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fireweed@lemmy.worldto
News@lemmy.world•Gen X is drinking more as younger Americans cut back on alcohol, study finds
0·2 months agoNot mentioned in the article: 20- and 30-somethings are broke, and a night out is crazy expensive now. Plus legal weed is waaaay cheaper than alcohol.
fireweed@lemmy.worldto
politics @lemmy.world•JD Vance Outed as Source of ‘Threat’ to National Security
14·2 months agoWhy is this marked NSFW?
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fireweed@lemmy.worldto
politics @lemmy.world•Mitch McConnell returns to the Senate after three-month absence due to health issues
4·2 months agoRawstory is a clickbait trash rag. I always cross-check their headlines with more legitimate sources. I’d ban their links altogether from Lemmy if it were up to me; half of their “stories” are either exaggerated, taken out of context, or based on something shat out by some random Xitter user.
fireweed@lemmy.worldto
Today I Learned@lemmy.world•TIL that almost every year since 2015, Idaho children have died of treatable conditions. Their parents refuse medical care. It's legal in Idaho, the state just lets it happen.English
5·3 months agoIdaho features beautiful nature and really interesting geology, so there’s plenty of tourism potential. If it weren’t for the people it would make for a lovely destination.
fireweed@lemmy.worldto
politics @lemmy.world•ICE Shot a Journalist and Threw Him in Detention. He's Approaching 300 Days Behind Bars With a Festering Wound.
13·3 months agoBecause most people don’t believe it could happen to them or someone they care about.
fireweed@lemmy.worldto
politics @lemmy.world•Zohran Mamdani: ‘If You Aren’t Willing to Fight, You Will Never Win’
2·3 months agoI should have said they have their own type of sarcasm but it’s different; you wouldn’t, for instance, respond to a simple question with the obvious opposite of the truth (e.g. “I just love the cold” when asked if you like winter).
fireweed@lemmy.worldto
politics @lemmy.world•Zohran Mamdani: ‘If You Aren’t Willing to Fight, You Will Never Win’
12·3 months agoThere are also a lot of non-native English speakers here. English is a tricky enough language when used sincerely, then add to that the fact that we English natives are huge fans of sarcasm, and I’m surprised misunderstandings don’t happen more often. (I had major culture shock moving to Japan and finding out sarcasm was not really a thing there. I always assumed it was part of the human condition.)
fireweed@lemmy.worldto
politics @lemmy.world•Zohran Mamdani: ‘If You Aren’t Willing to Fight, You Will Never Win’
37·3 months agoYikes, people are clearly having difficulty detecting the obvious sarcasm in this comment
fireweed@lemmy.worldto
Technology@lemmy.world•Google Earth’s New AI Lets Anyone Fabricate Completely Bullshit Satellite ImagesEnglish
551·3 months agoThis is old news; backlash was immediate and the “feature” was rescinded.
fireweed@lemmy.worldto
Fediverse@lemmy.world•Maybe a better Threadiverse Major Defederations Graph?English
8·3 months agoIn addition to comments others have made about some of the colors being difficult to see/differentiate, I think it would be worthwhile to distinguish one-way defederation from mutual defederation, perhaps with a texture?
It would make the graphic busier, but I also would enjoy seeing population percentages next to each instance name (to give weight to the significance of certain defederations, e.g. how much of the fediverse are you excluding by defederating with hexbear vs lemmy.world).
fireweed@lemmy.worldto
pics@lemmy.world•[OC] Academic textbooks being discarded from abandoned university buildings. More photos in post.
101·3 months agoIt really depends on the subject; mathematics for instance probably isn’t going to change much decade to decade, but psychology is changing constantly.
fireweed@lemmy.worldto
pics@lemmy.world•[OC] Academic textbooks being discarded from abandoned university buildings. More photos in post.
531·3 months agoDepending on what exactly they are, these books may be practically worthless. I recently looked into selling some of my old college textbooks (that were $50-100 each at purchase), and they currently list online for <$5 each. Old editions are of no use to current students, and there’s no demand for previous editions (while there’s a good deal of supply).
Your finished pieces are always so clean and neat. I’d love to see a WIP or progress video some time!
fireweed@lemmy.worldto
politics @lemmy.world•Democratic socialist Melat Kiros defeats 15-term incumbent in Colorado House primary
66·5 months agoDiana DeGette was defeated by someone as old as her incumbency.
Love to see it. This is what should happen when you don’t pass the baton.
fireweed@lemmy.worldto
politics @lemmy.world•As nation turns 250, many Americans say the Stars and Stripes is now a red flag
19·5 months agoSeeing an American flag, I just roll my eyes and move on (for a while now I’ve felt that our overuse of the flag–especially for home decor–is tacky, but as the article demonstrates, everyone has their own motivations for flying it). But “250 celebration” decor? Major stinkeye. I’ve actively avoided businesses and neighbors that post this nonsense.
fireweed@lemmy.worldto
Technology@lemmy.world•USA: Slate's New Electric Truck Will Cost Slightly More Than $24,950English
51·5 months agoMy point was more that a pickup’s core demographic live in places where range is absolutely a consideration. Some city folks do have good reason to own a pickup, but for most it’s an aesthetic/image thing. Which, given the environmental/traffic safety consequences of driving a larger vehicle than necessary, is plenty deserving of judgement imo.
fireweed@lemmy.worldto
Technology@lemmy.world•USA: Slate's New Electric Truck Will Cost Slightly More Than $24,950English
12·5 months agoRural people, as in the folks who actually have a use for pickups. As it so happens, it is about 200 miles round-trip to my nearest airport/major city, so if this were my vehicle, I’d have to take a charge break when picking someone up/dropping them off at the airport, or making a shopping run, or going to a concert/special event, or seeing a medical specialist. And I’m not even that far off the beaten path; I have family for whom the one-way drive to their nearest major city/airport is over 200mi. Plus if you’re hauling anything, I’d imagine that range goes down quick.
Anakin posting? I have run into Malfoid a few times online, but had no idea they’d dug Anakin out of the cultural bin to meme (a pretty good sign that it hasn’t percolated out from their circles).
Also if banger memes were as powerful as these idiots think, LGBTQ+s would rule the world.