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- Comment on Genshin Impact Will Soon Require Age Verification in the United States 1 day ago:
I might be wrong about this, but isn’t age verification only required by a handful of states? Why are they applying it to the whole country?
- Comment on [deleted] 1 day ago:
Confirmation bias. If they told them what they wanted to hear, they would have believed every word
- Comment on Liquid Trees 4 days ago:
I think it’s because they mentioned trees improve air quality right there in their comment, and then you responded like you didn’t read it
- Comment on OMG no please don’t call me. 1 week ago:
You can gain confidence by doing it
- Comment on Milwaukee Judge Hannah Dugan 'temporarily relieved of her official duties' by Wisconsin Supreme Court 1 week ago:
You might have an argument if you wouldn’t just turn around and defend every MAGA loyalist’s blatant criminal activity. Instead, you’re just disingenuous and obnoxious
- Comment on In the United States; is it illegal to use a single serve wrapped slice of Kraft cheese as a postcard? 1 week ago:
Try including the rest of the sentence in your quote
- Comment on In the United States; is it illegal to use a single serve wrapped slice of Kraft cheese as a postcard? 1 week ago:
You’re absolutely right about this. It’s super easy to take a block of high-quality cheddar cheese and melt it with some sodium citrate to make the creamiest cheese dip you’ve ever eaten. And you can make your own sodium citrate with just lemon juice and baking soda
- Comment on In the United States; is it illegal to use a single serve wrapped slice of Kraft cheese as a postcard? 1 week ago:
It’s certainly perishable, doesn’t have to be food
- Comment on In the United States; is it illegal to use a single serve wrapped slice of Kraft cheese as a postcard? 1 week ago:
This would be prohibited by the USPS:
5 Perishable Matter/ 51 Definition/ 511 General Definitions// Perishable matter is anything that can deteriorate in the mail and thereby lose value, create a health hazard, or cause an obnoxious odor, nuisance, or disturbance, under ordinary mailing conditions. Mailable perishable matter may be sent at the mailer’s own risk when it is packaged as required and when it can be delivered within appropriate and reasonable time limits to prevent deterioration.//Examples of perishable matter include mailable types of live animals, food items, and plants.
- Comment on ‘It feels empty’: is Hollywood film and TV production in a death spiral? 1 week ago:
Filming in Los Angeles is at a historic low, with some suggesting the city might go the way of Detroit
Hyperbole a bit? Detroit was entirely reliant in the manufacturing sector, where Los Angeles has a much larger and much more diverse economy.
Soon before his return to the White House, Trump described Hollywood as “a great but very troubled place” and declared that Mel Gibson, Sylvester Stallone and Jon Voight would be his “eyes and ears”, helping to bring it back “bigger, better, and stronger than ever before!”
I hope these three give a press conference together, I can’t wait to hear the batshit crazy that comes out of their mouths. They look like death’s knocking
- Comment on ‘It feels empty’: is Hollywood film and TV production in a death spiral? 1 week ago:
The article (and the headline) is about entertainment jobs moving away from Los Angeles to other cities, not about the movie industry at large.
- Comment on Has anyone told MAGA they are free to shut themselves off from the rest of the world all on their own. Honestly they do a pretty good job of it already. 2 weeks ago:
Not only Austin, but Houston, San Antonio, El Paso, and even Dallas are solidly blue
- Comment on WTF is the teacher doing 4 weeks ago:
One could argue thats a severe problem
Yes
- Comment on WTF is the teacher doing 4 weeks ago:
You just repeated the same two reasons they gave like they were different.
- Comment on purpose 4 weeks ago:
Aedes aegypti and Aedes albopictus are invasive in all of North and South America
- Comment on [deleted] 4 weeks ago:
Astrophysicist?
- Comment on Artist Depiction 4 weeks ago:
T-Rex probably had lips
- Comment on Trump fires Trump 4 weeks ago:
And here I thought he was about to sign an executive order that it’s spelled “Dow Joans” from now on and Pam Bondi was going to prosecute anyone who disagreed
- Comment on Disc market share for week ending in 2025-03-22: Moana vs. Elphaba vs. Godzilla vs. Biollante 5 weeks ago:
Oh shit, Godzilla vs. Biollante got a Criterion release. Badass movie
- Comment on [deleted] 5 weeks ago:
Evolution as a theory predates our understanding of genetics by many decades. Even before we were able to sequence genes, we were using morphology and a variety of other factors to determine relationships between living organisms.
Well, along came genetics. We discovered that neutral mutations in DNA tend to happen at consistent rates, which meant we could compare DNA of two organism to see how similar they were, and could even use their differences to estimate how long ago they had a common ancestor.
How can you “confirm evolution is real?” Sequence the genes of many organisms and compare them. Build your very own tree of life.
- Comment on Should I withdraw/stop putting into my 401k? 5 weeks ago:
You just want to log in to your 401k account and take control of where your investments go. You always want to be invested in funds with low expense ratios, like index funds, but you can also pick funds that are invested outside the US. Most of my 403b now is in index funds or low expense ratio funds invested in Europe, Asia, and emerging markets. I just have a bad feeling about the US market for the foreseeable future for some reason
- Comment on Elon Musk helping to investigate Signal chat leak: White House 1 month ago:
Lmao
- Comment on LUNGS WERE A MISTAKE 1 month ago:
When we return to lungfish, we can embrace our gills instead of coming on land and avoid this whole mess
- Comment on What are some slow acting poisons? 1 month ago:
A lot of detailed information on the Wikipedia page. There are a ton of different ways people can come into contact with mercury, and a ton of different formulations of mercury with varying effects. For what symptoms adults may exhibit from the most common form of organic exposure, look no further than RFK Jr., who himself has stated he has mercury poisoning from eating too much tuna:
Due to the body’s inability to degrade catecholamines (e.g. adrenaline), a person with mercury poisoning may experience profuse sweating, tachycardia (persistently faster-than-normal heart beat), increased salivation, and hypertension (high blood pressure).
It also causes memory impairment and reduced IQ. RFK Jr. seems to really fit the bill here.
But for something truly terrifying, try dimethylmercury. People can get one drop on their skin, then several months later start developing symptoms, and die within a year. It even soaks right through rubber and latex gloves: en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dimethylmercury
For full symptom progression, check out Minimata Disease.
- Comment on LUNGS WERE A MISTAKE 1 month ago:
Reject humanity, return to
monkelungfish. - Comment on What happened to FlyingSquid? 1 month ago:
Way to make someone expressing concern about someone else instead about your politics
- Comment on What happened to FlyingSquid? 1 month ago:
He shared a lot about his life on here and I worry he set himself up for failure moving to the UK. Based on what he’s said, he had a condition where he no longer wanted to eat, and then stopped working for a long time because of that. He seemed to expect that finding a job was going to be easy moving to a new country, but that’s not typically the case, especially after having not worked in years.
After moving, he talked a lot about finding a job, which had me wondering what changed. While he wasn’t working, he was spending 12+ hours on Lemmy every day, with like well over a hundred posts/comments per day, and constantly talking about not being able to work. Going from that mindset to desperately trying to find a job in a foreign country seems like a mindfuck.
- Comment on Will Box Office Rebound? Captain America, Black Bag, Mickey 17 Struggle 1 month ago:
Yeah I honestly hadn’t even heard of this movie before today. Maybe there’s also a marketing issue
- Comment on "Save the Bees, Murder the Wasps" 1 month ago:
You’re probably thinking of the big guys, like hornets and paper wasps. Most wasps are tiny, and the average person would likely confuse them with a fly. There are thousands of wasp species ranging from top-level predators to tiny parasites
- Comment on Will Box Office Rebound? Captain America, Black Bag, Mickey 17 Struggle 1 month ago:
This is attributable to movies not being interesting or good, given there have been 3 billion dollar movies over the past year and Disney had its biggest opening weekend ever with Moana 2. People want to go to the movies, they just aren’t willing to go to the movies for movies that aren’t interesting
