[-] FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 1 points 1 hour ago

It's amazing that you got this far into the conversation and, despite my repeated mention of a daughter, you think my baby had testicles. And I never suggested she was anything but cisgendered, so I'm really not sure how you missed that. But based on the rest of your silly question, I have a few guesses.

[-] FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 1 points 1 hour ago

Damaged plants can send out signals to other plants, and chemicals to repel what is damaging them (to the specific area where the damage is being done) and repair their damage. Some plants will avoid growing towards areas that they have been unable to thrive in before.

You still seem to be talking about things from a purely human perspective. Dogs will damage their feet and not even let you know sometimes. They will get a piece of glass in their foot and they won't stop walking on them or try to do anything about it until they literally can't do anything about it. My dog tore her CCL and the only reason we knew anything was wrong was that she wasn't limping and then she was a few moments later. She didn't make a sound, she didn't react with any sort of signal that indicated that she was aware serious damage had been done to her, she just was unable to use that leg. Are you going to argue that she felt no pain?

[-] FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 1 points 1 hour ago

But trees or mosses or whatever do none of this. A tree will keep trying to grow towards a fence that damages branches in a storm, a tree never starves itself to death making thicker bark after teens carve lovehearts into it, a tree doesn’t stop reproducing after 3 droughts kill all its children and so on. Leaves might change colour in response to periods of high or low sunlight but these changes are like tanning, they don’t modify anything about how the tree trees.

I don't know why any of this means that our nebulous definitions of 'pain' and 'suffering' cannot apply to plants.

If I stub my toe, it doesn't modify anything about how I human. But it hurts.

[-] FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 2 points 2 hours ago* (last edited 1 hour ago)

So you acknowledge that I would, in fact, expose my child naked in public. And with good reason. And everyone could see her genitalia when I did.

Edit: Oh, sorry, misread. You think you can always make it to a bathroom? You have never had a baby.

[-] FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 3 points 2 hours ago

That is what we were going for!

[-] FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 6 points 2 hours ago

It's really sad how you're trusting an AI to get anything accurate after the fucking glue on pizza thing.

[-] FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 6 points 2 hours ago

They mean Frank Pallone. That's the one Democrat. He's in New Jersey and they're based in Atlanta.

So I sure would like to know why they are donating to Frank Pallone as the one Democrat they donate to.

[-] FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 13 points 3 hours ago

Remember when the Democrats offered the Republicans every single thing they wanted on immigration and they voted against it because Trump wanted them to?

Oops. Guess they could have gotten their border plan that you claim would have worked and decided to not do it because it wasn't politically expedient.

[-] FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 18 points 4 hours ago

The AJC is own by Cox Enterprises. If you want to know who they donate to and think you'll be surprised, you won't.

https://www.opensecrets.org/orgs/cox-enterprises/summary?id=D000000768

[-] FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 16 points 4 hours ago

Has he lied about not being a dictator? Because if not, he's better than the dictator.

[-] FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 16 points 4 hours ago

I suspect that many Biden votes will be a vote against Trump, not for Biden.

Also true in 2020. And frankly, I don't care what reason people have to stop the dictator as long as we stop the dictator.

[-] FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 42 points 5 hours ago

No shit. He's been pro-police for years.

You know what he hasn't done? Pledged to be a dictator.

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The Smithsonian, and other museums, destroying indigenous artifacts is not the problem. Quite the opposite.

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The library and its 27 branches continue to struggle through a ransomware attack that has disabled its networks, rendered its hundreds of public computers useless and turned its normal operations upside down.

Book checkouts are being done by spreadsheet. Column A: the library user’s account number. Column B: the book’s bar code number. The low-tech inventory will be integrated with the library’s normal account system at some future, unknown date.

With its computer networks down, the library has no way to check books back into its system, making it more convenient for everyone if you just hold onto your books for a little while. In normal times, the library says it loans out more than 1.1 million books and other items each month.

You can search the library’s catalog, but only from home, or from your phone, not from any of the computer terminals in libraries. The shutdown, which library officials have attributed to a ransomware attack, has now lingered for four weeks, with no solid estimate on when full library services may return.

The downtown library’s fifth-floor computer lab — often the most crowded space in the library — is empty. Dozens of computers, normally available for free to anyone who walks in, sit idle, cordoned off as if physically infected, rather than just virtually. Bringing your own computer won’t help: Wi-Fi networks are down too. (I initially sat down in the Greenwood library to write this story about the library’s broken computer network, before remembering that I couldn’t work there because the library’s computer network was broken.)

Bypass paywall: https://archive.is/yVa8c

Demanding a ransom from a public library system- people can be such scum.

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At the risk of once again being told what an idiot I am, healthcare in America sucks. Thanks for the present though, mom. We need all the help we can get.

By the way, feel free to tell me how great my Photoshop skills are. Some people on Lemmy love to tell me how I’m not sick and just making it up for sympathy.

Sorry… is there a community for “I’ve been pissed off for months now?”

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