Catoblepas
@Catoblepas@lemmy.blahaj.zone
- Comment on The ole Morning Constitutional 20 hours ago:
Possibly? I thought I had only talked about it with my husband, but maybe not
- Comment on The ole Morning Constitutional 20 hours ago:
A while back I saw a local post about a guy with donkeys walking through town. There’s picture and a URL on the packs of one of his donkeys, I look it up, and he apparently just walks from southern to central California and back each year with his donkeys every spring and fall, and has been doing it for over a decade. He sleeps outside and eats mostly lentils and rice. It takes all sorts. Honestly, living under a bridge or outside with donkeys sounds preferable to the pictures posted by OP.
- Comment on The ole Morning Constitutional 21 hours ago:
Normal is what you’re used to.
- Comment on My Arrakis 1 day ago:
Listen, there may be a drug at the gas station called spice, but do NOT smoke it!
- Comment on ngl kinda hoping people start arguing over this 1 day ago:
My husband and I had a cat for nearly a decade and she never so much as looked at the TP roll. Our current gremlin has sprinted at top speed into the bathroom because he heard me open the cabinet where we started hiding the TP when he wouldn’t leave it alone. He actually tried to grab it out of my hands, and I had to play tug of war with him! I’ve never encountered any other cat as hellbound on destroying TP, but lives for it. Shreds it like he’s plucking a bird.
- Comment on Top tip 3 days ago:
Why waste all that room in your freezer when you can just dehydrate it instead?
- Comment on Schools being too soft lately 3 days ago:
Physics
- Comment on Schools being too soft lately 3 days ago:
Truly what children don’t experience enough of: blame!
- Comment on Wowee!! 4 days ago:
They call him the 5 cent cat
- Comment on why are all social medias based around western values? 4 days ago:
Homophobia and transphobia are much more western values, lol. They were imposed on hundreds of cultures (often through the imperialist legal system) that previously tolerated gender and sexual diversity prior to European colonization. If you want to learn more, The Gender Binary is a Big Lie by Lee Wind is an accessible introduction to the breadth of cultural understandings of gender and sexuality.
- Comment on Aha! 1 week ago:
I love a Flapjack reference!
- Comment on Aha! 1 week ago:
They don’t do that if you floss daily, barring gum disease. Once you start it’s going to feel gross to not do it daily.
- Comment on Ada Lovelace 1 week ago:
The origins of computer programming are also intertwined with textiles, as the first punch card programs emerged as part of weaving in the early 1800s (Jacquard looms).
Also interesting: trans people in addition to cis women are historically associated with textile production in many cultures. Trans programmer socks = modern day trans weaver.
- Comment on Happy Killdozer Day 1 week ago:
The property had a rudimentary sewage storage solution in the form of a buried cement mixer left by the previous owners.[9] The cost to update the sewer system would be nearly double the $42,000 Heemeyer paid for the property.
City officials told Heemeyer that putting in a septic tank was a less expensive alternative, but he rejected both options and said that the government not paying for the sewage line hookup was “extortion by government fiat”. Despite these setbacks, he did not withdraw his annexation request and subsequently became part of the sewer district.[9]
By 1993, Heemeyer had abandoned plans to rent the property to a friend and instead opened a muffler repair shop on the grounds.[9] According to Heemeyer, his friend had lost interest in the property in around April 1992 because of oil spills and environmental issues.
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In 1997, the Docheff family planned to expand their business to include a concrete batch plant and were buying up the land around their current lot, hoping to lease the remaining 23 parcels to small manufacturers.[1] They were informed by the town planning commission that they needed a “Planned Development Overlay District” permit to construct the plant as part of their Mountain Park Concrete development.[1] The commission also suggested that the Docheff family ask if they could purchase Heemeyer’s plot to keep the plant away from the hotels and businesses on Route 40.[9] Heemeyer asked for $250,000 (equivalent to $501,399 in 2025) for his property, but later claimed he had had the lot reappraised and asked for an additional $125,000 (equivalent to $250,700 in 2025). The Docheffs managed to collect $350,000 (equivalent to $701,959 in 2025), but according to Susan Docheff, Heemeyer again upped his asking price, claiming he had the property appraised again at a higher value, this time asking for $450,000 (equivalent to $902,519 in 2025).[1][9] This negotiation happened before the rezoning proposal had a public hearing at town hall.[7] Heemeyer launched a public campaign against the planned concrete plant. His campaign was initially successful, with members of the public concerned about potential environmental impacts packing into hearings on the construction proposals. The Docheffs addressed these concerns by promising to install additional measures against dust and noise and presented miniatures of the plant to concerned citizens. Opposition to the proposal dwindled, and the plan was set to move forward again.[1][9] In November 2000, Heemeyer filed a lawsuit to block the project. By January 9, 2001, Heemeyer had lost most of his allies in opposition to the concrete plant, and city officials almost unanimously approved its construction.[1][14][9] This made the final approval by Granby’s zoning commission and trustees in April a formality.[9] Heemeyer tried to appeal the decision, claiming the construction blocked access to his shop.[9][15] He also complained to the Environmental Protection Agency; this resulted in the Docheff family having a professional noise analysis done.[1] In June 2001, Joe Docheff made Heemeyer an offer over the phone whereby if Heemeyer dropped the lawsuit, they would provide him an easement to connect a sewer line to the new concrete plant free of charge; Heemeyer simply hung up.[9] Around this time, the buried concrete truck barrel that served as Heemeyer’s sewage hole filled up. Heemeyer responded by pumping his sewage with a gasoline pump into the irrigation ditch that ran behind his property.[9] Heemeyer also attempted to illegally connect to a neighbor’s sewer line, but was caught and the incident reported to the sanitation district. At this point, the sewer district started enforcing the legal requirement to have a sewer hookup or a septic tank and fined Heemeyer $2,500 (equivalent to $4,546 in 2025) for it and other city code violations at his business in July 2001, nine years after he was required to have installed either
Dude sounds like an immense jackass and I will never understand the internet worship of him.
- Comment on Evolution Factsberg 1 week ago:
Every tetrapod evolved from fish, including humans and pterosaurs.
- Comment on Title 1 week ago:
So only go with bills if they’re in denominations >$100. I guess this would work better with euros.
- Comment on OSHA Approved Kittypillar 1 week ago:
They love to be pet! :3
(Note: do not do this)
- Comment on Mr Fraser, if you're nasty 2 weeks ago:
It’s Brendan, can’t you read?
- Comment on Why do Brits act like if you fall into a canal, you'll likely drown? UK canals are only waist-deep. Is it an inside joke? 2 weeks ago:
They’re not asking for that, though, are they?
- Comment on Why do Brits act like if you fall into a canal, you'll likely drown? UK canals are only waist-deep. Is it an inside joke? 2 weeks ago:
I can’t help but wonder if they’re from the area (or the UK at all) or if this is a fixation on two people they don’t even know. I’d be pretty upset if a stranger kept posting repeatedly about my family member’s death like that, like it’s not already upsetting enough to have someone you know die without a random person on the internet trying to use their death to rile everyone up.
- Comment on Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer 2 weeks ago:
Cocaine was a little stronger than you anticipated?
- Comment on WA man accused of hurling rock at Hawaiian monk seal has been doxxed, lawyer says 2 weeks ago:
Oh sweet, it’s real? The state senator is right, and bless the people of Hawaii for coming down hard on that kind of behavior.
- Comment on WA man accused of hurling rock at Hawaiian monk seal has been doxxed, lawyer says 2 weeks ago:
When a witness confronted Lytvynchuk, he said “he did not care and was ‘rich’ enough to pay any fines,” according to the complaint.
Props to the author for quickly establishing this dude is the worse type of tourist to come to Hawaii sand deserves little benefit of doubt.
Afterward, a man “brutally assaulted” Lytvynchuk, his defense attorney Myles Breiner told The Associated Press. Lytvynchuk declined to file a police report on the assault, the attorney said.
So his lawyer pinky promises he was horrifically beat up, but was just too noble to press charges? lol
- Comment on Just don't 2 weeks ago:
Maybe that’s true of other babies, but mine is mature enough to handle it. I’ll make sure things don’t get too crazy.
- Comment on Literally a shitpost. 2 weeks ago:
It’s clear at this point you’re not able to have an unemotional conversation about it. Your anecdotal experience as someone dropping the cost of a down payment on a house on a vacation to a place with serious, long lasting issues with the tourist trade and talking to two dudes you are paying isn’t the same as a team of journalists investigating. You keep saying documentary for some reason, which is only revealing you didn’t even bother reading the very extensive article I linked. If you’d like to discuss specific points from or you’re going to have to read it. It’s also grasping at straws to pretend using electricity in a city is just like the environmental destruction or human exploitation happening to climb the mountain.
I hope you find less destructive and exploitative hobbies in the future.
- Comment on Literally a shitpost. 2 weeks ago:
A good company costs 60K minimum
You get how that’s even grosser, right?
Don’t speak on behalf of the locals. I personally knew 2 different Sherpas
‘Don’t speak on behalf of the locals, allow me, who knew two dudes, to do so instead’? No, I think I’ll listen to reporting by the BBC, who talked to people whose livelihoods didn’t depend on telling them what they wanted to hear. Obviously some locals do want to climb, but you are delusional if you believe nobody is doing it for money to support their family.
Everything else you’re saying here is irrelevant, I never said it wasn’t physically challenging. It’s just immoral to climb Everest due to the local exploitation and environmental degradation inherent to climbing it. Outside of the nearly 20 lbs of waste each person creates climbing the mountain (the majority of which doesn’t get removed), there are also deforestation issues from locals over harvesting wood to meet tourist demand.
There is not an amount of explanation that is going to move me beyond those facts.
- Comment on Literally a shitpost. 2 weeks ago:
What makes it fake is presenting it as the work of an individual, as those egotistical peak selfies and tedious biographies frequently do. (General) you didn’t make it to the peak, you were helped along by underpaid locals dragging around all the shit that is keeping you alive, who frequently lose their lives in an effort to support their families so some tech bro can get a selfie. It’s a gross way to spend $30k+.
- Comment on Literally a shitpost. 2 weeks ago:
This has been a long standing issue with Mt. Everest, here’s a recent article that does a deeper dive into it: bbc.com/…/20250530-the-everest-climbs-putting-she…
- Comment on Literally a shitpost. 2 weeks ago:
I’d rather someone dwell in a basement than exploit local people, litter, and leave literal piles of bagged human shit in a beautiful place that’s dangerous to clean. The level of entitlement is beyond comprehension.
- Comment on Literally a shitpost. 2 weeks ago:
Mount Everest is a fake ass accomplishment for rich people anyway. You don’t carry all your shit, there are lines to the peak, garbage everywhere, it’s basically Times Square for CEOs who want to market themselves as ‘adventurers’. Slightly more death involved each year, but that has more to do with the weather than how Tough someone is.