His full name is Charles Entertainment Cheese!

Mexico is even technically a US of A, because they’re the officially (when translated to English) the United Mexican States, and in America

They were surprisingly edible. Honestly the chocolate chips provided the needed reprieve from the cumin, but we did end up tossing about half of it after a week of nibbling at it and laughing anew about the mistake

My wife was making banana bread and a similar disaster was waiting to happen as the Cinnamon and Cumin are sold in nearly identical-looking containers. The inevitable happened and we ended up with banana bread that tasted like it was seasoned with taco seasoning!

I’ll just drop the urban dictionary link here. Basically it’s excessively long masturbation sessions involving excessive quantities of porn. Needless to say, it’s not very conducive to a healthy sex life

I currently work about 30 hours a week remotely, usually working from about 8 until 2-3 in the afternoon and it’s absolutely glorious. I wish I could realistically anticipate this being anything more than a temporary situation, but I’m enjoying it while it lasts

I mean in antiquity, parties were often multi-day affairs because the attendees would have walked for multiple days to get there

What do you think The Dirt Whispered is about? I always imagined a child waiting for her dad to come marching home from the war, listening for the marching in the ground but I’m sure that’s not what was intended

A premium option for an MP3 player would be the Tangara. open hardware, open software and even has a wheel like the old iPods, plus the team is on the Fediverse

She got down on hands and knees

One ear against the ground

Hoping to hear something

But the dirt made not a sound tonight

-from a song I’ve listened to countless times through my phone’s aux jack

if they were REPTILES living in a cold climate, that would be notable.

There were!

There’s surprisingly not that much on the net that I’m finding. I learned about it from a traveling exhibit that came to a localish museum to me, but it’s all extremely recent (in comparison to most paleontological discoveries) mostly really becoming an overwhelming body of evidence in the last 30 years or so, but the earliest discoveries date to the 70s and 80s.

Looks like PBS Nova did a documentary called “Arctic Dinosaurs” and I linked a BBC article in another comment that gives a good overview as well.

A little bit of reading suggests the arctic during the winter would’ve gotten down to around -10C so definitely cold enough to require adaptation, but also warm enough to be fully survivable.

Most of these finds evidencing year-round arctic-dwelling dinosaurs is being found in modern day Alaska and Alberta, but there’s also similar finds from the other side of the world too!

For anyone unaware there’s an incredible growing body of research into Arctic-dwelling dinosaurs. They’re cool as hell and it’s extra cool knowing so much of this was discovered within my own lifetime

I think part of the joke is it’s setup to look like the infamous Four Seasons press conference

My understanding is that some lemmy instances don’t allow direct file upload, so linking to another site is the next best thing

But I can see what you mean seeing a painting on canvas is a lot different

This was an interesting discussion I had with my family when we went to the Uffizi Gallery. I wanted to see the brush strokes, to feel something, but some of my family members were very focused on checking the check boxes of “yup I saw that” so seeing the birth of Venus from across the room peering over a hundred heads and struggling to see any more detail from being the centimeter thick glass than I would from a high quality scan on my computer was hardly memorable, but finding a small piece that spoke to me in a side gallery that only a couple of other people walked into was absolutely mesmerizing. I couldn’t tell you the name of the piece or the artist without looking it up, but I can tell you that was a magical feeling.

Some of my family members saw the entire galleries we went into, I only saw a subset because I took the time to look at what spoke to me, and honestly I liked that far better than sprinting past paintings and sculptures just to “see” everything

Ehhh there’s plenty of cool stuff being built and done without real economic incentive. Just look at the number of old steam locomotives that are being restored, or the number of new-build steam locomotives. These are multimillion dollar projects with no conceivable return on investment, yet people keep doing them because these are cool things that can be done!

The funniest part is I’m not the one who watches it, my wife is. Most of it is just background noise to me, but she’ll poke me to pay attention when they get something really rediculous setup (like the staged assassination plot. Listening to Chatterbox and Vivek planning it was honestly funnier than the staged assassination attempt itself!)

But yeah honestly I find the pacing of live streams to be too slow for me, I just can’t pay attention for that long without anything meaningful happening, then suddenly I’ve missed something massive in the 1-2 hour long conversation I tuned out. But having my wife who finds it’s perfect second screen content for her ADHD to poke me when I need to pay attention or summarize some of the long meandering conversations between characters (seriously I can never tell when it’s an important conversation or not!) it’s almost like I’m a viewer

It’s so funny seeing Ramaswami step back into the public eye after giving Squeex basically half a decade to write a public image for him amongst his audience with his parody character Ramasquamy

Like, I seriously can’t think of Ramaswamy as an actual politician that people take seriously after several years of watching Ramasquamy prance around announcing “Day One!” whilst holding up double peace signs, stage a “peaceful protest” at the city hall on Jan 6th after he lost the mayoral reelection, or setting up a fake assassination plot to have his ear get shot during the mayoral debates last month, pretending to be the incumbent mayor because of being referenced as mayor in the trailer despite there being nobody actually filling the mayoral role, etc.