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- Comment on No like really bro I’m just here for the silly shoes 3 days 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 5 days 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 5 days ago:
Yes (but maybe you shouldn’t). See: lemmy.world/post/45251643/23076623
- Comment on A handy reference guide for you 5 days 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 5 days ago:
Asia, where they belong (and stay there!)
- Comment on A handy reference guide for you 5 days ago:
Wasps are pollinators too 🥺
- Comment on Giving credit to the responsible person 1 week ago:
Interesting, did not know it was a bank holiday. (Schools and such are still open.)
- Comment on Giving credit to the responsible person 1 week 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’ 1 week ago:
I’m curious what about this is “mildly” infuriating to OP?
- Comment on Jimmy's Rustled 1 week 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? 1 week 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? 2 weeks ago:
I’ve also seen it recommended for breaking “death grip” habits.
- Comment on Animals noticing 2 weeks ago:
Says the AI slop…
- Comment on Just Watched the First Episode of Voyager and I Get the Hype, Regarding Janeway, Now 1 month ago:
Not to take away from your experience (seriously, I’m glad you enjoyed the episode), however I recently rewatched the first few episodes of Voyager, and I thought Janeway’s character (or at least the portrayal of her) had aged really poorly.
For example, there’s a scene between her and B’Elanna where they’re manically finishing each other’s thoughts on some technobabble, and all I could think was “the writers felt this conversation was necessary to show the audience that both these characters are more than qualified for their positions in spite of their gender.” It felt performative rather than empowering. I get a vibe from Janeway that’s more “this is a woman trying to be a male captain” than “this is a female captain” or even “this is a captain who happens to be female.”
Granted it’s not like the other main characters are necessarily much better (Star Trek, why you always gotta start off so rough?), but Janeway feels like she’s trying too hard to prove something, which would be fine if that were part of the plot/character description, but this is Starfleet, they’re supposed to be past gender issues. There are a lot of things that date the show, but I think Janeway is possibly the biggest example. Which is frustrating, because I really want to like her.
- Comment on 5/7 with rice 2 months ago:
That’s the portion they have shonen protagonists eat to demonstrate their humorously preposterous appetites
- Comment on FBI Announces $100,000 Reward After Government Vehicles Broken Into in Minneapolis 2 months ago:
FYI (from Wikipedia):
The Epoch Times is a far-right[1] international multi-language newspaper and media company affiliated with the Falun Gong new religious movement. […] The Epoch Times opposes the Chinese Communist Party, promotes far-right politicians and movements in Europe, and has supported President Donald Trump in the U.S. A 2019 report by NBC News showed it to be the second-largest funder of pro-Trump Facebook advertising after the Trump campaign itself. […] The Epoch Media Group’s news sites and YouTube channels have promoted conspiracy theories such as QAnon, the Great Replacement, anti-vaccine misinformation and false claims of fraud in the 2020 United States presidential election. In June 2024, the group’s chief financial officer, Bill Guan, was indicted for money laundering.
In other words, not a news source to be citing or directing traffic to.
- Comment on The problems Mothers have to deal with 3 months ago:
Why does Baby Jesus look like Donald Trump?
- Comment on Why do you hate AI? 3 months ago:
Legitimate question:
Most of the comments here cite reasons for disliking AI that include one or more of the following: environmental degradation, resource consumption, increasing energy/hardware prices, disregarding copyright, disregarding privacy, undermining human artists, mass layoffs, creating a market bubble, throwing education into chaos, monopolization by corporations/billionaires, AI hallucinations/inaccuracy, a product that is overpromising/undelivering, a product that makes generating misinformation easier.
Which of these reasons for disliking AI do you think fall under your assertion of “anti-intellectual technophobia”? They all seem like legitimate, well thought out reasons for disliking something to me, especially when considered together.
- Comment on Delicious corn! 3 months ago:
Boo, AI slop
- Comment on Do it Sasha! 4 months ago:
It’s less that Santa is on strike, and more that his sleigh is quagmired in a foot of melted permafrost
- Comment on stinky ginky 4 months ago:
Stinky ginky? Nah, yellow fellow.
- Comment on 4 months ago:
World’s oldest science fiction proven world’s oldest science fact. The Japanese were right all along!
- Comment on [META] What actually constitutes "mildly infuriating" content? 4 months ago:
I would consider this mildly infuriating, yes.
- Comment on [META] What actually constitutes "mildly infuriating" content? 4 months ago:
You may have seen my “I’m gonna repost this comment every time I see this type of submission in this community” comments recently. They received positive responses, but after realizing that this type of content is most of the community, I decided a full post would be more productive to the conversation and feel less passive-aggressive.
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- Comment on Also the day that the world found out that Hitler had a micropenis. 4 months ago:
Great, now “Hitler micropenis” is in my search history.
- Comment on fragile masculinity 4 months ago:
Like most unnecessarily-gendered things, this thinking falls apart under the slightest hint of logical scrutiny…
- Comment on fragile masculinity 4 months ago:
Jalapenos have become victims of their own success.
They’re so popular and mainstream now that buyers (especially food processors) have started demanding high levels of consistency in terms of spice; Tostitos and the like want to ensure that every batch of salsa and such they mass produce is going to have the same spice level, which is understandable. Unfortunately this drive for increased consistency has led to an overall weakening of flavor, similar to what happened to produce like tomatoes and apples once industrialized farming and food processing created demands for longer shelf lives, consistency in appearance, etc., and like tomatoes and apples, the jalapenos you buy at most stores nowadays are going to be much weaker in flavor than they were in the past.
Jalapenos not sourced from these industrial-oriented seed companies are going to vary much more in terms of spice level based on growing conditions, like temperature and rainfall. There even exists nowadays the “nadapeno,” which has jalapeno flavor but minimal spice. You can also remove the seeds and veins of the pepper before eating it, which makes a huge difference in reducing spice levels. Picking them earlier and growing them in “ideal” conditions for lessened spice is trickier, but can also help.
- Comment on fragile masculinity 4 months ago:
That privilege is heavily dependent on your maintaining a strong garlic harvest. The first year that slips (or your basil/oregano perform too well) you’re getting downgraded to nonbinary. Then there’s a three year grace period before you’re sent straight to full-blown woman. So make sure to fertilize your alliums well!
- Comment on fragile masculinity 4 months ago:
Which is too bad, because including flowers in your garden (even if it’s in the form of bolted plants) helps attract critters that will pollinate your “productive” plants as well as those that will help protect them from pest infestations. A balanced ecosystem lifts all boats, to mix my metaphors.
