Chetzemoka

joined 2 years ago
[–] Chetzemoka@startrek.website 3 points 1 year ago

Creepy freakazoid under cute floofy camouflage? Yep, that checks out

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

I adore my jays. I switched feeding strategies in my backyard to a trough-style feeder to make extra room for the little birds and prevent the Jays from bullying everyone else out.

One cool thing I've noticed is the Jays acting like a (very loud) lookout alarm for all the other species. The Jays scream, and everyone runs away and hides. I've seen it when the hawk comes poking around, and once when a cat found its way onto my deck.

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

Hell yeah, little Jay, get it!

[–] Chetzemoka@startrek.website 3 points 1 year ago (2 children)

They're such ugly little vultures under all that floof, I love it

[–] Chetzemoka@startrek.website 3 points 1 year ago (10 children)

So mean!!

I've never seen this in real life, but I have seen like half a dozen sparrows chasing around a hawk that was stalking one of their nests. It was interesting to see the cooperation. "Not today, Satan!"

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

I don't know where OP is, but here in Massachusetts, we have no sales tax on groceries:

https://www.salestaxhandbook.com/massachusetts/sales-tax-exemptions

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

Are you suggesting a privatized National Weather Service and toll bridges would be better? If so, I have a nice bear-ridden town in New Hampshire you might like to move to.

Regulations are exactly how you deal with negative externalities.The EPA makes corporations pay for reducing pollution and cleanup. Why do you think corporations target EPA so much? Because EPA costs them money. Never hear any corporations whining about that free taxpayer-funded geological data coming out of USGS

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

You know, I should buy a spare. Thanks for the idea

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

If you insist on ideological purity even when it will obstruct a tangible victory, then YOU have actually let the fascists win.

How can you not see that? Your pure argument fails, their fascist law stands, the fascists win. Or you make an argument that is distasteful, get the law overturned, and give real, tangible benefits to the people who need it, therefore the fascists DID NOT WIN.

I'm not fighting a philosophical war; I'm fighting a REAL one.

[–] Chetzemoka@startrek.website 6 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (4 children)

Literally why I'm still sitting here on my Pixel 5.

In the past, manufacturers seem to "innovate" every few years and reinvent the small form factor phone. I'm waiting, hoping we see that trend breaking again soon.

[–] Chetzemoka@startrek.website 23 points 1 year ago (2 children)

I like clean water, good weather forecasts, and I want to fix the bridges.

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

See, I read that scene as being equivocal because I'm not familiar with the comics, so I (still) don't know what the darkhold is beyond "evil macguffin." The scene opens with her so tranquil, appearing to make peace with herself and searching for her lost children. I thought they were leaving the door open that she might have a chance of accomplishing that.

So it would've been nice to have like 5 minutes in MoM to just show what happened between that and fully evil demon Wanda. I dunno, just felt shortchanged to me

 
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