Whoah, I’m feeling like I just read words on a page, man. Literature has gotten crazy, man.

5-6-5. Anyone who pronounces our in a single syllable should be run out of town.

Lol. I actually did use home depot lumber for a rudder. Just shape the bastard with a sawzall and sander, then lacquer the ever loving shit out of the thing. It’ll be fine for years. I’m sure there’s absolutely no difference between a pleasure sailboat for a half acre pond and a submersible going down to the ocean floor.

I was mostly referencing the mammals, because that was the top comment, but sure.

While an attractive pitch, remember that what’s going to fuck over the working class are the laws intended to attack the assholes at the top. Which group do you think will have the means to defend themselves in court, has the power to make legislative moves, and would benefit from having another tool to fuck their slaves with?

9k? That’s a major city. I lived and worked in an area where the 9k town about an hour away was the bee’s knees for the folks where I was, which had a great!!! city of 2,500, and the rest were unincorporated places of a hundred or so at the crossroads.

So are shrimp and lobsters, basically. Some cultures eat dogs, others eat chickens, and some eat crickets/ants/weird-sea-crustaceans.

I’m sure that some of the foods I ate as a kid would squick out many folks, but that’s not due to anything inherent in them. There’s nothing weird about eating ‘bugs,’ it’s just a weird semi-trained quirk you have.

Seeing the videos of goats just casually chomping through the carolina reapers, I would bet there are differences in species.

Chili flavored? ewww. Cinnamon flavored? Oh yeah! Turn that spicy up!

I hate that I don’t have the articles at hand to post and basically am saying ‘just trust me, bro,’ but trust me, bro. I was working with a lab doing studies on oysters, because they are a common source of vibrio infection. We found about six pathogenic bacterial species of interest that were never seen before in the bays we were pulling the oysters from. The Ph.D. lab head was a little chuffed at us because the lead grad student presented on the oysters shipped to us from (I think)* the chesapeake bay and the next day he got a call from the cdc. He wasn’t happy, even though he was the one who approved the presentation. We all got a lecture about being careful because oysters are big money makers and a “pivotal part of the local economy.” Laughably (now), this was before the election last fall. That phone call was about whether the local governments should have been advised to shut down oyster farming. I can’t imagine what the phone call to the doc would be like now. Probably threats to remove references to warming waters being a contributing factor at best, more likely to be screaming about pulling all federal funding.

The big picture takeaway is that rising water temperatures globally are allowing bacteria that typically were only present in tropical waters are now being found in temperate waters in asia and both americas.

*It was somewhere near the chesapeake bay, certainly in massachusetts.

We’ve been saying it on lemmy for at least two years…

The cruelty is the point.

I didn’t even cross the border. I just got within 30 miles of it as part of a job and hit a security checkpoint.

Don’t discount the power of media bubbles. I know my parents are completely ignorant. One gets 24/7 fox news on the tv, the other does nothing but scroll facebook, aol/msn/yahoo shitfeeds, and what all the friends (boomers with silver spoons, every one) talk about.

I mentioned some small things about ice deporting citizens, legal residents, and illegal aliens without due process as a routine thing, and I was looked at as if I was talking about ufo sightings.

You don’t get unlocked until the poutine is gone. Get back in the corner!

Yeah, but that’s an easy clean. Spray the floor, let it sit for a bit, mop it at the end of the day. Shit spackled across vertical surfaces is a more involved process, especially if they have little shelves and curved areas.

https://www.uspa.org/dzlocator?pagesize=16

Yup. There was a meme about some bear (the european brown bear, maybe?) that was more bear than other bears, because it’s latin name (as you pointed out) is literally bear bear bear.

Not letting them forget it is a start, I suppose.

I had to pass through a ‘security checkpoint’ returning from near a border, and one of the signs they had up was instructions to apply for a job.

That’s funny. A local guy at my drop zone raves about his nixos ‘build’ every time I see him. I have to remind him that the true love is based on hate and revulsion, which is why I’m on manjaro.