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pelletbucket OP , 9 days ago

seed bee

pelletbucket OP , 9 days ago

now I'm sitting here thinking about it, from one perspective, you could consider that particular bee to be a slave to the rest of the bees

pelletbucket OP , 9 days ago

that's why it's all about the human perspective. the first person to give it a name lived in a world of kings and queens, but if they've lived in a world with no kings and queens but the world that had slaves, they might have called it the slave bee. there are infinite iterations, hence my question

pelletbucket OP , 9 days ago

I tried googling "queen bee in Arabic" but I can't tell if it's giving me the Arabic term for queen bee or if it's just translating the words lol

pelletbucket OP , 9 days ago

that's some good shit

pelletbucket , 10 days ago

no. I'm probably a communist but authoritarianism can fucking shove it

pelletbucket , 9 days ago

I mean that's a good question but there's no reason to apply it just to leftist governments

pelletbucket , 10 days ago

the palm tree out front dropped its pollen branch (idk what they're actually called), and it was a lot of fun watching the tiny pollinators have a field day with it. I have to cut it down before it makes a huge mess, but I usually give them several days to party

there are some Britton's wild petunia across the street that are the only plants outside enjoying this heat wave, they're blooming like crazy. vibrant purple flowers

the sage and amaryllis in my front flower bed are spreading out like crazy, and three different snake plants that I've propagated have started producing babies

pelletbucket , 10 days ago

oh they grow all over the place down here, I just heard somebody say that propagating them was hard so I figured I'd give it a shot. turns out it's really easy so I've got like four of them now, though my backyard has probably 200 ft² of them growing naturally.

I've always fantasized about selling my props to local plant shops, but I never have a plan when I start propagating something. I found out how easy sage was to propagate, bought one plant and now I have a dozen and I don't know what to do with them

pelletbucket , 10 days ago

I order out pretty much every day. for me, I stick with Uber Eats because subscribing to Uber One does save me money over the course of a month, eliminating delivery fees (but not service fees) for a large number of restaurants.

now I prefer to order from a restaurant that delivers itself, when I'm in the mood for pizza, I call the place across the street, if I want fried chicken, I order from the Jewish deli across the street (they seriously have the best fucking fried chicken). etc.

Uber Eats is pretty good about refunds when orders are wrong. the drivers are hit or miss, but that's going to be true of every service. the most annoying thing is when they block my fucking door

the main drawback is that Uber allows the drivers to take multiple orders at once, so you have to keep in mind how to make your order so that things don't get soggy. I keep oil and vinegar in the fridge, and order my sandwiches dry. if I'm getting a gyro, I order it dry, and I have a pot of tzatziki in my fridge. stuff like that. Taco Bell will never hit right when it's delivered, even if you're really stoned. Taco Bell needs to be eaten fresh

do things to make it easier for them to find you. make sure you've got a super obvious house number that's visible from the street. even if it's daytime, turn on your porch light when you're expecting a delivery. I don't know if it actually tells the drivers that I'm signaling for food delivery, but my brain tells me it helps them find me

I think it would be really cool if food delivery companies gave you a little Bluetooth or Wi-Fi device that you could put outside your house that'll turn green when you're expecting an Uber Eats delivery or something like that

pelletbucket , 13 days ago

are you sure they're from Crete?

pelletbucket , 13 days ago

literally my screen screen while seeing this

pelletbucket , 15 days ago

it's a little odd that he's not laying down.

pelletbucket , 15 days ago

please keep your dog on a leash until the mother comes back

pelletbucket , 15 days ago

I just went through my list of subreddits and searched Lemmy for similar communities. I would say a good 70% we're already represented here

pelletbucket , 15 days ago

eh, training wheels.

pelletbucket , 15 days ago

no. if he gets prison time, he will lose his right to vote during the period of incarceration, but that will be restored once he's released. that's if he gets locked up

if he is sentenced to time, and actually probably even if he isn't, they're going to do an immediate appeal, and most likely he will be out on bail during the appeal process. again, that's only if they were planning on locking him up in the first place

but no, there are only three qualifications for being president:

1. Be a natural-born citizen of the United States.
2. Be at least 35 years old.
3. Have been a resident of the United States for 14 years.

pelletbucket , 15 days ago

most likely just doing the job from prison

pelletbucket , 15 days ago (edited 15 days ago)

the range is from probation, up to 1⅓-4yrs per offense, with a maximum cap of 20 years.

sentencing is on June July??? 11

pelletbucket , 15 days ago

fuck, are you kidding me. all right I fixed it

pelletbucket , 15 days ago

you should ask a partner "can you teach me how to dance?" if they say yes, you know they have the patience to dance at whatever level you're comfortable with. and it'll be a really good time

pelletbucket , 15 days ago

he's not talking about parents of autistic children. he's talking about parents of autistic children who make that their main personality trait, walking around referring to themselves as "autistic moms", intentionally using confusing language so you can't tell if they're autistic, or if their child is autistic. sort of like Munchausen by Proxy but you don't have to fake it

pelletbucket , 15 days ago

rice is only going to absorb water if it's directly touching the water. if it were good it absorbing humidity, you wouldn't be able to store it almost indefinitely in burlap as we've been doing for centuries.

pelletbucket , 15 days ago

he's a brick
🎶🎵🎶🎵
howse

pelletbucket , 15 days ago

when he says he's all bricked up

pelletbucket , 15 days ago

italian has prendere un granchio, lit. meaning, "to catch a crab".

It indicates a gross mistake, the achievement of a much lower result than hoped for or, more rarely, purchasing something believing it to be of much higher value than it actually is.
This expression, among the most common used in Italian to indicate a mistake, has its origins in fishing , particularly sport fishing. If you lower the line into the sea until you reach the seabed and touch the bottom with the hook and the bait, it may happen that a crab bites instead of a fish . As soon as the crustacean is hooked, it immediately begins to struggle violently to free itself from the hook, giving the fisherman the impression that it has instead hooked a large prey.
Fishing for a crab with a rod is normally a source of disappointment for the fisherman, since it is a useless prey, which in some cases can even damage the line. The origin of the phrase was born from this disappointment, generated by the expectation of a large fish.

pelletbucket , 15 days ago

Portuguese has dar murro em ponta de fac, meaning "to punch the tip of a knife".

• insisting on something that apparently won't work
• insisting on doing something that always goes wrong
• persist without seeing results

pelletbucket , 15 days ago

Turkish has Yanlış kapıyı çalmak, meaning "to knock on the wrong door".

Applying to a place where your request cannot be fulfilled.

pelletbucket , 14 days ago

they put Italians in internment camps as well

pelletbucket , 14 days ago

probably salt

pelletbucket , 14 days ago

everybody's feed is an echo chamber. each person has access to something like 1% of the total videos posted, so two feeds will be unrecognizable. all the videos I get are about how to help Palestinian families, or short history documentaries, or a published linguist talking about interesting words, this guy who collects license plates (I don't care about license plates but his channel is great), this guy who collects stamps and helps people evaluate the sets that they find in grandad's closet (I don't give a shit about stamps but the history that he talks about alongside them is great). the Green Brothers, if you're still into them. plus all the major news outlets are on there, as well as quite a few politicians. woodworkers, clay artists, stonemasons, glass blowers, all showing their art daily

I've been blocking anybody who does undeclared advertising for like a year, and they just don't show me that shit anymore

pelletbucket , 13 days ago

i fucking hate it.

pelletbucket , 13 days ago

the only reason those whales are surviving is because they're legally protected and people don't want to hurt them. we hunted whales nearly to extinction without even using gunpowder

pelletbucket , 13 days ago

I'm into some commie shit but fuck tankies man

pelletbucket , 12 days ago

whatever J-Lo has been working on

pelletbucket , 11 days ago

something will probably just break out from time to time, like 4chan. although, something breaking out of here is more likely to attract more long-term users than 4chan I assume, this place is a bit more welcoming

pelletbucket , 11 days ago

the only thing I hear about it on the news is the occasional War Thunder leak

pelletbucket , 11 days ago

I think everybody who's anybody is on Threads but nobody uses it

pelletbucket , 11 days ago

now I have anxiety because I know for a fact that if somebody switched to them I'd be annoyed but I have no idea what order they're in so I have to go look

pelletbucket , 11 days ago

oh wait. I have a ADHD and I live alone so I don't use a drawer organizer, I opened the drawer and remembered that all of my cutlery is just scattered randomly in there.

pelletbucket , 11 days ago

Telehex failed (I guess they've been trying to raise money on Kickstarter since at least 2015) because it offers no real advantage over a regular folding allen key with interchangeable heads. it's only good for 3, 4, 5 & 6mm heads, so you're paying an absurd amount of money for something that you could replace with one of these for a lot less money in the exact same form factor. plus, you're introducing multiple possible points of failure; there's no way a Telehex would survive as many uses as something significantly cheaper. same reason the universal socket didn't stick around

pelletbucket , 11 days ago

nothing fucks with tolerance like a twisting force, and that's the only force you're going to be applying to this thing.

pelletbucket , 11 days ago

lol you'd have to sort through all of them one at a time to find the right one every time

pelletbucket , 11 days ago

I have this nifty thing, but it isn't exactly pocket friendly

pelletbucket , 10 days ago

it's bringing us first-hand accounts from struggles around the country and around the world. it's the reason we had first hand footage of what was really happening in palestine. you get updates from the front lines in Ukraine faster than the news does because you're following the javelin gunner that made the shots. it's the only reason I know what's going on in the country of Georgia right now, it's the only reason I know that there still finding whatever polyvinyl chemicals in the soil of East Palestine Ohio. it's probably going to serve you dancing girls at first, but once it gets to know your tastes, you'll be served videos from archaeologists, biologists, artists and professional divers that have retired to a Caribbean island, who take you along as a member of their team gets the bends through the whole process.