Making it somehow your fault is another amazing trick by thr corpos to shift the blame for what they do on people who has nothing to do with it.

If you have a better plan that individual people can do who don’t want to fight corporations, be sure to put in the same effort to spread those ideas as well.

Ain’t nobody going to educate the millions of people who don’t give two shits about facts and science about the vast diversity of bee species and other flying insects.

If people start doing more to help “honey bees” broadly like growing wild flowering plants and reducing pesticide use, it will also help the other native species.

Let me put it another way, we need to BE VERY CAREFUL about trying to over-lecture about this kind of situation. We’re in a climate where trying to teach people knowledge isn’t received as a gift or benefit. Teachers are tuning their lessons for 7-minute attention spans and high emotional sensitivity, we all need to do the same.

Shrimp textured.

If enough individual people who own land with yards grew native plants and flowering bushes and stopped using so much pesticide outside, it would make a huge difference.

Also, nobody is talking about beetles. Beetles are one of THE biggest pollinating insects and are suffering massive decline, but I guess people are far more concerned with bees because they’re kinda cute.

I would do further reading on this, and not just rely on the “hot take” from one progressive youtuber. It’s a lot more nuanced and complicated than this.

Or in some cases, wakes up something inside you that you never would have imagined otherwise.

If you look at relationships like this, like there is some fixed set of people you are compatible with and that number exists outside of whatever personal adaptability or compromise you’re willing to make, then the number is probably actually a lot higher for a population of 8 billion people. Few people have any clue how large of a number that is.

Then if you DO factor in that a relationship is two-way, and you change, and your partner change over time to better adapt to each other and assuming you both want the best outcome, then that adds a variable that makes that number jump WAY up.

Depending on how much you’re willing to change or adapt, you can almost make that number anything you want. Of course, this isn’t the way to have a healthy relationship, your difficult choice is always deciding how much you’re going to change for someone, how much of your mental and emotional energy for change they are worth, and what your worth is as you are right now.

If your answer to that last question is “none” then that magic number drops to almost zero. Having no self-worth (or specifically, things about yourself that you’re not willing to change because of your values and ethics and desires for your future) radically reduces the number of people you might have success with. It seems counter-intuitive, but your adaptability, or passiveness in a relationship can do as much harm as being a stubborn ass.

Of course, looking at relationships this way of odds and numbers and ratios is utter horseshit, but ya’ll kids fantasizing about anime waifus and werewolf boyfriends and crying yourself to sleep because you can’t figure out the “magic trick” to being liked loooove to look at your lives in the lens of numbers and rules and systems.

Meanwhile, in reality, it’s more like the gambler’s fallacy. If the ball landed on red 40 times in a row, it says nothing about what color it will land on next. The person you will spend the rest of your life with happily may bump into you at the dollar store tomorrow and you both just feel so good about each other that you both make whatever changes and efforts needed to make it work. Life doesn’t actually follow any systems or rules of odds.

It also only benefits them.

Saying how much [CELEBRITY] annoys you, only spreads their name and recognition and clicks on their content.

This meme is the exact way outside influences have sabotaged all of our social messaging and desires for a better future.

A lot of people who think they’re progressive are going to latch onto this idea and start saying dumb shit like “Doordash is racist” and they will get scorn and eye-rolling from literally everyone else, ruining the actual thing we should be recognizing, which is the wealth inequality that pushes people to deliver other people’s food using their own car and without healthcare or benefits.

Doordash’s problems have nothing to do with race, and everything to do with the wealthy pinching off our lives at every possible avenue.

The good news, is after you lose everything at least once, life broadly becomes a lot less scary. Best wishes and I hope you land on your feet whatever the results.

I hear this argument about honeydew all the time, that it can be flavorless.

Well that’s the same with most fruit, it’s called “ripeness” and not every fruit ripens at the same rates, so you tend to get some less sweet than others.

I think people just hate the “investment” of cutting open a whole melon and it not being good, so instead of learning how to tell how ripe it is, they just swear off the fruit.

Fine, more for me.

Very much got USA’d in the middle of trying to grow a business. Ended up losing basically everything and starting over in life, out of everything though, that telescope was the only thing I really miss.

I know this is a PEMDAS joke, one of many for the PEMDAS throne.

But yeah, we need to really, really worry about the coming day when “math becomes a democracy” and that is already happening for a wide array of other facts and knowledge about the world.

Whatever “civility politics” liberals infested our collective minds with have to be abandoned. We have to get a lot harder and a lot less tolerant of other people’s “beliefs” even if you think “Well they’re only harming themselves by thinking 1x1=4” but they’re not, we need to start viewing these people as threats to our future. We no longer live in isolation, whatever bullshit your parents drove into you about “nothing on the internet being real and shouldn’t matter” was utter hogwash and even less relevant in 2025/2026. We get everything from the internet, including a sense of community and connection, which is why nutsoids find each other and turn something like a joke about earth being flat into an entire anti-science movement.

If you’ve ever seen those dumb sci-fi shows or movies where science if forbidden and people caught learning science are punished, and thought “that’s so unrealistic” well I have some real bad news for you.

You’re still too young to appreciate some of the finer things in life. It’s fine, you wake up different one day and have no idea how you got there… do not resist the change.

But bathing in the telescope is still fine, right?

Had to sell my Meade LX200 12" to pay for medical bills a number of years ago. Made me very sad.

West coast small towns are like something out of Central Casting.

Even the homeless groups and young hoodlums are completely diverse and look like they were hired by Netflix for portraying fair representation. It’s hilarious to see after living in places where racial and gender lines were set in some kind of ancient stone and people haaaated each other’s groups or identities.

It actually makes me feel really hopeful for the future going into a walmart out west and seeing every other couple is interracial or there are gay or lesbian couples openly holding hands in public. The attitudes and cartoonish hatred you see on Trump-fixated media seems like fiction from another world. (At least until the ICE gas grenades start landing in the home depot parking lot.)

I grew up in an entire family who had fallen down this slippery pipeline of magical thinking. For some of them, it cost them everything.

It’s almost entirely bullshit designed to prey on people who are desperate for something better in their lives, desperate to feel less alone, desperate to feel hope that the universe is bigger than it seems and that they won’t die or have to say goodbye to everyone someday.

That’s where it does the most harm, along with religious beliefs like the rapture or Armageddon fantasies, it’s just magical thinking that makes you feel like nothing on Earth here and now matters. No need to worry about the climate, Jesus/Aliens are coming. No need to get educated and invest in your future, Jesus/Aliens are coming. No need to value your every moment like it may be your last, because Jesus/Aliens are coming, you have all the time in the world to ignore the people and precious memories around you.

The most fucked-up part of it all is I think there may be something weird going on, but it’s not aliens or jesus, it’s not an escape, it may not even be an “objective” thing, but maybe some natural phenomenon that our brains are recontextualizing. But this kind of “maybe there’s something real” event seems to be exceedingly rare and without a way to study or replicate it, without valid, unambiguous evidence, it’s like any of our own subjective experiences, it takes place inside you and can’t impact the world around you. If you think it will, you will end up alone and disappointed.

I hate this manufactured holiday bullshit so much. The fact that everyone has to do it at the same time, all over the goddamn western world, it just throws a massive wrench into work, plans and issues like medical appointments, work projects, and of course financial planning.

I think it would be a lot easier if buying food for a dozen people didn’t cost half a grand right now.