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I've been a somewhat regular NPR listener for years

It of course carries from one program or station to another but my general impression is that, no surprise, nearly everyone involved in NPR is pretty solidly liberal.

But they bend over backwards so far trying to be impartial that it almost becomes a parody sometimes.

I remember one time, I'm pretty sure it was around the time of the unite the right thing, I was listening to some segment where they had some neonazi piece of shit on, I think it may have been Richard Spencer

And while it was technically a really good and informative interview, it burned me up that they just weren't tearing into this piece of crap.

And to make matters worse, Nazi boy was really confident and well-spoken, and whoever they brought in to argue the other side, some lady from a university or something, simply wasn't. If I weren't listening to the actual words coming out of their mouths I would've gotten the impression that he was someone who really had his shit together, and she was some clueless dip shit they bribed into the studio by offering her free kombucha or something.

It was like they went out of their way to make it seem like maybe this guy had a point worth listening too and didn't deserve to just be taken out back of the studio and shot.

I had soy chorizo at some little brunch place in NYC years ago.

I remember the taste being fine, but the texture wasn't quite right for chorizo.

However, as a Philadelphian, I thought the texture was a dead ringer for scrapple.

So on the off chance that there are any manufactures of soy chorizo reading this, I highly recommend that you diversify into the soy scrapple business.

You'll have a ready-made audience in roughly the Southeastern PA area of both vegetarians/vegans who miss eating scrapple from their carnivore days, and people who are just a little too grossed out by the real deal to actually eat it.

Chick fila a and hobby lobby for sure

Target will get a bit of leeway from me.

The other two are run by people who have actively funneled money towards shit like conversion therapy

Target, unless I've missed something, just kind of pulled their DEI initiatives, so while they're not doing anything to make the situation better for LGBTQ people, they're not trying to actively make shit worse for them either.

Also nothing chick fila a or hobby lobby sells is particularly essential, you don't need craft supplies and fast food. Target at least sells basic essentials like clothes, groceries, medications, etc. and sometimes they're the only or most affordable place in town to get those things, so I can't exactly begrudge people for shopping there for those things unless I know there's a better alternative.

If you can, you shouldn't shop at target of course, but you gotta do what you gotta do.

Presumably you're browsing english-language Lemmy

Most people are going to want to converse in their native/primary language, and by numbers that means a lot of Americans who are, of course, primarily concerned with American issues

There's also the fact that America is a huge player on the international stage, so American issues can have a lot of repercussions in other countries

And if you haven't noticed, America has kind of a lot of shit going on and there is a lot to talk about there.

If you were able to target it properly to the right species, depending on where you are in the world, there's a good chance that the rats and sparrows you're thinking of are invasive.

I know around me in the US I see a whole lot more house sparrows (native to Europe, Asia, and some parts of North Africa) than I do any native Sparrows.

And the two most known rat species- the black and brown rats, originated in different parts of Asia and more-or-less spread around the world with human trade and migration.

So getting rid of those would probably be a good thing to reduce competition for native animals.

I feel like a lot of people are going to take that as some sort of anti-space program sentiment, which may or may not be your point.

But for those people, I think it's worth considering that we don't know what all of those environmental challenges are until we go to space and find out.

One way or another, earth will become uninhabitable, whether by our own hand thanks to climate change nuclear war, etc. or by some natural phenomenon that we are powerless to prevent- gamma ray burst, asteroid impact, the sun dying out

In all likelihood, we won't have to worry about those natural disasters for hundreds, thousands, millions, or even billions of years, but we don't actually know that for sure. For all we know, we could just be days away from destruction by some ridiculously powerful space-bullshit that we don't even know to be worried about yet.

We aren't always going about space exploration in the right ways or for the right reasons, but every tiny step we take does inch us closer to a better understanding of what's all out there in the universe, what dangers it presents to us, and how we can avoid or counteract those dangers.

If we hadn't been sending astronauts into space for the better part of the last century, we wouldn't know that it might cause these kinds of vision problems, and so we wouldn't know to work on a solution for that to have it ready for when it's really needed. Sure would suck to have all of our other ducks in a row to set up a sustaining Mars colony or whatever, only to find out when we got there that 70% of our colonists can't see right due to the trip there. Now we know, and we can work on a solution, whether it's bioengineering, or special contact lenses, or whatever may be needed.

i don't know if you can really call it stalking if they're willingly making information about themselves available for anyone to see. I didn't have to so much as punch his name into google, just click his name at the top of his post and it was all there for anyone to see.

He didn't have to put his information out there and make it publicly available, but presumably he was ok with everyone on Facebook having access to that information about him.

And if he wasn't ok with that, it made him realize his error so he could address it.

I think it depends a lot on the community and what you're posting.

But in general, if you're posting good quality, relevant content and not just spamming with every article you come across, engaging with people in the comments, not x-posting things to a bunch of different communities, and of course not being a dick, I don't think there's an issue.

Possibly one of the best cheddars in the world is from the US (and comes in a can)

Cougar Gold

I've had it, it's really good, and it keeps basically forever in the refrigerator, arguably getting better as it ages

By all means, please capitalize on my typo. It's got a nice ring to it.

I have a Belgian Malinois, which, if you're not aware, is basicallythe breed of dog used by military and police that aren't German Shepherds. They are absolute maniacs of dogs, full of all kinds of prey drive and herding instincts and such that have long-since been bred out of your average family pet.

So for a while when I still had a Facebook I followed a couple of Malinois pages to help me better understand what was going on in my dog's head.

Now some malinois owners are great, they understand the reasons why their dogs are the way they are and understand how to manage them properly.

Others are absolute assholes who just wanted the really cool supersoldier dog that can run up walls and eat bad guys, and don't really do anything to channel that energy properly

I remember one post in particular of some guy's dog "playing" with a turtle, picking it up, throwing it around, etc.

I'm a dog owner, I've at times dabbled in hunting, I'm an environmentalist and conservationist, I know what sort of laws are out there and what is and isn't allowed. And people are stupid and make entirely too much information about themselves available online.

So I could see from this guy's profile what state (and in fact what city he was in, what high school he went to what company he works for, etc.)

And I could easily Google what the laws in that state are

And lol and behold, allowing your dog to harass wildlife is not allowed in that state. There were fines, potentially prison time, the officials could even take your dog and have them destroyed over this. I think it might have even been legal, maybe even encouraged, in that state for anyone witnessing this happening to just shoot your dog on the spot.

I of course wasn't about to report this guy over this, I didn't want his dog put down or anything, I just wanted him to be a better, more responsible dog owner, so I pointed this out in the comments, that were, up until that point, mostly just other assholes jerking each other off over how cool malinois are.

He, of course, quickly took the past down after that.

But not before a whole bunch of people got really pissy about me looking at his profile (to see the information about himself that he made publicly available I guess?) and taking the time to Google the relevant laws in his state so that I could point out exactly why what he was doing wasn't just morally wrong but actually illegal.

There were disturbingly few people commenting on that post who were simply angry that this jackass was letting his dog fuck with a turtle.

As an aside, my dog is a rare "lazy" malinois. She's still more energetic and driven than pretty much any other dog I've ever met, there's a part of her that definitely wants to eat someone's face, but she's content to sleep on the couch all day instead. She definitely would chase some rabbits, deer, foxes, squirrels, etc. given the chance (I don't give her the chance,) and she's never seen a turtle, but she seems to like just sniffing and occasionally licking frogs and toads (I try not to let her, but she occasionally finds them before I do on our walks, the amphibians seem mildly annoyed by this, but not enough to hop away from her, and I make sure to get her away from them ASAP so that they can continue frogging undisturbed.)

I was raised Catholic, but it's been a long time since I've done a confession, I've been an atheist since before I knew there was a word for it and so I haven't set foot in a church in decades except for weddings and funerals.

But I'm not entirely clear on how this sort of reporting would be supposed to work

There's usually some sort of screen between the priest and the person making confession, so you can't really get a good look at someone to identify them. I'm sure there's some cases where a priest might be able to identify a regular regular parishioner by voice, but that feels like kind of flimsy evidence. And if someone goes to confession at a different church, or just doesn't attend or interact with the priest one-on-one regularly, then there's basically nothing to go on. Are they going to launch an investigation into half the Catholics in town to determine which one of them might be a child molester?

I suppose the priest could get up and try to chase the person out of the church to get a good look at them, but thinking back to the fat old guys who were the priests at the churches I went to growing up, I'm pretty sure I could be out the door and in my car speeding away before the priest managed to stand up in his booth to try to follow me.

If you're lucky, maybe someone waiting in line for confession could identify them, but the handful of times I went, the church was never very crowded for confession, and I doubt most of the people there were paying too much attention to who was coming and going around them.

If the church has security cameras, I suppose you could identify someone that way, it's been like 20 years so I can't remember if my church growing up had cameras or what their current situation may be. If they did, I doubt they were pointed at the confessionals of all places.

Sure, they should be required to report what they can, but I doubt there would be many cases where it would lead to anything actionable.

In my experience in American high school (20 or so years ago now) I wouldn't say they're ridiculously overdressed, but certainly kind of an outlier, we might've had a couple girls dress like that on any given day. They'd also probably be violating or at least very close to the limits of my school's dress code with the skirt lengths.

The left one looks about right to me though. Maybe slightly more dressed up than average, but would blend into most crowds well enough. Except for the heels, I wasn't exactly looking at people's shoes but I don't remember anyone ever wearing heels to school unless there was some sort of special event.

In general, I'd say the average high schooler back then wore a t shirt or maybe a sports jersey, and if it was cold maybe some of them wore a flannel shirt sweater of some kind (mostly the girls for sweaters)

A hoodie if it was cold

Jeans, sweatpants, sometimes pajama pants, shorts when it was hot out, cargo pants (mostly the guys) and once in a while some of the girls would mix in a skirt or dress, but not often.

You'd also get a handful of preppier kids with khakis and polo shirts or a button-up, a few goths or artsy types, etc. who might wear something crazy, the one weirdo who wore a suit, etc.

But mostly it was jeans or sweatpants and a t shirt.

I was more of a cargo pants and t shirt guy myself.

I don't pay too much attention to what my local teenagers are doing these days, but from what I've seen of them it looks like they've slipped further towards the sweatpants and pajamas end of the spectrum.

As a native speaker, I also didn't really get the headline at first

I'd normally interpret "taking the knife to something" as roughly the same as "making cuts"

But graphene doesn't make the fairphones and doesn't support them, so nowhere to really make cuts

I feel like maybe they got the message that people are getting tired of headlines over using terms like "slammed" and wanted to do something different but chose a pretty terrible alternative.

At least we all know what "slammed" means now.

I think we're going to need some details or pictures of how your couch is constructed and how it broke to really answer this

Since you mention unscrewing the other legs, could you just go out to home Depot (or local equivalent big hardware store) and purchase 4 of something like this and replace them?

Thanks to ambiguous sans-serif fonts, we don't really have to choose

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At least on my phone, those look damn-near identical.

Temperatures in fahrenheit, because that's what I think in.

Winter should be cold and snowy, I'd like there to be about a foot of snow on the ground at all times between December and February.

Spring should be about in the upper 60s-mid 70s during the day, and rain maybe a couple times a week.

Summer, I don't ever want the temperature above the 80s, and humidity should be low with a nice breeze. I also want the occasional really good thunder storm, often enough to keep us out of any sort of drought or burn ban, but not so much that we have flooding issues.

Fall I'd mostly like to be in about the 50s, cooling off towards the end of the season so that it's in about the lower 40s or upper 30s for deer season

I have no doubt that this will attract some people to turn out and vote

But I really worry that this will just create a second party of brainwashed idiots who are just riding the hype train and not actually engaging with politics.

Which, to be fair, is probably what the party leadership wants. If they can get a bunch of people who blindly show up because they bought into the hype, then they don't have to actually of the things those of us who have been paying attention have been begging them to do.

I'm at home in a town about 10-15 miles from the town and hospital I was born in (as the crow flies.)

And I've lived the majority of my life in a town that's probably about another 3 miles from there.

If I were asked to name my home town, I wouldn't give the name of the town with the hospital, I'd give the town I grew up in.

But it's all close enough together that all three towns share a certain sense of hominess for me, I have childhood memories from all 3 towns.

We all speak, more-or-less, the same local dialect with the same slang (there's a couple shibboleths and bits of local lore that are unique to one part of the county over another) We enjoy the same local foods, root for the same sports teams, attend a lot of the same big local events, etc.

I proudly, and without a hint of irony, tell people that my ancestry is from that town I grew up in.

Yes, if you go back 3+ generations, you'll find that all of my ancestors came from various European countries. Little bits of that has trickled down to the current generation, like a certain fondness for pierogi and kielbasa from my Polish side.

But that's also part of my local culture, those are fairly common food items here too.

I don't speak any of the languages my ancestors spoke, I've never set foot in those countries. Even my family name hasn't really carried over, my great great grandfather changed the name after having already lived here for some time under the original Italian name. It's a pretty unusual anglicization that barely resembles the original name, and anywhere in the world you may happen to encounter someone with my name, you know they can trace their heritage back to my home town.

And if you try to go much further back from that, the trail kind of goes cold. You can kind of make some educated guesses at which regions in their various old countries the different branches of my family came from, but not much more than that, except on the aforementioned polish side, some of those ancestors were a little more recent immigrants (though still well-before my time) and we have some communication with some relatives in Poland. Nothing regular, but once in a while someone on either side reaches out to see how things are going, and we know enough that if we really wanted to we could probably track each other down if we ever ended up in each other's countries.

But overall, my family history pretty much begins with my great-great(or so) grandparents arriving in America and settling in my hometown.

This is secondhand, half-remembered information I picked up from some stranger on Reddit probably a decade ago, so take it for what it's worth

But my understanding is that in some parts of Asia, being a monk is just sort of a thing that some young people do for a short time, and a lot of them aren't really what we'd think of as "clergy." Not sure if that's the case in Thailand or not.

It's almost more like taking a gap year to go backpacking through Europe or whatever the kids are into these days, or taking a summer job that just happens to be in a Buddhist temple and the uniform is a robe and shaved head instead of a polo shirt and khakis.

Now these seem to be involving "senior monks" so probably not just teens and 20-somethings trying to find themselves.

But I kind of have to wonder how many of those senior monks are more like that friend you had in high school who took a summer job working at a surf shop or something and just never went back to finish college and are still working there a decade or two later than they are someone who truly felt a calling towards religious service.