GlassHalfHopeful

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[–] GlassHalfHopeful@lemmy.ca 4 points 1 month ago

I want to believe you're wrong, but... I can't. 😔

[–] GlassHalfHopeful@lemmy.ca 3 points 1 month ago (2 children)

Honestly, they're not.

I hate to say it, but the system needs to crash and burn for people to wake up. I need and want to avoid that at all costs, but some people... most people... don't seem to be able to learn without it.

[–] GlassHalfHopeful@lemmy.ca 12 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (5 children)

I think you are overestimating just how much constituents are invested in what their politicians actually do...

Many many many persons feel the side effects, the burn, of their elected politicians deviating from what they hoped. And yet each election cycle, these politicians continue to be voted in.

I mean, they get mad, but mad enough to watch C-Span and make calls...? 😅

[–] GlassHalfHopeful@lemmy.ca -1 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

As you can see, Trump is saving the United States.

😏

Edit: adding the /s tag because of the downvotes. smh.

[–] GlassHalfHopeful@lemmy.ca 41 points 1 month ago (32 children)

I understand the issue. It's clear. What I don't understand is this article focusing on Ocasio-Cortez's "by the light of day" comment.

Are people watching these proceedings live on C-Span with their hand on the phone ready to call their congressperson's office? If Republicans pushed this through "during the light of day," would it make any actual difference? Why can't congresspersons challenge this in the middle of the night? Does Ocasio-Cortez think Republican constituents will be making those calls to change the minds of their politicians? 🤔

[–] GlassHalfHopeful@lemmy.ca 6 points 1 month ago

I was honestly thinking/waiting for the same explanation. Haha.

[–] GlassHalfHopeful@lemmy.ca 5 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (2 children)

Makes perfect sense. But why not invent a whole new alien? Why modify an existing piece of canon (again)?

[–] GlassHalfHopeful@lemmy.ca 11 points 1 month ago (8 children)

What's done is done. What I'd simply like to know is the why. Maybe it's in this article somewhere, but I gave up halfway. Probably just too sleepy atm. Someday I'll read a source that gives a sensible why. Because what I've heard never really made sense. Why keep so much intact and change one thing so drastically?

[–] GlassHalfHopeful@lemmy.ca 3 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

Precisely my thought as well. In the long run, the order alone won't amount to anything. It needs to be followed up. Not simply by other executive orders, but by other necessary reforms.

I guess I'm mostly interested and hopeful in the possible reform portion. The industry simply can't be bludgeoned into compliance as he thinks he can achieve with everything. It will take careful planning, reorganization, and, gasp, additional controls and regulations.

[–] GlassHalfHopeful@lemmy.ca 89 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (1 children)

Amusing, but the actual story is moreso. Turns out Mr Tansie tried to win the damages via property in CA "owned by god" since the deed had been recently signed over to god. 🤦🏽

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lawsuits_against_supernatural_beings

The rest of the examples in the Wikipedia article are pretty amusing too. 😁

[–] GlassHalfHopeful@lemmy.ca 1 points 2 months ago

No worries. Looking incredible so far!

 

This is kind of big. I would have never expected it.

 

🤞🏽

 

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ca/post/21718242

From the article:

This feat is impressive, as an 800 km (500 mi), non-stop flight over water would seemingly require a caloric energy that far exceeds an adult hummingbird's body weight of 3 g (0.11 oz). However, researchers discovered the tiny birds can double their fat mass in preparation for their Gulf crossing, then expend the entire calorie reserve from fat during the 20-hour non-stop crossing when food and water are unavailable.

This is nuts!

 

Is there any way to install and use the Gemini App without the Google App and forced association of the account with my Android phone?

I have a specific Google account just for Gemini, but I neither use the Google app nor desire for my phone to maintain this alt google account as one of the phone associates accounts. I think many folks would prefer login stay within the app itself.

 

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ca/post/20749204

Another positive step in the right direction for an organization rife with brokenness. There's a lot I don't like about the organization, but this is something a love--a scouting organization open to young women and the lgbtq community. The next step is being inclusive of nonreligious agnostic and atheist youth and leaders. As well as ending the cultural appropriation of Native American peoples.

May this organization continue to build up youth, never allow further violence against youth, and make amends for all the wrongs. There's a lot of good that comes out of organizations like this and I won't discount it even though it's riddled with a dark history.

 

Another positive step in the right direction for an organization rife with brokenness. There's a lot I don't like about the organization, but this is something a love--a scouting organization open to young women and the lgbtq community. The next step is being inclusive of nonreligious agnostic and atheist youth and leaders. As well as ending the cultural appropriation of Native American peoples.

May this organization continue to build up youth, never allow further violence against youth, and make amends for all the wrongs. There's a lot of good that comes out of organizations like this and I won't discount it even though it's riddled with a dark history.

 

😳

 

Could anyone recommend a OnePlus 11 telephoto lens attachment? My searches are coming up dry so far.

 

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/13638497

A new study of Japanese tits provides the first evidence of non-primate animals using gestures to convey messages

When a mated pair of small birds called Japanese tits arrives at the nest, one of them might flutter its wings at the other. The second bird then typically enters the nest first. This motion might be a signal, meant to convey the message “after you” to the other bird, scientists reported Monday in the journal Current Biology.

The research provides the first evidence of animals besides primates using gestures to communicate meaning. The result “shows that Japanese tits not only use wing fluttering as a symbolic gesture, but also in a complex social context involving a sender, receiver and a specific goal, much like how humans communicate,” Toshitaka Suzuki, a co-author of the new study and a biologist at the University of Tokyo, tells Science News’ Darren Incorvaia.

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submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by GlassHalfHopeful@lemmy.ca to c/birding@lemmy.world
 

My youngest shared a page from his funny poem book with me. I laughed out loud quite literally and thought I would share it with you all as well. 💜

 

Can anyone recommend a OnePlus 11 telephoto lens attachment? My initial searches seem to be coming up dry.

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