PSA: All deer are not deer. I mean seriously just look at them. They're all weird and creepy and something is always at least little bit off from what you would expect a deer to look like. Don't let your guard down around the seemingly innocuous deer you've gotten used to in your back yard. Photo source: [https://www.reddit.com/r/Albany/s/4aDkBOk25j](https://www.reddit.com/r/Albany/s/4aDkBOk25j) [\#deer](https://jorts.horse/tags/deer) [#NotDeer](https://jorts.horse/tags/NotDeer) [#cryptid](https://jorts.horse/tags/cryptid) [@cryptidlore](https://lem.monster/c/cryptidlore)
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@SirBoostALot @Umbrias @usa Once again you are missing the point about the trees. They are not being harvested. They are being cleared away to make room for a PV solar plant that could go in any other sunny location. I do not personally care very much about them, but they are part of a special piece of wilderness that is being destroyed for no good reason. As for nuclear power safety and importance, here is a good article to help you find some perspective: https://earth.org/nuclear-which-is-the-safest-energy-source/#:~:text=A%202013%20study%20commissioned%20by,fuels%20from%20entering%20into%20the
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@hitmyspot @dadsplain I think that is kind of what we've been doing. I didn't know it was a named method. We don't force her to finish her meals completely. She just needs some encouragement to improve the vegetable variety in her diet.
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@threeduck @dadsplain That is still kind of my instinct, but my daughter's pickiness got to the point that it affected her health. Fortunately, we've made enough progress over the past few years that that problem is behind us. Now we're just working on variety. We're not forcing her to clean her plate. She just needs some encouragement and light pressure to figure out how to enjoy more than one type of vegetable.
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@rxin @dadsplain it's VLC for Android.
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@SirBoostALot @Umbrias @usa I have no affiliation with the nuclear power industry. I just think global warming is an important problem that cannot be solved by wind and solar power. The risks associated with nuclear power are very small and completely outweighed by the benefits.
The Joshua trees are not a red herring. Their sacrifice is completely unnecessary and it exemplifies the insanity of our clean energy policies.
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@streetfestival @dadsplain I deserve to have a little bit of warm and quiet.
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@Hypx@fedia.io we love the H₂ilux, don't we folks!
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@Tolookah @dadsplain after dinner it turns into a kitchen dance off.
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@Kolanaki @dadsplain oh no
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@CrimeDad @dadsplain And apparently the images in Lemmy replies don't show up in Mastodon either lol. #Mastodon #Lemmy
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@dadsplain Now playing:
New trick for getting my picky kiddo to eat her veggies: I put all the music on my phone on random and whenever she wants me to skip a song she doesn't like she has to eat some of her veggies first. [\#parenting](https://jorts.horse/tags/parenting) [@dadsplain](https://lemmy.ca/c/dadsplain)
Wife's away, time to turn off the AC and get a nice cross breeze going! [@dadsplain](https://lemmy.ca/c/dadsplain)
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@Umbrias @SirBoostALot @usa The Joshua trees are relevant because it's an indictment of the system that produces the incentives that make destroying a forest of them a good business plan. We have the technology to safely generate plenty of reliable, clean electricity nearby to where people will use it. Instead, we go out into the desert and then pick one of the worst spots in the desert just to cheaply conjure up some renewable energy credits and call it good for the environment. It's sickening.
NY Gov Hochul delays controversial NYC congestion pricing plan ‘indefinitely’. [https://www.cnn.com/2024/06/05/business/ny-gov-hochul-delays-indefinitely-controversial-nyc-congestion-pricing-plan/index.html](https://www.cnn.com/2024/06/05/business/ny-gov-hochul-delays-indefinitely-controversial-nyc-congestion-pricing-plan/index.html) I'm sure lots of revenue will be missed now that NYC congestion tolling has been killed, but was it earmarked for specific mass transit projects or was it just going to be used to hire more cops and whatnot? [\#NYC](https://jorts.horse/tags/NYC) [#NewJersey](https://jorts.horse/tags/NewJersey) [#transit](https://jorts.horse/tags/transit) [@usa](https://lemmy.ml/c/usa)
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@ptz @nostupidquestions Oh no. I don't think I default to the Tucker Carlson confused face, but I'm a little worried that I might. I just signed on to a Teams meeting and my CEO immediately asked me why I looked confused.
Is "resting confused face" a thing? [@nostupidquestions](https://lemmy.world/c/nostupidquestions)
Solar project to destroy thousands of Joshua trees in the Mojave Desert [https://ca.news.yahoo.com/solar-project-destroy-thousands-joshua-100000768.html](https://ca.news.yahoo.com/solar-project-destroy-thousands-joshua-100000768.html) It's crazy to me that a destructive photovoltaic solar project like this one is considered reasonable, but a new nuclear power plant within or adjacent to a city is beyond the pale. [@usa](https://lemmy.ml/c/usa)
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@enbyecho @asklemmy Well, geriatric pregnancies start at age 35, so it's really a flexible adjective. If you took it incorrectly, that's on you.
Based on the mixed responses I'm getting, it is not an established stereotype that older people write emails and text messages poorly. If I knew it was then I wouldn't have asked if others had similar experiences to mine in the first place.
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@bitchkat @asklemmy Here you go: https://lemmy.crimedad.work/comment/794446
Cc'ing @Taleya and @AlternateRoute because they also asked.
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@MissJinx @asklemmy I wasn't sure of the right word to use. Geriatric seemed correct enough. To be clear, I don't think there's anything especially wrong or bad about my elders. I just think there might be some kind of technological and cultural collision happening that makes me feel like I'm crazy sometimes.
What is it about the text messages and emails sent by older people that make me feel like I'm having a stroke? Maybe they're used to various shortcuts in their writing that they picked up before autocorrect became common, but these habits are too idiosyncratic for autocorrect to handle properly. However, that doesn't explain the emails I've had to decipher that were typed on desktop keyboards. Has anyone else younger than 45 or so felt similarly frustrated with geriatrics' messages? [@asklemmy](https://lemmy.ml/c/asklemmy)
The tardy boys making excellent points on how Biden has co-opted Trump's platform. We're basically in for a third Trump term no matter what. Trillbilly Worker's Party: Episode 341: Sedition Draft 2024 Episode webpage: [https://soundcloud.com/user-972848621-463073718/episode-341-sedition-draft-2024](https://soundcloud.com/user-972848621-463073718/episode-341-sedition-draft-2024) Media file: [https://feeds.soundcloud.com/stream/1812903990-user-972848621-463073718-episode-341-sedition-draft-2024.mp3](https://feeds.soundcloud.com/stream/1812903990-user-972848621-463073718-episode-341-sedition-draft-2024.mp3) [\#politics](https://jorts.horse/tags/politics) [#Trump](https://jorts.horse/tags/Trump) [#Biden](https://jorts.horse/tags/Biden) [#election2024](https://jorts.horse/tags/election2024) [@crosspost](https://lemmy.crimedad.work/c/crosspost)
[\#StarTrekIRL](https://jorts.horse/tags/StarTrekIRL) Took my daughter for a blood draw today and we got to use a vein visualization device for the first time. It wasn't this exact model, but it was pretty similar: [https://christiemed.com/products/veinviewer-models/veinviewer-vision2/](https://christiemed.com/products/veinviewer-models/veinviewer-vision2/) Maybe I'm just basic, but I was really impressed. Apparently it uses an infrared camera to see the patient's blood vessels and then it uses a projector to display them on the patient's skin so that the phlebotomist has an easier time finding a good blood vessel. Brilliant! [@crosspost](https://lemmy.crimedad.work/c/crosspost)
[\#Hydrogen](https://jorts.horse/tags/Hydrogen) infused water? I am of course pro [#HydrogenEconomy](https://jorts.horse/tags/HydrogenEconomy), but this sort of nonsense is just too much. [\#SnakeOil](https://jorts.horse/tags/SnakeOil) [#CitationNeeded](https://jorts.horse/tags/CitationNeeded) [#pseudoscience](https://jorts.horse/tags/pseudoscience) [@crosspost](https://lemmy.crimedad.work/c/crosspost)
Apparently, as far as a 15A circuit breaker is concerned, a paperclip is just another light bulb. [\#diy](https://jorts.horse/tags/diy) [@crosspost](https://lemmy.crimedad.work/c/crosspost)
POV: You're a webcam in a bird feeder that has become yet another casualty in the deer war. This is what I get, of course, for putting the feeder in a spot that was convenient to refill. The deer have fed from it before without knocking it over, so I suspect that the buck that has been visiting my yard recently is the perpetrator. His stupid antlers probably got hooked onto the feeder or the shepherd's hook and that was that. [\#bird](https://jorts.horse/tags/bird) [#killthedeer](https://jorts.horse/tags/killthedeer) [#pov](https://jorts.horse/tags/pov) [@crosspost](https://lemmy.crimedad.work/c/crosspost)
Are there any lists of high profile Mastodon (ActivityPub) accounts? (Or, have they all been chased away?) [@fediverselore](https://lemmy.ca/c/fediverselore)
What's a good torque wrench to get? I want to replace the spark plugs in my car and I'm apparently going to have to torque them to 30Nm. [#diy](https://jorts.horse/tags/diy) [#tools](https://jorts.horse/tags/tools) [@tools](https://lemmy.world/c/tools)
[OC] "Can I eat this, yet?" [@animals](https://lemmy.ml/c/animals) [@pics](https://lemmy.world/c/pics) [\#dog](https://jorts.horse/tags/dog) [#obedience](https://jorts.horse/tags/obedience) [#treat](https://jorts.horse/tags/treat) [#linoleum](https://jorts.horse/tags/linoleum)
[@animals](https://lemmy.ml/c/animals) I wonder if they raised the dog like a captive cheetah or if they raised the cheetah like a pet dog. [https://pixelfed.crimedad.work/p/crimedad/583816248575430666](https://pixelfed.crimedad.work/p/crimedad/583816248575430666)