cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/47185359

[OC by dual_sport_dork 🐧🗡️, not mine]

I rather would have liked to have any number of lenses on my camera except the RF 200-800, but to be fair I was planning on looking at birds. As usual. Sometimes you've just got to dance with who you brung. That lens' minimum focal distance turns out to be about three and a half feet. This is perhaps not so much of a handicap if you can't be bothered to bend over.

This is probably an Eastern American Toad, Anaxyrus a. americanus. But what do I know from toads, or even frogs for that matter.

I don't want to use this new shipment. Every time I drink it I think I'm going to get diabetes, then die of poisoning and be used as content for a Chubbyemu video.

I think they added a type of sugar that tastes extremely sweet and doesn't affect the users blood sugar. Well, the extreme sweetness is exactly that, extreme. And for me at least, it always has the after taste of drinking some sort of solvent, as if I was drinking soap or some sort of chemical contaminated the glass I drank out of.

I have to force myself to drink it now, like taking cough syrup. I have a day trip coming up and I'm not looking forward to shoving this crap down my gullet whenever I'm hungry. My subscription just renewed today as well... x_x

I loved Soylent, it was the perfect replacement. Easy to make, easy to pack, tasted fine.

Then they added something to it that made it taste disgustingly sweet with an after taste of chemicals. Every time I drink it now I think I'm going to get diabetes and then die of poisoning. Before this I could drink like it was a nice latte, or a cold cup of water on a hot day. But now I have to force it down like cough syrup. It was perfectly fine before, why did they have to change it?

I suppose they were listening to people that ate sweets and smoked cigarettes and complained that soylent tasted like nothing.

Like, I can't overstate how awful it tastes... it's like drinking two cups of melted ice cream with a touch of floor cleaner. What the hell is wrong with them? Did they even test it before shipping it out? I guess they paid people to taste test it which is the dumbest thing to do because that's just paying people to say "Yes, I love it! Five stars!".

It's almost as if the company is controlled by only a few people which opens them up to all sorts of cognitive biases as their world view is warped by their wealth and limited contacts outside their peer group who have similarly warped world views.

I'm hungry now, and even though I have Soylent I can make in less than a minute, I might have to spend a hour or so to... cook food. OH NO. (but actually because my shitty rental has a shitty gas stove with a shitty extraction fan so the whole place smells sour and gross for hours after someones cooked)

Eight chronological screenshots from Twilight when Bella tells Edward she knows he's a vampire | Bella and Edward are walking through a foggy forest with cowboy hats on:

Bella: Yer' quicker than a hot knife through butter.  
Yer' paler than a ghost.  
And you? 17? I ain't buyin' it.  
I reckin' I know what yer' affliction is.

Edward: Say it wit' ya whole chest!

Bella: Got' dang vampire.

Edward: And what do you 'spose we feast on?

Bella: I'd gather it ain't shrimp n' grits.

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look at the flowers they grew they're so proud

Apparently ran to Texas (u/grte):

For me:

lmao = la-mayo

lol = lawl

rofl = rawful (rawful-copter)

lmfao = el-em-ef-ay-oh (like that one ancient party band)

Swimming among the corals of the Great Barrier Reef is a fish that could be a doppelganger for the famous Sesame Street character Mr. Snuffleupagus. This bright orange-red, hairy, long-snouted ghost pipefish is a new species that has been hiding in plain sight for years, often confused with other ghost pipefish.

*This is a repost of a repost, but this time it is not a crosspost but a regular post post. Post.

I wasn't sure if anyone was seeing because any posts usually get at least one or two downvotes. Last few times this had none at all and I think this is too friggin' cool.

cross-posted from: https://news.abolish.capital/post/49670

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Chip shortage solved! Long live the new flesh!