The other half are worse: people shouting nonsense at each other.

Not even whimsical nonsense, just nonsense about the maximally efficient way to exchange your labor and/or morality for the idea of financial security.

That’s kind of fucked up if there’s not an indication that it’s a replica. Akin to yelling fire in a theater if someone used one of them maliciously.

Perhaps it could be kind of neat as a curio if it’s a highly engineered/beautiful work of art (that is maybe too expensive to use for malicious ‘jokes’). But I’d still want it to have some sort of indication that folks aren’t getting dosed/they don’t have to trigger a response by your local atomic energy officials.

Editing to add that before I picked Krakatoa (fingers crossed on my inability to predict natural disasters), I actually searched for “disasters with no death toll” to use as an example for a potential model without much success. It is in poor taste and my comments are definitely parody.

That’s horrible. I love it.

Wow. A 3d printer, an ultrasonic humidifier module, and a completely sociopathic grasp on world affairs could see the most offensive Etsy store ever.

There’s basically no limit to the depravity one could stoop to in pursuit of money.

I sense a business opportunity, but at what cost?
No, I mean, literally, what’s a steaming Krakatoa worth?

They do not enjoy when you blow a raspberry onto it, however.

Sucking only. No blowing. Do not reverse the polarity.

Some people just don’t appreciate complementing a woman on her cooking.

I can understand. It can be reductive if that’s the only characteristic we value someone for. I, myself, value a great sense of humor, but preferences, like seasonings, are to taste.

Tell your sister she has delicious looking thighs!

“See. This is why I prefer rubber gloves instead of nitrile. That way I can keep doing the exam while they defibrillate, and my fingers don’t go numb!”

I want a phone I can hold comfortably in one hand. I don’t need a larger screen, I need to remember to call the eye doctor.

No. I know. These phones aren’t for me. They’re for people who want to replace their laptop with a phone. The market is moving toward an all inclusive device, and the only way to make that work is dorky VR headsets, awkward projectors, or venti phones.

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It’s inferred.

There’s a whole subset of people for whom that statement would be an expression of endearment.

I would more just assume some people have a playful relationship with their partners and the subject of neurodiversity.

All I see are under-evolved crabs.

The Australian Bearypus, however, is a critical fail ecologically and economically.

In nature, the 3 lb (1.5ish kg) critter has a snout with grinding plates, claw-less paws, a wide tail and is covered in a thick layer of white fur. Although capable of swimming, the fur traps too much air, so they float like balloons on the water. They require a very cool environment, and a steady supply of easily huntable and crushable prey. This makes them poorly suited for icy (prey availability), wet (floating), warm (fur) and temperate environments (coloration).

Commercially - no one wants to ask the pet shop for a bearypus.

Either my testosterone is high or low but doesn’t the chart above say it covers 16k men and is from 2018?
(I know it also says a longitudinal study, but I wouldn’t consider the inception to be the year the study is from.)

Back then the internet was a bunch of coffee shops. Not literally, of course - but for me it was about 30 people on messenger, my favorite chatroom, a random message board, a small but far flung group of people on LiveJournal, and sometimes even my Neopets guild.
Each was my own retreat. The weird and funny stuff we shared there was created and shared because people had a passion for whatever. It also was great in that you could learn about something, and share it with another group that had not seen it yet.

Today the internet is the infinite cul-de-sacs of meme pages, political messaging groups, and disinformation rings on Facebook, along with approximately 6 people that keep showing up from your friends list of hundreds. Or it’s the screaming gladiatorial stadium of Reddit, where the sheer volume of noise smothers any particular voice. Maybe it’s the infinite lawless Walmart of X or even the carefully manicured Target that is BlueSky.
From mining your attention, to hawking trinkets amidst the spectacle, or attempting to sell a little bit of everything to anyone, the new internet lacks third places. It’s all business, all the time, and you can feel it. Every meme is created to engage with that platform’s broadest audience. Everything is homogenized and lacks uniqueness. All the content has been aggregated and reshared, and in the endless and futile search for validation from the algorithm it’s lost something that makes it meaningful.

And that’s why I like Lemmy. It’s a digital third place.

Oh, I bet. That seems like the right amount of exertion for a heeler.

They are demons.

Smart, loving, sweet dogs that care for and would do anything for their herd. But you have to train them well and keep them mentally and physically engaged. You’ll have to work hard to socialize them and make sure they behave when folks come over or even walk past your house.

My wife is a pushover and inconsistent. (Not her fault, she’s naturally gentle and that’s her brand of ADHD.) Training our little gremlin was a real challenge. Picked up potty training from our other dog immediately, but he was a pandemic puppy and socializing wasn’t the best. Fine with strangers, but is anxious and barks too much. Barks at folks walking past the house, etc. Hate him, but I also love him. Little beastie gave me tinnitus.
Ours is a mixed breed - half Australian cattle dog, half American pit bull terrier. We do okay with managing his energy levels by taking him for a half mile walk 5 days a week and sending him to daycare 2 days a week. He could probably do a longer walk, but our other dog cannot (She’s old and has arthritis), and he won’t walk without her. He’s fairly anxious - weirdly, getting a cat seemed to help with his anxiety. They wrestle a few times a day, but don’t like, hang out or snuggle, but he just seems calmer and more confident. Ours is also intensely jealous and basically wants to be the center of attention for whoever his favorite person is at the time - which does change on a daily basis.
The recommendation I’ve seen online, but have not tried, is that if you’re going to get one heeler, get two, so they can wear each other out. It tracks with my experience, unless you have a lot of land and a decent amount of time. Heelers are working dogs, and even though they make great pets, their energy and need for engagement and exertion need to be considered.

A warrior uses every tool at their disposal to vanquish their foes!
Self care is an honorable and righteous pursuit. It makes you a more effective foe in battle.

I took my antidepressants FOR THE GLORY OF THE EMPIRE!

This feeds so much into my confirmation bias and I’m captivated by it.

Like how it’s a trope at this point that people with ADHD also demonstrate some behaviors associated with autism.

I want to see the Venn diagram of people with these diseases overlaid onto the Venn diagram of their genetic tests for the identified mutations.

Do certain mutations cluster to certain diseases?!

Article is less bad than headline. Looks like DOE didn’t officially grant access, but someone gave the guy access anyway.
DOE caught it, and wants to know what the fuck happened.

DOE is big. They regulate all sorts of stuff and the likely target is not nukes, but personnel information. That gives them the power to fire climate researchers, replace regulators and decision makers with stooges, and ensure the DOE derails the shift to greener tech - as much as they can.
There’s currently big DOE-funded projects ongoing that will allow for Texas to connect to the national grid, and will connect giant solar and wind farms in Oklahoma and Maine to long distance lines that connect all the way to the Hoover Dam — something that makes the drought in that area less impactful should they have to shut off the turbines due to falling water levels.