We have household joke that the hen is allowed to eat our eyeballs, particularly if we’re dead, but not limited to that state.

Oh yeah, chickens will wreck lizards, alive or dead.

They really are predators, just not exclusively so.

Our rooster sometimes gets in the mood and will go out into the brush and run down mice and such. The hens usually just grab what comes to them though. They’re plenty satisfied with their feed, the occasional egg that they don’t want around, and bugs. But if a small rodent catches their eyes, it is on. There will be mighty roars! Okay, more loud and satisfied buking with the sounds of thrashing as they dismember their prey.

But they aren’t really mean per se. They’re just driven by instincts more than a lot of critters. They see blood, and that means food, even if it’s a flock member bleeding. They have to establish their hierarchy within the flock, and that does come with some (okay, a lot sometimes) pecking, but it isn’t being done just for the fun of it. It admissions maintains a stable flock and ensures resources for the ones that are on top if resources run low.

As long as there’s plenty of food and space, they don’t kill each other intentionally, as in to eat. They’re just highly motivated, and it goes bad sometimes.

They can be really sweet to each other, and to humans. My little hen is sitting here on the arm of the couch preening and seeking attention as I type this. Every evening when she comes in, we cuddle a bit before she naps. And she’ll nestle with both the other birds at times as well. She’ll also keep both of them in line with pecks as needed, including the big numpty of a rooster that’s twice her size, but ten minutes later they’ll be in their little spots next to each other being companionable.

They aren’t exactly smart, or even highly complex in the way you might expect birds to be if you’ve been around parrots and their ilk. But they do have that mix of vicious instinct and affection that a lot of social animals have.

If you’re interested, in my post history, last sunday I did my usual weekly comment in the [email protected] pets sunday post. I put pictures of our three in the comment. The community used to be at [email protected] , but that instance is shutting down. But I’ve been telling stories about our adventures in chickening for a while now. They are endlessly entertaining to me lol.

Well, the degree and severity of what you’re describing isn’t what most people experience, and it seems like it is at an unhealthy degree of frequency and severity.

I would say that anyone experiencing that kind of inner turmoil would benefit from evaluation and treatment. Trying to diagnose someone online is a sucker’s bet even if you’re a qualified professional, and I seriously doubt you’re going to find one of those here on lemmy randomly. But, yeah, if a family member or friend out here in meatspace told me they were experiencing that, I’d be helping them find either a psychiatrist or other mental health provider sooner rather than later.

Most people do experience at least occasional intrusive thoughts, but not to that level. It’s very good that you recognize it’s an inner voice rather than a separate source though. It does tend to mean you’ll respond well to one or more of the various treatment options, which will depend in exactly what the root cause is. Likely, there would be a combination of medications and talk therapy of some variation or another.

And, I suspect that even though most people need to try a few meds before they find the best options, that you will likely get relief quickly once that happens. So you’ll be able to approach other treatments and benefit from them quickly as well.

Oh, that’ll definitely get them doing it. But sometimes, they just decide that thing looks yummy and go for it, even when they’ve got good calcium supply in their feed.

It is when they’re acting as a police force.

Pfft, that’s target practice

Man, rizz is the new yeet, and both belong on the pedestal of excellent slang.

Im finna yeet rizz into heavy rotation

Hell, they’ll eat their own eggs just because. Don’t even need to be desperate. Chickens be brutal lol

Chickens will definitely pick and peck at each other until things get ugly, even with all possible room to roam. It isn’t caused by poor conditions like too small cages and such, but factory level conditions definitely make the problem worse.

You can have an acre and a handful of hens, and they’ll at least occasionally peck at each other. The problem really only starts when there’s an injury, or conditions prevent a bird from moving away from more peck heavy birds. You don’t want an injured chicken kept with the flock. It isn’t even necessarily eating the injured bird out of some kind of prey drive. They just go at even minor wounds.

Now, with enough space and care being taken, that isn’t likely to result in death. But it can, no matter how much room is involved if you don’t isolate injured birds.

I’m not sure exactly how “wild” you’re thinking, since you aren’t going to run into truly wild chickens in most places. But feral ones that started as kept birds, those you’ll find in plenty of places. Our neighborhood has two flocks that started from abandoned birds something like twenty years ago. And they’ll definitely eat the hell out of one of their own if it gets sick or injured. And they’ll absolutely eat one of their own that gets killed by a car or whatever.

We have a partly feral hen that decided she owns our yard. A while back, her comb got injured, and we had to keep our other hen inside long enough for the injury to heal, since we couldn’t catch the volunteer hen. They see a little blood, and they’re like “yum!”, the same as they do when they see a worm or bug or even a piece of meat.

And chickens will eat any meat they can get to. Chicken is even considered a good food for chickens. Won’t hurt them, plenty of protein, and they’ll gladly pick the bones clean of scraps.

Being real, there’s not much in the way of easy to get things that are painless, even if they’re fast. Such options have been legislated away. Others have been limited by additions that make them difficult or impossible to take in quantity.

So you really can’t rely on anything you’re likely to have available without also having the knowledge to change them into a form that removes those barriers. And, if you had that already, you wouldn’t be here asking this.

Now, I’m not giving anyone instructions on how to off themselves. It’s illegal in enough places there’s no way I’m risking that for a total stranger.

What I can say is that the things you’ve listed here either wouldn’t work at all, would be painful, or won’t work the way you want.

You’ll have to do your own research on this kind of thing. Nobody that would give you advice in the open could be trusted to give you good advice. I’m not even talking about someone fucking with you, it’s just that it’s kinda specialized knowledge in terms of knowing what to do to achieve the goal of a fast and painless death that will also not fuck you up if it fails.

Like, there’s plenty of stuff that’s fast, plenty that’s painless (or so fast that the pain isn’t a factor), but damn near everything that’s going to be available to the average Joe is going to have a chance of failure. Most of those will fuck up your brain or body, and you’ll be even worse off than before.

So you have to independently verify shit. Even someone well meaning may not have awareness of possible outcomes. Even someone that’s 100% behind right to death can still be wrong in their knowledge.

1337 comments?

You are truly uber

A button fly’s what?

That’s probably true regarding the dangers; but as far as I’ve ever seen, it doesn’t link to the etymology of it at all. Batty or similar things have a fairly established record. Batshit is less than a hundred years old as a term for crazy, and has solid origins in print that aren’t related to that.

I mean, a pond filter and pump will do the job fine. Wouldn’t even need chlorination tbh. If it stays running at a high enough volume, nothing harmful is going to set up shop before you’d need to replace the water to begin with. It isn’t impossible for a nasty to build up, but the risk is really low once you’re turning a small volume of water over fast.

There’s online calculators for water turnover rates. Plug in the volume of your pool + a little extra for the system, shoot for a 4-6 x a day minimum, and afaik, you won’t even have mosquito larvae.

But, being real, you’re going to be losing a ton of water from splashing and evaporation anyway, so filtering is a lot of expense for something that’s likely going to be used maybe a couple hours a day at most. You’ll have to have that pump running 24/7. In a small system like that, you’ll also be doubling the amount of work.

I’d just dump it into the barrel as is once it gets low and dirty, chlorinate that, then filter for particulates as you go, moving it back and forth to the pool however. It’ll cost way less, and do the same job.

Did you comment in the wrong place?

Your comment is talking about resolution, and the post is about YouTube throttling speeds, not resolution of videos.

I suspect you were trying to respond to a comment instead of making your own top level comment, though I’m not certain.

In any case, if the comment is in the wrong place, now you know. If it isn’t, well, it may help to know that it’s out of place thematically.

Edit: I think this comment https://midwest.social/comment/18120563 is where you intended to respond

Well, I’m not going to play the “it depends on the writer” card.

But it kinda does apply, even among people conveying their real life experiences. And, to forestall arguments, it doesn’t matter if it is objectively real or not, assuming they aren’t lying, they’re relating their lived experience. Whether that is a delusion or hallucination is irrelevant to this matter.

See, if you start off with the assumption that ghosts either exist, or are a form of shared delusion, then some things can be taken from that.

First, that anyone seeing a ghost is a minority because seeing them isn’t a common occurrence. Second, that regardless of anything else, the first ghost seen isn’t random. Third, that if a ghost can communicate at all (which is not a part of all reports about ghosts), it has limited time to do so.

With those probabilities in mind, if you see a ghost, chances are that it is there for a reason, that you seeing it is for a reason, and that it has to use its time with you to achieve a very specific goal.

Why would the racist ghosts start off saying “now, I’m racist, but hear me out”?

It’s that simple. Unless a ghost is haunting only a given grouping of people, there’s no benefit to expressing their racism at all. If they are haunting a race, then there’s still no need to outright say it; they’re acting on their racism and don’t care if anyone understands their motivations.

It isn’t just those, but horses and bulls have the biggest poops most people will ever see. So using them as reference for giant piles of unpleasant things makes sense.

Now, batshit? For one, have you ever been near where bats stay? The smell is so fucking intense.

But, bats are also known to flit around in a way that’s erratic when you rarely see their entire flight path. So they have a reputation for being less predictable, or a little crazy. At least that’s my understanding of how bats got referenced for someone being easily distracted, weird, or crazy. You know, “that old lady is a little batty, so don’t be surprised if she forgets to pay you”, or “that dude has bats in his belfry”.

How that got linked too batshit, I’m not certain. Back when I looked it up, the sources we have now didn’t exist., which ima go look the etymology of it up and see if there’s something newer to me. If there is, I’ll come back.

Nah, nothing new. Only thing that I saw this time was batshit probably coming more as a variant of bullshit, with a similar meaning, and then getting tangled up with the idea of being batty. So, in terms of how it would be used, a crazy person isn’t bullshitting because they think what they’re spewing is true, so it’s batshit instead.

Also, I noticed apeshit out there as well. Meaning to lose one’s shit in a violent way. Which, apes tend to look like they’re going apeshit as a dominance/threat display, but tend to not carry through as often as humans do

Nah, they’re so your wine bottles can coast on tables.

Seriously, that’s what they started as.

Using them to protect tables came later

Man, I’m so with you.

We got into it by accident too. I’d been around chickens when I was younger, but never our own, so it’s a totally different experience.

Our little trio is a source of infinite joy and entertainment. Only reason we don’t have more is being at the physical limit of what we can take care of. I’d have a yard full if it were otherwise.

Hypothetically, I don’t have a limit st the high end, and the low end would be based more on the individual, but no younger than eighteen.

In reality, chances of finding someone in their twenties that would mesh well with for dating is unlikely, so thirty-ish is a more realistic lower age.

Upper end is less restricted for dating, but on a realistic level, I’m not going to enter a relationship with someone that’s into their seventies just because of life span probability after that.

Luckily, I’m happily married, so I don’t have to worry about that shit. But I’ve never cared about ages for dating, since dating is essentially “trying on” someone for a more committed relationship. It makes it worth interacting with people that are less likely to be compatible on a surface level, when going into it with the knowledge that it’s probably going to peter out anyway, so the risks of it having a high price are lower.

Seriously, every relationship has difficulties. You can’t predict what’s going to arise over decades of being together. So limiting options by age ends up being arbitrary. While I never went looking for people far away from my age, anyone old enough and developed enough to understand what a relationship is was the determinant.

Now, on a practical level, once you’re out in the work force, chances are that you’ll be interacting with people from their mid-to-late twenties up to their sixties. So you aren’t going to end up dating outside of that range often. To date someone you have to meet them, and communicate often enough to ask them for time outside of whatever scope you meet them in. So I never really dated outside that range at any point. But I wouldn’t have rejected the possibility if it came up.

I dunno, I just don’t see age gaps as a problem.