Get a cane and you can really have fun. People will do the “I’m not moving anywhere” routine down the sidewalk right up until you get close enough for it to click that they’re about to body slam a disabled person. 10% still smack into you, but the 90% that dance out of the way are amusing.

In the United States, the top 1 percent of households control 80 percent of company assets — the average person reading this has no way of ending the coal industry’s devastating reign over Appalachia, for example. That’s a decision to be made by shareholders and executives looming over us from the top of the pyramid.

o7

They’re dismembered and being sprayed with plant blood, I think it’s a mixed experience at best.

If you’ve never sneezed and thrown your back out, count your blessings.

I really enjoyed Kaiba! Time to go relisten to the opening theme.

Addressed this previously here: https://lemmy.blahaj.zone/comment/13887364

If you want to slap a clown nose on your face and honk it in the comment section of a story about 6 people (3 of which were children) dying terribly I’m not going to and haven’t tried to stop you, I just think it’s in bad taste and gives the place a reddit stink when it doesn’t have to. This doesn’t have to be reddit 2.0. We can do better.

I wish I could find the sources from when I was reading about this months ago, it was more about evolution in terms of things that can happen and not ‘random’ mutations, and one of the examples was tigers with orange fur instead of green. It’s not physically impossible to have structural coloring (although the fact there are no green mammals suggests a strong inhibition somewhere along the line), but you first have to have the genetic and molecular groundwork laid to allow it to happen. Ex: it’s not physically impossible for animals to manufacture their own vitamin C, but humans just can’t do it because we don’t have the necessary molecular pathways other animals use. I hope that makes sense for what I’m trying to get at.

Time marches on and people can continue upvoting after I left my comment. At the time I commented it had the same number of upvotes as the next highest comment (5) and was at the top when comments were sorted by top. Blahaj doesn’t federate downvotes, so if any were on either comment I didn’t see it.

All of which is sort of beside the point, even if joke comments like that aren’t the top comment it makes for an unpleasant and callous comment section. It’s okay to just have news that’s sad and not make it amateur standup comedy hour.

From what I understand green eyes are a bit weird as far as coloration goes, as they look green due to the way light is interacting with small amounts of melanin in the iris (the same pigment that makes eyes brown) rather than due to green pigment. I’m not sure that could be replicated in fur vs in a liquid environment like with the eye.

Birds mimic green colored pigments with iridescence (except turacos, they have green pigments for real) in their feathers, but I’m not sure that’s something mammals can do structurally in fur the way birds can in feathers.

It would be great if lemmy could not be Reddit 2.0 with everyone racing to make the most upvoted joke comment in a news story about three dead kids, but here we are.

This isn’t aimed at you in particular, I’m just sick of seeing it because it’s indistinguishable from actual callousness, even if you’re “coping” through humor.

They cancel it if the weather isn’t good, just in case they need it for real.

Personally I look for the Saul Goodman doll before the degree on the wall.

It’s also orange because mammals can’t produce green pigments, so orange is the next best thing if your prey is red-green colorblind.

No, that was a shock site. You’re thinking of Lemon Party.

Alternatively, do read it if you’re having trouble cutting back on fast food spending!

I saw a guy doing this recently (not to a barista, but someone that worked with the public) and the only thing that kept me from losing my mind on him was knowing there was no way the worker wanted to deal with him AND me blowing up at him. He eventually just left, but it was maddening to witness.

Also, IME upper middle and upper class people are about 1000% more likely to do this than anyone else. This douche sounded like the frattiest frat bro to ever frat.

Somewhere around 4-5 million Americans can’t vote even if they wanted to due to previous felony convictions.

If those customers lived at and had families at the store, yeah. If they still want citizenship at this point they should get it.