FlyingSquid

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[–] FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 2 points 4 minutes ago

If I'm choking, I can sure tell people about it despite being unable to speak.

[–] FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 1 points 5 minutes ago

What? The gun industry doesn't actually care about the rights of gun owners and they really just care about making money?!

 
[–] FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 1 points 20 minutes ago (1 children)

You can not accept reality all you want, but it's still reality.

[–] FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 2 points 21 minutes ago

I agree that this will have no real-world effects on Putin, but I do think this is important for the sake of documentation.

[–] FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 8 points 26 minutes ago (1 children)

Are they really America's adversaries now? I thought America's adversaries were now primarily Canada and Mexico, and also the EU.

[–] FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 0 points 29 minutes ago

Only if you think that the U.S. having an intelligence-gathering capacity is a good thing. I'm guessing Putin is not in favor of it.

[–] FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 1 points 31 minutes ago

I have literally had to flee the country with my gay daughter because of people like you, so don't give me any of that shit about me not caring when you still haven't been able to say anything about their suffering.

[–] FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 1 points 34 minutes ago

And yet telling him to stop is probably not going to work. He's too into it. You wouldn't even have to pay him (but they're probably paying him).

[–] FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 1 points 35 minutes ago

Don't need a CIA when you have an FSB.

[–] FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 1 points 36 minutes ago

But my entire point was that you all say, “I’m the real anti-genocider! And all these people are wrong!” No matter that they want what you supposedly want.

I said no such thing, nor did I even imply such a thing.

If you want to tell people to stop things, tell yourself stop including me in the things you're saying about other people.

I do a shitload to try to stop this genocide with what is in my extremely limited power and I have never even implied either of the things you have put in quotes.

[–] FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 2 points 38 minutes ago (1 children)

Much much worse than global climate change?

Just once. Also with global climate change that we weren't even causing ourselves.

It almost ended us before we started.

https://www.nhm.ac.uk/discover/news/2023/august/human-ancestors-may-have-almost-died-out-ancient-population-crash.html

[–] FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 2 points 41 minutes ago (3 children)

Do they though?

 
 
 
 

The Grand Canyon in Arizona got carved by water over millions of years of slow but steady erosion. Two similarly-sized canyons on the moon got carved by flying rocks in about ten minutes.

That's because these two canyons formed in the wake of an asteroid or comet smashing into the moon, a crash that sent streaks of rocky debris flying at incredible speeds, according to a new analysis in the journal Nature Communications.

"This was a dramatic impact that was followed by a series of smaller impact events that excavated these canyons in, you know, roughly 10 minutes," says David Kring with the USRA Lunar and Planetary Institute in Houston.

 

I'm only linking to Sky because it has the best headline.

Go here instead: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c5ypn8jz9q7o

 

There's a cliffhanger ending... which is my final floor and apartment? You shall never know.

 
 
 

I realize this is my second post in two days about smells, but it is totally unrelated, I swear.

I am in the UK, but I have been trying to explain this smell to my wife for days...

The bathroom in the place we are renting short-term has a really weird smell in it. It's not a good smell, but it's not a smell that makes me want to run out and never go back in. I would describe it as 'sort of unpleasant.' Like absolutely tolerable, but I wouldn't want to hang around.

It doesn't smell biological. It doesn't smell like human or animal or mold. It doesn't smell like some sort of cleaning or construction chemical either.

The closest I have come to be able to describe it is like the stale breath of a smoker, except without the burnt things part. Like everything else in old cigarette smell but that. Except that's not really right either.

This place used to contain (I think) a printing press and then was turned into apartments, so maybe it's something left over from that? I don't know, but I wish I could explain it!

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