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Cake day: August 14th, 2023

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  • People like to commit, though. They want to commit. They want to make an account and be done. The ability for established users and communities to move around is a great feature that makes Lemmy superior to other sites, but it really needs to work on making new users feel comfortable enough to stay put when they’re first figuring things out, because if a new user decides to leave, they’re probably not switching instances, they’re switching platforms.



  • We elected a CEO to be president, essentially adding the country itself to his business portfolio. He’s obviously going to trade a part of that power to other CEOs in exchange for favors and loyalty to benefit himself. It’s nothing more than a business deal to exploit the country and its people for profits, something all wealthy business owners are familiar with, and something Trump didn’t even try to hide his plans to do if he was elected.


  • Signtist@lemm.eeto196@lemmy.blahaj.zonescrulevy
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    19 days ago

    Yeah, the cells of most animals have the ability to make their own vitamin C, very likely including our ancestors if you go back far enough. The evolutionary reason why we stopped is probably simply because our bodies stopped needing to make it due to our fruit diet, so individuals that didn’t make the acid had a little bit more energy and nutrients to spare that would’ve otherwise been wasted to make it when it’s not needed. Over millions of years that small difference was enough for them to survive to parenthood slightly more often than their peers, slowly edging them out of the gene pool.

    Evolution generally pushes bodies to conserve resources, so unnecessary things are usually dropped if the environment doesn’t require them for long enough. Kinda like how creatures living in dark caves eventually evolve to stop wasting the resources to make eyes and pigmented skin.





  • When I was in college they came out with a bunch of different “pieces” candies. They were just like Reese’s pieces, but for different candies, like Heath and Almond Joy. I loved them, and I loved the fact that you could mix them together to make different flavors. They didn’t last too long, though. I was disappointed when I couldn’t find them anymore after a few years.

    Then later I found a new favorite candy in the Butterfinger cups. They were like Reese’s peanut butter cups, but softer and with little Butterfinger pieces in them! I loved them, but they also disappeared in a few years. That’s the issue with gravitating toward new things - so many of the ones I find myself enjoying end up failing since most people just like to stick with what they know.


  • Signtist@lemm.eetopolitics @lemmy.worldTIL I learned I'm trans!
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    26 days ago

    Yeah, pointing out how someone is ignorant to science by being less ignorant, but still ignorant, isn’t a good rebuttal. It’s true that humans go on to develop as female in the absence of the androgens kicked off by the SRY gene in those who inherited it, but that doesn’t mean they’re automatically female up until that point. I’d say they’d be nonbinary, but ultimately this definition is using the embryo’s future ability to produce sex cells as the differentiating factor, so their state during conception is irrelevant to this definition, even if it’s being applied at conception. It would be interesting to know how this definition would cover someone with congenital anorchia, but I doubt anyone who respects the order would care enough to try to define it.


  • They say they want an efficient government not wasting time and resources on unnecessary things. What they actually want is a government that makes them feel superior to all the people they’ve been convinced to hate, in this case Mexicans and Leftists. Trump knows this, and gives them what they want so that he can get what he wants, which is free reign to exploit his position and his country for profit while his loyal voter base blindly supports his efforts to usher in their demise.



  • I hear this argument all the time, but I don’t really understand it. I remember when Pokemon first came out and me and all the other kids were imagining wandering through dense jungles hunting for rare and elusive Pokemon. Sure, we’d imagine battles too, but the franchise always seemed way more about discovery and adventure than about battling. That’s why I haven’t managed to finish a pokemon have since X and Y, in spite of trying each one. The battles get better, sure, but I just don’t really care. Luckily, Legends Arceus was exactly what I always pictured Pokemon to be about, and I had a blast playing through it. Hopefully the next Legends game will be just as good.


  • My mom was one of these people. They think that free travel is a universal right, which gives them the right to drive without a license, but the “fake” government uses the word “transport” specifically to say that they aren’t traveling, and force them to follow their laws. These types get very caught up in specifics of words; they also think spelling their name in all caps is completely different from spelling it normally, and can be used to"enslave" you, though I forget which one they think is bad.