paysrenttobirds

@paysrenttobirds@sh.itjust.works

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Did 70% of Wisconsin voters just delete their own constitutional guarantee to be eligible to vote?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I think op is right. A new law that says you have to own real estate or something would have been unconstitutional before and is not now.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Meteorology Gatekeeping⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Oh, funny, I was thinking maybe it was written for two audience with different terminology where one names wind by where it’s going and the other by where it came from. Somehow the truth is more aggravating.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Do you think a Team America: World Police sequel would work 20 years later?⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Not much has changed, yet. Twenty years from now they might need to change the team logo. For me the whole dicks and pussies spiel is still resonating.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The Three Kinds of Scientific Research⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  The map from the third is the “circumstances” of the first two.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Flying Ants⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  But, that’s sperm, right? Half the chromosomes, like an egg, only motile.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Two Illegal Aliens Steal $1 Million Patek At Gunpoint In Beverly Hills Hotel In Broad Daylight⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Don’t wear your investment on your sleeve

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨‘It affects everything’: why is Hollywood so scared to tackle the climate crisis?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I thought the Tomorrow War was super clear.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Cyberfish⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Much simpler. Kind of disappointing.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Father of woman with ME/CFS scared she will "die in hospital"⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  One thing in this horrible story that will be familiar to anyone worth lifelong illness is the divide between pediatric and adult care. At age 18, you will experience an immediate shift in professional knowledge, care paradigm, access and support, either for better or worse, and it’s just ridiculous because the condition is the same. This just shows how much more important the system as a whole is compared to the intelligence, curiosity, or work ethic of any individual doctor. We were advised with my daughter (different illness) to keep pediatric specialists as long as possible and many of them regularly made these exceptions for patients for this reason.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Cyberfish⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  So a relative of mine is a serial entrepreneur who self describes solving problems by basically just asking (nicely) for the same thing over and over again until she gets it. Personally I’ve been amused and frustrated by her inability to follow other people’s line of thought or suggestions (or rules) even though she’s as smart as anyone else so long as she’s the one directing things. I’ve thought that she is a leader more or less because she can’t be a follower and other people find it easiest to go along (if they want to work with her, which after her first success was increasingly likely).

  So this robot fish, by not understanding or responding to the group has effectively made it necessary for the group to follow it as they instinctively all want to stick together.

  Which makes me think the fish are naturally inclined to follow the most socially oblivious among them. But this only makes sense if the leaders are not really socially oblivious, but have only temporarily found a stronger motivation, which they communicate by overriding their normal group-school behavior, forcing the rest to follow their lead.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The Code⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I could be wrong, but my understanding is the reviews are done by other academics for free, if at all… That’s why getting published is kind of reputation based and circular because the cheapest review is just to look up whether they’ve been published before.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Anon has an itch⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Sometime needs to be watching him all the time. This is why they invented God.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The little-known but successful model for protecting human and labor rights⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  In 2001, the CIW set its sights on Taco Bell and called for a boycott over the reportedly abysmal conditions in its tomato supply chain. Four years later, Taco Bell signed an agreement that included vital demands from the CIW: Taco Bell would pay a premium for its tomatoes that would go directly to workers’ paychecks, it would only buy from growers who met the code of conduct that protected workers, and this would be monitored and enforced by an investigative body with help from the CIW. It was all backed by a legally binding contract.

  An amazing concept spreading around the world.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Contraception Is Free by Law. So Why Are a Quarter of Women Still Paying for It? Senator Bernie Sanders of Vermont has called on a government watchdog to investigate. Here’s what you need to know.⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I did not know that, and I and my two daughters have been paying copays for years. Now we pay the whole cost out of pocket (pills, so it’s pretty cheap) because our current insurance only covers one month at a time while we can get 4 months at a time if we pay cash.

  Being something you absolutely have to take every day to be effective, and also the apparently extreme software confusion resulting from the difference between lunar and calendar months that messes up pharmacy refill windows, not to mention travel, etc, and the fact that they are as safe as dirt, there is no reason there should be any restriction to 30 day (28 actual) supply. Now I wonder if that’s just one more way they’re getting around the law.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨When people speak English but with German grammar⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  That’s fun, reminds me of high school Shakespeare performances

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨In Secret Recordings, Alito Endorses Nation of ‘Godliness.’ Roberts Talks of Pluralism.⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Living together peacefully is the whole work of human life and society. For the position he is in, saying “it’s just too hard” should be regarded as a resignation.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Biden wants U.S. government to scan all images on your phone to comply with new AI rules⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  The plan is to have mobile operating systems such as Android and iOS automatically scan and analyze people’s private photos to determine which ones are sexual or non-consensual. Users would not have the ability to keep any of their images private from government spooks.

  It might sound like a good thing

  No, no it doesn’t. Are people stupid?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Mona Lisa, Smile: You’re in Lecco, After All | A mash-up of geology and art history has identified a likely setting for one of the world’s most famous paintings.⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I love how the art snob is like “who cares, we already knew that, it makes no difference” and then points to an article from 8 years ago that makes a guess on the 500-year-old mystery.

  In fact, I was told by art teachers that the landscape was imaginary and this was an important novelty in portraiture at the time and meant to add mystery and allure to its subject, an idea that receives plenty of attention in Sassoon’s own book on the subject.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨My friend's boyfriend's therapist said that he is an abuser who is trying to look like the victim. What does this mean?⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I’m not a therapist, so this is just a guess, but the “scared you off” comments and maybe the hints at depression could be seen as manipulative, especially when he really never wanted anything from the relationship beyond the online attention. He made her feel guilty for not spending more time and energy on him while exaggerating his own interest in her. Perhaps in his previous relationships the manipulation went further. Your friend needs to know she is not at all to blame for the end of this relationship. Nor is she dumb for caring about someone more than they cared about her: you can’t always tell. But perhaps she will take from it the idea that she could ask for things that are important to her, like in-person contact or space to be doing something other than talking to him without being nagged, sooner in the process to be sure the other person is on the same page. Help her understand that whatever anxiety she felt to shore up his emotions should be at most a small part of their interaction. A relationship shouldn’t feel like a tomagatchi pet.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Wall Street has spent billions buying homes. A crackdown is looming.⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Absolutely, this has to be addressed. Owner-occupied makes the best neighborhoods and cities, in addition to righting the market.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Helpful diagrams⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  But where’s the mouth functionality?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨rejuvination⁩ ⁨⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I’ve always thought they were trying to escape the soggy mud. Too moist. Drowning. Lane is for bikes.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Anon finds his people⁩ ⁨⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I remember an early wtf Internet moment for me on fark.com someone linked a car-fucking forum complete with diy “muffler cosies”, etc. Probably at least half joking, right??

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨irrefutable⁩ ⁨⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I think they are suggesting, tongue in cheek, that liberal propaganda is encouraging some tiny cellular being to shift from cis to trans. What the illustrator actually intended, I have no clue.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨somewhere a postdoc is crying⁩ ⁨⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  How many times did they remix that 42.5% before being like I’m just going to go be a clown?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why Did This Guy Put a Song About Me on Spotify?⁩ ⁨⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  To Farley, creativity has always been a volume business. That, in fact, is the gist of “The Motern Method,” a 136-page manifesto on creativity that he self-published in 2021. His theory is that every idea, no matter its apparent value, must be honored and completed. An idea thwarted is an insult to the muse and is punished accordingly.

  Awesome. Great story, gen x at it’s most gen x, I think.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The Stanford Prison Experiment was hugely influential. We learned it was a fraud (2018)⁩ ⁨⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  This is the kind of thing that bolsters Stanford’s fine reputation for scientific trolling.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Simple streetlight hack could protect astronomy from urban light pollution⁩ ⁨⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  It might sound impractical to refit an entire town with devices that allow lamps to blink, but Pashkovsky said that most existing LED lights can operate in the blinking mode and that new lamps designed specifically with sky protection in mind would be no costlier than existing LED technology

  Yeah, it sounds impractical. Also, I don’t understand how they’d make them all blink in sync, or am I missing something?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Are there any people who hates music?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  I had no idea, but I one hundred percent predicted some form of this comment. Thank you

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Are there any people who hates music?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  I’m curious to see if you find anyone. I do know there are some kids who are very sensitive to the moods of music and cry for Happy Birthday, for example, because it’s in a minor key. I can see how it could almost be like someone is whining at you or trying to get you hyped up and you just want to be with your own thoughts?