FireRetardant
@FireRetardant@lemmy.world
- Comment on I'm not okay. 1 day ago:
YMMV but i still see lots right around dusk at the edges of wetland areas. Not denying they are threatened but there are still some places they are able to live and those places should be protected. Wetlands do a lot more for us ecologically and hydrologically speaking than just fireflies anyway and are one of the most important ecosystems to be protected.
- Comment on Art imitates life 2 days ago:
Randy takes off his pants when he wants to fight
- Comment on Too many non-working holidays in America. 2 days ago:
Sometimes they get paid more if they do come in, typically time and a half, so they feel like they are missing out if they don’t. Sometimes is based on if they are full time or not. The same rhetoric is true for just regular weekends, my boss considers anyone who works less than 6 days a week unmotivated and lazy.
- Comment on Too many non-working holidays in America. 2 days ago:
I find its more often they need those hours to afford to live. Sometimes due to poor life choices like owning 5 dirtbikes that don’t run and buying a 6th, but often its just due to how unfair the economy is to low income families.
- Comment on A cuppa Jill 3 days ago:
Give me a cup of wet
- Comment on Anon describes currency 2 weeks ago:
This is why Ricky had it right with his hashcoins. He could treat them as currency and exchange them for goods, the other party could then do the same using it as a currency, or just smoke the hashcoin as if it were a good.
- Comment on The city is so lively 3 weeks ago:
See the thing is, this could be just about any road in any city in north america. We refuse to build real places, just lanes and parking lots
- Comment on Bruh, chill 3 weeks ago:
I find the night mode on my rear view does okay at reducing the high beams light, but my side mirrors become blindingly bright if they get hit at the right angle.
- Comment on Bruh, chill 3 weeks ago:
The trucks will often flash their lights as well, often blinding drivers of sedans and smaller SUVs due to height difference and poor regulations for headlight height.
- Comment on No looky for you! 3 weeks ago:
Except Alec apparently
- Comment on For the little guys. 4 weeks ago:
Dragonflys, bats and many other animals rely on that as a food source, then other animals rely on the animals eating mosquitoes. Mosquitoes also spread disease which can act as a natural population control for some species. Everything is interconnected in ecosystems. The animals present, the temperature and chemistry of the water, the depth and nutrition of the soil, the plants that grow there. A minor change can ripple throughout the ecosystem and cause major consequences long term. Some of those changes occur naturally, but for the most part humans change ecosystems faster than they can naturally react.
- Comment on "You can't just have Geralt for every single game" says his voice actor, and if you think The Witcher 4 making Ciri the protagonist is "woke," then "read the damn books" 4 weeks ago:
Lots of respect for Doug Cockle, the VA. He could use the outcry to try to get another big deal and make more money as the main character, but instead he recognizes the witcher is bigger than him or his character and is happy to have another person take the lead role and the spotlight.
- Comment on Rare insults dropped 5 weeks ago:
Its gotta be, the devs of the game would want you to trust the advisor so they’d make them charismatic and friendly.
- Comment on Is it weird to juggle in the park? 1 month ago:
Ive seen this a lot and i don’t think it is weird. One thind I’ll mention is people are probably going to stop and watch you, ask questions, maybe even ask if they can try. If that won’t bother you while practicing then I’d say go for it and get out there juggling. You could probably leave a hat or something on the ground and people will toss you a couple of coins just for letting them watch.
- Comment on Cities Skylines 2, Kerbal Space 2, Planet Coaster 2, Frostpunk 2... What Went Wrong? 1 month ago:
I’d argue the DLCs did more than you imply. The extra modes of transit gave more options to move people, painting a custom park area made cities feel more realistic than premade square parks, universities could be a great centerpiece for a neighborhood. Its not like vanilla was unplayable, but the DLC defintely added more creativity for me.
- Comment on [deleted] 1 month ago:
In wet areas or areas during a snow melt, sump pumps are a big factor. Many people have emergency generators or battery back up pumps if their sump pit has a lot of flow.
Also rural people will often lose power to their water pumps and disinfection equipment for drinking water.
- Comment on Cities Skylines 2, Kerbal Space 2, Planet Coaster 2, Frostpunk 2... What Went Wrong? 1 month ago:
I never played cs1 on release, only played after it was nearly 10 years old, but my understanding is it vastly improved over updates and dlc (which unfortunately did cost more but did at least add meaningful changes for the most part).
Im curious to see where CS2 stands in 3-5 years when mods have really taken off and the devs had made most of their major tweaks.
- Comment on Should I continue with exercise if I didn't get enough sleep? 1 month ago:
Maybe if you feel you can’t get back to sleep, do your exercise early. Maybe it’ll save you time later for a nap or an earlier bed time. I find if i wake and feel decently rested even if its not wake up time i prefer to just start my day there than interupt another sleep cycle.
- Comment on *slap slap slap* 1 month ago:
It wasn’t an avian terrorist, it was a malfunctioning government drone! Birds are not real.
- Comment on Anon describes their dream home 2 months ago:
Everybody wants that edge of city and country feel. It makes them feel like they don’t live in the city but they still have all the amenities a city offers close by. And thus the Suburban experiment was born and has ultimately destroyed north american cities and created an affordability crisis for housing.
- Comment on Bros being bros 2 months ago:
You should make it more like 12-16hrs. What if they get drunk and high again at the same time tomorrow?
- Comment on You cannot learn without failing. 2 months ago:
Or “your research results will hurt my profits, this media campaign will slander your credibility. We’ll do our own research, with blackjack and hookers, and bribed results”
- Comment on How likely is it that Trump will be the first President assassinated since Kennedy? 2 months ago:
Trump crashing the economy, Trump dying from whatever, Vance taking over and taking credit for any kind of recovery sounds almost like its planned.
- Comment on Are any calls without caller ID legit? 2 months ago:
Whenever I call 911, my phone notifies my that blocked numbers will be able to call for a little bit after dialing 911.
- Comment on Are any calls without caller ID legit? 2 months ago:
I used to set my phone as a private number. I’d have to call customers sometimes to confirm times or discuss jobs, but most customers didn’t need access to my direct number and we’d rather them contact the office than contact me directly.
- Comment on Fisk 2 months ago:
I’m not 100% sure but the fish kinda looks like a lingcod, also known as a burbot.
- Comment on Wales’s 20mph speed limit has cut road deaths. Why is there still even a debate? 2 months ago:
The reduced speed limit should come with traffic calming relative to the speed limit. If a through road has a 20 MPH zone that area should have lane narrowing and at least raised crossings.
- Comment on Wales’s 20mph speed limit has cut road deaths. Why is there still even a debate? 2 months ago:
They don’t have to lose full control. They could be following too closely and swerve onto the sidewalk to avoid a collision with a car and end up striking a pedestrian.
Speeders will stick out even more making them easier to spot in traffic. The reduced speed limit should also be accompanied by lane narrowing, speed humps, and other traffic calming techniques.
- Comment on Wales’s 20mph speed limit has cut road deaths. Why is there still even a debate? 2 months ago:
Higher speeds can cause drivers to lose control of their cars. People are killed on the side walks by drunk or speeding drivers frequently. Instead of blame shifting we should be taking steps to make the whole system safer.
- Comment on Wales’s 20mph speed limit has cut road deaths. Why is there still even a debate? 2 months ago:
“I just don’t see why the neighborhoods next to the school should also be school zones. Most of the kids are dropped off by cars anyway cause its too unsafe for them to walk” - a North American NIMBY