I love Edith Pritchett’s stuff!

Where did you go?

I think you’re a little off on the “we need to fix this world” guys.

Although zombie films / TV series lean heavily into the action side of things, that’s just because it’s more entertaining than watching people building things, developing tech, doing scientific research.

Remember with COVID 19? Huge numbers of people immediately set out to find a cure, inventing and deploying ways to prevent and monitor the spread, creating pop-in treatment centres, etc.

We have that too (UK), but here, when used without the “up” part, “bottling it” and “losing your bottle” means getting scared and deciding not to do something.

Essentially, bottle = courage.

Quick question - do Americans use the expression “bottled it” for being scared off?

I’m wondering because in an episode of The Boys, Butcher says the related phrase “I lost my bottle” when he meant “I lost my rag”, and it made it to air, even though it made no sense in the context.

From an outsider’s perspective, although the Republicans are clearly the most corrupt of the two parties, the Democrats are far from being the good guys.

There’s plenty of evidence to suggest that the Democrat politicians don’t actually care about truth and justice either, they’re just less bad than the Republicans are.

Tldr: vote Democrat, but don’t kid yourself. Vote because they are the least worst option.

When juries deliberate, they discuss their reasons for thinking this or that. Basically, by telling the jury to disregard something, the judge is saying that this shouldn’t be included in the decision-making process.

Of course people can’t just take things out of their heads, and of course the legal representatives take advantage of that fact.

We’ve seen empires burn to the ground so many times before.

Does “World’s Richest Man” count as a leader? Because I’m struggling to think of any negatives to him being suddenly substracted from the world.

Also, TIL that substracted is a valid, albeit obsolete, variant of subtract.

Lemmy was released as an open-source fediverse alternative to Reddit.

Just over a year after launch, r/ChapoTrapHouse, moved across after being banned from Reddit. This is likely what you’re referring to. It had well over 100,000 active users on Reddit, so represented a sudden sizable influx of users.

I’d wager the biggest influx of people by far, though, occurred when Spez upset a majority of mods and many users by banning third party apps.

People looked for an alternative, and Lemmy was it.

But why are so many people who lean left politically? Because the Venn Diagram for “people who like the idea of a decentralised platform that supports everybody and is free from the machinations of millionaires”, and “people who would like society that supports everybody and is free from the machinations of millionaires” is nearly a circle.

Welcome to your doom!

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Is this pipe?

Is this what happens if you type 5318008 too often?

Fact 1 - sexually active people subconsciously look at peoples’ crotches when meeting them.

Fact 2 - evolution doesn’t fine tune things if they’re good enough to get the job done well.

So the fact that pubic hairs are unsightly crazy-looking things might not be because they are fine tuned to be like that - it might just be because they do their job well enough and they just ended up looking like that.

What job could that be?

To confirm visually that you are sexually mature.

That may literally be it - a localised fuzzy indicator of whether or not you’re able to make babies.

I’m not trying to downplay the reality of serious health concerns sometimes being behind food habits, but I think I need to say…

Picky eating is an absolutely normal part of child development. Anecdotally, both of my kids went through two distinct phases of picky eating, at around 3-5 and 8-11.

They gradually grow out of it. All you can do is try to make sure what they are eating is nutritious enough while they are going through it.

Dry cereal always worked (still does!) as a nutritious snack. Granted, the nutrition has all been sprayed on, but it’s still there.

A little mixed tub of Cornflakes/Branflakes/Rice Crispies/Coco Pops always goes down well.

Nerf Herder have a song called Courtney about Courtney Love.

I always wanted a Nokia - I know it was a cliche, but I was amazed at how indestructible they were. Even when they did actually break apart, you could just pick up the bits, clip them back together, and it would just work again - with no visible damage.

Also, SNAKE

I started university in 1999. Pretty much everyone had a mobile phone there. They were fairly new, granted, but they were pretty ubiquitous.