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futurebird , to random
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Some one asked in DM how to identify ants. So here is my method:

The best resource online is

https://www.inaturalist.org/

This is an effectively peer-reviewed database of correctly identified photos of insects.

To identify an ant search for "ants" then set your region to the location where you saw the ant. Look through the photos until you see a match.

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rubinjoni ,
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@futurebird @econads @CliftonR It could also be the materials - synthetic textiles tend to get stinky faster / in a different way. Nutritional and lifestyle habits also play a role.

futurebird , to random
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So of ya'll talk about "reply guys" on Mastodon. And yeah that exists, but it's like the least annoying of the gruesome menagerie I used to deal with every day on X social media.

There were:

  • Stalker
  • Mr. Race Science
  • Always Wrong, Thinks He's Right
  • Mr. I'm Making This About Politics
  • Ms. Gender(ing everyone for no reason)
  • Mr. Just Plain Racist
  • Mr. I thought I blocked you?
  • Mr. "I know where you work"

and on and on

rubinjoni ,
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@futurebird @tob @Naich Well, the latest discourse here is that replying is a problematic behavior that needs to be regulated at scale.

futurebird , to random
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I decided to find out if any progress had been made on the science behind why some ants are attracted to electrical fields. After filtering out exterminators (it's so demoralizing to search for information on creatures you love and find nothing but people who know nothing about them boasting about how they will kill them all) I found what looked like a blog. But, who the heck is "James Brown"? Never heard of the dude. Maybe he could be my new friend if he likes ants enough to blog about them!

rubinjoni ,
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@futurebird @medley56 @wmd Are you aware of the (now retracted, fortunately) scientific paper with AI generated illustrations of absurdly large rat genitalia? It was making rounds on the Fediverse a few months ago. Scientific publishing was already severely flawed before AI slop generation became a thing, and it's going further down the spiral. It really boils down to personal reputation, which also has it's flaws.

rubinjoni , to random
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@futurebird Ant hill in central Serbia (near Topola):

Ant hill.
Closeup of the ant hill with openings and ants visible, probably Formica rufa.

rubinjoni OP ,
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@futurebird Introduce them to Central Park!

narrator's voice: this is a joke.

dansup , to random
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Infinite scroll is a blessing and a curse, combined with algorithms, they can become quite addictive.

That is the whole point of developing a project right, for people to actually use it, and the most possible?

I know, there are detriments to encouraging excessive use, but we shouldn't ignore the fact that algorithms and infinite scroll are here to stay.

The question with @loops is, how we can encourage the most healthy use?

rubinjoni ,
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@dansup @loops Have you considered Ninja Scroll™?

dangillmor , to random
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You have to carefully read this Axios piece -- on the rise of "partisan-backed outlets designed to look like impartial news outlets" -- to learn what should have been shouted right at the top: The overwhelming majority of these "pink slime" sites are engineered by right-wingers.

With that context firmly in your mind, do read it.

https://www.axios.com/2024/06/11/partisan-news-websites-dark-money

rubinjoni ,
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@futurebird @dangillmor Lean finely textured beef (a step away from Soylent Green™)

davidzipper , to random
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In Vox, I explained why small business owners consistently exaggerate the share of customers who drive, undercounting those who bike, walk, or ride transit.

Merchants' pro-car bias leads them to fight critical policies like NYC congestion pricing as well as dedicated lanes for bikes and buses -- moves that could boost their bottom line.

https://www.vox.com/future-perfect/354672/hochul-congestion-pricing-manhattan-diners-cars-transit

rubinjoni ,
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@futurebird @davidzipper Every driver in Belgrade: "damn, the city should finally build that subway, so everyone except me can ride it to work".

futurebird , to random
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Lost in all the jokes about "I'd rather be electrocuted than eaten by a shark." -Trump

(It's right up there with "But let me tell you something that I found out: A werewolf can kill a vampire. Did you know that? I never knew that." - Herschel Walker Ah, yes, Republican wisdom!)

But lost in all the kerfuffle was another curious comment from Trump about sharks:

"I watched some guys justifying it ... They bit off the young lady’s leg ... These people are crazy."

So, about THAT. 1/

rubinjoni ,
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@futurebird Ok, selachopropagandist.

futurebird , to random
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The major flaw I see in left-wing (think coops) anarchism is the simple fact that wielding power is still work. There is an implicit assumption that the freedom to be your own boss, set your own rules, shape the future of the organizations you participate in is its own reward.

It can be. But, it's also work, toil, labor, that which must be compensated or fall to corruption.

Too many anarchist ideas of how, for example, a small town might work require a population filled with busy bodies.

rubinjoni ,
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@futurebird Also, even fully self owned and self organized businesses (and coops are businesses) exist to market some product or service. They can be nonexploitative on the inside, but without a system to very tightly regulate the market they are coerced to behave like any other company marketing the same stuff. In other words, they must remain competitive with exploitation based businesses.

futurebird , to random
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If the FBI were charged with assassinating you we wouldn't be sitting here listening to you whine about it.

What is the story? Did you evade them? Run faster than thier bullets? Dodge them in slow-time?

If they were out to get you... why oh why didn't it WORK?

rubinjoni ,
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@futurebird The importance of not getting shot...

futurebird , to random
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I have never been more disappointed by a spelling error:

https://dp.la/item/9383481d7c3b1a327cbdf34ba6255d14

rubinjoni ,
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@futurebird Pinging @spellingmistakescostlives

futurebird , to random
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Why is it that the worst tasks: the ones I want to do the least are things that take like 17min tops to complete— but I think about how I haven’t done them — oh no no just can’t bear to do them for 30min a day for two weeks?

For me, at least, a task is odious if it may cause me to find out bad news that produces more tasks, if it involves forms, if it involves talking to people on the phone, especially someone I don’t know (what if they are mean to me? 😫)

It’s not THAT bad. Is it?

rubinjoni ,
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@catselbow @futurebird Comprehension quiz should be at random times...

mjg59 , to random
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In universe, did Indiana Jones's students know that the reason he kept flaking out of classes was because he was fighting nazis? Obviously the state department covered up the whole "Ark of the Covenant" thing, but did all his deeds go unrecognised?

rubinjoni ,
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@dymaxion @mjg59 I figured you don't actually have to give lectures once you have tenure.

futurebird , to random
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Its always remarkable to me to think about Descartes and Galileo being contemporaries: so we know how the former reacted when the latter was imprisoned:

“I inquired in Leiden and Amsterdam whether Galileo’s World System was available, … I was told that it had indeed been published but that all the copies had immediately been burnt at Rome, and that Galileo had been convicted and fined. I was so astonished at this that I almost decided to burn all my papers … .”

rubinjoni ,
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@futurebird I was cursed with seeing this output, and now I only think of him doing power squats...
https://beige.party/@Kierkegaanks/112393999941333175

lowqualityfacts , to random
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Highly offended that no one asked me to join the Board of Directors for Mastodon's US nonprofit. Nobody knows as much incorrect information about Mastodon as I do. I am a wealth of questionable knowledge.

rubinjoni ,
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@lowqualityfacts You run a Mastodon account, that's a big drawback.

DrJackBrown , to random
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The Republicans have long been trying to normalize sadism. They brag about it as if it were a virtue. Kristi Noem is just the most recent example.

rubinjoni ,
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@otownKim @DrJackBrown Killing a puppy for refusing to hunt peasants. Vile beyond comprehension!

futurebird , to random
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I’m very fond of stories in a universe where some advanced, but long vanished, race of enigmatic aliens has left behind strange artifacts: like puzzle boxes or dungeons for our heroes to explore and nearly get killed in. If not aliens let it be a lost human civilization.

I also like to think about those ancient people who built the ‘Temple of Doom’— for all of those traps to work so well after thousands of years they must have been very clever. What was it like to set them up?

rubinjoni ,
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@futurebird But, the traps don't work so well - the main characters always defeat them (somehow).

ElleGray , to random
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    rubinjoni ,
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    @ElleGray Stationary sheds and their consequences have been a disaster for the human race.

    lowqualityfacts , to random
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    I love Keanu Reeves.

    rubinjoni ,
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    @lowqualityfacts (the elderly woman was Hillary)

    futurebird , to random
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    having an address like
    @potus @ threads.net is like having

    potus @hotmail.com for your email or something... It should be @potus @ whitehouse.gov

    rubinjoni ,
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    @futurebird Oh, I sense an incoming "defederate from the White House" discourse/crusade...

    parismarx , to random
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    this is exactly the kind of dirt i was hoping this lawsuit would bring to light 🙂

    https://www.ft.com/content/9b6da77a-7e37-4e83-94cf-331fe8493894

    rubinjoni ,
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    @parismarx Techbros must sort this out in the Thunderdome, not chicken out.

    lowqualityfacts , to random
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    Wow.
    https://patreon.com/lowqualityfacts

    rubinjoni ,
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    @lowqualityfacts They used miniscule axes.

    pluralistic , to random
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    Things I'm not allowed to do in my hotel room.

    Registration No: Registrant Name: Company Name: Property Address: Primary Emergency Contact: - - PLANNING & DEVELOPMENT PRESERVE SHAPE BUILD Short Term Rental Registration Certificate - Operating or maintaining a sober living home; Selling liquor, illegal drugs or pornography; USING THIS PROPERTY FOR THE FOLLOWING PURPOSES ARE PROHIBITED: Any nonresidential use; - Holding a special event that requires a permit or license pursuant to a city or town ordinance or state law or rule; - Operating a retail business, restaurant, event center, banquet hall or similar use; Housing sex offenders; - Operating a nude or topless dancing; -Obscenity; - Adult-oriented business; or - Other uses prohibited by A.R.S. 9-500.39 FA 4 Emergency Contact: Date: 10/25/2023 10:23 PM Emergency Contact: . This must be posted within 10 feet of the primary entrance. City of Phoenix, 200 West Washington Street Phoenix, Arizona 85003 For questions, please contact vacation.rental@phoenix.gov
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    • rubinjoni ,
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    @pluralistic Does this mean this is exclusively a living-under-influence space?

    lowqualityfacts , to random
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    Happy Valentine's Day everyone.
    https://patreon.com/lowqualityfacts

    rubinjoni ,
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    @lowqualityfacts This is a high quality fact.

    rubinjoni , to random
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    Hey @lowqualityfacts Do you have any advice on cleaning my cast iron skillet?

    rubinjoni OP ,
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    @lowqualityfacts Thanks! It flakes off nicely when dry, removing the gunk.

    ElleGray , to random
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    I've never had a hero or a mentor but there's a huge raccoon on my street who's been stealing boots from backyards and then throwing them at people from high in her tree, and tbh she might be it

    Zoom in at the base of the tree where there's a brown leather boot, a blue flip flop and an empty can of gingerale

    rubinjoni ,
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    @ElleGray

    lowqualityfacts , to random
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    Very cool of Amazon to put unnecessary ads in their shows just so they can charge us more money to get rid of the ads that don't need to be there in the first place.

    It's the digital equivalent of the Coca-Cola Company putting rocks into cans of soda and then introducing "New and improved Rock-Free Coke, only one dollar more than the rock-filled original!".

    rubinjoni ,
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    @lowqualityfacts This is a high quality fact.

    lowqualityfacts , to random
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    Here's some tips for all the newcomers on here:

    -Introduce yourself by announcing who your least favorite Smurf is. It is standard.

    -If you wish to verify your account, please upload a picture of your face to confirm that you are not Chris Brown. Chris is not allowed on here.

    -Socialize by finding one person and commenting "This does not make me want to destroy you." on every single one of their posts.

    rubinjoni ,
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    @lowqualityfacts This does not make me want to destroy you.

    lowqualityfacts , to random
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    Please support me on Patreon so I can continue to write the Low Quality Facts that you all know and love.
    And if you're unfamiliar with my work, just look at a few glowing reviews from some of my biggest fans:
    https://patreon.com/lowqualityfacts

    Comment: Idiotic post!
    Comment: That's 100% unadulterated bullshit.
    Comment: See, this is exactly how willful ignorance is spread, with misinformation like this.

    rubinjoni ,
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    @lowqualityfacts Adulterate your bullshit ASAP!

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