Catoblepas @ Catoblepas @lemmy.blahaj.zone

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Addressed this previously here: https://lemmy.blahaj.zone/comment/13887364

If you want to slap a clown nose on your face and honk it in the comment section of a story about 6 people (3 of which were children) dying terribly I’m not going to and haven’t tried to stop you, I just think it’s in bad taste and gives the place a reddit stink when it doesn’t have to. This doesn’t have to be reddit 2.0. We can do better.

I wish I could find the sources from when I was reading about this months ago, it was more about evolution in terms of things that can happen and not ‘random’ mutations, and one of the examples was tigers with orange fur instead of green. It’s not physically impossible to have structural coloring (although the fact there are no green mammals suggests a strong inhibition somewhere along the line), but you first have to have the genetic and molecular groundwork laid to allow it to happen. Ex: it’s not physically impossible for animals to manufacture their own vitamin C, but humans just can’t do it because we don’t have the necessary molecular pathways other animals use. I hope that makes sense for what I’m trying to get at.

Time marches on and people can continue upvoting after I left my comment. At the time I commented it had the same number of upvotes as the next highest comment (5) and was at the top when comments were sorted by top. Blahaj doesn’t federate downvotes, so if any were on either comment I didn’t see it.

All of which is sort of beside the point, even if joke comments like that aren’t the top comment it makes for an unpleasant and callous comment section. It’s okay to just have news that’s sad and not make it amateur standup comedy hour.

From what I understand green eyes are a bit weird as far as coloration goes, as they look green due to the way light is interacting with small amounts of melanin in the iris (the same pigment that makes eyes brown) rather than due to green pigment. I’m not sure that could be replicated in fur vs in a liquid environment like with the eye.

Birds mimic green colored pigments with iridescence (except turacos, they have green pigments for real) in their feathers, but I’m not sure that’s something mammals can do structurally in fur the way birds can in feathers.

It would be great if lemmy could not be Reddit 2.0 with everyone racing to make the most upvoted joke comment in a news story about three dead kids, but here we are.

This isn’t aimed at you in particular, I’m just sick of seeing it because it’s indistinguishable from actual callousness, even if you’re “coping” through humor.

Personally I look for the Saul Goodman doll before the degree on the wall.

It’s also orange because mammals can’t produce green pigments, so orange is the next best thing if your prey is red-green colorblind.

No, that was a shock site. You’re thinking of Lemon Party.

Alternatively, do read it if you’re having trouble cutting back on fast food spending!

I saw a guy doing this recently (not to a barista, but someone that worked with the public) and the only thing that kept me from losing my mind on him was knowing there was no way the worker wanted to deal with him AND me blowing up at him. He eventually just left, but it was maddening to witness.

Also, IME upper middle and upper class people are about 1000% more likely to do this than anyone else. This douche sounded like the frattiest frat bro to ever frat.

Somewhere around 4-5 million Americans can’t vote even if they wanted to due to previous felony convictions.

If those customers lived at and had families at the store, yeah. If they still want citizenship at this point they should get it.

On lemmy, a ban can be a few different things:

1. Banned from the instance your account is on. This means you have to make a new account, usually on a different instance.
2. Banned from a different instance than the one your account is on. This means you get banned from communities you’ve participated in on that instance, and that instance will no longer federate with your account. You might participate in new communities on that instance, and people not on that instance on your instance will see your comments, but people on the instance you were banned from and other instances won’t see them. From the perspective of that instance you don’t exist anymore.
3. Not banned from any instances, but banned from individual communities. You can’t post in that specific community but can still interact with the instance that community is on.

Like someone else said, clear as mud, lol.

I always assumed they were just getting into it, assuming you aren’t talking about expressions caused by just playing the instrument in general (like with brass and wind instruments).

All of them should be immediately eligible for US citizenship, assuming any of them want it at this point. Along with getting a shit ton of money to try to heal from this. How the fuck can this possibly be made right, even if every single victim of this is removed from the prison?

I’m sorry you’re dealing with this.

Bro, it’s not a person and it doesn’t think. This is embarrassing for you. This is like thinking there are little people in the TV.

Using this as a place to infodump because I just learned it: you know how haikus follow a 5-7-5 syllable pattern? For corridos every line is 8 syllables.

The more you know 🌈⭐️

It confirms that she was born in Germany, lived there for the first years of her life before fleeing Nazi persecution, and had German citizenship until it was revoked by the Nazis. “She was a German who had her citizenship revoked by the Nazis at the time of her death” and “she wasn’t German” aren’t compatible without accepting the Nazi definition of who was and wasn’t a German citizen. The Holocaust was carried out on Germany’s citizens (in addition to those of other nations), even if they denied that these people were citizens.

In the current political climate I feel this is a very important distinction to make.