(Sarcasm aside, what’s so worrying about lizards? Only a couple types are venomous, only a few more are big enough to seriously hurt you (and most of those live in tropical forest sort of places), and anything smaller is probably just going to run away and hide it you get close to it. Lizards are pretty non-threatening.)
I don’t know how common it is, but in some very rural parts of Kentucky and Tennessee in the USA, people frequently referred to scorpions as lizards. Also, regular lizards were called lizards. And newts were called lizards.
It was very confusing to me when I was a young kid. Still is confusing to me if I’m being honest.
They’re called lizards. Didn’t you read my comment?
But all kidding aside, yes, there are scorpions in Kentucky. They aren’t large or aggressive and from what I was told their stings don’t really hurt very much. Mostly I would see them hiding under rocks and in crevices during the day.
The buyer accidentally revealed they’re ill with some kind of sentient virus that helps them decide what to buy, and then they quickly decided to blame that on a typo as if the seller was stupid
I sometimes go back to reddit to see what’s happening to it. Yup. It’s shitting itself.
Bot accounts everywhere in both comments and posts. It’s so common in fact that you just need to scroll a small post to figure out either OP or the commenter is a bot. also chugs Lemmy
Thankfully, Lemmy knows how to pump us full of bot-free content and have us asking for more.
Basically they make a reddit account, let it age like milk. You know, keep it in the basement with 0 post history of any kind for half a year or so. Maybe multiple. Than they activate it, it spam posts, and it never responds to users like a human would. Even stealing comments and such.
Those are the main symptoms. OP not responding to being called a bot is especially the major red flag most use.
Edit: When I say OP, I’m using it to refer to reddit users in this case. Not the OP of THIS post. For him, thank you for the laughs:)
Go to any major post on reddit, especially crusty old reposts, and the thread will be filled with one sentence replies. Stuff that’s so generic it makes you fall asleep reading it, or just cringe from the fake enthusiasm. Sometimes there’s really good comments, but its because it was scraped from the comment section of the last time the image or meme was reposted. Sometimes, the comment will have nothing to do with anything at all because the bot had bad data. It’s kinda wild how awful some of the comment sections have gotten lately on there.
My personal theory on why bots are rampant now is a twofer. One reason being people leaving the platform, because of reddit api bs, or because of subs shutting down to protest, etc. And the other reason is that some folks are trying to get back at reddit by spamming bots, increasing how many there are.
For that pitch perfect Garage Sound complete with smoking beer cans full of butts, skanks, posers, burgeoning alcoholics and enough leather to start a farm. Perfect.
Is it even possible to trace this back to the person who originally got that tattoo and the person who originally wrote those words, both probably never even knew each other, you know how the internet propagates and twists things
No worries, in this time of attributing all quotes to random people. I like to attribute them correctly when I can.
If you have never seen Groucho get into full swing it is worth a watch. He had a way with a line that was like no other. The Marx brothers (Groucho, Chico, Harpo, and Zeppo) were one of the few acts that were able to make it from vaudeville to cinema.
Oh and just because someone is going to be confused about Zeppo he was the straight man and wasn’t always in their films.
P.S. there was also Gummo but he never liked it and left before the transition to cinema
I disagree. The serious answer is you have to be the one person that gets lucky.
Take 1024 people each with $1000. They all play roulette and go all in every round, half on black half on red. After 10 rounds, 1023 people have lost all their money, and one has won a million dollars.
The person who “made it” didn’t do anything different, or play a +EV game. He just got lucky.
Roulette is not a positive sum game, though. If you keep playing, eventually you will lose everything to the house.
A positive sum game is where repeated plays will average out to a net gain. The secret is having enough initial capital to keep you alive if your initial gambles don’t pan out. People living paycheck to paycheck don’t have that
You’re correct, but you’re also being a bit pedantic and ignoring the point OP is trying to make. It still illustrates the point just fine at 47.4% instead of 50%. Odds of winning 10 in a row go from 1:1,024 to 1:1,746.
Not unless you do it outside a golden palace that abstracts your money into vouchers and chips.
But generally wealthy people make more gambles in business, partnership, accountability, other people's lives and social welfare, and the general stability of the world.
Like say becoming an arms dealer then paying the cost of a F-150 economy package to a couple senators and having them spend their endless war chests with no audits or oversight on some missiles to kill some goat farmers or something.
Or creating a pesticide with the upside of remaining active in soil for 4 or 5 centuries (and recycling in the human liver for up to a year after exposure) and having it produced in an impoverished southern town and then exported to French Polynesia so they can continue to grow cloned banana trees.
Or like taking doctors on nice yacht lunches and golf trips and telling them yes you really have developed a non addictive opioid.
He’s not a nice man but ultimately he’s a small cog in the machine and he actually got some justice, I’m not wasting any more energy hating him. Having a prison system that is so shitty that people get stabbed is not cool
I find it takes no energy to hate him, so I’ll continue doing so; but I agree that prison violence should not be glorified, under any circumstances, no matter who is the target. I don’t care about Chauvin’s wellbeing, but prison violence is yet another symptom of the same systemic issue that caused Chauvin to murder Floyd. ACAB, and so is the entire “justice” system.
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