Funny you mention Columbus. Remember when Italians weren’t white enough to be a part of that club? Even Irish weren’t white enough.

Name one other war where the losers are celebrated as much as the First American Civil War (may as well get used to calling it that now).

This is why, when one people conquer another people, they destroy all of their art and culture and literature and history. You give them an inch and they take a mile. They lost…they can either not accept that and keep fighting, or they can assimilate, willingly or by force if necessary. Tale as old as time. Slavery was a third “option” for lack of a better word, but not after that war.

Meh. I got flu, covid, pneumonia, and tdap, all in one day last month.

I was fully expecting to be miserable for days, but instead I’m just magnetic and have a slight case of autism.

The party in charge of all three branches of government.

Granted, one of them isn’t supposed to be partisan, but it certainly is.

Granted, one of them is the office of a president who once said “If there is a shutdown, I think it would be a tremendously negative mark on the president of the United States”.

Granted, one of them is the only (legal, defined) pathway to fixing the other two. And they only have that because of a combination of Gerrymandering, campaigning on fear, voter suppression, and because we haven’t changed the size of the house since The Reapportionment Act of 1929 (almost 100 years ago), when the population was literally 1/3 what it is today…greatly weakening how much representation people in densely populated states (which tend to align closer with Democratic ideals).

But yeah. It’s the Dems fault.

It could be bad and great at the same time. Like Jontron’s cover of Firework.

Or that guy who did both parts of “A whole new world”.

I tried to be like e. coli (mm)

But my flagella got tired

Giving farms water for practically free while private citizens have to buy it in bottles (from CocaCola or Nestle, who are also getting it for free) from the store because the water is either laden with e.coli (usually from the same farms not handling runoff of animal waste properly) or just…not there by the time it gets to them.

Or PFAS. Can’t forget about that.

3000lb pumpkins aren’t something to be proud of. They are trophies of gluttony.

We burn down the Amazon to grow soy…not to feed people, but to feed cows. We are growing water intense crops like almonds basically in the fucking desert. And we are wasting tens of thousands of pounds of water to make a 3000lb pumpkin. Won’t get eaten. It will be on display until it rots. Meanwhile, I can’t wash my car in the summer…but I can pay the carwash! I can’t water my flowers, but the golf course can!

What the actual fuck is wrong with people.

A lot of that had to do with domestic livestock living in densely populated areas.

Indigenous Americans didn’t have very many animals that lent themselves to domestication as easily as sheep and pigs and goats and chickens. Granted a lot of these animals were native to a bunch of different regions in Africa/Asia/Europe, but there was also commerce between those regions for a very long time.

So…should we rake the woods to prevent forest fireflies?

I’d always kinda wondered what it’d be like to see RF. What would it look like? Pulses of light in different colors, or different strobe rates? Brighter at their source? Would it be blindingly “bright” everywhere we go, or would we be so desensitized of it that we’d barely notice unless we looked directly at an antenna?

What is the soup du jour?

“It’s the soup of the day.”

Mmm, that sounds good. I’ll have that.

They wouldn’t independently evolve mammary glands, because only mammals have mammary glands, and they are not mammals, but mollusca.

I’d say that’s a bit of a chicken/egg situation, but I don’t think we need to bring in more classes.

Digital Camera Images. Multiple.

Oh man. This is where my mind goes whenever I’m getting stoned with my chickens.

The investors that run all the shops in Hyrule have determined that they can use the male loneliness epidemic to redirect mens anger towards women, and then towards other minorities, so that they don’t start getting angry at the capitalists.

He doesn’t have to be on the winning side as long as the capitalists (that own all the news media) can convince him that he is.

Did Lemmy Science Memes give fossilworks.org the hug of death or was this posted somewhere big today too?

Do you secrete milk from mammary glands?

Bc that’s like legit the only requirement. We set the bar low. Not like those elitist avians.

When you have that many sexes, I think everyone would just use they/them. Don’t want to assume incorrectly.

Is this the same school that’s been getting caught in crossfire between protesters and the ICE offices literally next door?

It seems like ICE was determined to put their offices in all the worst possible locations. Like, they had to know there would be protests, right?

In Rhode Island they put it between a social services office and a taqueria.

This shit had to be intentional, to inflict the most fear.

You know what they call someone who uses fear to deliver a political message? A fucking terrorist.