Pandantic

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[–] Pandantic@midwest.social 2 points 14 hours ago

But have you considered not wanting to lose something you toss on the bed?

[–] Pandantic@midwest.social 4 points 1 week ago

I lived in a relatively nice apartment that had a problem with the front door closing. I once found a baby mouse in my bag of chips, caught another one by hand because its tail was peaking out from under my shelf, and ended up catching about 15 in total (one actually got in my mouse’s cage).

[–] Pandantic@midwest.social 11 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Could you maybe put a trigger warning and put the graphic stuff in the body?

 

Alt TextPicture 1 is a drawing of a manatee in a rainbow-colored hue Picture 2 is a drawing of the same manatee, except the rainbow hue is gone and it is regular (grey) manatee color. A small diver swims above its back, implying it is huge. Picture 3 is the same grey manatee, but with the face of actor Hugh Laurie superimposed over the manatee face. Signature on all reads "Robert Winchester", who did indeed make the first one.

[–] Pandantic@midwest.social 17 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

This bun lives another day to learn the lesson that the size of the hole in the fence/ability to jump decreases after filling its tummy with veg.

[–] Pandantic@midwest.social 7 points 2 weeks ago

Opening up your relationship to another is tricky - you have to have immense trust in all involved. Do you trust that this guy isn’t just trying to get your wife? Do you trust that your wife isn’t just trying to get another man in the bed or transitioning over to him? Do you trust yourself to not be jealous when he takes her to bed (or goes on a one-on-one date)? If any of these questions gave you a little twinge of sick in your gut, that means you need to explore that - is it something you can overcome with conversations and agreed limits or is it too deep?

I was in a triad and it took some work to get over my jealousy (which I had in all my previous relationships and was not healthy anyway). However, it was a really rewarding experience - I had a same-gender partner to do things with, being with two people in bed is fun, and when things went bad with one partner, I had another one to emotionally support me and help me work through it before having a conversation with the other.

However, again, you have to trust that everyone has the others’ best interests at heart because there’s definitely the potential for one to try and turn the other against you if they aren’t trustworthy.

Good luck!

[–] Pandantic@midwest.social 2 points 3 weeks ago

Sure, but compare NASA next to Starfleet / Star Trek next to Space Force. Two of them look remarkably similar…

[–] Pandantic@midwest.social 16 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago) (6 children)

Strange that the Space Force logo is a combination of both…

Not sure how they can just steal the Star Trek logo tho…

[–] Pandantic@midwest.social 5 points 3 weeks ago

One of my absolute favorite episodes of Star Trek ever.

[–] Pandantic@midwest.social 15 points 1 month ago (1 children)

2nd grade, the meanest teacher I ever had got mad at me for using a colorful pen to write on my classwork. In front of the class, she told me to “never bring that pen back to school.” This was a new pen that I had just bought - the kind with multiple colors inside and I wanted it for my babysitter’s after school so I could use it on the Spirograph - so I said, “Can’t I just keep it in my backpack? I go to my babysitter’s…” and that’s where she cut me off and proceeded to yell at me in front of the whole class and made me sit out for recess for “talking back”. Since I had “lunch detention”, I had to eat last, but I had never been in big trouble before and I cried the whole recess and, by the time my lunch came I couldn’t eat from crying so they called my mom to talk me into eating.

[–] Pandantic@midwest.social 4 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Wow, I’ve been trying to think of the name of this show forever. I remember her getting her powers taken away and the mom dumped spaghetti over her head to make her use it.

I still wish I had these powers and do the time freeze gesture sometimes.

[–] Pandantic@midwest.social 25 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Sad to hear this. I liked the people I’ve met from lemm.ee and the hands-off approach to defederation that the instance had.

[–] Pandantic@midwest.social 27 points 2 months ago

They are the only instance I know of with an active mutual aid comm.

 

This song makes me think of the strength of community and the power many twigs have when bound tightly together.

 

Trump backtracks on campaign pledge to bring down grocery prices

The president-elect walked back what was always a wildly unrealistic campaign promise.

Dec 12, 2024, 10:19 AM ESTUpdated 10 hours ago

President-elect Donald Trump admitted in an interview with Time magazine that it will be difficult for him to reduce consumer prices, contrary to statements he made on the campaign trail this year.

Trump told Time in an hourlong interview for its “Person of the Year” feature that his presidency wouldn’t be a failure if he failed to bring the price of groceries down.

“I’d like to bring them down. It’s hard to bring things down once they’re up. You know, it’s very hard. But I think that they will,” Trump said, according to the transcript.

Trump is right that it’s very hard to achieve across-the-board price reductions. Curbing inflation is only a matter of slowing the rate of price increases — actual economy-wide price drops typically don’t happen outside of a massive economic downturn.

Nevertheless, Trump repeatedly told voters during the campaign that electing him president would cause prices to tumble.

. . .

“We will cut your taxes and inflation, slash your prices, raise your wages and bring thousands of factories back to America,” Trump said at a Georgia rally in October, reciting a line he used in speeches at several other events.

. . . (excerpt)

 

Obviously this won’t work for all sports, but things like football, track, soccer, it would allow for de-gendered team, even allowing athletes with the skills but not the genetically-endowed physical attributes to have a place to play.

Note: I know very little about sports and being on a sports team, so please point out anything that doesn’t make sense.

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submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by Pandantic@midwest.social to c/til@lemmy.world
 

Some cephalopods are able to fly through the air for distances of up to 50 metres (160 ft). While cephalopods are not particularly aerodynamic, they achieve these impressive ranges by jet-propulsion; water continues to be expelled from the funnel while the organism is in the air. The animals spread their fins and tentacles to form wings and actively control lift force with body posture. One species, Todarodes pacificus, has been observed spreading tentacles in a flat fan shape with a mucus film between the individual tentacles, while another, Sepioteuthis sepioidea, has been observed putting the tentacles in a circular arrangement.

Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cephalopod#Senses

 

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Another take on that is that he wasn't going to war for his school at all. That's ignoring the previous comments about it not being about the school at all (which is partly true), but recognizing the validity of that perspective. My point is that even if the war had been about the school itself, that wasn't what Harry was fighting for. He was fighting for his home.. Books or movies, Hogwarts was the one place that Harry felt was home. Not the Durselys', not even the Weasleys.

Hogwarts was Harry's first real home. So, even if he hadn't been the "chosen one", even if voldemort was attacking the school directly as a goal without any of the rest of the part about him and Harry, I think he still would have fought as hard as he could to defend it. You could make Harry a supporting character with his parents just having died of natural causes, and him being taken in by the Dursleys to eventually go to school at Hogwarts with nothing else involved, and that kid would still have fought for the one place he felt at home.

Hogwarts was like that for other students, but Harry had that abusive household and extremely limited freedom to make other social connections. That's an ideal setup for someone to attach to something as wonderful as Hogwarts was in comparison. I really think that Harry would have fought just as hard or harder for no other reason than that.

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Pulling out the old low tec and I need something to work with my old (non-lightening cable) iPod for music. Thanks!

 

Google literally giving me sex talk lines.

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