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  • Are Beavers really cute? The teeth of these large water rodents are orange because they are full of iron; these teeth never stop growing.

    But if you are being serious, women don’t really like being reduced to names that refer to their pudendum. It is objectifying.

    Source: Canadian woman.

    Edit: just realized which sub this is posted in. Oh well, think of the vocab word “Pudendum” as my Xmas gift to you. (Refers to a woman’s external genitals, ie. vulva.)


  • nepenthes@lemmy.worldtoLemmy Shitpost@lemmy.worldHurry
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    3-panel comic from Poorly Drawn Lines

    1st pane: Mouse with a red balloon, saying: “Every day is a good day when you have a balloon”.

    2nd pane: balloon pops “POP”

    3rd pane: Mouse laying down on couch, under a blanket, with the shades drawn-- his facial hair is coming in.

    EDIT: fucky formatting






  • The state trial against Mangione will come before his federal trial, prosecutors said.

    WTF? I never heard about federal charges-- isn’t that double jeopardy?

    Like the reporter said, they might be trying to make it so there are no copycats, but they clearly don’t understand the number of people that wouldn’t want to be making it out alive. Their trumped up charges aren’t a deterrent.

    If I were USian, I’d be mega-pissed that they are making the CEO’s death out like Luigi killed the king.


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    I disliked the effects of weed back when it was illegal (Canada); just made me paranoid. Our legalization of recreational marijuana helped me understand that weed is more than THC. (Anything I’d have smoked back in the 90s was probably crazy amounts of sole THC.)

    Legalization has allowed me to experiment with CBD levels. Now I get a 1:2 ratio of THC:CBD and it’s a completely different thing. I’m relaxed, smiley, glued to the couch and off of Benzos. (I like Mango Haze.)

    I know it’s not for everyone, and I’m not a pusher, but I thought I’d mention that CBD is a game changer. (There is CBG now too.)









  • Positive reinforcement works better for helping people quit :(

    Especially when quitting smoking tanks a person’s dopamine levels. It takes weeks for the body to re-regulate production.

    To anyone reading this who has quit/is quitting: congratulations! It’s tough, you have shown a force of willpower and should be proud of yourself.

    Love, a fellow Canadian.

    Edit:

    As with other forms of punishment, aversive methods are generally less effective than positive approaches. It is more important to reward and praise desirable behaviors than to react negatively to unwanted ones. Encouraging a person’s ability to enjoy self-affirmation and self-pride will help them internalize healthy attributes and to become a person deserving of admiration…Shame doesn’t motivate prosocial behaviors; it fuels social withdrawal and low self-esteem.

    Source: took some psych courses
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    https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/longing-nostalgia/201705/why-shaming-doesnt-work


  • I left reddit after the API fiasco and didn’t return, but I remembered seeing this on Data is Beautiful before that, so I just looked it up for you. (My search query in DDG was “data is beautiful reddit Costco profit margins” and a few popped up; this was the most recent.)

    Transcription: infographic states

    Net sales +$77.4B
    Merch costs -$69.2B

    Membership fees +$1.5B

    SG&A -$6.9B (Selling, General, and Administrative Expenses)
    Taxes -$0.8B

    Net profit $2.2B (2% margin)

    Source listed as: Costco Q4 FY 23 earnings

    Edit: format failing :(


  • I quit a few months after those came out in my province, and it was a bit of a shock the first time I saw them; but then like most things, they just became stripes on the butt. I probably wasn’t their target audience though.

    While they didn’t make me quit, (I had already decided on my “quit date”), I will say the extra graphic warning pictures were pretty damm effective for starting that conversation with self. I had to take a sharpie to a few packs.