GraniteM @ GraniteM @lemmy.world

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Counterpoint: I'm bad at giving directions, and I assume the customer is bad at listening and following directions. So if I walk them to the thing, we're both less likely to have to repeat the conversation.

At the end of Elf, Buddy and Jovie have made babby.

Relevant Oglaf (NSFW but not nearly as NSFW as this comic often gets): Dimorphism

Are you implying that I'm going to get impregnated by the books?

Because I'm not necessarily saying no to that.

IIRC, there was a study done with cats hearing recordings of random voices saying random words, random voices saying the cats' names, owners' voices saying random words, and owners' voices saying the cats' names, and then carefully measuring the cats' responses.

The findings pretty convincingly showed that cats full well know their own names but choose to ignore the calls.

Look up the real-life Louis Cyr.

Lot of people in this thread with "There's no point in trying to do something about the companies selling DDT because consumers want their gardens pest-free so we should just talk more about personal responsibility instead" energy.

Sure, companies are providing things that people want, but the way and quantity in which they produce those things is atrocious, and ultimately those companies are the source of the vast amount of the pollution.

We can and should tell people to eat less meat, but telling people to exercise that level of self-control while at the same time leaving systems in place that make the meat economy otherwise the same isn't going to do a damn thing. Conversely, you could tell end consumers virtually nothing while at the same time passing and enforcing actual environmental regulations that slightly increased the cost of a hamburger, and you'd see a real decline in demand.

You've got to focus your efforts on where they can do the most good, and focusing on forcing a handful of companies to change is more likely to show results than politely asking billions of people to change their lifestyles.

This is actualy just statistical error. The average liter of air contains 0 microscopic ants. Ants Gorge, where the air has over 10,000,000,000 microscopic ants per liter, is an outlier adn should not have been counted.

He made it 7.8 mooches, so that's not a bad run, by Trumpworld standards.

Boy asks Pope if his atheist father is in heaven.

Humility, patience, kindness, grace, and rationality. Would that we should have more leaders like him in the future.

Boy asks Pope if his atheist father is in heaven.

Humility, patience, kindness, grace, and rationality. Would that we should have more leaders like him in the future.

And was also a cursed doll that wished to be a real boy.

It’s amazing how much “mature wisdom” resembles being too tired.

—Robert A. Heinlein

1 John 4:20 If anyone says, "I love God," yet hates his brother, he is a liar. For anyone who does not love his brother, whom he has seen, cannot love God, whom he has not seen.

Crucifixion was an exceptionally awful way to die. It could take days. The Roman soldiers were required to stay until the victim was dead, so sometimes they would stab them or build fires at the base of the cross to hurry the process along. The mere act of being crucified, even if you assumed the subject didn't stay dead, represents an incredible act of dedication.

Trey Anastasio would be so fucking disappointed to be associated with this person.

Starship Troopers isn't a smart movie pretending to be a dumb movie, it's a moderately intelligent movie with pretensions of being a smart movie pretending to be a dumb movie.

Robocop, on the other hand, is a masterpiece.

I was going to suggest this:

It takes minimal effort, cheap materials, and is quite strong. I've had my woodpile on one I put together for a few years. Once I had put the angled 2x4s into the cinder blocks, I also filled the remaining space inside the block with pea gravel to keep them from wiggling around.

Here's the full DIY instructions.

Edit: If needed, I'm pretty sure they'll cut the 2x4s to your requested length, at least at Lowe's.