milicent_bystandr
@milicent_bystandr@lemm.ee
- Comment on Bees don't have lungs. 1 day ago:
I think if it comes to it they just flee, drowsily, with full bellies of honey - so they’ve got energy to fly and something left over to start the new hive.
- Comment on Bees don't have lungs. 1 day ago:
1-2% is more than I’d have imagined!
- Comment on Bees don't have lungs. 1 day ago:
Nah-ah, that makes it a dinosaur!
- Comment on Bees don't have lungs. 1 day ago:
However, what I’ve heard from a beekeeper is that the smoke triggers a flight response in them (from fire) so they consume honey ready to flee, and that’s actual what makes them docile/drowsy.
- Comment on Bees don't have lungs. 1 day ago:
TIL
- Comment on It's a fun new game 1 day ago:
“And we will be sending your new credit car in the mail sometime next week, sir.”
“Sorry, do you mean, credit card?”
“I didn’t misspeak, sir. How big is your mailbox…”
- Comment on It's a fun new game 1 day ago:
The worst is it costs a $2.64 surcharge each time to open, and then the luggage asks you to tip it!
- Comment on Jack Dorsey would like to ‘delete all IP law’. 2 days ago:
If there’s no IP law you can’t steal IP any more. Hah!
- Comment on Full Circle 4 days ago:
I think there’s a richness in being able to shift or emphasize perspective like that. And a poetry, for want of a better word, that comes with that.
‘Coming’ and ‘going’ do the same shift. “I’m coming to Europe; they’re coming from Europe,” feels just a bit stilted to me, though that’s subjective I suppose.
If you want to get rid of immigrate Vs emigrate, maybe we just talk about ‘migrate’.
And scrap ‘coming’ and ‘going’ for ‘moving’.
- Comment on Full Circle 4 days ago:
I just have to point out, in an argument about language pedantry,
an very simple language
- Comment on Why do people insist on not answering ALL the questions in an email or text message? 1 week ago:
On average, 79% of U.S. adults nationwide are literate in 2024.
Ignoring the slightly superfluous ‘average’, but… Wow. I’m surprised. I guess there’s a lot of people in far rural areas, or impoverished, or just surfing is their life (California has the lowest adult literacy!), who never learnt to read.
- Comment on [deleted] 1 week ago:
of SOLES
- Comment on carlos for scale 1 week ago:
Thank you!
So why did it say Carlos? Just to make a joke on ‘car’?
- Comment on carlos for scale 1 week ago:
He’s just lying on a box sticking his legs out.
- Comment on carlos for scale 1 week ago:
Ssh, you’ll give the flat-earthers ideas!
- Comment on lagomorphs 1 week ago:
It’s less work than a headless chicken.
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- Comment on Embrace this Truth and enjoy life 1 week ago:
And it literally wouldn’t have Earth any more.
- Comment on Thanks reddit, very helpful. 2 weeks ago:
But… How many USB ports?
- Comment on Thanks reddit, very helpful. 2 weeks ago:
😂😂😂🤣🤣😂
I read the whole thing through and didn’t even realise.
- Comment on Rocky rock rocking 2 weeks ago:
But this one’s not rollin’
… Otherwise we’d be hatin’
- Comment on Rocky rock rocking 2 weeks ago:
Must be a .world thing
- Comment on Blobfish 3 weeks ago:
Are you reading this, ConcernedApe??
- Comment on How do the Republicans feel about Project 2025 now? 3 weeks ago:
I presume most Republican voters didn’t anticipate Trump wrecking the system of accountability and checks in government, or don’t understand what’s happening. I’m sure many think he really is destroying the bad that’s allegedly entrenched in the system, and a good one will settle in its place.
- Comment on Lost media detectives finally found the full original pilot for Family Guy 3 weeks ago:
Does that mean we found the media detectives again too? Or are they lost together?
- Comment on How do the Republicans feel about Project 2025 now? 3 weeks ago:
If you want to understand them more, I think the problem is you’re seeing different aspects to what they do.
‘Large’ government with lots of power might sound more like totalitarianism, overseeing many aspects of life that - in the opinion of many - ought to be left to people’s freedom.
Running the government like a business, on the other hand, implies having pressures on it to do only what achieves its aims, and do that efficiently. And a CEO-president means the power to fix the government without being restricted by bureaucracy.
… Of course to me, by that point, it sounds like a king, exactly as you said. And running a government as a business sounds about as stupid as you can get. But these things aren’t exact, and understanding how a different perspective can make something look good helps us to understand the people with that perspective. It also helps us see things to improve that our perspective might be missing.
- Comment on I'm sure dolphins will fuck it up in their own special way. 3 weeks ago:
Don’t malign the whole species from some evildoers. ADAB - All Dolphins Aren’t Bad
- Comment on [deleted] 4 weeks ago:
Is that how land ownership works? You can move your parcel of land as far as you like but only diagonally and without jumping over any other bit of land? TIL.
- Comment on [deleted] 4 weeks ago:
But ditch the casinos. They ruin lives.
- Comment on [deleted] 4 weeks ago:
Sit on it.
It’s been three hours… Bored now, can I get up?