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I keep hoping to use the social networks for something else. I'd really love to talk about games, music, etc etc. But somehow it always turns political. Don't follow me if you don't want to see potentially either or completely at random.

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Ailantd , to random
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Just curious: Do you know of any sci-fi movies with alien spaceships in which the alien ship controls and stations don't fit the human body at all, to the point where they are totally unusable by humans?

There are some in MIB I think.
Any other?

nazokiyoubinbou ,
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@Ailantd Could Farscape count? Humans were able to press the controls, but they were designed to be operated by the many limbed Navigator.

nazokiyoubinbou ,
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@Ailantd Only in the most minimal form. Basically just enough to perform a really basic function. They couldn't really control the ship with it.

nazokiyoubinbou ,
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@Ailantd I tried to find a picture for you, but it was surprisingly hard to search the Internet. The character's name is just "Pilot" (they sort of bond with the leviathan ships, so basically are dedicated at birth.) Pilot has four arms constantly doing things (so it would take two humanoids to even try to do the same stuff) but also has a connection to the ship able to feel and respond to it in a way that a humanoid wouldn't be able to reproduce. Obviously the connection is not so visible.

nazokiyoubinbou ,
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@mattmaison @Ailantd I have a pet theory. I feel that when we make various scifis and imagine aliens and the like, more often than not, we are basically projecting ourselves in some form. Like if you take Star Trek, Vulcans are our more intelligent, logical sides, Klingons are our violent, warlike sides, etc etc.

This is obviously not universal, but I think it covers a surprising amount of ground.

Strandjunker , to random
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It would be funny if it wasn’t so pathetic — and dangerous for our democracy.

nazokiyoubinbou ,
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@Strandjunker And the especially stupid thing is he's just a mouse pretending to be a lion. He would have no power at all if they didn't all bend over backwards giving it to him.

StillIRise1963 , to random
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"The New York Times reports that Trump is planning to 'build huge camps to detain people,' and 'to get around any refusal by Congress to appropriate the necessary funds, Mr. Trump would redirect money in the military budget.’ "

"How many people? ‘Millions’ writes the Times. And not just immigrants: Trump is planning to send his enemies to them, too.”

https://www.rawstory.com/hartmann-trump/

nazokiyoubinbou ,
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@DecaturNature @futurebird @StillIRise1963 What I keep coming back to is that Trump has said multiple times he intends to form a "special task force" to arrest "illegals" without obeying laws like rights to trials/etc. To my mind it is very clear what this really means. I believe he plans to use arbitrarily declaring anyone he wants as "illegal" and just having the special task force arrest and imprison them solely on that basis. Essentially gestapo

I think stuff like this is leading to that

nazokiyoubinbou ,
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@janisf @DecaturNature @futurebird @StillIRise1963 The "arbitrary" in my previous statement refers to that he won't even need to establish any actual reason to even believe they are in some way an immigrant or illegally so or anything like that, just declare it on a whim and therefore it is so.

But yes, others around him will quickly turn that into their own tool of destruction.

luckytran , to random
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CDC's recommendations for the public re: bird flu outbreak in the US

1️⃣ Avoid being near sick or dead animals and contaminated surfaces
2️⃣ Wear respiratory or eye protection if you are near
3️⃣ Do not prepare or eat uncooked or undercooked food such as raw milk or raw cheeses

Recommendations for the Public People should avoid being near sick or dead animals or surfaces contaminated with the animal’s feces, litter, raw milk, or other byproducts when not wearing respiratory or eye protection. Animals in which HPAI A(H5N1) virus infection has been identified include wild birds, poultry, other domesticated birds, and other wild or domesticated animals (including livestock such as cattle and goats). As always, people should not prepare or eat uncooked or undercooked food or related uncooked food products, such as unpasteurized (raw) milk or raw cheeses, from animals with suspected or confirmed HPAI A(H5N1) virus infection.
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    • nazokiyoubinbou ,
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    @luckytran Feels weird to see the CDC recommending wearing PPEs around a dangerous infectious disease. I wonder how many even take it seriously anymore today. One can only hope that they do.

    futurebird , to random
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    Had the feeling of being watched.

    The cat, dead house plant fake dog sit in the window which reflects the white building across the street.

    nazokiyoubinbou ,
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    @futurebird So fluffy.... Must pet...

    Ow. The glass is hard.

    futurebird , to random
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    I'm only following him because I wish more of them would have accounts that work with the fediverse.

    @potus

    It's threads which is not ideal and half of ya'll won't even be able to see it. But... baby steps.

    nazokiyoubinbou ,
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    @futurebird @m3t00 @cmdr_nova @BsCreativeLife @potus Nah, this implies far too nice of an intent. It's 100% because they just want to have control over visibility to apply algorithms and advertising for revenue. The rest of the fediverse doesn't apply itself easily to algorithms. (It can be done at their end, but would be extremely costly in money and resources to implement since they would basically have to cache and process... everything...)

    So they just block instead and screw their users

    futurebird , to random
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    DJT, the stock should be investigated for insider trading. I would like to know who sold and when. Obviously Trump himself can't sell for 60 days since IPO, but anyone could predict the impact of the earnings report (it was more of a losses report)

    Those who knew when it would be published would have bailed before the news or before the crash.

    We just watched a transfer of wealth. Who benefited?

    nazokiyoubinbou ,
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    @futurebird I wonder even about Trump. He has so many tricks he uses for these things. Offshoots owned by himself or family members especially.

    luckytran , to random
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    People have spent years downplaying COVID by saying "it's just the flu." This is reckless for many reasons, one of those being that new flu strains pose a constant threat to public health. I really hope we don't have to experience directly how devastating the flu can be.

    nazokiyoubinbou ,
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    @luckytran It is amazing how we, as a society, have so normalized the concept of it being ok to get sick. Even the common cold can kill. Rarely, but if someone didn't give it to them in the first place they wouldn't have died from it. (If you think about it, it's sort of an indirect form of murder.) We can't always prevent spread of things, bit we sure could do a whole lot more to reduce and control it better. And with modern resources and methods there is not one single valid excuse not to

    Strandjunker , to random
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    Happy Donald Trump goes on criminal trial month to those who celebrate.

    nazokiyoubinbou ,
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    @Strandjunker I'll celebrate when he actually pays for a crime. Not just is found guilty and sentenced. Because it seems even getting him to actually pay is an uphill battle. I have a sneaking suspicion he won't even be held accountable for getting people killed in his first failed attempt at a coup against the government.

    Meanwhile some normal people go to jail for years just for stealing bread to eat.

    futurebird , to random
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    Ever look at the headlines and wonder which staff member at The Onion found a monkey's paw in their attic back around 2019?

    nazokiyoubinbou ,
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    @futurebird *2015

    Strandjunker , to random
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    Here’s the deal: If you threaten people — the president, judges, whoever — you should be immediately arrested, thrown in jail, and disqualified as a presidential candidate.

    nazokiyoubinbou ,
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    @Strandjunker I love how he just does it mafia don style and somehow that makes it ok. He always gets someone else to do the actual dirty work and somehow that's legal since it isn't his own hands stained with the actual blood. I get that freedom of speech is VITAL to this country's very foundations, but when it's effectively legalized to say to a known assassin "gee it would be a shame if something was to happen to that person" just because it's not worded directly, maybe that should be a line

    GottaLaff , to random
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    Via -Harris HQ:

    Partner of ’s Project 2025 calls for abolishing the 22nd Amendment, allowing Trump to be in office forever

    The American Conservative headline: "Trump 2028" with the byline: "The Twenty-second Amendment is an arbitrary restraint on presidents who serve nonconsecutive terms-and on democracy itself."

    nazokiyoubinbou ,
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    @GottaLaff I saw this coming from a mile away. Though I really thought he would ease into it more. What I expected was if he regained power he would just declare that one of the times didn't count because of "massive election fraud" or etc and work into declaring he gets a freebee.

    It's almost scary how fast the Project 2025 timeline for taking over America truly is. They're throwing all cares and cautions to the wind. What scares me is they might find another stooge even if Trump fails.

    futurebird , to random
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    Interesting. Can anyone test if this is a fluke.

    The other day I was complaining about youTube shorts until @mcc reminded me that I could replace

    /shorts/

    with

    /watch?v=

    and avoid it on my own videos. Since then I have uploaded videos and only ever looked at or shared the "/watch?v=" links. Now all of a sudden it's not forcing my short videos to be shorts anymore. It's just putting them in the normal list!

    Like they noticed the other links were not being used? A glimmer of hope?

    nazokiyoubinbou ,
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    @futurebird @mcc Given Youtube's algorithmic nature I do think this is distinctly possible. You were watching some shorts formerly because you thought you had to, so that was going into your history. Now they're moving back so it's starting to show more of what you're focusing on now.

    As a bit of a side note, IMO it's best to turn off and clear search history and manually control your watch history (remove anything you don't want feeding the algorithm.) This way its recommendations suck less

    futurebird , to random
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    It's always bothered me that when people adapt Kafka's Metamorphosis they depict Gregor Samsa as a roach. Cockroaches do not undergo metamorphosis. They are born as nymphs which are just smaller wingless versions of the adult form.

    Kafka writes that Gregor can only enjoy rotten food. Which also makes him not at all roach-like. Roaches strongly prefer fresh vegetables to rotten ones.

    I always imagined him as a beetle. Which implies that the man Gregor was a larvae for all his pre-bug life.

    nazokiyoubinbou ,
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    @futurebird I remember having this in a high school English class. I asked the teacher if it was supposed to be metaphorical for something. Her only response was "what do you think it means?"

    I never really did understand it, but at least now I feel better knowing probably most people didn't really, lol. It really would have been interesting if the classes included discussion of things like what it might have meant. Oh well.

    futurebird , to random
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    What kind of entertainment are "Let's Play" series?

    It's a bit like a reality show, a bit like a how to program, a bit like a role playing game.

    Role Playing games are under-appreciated as art forms because they can't be easily mass distributed. I call them "collaborative story telling"

    The "Let's Play" is even more alien to the people who study great literature and movies.

    But they still should be engaged with as art, analyzed like art, valued like art. (preserved for history like art)

    nazokiyoubinbou ,
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    @futurebird @neckspike There is ONE value to streaming. The fact you can actually interact with the streamer. At least on small streams. You can ask questions, make suggestions, even just randomly talk about stuff (or, unfortunately, share bad puns.)

    I don't get the point of big streamers or pre-made completely non-interactive videos though. Without the interaction it's basically just a virtual TV show (which is already virtual anyway in its own way.) In such cases there are better forms

    Strandjunker , to random
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    I don’t care about Trump selling autographed campaign Bibles to his cult, I care about Trump selling top secret documents to our enemies.

    nazokiyoubinbou ,
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    @Strandjunker I do wish the cultists would stop though. They're still helping him to fund those other activities. Without their help he likely never would have reached the point he could do that in the first place.

    luckytran , to random
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    Anti-maskers: “We should be free to choose to do what we want.”

    Also anti-maskers: “I don’t feel comfortable sitting next to somebody with a mask on.”

    Hypocrites.

    https://www.nbcnews.com/news/rcna144887

    nazokiyoubinbou ,
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    @luckytran I mean let's be clear. It was never really about choice. It was always about preventing anyone from doing anything about COVID-19 because their political religion forbids acknowledging or accepting the reality of it. The so called freedom to choose was always a lie. All they ever supported was removing the freedom of others (eg the freedom to not get sick and die from a random stranger.)

    futurebird , to random
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    Have you ever encountered the superstition that you should always burn, or carefully dispose of your cut hair or hair that is caught in a comb or brush because if a bird gets your hair and makes a nest with it you'll go mad?

    Or did my grandma make that one up?

    nazokiyoubinbou ,
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    @futurebird I've never heard of this one, but with the way many things believe that using some part of a person -- and often that does include the hair -- can be used for curses and the like -- that it essentially is linked to the person even after it is disconnected -- I can totally buy that someone might actually think this. Perhaps it wasn't even a specifically defined thing but just a vague concept along those lines that didn't even normally get put into words.

    Strandjunker , to random
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    He betrayed our national security.
    He compromised our elections.
    He incited an armed insurrection to overthrow our democracy.
    He will do so again.
    He is a traitor.

    Do not normalize Donald Trump.

    nazokiyoubinbou ,
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    @Strandjunker It truly frightens me just how much all this has actually been normalized. I feel like some of it is just the general unwillingness to even talk about any of it.

    futurebird , to random
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    I can see some advantages to knowing if someone has autism if they are in school. But, I don't see the benefit for adults. Provided they are generally happy and coping with life OK.

    It does seem to be something that people find valuable and helpful, so I'm missing something I think.

    nazokiyoubinbou ,
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    @futurebird This one may be a bit tricky. On the one hand, as someone who is a bit neurodivergent I have had tons of problems at work. Particularly with my bosses. They just can't understand that someone might be different and just can't do some of the stuff they expect.

    On the other hand, it isn't as if they would have treated me right even if they knew. Especially in the sort of area I live in. It may even be worse. I don't think I could explain it to them anyway.

    futurebird , to random
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    Why is anti-vax content so popular. Looking at places like Fox news, Rogan, others who fed into that content (and made it more legitimate seeming to many people) the only reason I can detect to make such content is that it's popular with a segment of the population.

    So, that explains why people make it. To make money.

    But why is it "popular" ?

    nazokiyoubinbou ,
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    @futurebird I believe it plays into a bigger con going where people and even large businesses make money off of ignorance of disease and disorders. The "dietary supplement" loophole has allowed for a market that makes hundreds of billions a year in the US alone. There is a lot more profit in selling "Airborne" to people to prevent the flu than in them getting a flu shot and being careful (especially since "being careful" can mean going out less and spending less.)

    Strandjunker , to random
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    Keep up the drum beat: Why did Supreme Court Justice Kennedy retire so abruptly? What role did his son Justin play for Trump at Deutsche Bank? Who paid off Kavanaugh’s $92,000 country club fees, $200,000 credit card debt, and $1.2 million mortgage to buy themselves a SCOTUS seat?

    nazokiyoubinbou ,
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    @Strandjunker I don't think any of this is ever going to be answered. Doubtful even historians could ever find the answer. The secrets die with them I guess.

    Of course, the chief reason isn't that it's just that complicated. It's just as simple as that those who should be investigating refuse to do so.

    futurebird , to random
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    Remember when I was posting about ideas to share with your liberal friends that make more sense than giving money to Biden (aw come on!)

    Local races, local orgs are better.

    I found a good one. This group is doing a recall campaign to get rid a of literal torch carrying nazi who won by just 36 votes while hiding his ties to racism and extremism.

    https://www.enidsjc.org/

    nazokiyoubinbou ,
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    @futurebird @lienrag @DecaturNature What blows my mind is the media underplaying the danger are the ones who'd probably be first against the wall (and I mean that pretty literally in this case) if Trump manages to take power again. Like I know they care first and foremost about making money, but uhm, we're talking in the next few years that he'll be coming for them... I know they only can think short term, but this should be short enough they should be scared for their lives now.

    Strandjunker , to random
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    Trump on Sept. 29, 2020: “Proud Boys, stand back and stand by.”

    Three months later, an armed insurrection took place to keep him in power.

    Trump on March 16, 2024: “If I don’t get elected, it’s gonna be a bloodbath.”

    Merrick Garland, are you listening?

    nazokiyoubinbou ,
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    @Strandjunker I seriously don't get it. Somehow he's an exception because some people like him or something? He has literally made a terrorist threat. This is an actual, bonafide, terrorist act.

    If any of us made such a declaration -- threatening violence if we are not given absolute power over the country -- we would be arrested within hours. He does it: crickets. How have we reached a point this is acceptable?

    luckytran , to random
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    The hottest city in US saw a record 645 deaths related to high temperatures in 2023.

    Climate change is a public health emergency.

    https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2024/mar/14/arizona-heat-death

    nazokiyoubinbou ,
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    @luckytran I suppose it's like the normalization of death due to COVID-19. Just a few at first. Then it grows and grows. Right now people probably won't care until it hits the millions. By the time it hits the millions they won't care until it hits the billions. By then everyone who could possibly do anything about it will have died of old age, so someone else's problem I guess.

    futurebird , to random
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    Should there be universal healthcare for pets? Is that too mushy and sentimental of an idea, that we'd (first obviously) take care of all of the people and then also take care of the animals we love?

    (Pica is fine, but I need to take her to the vet and it will be expensive. And I hate how at some point one has to say "I can't afford that level of care for a cat" there is no guidance... you could spend nothing or up to 100ks of $ on a pet. It'd be nice to be rich enough not to care... )

    nazokiyoubinbou ,
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    @futurebird Pets are members of the family.

    Strandjunker , to random
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    Just a thought: Instead of TikTok, how about we ban assault weapons first?

    nazokiyoubinbou ,
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    @Strandjunker I hate it when people do this. "Instead of fixing problem X, first make Earth a perfect utopia." Two separate issues to be treated separately. I agree 1000% that assault weapons need to be banned. Frankly I don't see why we need even pistols. Every country that dearms sees an overall net benefit.

    But just because we refuse to fix that issue doesn't mean we can't fix anything else separately. Especially since "don't fix X until you fix Y" usually means neither gets fixed.

    futurebird , to random
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    Although tornados can happen in places like Italy and India ... they are kind of "Uniquely American"

    I grew up in OH and have happy memories of hiding in the basement listening to the radio because a storm system that runs around like a D&D creature gobbling houses might get me. I assumed every kid on the planet had to do that... but nah... it's just a midwest/western thing.

    I'm trying to imagine watching "The Wizard of OZ" and the tornado sounding as exotic as IDK a Typhoon.

    nazokiyoubinbou ,
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    @futurebird We have had lots of that here too. We get some crazy weather sometimes. Once in a blue moon it's bad enough I even drive to my parents' house because they live nearby and have a basement. It isn't often bad enough to have to do this, but we have definitely had a number of occasions sitting in the basement trying to keep up with the weather, and yeah, it used to have to be radio before wifi and broadband.

    There is something a bit undefinable about it. I didn't hate it.

    futurebird , to random
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    NYC needs a cryptid. Why can't we have a cool sneaky creature that people keep seeing? Maybe it steals lobster rolls or something. It's gotta fly obviously and run over rooftops.

    And it makes cellphones loose signal and electronics go haywire.

    nazokiyoubinbou ,
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    @futurebird I feel like this cat seems to particularly enjoy making that specific face, lol.

    GottaLaff , to random
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    💯Via Angry Staffer:

    Cut the bullshit about ’s cognitive ability.

    He’s clearly still more qualified than 99.99999% of people on the planet.

    This is a master class.

    nazokiyoubinbou ,
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    @GottaLaff One thing in particular about Biden. Sure he's not perfect. But you know what? He actually listens to staffers. They don't have to try to carefully lead him into doing a thing right. They can actually tell him he's wrong.

    We don't always get the most ideal results with some things, but Trump's solution to being wrong is to insist he's right and push lies and misinformation to convince people he is.

    Case in point: see the worst major pandemic to occur in more than a century.

    nazokiyoubinbou ,
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    @GottaLaff A malignant narcissist can't be wrong. If he accidentally says the sky is green and people call him out on it he'll insist it really is and it's a democratic hoax to claim it appears blue to the human eye and then try to sell pictures with green skies to his base.

    luckytran , to random
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    We need better COVID vaccines, Long COVID treatments, climate solutions & more.

    But at a time when we need to fund science most, the government is cutting science agency budgets.

    A $9B cut to the NSF, $7B cut to NASA, & cuts also to EPA, USGS & NIST.

    https://www.science.org/content/article/final-u-s-spending-bills-offer-gloomy-outlook-science

    nazokiyoubinbou ,
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    @luckytran Par for the course here. Something is needed, so it gets gutted. How else can they afford to buy more tanks the military doesn't need or want?

    debcha , to random
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    Worcester Public Library is forgiving fees for lost or damaged books (like most Massachusetts public libraries, it already doesn't have late fees) if you bring in picture of your cat.

    "If you don’t have a cat? No problem. One cat-less 7-year-old boy, who never returned a “Captain Underpants” book, had his library card reactivated after the staff gave him paper and crayons to sketch one."

    [gift code -- thanks, S!]

    https://www.nytimes.com/2024/03/04/us/massachusetts-library-fines-cat-picture.html?unlocked_article_code=1.ak0.HWYl.6tITWb6q2BXq&smid=url-share

    nazokiyoubinbou ,
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    @futurebird @debcha omg such a happy cat though. When your cats look like this, you know you're still doing SOMETHING right.

    luckytran , to random
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    “NOTE: We expect the CDC to rescind the 5 day isolation period in the very near future. Once the CDC guidance is updated, employees will no longer be eligible for Covid pay for any period of isolation.”

    Employers were ready for the CDC change so they could end sick pay.

    nazokiyoubinbou ,
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    @luckytran 14 days LIFETIME??? Even if you don't believe in isolating and like to spread like crazy, you're going to miss more than that just by being alive more than a few years.

    futurebird , to random
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    Voting is just one thing you can do to shape your society and community. It gets a lot of attention because powerful people really do seem to let a surprising number of us have a tiny little mote of influence. The powerful talk about voting ceaselessly, because "the people" having power, however constrained gives them endless anxiety. Don't fall into the trap of thinking it is your only power.

    Don't fall into the trap of thinking, because it's only a little power, isn't important either.

    nazokiyoubinbou ,
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    @futurebird I'm not really sure what else I can say in these times where people are complaining that they don't like the blue candidate but the red candidate is going to help create a nazi nation. Like I get both sides of the argument -- in fact, I personally believe that the Democrat party should be split into "progressives" and "republicans" (the GOP being nazis and slightly less nazis) -- but this really is the time we have to vote straight ticket because of messes in Congress and the Senate

    futurebird , to random
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    Many people have been amusing themselves by giving their cats buttons that say words: "pets", "toy", "food", "mad" etc.

    Cats will readily learn to press buttons if it prompts a reaction from humans. There is a lot of over-interpreting cat behavior. The words are so suggestive... but it seems fun for the cats and people.

    It is ... telling that multiple cats enjoy pushing the "mad" button over and over. Maybe because humans find it funny? Or maybe because it is true.

    nazokiyoubinbou ,
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    @futurebird I wonder if it's just as simple as that it sounds nicer to their ears, lol. More likely it just elicits more positive responses from the humans.

    futurebird , to random
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    A “children’s book” about a cop who points his gun at everything because that’s the only thing he knows how to do.

    “Hello” said the hungry caterpillar. The police man pointed his gun at the caterpillar. The caterpillar squeaked and ran away. “I guess he won’t be my friend either” said the policeman sadly. He holstered his gun and walked further down the road still feeling so very alone.

    nazokiyoubinbou ,
    @nazokiyoubinbou@mastodon.social avatar

    @futurebird It's like the active shooter drills. Painful that this exists and attempting a solution on the wrong side of the equation since our society refuses to address the correct side, yet really so necessary. All too literally necessary I'm afraid. 😔 Someone actually needs to write this.

    futurebird , to random
    @futurebird@sauropods.win avatar

    Most spiders couldn't hurt you at all, like not even give you a little itchy welt if they tried their very best, if they could overcome their very realistic fear of your massive size and exoskeleton crushing feet.

    That there are a few who get one over on us is the great exception. We are a terror to these little creatures.

    nazokiyoubinbou ,
    @nazokiyoubinbou@mastodon.social avatar

    @futurebird @gretared Is it... safe for a cat to eat a spider?

    I know mine love to chase bugs, but I don't think they eat them. I've never seen them actually catch any though.

    nazokiyoubinbou ,
    @nazokiyoubinbou@mastodon.social avatar

    @futurebird @gretared I see what you mean. Most probably are pretty harmless. I always worry though. I've found black widows in my parents' basement and under my own house before, but none inside. Yet. We also have brown recluses in this area to watch out for and those scare me a lot more in regards to a cat eating it.

    nazokiyoubinbou ,
    @nazokiyoubinbou@mastodon.social avatar

    @nev @futurebird @gretared Well, I would imagine that stomach acids would negate a lot of venoms, but what about some of the trickier ones like the "brown recluse" spider? Their venom has that weird necrosis effect and I worry it could be dangerous even for a stomach.

    FediTips , to random
    @FediTips@social.growyourown.services avatar

    You might have noticed some people publish much longer posts than the usual 500 character limit. There are three ways this is possible:

    -The server owner has customised their Mastodon server's software to change the character limit

    -The server owner has installed a pre-customised version of Mastodon such as Glitch or Hometown

    -The server isn't running on Mastodon software at all, but something totally different such as Friendica, WordPress etc

    More info:
    ➡️ https://fedi.tips/why-do-some-people-on-mastodon-and-the-fediverse-have-bigger-character-limits

    nazokiyoubinbou ,
    @nazokiyoubinbou@mastodon.social avatar

    @FediTips I really do wish that the mainline Mastodon would allow more than 500 characters though. I understand that a limit was chosen for a reason and should exist, but it's so low it's very hard to complete a thought sometimes. The current system already does a sort of "collapse" where the bulk of the post past 500 characters is hidden until you click on those larger posts and that seems to work very well as a compromise.

    nazokiyoubinbou ,
    @nazokiyoubinbou@mastodon.social avatar

    @potungthul @FediTips It's automatically on large posts as far as I know in the mainline Mastodon ource itself at this point. If you're not seeing it it may be your instance chooses not to do it. Though your guess is as good as mine.

    Unless you're defining wordy posts as anything that's bigger than you like.

    futurebird , to random
    @futurebird@sauropods.win avatar

    I don't even get this one. Naturally new food products should be carefully screened but this simply seems to be about ... being angry that someone else might not want to eat meat? Just thinking a product meets a need you don't share... so it should be banned?

    https://www.bostonherald.com/2024/02/24/what-is-lab-grown-meat-and-why-does-ron-desantis-want-to-ban-it-in-florida/

    nazokiyoubinbou ,
    @nazokiyoubinbou@mastodon.social avatar

    @futurebird I think it might be a bit simpler than this. A lot of con artists, companies, etc have worked for a long time (since the 70s at least?) to convince people than anything that is less natural is bad and thus anything that pretends to be more natural is good. This is especially the whole thinking behind so called "organic" which is actually just terribly wasteful and no better (sometimes worse!) He may not even know why, but he's propping a huge industry that relies on ignorance.

    nazokiyoubinbou ,
    @nazokiyoubinbou@mastodon.social avatar

    @futurebird One thing that really bugs me about all this is that even for completely non-vegan people who would gleefully attack animals for fun there is still value in lab-grown meats -- if nothing else there's the simple fact that they can be made more consistent and safer than real meat. It's very unlikely (unless purposefully introduced) they'd get salmonella or etc for example. Also can potentially require far far fewer resources.

    Honestly seems like a great solution going forward.

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