Catoblepas
@Catoblepas@lemmy.blahaj.zone
- Comment on My disappointment is immeasurable and my day is ruined 23 hours ago:
It does, but most other things with ‘angel’ in the common name are toxic, eg angel’s trumpets (Brugmansia), destroying angel (Amanita virosa).
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- Comment on Modern Monetary Theory: Musk Edition 1 day ago:
But again, this isn’t a wage… people can still make extra money on top of UBI. The goal isn’t to make nobody ever work again. Why pretend you can’t do it because it doesn’t translate to fully automatic luxury gay space communism?
- Comment on Modern Monetary Theory: Musk Edition 1 day ago:
So why did you inflate it to nearly 3x that amount while arguing about how it can’t work because it’s too expensive? $1000/month is still a lot of money for people.
- Comment on Modern Monetary Theory: Musk Edition 1 day ago:
Minimum wage in many US cities is $15/hr which is $30k/year.
So? UBI isn’t a wage for work. It could be $300/month and that would still be a huge boon to struggling people.
- Comment on Modern Monetary Theory: Musk Edition 1 day ago:
Nobody said it had to be over $2500/month?
- Comment on I'll take it to all 2 place it goes! 3 days ago:
Where else will I get my free needles?
- Comment on I'll take it to all 2 place it goes! 3 days ago:
And I didn’t see anyone pissing or masturbating!
- Comment on 5 days ago:
I’ll tell you a secret
You still are ✨
- Comment on 🚨 update: justified ban! 6 days ago:
Instant violation for all of their face mites.
- Comment on Or AI slop, but it's real 1 week ago:
- Comment on Meta used AI to tag workers who took leave to be laid off, lawsuit claims 1 week ago:
Retaliation doesn’t become legal if you get a robot intermediary to do it.
- Comment on Meta used AI to tag workers who took leave to be laid off, lawsuit claims 1 week ago:
I wonder what dumbfuck CEO thought saying the computer did it was a way to get around retaliation laws.
- Comment on Heh heh 1 week ago:
- Comment on Hmmmm! 1 week ago:
I believe the documentary The Langoliers was about this
- Comment on Urine Luck 1 week ago:
That’s terrifying, I hope it was worth the literal pain and that you’re doing better now!
- Comment on Being poor is expensive 1 week ago:
Do you know the phrase that you can’t get blood from a stone? Someone who can’t even afford the car has a worse quality of life in places without good public transit, that’s why for the most part everyone who can afford it chooses to drive in those areas. I blame the state and the federal governments for improper funding, not transit agencies. Someone who can choose to spend money on driving a car instead of rent is not somehow worse off than their neighbor who can’t afford a car but still has to get to their job with an added 1-2 hours tacked on to their commute each way.
- Comment on Being poor is expensive 1 week ago:
That sounds nice for you, but that’s not how public transit works in most American cities. I’ve been stuck in standstill traffic in a bus, and in a lot of areas here dedicated bus lanes are rare.
When that’s the state you’re stuck in as a poor person, it doesn’t matter that there are all these negatives attached to taking a hollowed out public transit system; if you don’t have the money for a car you either take it (and spend an extra hour or two commuting each way due to delays or wait times) or you don’t go anywhere. Someone with the money to buy and maintain a car is objectively not more impoverished than the person who is scrounging for $1.75 to pay fare.
- Comment on Being poor is expensive 2 weeks ago:
If you can afford a car to begin with you are already at a different level of broke than people stuck taking the bus even when transit is shitty and comes once an hour. Waiting an hour for a bus each way for your daily commute is nothing like spending a few minutes in a traffic jam (which the bus would also be subject to!) or looking for a parking spot.
- Comment on Being poor is expensive 2 weeks ago:
Sorry, what?? Taking the bus is cheaper than owning a car.
- Comment on Being poor is expensive 2 weeks ago:
I’ve known people to be on hold for 6-8 hours for multiple days with the local food stamp office without being able to get in touch with anyone. At one point the automatic message when you called was ‘too many people are calling, hang up.’
- Comment on O hi 2 weeks ago:
Early might not be the right word, I think I’m mixing it up with pre-agricultural hunter gatherers (I think I’m forgetting a term here, but it’s hot and I’m tired).
- Comment on O hi 2 weeks ago:
It’s been a while since I’ve studied it, but IIRC skeletons of early humans show in general more traits we view as masculine, like stronger chins and a more jutting brow line, even in female skeletons. It was even more pronounced in male skeletons, but this is still pretty mild sexual dimorphism even among great apes (think male vs female gorillas, for example).
- Comment on Zebra!! 2 weeks ago:
Neat, a lot of the time you just see pictures of zebras with funky coats as foals and not as adults, but this one looks pretty grown.
- Comment on good idea, no downsides 2 weeks ago:
My dishwasher does as well, it’s a model on wheels and for the first couple of weeks it left flakes of concrete everywhere when I moved it.
- Comment on Fingies 2 weeks ago:
I assume it’s that leg healing reduces their speed or endurance
Basically this, part of how they get their speed (legs being mostly tendon and cartilage) is what makes healing so difficult. Both tendons and cartilage have far less blood supply compared to muscle or skin, which heal much more quickly. So if a horse developed legs with more tissue and muscle (and thus an increased blood supply, improving healing), they would have been slower than their skinnier legged cousins and had no competitive advantage.
- Comment on Fingies 2 weeks ago:
Re: why didn’t horses evolve better leg healing, if you’re a proto horse and injure your leg you’re probably not living to heal it, because you can no longer run. So there is no evolutionary pressure to spread those genes through the population, even if a horse did randomly get born with genes that let it heal its legs better than other horses, because no selection mechanism would exist.
- Comment on Happy Birthday guys, gals, and other pals! 2 weeks ago:
Innocent Europeans would NEVER do a fascism without a wicked Other forcing them to do it!
- Comment on I read somewhere a while back that most or at least half of California wildfires are cause by faulty electrical company equipment. Is this true? And how come no one has ever reported it? 3 weeks ago:
Fire isn’t needed at any intensity at any time of year, every year. Fire adapted plants can be and are getting over-burned by fires that are getting more intense (less rain, more heat). This is exacerbated by non-native plants (especially grasses and eucalyptus) that outcompete the native plants and are then extra vulnerable to fire.
- Comment on I read somewhere a while back that most or at least half of California wildfires are cause by faulty electrical company equipment. Is this true? And how come no one has ever reported it? 3 weeks ago:
I’m not sure about that particular statistic (half of the total number of fires, regardless of size? Half of acres burned?), but utility lines definitely cause a lot of fires. This can be mitigated by burying lines, which IIRC is what San Diego does, but it’s expensive so companies don’t want to do it unless their arms are twisted.
