Pineapple, ham, jalapeños, onions

Hawaiian supreme

That's a tanuki (English name is literally "raccoon dog")

More of a truck stop than a mall

Garak had skills, man; his father-mentor was the head of the Cardassian CIA. Meanwhile (if my time on Lemmy has taught me anything), most folks on this platform--American or otherwise--struggle with the social anxiety of answering a phone call.

Wow this is not a good month for French mayors

You're allowed to say "fuck" on the Internet without marking it as NSFW.

(Which is good, because a NSFW post in an animal-focused community is a... risky click, in a few possible directions. I stumbled across this post in new, and the vast majority of NSFW posts in new are porn, so I almost skipped over this one entirely.)

It's not a documentary (rather sub-ten-minute videos), but PBS Eons has covered the origin of life & the earliest life, and collected them into the following YouTube playlist: https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLi6K9w_UbfFR_lBRq0PwTwBxQNUsrXRKf

Same place you got your indignation

The Lemmy userbase is human, which is more than I can say of Reddit's.

This triggers a memory!

Once when I was a kid, I went with a friend to McDonalds while they were doing some Disney promotion or another. We got the "girl or boy toy with your happy meal?" question. We were both girls so we automatically answered "girl toy." After eating we looked and saw that we both had Jasmine from Aladdin, and if we had said "one of each please" we would have had both Aladdin and Jasmine, which would have been a lot more fun to play with while we waited for our parents to wrap up whatever they were doing. So we decided that next time we would ask for one of each. Well the next time was toward the end of the promotion and all they had left were the girl toys, meaning we ended up with four Jasmine figurines.

You should do this anyway to minimize particle spray upon flushing

"Female" instead of woman or girl.

Edit: as in, where "woman" or "girl" would be grammatically correct. e.g. "a lot of females work at that company" vs "a lot of women work at that company" or "that company has a lot of female employees"

There have been, like, five societal things that have improved since the 90s, and banning smoking in basically all public spaces is one of them.

I can't even imagine air travel before the smoking ban. Mega yuck.

In a statement, the consul general of Israel to the southeast US, Anata Sultan-Dadon, said that the diplomatic mission is "saddened to learn of the self-immolation at the entrance to the office building". "It is tragic to see the hate and incitement toward Israel expressed in such a horrific way"

Anyone else caught off guard by this utterly tone deaf statement?

I'm really confused what this could be referring to.

Because the folks who've been around the longest and remember the early days of the Internet are currently in utter dismay over how their fun international sandbox has become a Black Mirror-esque horror show, while everyone else seems to just shrug and obediently upload their face scans so they can watch AI videos of uncanny-valley cats playing cruel pranks on facsimiles of political figures in-between unskippable ads for applying to be an ICE agent under promises that it'll be like COD but in your own backyard with living, breathing brown people.

The article: "a bunch of us are worried about the potential rise of fascism in the United States, so we're moving to Italy"

Tell me that you are oblivious to international politics without literally telling me that you are oblivious to international politics.

More to the point, if Americans were the type to "flee in droves," left-wingers would have left states like Texas and Florida en-masse for bluer pastures. Moving within the United States is a million times easier than moving overseas, and if they're not doing the former in the face of fascism/degradation of human rights in red states, why on earth would they engage in the much more difficult latter? Definitely sounds like a case of taking anecdote and non-committal musings online too seriously.

I'd be furious too, having such incompetent, out-of-touch advisors. This article alludes to it but others have gone more in-depth: Biden's advisors keep telling him the economy is great, the problem is messaging: the American people just haven't heard how great it is. Telling people struggling to pay their bills every month that they're better off than they were four years ago isn't messaging, it's gaslighting. His advisors should be telling him the truth, that the economy is only good on paper, that while the "haves" are living large the "have nots" are not only struggling, their ranks are quickly growing. Don't get me wrong, anyone who votes for Trump because they think he'll do better at economic issues is a moron, but history shows that a lot of people are going to go this route come November at the current pace of things. And Biden's advisors are just as moronic if they don't understand this.

This is in Missouri, for anyone wondering.

How fucking long must it take for anteaters to get into heaven?

The aye-aye is weird-looking enough as an adult, but it looks like a Jim Henson creation as a baby.