This.

Back in the day this is how the internet worked. Every forum host was just some guy or girl hosting a platform so they coukd build a community with the people and hobbies they love.

We need to go back closer to that world. The fediverse bridges the gap between the centralized experience, and decentralized management.

Optimistically, it’s the best of both worlds.

…Months until Jan 20th…

Whoever downvoted you, has never seen actual Robin Williams Standup or knows much about his political views.

Robin hated Bush Sr. and Jr., especially Jr., with a passion.

trump would send him off the deep end, as you suggested.

He was also doing statutory rape things with a minor.

But then I’d only be viewing 5% of the content Lemmy makes available for me today.

Yup. It was bought as a tool to disrupt the next election. In that respect, it’s a hell of a good buy.

Half Kelvins?

Wild card is on the wrong side of the /tmp argument

Are you attacking my cultural heritage of slurring words like a drunk ferret?

I mean, California, and other states, are 4 syllable words.

He intentionally chose it because his kids really liked the game. He didn’t know what it was about, but he wanted to leave legacy of a fun movie to his children when he was gone (he had already known the diagnosis at that point).

So he literally did it for his kids.

Asbestos is notoriously cancer causing, dangerous, EPA damning material that many, many homes, farms, buildings, etc. in America (and a few other countries) used heavily because of the properties espoused in the advertisement above.

And many people have suffered premature deaths as a result.

Asbestos was even used in the Wizard of Oz for the snow falling on the cast.

I had Asbestos in my ceiling in a home I purchased and had to pay $12k to remediate it. They wore masks, had negative pressure ventilation suits on, had to get EPA certifications, checks, etc.

It’s brutal stuff.

That’s not true. And another one.

TL;DR;

They can run up to 35mph over short (20-30ft) distances. Then they can run at a slightly slower (though faster than most humans) pace for a sustained period of roughly 100 feet (30ish meters for the non-'mericans).

In every scenario they can and will catch every human on earth except an Olympic sprinter. And even then, it wouldn’t be a comfortable race for them.

The reason they don’t chase you down and eat you on land, is because they’ve evolved to be ambush predators from water transitions to land. They are lazy. Simple as that. And their food comes to them in most cases. Why would they want to spend all those calories just to maybe get a un-tasty human? They conserve energy so they can perform several ambush attempts for prey, rather than one long chase.

In the end, their current approach gets them more calories for the efforts, which is why they’ve evolved that way.

But they can, on paper, absolutely wipe the floor with you in a sprint over solid, flat land. For 100 feet.

No, sorry, that’s not true. And another one.

TL;DR;

They can run 35mph in that short sprint you’re talking about. Then they can run at a slower (though faster than most humans) pace for a sustained period of roughly 100 feet (30ish meters for the non-'mericans).

It doesn’t necessarily matter. They just don’t like running after prey.

They can make swift dashes on land to catch prey sunbathing or something that’s escaping, but that’s the limits of what they’d like to do.

It’s like Pandas. They’re cute as hell, but if it wasn’t for us, they’d have died out already. They’ve evolved themselves to a point where all they eat is one specific plant, and they have such a low sex drive that we can’t even show them Panda Porn to get them horny. We literally have to extract sperm from their balls and inject it into the uterus of the female to make baby pandas.

Evolution is lazy is what I’m trying to say.

Alligators can already outrun a person on land.

They just choose not to. Because they’re lazy and they don’t like running after their prey.

I suspect the same was probably true of whatever it was we killed off back then too.

Musk is on the trump mushroom dick train because he’s afraid he’s going to get indicted, and trump has already offered him a full pardon.

This makes too much sense to not be true.

We’re practically family now

It stopped during covid and never started back up

I’m pretty sure that’s SCA, not HEMA