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- Comment on Has any country actually _solved_ the housing crisis? 1 week ago:
I suppose it depends on how you’d define “solved”. If we’re talking about basically eliminating homelessness, Cuba has done immense work in that regard. Say what you will about the Cuban government, but Cuba has a near-zero homeless population because the government has built a ton of housing and caps rent at 10% of individual income in that state-owned housing. Cuba is also a country with a tradition of multi-generational extended family homes, so there’s a greater chance that you’d be able to move in with a family member if you fell on hard times. Home ownership rate is around 85% compared to 65% in the US. All of this is nothing new, though, so it’s hard to say if it’s the answer to current issues of housing that’s largely driven by corporate greed, but it certainly sounds like it couldn’t hurt. Granted, I’ve seen people give examples of homes that are rather small and spartan, where the walls are made of bare cinderblock and generally aren’t very pretty, but that’s way better than being homeless even if some of the housing isn’t as nice as others. I’ve also examples of state-owned housing lived in by the same kinds of people, but are really quite nice as well. Whether the US government would ever do this, though, seems unlikely. Not at the scale we’d need and not for so cheap, anyway, especially not with Trump coming to office. I can’t really speak for the governments of other countries, however, and I’m no expert on Cuba either, so I could have gotten some things wrong. The US embargo to Cuba since the 90s also means that Cuba has had a more difficult time procuring building materials for the low-cost housing that’s helped so many, which has led to an increase in size and number for those extended family homes over the years.
- Comment on Why are kings almost always redheads? 2 weeks ago:
I’ve never noticed such a pattern myself and I’m not sure I’d agree that most kings are depicted as red-headed. What specific depictions are you talking about? Could you give us a list of examples? If you google “cartoon king”, you’ll find only a few redheads among dozens of brown or white-haired kings, which is what I’d expected to find.
- Comment on When you walk into /c/lemmyshitpost to introduce a daily meme series of every line of dialogue from The Room (2003) [Day 1] 3 weeks ago:
The basic rule is that if you can drop the name and the sentence still makes sense, use a comma.
You wouldn’t use a comma if you said something like “Jack went to work.”
- Comment on When you walk into /c/lemmyshitpost to introduce a daily meme series of every line of dialogue from The Room (2003) [Day 1] 3 weeks ago:
That’s a correct use of a comma. You often use commas when using a persons name. Isn’t that right, Grandwolf?
“Mom, have you seen my keys?”
“I’m off to the store, Sarah.”
“My best bud, Zach, is a geologist.”
- Comment on Drink the climate change away 4 weeks ago:
Say no to ecofascism, kids.
- Comment on Steal Her Look 4 weeks ago:
Also, despite what some mushroom books will say, it’s not the 🤮😵 kind of poison (except in rare cases)
It’s the 😵💫🤤 kind of poison
- Comment on Anon takes the horsepill 5 weeks ago:
I’m pretty sure it depends on the state and whether or not that state considers a horse to be a vehicle/device. Alabama, for example, I believe does not consider a horse to be either, while I think California does. There’s this story that sometimes gets submitted to TIL-type communities where a man from Louisiana was decided to be ineligible for a DUI charge after doing exactly that, but he was still given a court summons for “disturbing the peace by intoxication”.
- Comment on Jazz 1 month ago:
If this is how I hear about Quincy Jones dying, fuck you
- Comment on Please don't crash. Please don't crash. Please don't crash. 2 months ago:
People always freak out over this picture but it’s just a joke about motorcycles. Bumper stickers say “Yamaha” and “Look twice”, a common motorcycle-awareness safety slogan. “[MO]TORCYCLE” is written on the same sticker below, but you can’t really tell due to the low image quality
- Comment on Poop Knife 3 months ago:
I actually wondered the same thing while I was writing lol. Further research is clearly warranted 🧑🔬🔬
- Comment on Poop Knife 3 months ago:
In his 1953 autobiography, Danish explorer Peter Freuchen claimed that in 1926, he became trapped in a blizzard while running a dog team and was forced to take shelter under his sled for 30 hours while snow built up and froze around him. When he tried to emerge, he found he was entombed in ice and unable to break free with his hands alone. Thinking quickly, he took a shit right there, shaped the turd into a chisel, and allowed it to freeze solid. He then claims he was able to use his newly made tool to chip his way free and make it back to camp. Peter was the only witness to his supposed escape. The study mentions it’s based on an Inuit ethnographic account, however. Maybe Peter, having spent much time in the Arctic with Inuit peoples simply took the story for himself. With the runners of the study finding that they were unable to replicate such a technique, it lends credibility to the claim that story may have been fabricated.
- Comment on Come back to us, stripey dog 3 months ago:
Good thing we also have more thylacines than ever before, right?
- Comment on Come back to us, stripey dog 3 months ago:
Nah, son. Thylacines have, in a way, become cryptids since their extinction, complete with cheesy travel shows where some bogan tells you all about how they totally saw one time and they’re 100% sure it was a thylacine they barely saw from a distance running away through the tall grass after sunset. I’ve seen similar shows about Bigfoot, Nessie, Mothman, and others. They don’t exist anymore, making your chances of seeing one alive no more likely than seeing Bigfoot, which is the point I was making. Animals thought to be extinct being officially rediscovered is a pretty rare occurrence; I assure you it doesn’t happen “regularly”. It’s a big deal when it happens because it’s quite rare. Yes, I’m familiar with the stories of all the other extinct species you mentioned as well. The ivory-billed woodpecker is still considered by most ornithologists to be extinct, and the last widely accepted sighting of any individual was in 1987, despite some supposed (but not universally accepted or entirely conclusive) sightings every once in a while. In 2020, a guy working for Fish and Wildlife claimed to have ID’d one in video footage, but it must not have been very compelling because the very next year Fish and Wildlife proposed declaring it officially extinct. People claim to have sighted the ivory-billed woodpecker not infrequently, much like the thylacine. What is infrequent is any compelling evidence whatsoever, however.
- Comment on Come back to us, stripey dog 3 months ago:
There have been many sightings and footprints found of Bigfoot, too.
The last widely accepted sighting of a wild thylacine was in 1933, over a hundred years ago. Even if any tiny, isolated pockets had managed to escape extermination (which is unlikely on an island without much mountainous terrain or dense forest when everyone and their grandma was out hunting them for the bounty the government put on their tails), they’d be in big trouble owing to genetic drift by now. You always hear people say “I know what I saw,” but do they really? It makes me circle back to the Bigfoot thing.
- Comment on The US shouldn't have so many men 6 feet and over 4 months ago:
You’re right, my bad. My comment was directed at the actual OP, though, so you can rest assured the comment wasn’t for you
- Comment on The US shouldn't have so many men 6 feet and over 4 months ago:
“You see them everywhere.” That’s it? This opinion feels way too specific for that to be the only thing on your mind lol. Maybe at least some context? Are you from somewhere where people are less tall on average? Is there something you don’t like about tall people? Like the other guy said, give us a rant! Let’s hear where this is going.
- Comment on The US shouldn't have so many men 6 feet and over 4 months ago:
For real though, could you elaborate? Give us a few reasons why. Also, probably would have been a better post for the unpopular opinion community
- Comment on e l y t r a 4 months ago:
Me deciding which insect to use as an example for the wiki article picture 🤔
- Comment on Dashcam footage clears man of felony charge after showing constable injuring himself 7 months ago:
It sucks that they turned this into a story about how great mass surveillance is
- Comment on hell ya brother 9 months ago:
The only two extant monotremes in the whole world have similar anatomies? Shocking! You could make this same meme substituting any other monotreme characteristic, really.
- Comment on The History Channel, now in the fantasy section. 1 year ago:
When I was a kid, I definitely remember a more history-centric focus on the History Channel, although I remember even then (early 2000s) that they seemed to lean pretty heavily on WWII documentaries. It seemed every time I switched to the channel, one would be playing. It’s more or less been the way it is for the last decade or so, though.
- Comment on The History Channel, now in the fantasy section. 1 year ago:
Nah, it’s not much better during the day, either. HC runs either crackpot history/paranormal docs, reality shows, discussion about niche topics such as toys/modern architecture/etc., or war docs almost 24/7. In case anyone is wondering, here’s the next three days of programming scheduled for History Channel.
Saturday (Veterans Day):
12:03-1:06am - The UnXplained
1:06-3:04am - The Proof is Out There
3:04-4:01am - The UnXplained
4:01-7:00am - Paid Programming
7:00-1:00pm - WWII in HD
1:00-7:00pm - Vietnam in HD
7:00-8:00pm - Special, Variety Salute to Service 2023
8:00-10:03pm - Beyond the Battlefield
10:03-12:03am - Special, 761st Tank Battalion: The Original Black Panthers
Sunday
12:03-2:04am - Beyond the Battlefield
2:04-4:01am - Special, 761st Tank Battalion: The Original Black Panthers
4:01-7:00am - Paid Programming
7:00-3:00pm - Modern Marvels
3:00-12:03am - The Toys that Built America
Monday
12:03-4:01am - The Toys that Built America
4:01-7:00am - Paid Programming
7:00-12:00pm - History’s Greatest Mysteries
12:00-4:00pm - Ancient Aliens Special Presentation
4:00-9:00pm - Ancient Aliens
9:00-11:05pm - Ancient Aliens Special Presentation
11:05-12:03am - Ancient Aliens
- Comment on Checkmate round-earthers 1 year ago:
Humans evolved to walk on Earth
Human feet curved
Earth round confirmed
Checkmate, flat-earthers!
- Comment on Safety First 1 year ago:
Yeah, those kids aren’t even at the camp anymore, they all went out for a morning-after pill.
- Comment on Something we can all agree on! 1 year ago:
You’d think the internet would have come up with a new punchline than “Australia upside down lolz” since literally 2011, but here we are well over a decade later making the exact same jokes and pretending it’s still funny.
This shitposting community consistently disappoints me. Way too often, the actual shitposts only get a couple dozen upvotes. Meanwhile, we get tired, generic memes like this voted to the top. A shitpost isn’t just some random iFunny meme, but that’s all I ever seen to see coming out of here. The other top post right now is a years-old webcomic, not even edited to be a shitpost or anything.
- Comment on That time they decided to blow up a dead whale on the beach. 1 year ago:
A real classic! What wasn’t featured in the original news story was a passerby who had demolitions experience in the army in Vietnam. He approached the guy in charge of the job and explained that this would never work because when you detonate explosives in sand like they were going to, instead of blowing the whale entirely out to sea laterally, the blast created a cone of explosive force straight upward which sheared off massive chucks of whale hundreds of feet into the air and left half the carcass basically untouched. That crushed car at the end? It belonged to the dude who warned it would go tits up! Here’s a 25 year anniversary retrospective with a little more info.
I don’t understand why they didn’t come at high tide and tow it miles out to sea using a couple tugboats. No dismemberment necessary, just a big strap around the tail-fin. Once miles from shore, the whale could be lanced to release the decomposition gasses and allow it to sink naturally where it could benefit the sea floor for decades. If they’d gone maybe 50ish miles offshore, that would have been proper deep sea abyssal zone and perfect for a whalefall.
- Comment on [OC] My feeling as European reading news on Lemmy/Reddit 1 year ago:
Sounds like Europeans need to step up on being a dumpster fire if they want as much coverage as us. Be the change you want to see in the world!
- Comment on britbong brexit life 1 year ago:
Very nice. Now let’s see how rich it’s made you, OP.
Oh, it hasn’t? Just desperately grasping at anything that will help convince yourself Brexit was the most laughably stupid idea ever? You got straight-up conned, dude.
The best part of this meme is that Brexit had literally nothing to do with it whatsoever, the guy just decided to expand his markets to other places, which he could have done either way, and well might have.
- Comment on tru do 1 year ago:
Yes, this is all correct. It was my intention to differentiate the extreme hell-blazes we often see today that completely destroy forests (soil and all) from the much healthier fires that merely thin them. Fires are important, but because of gross forest mismanagement, now for forests to undergo their natural burn cycle is to completely burn to a crisp.
- Comment on tru do 1 year ago:
Perhaps in the short term regarding albedo. Once the smoke dissipates soon though, it’ll be back to “normal”, except with a large boost in CO2 levels. Anyone who’s dealt with heavy wildfire smoke knows the smoke traps heat under it like a big blanket, too. For millions of years, wildfires were the largest contributors of CO2 released into the atmosphere.
