makyo

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[–] makyo 39 points 1 month ago (1 children)

NFL broadcasting has always been an absurd money grab (for instance from 1973 through 2014, a home game could not be televised in the team's local market if 85 percent of the tickets were not sold out 72 hours before the starting time of the match) and the internet/streaming only made it worse.

[–] makyo 7 points 1 month ago (1 children)

If you're adventurous try some pickled onions on that thar grilled cheese and then come back and thank me later

[–] makyo 12 points 1 month ago

I have similar trees in front of my apartment building and I love them, they make me feel like I'm living in a tree house in the summer.

[–] makyo 6 points 2 months ago

Yeah if Texas goes blue a lot of other closer states are blue too

[–] makyo 29 points 2 months ago

Well then you're a fascist too, Lindsey

[–] makyo 2 points 2 months ago
[–] makyo 5 points 2 months ago

History would at least indicate that it's an ornithologist thing.

[–] makyo 27 points 2 months ago (14 children)

Here's the thing. You said a "dove is a pigeon."

Is it in the same family? Yes. No one's arguing that.

As someone who is a scientist who studies pigeons, I am telling you, specifically, in science, no one calls pigeons doves. If you want to be "specific" like you said, then you shouldn't either. They're not the same thing.

If you're saying "pigeon family" you're referring to the taxonomic grouping of Columbidae, which includes things from pigeons to doves to pigeons.

So your reasoning for calling a pigeons a dove is because random people "call the white ones doves?" Let's get gulls and pelicans in there, then, too.

Also, calling someone a human or an ape? It's not one or the other, that's not how taxonomy works. They're both. A dove is a dove and a member of the pigeon family. But that's not what you said. You said a dove is a pigeon, which is not true unless you're okay with calling all members of the pigeon family pigeons, which means you'd call doves, pigeons, and other birds pigeons, too. Which you said you don't.

It's okay to just admit you're wrong, you know?

[–] makyo 9 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

And even with 9/11 things could have been different. There was a chorous of people at the time calling for a new Manhattan Project-style focus on renewable energy. Why didn't anyone hear it? W Bush's chants of 'Drill baby drill' were much louder - obviously because he and his party were in charge.

Trump's term was not inconsequential either. For one - he installed three ultra-conservative Supreme Court justices - whatever your left leaning stripes are sure you realize that was devastating to the causes you hold dear. They'll rule for their orthodox conservative Christian capitalist darlings for the rest of their lives and we can't afford another one like them.

A lot can change very fast in this world and I fear a lot of Americans don't realize how serious and cruel life can suddenly get. The corruption that will be encouraged in another Trump administration WILL touch your life and it could be anything from higher expenses via his tarrifs and unclean drinking water via weakening the EPA, to your mom or sister or wife being denied life saving care and watching our environment go from bad to worse.

[–] makyo 2 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Really I just lightly spray some canola oil in the pan and add sliced onions and heat.

[–] makyo 4 points 2 months ago

If elected you’ll lose rights and all at the very low price of a president who is too old to do the job or even care

[–] makyo -3 points 2 months ago

I though Trump would be in this punchline somehow

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