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Cake day: February 28th, 2026
  • Shindo66@lemmy.worldtoscience@lemmy.world•Don’t reach for the bug spray: scientists find insects may feel pain after crickets nurse sore antennaeEnglish
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    5 days ago

    I could make aong crazy post about this. This is bad. I wanted to be an entomologist my whole childhood and i consider myself an amateur one. There are no bugs. Where there should be ants and earthworms, there are none. After a rain worms should be all over the place, the castings should be found everywhere. I keep looking and they are not there. I went to at least 20 lakes last summer in my canoe fishing with my kid and looked for aquatic insects. There are none. So there are so small fish. So there are no big fish. I just went all over florida just last week, i saw a couple of butterflies. No mosquitos, no ants, no spiders, no anything. Every year my building is really close to lake erie and gets covered in insects in the spring, havent seen a single one. I keep looking and haven’t found anything.

  • Shindo66@lemmy.worldtoLemmy Shitpost@lemmy.world•this is exactly the shit fucking job you'd expect from him to repair a national monument
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    9 days ago

    Its so much harder than you think. This would take a team of about 20 guys a month to do right. He got some little company for maralago to do it. He probably flew them up and got them hotel rooms and tours and everything. They just started putting blue paint down. That is concrete that has been under water for decades.

    The process: Power wash the entire pool with high pressure for about a week Have professional concrete guys patch any holes Vacuum up any particulate Seal with two coats of concrete primer tinted blue rated to be under water Clean the whole surface again to ensure there arent loose particles anywhere by thoroughly vacuuming again Then two coats of the blue topcoat

    It would take at least a month and the guys they got to do it just know how to do smaller swimming pools that dont need as much prep and they are “ccommercial” work, which usually means its done as cheaply as possible.

    Thank you for coming to my ted talk

  • Shindo66@lemmy.worldtoTechnology@lemmy.world•"All my fundees have blue eyes." Epstein and the tech world's dark ideologyEnglish
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    17 days ago

    Youre absolutely right. I would like to add in the “reddit” model. Why things make it to the front page is kind of the same comment. Two people could post the same thing at the same time. One goes viral and to the front page where millions will see it, one might get 10 views. One comment on a post, when funny, right in the before that post takes off, can get 30k likes. Its all timing and being the one that gets initially off the ground. Ive always wondered though, how easy would it be for reddit to pick the winners and losers? Bot accounts and fake upvotes, even just a little bit in the beginning, could put it on “trending” and get it to the front page and the “algorithm” could put it in everyone’s feed. Are you seeing what naturally won or what they wanted you to see? Did facebook naturally win or was it what they wanted to win?..