There are too many alarming assumptions in your scenario.
Given their claim I would assume @Treczoks@lemmy.world will have a much faster reading speed.
Their collection quite likely contains shorter genres (novellas, plays, poetry) and might also contain fast reads (trashy fiction, collections they were published in themselves and skim read the rest to be polite, etc).
But in Foriegn Affairs I have liked how active and informed he is, and in my experience his office is always better to correspond with than many other ministers because it seems to always be across whatever obscure foriegn policy thing I'm talking about rather than giving me off-topic form letters.
I guess an example of this side of Winston is this speech at the UN. I of course often wish our foriegn policy stances went a lot further, but he gave a speech that was much better than I would expect given our current centre-right leadership and it balanced our need to remain on good terms with the US with our independent voice.
When UNRWA was accused of terrorism, and many western allies suspended funding to it, NZ only followed suit temporarily while Foriegn Affairs looked into the veracity of those claims. Our payments resumed when it was disproved - and in the interim, we funded humanitarian relief in other ways.
This) is another Winston UN speech on our stance that I liked.
In late breaking garden news there are six caterpillars that I can see. We don't have a lot of good foliage so I will have to move some of them from plant to plant.
Also the magnolia is flowering but I will have to reset my pixelfed password to post pictures!
That's my gut feeling too. Im not a medical doctor but the lungs are delicate and complex and coating everything in there with chemical-laced humectant doesn't seem like a great idea.
Plus, the vaping industry seems to be the tobacco industry.
We don't yet have good longitudinal studies, and the short term effects are already pretty bad, so in my opinion there's no reason to believe claims that vaping will not have serious long-term effects.
It wasn't the case that suddenly people woke up in that last quarter of 2024 and decided, 'Well, we're going to double our meth use'' or 'We're really interested in meth suddenly'."
I don't love the increase in cheaper meth though. Meth was already a disaster.
I'm familiar with it; I think it's a really great illustration! I guess some of the low income parenting examples like boots would be things like dentistry.
Saving up for you kid, doesn’t equal not living at all; because the kid is also living the same life.
Well yes but "being poor is expensive" and in my experience some low-income people try to cushion children from that by saving up so that there are always funds for things like emergency healthcare or even big ticket items like braces, rather than letting them do all the middle class stuff and have no safety net.
Edit, but thinking about it, that doesn't make any sense given her emergency fund thing (which as you say is weirdly low).
I remember an article a while back with a beneficiary complaining about not getting to buy much icecream.
It makes it sound like spoilt people whining over nothing, whereas plenty of people's wish list is mostly just nutritious food, medicine, or being warm enough.
Yeah, it was sad how that whole thing went down. Ernest was visionary, but protective and had health issues, and a couple of the people who wanted to help were kind of being dicks to him imo.
I feel like with the fediverse we are in the early stages of something that could be really powerful and amazing. Thanks for all you do with this corner of it!
So did another one from a chrysalis I hadn't even noticed as it's on a very scruffy tree that I thought had no caterpillars. I didn't get a photo because they must have hatched this morning and now won't keep still.
Hopefully they will get the memo that it's cold and not a lot to eat, and go and hibernate somewhere.
Oh that's a pity, I loved being able to follow mastodons via kbin. Kbin was written in php so probably just as niche as Lemmy but for the opposite reason?
I think the topics was why I thought Piefed was going to be more like kbin.
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There are too many alarming assumptions in your scenario.
Given their claim I would assume @Treczoks@lemmy.world will have a much faster reading speed.
Their collection quite likely contains shorter genres (novellas, plays, poetry) and might also contain fast reads (trashy fiction, collections they were published in themselves and skim read the rest to be polite, etc).