Top-of-my-head identification attempt, approximately left to right, top to bottom:
rhododendron, iris, milkweed(??), mushroom (???), trillium (?), can’t tell too obscured, narcissus(?), no idea, columbine, too obscured, no idea, random forest shot
Bothered me as well so I went and looked it up, because sometimes animals I associate with North America are present in Eurasia too.
Northern cardinal range:
So definitely a North America exclusive, and it seems all cardinals, the Cardinalidae family, are New World birds. Stupid meme made me go learn something.
(Also “desert cardinal – Hungary” should have tipped us all off that the country assignments were random)
Live in the US? Have a yard or balcony where you can grow plants? Then you should check out the Xerces Society’s plant lists for recommendations re: plants to support pollinators in your geographic region.
For the curious, the original text says “cute” in Japanese (the infamous “kawaii”)
c/SocialScienceMemes
(Does this exist? It deserves to exist, if for no other reason than to encourage heated debates over where psychology memes should go)
Log was absolutely a part of my American high school math curriculum, and while it may not make its way to everyone, many if not most Americans were exposed to it in school. But people have terrible memories when it comes to what they leaned in school, doubly so regarding math, quadruply so regarding higher-level math. Regardless of their level of educational exposure to math concepts, I certainly don’t expect the average American adult to be able to reliably do any math they learned outside of elementary school, myself included, because after a few decades of not practicing, not even thinking about those concepts, that knowledge is almost certainly gone or at least covered in a very heavy mat of mental cobwebs.
Even worse is when you try to “support local” and discover that, sure, the local hardware store sponsors the town’s little league team, but the owner also reposts racist memes on his personal social media page. You can’t win.
Step one: live in a country the size of Kentucky with the population of Texas + Florida, half of whom live in the capital’s metro region while the other half live within half-a-day’s drive.
The US’s geography makes comparisons with successful protests in much smaller countries basically moot.
I don’t know if there’s a word for it, but there’s a comic for it:
https://i.kym-cdn.com/photos/images/newsfeed/001/079/173/ed2.png
I stumbled onto the community from all/top hour when it was in its infancy. I browse “top hour” a lot to try and boost lemmy from the ground up, and was excited to see a new community promoting OC (something that a lot of other users at the time were lamenting was severely lacking on lemmy). However what I saw were clearly not OC photos, and so I tried to do the “right thing” and comment that the posts were inappropriate for the community (again, with the intention of helping a new community flourish by nipping bad content in the bud). I guess because I came from “top hour” I did not notice that the creator/sole mod of the community was the poster, so Stamets probably interpreted my comments as more condescending than I intended (as again, I thought I was directing the comment at a “lost lemming”). As with OP, it didn’t go over well and I got banned.
Honestly my lemmy usage went down quite a bit after the experience, because it made me reflect on the amount of time and effort I was making to create/mod my own communitites, post OC, promote smaller posts/communities, etc., all for the “greater good” of supporting lemmy/the fediverse. It would be one thing if Stamets had taken the hint from the many comments received and either renamed or altered the content of the community, but it’s hard not to get a sour taste in your mouth to see what I at least interpret to be misinformation (in an era when misinformation literally led the so-called greatest nation on earth straight into fascism) continue unimpeded.
Someone didn’t watch the Star Wars prequels
It’s not a difficult bar (heh) to clear. Keep a stock of frozen pizzas on hand, have a cheap countertop pizza oven, bam, food requirement satisfied.
Have you never heard of a “career change”?
You’re getting downvotes because you’re citing incel talking points.
Magnolias have entered the chat
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And this is in 2015, after we’d recovered from the great recession but before the housing/rental market forced a lot of families back into multi-generational housing situations.
This may have something to do with which states do all-mail voting:
Eight states—California, Colorado, Hawaii, Nevada, Oregon, Utah, Vermont and Washington and the District of Columbia—allow all elections to be conducted entirely by mail.
Utah is deep red, but the others are quite blue. Especially with California in there, that’s a pretty good chunk of the US that votes early by default (there are same-day options in these states, but I suspect that option is often utilized due to procrastination rather than intentionally waiting until election day to vote).
In Washington State (where most voting is done by mail) it doesn’t matter when officials receive your ballot, all that matters is that it’s postmarked by election day. This does mean that any race that’s even remotely close can take days to call (as ballots continue to arrive days after election day), but you never have to worry about how long the post office is going to take to get your ballot delivered.
In neighboring Oregon on the other hand (also primarily mail-in voting) they won’t count your ballot if it’s not received by election day, so every election they have to throw out stacks of otherwise legitimate ballots just because the voter either underestimated how long it would take for them to arrive, or because all they heard was “XX is election day” and didn’t know to consider mailing time.
I think Washington’s system is superior, and should be how it’s done everywhere. Washington also has same-day registration for the super-procrastinators! Literally no excuse to not vote here.
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