I also try to avoid staying directly behind them so I’m not in too much of a blind spot, and if there’s the opportunity to purposefully cast a shadow I’ll do that as well.

I don’t take offense to it. If someone that was built like me was the only other person around, I’d keep an eye on them also. It doesn’t have to be prejudice against them like people always imply in these posts, it’s just common sense.

One…two…thick Freddy’s coming for you… 😂

It was a blast. We went to grab breakfast on our way out of town and this place popped up as I was looking for the best breakfast along the way. It intrigued me that a pharmacy was the number 1 rated breakfast spot.

It’s Lincoln’s P&G. Half the place is a regular pharmacy, and the other is a diner/soda fountain. This is the menu with the soda specials and they have a bunch of old photos of the place on this page.

They advertised top notch pancakes, which I’m usually meh about, but these were light and had a nice crispy outside that seemed to set them apart. Good stuff if ever anyone is ever passing through there.

You are correct. I just reeducated myself. They just have a record if you voted or not. Apologies.

One could look at that as more suspicious in the context of why they may be trying to collect this data. This is the guy that wanted Georgia to “find more votes” and a registered Republican voting for a Democrat sounds like one of those things that is “obviously a mistake” as you surely intended to vote R.

A registered Democrat voting for a Democratic candidate would be largely assumed, but if all your votes are going to another party, this may be the so far undiscovered “evidence” of the Dems stealing votes or doing fraudulent mail in or drop off ballots.

I don’t disagree with what you do, I just think it would stand out more if I were to be looking for statistical anomalies.

I like the olde tyme medicine / cocktail bitters type taste!

I had a fun time last year outside of Pittsburgh there was a diner that had the original soda fountain in it, and I ended up talking with the soda jerk about a lot of the oddball ingredients and he gave me some of the phosphates and I was tasting them straight up and mixing them with flavors in different proportions and such.

A-Treat has an online store now, with the brown and white birch beers both available, as well as the pumpkin cream and cranberry ginger ale holiday flavors, which I also love. There’s a few other Pennsylvania birch beers, the PA Dutch red version and the clear Kutztown ones are on Amazon I saw, but the A-Treat is the most local to where I live.

I mainly just talk about things I’m genuinely interested in. That makes me naturally more conversational in my posts, comments, and replies.

When someone replies to me, I want to acknowledge their contribution, so I try to at least say something relevant to their comment. Hopefully it’s something that can get another reply out of them or someone else, but you at least want them to feel their comment was appreciated more than just an upvote or a one word response. I think that encourages them and others to comment again, as even if you can’t add much to that current thread, you show you’re there and open to conversation and that you are willing to engage if they speak up first.

I will reply to people that comment on my old posts because I’m still interested in the original topic (I posted it after all!) but if I’m reading someone else’s post and it’s much over 24 hours old, I’m usually assuming they’ve moved on unless others are still interacting with it as well.

I love regional drinks as a quick and cheap way to check out local food culture!

Coffee milk sounded so good and I bought 2 tall bottles to bring home with me. It was… interesting… 😁

I maybe had 3 glasses trying to “get it right” but it may have just not been for me, but I still think about it after 10+ years, so it made a lasting impression, if nothing else.

Cheerwine is possibly my favorite regional soda, but Dr Enuf was good too. I had the red one, as it looked like the Cheerwine on the same trip.

In Pennsylvania, A-treat is still around under new owners, and people seem to be surprised by the clear birch beer.

Huh, never heard of this. I’ll have to keep an eye out for it. I love trying things like this.

It sounds like it’s just flat or in a slushie, but never carbonated like every other soda?

I get bummed that the political stuff has really taken over. I find myself spending more and more time just working on my own content and answering people’s comments than browsing the other communities. It’s draining scrolling past so much stuff to find the fun bits, but I don’t want to just block it and not see how our platform is developing as a whole.

A lot of communities have rules that posts need to be titled the same as the source article, which, while it prevents editorializing, it also brings all those ragebait headlines here. Plus I’d like to see Lemmy users’ opinions moreso than an article I could just read myself. I’d probably prefer more of the political post to be thoughts/feelings and then discussion is backed up by decent articles rather than an article being the post and comments are just all steered back to a single, often inflammatory article.

If half our content is just reposted mainstream media, why would one expect our comment sections to look any different than the comment sections of those mainstream sites?

Chapters were read by a number of different people with different gear, so quality and pronunciations were a bit all over the place. It was solid enough as a whole that I really enjoyed it.

I listened to Worm, which the wiki says is 156 hours.

Haven’t done the sequel, but it says that’s about 225 hours.

They can still bark, or at least the one dog I’ve met that had it done to it could, it just sounded more like a cough than a bark.

It’s often looked down on as unnecessary surgery, as it does nothing to address why the dog was barking to begin with. There are some groups that support it, as it can be looked at as something that can allow the dog to be out in public without being considered a nuisance or as a procedure that can prevent the dog from being put down.

Yeah, the VOCs seemed to be the main focus. The introduction talked about how most cooking studies have been on people still using biomass fuel in low income regions, and they wanted to look if higher income areas using more modern methods of cooking still suffered the same increased lung cancer risks.

Not OP, but it made me curious too, and this is the study I found that sounded like what was mentioned.

From my quick skim of it, it didn’t look at gas vs electric specifically, and I don’t know if biomass fuel use was included in this study or not. Their results seemed to indicate more cooking daily in general, lots of frying, and not using a fume hood all had notable increases in cancer risk per their data collected.

In no particular order:

• Gintama
• One Piece
• Steins Gate
• Golden Kamuy
• Fruits Basket

Bird respiration is very different than ours. It is much more efficient since there is such a high energy and oxygen requirement to fly, but they also don’t have a diaphragm to fill or expel their lungs.

Instead they have a series of air sacs spaced out in their bodies and they have to flex their muscles like pumping a bellows system to pump air through themselves.

With small lungs, low body weight, yet a massive air intake for their body mass, that makes them much more vulnerable to anything damaging in the air. We don’t even spray the surface cleaner directly into their enclosures, we spray the paper towel and bring it over to the incubators.

Birds feel so fragile (even the big ones) but can require some intense care. Their very non-mammalian anatomy can even make feeding them tricky, and the babies need to eat every hour.

I have so. Much respect for the sacrifices of the actual licensed rehabbers. It’s a literal 24/7 job and so many areas are underserved it’s a massive workload. We did I think 4000+ animals this year with just 2 rehabbers and us volunteers.

Finally got off my butt and started volunteering at my local wildlife rehab clinic. It’s been a tough year for me mentally, so having something regular where I’m surrounded by kind people doing something positive itself was great, and then getting to work with a ton of unique wildlife was the icing on the cake.

I even got to release a few squirrel patients at my house, and a beautiful young Screech Owl on my wife’s birthday.

I’ve learned a bunch about all kinds of animals and found out about some animals I didn’t even know we had in our state. I also attended a conference and got to meet people from other clinics across the country and see some of the special projects they’re working on.

I owe it to the community here for pushing me to get more hands on with this, and I hope to continue to give back with some great stories, facts, and photos. It’s been a truly amazing experience that I wish to continue.

Agreed. We’re still one of the most polite online spaces I’m aware of, but it’s harsher than it was right during the third party app exodus.