What is unnatural about capitalism?

As it pertains to the function of the hypothalamus, what is the difference between fighting and fending?

Brother bear don’t treat me like I can read. Communowhatever is for hippies.

Is neutral milk hotel real? I thought that name was made up for a bit on Parks and Rec.

Unironically yes, that would be much better. I can control how fat and stupid I am. All I can do for those kids is vote and I’m sure I don’t need to go on about how little that has helped.

Looked it up. We are both wrong. Apparently it was a specific antitoxin serum for diphtheria. Still not a vaccine but also not penicillin.

Been a while. Was it a vaccine? I thought it was penicillin he was hauling.

Can I hijack this to shout at clouds for a sec? Thanks.

Disclaimer: I am not antivax but I do have loved ones who are.

I’m tired of memes like this. They aren’t just unhelpful. They are anti helpful. The antivax problem isn’t an educational one. It’s an emotional one. Calling people stupid just makes them feel righteous. They dig their heels in and use the adversity as fuel for their own misguided system of beliefs.

The misinformation around antivax doesn’t even need to make sense because it is not designed to overcome people’s critical thinking. It is designed to prey upon the fear of people who distrust medical professionals. People who have had severe or numerous bad experiences with doctors are often eager to think of them as villains because it allows them to feel more powerful. It allows them to feel like they have other options than just to take a doctor’s word as gospel. Like they don’t just have to put their health in some stranger’s hands.

Many people have valid reasons to be afraid. From malpractice and misdiagnosis to complex chronic issues that don’t have tidy prescribable solutions, there are tons of patients and families who have been underserved by the medical industry. For these people, it’s understandable why they might cling so hard to the idea that other more independent options exist. Even if the explanations for these “alternatives” don’t hold up to scrutiny.

If you actually give a shit about this issue, please stop treating antivaxers like morons. Instead, treat them like people who are afraid, and who often have sound reasons for feeling that way.

I still remember my first chipmunk encounter. I heard the little guys before I saw them and wondered “who the f is out here playing laser tag in the woods? ”

The dude is so happy about his lot in life too.

How much are you willing to dig for it? I’m playing through hollow knight atm and have been shocked at the emotional depth that hides in the margins of the world. If you plow through the game and only touch the required content then all you get is the overall somber vibe. But if you turn every stone, talk to every npc, complete every side quest, you might be surprised at how much love and loss and joy and pain there is in the story.

Overall it is about picking through the ruins of a dead kingdom. You can engage with that as much or as little as you want. IMO they do an outstanding job of rewarding you for the effort.

Sometimes it’s me arguing with bots. It’s probably also sometimes other people not arguing with me because they think I’m a bot.

That doesn’t really make it less agitating though. There is a group of birds called jays (like blue jay) and the word jay is scientifically meaningless. It is still infuriating to me that these birds aren’t even vaguely related to each other in many cases. Just name them something else. Make it make sense. Koalas are not bears; just call them koalas. Guinea pigs are not from Guinea and they aren’t pigs. Horned toads are lizards. There are many examples of this. The names of animals don’t have to describe what they are, but they should not be accepted when describing the animal as something it is not. Animals should not have names that conflict with their taxonomy.

Yes and no. Clades still have issues with things like hag fish.

Who decides when a species becomes naturalized / stops being invasive? As an example, the European Starling has been living in North America since 1890 and are still considered invasive. They have natural predators. The ecosystem is adapting around them. Just let them have citizenship already!

Another thing: Taxonomy. Just all taxonomy. If a shark and a trout are both fish then we must also be fish because both of those animals are closer relatives to us than they are to each other. Obviously the way we define a fish has to change. Why has nobody done this? There are a TON of things like this in taxonomy and that all make me absurdly angry.

Shenandoah National Part during a wind storm in March. It’s not always windy there but holy shit that was some wind.

Not how that works but it’s funny.

This behavior is as annoying as it is unhelpful. I agree that nobody should let the story fade from public interest but spamming random threads doesn’t accomplish that. It’s just obstructive and if anything it’s doing more harm than good. There is a thing called alarm fatigue. If you keep “shouting from your rooftop” you are just going to push your neighbors into shutting their windows.

Also maybe consider talking to a therapist about it? It’s none of my business but this level of investment seems unhealthy.

Nah, you are speaking sense. I think Lemmy was really pitched as a Reddit alternative (or at least that was my experience)and it makes sense that the first flood of people who got excited about that are people who miss how Reddit used to feel.

IMHO Lemmy feels similar to how Reddit felt 10-15 years ago. The community seems closer to my age. The population is smaller. The content is less formulaic.

The biases shown here feel like a distillation of the broader internet (similar to what Reddit used to be). We like animals and nature, we hate intrusive powerful forces like large corporations or invasive governments. We share a shit-post-y sense of humor. We tend to lean left politically. We love to feel like we know more than we actually do.

On any given subject, if you ask “What would the internet think about this?” you will probably find that same opinion reflected strongly here.