the US are all over the place. Meanwhile the federal minimum wage has been stuck at $7.25 since 2009.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨According to an MIT study, relying on ChatGPT for stuff like essays and creativity leads to cognitive atrophy and such. What should I do when writing stories without ChatGPT and other AI chatbots?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  This is the second unhelpfully vague question you’ve posed today about writing.

  So it would seem the first thing you need to do is to look up resources on effective communication and on accurately identifying problems/goals. Because I’m unclear as to whether the problem is that you don’t know what you’re looking for when asking these questions, or that you do know and for some reason assume that we can read your mind and know it too even without your properly describing it.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How do people force themselves to write something, even if they're NOT inspired?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Are we talking fiction or non-fiction? Obligated writing (school, work) or voluntary writing (journaling, fun)? Getting over a hump (dealing with writer’s block) or getting started in the first place?

  It’s really hard to give advice without knowing the context of the problem.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨*Eagle screeches*⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Yes, that’s the point (it’s an edit of an image Trump posted to truth social, then deleted after backlash).

  Normally I call out AI slop too, but this one has “official” precedence.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨No like really bro I’m just here for the silly shoes⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  genuinely nothing worse than going bowling with people who are actually good. like why are you doing all that

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨A handy reference guide for you⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  There are fig wasps, of course. Plus other species like paper wasps that eradicate pests. The year I had a paper wasp family move in near my garden was a bumper year for my brassicas, because they absolutely annihilated the cabbage white caterpillar population.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨A handy reference guide for you⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Yes (but maybe you shouldn’t). See: lemmy.world/post/45251643/23076623

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨A handy reference guide for you⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  You can (very, very carefully!) pet the top of their thorax when they’re not flying, such as when preoccupied with feeding at a flower, although as TheTechnician27 outlined, it’s probably not good for them. Better is if you can find one that’s struggling to fly (semi-common this time of year, when things are still warming up) and then you can warm the little guy in your hands if they’re cold or chauffeur them from flower to flower if they’re hungry. Often this will help them regain the strength to keep flying, but sometimes they never do; I assume in these cases they’re dying, but at least I gave them some hospice care. It’s very strange to deposit a struggling bee on a flower, watch it feed, and then see it wiggle its little feet in the air like it’s calling the magic carpet back for another lift.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨A handy reference guide for you⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Asia, where they belong (and stay there!)

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨A handy reference guide for you⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Wasps are pollinators too 🥺

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Giving credit to the responsible person⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Interesting, did not know it was a bank holiday. (Schools and such are still open.)

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Giving credit to the responsible person⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  For as much as the US acts like a Christian theocracy, somehow Easter is just a regular weekend for us.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Ex-Alex Jones employee reflects on job at Infowars: ‘It was nonsense. It was lies’⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I’m curious what about this is “mildly” infuriating to OP?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Jimmy's Rustled⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  *Jimmies rustled (not “Jimmy’s”)

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Can someone explain the Birds and the Bees to me? I get its related to sex somehow but was never told the story or where it got started or how come a plant and insect?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  There’s actually a Wikipedia page dedicated to the phrase!

  Relevant section:

  While the earliest documented use of the expression remains somewhat nebulous, it is generally regarded as having been coined by Samuel Taylor Coleridge. Published in 1825, Coleridge’s first verse in the poem “Work Without Hope” refers to both bees and birds in reference to the coming fecundity of spring:

  All Nature seems at work. Slugs leave their lair—
  The bees are stirring—birds are on the wing—
  And Winter, slumbering in the open air,
  Wears on his smiling face a dream of Spring!
  

  One scholar notes an earlier reference to “birds and bees” on columns in St. Peter’s Basilica from a 1644 entry in the diary of English writer John Evelyn. By the late 19th century, the phrase was common enough to appear in such works as essays by John Burroughs and publications explaining reproduction to children.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨If you're sexually frustrated & can never find a mate & decide to live a life of "nofap," what are the effects that buildup of sexual frustration has?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I’ve also seen it recommended for breaking “death grip” habits.