In a work environment, best response is to ask things like “why?” “What do you mean?” Etc and let them either dig a hole that you can bring to HR; or come to the realization that their derogatory mindset actually feels really dirty when they spell it out, and drop it on their own.

Pretty much every workplace in the US has a policy against talking politics… and pretty much no one actually adheres to that policy.

SHUDDUP! He can qui -hic!- he can quit any time he wants!

Lots of talk about which search engine to use; surprisingly little talk about extensions.

Block or Highlight Search Engine Results is my personal recommendation. Whichever SE you use, when you see a result that’s AI slop or a garbage website like Forbes, just add bullshit.com to the filter, set to hide, and you’ll never see that trash in a search result ever again.

Be diligent about it for a good week or so, and your search result quality will absolutely explode, whether your using Google, DDG, or several others.

Fwiw, muh boys, you can do the same: doesn’t matter how big of nazis your family/coworkers are and that they’d literally want you dead for voting Harris - they don’t see your ballot. So vote Harris, then go back to the break room and bitch about her and talk whatever nazi talk you need to to fit in - cuz sure, you tooootaly voted against that conniving evil bitch! …or at least as far as they’re concerned you did: you can let your vote to save the US be a nice little secret. It all gud.

Just wanted to follow up - did the presentation a few days ago. Went great, and I got the reaction I was hoping for from the audience. I saw some combination of shock, anger, horror, and most importantly compassion on just about every face infront of me (class of about 70 people).

Wrapped it up by hitting them with a quick spiel on “If you think this needs to change - or stay as is - that’s up to you: submit your answer into the ballot box on November 5th.”

No idea if I spurred any into action any who weren’t already planning on voting, but there was definitely some energy in the room. That went about as well as I could have hoped!

Thanks for the assist!

I mean, hopefully. There are people that have driven drunk many times and been fine, but it only takes one incident to bring that trend to an immediate halt.

We have no way to tell if conditions will stabilize within the surviveability window of any specific critter. Nor can we claim all life will for sure be fucked - point is we don’t know.

I don’t expect it will get that bad; it’s just within the realm of possibility. We can’t predict shit with any certainty.

Ya know, I thought we were talking YouTube specifically, but looking back at the OP it just says video, and I guess my brain just injected the word YouTube on it.

So, fair enough, if you’ve got a media service that isn’t run by a bunch of human shitstains, then yea support their work.

If it’s YouTube, don’t give em a cent.

It’s absolutely unconscionable, but it’s a medical (and very stupid/unnecessary) version of the trolley problem.

You’re a doctor. The tracks going one way have a single patient that you can treat and save. The tracks going the other way have every patient you’d get to see over the entirety of the rest of your career - literally thousands of people.

Treat the one and risk an avalanche of legal problems to include losing your license; the literal thousands of people are now fucked. Skip the one under the legal microscope, and she’s for-sure fucked, but your license lives to serve another day.

It’s fucked up. It’s evil. It’s what pro-life gets us.

You cannot expect a doctor to risk their freedom over a single patient. It’s like societal-level triage.

You can expect your lawmakers to not craft the world you live in into a dystopian hellscape… when they fail to live up to that expectation, don’t direct your anger at the people they’ve put into a bind; bring it directly to the lawmakers.

uBlock Origin doesn’t accept donations. That’s the only product in this conversation worth supporting.

Their wealth will easily carry them through whatever hardships that happen in their lifetime. After their lifetime, they don’t give a flying fuck what happens.

The environment looks fine when you look at it through the lens of a fiscal quarter!

We only know of one rock in all existence that’s habitable to humans or literally anything else. Relative to humans, yeah life finds a way cuz it’s a lot more resilient than us; relative to the kinds of extremes the universe of capable of producing, life is SUPER fragile.

So… yes, humans are fucked, but so are a lot of other critters, and who knows where all the feedback loops we’ve unleashed will end after we’re gone. Shit isn’t going to just magically get better once we’re gone.

Hopefully it’ll stabilize, but there comes a point that even the most hardy of extremophiles can’t survive, and if we cross that line, Earth becomes indistinguishable from every other lifeless rock in space.

Yeah, not tracking the meme, but we can articulate paradoxes with things like the Christian god, which basically just pitches their own lore against itself.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Epicurean_paradox

The hospital’s hands are tied by dystopian laws - this is what “pro life” looks like.

These are becoming way more common the more we let this right wing evil shit sink in.

The patient must have a life-threatening condition and be at risk of death or “substantial impairment of a major bodily function” if the abortion is not performed.

The problem is that legal jargon and medical jargon are very different animals. The legal is deliberately ambiguous, and the medical is hyper-specific… so doctors are left scratching their heads about things like “is the white blood cell count high enough for a lawyer to call this life threatening?” “Is the blood pressure low enough?” meanwhile the mother waits and dies.

“During a medical emergency” or “life threatening” are copouts that don’t actually mean shit, and no doctor is going to risk going to prison to find out.

If you’re getting ads on videos, you need to get you shit together and install uBlock Origin asap.

…yeah this is just gonna get them riled up. Name-cally bullshit is the right wing’s turf - if we play there, we lose every time.

This should have been a call to unity.

Gotcha - shouldn’t be an issue with digging to get to the good stuff. That’s more of a small parrot thing with like parakeets and cockatiels.

If he’s eating some I’d just keep an eye on him. Fresh stuff you don’t want to sit for very long, but seeds and pellets can stay in a dish practically indefinitely until they’re eaten.

If he’s not eating at all, or less than normal, vet ASAP. Parrots are REALLY good at hiding symptoms, so any sickness that’s bad enough to make a noticeable change in their behavior means it’s already gotten pretty bad.

For food, just make sure he’s got a good mix - fruits, veggies, nuts, pellets… I’ve never had a macaw, so I’d look up any diet weirdness for them specifically, but in general, variety is good.