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submitted 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) by kersploosh@sh.itjust.works to c/stick@sh.itjust.works
 

Found this post on IG and I'm wondering what this community's stance is. With winter now officially here*, I think it's a valid question.

Edit: *where I live

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[–] DudeImMacGyver@sh.itjust.works 12 points 10 hours ago* (last edited 10 hours ago)

That's an icicle, sticks are wooden. I like his spirit though, that icicle has stick vibes.

[–] AeonFelis@lemmy.world 15 points 11 hours ago

It is an ice sculpture of a stick.

[–] Hossenfeffer@feddit.uk 12 points 11 hours ago

Nope. Ignore the pandering milquetoasts.

A stick is a stick. This is not one. Do we have no standards?

[–] JohnDClay@sh.itjust.works 33 points 15 hours ago (2 children)

We grant you the rank of honorary stick.

[–] agent_nycto@lemmy.world 4 points 9 hours ago

Motion seconded

[–] BambiDiego@lemmy.world 5 points 12 hours ago

"This is acceptable! This is fair!"

[–] slackassassin@sh.itjust.works 12 points 18 hours ago
[–] Podunk@lemmy.world 71 points 1 day ago (6 children)

I just realized there is an entire continent where there are no trees, and thus no sticks.

And it isnt a small continent either. it is larger than all of Europe and also larger than Australia. We arent talking about an island or archipelago or even some random landlocked desert. It is a continent.

the fact that there are no sticks that naturally occur there at all... it confuses and concerns me.

This is deeply unsettling to me.

[–] Honytawk@lemmy.zip 35 points 17 hours ago (1 children)

Don't worry, flowers are starting to bloom more and more on Antarctica.

Soon, trees will start to grow so even that continent has sticks!

Wait ... that is even a bigger concern to worry.

[–] __nobodynowhere@startrek.website 5 points 13 hours ago (1 children)

When humanity has to move to the poles to survive, I'd rather have trees and not.

[–] syklemil@discuss.tchncs.de 1 points 10 hours ago

Coastal Norway is also pretty warm in this sense, but there aren't any trees far north. I suspect there's more than just warmth they want

[–] AngryCommieKender@lemmy.world 9 points 17 hours ago

Before it slipped down to the bottom of the world, it used to be covered in jungles.

[–] Affidavit@lemm.ee 10 points 21 hours ago (2 children)

also larger than Australia

Not all that well-known, but Australia claims about 42% of Antarctica as part of it's territory.

[–] MonkderVierte@lemmy.ml 5 points 18 hours ago (1 children)
[–] Affidavit@lemm.ee 1 points 9 hours ago

Well, yeah. That's the word I used.

[–] taladar@sh.itjust.works 1 points 13 hours ago

Maybe but usually when people talk about Australia in this context they mean the continent, not the country.

[–] peoplebeproblems@midwest.social 4 points 17 hours ago

It makes sense why there are no sticks. But I agree, the thought of a lack of sticks seems to be unsettling, not a lack of trees or bushes.

Are we that naturally attracted to sticks because of primate evolution? I wonder if the earliest human ancestors developed this awareness of sticks as it is a primitive tool used to survive.

[–] Fuck_u_spez_@sh.itjust.works 12 points 23 hours ago* (last edited 23 hours ago) (1 children)

Don't worry. At this rate, the ice will be gone soon and... oh

[–] Podunk@lemmy.world 22 points 23 hours ago (1 children)

So i did a little research. The sad/fun part about my realization is... if you go back far enough in time, before the ice and nothingness, archeologists have pointed out that Antarctica was once a massive forest continent.

Millions of years ago, it had trees, and thus, sticks for days and days.

Once again we are living in the wrong time. Too late to explore all continents having sticks. But also too early to live where all continents have sticks. In the grand scheme of things, we exist in the uneven ground.

It's a sad equilibrium to be sure.

[–] captainlezbian@lemmy.world 2 points 18 hours ago

There's also stuff we're pretty sure first evolved there. Because it used to connect south America to Australia

[–] VolumetricShitCompressor@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 18 hours ago (1 children)
[–] taladar@sh.itjust.works 1 points 13 hours ago

So what did doggos do to make their hell freeze over?

[–] FellowEnt@sh.itjust.works 5 points 15 hours ago (1 children)

Can you poke someone in the butt with it?? Fuck yeah you can.

[–] flambonkscious@sh.itjust.works 1 points 11 hours ago

...that's not a poke!

Seriously - this doesn't count as a stick - this is a close approximation of a stick in that it has many similar properties but it is far from it. Watch how in a few hours it dissolves on the ground (or inside?).

However it does beautifully capture the novelty-based appreciation of sticks. There's something to this, for sure...

[–] Serinus@lemmy.world 107 points 1 day ago

Local variants of sticks are acceptable.

[–] pseudo@jlai.lu 16 points 21 hours ago
[–] darkpanda@lemmy.ca 73 points 1 day ago (1 children)

This is likely an extremely powerful weapon that can only be used once before it breaks so save it for the last boss.

[–] ouRKaoS 29 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Fuck, I beat the last boss and I forgot this was in my inventory...

[–] And009@lemmynsfw.com 20 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Along with 999 medium health elixirs

[–] Piemanding@sh.itjust.works 1 points 1 hour ago

Only 4 max elixirs left though... wait there were only 5 in the whole game.

[–] spittingimage@lemmy.world 20 points 1 day ago

Can you poke things with it? Can you swish it around and pretend it's a sword? Does it bring joy to your heart? Then it's a stick.

[–] rbn@sopuli.xyz 18 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Is there no flotsam from elsewhere washed ashore in Antartica?

But independent of that, I think that's an awesome ice stick!

[–] sir_pronoun@lemmy.world 6 points 1 day ago

I now need to know whether there is flotsam in Antarctica

[–] shoulderoforion@fedia.io 17 points 1 day ago (1 children)

can't bring sticks? i have questions

[–] superkret@feddit.org 36 points 1 day ago (6 children)

You can't bring anything that could carry non-native lifeforms on it, to preserve Antarctica's unique Flora and Fauna from invasive species.

[–] Arghblarg@lemmy.ca 14 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (4 children)

What, not even our nice Norwegian ~shape-shifting assimilating microbes~dogs?

EDIT: I am sad lemmy doesn't appear to support strikethrough.

[–] nickwitha_k@lemmy.sdf.org 9 points 1 day ago

Lemmy ~~doesn't~~ support strikethrough.

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[–] PlantDadManGuy@lemmy.world 6 points 23 hours ago (1 children)

You bet you're cold white pasty ass it counts. Now go spear a narwhal or do something cool with it!

[–] Anticorp@lemmy.world 6 points 23 hours ago

A narwhal horn would make the best stick.

[–] Semi_Hemi_Demigod@lemmy.world 10 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Just like dopamine and serotonin: If you don't have homemade, store bought is just fine

[–] flicker@lemmy.dbzer0.com 10 points 1 day ago

shore brought is fine

[–] NaibofTabr@infosec.pub 8 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

"...there are no sticks here. Nothing grows..." so far...

[...] we demonstrate a clear but nonlinear trend towards a greater area of vegetation cover across the [Antarctic Peninsula] in recent decades [...] Crucially, the rate of change in vegetation cover has increased considerably in recent years

[...]

Regardless of the complexities discussed in the preceding, the overall statistically significant trajectory of APwide greening from 1986 to 2021 [...] provides strong evidence of rapid and ongoing response of AP vegetation to climate change, and presents a compelling case for future widespread changes in the AP’s terrestrial ecosystems.

[–] aramis87@fedia.io 7 points 1 day ago

.... I'm just going to be technical and point out that it's currently summer in Antarctica .....

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