Cataphract

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[–] Cataphract@lemmy.ml 31 points 11 months ago

I gotta say, this article makes me feel sane again.

[–] Cataphract@lemmy.ml 2 points 11 months ago (1 children)

that just about says everything I needed to know about you.

[–] Cataphract@lemmy.ml 2 points 11 months ago (2 children)

TIL you can litter train a bunny, really wish I knew that growing up since my family had a pet bunny when I was young and had to constantly clean up after it. I was wondering how anyone could do this with a bunny shitting all over the house.

[–] Cataphract@lemmy.ml 1 points 11 months ago (3 children)

It's so transparent how much of a hard-on you're getting with your justice rage. "I'm just presenting the facts", yes, just like the unjust legal system we are all living under, you have confidently defined the "reasoning" behind the conviction. The debate and conversation around it, is for the citizens to discuss the absurd practices of the justice system, which you are just being a speakerbox for with no personal context. That's already been done by the justice system so why regurgitate and post multiple links to your enlightenment.

After the first comment I just scrolled by after reading, then you've plastered your masterlink of pleasure confirming the pleasure and how much you want others to view it. What's your personal opinion on a 15 year old being charged in this manner? Does this 15 year old have the full faculty of an adult? Do you believe a 15 year old is an adult or just for this case? How do you feel about the murder charge? Yeah, you can hide behind the law, but I would rather hear what your actual opinion is especially after seeing a post you've done like "The less racist a country is, the harder it is to detect enemy spies. #showerthoughts"

[–] Cataphract@lemmy.ml 5 points 11 months ago

As others have stated, you want to contact your local co-op extension if you're in the states.

https://extension.org/find-cooperative-extension-in-your-state/

The Cooperative Extension System is a non-formal educational program implemented in the United States designed to help people use research-based knowledge to improve their lives. The service is provided by the state's designated land-grant universities. In most states, the educational offerings are in the areas of agriculture and food, home and family, environment, community economic development, and youth and 4-H. (wiki)

They'll have free soil sample kits, articles and programs/classes for local agriculture, etc etc.

Anything else will be pirated, shitty ad filled ai knockoff apps, or finding a forum of like minded individuals you can ask. There are plenty of resources out there but a "one stop shop" I haven't found. The problem stems probably from location, information is vast and mostly irrelevant if you're not in the same growing zones. The local co-ops will have individuals, employees, and articles posted up, they're really helpful when it comes to reaching out to them in my experience.

[–] Cataphract@lemmy.ml 0 points 11 months ago

Can you please explain to me how that "dinner with Putin" is important? I keep seeing people referencing it, I've seen the photo and read the articles. Also, if you search, there are other photos of putin with other politicians, should I assume they are all bought and paid for if I can find a picture of two people together?

I'm more for factual information. This post of a reddit screen-shot by a poster who put up shitty information that's irrelevant seems really popular, is this just like an internet fan-trolling on 3rd parties in the US that both the left and right love to perform? I don't expect this to change if we even had a change in our electoral process, just more hating on other parties at this point.

[–] Cataphract@lemmy.ml -4 points 11 months ago

That's a lot of vague statements you've repeated from the article. What's drinking "regularly" (this was before the diagnosis as you've stated)? "She kept drinking", what does that mean? How much alcohol was she consuming? Did she have a sip of her friends wine and was honest about it so was rejected?

as the article also says it’s incredibly dangerous for someone to get a live-donor transplant when they’re in bad shape like she was, as failure of that means they’ll need to let her die on-table or transplant a good dead one into her

Where does it say that? You've completely twisted the statements.

"On the off chance their (living) liver doesn't work, they urgently get listed for a deceased donor," said Jayakumar. "We need to make sure that everyone who is a candidate for a living donor is also a candidate for a donor graft as well, " she added.

Huska’s time at the Oakville hospital likely cost over $450,000 - ($3,592 per day for ICU care) with an additional 61 days in a ward bed which likely cost about $1,200 a day, A liver transplant in Ontario is pegged at about $71,000 to $100,000 in Ontario based on data from 2019.

In 2021, 15.6 per cent of Canadians over 12 engaged in heavy drinking – a term defined as five or more drinks for males, or over four for females, on one occasion at least once per month in the past year.

Heavy drinking is drinking ONCE per month in the past year. If this is based off of before her diagnosis, you're gonna exclude like 80% of the working population who actually does go out for drinks or private occasions (unless they just lie which I guess they should've in this situation). Between the price of keeping them alive but not fixing the problem and there being no "review" process for decisions, I would categorize this as a bad system that allowed a preventable death from an alcohol related disease to continue.

[–] Cataphract@lemmy.ml 6 points 11 months ago

Majority in U.S. Continues to Favor Stricter Gun Laws - Gallup.com

  • Fifty-six percent of U.S. adults say gun laws should be stricter, while 31% believe they should be kept as they are now and 12% favor less strict gun laws. (2023)

CNN Poll: Most Americans want stricter gun control, but they’re divided on whether guns make public places safer

  • Overall, 64% say they favor stricter gun control laws, with 36% opposed, little changed since a survey taken last summer in the wake of a mass shooting at an elementary school in Uvalde, Texas. (2023)

Polls show a solid majority of Americans want gun control | Vox

  • Nearly three-quarters of Americans think that gun violence is a big or moderately big problem, according to a survey last year by Pew Research Center. And a majority of Americans think that the epidemic of school shootings could be stopped with drastic changes in legislation, according to a poll this week by YouGov. (2022)

Most Americans support these 4 types of gun legislation, poll says

Would be a lot more helpful to name politicians who are against gun control than the 'American Populace" who continues to be shot everyday.

[–] Cataphract@lemmy.ml 1 points 11 months ago

I believe in a well-regulated market he wouldn't have found success like he did. Running for 8 years off of parents and VC/stock influx of millions of dollars screams anti-competitive to me. At the very least if we had decent privacy protection laws then the early data harvesting and business application probably would've been looked into at the start and shutdown, or else the company broken up from a monopoly once it started strangling whole sectors.

[–] Cataphract@lemmy.ml 6 points 11 months ago (1 children)

.... what are you doing in this post? Should I feel sad and pity you?

[–] Cataphract@lemmy.ml 9 points 11 months ago

jesus, I was hoping for some well thought-out brilliantly hidden metaphor that would help illuminate others understanding of something. This story is just pure bull-shit like an elon musk fanboy literature night.

  • The villagers don't know or can't see the smoke from the fire but must "trust the king" (not how wildfires work, you've made a boogeyman).

  • No one but the kings soldiers are "solving" the problem? Bullshit, it would take the entire kingdom of support to save it.

  • A few villagers will die from the fire the kingdom sets, but it's necessary for the greater good. WTF kinda dystopian bullshit is this? There's no way to inform your citizens of the impending doom?!?

  • "he’d be damned if he was gonna sit on his throne and watch the fire swallow up his whole kingdom". Maybe that's the problem with your entire story. Person is ruling from the throne and not trusted or respected by his community enough to care about a problem they're being presented. The people wouldn't trust his actions because there will be no compensation or reflection for his decisions that effect their life, "well it was for the greater good, so be happy peasant".

[–] Cataphract@lemmy.ml 3 points 11 months ago

Wheel of Time book series.

Got way into it when I was younger, got them as soon as new ones came out but after re-reading the first like 10 books multiple times and the repetitive descriptions, the long journey just killed it for me before it got more wrapped up in the later books. Still love it when I go to try and reread it, just get flustered out around book 7. Would love to just be able to do the entire run now with that same enthusiasm I had before, like finding a great show with lots of seasons to binge.

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