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  • BigNote@lemm.eetocats@lemmy.worldMissy
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    1 year ago

    My cat’s name is Nancy Reagan. She’s almost lived up to it. And no, she doesn’t like you either and if you try to pet her you’ll get what you deserve.

    Some cats have official titles. I had another cat whose title was “Chief Inspector.” He was known to do home invasions and conduct snap inspections of my neighbors houses. He had more friends in the neighborhood than me.



  • Not true at all. There’s tons of adaptive pressure. If there weren’t, we wouldn’t see the thousands of pelagic and shorebird species that we do. But even if what you say about the threat from predation were true --its not-- there would still be adaptive pressure from differential reproduction rates and access to nutrients.



  • BigNote@lemm.eetolinuxmemes@lemmy.worldWindows eats partitions
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    1 year ago

    This. I entirely understand that some people don’t have that option, but it’s worth reiterating that if you have a choice, you’re best off not to have partitions at all.

    I run Mint on an 8-year-old Mac desktop machine with no partitions and it’s lightning-fast for everything I need it to do.

    It’s also worth mentioning that I have said desktop machine because my wife is a pro photographer and Apple and Adobe have colluded for decades to create a kind of “planned obsolescence” whereby professional photographers are ostensibly locked out of the current industry standard unless they run a very recent version of Photoshop that by design isn’t compatible with hardware architecture that’s more than about 5-years-old.



  • What a crock of shit!

    Why would capital willingly poison its workforce as a deliberate policy? That makes zero sense.

    I can see capital writing it off as a necessary side-cost of doing business, but I can’t see it as a deliberate policy.

    Again, it makes no sense. Capital wants a relatively healthy workforce, not one that’s falling apart due to lead-caused neurological decrepitude.


  • I have a cousin who still insists that her mom died of pneumonia and that it wasn’t COVID. Her husband is currently in prison for storming the capitol on January 6th, which tells you all you need to know. It’s weird because she’s the only one in my extended family who’s even remotely into far right craziness.



  • That and the fact that everything about our society shits on working people and tells them that it’s their own fault that they aren’t rich like the college-educated elites who look down on them.

    It doesn’t actually make any sense, but I am telling you that this is a huge part of the resentment that Trump was able to tap.




  • BigNote@lemm.eetoMemes@lemmy.mlEVs
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    1 year ago

    but that would require major reworking of large areas.

    Yes, that’s precisely what will be required. There’s no getting through this without implementing massive changes to our way of life. Everyone wants there to be some kind of easy get-out-of-jail-free card, but that’s not how it’s going to be.


  • I used to be a big tele skier, but over the years I figured out that I prefer riding a snowboard when it comes to steep and deep powder.

    To me it just feels better.

    You do what makes you happy and I will as well.

    I’m old, in my 50s, and have no interest whatsoever in telling anyone what to do or how they should enjoy the mountains.

    I leave that shit to the kids. No one my age actually gives a fuck.




  • BigNote@lemm.eetoMemes@lemmy.mlPower Sources
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    I’m increasingly of the same opinion, however, I dislike the fact that even talking about nuclear as a potential bridge technology is such a polarizing issue.

    I am very far from being an expert on the subject and accordingly don’t have a strong opinion either way as to what role, if any, it can usefully play in transitioning to sustainable energy models.

    What I don’t like is the immediate labeling of either side of the issue as somehow automatically being indicative of bad faith or “shilling” on behalf of a larger, nearly conspiratorial interest.