Hey, some of us are 35-year-old edgelords

I’m not a marine biologist, so I can’t speculate on what the best alternative is for these whales, but I would like to imagine there are more options than the binary of “kill them” or “throw them to the wolves sharks”.

Marineland is just parroting the euthanize option because they’re upset they couldn’t make a quick buck by selling them to China. It’s a hissy fit tactic to try to un-block the sale.

If the whales are not able to be released in to the wild, I’m sure there are plenty of other facilities out there that would be able to care for them. Marineland might need to pay them to take the animals in, but it should be their obligation to do so if they’re unable to support the quality of life they need themselves.

C’mon Ottawa, force them to rehabilitate and release them, even if it kills the park.

A lot of animals cannot be rehabilitated and released. If they were born and raised in captivity, they have effectively no chance of survival on their own. I don’t know what the situation is for these animals, but I’ve been to plenty of zoos and aquariums in the past that have rehabilitation programs and even they have a few “lifers” who will never leave.

Shit. I was about to quip “Your intern is only 8?” before I remembered what year it was.

I will say I don’t like the direction imgur went, but to play devil’s advocate, I don’t think there was any way around it.

The problem is that being an image host used by millions of users is incredibly expensive, and between needing to pay for the infrastructure, content moderators, and (in this case) regulatory compliance, it all adds up.

The only income model they have is ads, which is why they needed to re-tool the UI to hinder users’ ability to direct share images, and converting it to a more social media type of format keeps users on the site so they can cycle in more ads for more revenue.

An ideal internet would not need to rely on ad money to work, but I’m struggling to think of what else could be done at the scale imgur operates, as donation models can barely even keep Lemmy instances above water. If ad money wasn’t a thing, would sites like imgur be able to exist? Maybe they shouldn’t, I don’t know.

New England? There’s an entire Pennsylvania and New York between Ohio and New England.

Gozaimasu

Don’t forget that Crunchyroll is also owned by Sony, who have basically picked up a monopoly on anime streaming services by buying out all of the competition. Aniplex, Funimation, Crunchyroll, Kadokawa, all under the Sony umbrella.

For this one, I think it’s nothing quite as exciting, basically just what you’d expect.

S30.852A - Superficial foreign body of penis, initial encounter

Guessing that column is truncated “Allergies,” though I’m not sure if the exclamation point means that they have a major allergy or maybe their allergy information wasn’t recorded yet.

Just not to worry about them, explaining a bit more about their relationship with their producer.

If that is truly the case, then it is just a bit potentially concerning that you might be codependent on this person, given the extent to which your conversations with others keep circling back to them.

I am not one to judge others on the way they want to live their lives, so it’s all good as long as you’re happy and safe.

But if you happen to feel like this person might be restricting your autonomy or that everything has to revolve around them, it might not be a bad idea to reach out to other people you can confide in for some support.

Ok, forgive me if this sounds offensive, but I am legitimately curious. Is this “producer” that you mention in almost every single post just a pseudonym or alternate personality that stands in for you? Like is this a dissociative thing, or just a bit you’re doing, or…?

If you’re referring to having customizable icon silhouettes, Android has been doing that for a while with Material Design, which has gotten old at this point.

I don’t believe any desktop environment behaves similarly because they don’t have a dominant app store and OS-level app standards encouraging design compliance like Android/iOS do.

That’s how I read the intent of the author, at least. Getting scientists out of their isolated bubbles and allowing them to actually experience the world drives innovation.

That, or the one physicist who figured it out was so traumatized by merely being outside that she figured it out as quickly as possible to make it all stop, haha.

Fair, I guess I’m just letting the world get to me!

I almost kinda dislike the messaging on this one because it implies authoritarianism is the key to discovery. Scientists are implied to be passive and unindustrious when left alone, so the government (FBI-type characters) declare a truth they want proven, force development of it through the threat of violence, and it eventually yields an answer they’re happy with.

I’m reminded of the film The Death of Stalin and it’s depiction of the USSR’s treatment of bourgeois intellectuals like doctors.

Mar-a-Lago Face

RIP Alaska and half of New England (and presumably Hawaii as well).