The exaggerated eyebrows lashes on the one snake (but not the other) to ensure we know that one of them's a lady makes me wonder if the artist woulda put some big ole snitties on her if they'd drawn the rest of the body.

Kind of reminds me of my step-mother. It's not the lifetime of heavy chain smoking that caused/causes her to keep getting cancer and worsening respiratory illness. It's the chemicals "they put in everything". It's "they used to put mercury in our vaccines". It's "all the drugs they make you take these days". It's blamed on everything else and the 60+ years of almost non-stop cigarette smoking just contributed but didn't cause it.

And, of course, plenty of common things besides cigarette smoke can cause cancer, so it's not like I'm denying that. Just that Occam's Razor being what it is, I'm going with the simplest and most obvious explanation that there's evidence of to explain all the health issues.

The way I see it snakes have approximately half as many holes as mammal ladies, since the have no ears and a multipurpose cloaca. So by my calculations, if you round up a bit, and carry the 5, then snakes got 1 and some change snitties.

Honestly, for years folks on the internet gaslighted me this same way about Amazon.

Oh, they have THE BEST customer service. They would never do that. Any time I've had a problem they've always fixed it 110%. What did YOU do wrong?

But in reality, my experience was that for a good long stretch, there was an issue with almost every order I placed, and it was a literal coin toss as to whether customer service was going to do the very minimum to make it right or if I was in for a weeks long ordeal just to maybe get some degree of resolution and not get screwed.

So, what I'm saying is, just because YOU personally have had zero issues, that's absolutely no reason to think it's "strange" that someone else might have had a different experience with the same business. Personally, I think it's extremely bizarre that you'd find it strange.

Welcome to Lemmy, they do the same thing here.

Do you have any idea how hard it is to find a strait for sale during Gay Pride month?

My aunt and uncle would only very rarely allow my cousins to have sugary foods, though it was treated largely a form of abuse. My aunt and uncle were morbidly obese junk food junkies, their house was always full of candy, cakes, donuts, little debbie snacks, pudding, icecream, you name it, they had it, but my cousins weren't allowed to have any except in very rare instances. They'd take the kids out to trick or treat, my cousins would come back home with a giant bag of candy, but they'd only be allowed to have 1 piece each -- my aunt and uncle got the rest. One time my aunt asked the family to make homemade milkshakes for her birthday, but then insisted my cousins could not have any.

Growing up, the cousins maintained a healthy weight and honestly other than the fact that we'd sneak them sweet snacks whenever we could, they didn't seem to have a particularly problematic issue with food.

However, they both put on an enormous amount of weight once they left home for college. Last I saw, which has admittedly been awhile (pre-covid), they were both morbidly obese.

Granted, I'm in the USA, so even folks who were normal weight as kids and didn't grow up in abusive homes or have restrictive diets end up becoming obese / morbidly obese from poor diets and overeating as adults.

Weird that this is in my New Comments feed and yet there are currently no comments.

I will say for me personally, although I 100% expected technical glitches and outages during the initial launch, I was still very disappointed that it happened again and so predictably. And obviously I was disappointed to leave empty handed.

It's because there's a window unit air conditioner in the bathroom window, isn't it?

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It's 2026. They're going to pick an already poorly aged, no longer relevant, and entirely age inappropriate song like WAP and you know I'm right.

I don't spend a lot of time on there, so some of the "new to me" stuff is probably fairly old.

But, I hopped on this weekend searching for videos on a specific topic and I was inundated with "Shorts". Brief clips that from what I gather contain no valuable information and which require you to be on crack or meth to keep up with? I dunno?

Then I noticed that an old account I used to watch way back in the day showed up on my subscriptions page, so I clicked in to look at that, and now they have accounts or videos that you have to pay to watch/subscribe to? Is this OnlyFans without the sex stuff now?

Then to top it off, the close captions are apparently 100% AI and every sentence displayed is something like "Gum potion trial and barrier for job put chin". Like I thought this stuff was supposed to be intelligent, it's basically right there in the name, or am I missing something?

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More and more people are and have been leaving Reddit.

However, Reddit is expanding its reach and popularity in other regions with large populations, like India and developing countries across the globe as well as working to attract other cultures/circles and younger demographics. Strictly from a numbers perspective, it's really only getting bigger.

And the people who are there now don't give a single gnat turd about privacy, censorship, APIs, artificial intelligence, bots, ads, crappy design, scams/spam, bad moderation/administration, centralized social media, toxic culture, or any of the other million reasons why people like you and I left. If they did, they wouldn't be there now.

Having said that, a lot of folks in the Lemmy-esque parts of the Fediverse came here to get away from Reddit's culture, not just its mods and admins. A mass exodus of Redditors coming here is basically the very last thing they want. And truly, every time there is a big fiasco that leads to lots of people coming here from Reddit, it's almost always the case that they come, they leave, and most of what remains is the very worst of Reddit that couldn't get back in because they're so toxic they were completely banned. I said what I said.

Dunno if this works, never tried it on Lemmy before. Expecting it to fail, but who knows?

Will be interesting to see and I hope it is recovering!

I'm somewhat casually job hunting, but not super serious or aggressive. Locally and anecdotally, things are pretty abysmal. I know it's a biased assessment, but I don't think it's that far off (for my area).

The listings on places like Indeed and CareerBuilder are lacking and lots of problematic posts with all the standard issues we all know of -- and then some.

I often check business websites directly as most of the larger and more established places will have a jobs/career section directly on their site (even if it's just an embedded widget of job listings from CareerBuilder). So many places have completely empty jobs pages, very limited Senior Director / very high end listings only, or tangential stuff like "HR associate". I looked at 4 places today, all empty "Join our team" pages, and that's not unusual at all.

Then I talk to former coworkers, acquaintances, and friends in the tech industry. They talk about how there are hiring freezes right now, layoffs looming, no bonuses / no cost of living increases coming this year (or last). That's been going on for over a year with no expressed optimism about it changing, just a bunch of people who are stressed to the max, stretched to the max, but can't afford to leave.

A lot of the basic free lance stuff (like simple website development) has dried up as well. Businesses are cutting back on costs and willing to accept the slop that AI generates (for free!) or skip out entirely and just have a Facebook page.

The $300 billion is speculated to be entirely private investment based on the most credible sources I've seen.

There's also some large number ($100 billion???) of frozen Iranian assets that are to be released -- it's already their money just that they were cut off from it and it's a separate pool of money from the $300 billion.

As I said, some of this is speculation as of last I read about out (few hours ago), numbers and sources are subject to change, and these administrations are known for their lies, so don't take my words or theirs as gospel.

I have read a number of different sources on this, lots of contradicting information, which is to be expected because final details aren't publicly available at this time. But from what is known or speculated, that $300 billion isn't coming from tax payers.

Now don't get me wrong, tax payers and really much of the world is footing the bill in the form of higher energy costs, loss of lives, cost of military, etc. That part's true.

It's just that "we" as in presumably to mean "US tax payers" aren't giving Iran $300 billion to the best of my understanding.

I don't think dinosaurs were taking x-rays of beaver tails, my dude. Go read a book sometime.

I know this is preaching to the choir here, but that is so very out of touch for many/most/all of us.

Those things cost like $5 - $9 in my area, and you can even get the "old" ones for a couple dollars cheaper at times. It costs very little more than raw chicken, and in some cases, the rotisserie chickens cost less. Then you factor in time for cooking, clean-up, products for clean-up, and other time / material costs, and the difference comes out a wash.

So, they are apparently suggesting that having chicken in a meal at all is a splurge. Sure, in some idealistic world where we all eat a vegan diet to save the earth, that might fly. But in the real world, it's literally insane propaganda to suggest that chicken is a splurge.