Have you seen the Mice Templar series? It looks kinda similar. I haven’t actually read it all the way through yet because I only have books 2 and 3. It’s gorgeous, and what I have read is amazing which is why I picked up book 2-3 without 1 or 4-5. As soon as I find a copy of those kicking around, I’m very excited to explore the whole story!

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Mice_Templar

Well below freezing, best I can tell. That was the only time I’ve ever seen anything like that. But it was way back when I was living in a shitty apartment (14 years ago) with whatever shitty appliances they had. Really hard to say.

I bit bread like this once and I can still vividly taste it.

I’ve accidentally eaten various kinds of mold several dozen times in my life, and in some cases I could barely tell. Slightly dirt flavor. That’s the dangerous mold.

I was also in my 30s when I found out some people don’t know what mildew smells like. They know the sour smell in clothes, but don’t realize it’s mildew. My partner was one such person, and they -still- don’t care but that smell drives me bonkers.

Unrelated because I didn’t eat them, but it reminded me of the time I made cookies (specifically Russian tea cookies, aka snowballs) and put them directly in the freezer without letting them dry out, and it was humid enough in the container that months later when I went to eat one, they had tiny adorable mushrooms on them.

Edit: actually this would be maximum Derek

That tortoise is like “omg! Mom look! I told you I’d fly someday! Look how fast I am!”

Blue toner evens out coppery colors, so if they had any bleaching done to lighten the non-gray and homogenize their color, the blue toner would even it out.

However, grey hair that has been “opened up” with chemical treatment but has no color of its own to compliment/cover will pick up a blue tint.

Idk why it’s not common anymore; maybe because stylists know better, maybe products are better, or maybe they just use pre-formulated dyes now instead of multi-step.

I mean yeah, dishes are the actual worst.

I got weird rotary phone, GameCube, then that funeral video. I sort of thought this was some millennial meme I’m too out of the loop to understand. Lemmy is full of those.

I really want the context. Tho the really old jokes I’ve read have all pretty well sucked according to my present tastes, so…

Oh man it really is too. I spent the better part of a day trying to find a good instance to join to post and I couldn’t figure out the various keywords and stuff; every time I thought I found a fit it was basically the opposite of what I needed. Then I gave up and stopped even wanting to do it.

Yeah, in direct opposition to the tragedy of the commons idea, which hadn’t even been fully released when she started debunking it. It’s always been a capitalist argument that doesn’t hold up to reality when moneyed interests don’t exist. In this case it serves their money interests but if there were big companies locally that wanted the water or something, if they gave in that would ruin the system and invoke a tragedy of the commons where it’s I got mine, screw you.

But if you talk about it that way it doesn’t resonate with people. You have to be roundabout with how you approach science and communism topics with average people because it’s very radial ideas to them, even though it’s literally the default way humans work.

Yeah, nah.

If that’s just what it is I’ll keep it as an entry in my server but I’m not gunna watch it myself.

Thanks for the info :)

So I know this is smiling friends but like I’ve tried watching that and hated it. One episode probably?

Does it get better? It’s awful popular…

That gave me a good chortle. Thanks for making my dumb thought funnier 😊

They don’t care.

Project 2025 says the ideal US population number is around 100 million. That means we need to shed about 250 million people.

This is all according to plan.

Honestly was just the first example I could come up with, but the fact remains that a lot of things do consider ants to be harmless because they aren’t, like, hunting those things. Especially other small arthropods.

I’m sure there are some hunting ant species (like the 200 army ant species), but most of them aren’t.

Consider: the goal isn’t for predators to be fooled, but prey.

Lots of things consider ants totally harmless, like aphids that gets farmed and stuff. Perhaps it’s an adaptation to throw those things off.

Arthropods, man. They have two ideals and everything goes toward them.

When I was working on my degree (science communication; half science, half linguistics and communications courses), I had the choice between making it a B.S. or B.A.

I went for a B.S. Guess I chose wrong. I figured it was all BS anyway…

It was really interesting when lemm.ee went down because all of my accounts took a serious amount of time to deal with that data change. Just a ton of “unable to fetch” errors until it all calmed down.

Only my piefed account worked properly.

I didn’t know that’s what was happening but the time lined up.