Or triplets in January and one in November, or one in January and triplets in November (but it was definitely these two months). She’s crazy – capable of anything.

Bumblebees are pretty gentle, and whereas I used to be extremely scared of bees (and especially bumblebees because of their size), I find them adorable to observe up-close now that I’ve gotten over my fear.

However, the question I would ask regarding petting is: why? When I pet a household dog or a cat, it’s ideally because I think it comforts them, and at worst (if they’re mildly annoyed and I don’t realize), it’s never going to harm them.

For the bee, though, it’s probably strictly uncomfortable for them to have a being 50,000 times their size come up and start putting pressure on them. (Bumblebees can distinguish noxious stimuli, but they do still respond somewhat to regular tactile stimulation; see p.3.)

Their wings and legs are fragile, and it’s not like they can’t be accidentally provoked into stinging you. If they’re just minding their own business, it’s really best to leave them alone, because at best you’re annoying/not comforting them, and at worst you’re physically harming them.

TL;DR: Bumblebees are really cool, but just treat them like you’d treat other wild animals that don’t want to be touched; that you can get so close to them and watch is already a blessing.

Has anyone proven that subway tomatoes, lettuce, etc. are actually nutritionally worse than supermarket equivalents?

If you’re looking toward iceberg lettuce for any kind of nutritional value (which teeeechnically it has) to the extent you’d be worried about a comparison between Subway and grocery, god help you, and I hope either the famine or your sea voyage is over soon.

Here’s the OP’s source (or it might’ve been a proxy like an Al Jazeera piece about this journal article) since crafting AI slop for an immediate, cheap emotional response took precedence over just sharing the source of information so people can actually learn about the horrors they’re alleging to be deeply concerned about.

Can, but it’s a highly sophisticated attack that hasn’t been reported in the wild. This is Ars Technica’s article that I suspect is higher-quality than TechSpot’s (but TechSpot discusses at least one point Ars doesn’t; it isn’t superfluous.)

Not sure if this is a tangent from Xanax or not, but Xanax (alprazolam) is not an antidepressant (just sometimes used off-label as one). It is a benzodiazepine used in the treatment of e.g. panic disorder. A 2012 Cochrane review remarked that the only studies they could find regarding its efficacy for depression were “heterogeneous, of poor quality and only addressed short‐term effects”. Long-term use of benzodiazepines (discouraged) is even believed to lead to depression. Depression and anxiety are often comorbid, and helping one can affect the other; the 2012 review didn’t really understand the mechanism that Xanax was working through. If you’re talking about getting off it, benzos are associated with high risk of both physical and psychological dependency.

Rambling aside, getting off of Xanax compared to getting off common antidepressants like SSRIs and tricyclics is a totally different ballgame.*

* The Cochrane review found withdrawals were less common in Xanax, but they note (given the notably poor evidence): “these findings should be interpreted with caution, given the dependency properties of benzodiazepines.”

That is Marc Brown from ABC 7 Los Angeles, and this old forum thread discusses it a bit. The links are dead, but they mention a Marque Clark, who was arrested for a crime committed in August 2006. So it’s plausibly (but not confirmed) real. Digging through newspapers, it looks like Clark was arrested c. September 20, 2006, assuming he was the one in the sketch.

Nah, @Zorcron@lemmy.zip had basically already answered it; I just decided to follow up.

Big Bird does establish when meeting Mr. Rogers that he likes foot races.

The front is a lemon avenue flying straightly.

Folding Ideas has come a long way since then.

Edit: There’s an AI slop video (more than one, even) floating around from this image, but I feel like I’ve seen this one before genAI was commonplace. I wonder if the video was generated from what started out as a static shitpost.

Edit 2: Nope, I’m misremembering. Look at his eyes (beyond the fact I couldn’t find credible evidence these reporters exist and there’s no news channel watermark due to what would’ve been a crop if this were real).

Edit 3: Might be traceable to a TikTok account previously called ‘curious_flicks’ but now ‘once_a_pun_a_time’ whose whole deal is genAI slop videos. This isn’t their only slop local news report, and it’s not even their only slop report doing the sketch likeness thing. The video from the OP is here, so that YT Shorts one was a plagiarized version of AI slop. We live in lovely times.

The side profile doesn’t show it, but carrying the cross gave Jesus severe scoliosis.

“Now let’s see what Squidward does.”

who still wants a television in this century?

This is so out-of-touch it’s unreal.

—Someone who doesn’t still want a television in this century

??? The fuck? Where did this come from? I was just talking about why I didn’t expand upon what “that” was in my comment because I’d wrongly assumed “that” was what we were all collectively talking about.

I kind of just assumed that’s what we were all talking about because that’s the entire point of the post. (Besides idling, which is stupid regardless of what gas station you’d be waiting in line at.)

Well yes, more people longer lines, but I wonder if the Costco is specifically problematic in comparison to other gas stations in those areas like the meme is making fun of.

I can’t recall seeing a Costco or a Sam’s Club gas station being packed when other gas stations were fine, so I wonder if that’s an especially high-density thing.

Taking that at face value: does the “to save $2 on gas” part apply at that point, though? I imagine if you’re waiting an hour for gas at Costco in Seattle rush hour, the other gas stations are near-equally saturated. Because the crux of the meme is clearly that the drivers are at the Costco when they could go somewhere else with a substantially lower wait to the point that $2 is meaningless in comparison.

(But also, if they are idling, then they definitely shouldn’t be regardless of what station they’re at. That part is obvious.)

Interesting. I wonder if that gets more problematic very close to the Interstate or in very large cities.

Is that a common thing? I’ve almost never driven past a Costco station where there wasn’t a pump available (usually several). I know the part about “30 minutes” is hyperbole, but I don’t think a bunch of cars congesting Costco stations instead of spreading out to other ones is an actual problem that’s regularly happening in reality.