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- Comment on PSA: Don't eat cicadas if you're allergic to shellfish... or at all 57 minutes ago:
Certainly, if I were to eat a cicada, I would choose to eat them when they’re in what we call the teneral state or when they’ve just molted, and they’re still soft," Benson said. "They don’t have the wings fully developed, and I wouldn’t eat a cicada raw; I would cook it.”
- Comment on Read the wild email Tesla is sending to suppliers amid Supercharger chaos 3 days ago:
This sounds like they’re leaving (dozens? hundreds?) of contractors holding the bag with no notice. In what world would any contractor currently working on a Supercharger project finish that project after receiving a letter like this
- Comment on He may try to sleep with you 4 days ago:
But…he’s already through the door…
- Comment on The miracle of childbirth 1 week ago:
Bed bug mating practices are probably up there too
- Comment on Carnivores 1 week ago:
Sounds like they mostly exist miles deep in the ocean, where tiny scavengers are a more stable food supply. So like carnivorous plants, they evolved carnivory because they lacked alternative sources of nutrients.
- Comment on Goals 2 weeks ago:
Anomolocaris gang going wild
- Comment on can you help me formulate an answer to a colleague who is not my boss but feels entitled to tell me how I have to work? 2 weeks ago:
For real, anyone on my staff who acts like this would be in line to be fired. Handle interpersonal conflict like a fucking adult
- Comment on can you help me formulate an answer to a colleague who is not my boss but feels entitled to tell me how I have to work? 2 weeks ago:
This is terrible advice lmao
- Comment on can you help me formulate an answer to a colleague who is not my boss but feels entitled to tell me how I have to work? 2 weeks ago:
“I’m always open to legitimate feedback, but trying to make me do things exactly like you do is not helpful. If you see a problem with my work, please let me know how it’s a problem and what the consequence may be. If I hear you and disagree with you, you need to hear me and let it go.”
What’s tough here is you work in healthcare. Open communication and feeling comfortable calling someone out for an error are key to avoiding patient harm.
- Comment on ... tadaaa 3 weeks ago:
Where did it get on the table? I didn’t see that
- Comment on You have to type www. to access the Texas DMV website. 3 weeks ago:
I’m on mobile browsing on Firefox and it redirected fine to the full site
- Comment on Images of federal Liberal MP Warren Entsch appear to contradict claims he was unaware his wife was paid to run dress-up and face-painting classes 4 weeks ago:
The ABC does not suggest that the couple has acted illegally
And yet here this article it is, all but directly making the accusation that they’ve done something wrong
- Comment on Sorry about the downtime last night! 4 weeks ago:
I switched to my lemmy.world alt for the first time in 6 months and was very disappointed. Glad mander is back!
- Comment on Biden Proclaims Easter Sunday To Be ‘Transgender Day Of Visibility’ 5 weeks ago:
Wow…rub those brain cells together a bit harder…
- Comment on Biden Proclaims Easter Sunday To Be ‘Transgender Day Of Visibility’ 5 weeks ago:
“The news” aka the far-right think tank Heritage Foundation. Get better at sourcing information
- Comment on Video games can boost creativity in young 5 weeks ago:
Parents tearing their hair out over children spending hours gaming should instead be encouraging their creative use of tech
Uhhh…the reality exists somewhere between no gaming or gaming consuming your entire life. This is a false choice being given to us by a member of the ultra-rich who has a financial interest in people using tech more
- Comment on Biden Proclaims Easter Sunday To Be ‘Transgender Day Of Visibility’ 5 weeks ago:
Lmao it would be even more trivial to notice this doesn’t impact your life in any way and let it the fuck go.
- Comment on Biden Proclaims Easter Sunday To Be ‘Transgender Day Of Visibility’ 5 weeks ago:
No, but I also don’t live in the Roman Imperial Province of Judea in 20 AD.
Tell me, what work in our culture do you think is “women’s work?”
- Comment on Biden Proclaims Easter Sunday To Be ‘Transgender Day Of Visibility’ 5 weeks ago:
Carrying water was a woman’s gender role in the culture in which our story takes place
- Comment on Biden Proclaims Easter Sunday To Be ‘Transgender Day Of Visibility’ 5 weeks ago:
It’s in March 31st every year. It doesn’t just go away on the rare occasion Easter also falls on March 31st. Trying to blame Biden for this wreaks of desperation
- Comment on Eclipse advice for those in their 40s and 50s. 1 month ago:
Central Texas here, super excited to hear the bugs and frogs!!
- Comment on Joker 2 is apparently a $200 million jukebox musical | A.V. Club 1 month ago:
A Lemmy commenter complaining about wasting time… /chef’s kiss/
- Comment on Yep, defintely not a bad person 1 month ago:
Dude, you have some serious decisions to face that you’ve been putting off. Don’t hide behind “doing it for my child,” make good decisions that are right for you and in the end they’ll be good for your kid too, whether or not there’s short term pain.
- Comment on Simple as 1 month ago:
As simple as prozac
- Comment on oh, between 57th and 58th? thank you!! 1 month ago:
I looked up this monstrosity on a map and it seems it alternates Avenue, Road, and Drive north to south and Street and Place west to east
- Comment on Do you ever worry that you're secretly a psychopath that unknowingly manipulates people around you? 1 month ago:
You’ll be surprised to hear this is often not the case
- Comment on Fine. I'm dead. Dead, dead, dead, dead, dead! 2 months ago:
Can you link to five people who do this
- Comment on Fine. I'm dead. Dead, dead, dead, dead, dead! 2 months ago:
Wow those top comments are toxic AF. Dont bring that trash here
- Comment on Fine. I'm dead. Dead, dead, dead, dead, dead! 2 months ago:
I’m trying to understand this…contrived…meme. Are you mocking the higher suicide rate among people who are trans? This is actually totally settled as far as medical and mental health professionals go, so I’m trying to understand your point
- Comment on Gen Z is bringing back landline phones because they think they look ‘cool’: ‘I love to twirl the cord’ 2 months ago:
Are you accusing the New York Post of not being hard-hitting journalism?