FoxyFerengi
@FoxyFerengi@lemm.ee
- Comment on What is iNaturalist? The citizen science app playing an unlikely role in Erin Patterson’s mushroom murder trial 1 day ago:
Man, everything I’ve read about how she went about this is insane. The fact that she went through with it knowing her ex wasn’t going to be there anyway is extra insane
- Comment on Chrysanthemum variety 3 weeks ago:
It’s a spider chrysanthemum. I’m not sure if this image is edited or if it’s a clever angle though
- Comment on Minecraft movie spawns ‘annoying’ cinema trend that viewers claim ‘ruins’ the film 4 weeks ago:
He’s got no fucking neck!
- Comment on How would I describe myself? 4 weeks ago:
“Chilean-French with a few stops between”, so you don’t need to explain your life story unless someone is curious? If I understand French well enough, that is just a twist on what you said.
- Comment on Is there a good way to buy chrome lettering in the same font as the brand's original lettering on the back of the car? 1 month ago:
Do you need it to be raised lettering? If not, that seems like a very simple thing that anyone with a cricut or silhouette could make. Maybe search Etsy for custom decals if you don’t know anyone personally with one of those machines
- Comment on Nothing against disabled people but how come I can't replace my arm with something augmented that can carry more weight? Also other parts? My disabled bro asked me this and got me thinking 1 month ago:
As someone who recently started needing wheels, much of the world isn’t really built for that. Lots of uneven flooring in buildings, stairs, thresholds, spaces too narrow to traverse, etc. I get stuck often lol
- Comment on Which Federal Programs Are Under Scrutiny? The Budget Office Named 2,600 of Them. 3 months ago:
I don’t understand how Trump can cut a lot of these by executive order. From what I can tell, any actions for the Departments need to go through their secretary? And those actions are subject to federal appeals. I’m not well versed in law, and might just be dreaming that things will work out
- Comment on GTFO 3 months ago:
Nitrogen as a gas (N2) has a triple bond to another nitrogen. Those are the hardest bonds to break. CO2 has strong double bonds to oxygen, but those are easier to break. Bacteria and fungi are able to split nitrogen and supply it to plant roots in exchange for carbon (sugars) in symbiotic relationships.
Side note, but we’re starting to see the exchange rates of nitrogen and carbon shift, because plants are now absorbing/exchanging so much carbon from the air
- Comment on GTFO 3 months ago:
Green light isn’t absorbed by green plant leaves, it’s reflected. The pigments in leaves do absorb waves on either side of green, which is why those blue+red lights are used
- Comment on Plot twist 3 months ago:
It’s still not much if you live in one of the seven states still paying the $7.25/hr federal minimum
- Comment on master manipulators 4 months ago:
I did my best to take a cat home today when I was at the local landfill. I don’t even have space for another cat, it’s just freezing here and he looked extra pathetic. He decided the dumpster was safer and u honestly can’t blame him xD
- Comment on [deleted] 4 months ago:
My undergraduate tuition at a state public university is under 10k a year. I was severely injured in the military though, so the government pays my bill.
What you see in the news is the result of predatory practices and people not being able to use their degrees in a profitable way. There’s a lot of jokes about philosophy programs and art history degrees being a pipeline to working in fast food, because often the only way to use those degrees is to get more education (more loans) so you can teach the subject.
- Comment on It's 54 degrees Fahrenheit (12 Celsius), raining moderately hard, the rain is cold, and there's a guy blowing around wet leaves with a leaf blower. What the hell is the obsession with leaf blowers? 4 months ago:
I’ll take the one with less maintenance anyway. I wouldn’t even need to buy the battery for this because that’s the same one my lawnmower uses
- Comment on It's 54 degrees Fahrenheit (12 Celsius), raining moderately hard, the rain is cold, and there's a guy blowing around wet leaves with a leaf blower. What the hell is the obsession with leaf blowers? 4 months ago:
My neighbor will blow them into my driveway (which is higher than his so it’s a never ending battle) and then he’ll walk between my house and the house on his other side blowing leaves to the other side of the street. He wastes so much gas every day, I would find it funny if it weren’t infuriating. Like, who the heck even buys gas leaf blowers anymore?
- Comment on Crisco in a Terracotta: Decoding the (Mostly) Useless Candle Meme 4 months ago:
This looks a lot like the cheap heater design for homeless people that’s been going around. That one uses ethanol and copper tubing instead of fat and a wick
- Comment on I washed my black underwear and now one of my black socks looks brownish on one side. How do I return the sock to its original black? 4 months ago:
This is the new age test. You forgot cake though
- Comment on frilly **joy** 4 months ago:
Oops! Thanks for catching that
- Comment on frilly **joy** 4 months ago:
I took a local fauna class last year, we had to collect about 25 specimens and identify them. My professor stressed to not collect moss because it’s a pita to identify. Naturally, I collected some after a rain shower. She spent the rest of the semester trying to identify it lol
- Comment on Funko, BrandShield speak out about itch.io takedown 4 months ago:
They requested a takedown before talking to the website owners? That’s such a hostile move
- Comment on SHINY 5 months ago:
I wonder if they were tortoise beetles? They look gold until you spook them, then they turn a brownish orange. But they are super shiny. Could also have been a type of wood borer, some of the green ones look gold when the light hits right
- Comment on pizza party after tho 5 months ago:
I did not need to be called out like this today
- Comment on Invincible 💪 6 months ago:
Group one metals like sodium are spicy when they touch water. The further down the column you go, the more explosive it can be.
- Comment on Satan's little helper 7 months ago:
Yeah, there’s a reason that story lives rent free in my head 30 years later lol. Totally horrific, and also totally something I would do.
- Comment on Satan's little helper 7 months ago:
When I was in elementary school, one of my classmates went to the hospital because of those things. She was picking them out of her dog’s fur and putting them in a cup.
Unfortunately, her cup of water was right next to it, and she swallowed a bunch of these bastards instead of a nice sip of water.
- Comment on Different strokes 8 months ago:
It’s like “I don’t want to marry this person, but they’re good enough for now”
- Comment on Do any "thickening" products actually work to prevent hair loss/thinning? 8 months ago:
I didn’t say it was safe! Just safer than minoxidil :) The oil is usually meant to be used as a pre-wash treatment, so it’s not going to sit on your head all day like minoxidil, further reducing the risk of contact with pets.
- Comment on Do any "thickening" products actually work to prevent hair loss/thinning? 8 months ago:
It’s also much safer to use around cats than topical minoxidil is!
- Comment on if you ever had to start consuming low fat dairy and cheese due to high cholesterol, did your ldl cholesterol levels decrease? 8 months ago:
My triglycerides fell a little over 50 points! Almost to a healthy level now.
My cholesterol total fell a little over 20 points, with small drops in hdl and ldl.
That’s about four months of abstaining from alcohol with no change from my normal “vegan” diet.
- Comment on if you ever had to start consuming low fat dairy and cheese due to high cholesterol, did your ldl cholesterol levels decrease? 8 months ago:
I went vegan and had no change in my cholesterol. I have never had a diet that was high in fat, so that didn’t surprise me. My doctor told me I need to give up alcohol for any change to occur. There’s definitely a genetic component as well, my dad and his dad seriously struggled with their cholesterol levels.
I had to abstain from alcohol over the summer because I started a medication that is hard on the liver, and I just had a lipid panel today. So I’ll find out early next week if my doctor was right lol
- Comment on Ant smell 11 months ago:
The weirdest thing happened when I was recovering from covid. I couldn’t really taste much, but cilantro suddenly had a perfume-like scent. It eventually went back to normal after I recovered, but I definitely have a healthy level of sympathy for people who taste soapy cilantro now
