Dumb question from a cis person:

Online I see a lot of references to trans women getting together with each other, but I've never seen similar for trans men (or trans men and women). Does this track to IRL? Or is this imbalance just a memetic artifact (trans memes are popular + yuri memes are popular = trans yuri memes are popular)?

Rural people, as in the folks who actually have a use for pickups. As it so happens, it is about 200 miles round-trip to my nearest airport/major city, so if this were my vehicle, I'd have to take a charge break when picking someone up/dropping them off at the airport, or making a shopping run, or going to a concert/special event, or seeing a medical specialist. And I'm not even that far off the beaten path; I have family for whom the one-way drive to their nearest major city/airport is over 200mi. Plus if you're hauling anything, I'd imagine that range goes down quick.

Mexico City has horrible air quality, is running out of water, and is literally sinking because of over-consumption tho? Not exactly where I'd want to make any long-term plans.

My point was more that a pickup's core demographic live in places where range is absolutely a consideration. Some city folks do have good reason to own a pickup, but for most it's an aesthetic/image thing. Which, given the environmental/traffic safety consequences of driving a larger vehicle than necessary, is plenty deserving of judgement imo.

*TVs

It's a classic, so not seeing it in the running is like not seeing vanilla or chocolate in a selection of ice cream flavors.

What, no umeboshi?

Speak for yourself, my absolute dope of a cat was able to resolve the mouse problem in my new apartment within 48 hours (she didn't even manage to catch any, her mere presence was apparently sufficient).

Tadpoles.

The ensuing frog plague upon the capital would be a nice little bonus.

Definitely a case of "committing to the bit" that resulted in an above-average comedy anime. A lot of these "so dumb it's intriguing" premise series struggle to carry interest for more than an episode, so I was pleased that the series remained consistent all ten episodes. Probably good that they ended there, though.

RIP science documentaries I guess...

MEMES ARE REAL LIFE!!!1

Oh no, that's a separate treatment: salamander larvae. Fortunately they cohabitate with tadpoles quite harmoniously.

No experience with pineapples, but when a plant starts looking like this it's often either too much or too little watering. Does the pot have an unobscured drain hole in the bottom? How did you choose a once-every-three-days watering cycle? (That sounds insufficient for outside growing this time of year to me.)

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.

"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"

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.