Jet Ski is a registered trademark for Kawasaki.

I needed an old prescription from a previous place and the doc didn’t want to give it to me at first since it was a few years old. As soon as I told them I wasn’t trying to get an old prescription filled, that my current doc had sent me there to get it to help determine my new prescription we’ve been having trouble narrowing down, she turned it right over.

Death of Robin Hood and Like a Dragon: Infinite Wealth.

If they would be more honest with how many people Kiryu would have killed thus far in reality, it honestly wouldn’t be too far out there of a crossover.

I agree. Everything I’ve made of his has been great.

I like !superbowl@lemmy.world because it got me into wildlife rehab. I went to see owls up close, but I’ve gotten to witness real life miracles and meet the most amazing and loving people at what I feel is the hardest time in my life to stay positive about the world.

Lemmy has changed my life, and that’s no exaggeration. I’m forever grateful for all the people that encouraged me by their positive interactions here, and it makes me happy every day to share things that make you smile and hopefully get you involved in helping your animal neighbors.

Screech Owls I released after they lost their nest.

Driving a snapping turtle home after its shell healed after hit by a car.

Opossums saved after their mother and siblings were hit by a car.

One of many orphaned squirrels released to my back yard.

My roughest and toughest owl baby of the season! (Recently released)

Releasing bunnies I raised by tube feeding.

Meatball, an orphaned groundhog.

First meeting with our new educational owl.

Fox kit brought back from death by CPR. (Almost ready for release.)

My first patient of the season.

We will treat about 5000 animals this year, so this is just a tiny sample of what I get to be a part of. Thanks for the API lockdown, Reddit! And thanks again to everyone here! 🦉❤️

I feel naked without uBlock Origin and Bitwarden on whatever browser I’m on.

I never know how much of these guys is an act/character for the channel and how much is really them. I took AvE as hamming it up at first, with the jokes and language, exaggerating the blue collar “traditional” humor, but joking or not, venture into science denial or supporting fascist types, I’m out.

Sometimes I question if it’s hypocritical to get mad at AvE for sharing opinions I don’t like while also being disappointed at someone like Ian at Forgotten Weapons for not bringing up his opinions to try and stay neutral. But at the same time, not addressing a worldwide wave of discrimination and prejudice still feels like taking a stance. Like, is there an acceptable degree of nuance I am missing? Is there some degree of religious intolerance or racism or gender discrimination that should be seen as tolerable? Most things do have some gray area to the conversation, but I just am not feeling that with all the comfort a lot of people now seem to have with treating fellow humans and our planet like crap.

I’m not expecting everyone to draw a line in the sand or anything. I think conversation has lost a lot of nuance. Even just saying something like “I didn’t know enough about this topic to have an opinion” is much better than either changing ahead while being ignorant or just rejecting anything you can’t currently understand. Refusing to say anything though feels like “I support the thing that is going to make you mad, I’m just afraid to say it.”

AvE, for better or worse, at least made it clear who he was. I can respect that to some degree. He at least has conviction. With Ian, I would guess he is something like a conservative libertarian that would support more old school Republicans, but the thing is we’ll never know, so while he may support shitty policy to further his personal interests and career, that is still kinda a shitty position when we’re talking people’s rights and safety being the price for that. And that’s the best case scenario. If he’s harder right wing than that, it only gets worse.

Talking guns/wati/history I feel it’s much harder to dodge taking some stance, because no matter what, every part of that learning ties in with politics. AvE tearing apart stuff and doing shop things rarely needs to lean into politics, so him leaning into it was all on him. I didn’t notice anyone calling on him in comments for his political insights.

I do somewhat recall some things with Brownells and the ARs, but at that point I was getting tired of the behind the scenes infighting.

I just assumed they decided to split with each other professionally before they started to dislike each other personally.

Ian not wanting to bite the hand that feeds is understandable to a degree, but him walking that path only helps him and the toxic parts of the fanbase.

Chaokoh Coconut Milk. It’s good stuff and authentically Thai. Started using it since it’s really available and was recommended on nearly every Thai cooking website.

A few years back, PETA tried to get them and some other folks in trouble for using monkeys to harvest coconuts. I watched videos from both sides, and that job looked much, much scarier to have humans do it, honestly! For the monkeys, it’s their natural behavior. They harvest the coconuts in exchange for food and shelter upgrades from being in the wild.

They looked perfectly cooperative even in the PETA videos, and in the vids from the workers, they said they let the monkeys go after a while and while they are working they treat them as one of the team, basically.

If they aren’t abusing the monkeys and it’s keeping them also moderately exploited humans safe, that seems like a win-win to me.

On the upside, it’s given me a near endless amount of history to learn as an adult when I actually want to learn about it. Just search “literally_any_other_country_than_usa history” and it’s all brand spanking new stuff to me!

Just learned the beginnings of the establishment of Portugal the other day.

Yeah, I got no time for anyone who finds any entertainment in anything trump related. My extended family is about 80% Trump lovers, and since I can’t get rid of them, I can sure as heck choose to ignore anyone I’m not related to.

I was going to mention Karl at InRange as a good example. As a lefty gun owner, it is so rare to find someone in the gun community willing to speak up if they want to have any kind of standing.

C&arsenal I still kinda like, because they seem to steer more clear of any politics in a way better than Ian does, though I don’t think I’ve ever watched their Q&A videos, kinda out of fear at being disappointed after getting meh on Ian. Their videos, while great, are just so dang long! I can’t watch 90+ minutes of details on every iteration of rare guns, so I stick to the ones I’m more familiar with.

I haven’t checked his channel in a while, but I thought they did movie stuff occasionally (it is Cinemassacre after all!) and I thought for a minute they might lean more heavily into that since he seemed to have an equal passion for film as he did video games. I’d watch him just being himself nerding out on movies.

I used to not be able to deal with Chef John’s voice inflections, but after enough times, I started to find it soothing. Great, straightforward, no nonsense videos. I haven’t tuned into him for a bit, not for any particular reason, but he is a classic.

AvE - got introduced him just before he decided to start talking positively about MAGA and the similar Canadian trucker protests. Plenty of other people out there doing teardown my videos, so I bailed.

Rose Anvil - loved his work boot teardowns, but he gradually started promoting his own collabs and seemed to favor certain brands even if they were doing things he called shoddy in other brands. Then he started doing a lot with Jim Green boots in South Africa and making a lot of comments that felt pro-Rhodesia to me and started giving me the ick for watching.

Forgotten Weapons I still watch if there is something of particular interest to me. I used to watch every one, but as the country got more MAGA invested and gun culture felt like it was becoming more toxic than usual, I wasn’t happy with Ian staying neutral. If he’s worried about losing viewers and connections with gun manufacturers, I get that, but I also don’t have to like it or support it.

I didn’t know that one either, I am just somewhat familiar with joules, so I looked it up to see if that was kilojoules, and it was. It looks to be US/Canada that still uses Calories/kcal from what I read. Niagra Falls is the furthest I’ve been out of the US, so don’t assume that’s 100% factual from me, that’s just the one source I read. 😉

Lumens is already a metric (SI) unit, but it’s used in the US as well. It’s when we get into things like lux vs footcandles we go back to metric vs imperial again.

Measuring light gets all funky and I am always forgetting what all the terms mean, so I always have to look them up. That article goes into lumens, lux, candela but the tl;dr is :

• The amount of light emitted is measured in lumens.

• A surface’s luminous flux, measured in lux, is the measure of its brightness.

• The visual intensity of a light source is quantified in terms of candela.

Metric version of a Calorie.

1 kilocalorie (kcal) = 4.18 kilojoules (kJ)

1 Calorie (with the uppercase C) = 1 kilocalorie

My pleasure! This has been one of those things I’ve often wondered but never remembered to research myself.

TVTropes doesn’t have anything listed as the origin, but it has a ton of examples if you want to go back in some of the media and see how far it goes back.

The reasoning they give to its popularity is that floating text is easy to animate, can be very flashy for little effort, and can be used as a plot device, with either characters needing time to draw runes, or people refining/debugging their spells, and having something observable to show off the magic power level or the effective range of spells. Basically, it’s a really cool, easy, and cheap way to make magic look badass.