The native species may even do better with this loss
Not if the native species are also susceptible to the same cause of death. If that’s the case, the European honeybee deaths could be an indicator, correlated with the uncounted deaths of the native species.
Can you please not use that term “Lazy Susan”? It’s got racist and sexist connotations, and I’d really prefer you just not call it that.
Who’s that racist towards? Susans? That’s crazy. Where’d you get that?
Okay. I would just like you to not use the term.
You’re right. You know what? It should be…
We should definitely start using the Ambitious Susan.
Yes, yes. Please spin the Indefatigable Susan.
Oh, can we have the Multifaceted Susan my way, please?
Yeah, spin the Industrious Susan.
Ooh, can you spin Ambidextrous Susan, please.
Dietary cholesterol has very little to do with health effects, but you swing too far in the other direction by claiming it’s “almost all genetics.” Plenty of environmental factors that can affect blood cholesterol (or more relevant to health, VLDL and LDL cholesterol), including diet.
A big motivator behind the banning or restriction of trans fats in most countries is the clear link between trans fat consumption and cardiovascular disease, including a direct causal link to raising LDL (aka “bad cholesterol” and lowering HDL (aka “good cholesterol”).
Some moderate physical activity has also been shown to significantly improve things like blood lipid profiles, at least compared to totally sedentary lifestyles.
And genetics can affect how much of an effect these environmental or lifestyle factors actually change blood lipids, and in turn how much those stats correlate or cause actual cardiovascular disease, but diet and exercise are still important for almost everyone regardless of genetics.
The average American eats about 270-290 eggs per year, across all foods. It’s a cheap, versatile ingredient.
The U.S. isn’t even that far out of the ordinary among other nations, 19th out of this list of 185 (if you include Hong Kong and Macau as their own jurisdictions). Seems like most of Asia and South America eats more eggs than most of Europe, but it’s not like there aren’t European countries in the top 20.
The reason why there’s a lot of coverage of eggs isn’t because of the high number of eggs in an American diet or the high proportion of a household budget spent on eggs, but it’s just that it’s a commodity that happened to spike in price, more than triple what it cost 4 years ago.
Isn’t that just what Lemmy shitposts is?
That’s literally what the headline is. “Deadnaming” is a term for referring to transgender people by their previous names, rather than their current names.
I’m giving 1-star ratings to weather apps because it’s too cold outside.
Oh this line of comments was serious? I thought we were making jokes.
I’m just trying to extrapolate to being supportive of government surveillance, and proving that other commenter right.
If they go and follow 200 users on 20 different instances, then they’ll most likely get followed back by someone on 90% of those instances. It’s not that much effort.
I don’t know, this sounds like an unnatural way to interact with a service. Following 4000 accounts and trying to spread it out evenly between servers sounds like a terrible way to curate one’s own feed and consume content on a service like this. I rarely follow more than 100 on any given service, and think it’s weird when people follow more than 500.
Following back seems like a pretty foreign concept to me on this type of service, and seems to me to be inconsistent with how people actually use Twitter or Bluesky. To me, these hiccups in user experience as either a lurker (can’t find anyone in-band who another person on your instance doesn’t already follow) or publisher (can’t be found easily from anyone off of your server unless you actively go try to spam follows in the hopes that some will follow back) would be a dealbreaker for anything less than the biggest server.
But do the naked gay men have an exhibition fetish, especially by government agents?
So if you set up on small server A, and want to be discoverable by users on server B, C, D, and E, you have to do this for many different users and hope that they follow you back just so that those servers’ users can find you.
And it basically defeats the main use case for where I actually understand microblogging, which is one-way announcements by semi-automated accounts that are widely followed that do not actually follow anyone else back.
It just sounds like a bad arrangement for discoverability and search.
hashtags are big on Mastodon
But I can’t view the posts of any users by hashtag if those users aren’t already being followed by someone from my server, right? That means I’d never want to join a small server if I’m just a lurker who doesn’t really want to actively interact with others, because my own feed would be limited.
there’s no algorithm
Sounds like an algorithm that’s just more complicated and has unintuitive human inputs in it.
Yeah I remember seeing some stupid post somewhere about this guy saying “can you believe this man is only 45” and everyone in the comments saying “um yes that is what 45 year olds look like.”
Follow people and hashtags and interact with them and you’ll get followers.
That sounds like a convoluted method of self promotion, almost like SEO fake engagement, just to be discoverable. And if everyone on the network had to do this to be discoverable, how can I trust the discovery methods to find people worth following?
And if the cross instance discoverability has these kinds of hurdles, then the promise of federation isn’t going to pan out.
At least with Lemmy the nature of the platforms, users following a smaller universe of potential communities, makes each community much more easily discoverable for people who don’t necessarily want to be active posters. Mastodon’s user-focused follow is much more limited in seamless federation.
That’s not part of this comparison. The comparison in this article and the metric it covers is for people who are renting versus buying in 2024. The renter in 2024 can rent from a landlord who purchased in 2010, and is borrowing at 2020 interest rates. But a buyer today is buying at 2024 prices and 2024 interest rates.
Two things: first, landlords aren’t entitled to a profit, and second, landlord input costs might be completely different from an owner resident.
On the first point, if the landlord’s costs are $2000/month, and the market rent for that unit is $1900/month, the landlord would rather lose $100/month on a lease than lose $2000/month on a vacant property.
On the second, it might be that the landlord bought the place when it was much cheaper, or has a much lower interest rate than what is available today. So if the landlord’s costs are $2000/month for a property that would now cost $4000/month at today’s purchase prices and interest rates, but can rent for $3000/month at a profit to himself.
Similarly, some volume landlords can spread certain costs around and not pay nearly as much as an owner resident. It might cost $1200 to hire a plumber to do a 6-hour job, but it also might cost $150 to simply have a plumber on the payroll to do that job, if you’ve got enough steady work that it’s cheaper to have him around.
Mountain Dew was originally invented as a moonshine mixer, so that’s just returning to its roots.
James Cameron has a history of making great things happen with a low budget, and spending millions responsibly to actually make a positive difference in big budget films.
is a “B-movie” now?
Did you not read the article? It was regarded as a B-movie when it came out: a low-budget sci-fi slasher/horror film. Arnold referred to it as a B-movie when asked about it on the set of Conan the Barbarian (which had 3 times the budget as Terminator). The New York Times referred to it as a B-movie in its review, as discussed by this article, which is also why the headline uses quotes around “B-movie.”
Slang term for ejaculating, usually with some projectile distance implied. Very popular term in the mid-2000’s, see Get Low by Lil Jon.