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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What is with this new generation of shooters writing stuff on the bullets? Is this some new fad like if I go deer hunting or something I write FUCK BAMBI on the bulllet?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Most bullet casings are brass, which is a fairly soft metal, you could probably scratch some words into it with a pocket knife, sewing needle, pretty much any pointy steel object

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Not trying to disparage first responders on 911. Why aren't nurses included with fire and police departments? Did we not take care of people on the backend of the rescuing?⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Just kind of thinking out loud

  All of those people who were brought into ERs from ground zero and the people, vehicles, etc. that brought them there would have been covered in that same dust that’s causing health issues for first responders, that means doctors and nurses probably also received some level of exposure to that dust because I doubt all of those people showered on the way.

  I don’t know how their exposure level stacks up against the people who were on-scene, I’m sure it’s an order of magnitude less, but I wouldn’t be surprised if it was still significant enough to cause some health problems. IBM pretty sure I’ve seen some evidence of people who live with firefighters developing health issues from secondhand exposure like that.

  On top of that, there’s also the psychological burden that always gets overlooked. I’m sure that took a hell of a toll on healthcare workers.

  And there’s a recognition aspect, because for all of the people who died, there were also many more who were injured, and more than a few of them owe their lives to the doctors and nurses who treated them just as much as to the first responders who got them to the hospital.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Has Charlie Kirk ever changed his views on a subject during a debate?⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Well at the end of it, you can see he actually starts leaning pretty far to the left

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Is it possible to “make” someone have seizures?⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Not a Doctor, take this for what it’s worth

  But my understanding is that, depending on the type of seizure disorder and a whole host of other factors, there’s a lot of things that can potentially trigger seizures

  Flashing lights are a classic example, but also smells, temperature, stress, diet, hormones, drug/alcohol use or withdrawal, fever, lack of sleep, etc.

  Also you said that you gradually halved your dose since then, that might also be a factor. Lets say you were on 100mg before and 50 now. When your body was acclimated to 100mg, it was probably a bigger shock to your system to go without than it is now that your body is only used to 50, obviously 0 to 100 is a bigger difference than 0 to 50.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The USA prided itself on a nation of immigrant, heck even the Statue of Liberty says it. When did immigrants (US citizens from the old world) become anti immigrant and why?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  The us has always been anti illegal immigration

  The US actually made it almost the first hundred years of its history without many meaningful immigration laws

  I’m sure someone will argue otherwise, but one thing commonly cited as the first US immigration law was the steerage act of 1819, which was pretty much just “you can’t overcrowd your ships, you have to have enough food and water for everyone, you have to have a list of your passengers and account for anyone who died on the way”

  So not really limiting immigration, more making sure that the ships bringing immigrants here were providing at least basic livable conditions for the trip.

  Immigration overland was totally unregulated.

  And with some minor alterations here and there, that was pretty much the state of things until the 1870s and 80s with the Page Act and Chinese Exclusion Act. Until then there really wasn’t such a thing as “illegal immigration” and borders were pretty much wide-open.

  To be thorough, between 1776 and the Page Act, we did have the Alien Friends and Alien Enemies acts to allow the US to deport non-citizen immigrants under certain circumstances, and we took a few steps forwards and backwards at times regarding the naturalization process, but we also had the 14th amendment and “An Act to Encourage Immigration” in there as well.

  And of course after that, shit went downhill pretty damn quickly.

  So it’s a bit of a mixed bag, but again for almost half of US history there really wasn’t any such thing as “illegal” immigration for anyone to be against (general anti-immigrant sentiments are another story)

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Water Boil Advisory⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Ok, where do you get those 50 people?

  Do you have 50 people sitting around on-call 24/7/365 just in case they need to go knock on everyone’s door?

  Are you taking them off of other jobs to go do this? If this happens at 3AM on a holiday weekend, there’s probably a pretty good reason those other people are already on the clock, like maybe fixing whatever issue is causing the advisory.

  Are we relying on volunteers? How are we going to get ahold of them to let them know, let alone guarantee that they’re actually going to show up.

  We gonna mobilize the national guard to do it? How long is that gonna take to get going?

  Maybe we’ll just press-gang the first 50 people we can get our hands on to do it. What could possibly go wrong?

  But let’s say getting the people is a solved problem. How are they getting around? Not every area is easily walkable. Do we have 50 municipal cars on standby for them to use? Are we going to have additional people driving them around to the needed areas in vans? Are they using their personal vehicles and will need to be compensated for gas and mileage (not to mention probably an insurance nightmare for those people using personal vehicles for non-personal use)

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Posting the shopping cart theory because people had questions in a separate thread⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I’m also a cart-straightener

  Blows my mind how some people actually manage to walk their cart to the corral, and then decide they’re going to abandon any semblance of order in putting the carts away, you’ve already done the hard part by walking over, it takes less than a second to just not be an idiot when you push your cart in there.

  Big carts in one line, small carts in the other, seems easy but they all put the square peg in the round hole.

  And at least try to line them up. I don’t care if you push them all the way in, just try to line them up so that they can be pushed together.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨2hot2handle⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  To be fair, at the time, there was no ISS for the shuttle to dock to, the shuttle pretty much was all they had. It was designed for missions of about 10 days, and could be expanded to about 17 days if needed. If they needed to stretch it up to a month to go beyond that for her to have a second period, I suspect that would rather have used that cargo capacity for some extra food and such and dealt with her free-bleeding, and much beyond that they’d need to come down one way or another or just die in space.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨REDRUM⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  My sister is the hermit crab expert in my family, I mostly only have second-hand knowledge through her

  But for starters it is really damn hard to breed hermit crabs in captivity, so basically every one you’ve ever seen in the pet trade is probably wild-caught.

  They also have really specific habitat needs, high humidity, warm temperatures, access to fresh and salt water, deep substrate that they can dig and burrow in, vertical areas they can climb on, I think you should ideally have like 10 gallons of space per crab, and basically no hermit crab kit out there actually meets these needs.

  And while a lot of people think of them as sort of throwaway pets that will only live a few months, with proper care they can actually live years, even decades.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨human geography⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  The town I grew up in has a longish name, most people in the area shorten it to just the first syllable with a y at the end, similar to how Philadelphia gets shortened to Philly

  But there’s a slight difference between how the people who are from town pronounce it and how everyone else does and you can pretty reliably pick out the townies based on that.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  By 18, somewhere along the line you’ve hopefully had some kind of science/biology class where they talked about dominant and recessive genes, Punnett squares, and all of that

  But in case you didn’t, or it’s slipped your mind (honestly, given your age there’s a good chance they may have covered this while you were learning from home during the pandemic, so kind of understandable if you don’t remember) here’s a quick refresher

  You get one copy of each gene from both parents. Sometimes you get the same version of them from each parent, sometimes you get a different version.

  Let’s imagine there’s a single gene that determines if you’re going to be tall. There’s a tall version of that gene, that we’ll call “T” and a short version that we’ll call “t”

  We’ll say that “T” is the dominant version, and “t” is recessive.

  What that means is that if you carry the “T” gene, it will always be expressed. You’ll be tall as long as you have at least one copy of it.

  Remember, you get one copy of this gene from each parent. They each also have 2 copies of this gene.

  Your dad is tall, so he must be carrying at least one copy of the T gene. He might have one, or he might have two.

  Your mom is short, so she doesn’t have the T gene, she has 2 copies of the t gene.

  So if your dad has 2 copies, all of his children will be tall, because they’re all going to get a T from him.

  But if he only has 1, he could have short children if he passes along his t gene instead, and since your mom doesn’t have a T to pass on, she can only pass on the t gene

  We can illustrate this in something called a Punnett Square, which looks something like this (apologies for the lazy ASCII layout)

  _ | T | T
  t | Tt | Tt
  t | Tt | Tt

  or

  _ | T | t
  t | Tt | tt
  t | Tt | tt

  The top rows represent your father’s genes, with 1 or 2 copies of the T gene, and the column on the left represents your mothers with only the t gene

  And the rest of the squares represent the possible combination of genes you can have.

  So in this hypothetical, if your dad is a “Tt” and your mom is a “tt” you have a 50/50 shot of being tall.

  This is a very simplified version of it. In reality, there’s not just one gene that determines height, there’s actually about 10,000 genetic factors that have some impact on your height.

  And for shits and giggles, let’s imagine that both of your parents were tall so the punnet squares look like this

  _ | T | T
  T | TT | TT
  T | TT | TT

  Or

  _ | T | t
  T | TT | Tt
  t | Tt | tt

  In the first example, both your parents are tall, and all of their children will be tall. In the second example both parents are tall, both parents are tall, but there’s a 1 in 4 chance that their child will inherit the t gene from each of them and be short.

  And not all genes are purely dominant/recessive, some are incompletely dominant, so Tt might sort of split the difference in height between a TT and a tt person. Some genes kind of play off of other genes, so maybe in order for the “T” gene to make you tall you may also need to be carrying a “U” gene, for example.

  And on top of that, there’s environmental factors, nutrition, illness, injuries, etc. can have an impact on how tall you can be. People today are, on average, taller than people in the past because overall we’re better able to meet our nutritional needs and treat health issues than they were back then.

  And, while it’s unlikely that you’ll grow another foot to catch up with your dad’s height, at 18 you may still have a little bit of growing to do, some men continue to grow a little into their early 20s.

  So there’s a lot that goes into this.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  If they’re not part of the US, who are they part of? Because they’re not considered a sovereign nation on their own, and they’re not part of any other sovereign nation.

  The US president is their head of state, they have a resident commissioner who is a member of the US house of representatives and although they can’t vote on legislation they can introduce it.

  And as far as incorporation goes, although officially PR is considered to be unincorporated, there’s an argument to be made that various acts of congress over the years have effectively incorporated Puerto Rico, for example, Gustavo Gelpí argued just that in his opinion in CONSEJO DE SALUD PLAYA DE PONCE, et.al. Plaintiffs v. JOHNNY RULLAN, SECRETARY OF HEALTH OF THE COMMONWEALTH OF PUERTO RICO

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  it’s not technically part of the United States,

  I feel like this is a really bad way to think of Puerto Rico

  There’s a lot of legal weirdness about their status, I get why people think of it that way, and I’m pretty sure that’s how it was explained to me almost verbatim back in like 4th grade.

  But I think it’s better to think of Puerto Rico as “part of The United States, but not one of the united states”

  That is, it’s part of the country known as the USA

  But it is not one of the states that are united that the country is named after.

  They’re US citizens, if they wanted to, a Puerto Rican could run for president and do anything that any other natural born US citizen could do, just the same as if they’d been born in Texas.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨If I stood on a precision scale and farted, would I get lighter or heavier?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Well your guts and skin and other tissues do have some elasticity, I suppose it is possible that a large gas bubble might be able to expand your abdomen slightly.

  We’re very much into spherical cows in a vacuum territory here. I don’t think there’s any way this would be realistically measurable,just fun to think about.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨If I stood on a precision scale and farted, would I get lighter or heavier?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I think that, theoretically, if someone’s flatus contained an abnormally high amount of lighter-than-air gases, like hydrogen and methane, they might get very slightly heavier. Having a gas like that inside of you would, I think, provide a bit of a buoyant force lifting you away from the scale that would make your weight read lower, and releasing that gas would sort of drop your full weight onto the scale.

  In practice, methane and hydrogen are only part of a fart, and other gases and such in the mix are heavier than air, so at best you might break even.

  Probably a few caveats to that about temperature and pressure and such, and it’s doubtful that anyone’s gut produces enough of the right kinds of gas for that to happen.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why aren't there many controllers with the ability to physically swap out the ABXY layout between Xbox/PC and Nintendo layout?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  That’s basically what I had in mind. Steam has this as an option for the big picture mode UI and I like it a lot.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why aren't there many controllers with the ability to physically swap out the ABXY layout between Xbox/PC and Nintendo layout?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Personally, I’d prefer if games and such would use universal face button glyphs on-screen.

  I’ve switched back and forth between Xbox, Nintendo, and PlayStation controllers so much that I really don’t have a mental map of which button is which, and in game I’m usually not looking at my controller to be able to tell.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Yeah, how much OP actually complains about this is kind of a big factor here.

  I run up against something similar with a few of my friends. They spend a lot of time complaining that they’re bored and lonely, but no matter how many invites you throw their way, they never seem to make any effort to follow through with any plans. They say they’re interested, but they never let you know when they’re available, or they don’t show up, or they come up with flimsy excuses, etc.

  And there are times I really wish I could force some of them to just show up to something so they’d stop complaining.

  Having a social life is hard, I get it, we all only have so much time, energy, money, etc. shit comes up, we have other obligations, we all like to just veg out on the couch sometimes

  But if you’re not willing to put forth even a little effort to follow through on plans, rearrange some things, inconvenience yourself a little, at some point you kind of lose the right to complain.

  And it’s not that you’re not allowed to complain about it once in a while. But at some point, it’s just not fair to the people you’re complaining to if you’re not actually making an effort to do something about it.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Spyhoppin'⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  I’ve known muskies to do something similar- swim around at the surface with their head out of the water.

  I remember looking into it, and no it’s definitely a thing, but no one seems to know why exactly they do it. There’s a few theories that have to do with the oxygen concentration at the surface, regulating temperature, buoyancy, etc. but the one I personally like to subscribe to is the same as this, that they’re just looking around.

  It makes me feel a little less bad about not being able to catch one if they’re at least more intelligent and curious than the average bass or bluegill or whatever else I’m pulling out of their lake.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How to get a new line in a post, but not two?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Two spaces at the end of the line
  Will give you what you’re looking for

  • Markdown also supports
  • Using asterisks followed by a space at the beginning of the line
  • To create bullet points like this

  1. Or numbered lists
  2. Like this one
  3. Which is pretty much just what-you-see-is-what-you-get
• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨we must protect them from exotics⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  If you were able to target it properly to the right species, depending on where you are in the world, there’s a good chance that the rats and sparrows you’re thinking of are invasive.

  I know around me in the US I see a whole lot more house sparrows (native to Europe, Asia, and some parts of North Africa) than I do any native Sparrows.

  And the two most known rat species- the black and brown rats, originated in different parts of Asia and more-or-less spread around the world with human trade and migration.

  So getting rid of those would probably be a good thing to reduce competition for native animals.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How active is too active while being on lemmy?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  I think it depends a lot on the community and what you’re posting.

  But in general, you’re posting good quality, relevant content and not just spamming with every article you come across, engaging with people in the comments, not x-posting things to a bunch of different communities, and of course not being a dick, I don’t think there’s an issue.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Repairing Broken Sofa?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  I think we’re going to need some details on how your couch is constructed and how it broke to really answer this

  Since you mention unscrewing the other legs, could you just go out to home Depot (or local equivalent big hardware store) and purchase 4 of something like this and replace them?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  “Stop trying to make fetch happen”

  Everyone has their own verbal idiosyncrasies- local dialects, accents, words and phrases you picked up somewhere that have a nice ring to them, in-jokes with your friends and family, etc.

  You’ll come by them organically, no need to force it.

  Inevitably, when you try to force them, at best people just won’t notice, or more likely they will notice and think you’re a weirdo, or a pretentious asshole, and at worse they might actually have a hard time understanding you which kind of defeats the purpose of speaking in the first place.

  Seek out new experiences, acquire knowledge at every opportunity, meet people, go places, do things. Without even trying your speech will acquire plenty of interesting character and you won’t have to expend any effort to do so.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Guess I'm banned by Know Your Meme now. [yippee.wav]⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I was recently reading some Wikipedia article on my phone and when I was scrolling I accidentally hit a button to edit it and was greeted by a message that my IP was banned from editing for the next 10 months.

  I haven’t even attempted to edit Wikipedia in probably 20 years. Admittedly last time I did I was probably about 14 years old, and it may have been some juvenile vandalism, but somehow I don’t think that they managed to trace me from a computer in my high school library to my current cell phone, or that anything I did warranted a 21 year ban

  So obviously it’s because phones using cellular Internet go through IP addresses only slightly less often than most people breathe.

  It feels like that sort of IP ban really isn’t particularly useful. The vandals probably aren’t usually on that address and most of the time it’s getting used by random people who probably don’t even think about editing Wikipedia.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  My guess, and I’m just kind of spitballing here, is that it fermented

  Lollipops are basically just sugar and sugar is hygroscopic - it readily pulls moisture from the air. Eventually if it’s humid enough it could pull enough moisture from the air and start dissolving, so the goo is basically sugar-water

  There’s a lot of natural yeast and bacteria and such all around you in the air and on just about every surface you could imagine, some was in the jar and found the sugar and started doing it’s thing fermenting the sugars

  Fermentation takes sugars and turns them into alcohol and carbon dioxide (bit of a simplification)

  Carbon dioxide is a gas, so there’s the bubbling, and the whistling noise was probably gas escaping from the jar as the pressure built up too high for the seal on the container to handle. The bubbling may have also picked up a bit when the gas started escaping too because under pressure some of it probably dissolved into the sugar goo, like it does into a can of soda, then when you crack the can open the pressure drops and the gas comes out of solution and bubbles.

  And of course hand sanitizer is alcohol, so there’s the smell.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Yeah failed successfully⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Kind of reminds me of the daisyworld simulation.

  It’s been a long time since I read about it, so I may possibly miss some details.

  Daisyworld simulates a planet entirely covered by 2 species of daisy- black ones and white ones.

  The black ones are better able to absorb the suns rays, so initially outcompete the white ones, however because they’re absorbing more of the rays, that leads to the planet warming up.

  At a certain point the planets temperature gets too warm and the black daisies start dying off. Since the white daisies are better able to reflect the sun’s rays, they’re less effected by the increased temperature and start to outcompete the black ones.

  After a while the white daisies are dominant, and since most of the planet is now reflecting the sun’s rays the temperature starts to drop, until it gets to a point where it’s too cold for the white daisies but since the black daisies can absorb more of the sun they start to outcompete the black ones again

  Rather rinse, repeat until they reach a sort of equilibrium.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What do you have to wake up to to be considered a heavy/light/normal sleeper?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  My all accounts, I’m a heavy sleeper, there are basically only 3 things that will reliably wake me up

  My alarm clock
  Having to pee
  My dog throwing up or whining to go out (usually an indication that she’s gonna have diarrhea)

  I sleep through my wife’s alarm going off (usually several alarms, she like to hit snooze,) showering, turning lights on, listening to podcasts while she gets ready, the sun coming up (I work partially overnight, I’m usually in bed by about 4 or 5 AM,) landscapers mowing the lawn outside my window, kids screaming at the nearby playground and school, fireworks, thunderstorms, construction (although I was not able to sleep through the siding repair I had done with a guy hammering on the wall directly behind my bed)

  One time my wife was able to get me out of bed and stand me up so she could fix the sheets without me being fully awake.

  When I was a kid my mom could vacuum in my room without waking me up.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I have/had a good friend who is a devout Muslim, was born in Egypt but moved to the US when he was very young. His father was from there, his mother was American, white, and I’m not totally clear whether or not she converted but was definitely not Muslim when they met. From what I understand his father got a lot of shit from his family over that.

  Over the years, my friend butted heads with dad a lot. At one point his dad wanted to move the family to Egypt, basically because he never fully adjusted to life in the US. My friend stood up to him, because all of his younger siblings had only ever lived here, they had friends and lives here and it would be kind of shitty to uproot all of that, so he kicked my friend out of the house, and wouldn’t let him see his siblings for probably over a year.

  So that was always a threat he kept dangling over my friends head- Fall in line or I’ll move the family back to Egypt and cut you off from your siblings.

  He also disapproved of any sort of american style dating, and forced my friend to break up with several girlfriends, even if they were Muslim.

  One day my friend just totally ghosted all of us. Unfriended everyone on Facebook, leaving pretty much only people with middle Eastern names, stopped replying to calls or texts, etc. a couple of us went to his house to check on him, and did actually make contact with him there but he refused to answer any questions, basically just leaving it at her wasn’t going to be friends with any of us anymore.

  We know at that point he’d been seeing a girl he’d been keeping secret from his dad, she later reached out to us because he also ghosted her.

  We’re pretty sure what happened is that his father found out that he was dating her and had another blow-up, threatening to kick him out and cut him off from his siblings for good.

  Not every Muslim family is the same of course, some wouldn’t have any issues with this sort of situation, in some it will cause varying degrees of family drama, in some it can even get physically abusive, and in a small handful of cases we might even be talking about honor killings.

  Where you have different cultures and religions coming into play, this kind of thing can get complicated, it’s not always so simple as “it’s a free country” although it should be.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨My mom tells me I should cut dad off for cheating on her, am I a bad person for not wanting to do so?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Mist people cheat,

  Assuming that’s supposed to be “most people”

  There have been a lot of studies on this over the years, and the data is of course easy to skew because a lot of people are going to be reluctant to admit to their cheating, or people having different ideas about what constitutes “cheating” but every study I can find that seems credible, it seems to hover at more like 25% of people cheat, give or take maybe about 10%

  Even when you look for people who have experienced a partner cheating on them most of the studies I can find have it at below 50%

  You can get into the weeds and probably find some cases where most people in certain demographics cheat if you want to cherry-pick your data a bit.

  So no, most people don’t cheat.