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@ CidVicious @sh.itjust.works

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  • Yeah I just think it's kind of neat how the names of English pokemon are formed in a similar way to how they are in Japanese.

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  • I think these are the same root? Pika pika is used to mean clean but it's onomatopoeia for sparkling. That double word onomatopoeia construction in japanese doesn't really have a direct analogue in English I don't think.

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  • Usually directly feeding animals is looked down upon because decreasing their fear of humans tends to be a negative for their survival, and it might impact their ability to forage for their own food. With birds specifically, though, putting up feeders is more mixed. Migration takes an enormous amount of energy and and human sprawl has removed a lot of natural food sources. And especially in wintertime, food can be quite scarce for birds. But at the same time bird feeders can actually be big spreaders of disease and I know that there was guidance that people should take down feeders at the height of bird flu.

    Now when it comes to mallards, they're honestly a species that is incredibly urbanized already, so I don't think directly feeding them is doing a great deal of harm.

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  • Pika is pronounced "pie-kuh" generally. Pikachu comes from pika pika (japanese onomatopoeia for "sparking/sparkling" usually with the connotation of clean) + chuu (sound a mouse makes/squeak).

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  • Same as the first picture but fatter.

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  • Yeah I agree, way too little detail in this article.

  • Death of beloved neighborhood cat sparks outrage against robotaxis in San Francisco

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  • Doesn't take a lot of observation to see that small rodents are in fear of just about every encounter, largely because that's what keeps them alive.

  • Death of beloved neighborhood cat sparks outrage against robotaxis in San Francisco

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  • and let the birds, mice, etc... live without fear.

    LOL, that's not really how mice and small birds work.

  • Getting that cheese

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  • Was he eating the cheezits or the box though?

  • Nothing to see here. Just a pine cone.

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  • Nest parasitism is not unique to cuckoos and you can't really put a value judgement on evolution. Brown-headed cowbirds are the most common nest parasites in North America. There's lots of species where the parents kill their own children if they either think they aren't strong enough to survive or if the food supply is too insecure to care for them. It's just nature.

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  • Oh good it's the New 52 Joker bird.

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  • This is maybe the worst implementation of this template I've seen.

  • How sad for you

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  • The Karen thing is weird to me because it's a pretty typical name and I know multiple karens. But it must be generational since it appears to have had a dramatic drop off in the 80s.

  • Reddit is dropping subscriber counts on subreddits: Users will now see seven-day metrics that track active visitors and contributions instead.

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  • I dunno why they wouldn't display both. Also cynical me thinks this is a more useful change for advertisers than users.

    That said this would probably be useful for post ranking on the back end, if they're not already using it. There's always been a noticeable thing on reddit where posts on large subs with little activity don't seem to bubble up much on /r/popular. Which makes those subs seem even deader because they don't get new blood.

  • Mac and cheese

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  • Why use boxed Mac and cheese as a base, though?

  • It used to be fun

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  • Yeah app purchases sure went to shit, didn't they? Sorry turns out buying an app one time for a small fee isn't good enough, we need you to buy it again every month.

  • [FashionablyLate] Mamma...

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  • I thought this was going to be an ICE joke. Mario definitely overstayed his mushroom kingdom visa.

  • Only one generation knows how to fix tech...

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  • There are nerds in every generation.

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  • There are a number of substances in the body that could be refined into glucose.

  • Programmer Humor @programming.dev
    Cid Vicious @sh.itjust.works

    When the requirements are "final"

  • Ask Lemmy @lemmy.world
    Cid Vicious @sh.itjust.works

    What's your favorite Lemmy mobile client?

  • cats @lemmy.world
    Cid Vicious @sh.itjust.works

    Still a baby even though he's old enough to vote