Before "Steward's Folly" gets brought up, I invite you to watch this Premodernist video.
cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/22057360
> RIP Bob > > Relax in peace. He's fine.
As of last week, Canada has become the first country to pass federal laws supporting the "right to repair," giving Canadians the legal ability to fix their own devices, from ice cream machines and tractors to game consoles. Bills C-244 and C-294 were given Royal Ascent, which now let Canadians bypas...
Ah, much appreciated; that doesn't show up on my app. Man, I wish the experience weren't so inconsistent between desktop and mobile. (Also good riddance.)
Oh shit, you're right. Monk hasn't posted in 20 days. How convenient lmfao
Can't criticize them after the election
Huh? That's all anyone has been doing the past week. What are you on? You're acting like this is some sort of catch-22, but it so obviously isn't: hold the line before the election to minimize the chances of a fascist getting into office (like in 2020 with Biden), then immediately thereafter regardless of the results completely shit all over them for how they aren't where they should be.
Edit: I still haven't heard how the complete avalanche of massive, basically unabated criticisms of the DNC over the last nine-ish days is being suppressed.
A baby red panda has died due to “stress caused by fireworks” after choking on her own vomit just five days after her mother died, according to an animal rights group.
cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/22031243
> Summary > > A baby red panda named Roxie at the Royal Zoological Society of Scotland died from “stress caused by fireworks” after choking on her vomit, just days after her mother’s sudden death. > > The incident, occurring around the U.K.’s Bonfire Night celebrations, has led to renewed calls for stricter fireworks regulations. > > A petition with over a million signatures urging restrictions on public fireworks sales was submitted to the U.K. government. > > Edinburgh recently implemented limited fireworks control zones, but animal welfare advocates argue for broader measures to prevent similar tragedies.
I'm also going to note that a ton of slaughterhouse workers are either undocumented or are the sorts of legal first-generation Latino immigrants Trump would still want to illegally deport. Even as a vegan who wants to see this industry die I can see how fucking disastrous that kind of shock would be for food prices. Even the change in public perception would be massive since it seems like the price of meat is one of the most significant barometers most meat-eaters use for how expensive groceries are.
Leaving this up even though it attempts (and fails) to justify genocide and uses what's arguably an ethnic slur akin to e.g. "Paki" or "Jap" simply because I think readers should have an opportunity to contrast your ignorant bullshit against @jatone@lemmy.dbzer0.com's well-reasoned comment debunking it.
However, stay the hell out of this community forever. Thanks.
Okay, so the Moon weighs about 0.012 Earths. The Sun weighs about 333,000 Earths. Meaning the Sun is about 27.75 million Moons. Clearly, then, we can't assume they mean that 455,000 Moons would collapse into a star and be just as luminous.
So now what I'm wondering is: does ~1/455,000 of the Sun's light hit the Moon? That can't be true at all, right?
Shhh, don't call it "haptic feedback" or they might make them flat, unmoving buttons that have a vibration motor behind them.
Who owns the escaped monkeys now? It’s more complicated than you might think.
cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/21919918
This is why I only hire Shelly de Killer.
A lot of things, actually. Milk is so clearly and consistently marked as an allergen that I'll often as a vegan just check the allergens if I don't have any reason to suspect the use of meat products, meat byproducts, honey, or non-allergenic dairy ingredients.
I would probably still do a double-take and check the ingredients here, but with the movement to plant-based alternatives, you never know if someone who treats this the same way I do as basically a gold standard (because that's what it's supposed to be) will simply take it at face value. It's also plausible that someone without strong English literacy but with such an allergy would rely solely on the basic allergen label rather than trying to parse more complicated English words.
The reason it has to be strictly enforced like this too is that if you justify this as "well everyone knows it's Butters butter, so it doesn't really need a label", then it's not as trustworthy and therefore efficient to those who need it, and it risks drawing a line where not everyone is on the same page.
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When the ICC next probes war crimes claims against the chief sexual misconduct prosecutor:
Correct, and Trump did try to kill the ACA in 2017, partially succeeded in having parts gutted out by the SCOTUS, and is likely to succeed in fully killing it this go-round.
Kathy Watson was anxious about her health coverage even before she woke up gasping for breath last month and drove herself to the emergency room with a flare-up in her heart condition.
Any rich person born after 1993 can't party. All they know is gym, invest in they mentors, not work, be knowledgeable, do business, and lie.
Everyone knows that ethics and the law are basically the same thing. /s
The U.S. government has a lot to do with it.
In my town, there's a local gardening store. I often go there by car, but recently having gotten my first commuter bike several months ago, I decided to bike there. It's a longer ride, but no big deal; I had other stops, and I only needed seed packets. I got there as they opened, and I started looking for somewhere to lock my bike. There are several dozen parking spaces and plenty of storefront, but for the life of me, I couldn't find a bike rack. Turns out there was none, so I did the next-best thing and used an out-of-the-way cart return as a makeshift rack, ran inside feeling hurried and embarrassed, bought the seeds, and left.
Instead of giving up, I emailed them talking about my intention to commute by bike when possible, my history shopping with them, why I choose them over a nearer and more bike-accessible store, my experience that day, an argument for why not only I would appreciate it but why others probably would, and how small businesses can get long-lasting, off-the-shelf bike racks for fairly cheap. Not even 90 minutes passed before I got an email which CC'd the business' management team as follows:
>Hi [name]
>I sincerely appreciate you taking the time to write to us with your suggestion.
>We will seriously look in to the possibility of a bike rack.
>And thank you for your business too. We appreciate it.
>In the meantime, also feel free to lock your bike up against our long line of metal fencing located along our driveway [...] That should be reasonably secure as well.
>Copying the [business name] manager team on this well [sic] to see what and where we can make this improvement.
I agree it's strictly possible that I'm being brushed off, but given bike racks can be bought off-the-shelf so cheaply, given there are neighborhoods very nearby, given they sell plenty of small goods that anyone with a bike could pick up, given they're a long-established business, and given they went so far as to CC the entire management team, I feel confident something might actually get done here. I hope this will not only let people who already want to bike there do so, but it might also give the idea to some people who don't yet.
"The message of Elwood’s Organic Dog Meat has traveled far and wide. Within a month of our website going up, the 'farm' went viral."
cross-posted from: https://thelemmy.club/post/18931801
> Too bad they are missing their Christmas bonuses.
The Firework Campaign has delivered its anti-firework petition to 10 Downing Street, the residence of the UK Prime Minister
Fireworks are (often extremely) harmful to:
- Wild animals (especially birds)
- Pets
- People with PTSD and combat veterans
- People with asthma
- People with sensory issues (e.g. children with autism)
- People trying to sleep
- Surface- and groundwater quality
Even though those using them often justify that they don't care about the risk of damaging their own ears, eyes, brain, and extremities, fireworks also create massive negative externalities for the people and wildlife around them.
Walkers has officially removed the milk powder from Thai Sweet Chilli Sensations, meaning they are suitable for vegans
Be advised that some with milk powder are apparently still on store shelves, but these will eventually circulate through and be replaced with vegan ones.
Those who expect that Donald Trump will hurt others, and not them, are likely to be unpleasantly surprised.
The number of bears kept in captivity in Việt Nam has decreased by an impressive 95 per cent, from approximately 4,000 individuals in 2005 to just 192 at 60 bear farms as of the end of August.
Donald Trump just took his war on the free press to a new level of absurdity, filing an FEC complaint against the Washington Post for — wait for it — promoting its own reporting. Apparently, Bezos&…
