What, and I cannot stress this enough, the fuck.

Speaking as a vegan who has gotten legitimately emotional before because I love lobsters as creatures and they deserve better: who the fuck thought this was a good idea. Who thought this was going to tug at heartstrings instead of loins. Who thought this was going to unlock compassion instead of new fetishes. Who thought people weren’t going to want to fuck the lobster.

PETA’s marketing campaigns fucking baffle me.

I hate this timeline.

But also, direct link to the article here.

No one here has yet named and shamed the Swedish for their banana pizza and I cannot let the Swedes continue to get away with this. https://www.smithsonianmag.com/travel/bananas-and-curry-on-pizza-thats-how-the-swedish-do-it-180984961/

At first I thought that, surely, this was just someone reheating pizza in a skillet with a splash of water added, which is a time-honored tradition that can have very good results if done right, but I’m looking at the water level compared to the rivets and the height of the pot, and no, someone is just. Boiling a pizza. This is why God has abandoned us.

That makes sense. I’d say it’s still worth a shot for OP, though; if none germinate within a week, they can try sprouting second batch indoors where it’s cooler and transplanting them outside.

You are… The Conscientious Objector patron saint: Holly Herndon It doesn’t work well, it’s doing real harm, and you’ve opted out on principle. You’re not a technophobe — you just think this specific technology is overhyped and corrosive, and you’re tired of being told you just don’t understand it. You understand it fine. That’s the problem.

A raccoon ate two and a half of my scotch bonnets last year.

and a half

Found the exact point when it kicked in, huh?

Really? Most peas I know take within the realm of 60 days, making them a pretty short cycle crop, hence why I chose them. Peas planted now would be finishing up near September, which is before the first frost date in most Northern Hemisphere zones AFAIK. I doubt OP is in the Southern Hemisphere from the comments on when they first began considering a garden.

A lot of people have given good information here, but I think right now you seem to be experiencing overwhelm, and you may need a bit more experience to make sense of it all. So I’m gonna start you off very simple.

Buy a packet of snap peas. Little Marvels are good, but any snap peas will work.

Get a growing container. If you can find a milk crate, that’ll work. You can line it with the burlap from a bag of rice, or with garden cloth.

Fill it with dirt. There are a lot of cool things you can do to make dirt, but we’re doing dead simple. Buy some soil at the store. Garden soil or potting soil will be fine.

Sprinkle your peas over the dirt. Push them in so they’re covered by dirt.

Water daily on days it doesn’t rain. The goal is to make sure the soil doesn’t dry out.

When the peas sprout, put something into the container for them to climb up. Wooden stakes are usually good for this.

Harvest peas as you see them. They can be eaten raw or cooked in various ways.

Eventually, they will finish producing and die off. You will notice them going brown and shriveling up. Once you reach this stage, look up how to compost. That will be your next step.

Once you have built confidence with the above exercises, start looking through seed catalogs for next spring to figure out what you want to grow. Then come back to Lemmy for advice with a list of the plants, your location or growing zone (you can look your growing zone up online) and some information about the space available to you to garden and whether you’ll be doing it as containers on a patio vs. in dirt, etc.

Also, check out c/gardening, as well as potential related communities like balcony gardening and hydroponics.

Interestingly enough, I know multiple queer fans of wrestling. They enjoy the storylines despite the cheese factor and appreciate the skill involved in a lot of the moves, considering it as its own kind of performance art. Like maybe you’re not winning any Oscars for selling moves, but when you look at things like the Tombstone Piledriver, which are so difficult to pull off both convincingly and safely that use was restricted for a while to just two wrestlers, I can understand that.

I have, however, never encountered a single wrestling fan who did not hate Vince McMahon’s guts.

Hey, that’s cool! This seems promising for enabling people dealing with chronic pain to have more options for ways to control pain without needing to potentially compromise mental function when they need it. Now to scroll through the comment section to see everyone’s completely reasonable and measured takes.

Oh damn, didn’t know you were on Lemmy. I use Kittygram CONSTANTLY! Thank you for your work.

I was there for that, yeah. It did occur to me that this might be a similar case, but either way, I think the solution to deleted posts like this should be that you can still view the comments by going to the link directly or clicking to it from a comment on a user profile.

While I understand that it’s hard to recall an arrow that’s been let fly into the public forum of the Fediverse, I don’t love the idea of automatically saving everything, either. I want for people to be able to self-delete content, and also there’s concerns of doxxing and illegal content. I just don’t think that deleting a post should make the comment section disappear into the aether.

My ideal scenario here would be:

• Self-deleting a post will remove the post content and remove the post from the community where it’s posted, but the comments remain viewable by going to the post link or a comment directly.
• Moderators have the option to delete a post vs. to unlist a post from the community. So illegal content could be deleted, but off-topic content would leave the post’s text intact, just prevent it from showing in the community feed. Unlisted posts could also still be re-shared to more appropriate comms.
• Users would have the ability to mute notifications on a post, removing motivation to delete posts just to get rid of notifications.
• Users would have have the ability to orphan a post, removing its association with their user but keeping the post otherwise intact, for people who want to leave a post available for archival purposes but no longer want their name on it.

Of course, I list these as ideals because I realize there’s potentially tricky implementation issues. I’ve never really dug into the codebase, so IDK if some of this is stuff that would require updates to the Fediverse protocol itself to be supported, if some of it would be tricky or a heavy lift on Lemmy and Piefed, how difficult it would be to update viewing apps like Voyager and Jerboa and the like, etc. And there are of course also UX considerations in terms of how to make any of this intuitive to site users. But it does feel to me like the ideal balance of users having the ability to remove their own content vs. people wanting to retain access to their own content and to useful references even when a post is removed vs. moderator ability to curate and moderate communities.

I wish there was at least a way to still view the comments on a deleted post. You can do that on Reddit and it adds a lot of archival value.

glances back at the Ice Age movie

IQ tests, as I recall, are generally pretty decent at their originally intended purpose of predicting performance in the mainstream school system (at least up through high school, not sure about college), because the skills and knowledge it measures strongly overlaps with the skills and knowledge that match well with the current schooling system.

People have subsequently attempted to take this extremely limited and borderline circular usage (Do well on your IQ test? Do well in school. Do well in school? Do well on your IQ test) to be broadly meaningful, which is deeply flawed in a number of ways. And now, of course, there’s attempts to update IQ to reflect a broader set of skills, which is sort of a step in the right direction but still fundamentally flawed in its attempt to reduce an incredibly broad set of different skills and areas of knowledge into a single number that you can rank on a scoreboard against others’ like that’s remotely meaningful.

And of course, by skills, I mean not just the things it’s supposed to measure like math proficiency, vocabulary, etc., but also skills implicit to the nature of the test like focus, auditory and visual processing, ability to actually provide a definition for words vs. knowing how to use them but not knowing how to rattle off dictionary-style definitions, etc., all of which are also skills that are advantageous in our education system as it is currently structured but which aren’t really a measure of other areas of intelligence.

Sadly, we as a society, at least in the Anglosphere that I’m familiar with, have a bad habit of prioritizing measurements that give us easy numbers to work with but don’t really reflect reality that well over more complicated methods of assessment that might be more difficult to work with but actually work better.

Very cool!

These are all gorgeous! Are they domestic or feral? They don’t fit the most common pigeon coloration I see in feral pigeons in the US, but I definitely have seen some feral pigeons with extremely unique coloration and it’s always so cool. (Though every single pigeon, no matter how “common,” is beautiful in my eyes. Unironically, they are one of my favorite birds.) Also, you might be from the UK or something, and I don’t know much about the state of pigeons there, or if you have any truly wild pigeons vs. feral ones.

!askelectronics@tchns.de is a bit more low level than is most common, but may still be worth including on the list.