LibertyLizard

@LibertyLizard@slrpnk.net

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨hour⁩ ago⁩:

  Most insects don’t have a strong odor. It’s all types of ants as far as I’ve noticed.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨hour⁩ ago⁩:

  I usually only smell it after they are agitated. I assume that’s what they meant? But usually when I’m smelling ants they are agitated.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:

  It smells so weird and strong. I’m surprised not everyone can smell this. I wonder how common this is?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Three dinosaurs in a trenchcoat⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:

  Well I believe this has happened. Wasn’t brachiosaurus found to be a mashup of multiple species?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Three dinosaurs in a trenchcoat⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:

  I’m assuming the research more meant that there were 3 cryptic species lumped into what we today call t-rex

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Are there any cultures where kissing is taboo?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:

  I’d say even outside of MAGA this isn’t really done. Maybe no one would object but I can’t say I really see it.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Is it theoretically possible Trump and ICE are killing a very large number of immigrants (like 25% of those detained) and no one knows?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  OK, I understand your position but again that’s not what I meant. I just meant the free dissemination of information is largely legal.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Is it theoretically possible Trump and ICE are killing a very large number of immigrants (like 25% of those detained) and no one knows?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  OK so it depends on what you mean by free press. I meant you can report the truth and that (usually) won’t get you arrested. I did not mean the mainstream press is always fair or honest.

  There’s been a huge growth of independent journalists that give far more accurate accounts of leftist perspectives in protests, etc. Though you have to be careful because there’s plenty of dishonest independent journalists too. But if you have good media literacy and fact checking ability the information is still out there. As opposed to places where if you speak certain facts aloud you may be arrested.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Is it theoretically possible Trump and ICE are killing a very large number of immigrants (like 25% of those detained) and no one knows?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  As far as I can tell, people can still report on these facts without major safety risk. Yes, the free press is under attack but it hasn’t succumbed yet.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Is it theoretically possible Trump and ICE are killing a very large number of immigrants (like 25% of those detained) and no one knows?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Yeah this is an open question to me. How many people are being sent to foreign prisons and what becomes of them there? There has been very little coverage since Kilmer Abrego Garcia was freed but my understanding is this is still ongoing.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Is it theoretically possible Trump and ICE are killing a very large number of immigrants (like 25% of those detained) and no one knows?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  We still have a (mostly) free press though. Eventually families and counsel would find out and the news would get it. Unless it started very recently I don’t find this credible.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Yeah the first is just expressing a sentiment but you’ve taken no action to make it happen. Once you are offering people money that’s an actionable plan and you could be arrested for that.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Would the United States actually risk a Tiananmen Square incident?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  I agree. To have civil war you need multiple opposing armed forces of somewhat similar military strength. I don’t really see that happening because of the purges of military leadership but an insurgency is very possible.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[US] How are so many people able to protest? (Logistically)⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  There was a very raucous council meeting in my city where a woman said she had walked out of work to be there and expected to be fired. I hope they forgave her but if not that’s fucking bad ass.

  We definitely need more networks of support to help people show up because it isn’t easy.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The fifth pocket⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  I’m sorry but you’re just totally ignorant on what you are talking about. I recommend reading Tending the Wild by anthropologist M Kat Anderson to educate yourself.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The fifth pocket⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  I’m not saying they created issues, but I am saying they also had a fairly intensive system of land management. So if we move to a system of little or no human intervention, that’s not a state that has existed for tens of thousands of years and we don’t know what that looks like. Could involve major ecosystem shifts, species extinctions, major fires, who knows.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The fifth pocket⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  I’m talking about indigenous land management practices.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The fifth pocket⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  So you think do nothing and hope the fires even out? I have wondered about this but it’s not clear what would happen since our ecosystems have not operated that way for tens of thousands of years–and had dozens of now extinct megafauna engineering them back then.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The fifth pocket⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  While I’m sure that would work, I don’t support conscription.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The fifth pocket⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  I love this topic but I feel like no one has a realistic solution for how we’re going to manage huge ecosystems in a very labor intensive fashion. I don’t think it’s really possible in the current socioeconomic context.

  The natives did it by having the entire community involved. We may need to move towards something like that.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨If the color of the Sun was orange, wouldn't the clouds and everything white also be orange? My friend is adamant that 30 years ago the "real" Sun was orange but got replaced with a white LED.⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I mean there’s like pictures of the sun out there… how old is this person?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Lab anxiety⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Are you telling me I could get paid to hand-crank my centrifuge? I’ve been doing it for free all these years.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Elon Musk and Sam Altman clashed on X after Musk shared a post about a man who committed a murder-suicide following delusional conversations with ChatGPT⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Leave it to Musk to make Sam Altman seem like a reasonable adult.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I'm about to get fired. How do I make sure my next job is a better place to work?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Tough, I just heard about it through word of mouth. You can try web searches but it will be hard because most coops are consumer coops which won’t necessarily have the same democratic rights for workers.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I'm about to get fired. How do I make sure my next job is a better place to work?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Damn that sucks. I bet there is one somewhere though, they may not have all of them listed in once place.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I'm about to get fired. How do I make sure my next job is a better place to work?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Talking to other people who work there and reading reviews can help. But the real issue is hierarchical management style is always going to be vulnerable to abuse by bad actors because your managers have near total power over you.

  In the private sector the solution is worker’s coops. I’m not sure what it would be called in the nonprofit world but there are likely more democratically run organizations in a similar vein.

  Another alternative is finding somewhere with a strong union. Unions can also be toxic in some ways but usually far less so than normal work power dynamics.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨At this point, what should we do about the ICE raids? If an ICE agent breaks in without a warrant or holds you at gunpoint, what do you do?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  First, contact as many people as you can, especially local ICE watch orgs. A lot have hotlines which you may be able to find with a web search. Next start recording. Delay as long as possible. Ask for a warrant, stay calm and maybe try to negotiate as a stall tactic. This will hopefully give community members time to arrive and record or hopefully apply pressure if they are brave and numerous enough. It is possible to intimidate and drive them back with enough numbers.

  All else fails at this point I would not fight back and allow yourself to be arrested. Most citizens being arrested right now are being released. The courts are slow but still upholding the law for now. If you are not a citizen then your options might not be as good. Fighting back is likely to get you injured or killed but if you have an escape route it could be worthwhile, especially if you can escape in areas where motor vehicles can’t go. Their level of fitness is generally low so they can’t give chase for long, and as long as you’re not high profile you might be safe once you get away, though you’ll likely need to lie low somewhere.

  If you’re asking what to do about the current political situation in a broader sense then I have different answers.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Legal analysis of killing of Renee Nicole Good⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Oh shit I’ve been waiting for this one.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Would you guys and gals let me take over AskHistorians please? Hell the creator/mod is literally a karma bot⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Do we have historians on Lemmy?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨On Venus.⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  for no reason

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