[-] seaweedsheep@literature.cafe 7 points 4 weeks ago

He's been fostering another chick since May or June!

[-] seaweedsheep@literature.cafe 14 points 4 weeks ago

He's fostering another chick this year!

[-] seaweedsheep@literature.cafe 6 points 1 month ago

If you're going to plant it, plant it in a pot first, then bury the pot up to the lip. It will stay mostly contained and you won't see the pot unless you're right on top of it. Mint reproduces through runners as well as by seeds and the runners are so much harder to control. If you bury the entire pot, it makes it easier for the runners to escape, which is why you want that little bit of lip above ground.

[-] seaweedsheep@literature.cafe 9 points 1 month ago

I don't know about actively posting, but Karin something-or-other monitors social media posts about scientology. Don't forget to say hi, in case she's found out about Lemmy.

Hi, Karin!

[-] seaweedsheep@literature.cafe 163 points 4 months ago

Instead of protesting outside, we should go inside and laugh at people like this. Make them worry that the crowd is just there to humiliate them.

[-] seaweedsheep@literature.cafe 11 points 4 months ago

In the US, if you're in jail, you have to make phone calls through whatever provider the jail uses. These are private companies and charge a lot of money to the family just to talk to their loved one. A quid pro quo is a reward or advantage in return for something. In this case, the jails receive extra money for letting certain phone companies be the only ones prisoners can use. By preventing in person visits, they are lining their pockets with even more money. It's disgusting.

[-] seaweedsheep@literature.cafe 7 points 5 months ago

I was coming here to post the same thing. He's been a guest on the Knowledge Fight podcast a few times and is an absolute delight to listen to.

[-] seaweedsheep@literature.cafe 8 points 5 months ago

No. But also, this is Ontario, well-known for being outside US jurisdiction.

[-] seaweedsheep@literature.cafe 14 points 6 months ago

Hbomberguy made a video about it. There's no nuance or foreshadowing in that Sherlock. He exists just so Moffat can feel smart that he knows something the audience can't possibly know yet, nor does he give them a chance to figure it out.

[-] seaweedsheep@literature.cafe 21 points 7 months ago

Q would leave breadcrumbs, because he needed to be as vague as possible to sound like he knew what was going to happen, right? The people who would interpret those breadcrumbs were called bakers. Yes, I know breadcrumbs are from bread that's already been baked, but that's what they decided to call themselves to create an Us vs Them feel. So the "bread" in this image means there are things to be interpreted or reinterpreted yet.

[-] seaweedsheep@literature.cafe 9 points 7 months ago

There was a very flawed study years ago where a biologist observed wolves in captivity and determined that they fight for dominance within the pack. Later, he realized that in a natural setting, a pack is a breeding pair and their pups, as you stated. A natural pack is much more cohesive and doesn't have a strict hierarchy, but the ridiculous myth of "alpha wolves" won't go away completely, despite the same biologist's efforts.

[-] seaweedsheep@literature.cafe 77 points 7 months ago

Your friend is an idiot. MRNA vaccines are not new. Scientists have been working on a vaccine since SARS, which is similar to COVID (aka SARS-CoV-2). One of the reasons why medication can take so long to reach the public is that it takes money, which likely come from grants, which take time and have limited amounts to go around. When the pandemic broke out, countries around the world threw money at these labs. Everything else pretty much stopped, so they didn't have to wait for an understaffed and underfunded FDA to approve it.

Getting the vaccine is much better than slowly suffocating because the virus destroyed your lungs. Herd immunity only works when enough people have been vaccinated and clearly we haven't reached that yet since people are still getting infected, reinfected and dying.

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