uriel238
@uriel238@lemmy.blahaj.zone
- Comment on The height of sophistication: the 1994 McDonald's manager collection 4 hours ago:
But could a McDonald’s site manager afford to dress like this? Or be allowed to?
- Comment on What 7 hours ago:
That was amazing! Thank you for the link!
- Comment on What 7 hours ago:
CARGO SKIRTS!
- Comment on Chaotic Evil 7 hours ago:
Is CE the backward USB or the HDMI? The former would be a cause for far more annoyance, especially when I’m plugging something in by feel.
- Comment on 2³² will get interesting... 14 hours ago:
The trolley problem thought experiment does a whole lot of work to define personal responsibility. IRL it’s difficult to be the guy who does the evil thing for a good outcome, and easy to kick the can to the next guy, even while making it worse.
- Comment on Plant Protection 1 day ago:
Caffeine is an insecticide plants invented to not get eaten by bugs.
Now manthings farm those plants.
- Comment on Protip: Don't lose count 2 days ago:
What did I just watch?
- Comment on Police Department Shooting Range 2 days ago:
TBF, police will shoot white targets if they’re poor enough or insufficiently white (say someone pale with a Latin surname)
- Comment on Our bad 2 days ago:
Agreed, but 1980 was the beginning of the Reagan-Bush era and massive environmental deregulation, which only got worse through Clinton and George W. Bush.
The great conservative movement killed conservation.
- Comment on Our bad 3 days ago:
It doesn’t have to if we keep producing new stuff that sinks into the environment and lingers there for eons.
Once we die out, it’s going to put a damper on all the biomes trying to recover from the Holocene extinction.
- Comment on Our bad 3 days ago:
Only on the presumption that we didn’t detect it and aim for solutions sooner (e.g. invent circular recycling of plastics, replace major causes of microplastics with degradeable alternatives, say, vulcanized rubber with rubber and mushrooms).
Also the society’s response in this late hour would probably be more effective than a disinformation campaign and a shrug.
- Comment on What 3 days ago:
#HeKnows 🧡🧡🤍🤍💗💗
- Comment on Our bad 3 days ago:
According to Karl Marx (in Das Kapital ) the deregulation of industry for sake of profit is inevitable.
It’s cheaper to capture government than it is to follow regulations (which, in turn, are meant to serve the public, sometimes protect the public from industry)
Some nations are trying to make the capture process slow or difficult, but none have stopped it, and it only accelerates.
- Comment on Our bad 3 days ago:
Plastic is just gray goo in slow motion.
- Comment on "Ahahaha! I am on-line once again! Tremble, world, before my electric heating coil of doom!" 4 days ago:
- Comment on "Ahahaha! I am on-line once again! Tremble, world, before my electric heating coil of doom!" 4 days ago:
This is the first time I noticed she cut into the plate…or didn’t cut into the plate, depending.
- Comment on 4 days ago:
It was the silent p in pterodactyl that said everything, not her silence.
You’re stuck in your head again, over-analyzing sentence structure, aren’t you she expressed with a mere glance.
I’m not really even in this conversation. She added with a blink. No doubt about it.
- Comment on Sunday update from the Prime Radiant 4 days ago:
There’s millions of Lemmings. They just occupy about a hundred bodies.
- Comment on Weeks of research 4 days ago:
Then there’s us kids who knew it was dangerous to ask our parents for crafting supplies even for a homework assignment… heck it was dangerous to be visible at home, let alone express a need.
- Comment on Weeks of research 4 days ago:
Superman would have rescued the passengers one by one if that’s what was necessary. Just sayin’
- Comment on 3-bean soup 6 days ago:
Plant bits with water filtered through it. An infusion.
- Comment on 3-bean soup 6 days ago:
See I didn’t know that, what with tons of herbal teas, but yeah the ones I look up seem to all be black tea + extras blended into a concoction.
- Comment on Best wishes 6 days ago:
Octhullpus #5, Monterrey Bay Marine Research Subdivision
- Comment on Betrayal 6 days ago:
IRL, your very recent bestie who pushed out your bestie-of-ten-years is the one to signal it’s time to move in. FBI has a long running pattern of deciding that someone must be a terrorist (or is a good candidate for gaslighting into terrorism) so they can conduct an elaborate sting operation, often involving replacing all the victim’s friends with FBI plants.
If you remember Kellyanne Conway’s Bowling Green Massacre, there wasn’t a massacre but some arrests, and they were of the gaslight them until they do something barely terroristy enough to get a conviction category.
I wrote a blogpiece about it in 2016, noting it was much less of a massacre thank Conway was letting on, but still quite the debacle.
Anyway, as bad as it feels being betrayed by your friend of ten years, it’s hard not to feel like a rat for having kicked that friend out for a newer, cooler friend, only to have them signal when there’s enough evidence.
- Comment on 3-bean soup 1 week ago:
It’s technically an infusion though I don’t know if that changes between hot or cold water. But I think teas are arbitrarily determined: We decided that the black tea plants are teas and the weeds next to them are not based entirely on choice.
Coke is a specific trademark connected to specific recipes. But colas are all based on the cola bean, and some decent ones that get close to Coca-cola and Pepsi-cola.
- Comment on Just FYI 1 week ago:
IIRC is my way of getting out of citing sources, often because I don’t remember exactly what it was, say if I saw it during a nature show on PBS or a segment on SciShow
Sometimes I don’t remember if it was AP, Reuters or Mother Jones where I got a fact or a take, but it was someplace I could probably trust. So If I remember right…
Curiously, if I don’t trust a source and can’t recall who it was, I’ll attribute it to vicious rumors or some muckraking rag or but it sounds like something FOX News would put out, so take with salt.
- Comment on 3-bean soup 1 week ago:
Coffee is technically tea, but then bay broth (a foundation for chicken soup) is also technically tea.
- Comment on Get over yourself 1 week ago:
Haute Couture was more about the Haute, and gender designation was a secondary concern at least until the 19th and 20th centuries in which boys and girls got color-coded and men and women weren’t allowed to look like each other.
New, modern fashion blends right in with the rise of preppy style and existing in sportswear rather than business attire, especially since New York didn’t have aristocrats…allegedly.
Before then, what was more important to an elite was they looked elite. Aristocracy is, after all government by the best where the best means having the most money.
- Comment on Know your jewellery... 1 week ago:
According to Dan McClellan, the cross in the cross-of-gold format is really a very recent pop-Christian symbol (that is, used by people other than Catholic monastics).
So the folk who want a gold T to celebrate their trans-ness might have a strong authority to repurpose it…
well, until it becomes the swastika of the white Christian nationalist movement and designated as a hate symbol.
I’m surprised that squishier more red-letter based Christian faiths don’t re-adopt the intersecting-circles fish, which is a much older Christian symbol than the cross.
- Comment on Pronouns history 1 week ago:
To be fair, I learned to be pronoun-versatile in theater and TTRPGs.
