kat_angstrom @ kat_angstrom @lemmy.world

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I have some Goldenrod plants in the backyard where every summer a few hundred 5-banded Wasps congregate. The males mob a few plants to show themselves off, covering every leaf and branch and stem until they're weighing the whole plant down, while the females buzz about checking out the dudes to decide who to mate with.

I'm grateful to support that colony; they've been on and around the neighborhood longer than I have, and honestly, they're pretty chill. They're not going to attack unless you do first, and they're pollinators.

And for those people who view a mob of several hundred wasps on a single plant as being "gross", just chill. They got a right to life like we do <3

Yes, though it was my sister in law who named her, and this was years before the Netflix version, if that might matter. I don't know if it does or not, I didn't finish season 1 :)

Adorable.

Can you pay the cat tax by providing an image of said cat? :)

We had a very special cat who did a lot of chirping and trilling, and at night in the summer we'd keep the back door open with the glass screen door shut, and all sorts of animals could come by and she'd watch them and make various excited noises to let me know when animals were around.

Possums, raccoons, other cats, groundhogs, they all brought excited trills to let me know we had a nocturnal visitor.

One night she was making agitated sounds, but before I got there to see what it was, she made a clear as day "uh-oh" sound, but with a meow. I hurried over to see a fox staring down through the glass at her, while she stared back nervously. Never heard the "uh-oh" before or after except that night.

Yes, I think he would not call people names, he'd instead give lengthy explanations of their shortcomings and failings.

Pretty sure that's not a direct quote.

I doubt it'll have the "Edge sense" (squeeze for actions) feature, but I gotta say, for my U11+ it was a game changer and I miss it

Oooof, I hear that. Things are more political than ever at my work and it's like, I just want to do my job and go home

Nice dream

Op, please find a different hobby. Ads are NOT what we need more of on the internet.

This

Yeah, my Loblaws boycott is about three months old, but I've been boycotting Walmart for 20+ years

Yeah, I absolutely get the anger. My wife in particular hates cruelty to animals, fictional, plush, or otherwise, so it's a line she refuses to cross. That's a totally fair outlook

That's... Really passing the buck though.

Nothing is stopping corporations from doing The Right Thing right now except their own desire not for profit, but for maximized profit at all costs. Dare I say it, but if a company can't make a profit without creating harm, it doesn't deserve to make a profit.

Was it fun though? Or was it awful?

My wife found out about The Elephant Scene and refused to ever play it as long as she lives

If Mother Teresa couldn't beat the charges, that would mean that it's because a fair and impartial trial found her guilty? Definitely word salad

It's not just "they make products and services that people buy", it's that "they maximize their personal profit at the expense of people and the environment".

It's easy but reductive to blame consumers for consuming, when it's worth noting that biodegradable packaging costs more than plastics that will never break down, so corporations will choose cheap plastic over environmentally friendly packaging 99.9% of the time.

The incentives are wrong. Instead of maximizing profit we need to ensure that profit is not maximized at the expense of sustainability, at the expense of pollution, and at the expense of the entire future of our planet.

Omg they raised the original price to create some puny "savings"? That's scammy AF

11, so that when I outrun the bear, it'll be 11 who dies, while 7 is waiting for me at home

Good thing that hype always delivers.