[-] whelmer@beehaw.org 24 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

This is so funny

EDIT:

One recipe it dubbed “aromatic water mix” would create chlorine gas. The bot recommends the recipe as “the perfect nonalcoholic beverage to quench your thirst and refresh your senses”.

"Serve chilled and enjoy the refreshing fragrance,” it says, but does not note that inhaling chlorine gas can cause lung damage or death.

😆 😆

[-] whelmer@beehaw.org 28 points 1 year ago

Not anyone. You have to be rich.

[-] whelmer@beehaw.org 13 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Solid puns but this is actually a problem. Beehives are quite valuable, like $500 per hive or so to just straight up sell them, or obviously they can also be incorporated into an apiary for long-term production.

Theft of beehives is really not unheard of. Similar to how people steal cows and shit. Beekeepers will sometimes brand or otherwise mark their hives in an attempt to deter such thievery.

Personally I keep my beehives in huge steel cages, though that is primarily to protect them from bears.

[-] whelmer@beehaw.org 16 points 1 year ago

It doesn't matter how you recreate an image, if you recreate someone else's work that is a violation of copyright.

Stealing someone's style is a different matter.

[-] whelmer@beehaw.org 26 points 1 year ago

Well said. Copyright is whatever, but the disrespect shown here is remarkable.

[-] whelmer@beehaw.org 9 points 1 year ago

Indeed.

I'm afraid that even laws aren't the root cause. I'm pretty concerned about the infrastructure we have allowed to be built around us, and what we will continue to allow to be built going forward. Even if we had strong privacy laws, laws are fickle things. The only thing separating us from full on Orwellian dystopia is some bad policy changes, the technology is already in place and we bought it on purpose.

[-] whelmer@beehaw.org 9 points 1 year ago

To me it seems the United States is heading towards civil war more than revolution. There's factionalism at play that is deeper than just class antagonisms. I read a book recently where the author was talking about how times when states are transitioning into or out of "democraticness" in when civil wars are most likely to occur. Factionalism and shifting democratic integrity means high risk for civil war. Apparently.

[-] whelmer@beehaw.org 13 points 1 year ago

This is why Athenians considered representative electoral systems to be of the oligarchical political type rather than the democratic. It was apparently the understanding then that such a system is one in which the rich and powerful rule by way of money and influence, as opposed to a democracy in which rulership was determined by lottery.

[-] whelmer@beehaw.org 13 points 1 year ago

No voting at 70? Wow. That seems so tragically disrespectful towards the people in our community we should be regarding as our elders. I think you are exaggerating the extent of mental decline with age pretty significantly and not appreciating the benefits. One of the most politically active and motivated people I know is in her 70s.

16 year olds may have the most skin in the game, if one can handle such generalized statements, but clearly the thing that teenagers lack is perspective and experience.

Not all elderly people are Mitch McConnell, just like not all young people are George Santos.

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I love this song. A couple times a year I pull it up and brings a tear to my eye every time. I bet you can guess the part if you listen to it. It's a compositional masterpiece in several layers. It grooves like a motherfucker, it's got sick riffs, it's got brilliant metaphor, and the lyrics are real as fuck. And it's a medley fer christ's sakes.

[-] whelmer@beehaw.org 12 points 1 year ago

There isn't "meat industry" farming or "vegan industry" farming. The primary dichotomies in farming are industrial vs small scale, organic vs conventional, and local vs global. If you don't like monocultural industrial farming, then support the other types of farmers.

[-] whelmer@beehaw.org 10 points 1 year ago

Hi, I'm Whelmer, never maintained a reddit account but I was a chronic lurker and was pleased to discover this whole Lemmy thing recently. Always had a love/hate thing with reddit and this place reduces significantly the latter part of that equation.

I'm an organic orchardist by trade, novice gardener and beekeeper as well. Been into Linux and FOSS for the past decade or so. I also like to play and build synthesizers. Though these days I'm not finding a lot of time for my non-economic hobbies.

Thanks for creating and maintaining this community.

[-] whelmer@beehaw.org 11 points 1 year ago

Hello, cis male here. My 2 cents would be not to worry so much about what you "really" are and just do what feels right for you today. You can play and experiment with gender as much or as little as you like. It's entirely up to you, and that's what determines what you "really" are.

For me, I've always been attracted to women (and to girls when I was younger). That's never felt to me like wanting to look like them. If you want to look more like the girls your age, then try it and see how it feels.

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