Lyrl

@Lyrl@lemm.ee

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Bat Drip⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Estrus in bats - some bloody discharge while in the fertile part of their cycle. Only great apes have menstrual cycles (shedding unused uterine lining at the end of a cycle, NOT fertile when discharging blood).

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s important for vote counts to to be independently checked. Having who voted publicly available means an investigative journalist can prove the county clerk’s claim that dead people voted and so they can’t certify the election is false. Or catch attempts at fraud. Both as a double-check on government in the case of officials who are lying or have acquired false beliefs, or as outside help if the issue isn’t caught internally due to under-resoucing.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨beds⁩ ⁨⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s such a creepy biological characteristic. Bedbugs are mildly social, and prefer to sleep near other bedbugs. But the traumatic insemination seems to be unpleasant for the females, and after enough holes are poked all over their bodies, they will leave the main colony. A single inseminated female hitchhiker is normally how they infest new places.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Continental D r i f t s⁩ ⁨⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  It has a lot of dissolved water that, if exposed to atmospheric pressure, boils off. So it could be said to have components that are boiling?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨beds⁩ ⁨⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Beds predate language. Non-human apes build “nests” - beds in trees - to sleep in.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨beds⁩ ⁨⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Haha, but batbugs and birdbugs - bedbug cousins that prefer the blood of bats or birds - are a thing. Bedbugs and their preference for specifically human blood evolved alongside primates starting to build sleeping structures.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨banaynay⁩ ⁨⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Considering the size of the Canadian tomato industry (all greenhouse), it does seem like bananas should also solve. Just bananas can’t pack as densely as tomatoes, but maybe throw one banana tree in every dozen rows of tomatoes or something. A girl can dream.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨banaynay⁩ ⁨⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Ha, poor kitty.

  Fun fact, a banana is technically an herb and not a tree.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨banaynay⁩ ⁨⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s more likely they ship poorly. Same reason the tastiest tomato or strawberry varieties are not the ones grown commercially.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨banaynay⁩ ⁨⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I live in the Midwest, and had a coworker with a banana plant (I think a Cavendish). He cut it down and dug up the root ball to bring inside every winter. Every few years, the weather was warm enough long enough the thing actually made bananas.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨banaynay⁩ ⁨⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  It is sad that while there are so many interesting banana varieties all around the world, only two of them ship for crap. In addition to cool-sounding fruit varieties, one variety is so starchy it used to be the base starch the diet of local people instead of a grain, how neat is that?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨We have found it.⁩ ⁨⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Modern industrial farming is not sustainable for the next hundred years, no, but there are a lot of levers to work to transform it into something that will reliably feed future generations.

  One lever is amount and kind of meat in the average diet. It takes something like seven pounds of grain to make one pound of beef. Modern chicken breeds are amazingly efficient at converting feed grain to chicken meat, but even they are something like two pounds in to one pound out. Reducing the percent of meat in our diets would make our food go significantly further.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨We have found it.⁩ ⁨⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  The plants use energy from the sun to turn carbon dioxide from the air into edible calories. When our animal bodies “burn” the food we eat, that turns it back to carbon dioxide, which we exhale.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨We have found it.⁩ ⁨⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  The energy input is the sun, and most of the calories come from the air (carbon dioxide). Given so much external input, harvesting from a plot without reducing soil fertility is totally possible. With nitrogen-fixing crops (soybeans being the poster child), even the nitrogen fertilizer comes from the air.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨CFCs⁩ ⁨⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  The ozone hole size is influenced by the strength of the polar vortex, the Antarctic temperature, and other things in addition to the concentration of CFC molecules. It’s barely shrunk, but CFCs are so long-lived that was expected - the critical point is it stopped growing over 20 years ago. I believe they expect to start seeing shrinking within the next decade.

  eea.europa.eu/…/current-state-of-the-ozone-layer

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I can't argue with his point.⁩ ⁨⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  So says Robin Red Breast, the bird with orange belly feathers

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What is an average person living in the US supposed to do about corporations raising prices?⁩ ⁨⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  To an extent, this is already happening. I work in manufacturing, and the last couple of years there was more demand for our product than our factories were physically capable of producing, and prices were raised to weed out the number of customer orders to what we could handle. Projections for this year are for softened demand, and sales expects to have to offer significant price cuts to keep enough orders for our manufacturing lines to stay busy.

  Collective “we have enough stuff and will buy less” at work.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Task failed successfully?⁩ ⁨⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Or hold on for two years. At least in the US, the non-payout for suicide is only allowed the first two years of the policy.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Electrician job⁩ ⁨⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  You are probably being sarcastic, but for those who haven’t come across it - operating rooms are often called theaters.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Amazon anti Union propaganda⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Not a hypothetical: Hostess folded, as did Yellow trucking. Unions can’t save a business from bad business decisions or destructive market forces.

  But businesses fold all the time, union or no union. When business is good, unions make sure the employees get a fair piece of that.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨lemm.ee plans for mitigating image upload abuse⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  If volunteer admins are at their limits, tools to enable admins to manage larger communities needs to come before further growth. Yes, lemmy needs an order of magnitude growth to be able to seriously compete on content, but outgrowing admin capacity is not a sustainable path.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What if employers could gauge the ‘moods’ of workers? A dangerous new tech gains ground in India⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Sounds like you are fighting on behalf of the whole world. I hope you get some times with yourself or a smaller circle that are positive and a break from the dumpster fires of modern civilization.