Chetzemoka

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[–] Chetzemoka@startrek.website 25 points 1 year ago

I knew a lady involved in a rollover accident in one of those old, flawed Ford Explorers back in the day. When she recovered, her solution to deal with her trauma and make herself feel safer on the road was...to buy an even bigger SUV with an even higher center of gravity.

[–] Chetzemoka@startrek.website 9 points 1 year ago

Oh, so it's yet another one of those problems caused by that whole "let's take this four legged mammal body plan and make it stand upright" thing. Thanks, evolution!

[–] Chetzemoka@startrek.website 16 points 1 year ago (2 children)

I can't tell you how often this ends old people's lives. They start to aspirate food, get hospitalized for nasty pneumonia because of it, we try to feed them pureed food (essentially baby food all over again) and thicken their drinks, they struggle to stay hydrated and nourished because of it, they aspirate and end up in the hospital again. Rinse, repeat.

This is shockingly common. Evolution is a dick.

[–] Chetzemoka@startrek.website 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

I'm mean, to be honest, yes. I haven't purchased anything from Amazon in years. It was an adjustment, but easier than you think. Most times, I just wait a little longer for free delivery of something I don't care about getting in two days anyway. One of the other changes I made was getting a membership to a Costco type place that has local delivery for my household stuff like cereal and toilet paper. You should give it a shot.

[–] Chetzemoka@startrek.website 12 points 1 year ago (1 children)

"Virtually all scholars agree that a Jewish man named Jesus of Nazareth did exist in Palestine in the 1st century CE.[1][7][8][note 1] Scholars regard the question of historicity as generally settled in scholarship in the early 20th century."

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Historicity_of_Jesus#:~:text=Virtually%20all%20scholars%20agree%20that%20a%20Jewish%20man%20named%20Jesus,in%20the%20early%2020th%20century.

[–] Chetzemoka@startrek.website 12 points 1 year ago

Golf course lawns are lame and terrible for the environment.

[–] Chetzemoka@startrek.website 2 points 1 year ago

That was me last fall with my "trash and leaves pile" that is now a nice new garden with flowers and decorative grass

[–] Chetzemoka@startrek.website 2 points 1 year ago

I am definitely the bad kid on the block lol

[–] Chetzemoka@startrek.website 13 points 1 year ago (5 children)

I think "several inches" is a bit overwrought. It's like one layer of leaves that will be mulched up the instant I mow next spring. And what is a "good idea"? What's going to happen? Some grass might die. Oh noes, the world will end!

We need to rethink how we live in all respects. And not depleting lawns of nutrients that we have to replace with artificial fertilizer is part of that

[–] Chetzemoka@startrek.website 33 points 1 year ago (16 children)

Usually I mulch mow my leaves. This year I just left them whole. We'll see come spring how much the anti-leaf doomsayers are correct or not. "It can kill grass!" they say. Well, I'm not trying to make my yard look like a golf course in the first place, so maybe let's start there.

[–] Chetzemoka@startrek.website 10 points 1 year ago

We've should have nationalized high speed rail the same way we have a nationalized interstate highway system. Not everything needs to be privatized for profit.

[–] Chetzemoka@startrek.website 3 points 1 year ago

pleasedontbereproduceablepleasedontbereproduceablepleasedontbereproduceable

Waiting to see how this study shakes out at work.

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