fireweed

@ fireweed @lemmy.world

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Bon Voyage lemmy.world

2d ago

'Incredible' milestone reached as Sweden becomes a smoke-free country
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fireweed @lemmy.world 2d ago
It's a mixed issue; cigarette smoking has externalities like second-hand smoke and cigarette butt litter that make that particular form of nicotine intake especially problematic for society. However I agree that it's somewhat disingenuous to ignore the overall nicotine consumption issue.

2d ago

'Incredible' milestone reached as Sweden becomes a smoke-free country

The article doesn't mention vaping, so is it included or excluded in the definition of "smoking"? Are vapes even a thing in Sweden? I know Snus are a popular alternative there.

3d ago

Maybe Morn is barking orders.

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fireweed @lemmy.world 3d ago

It's not like the Defiant is properly staffed either; they had to draft DS9's station doctor and station shrink just to fill out the bridge crew!

3d ago

Does no one wear pants on this planet?!

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fireweed @lemmy.world 3d ago

I'm more concerned with the federation's prevailing onesie fashion trend...

1w ago

TIL that eating dirt was common in the U.S. South until the 80s. People ate a handful a day, often seasoned with vinegar and salt.

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fireweed @lemmy.world 1w ago

To learn more about earth-eating in animals and humans, check out the Wikipedia page on geophagia.

2w ago

P-Stews didn't want to be completely upstaged by one of Brent Spiner's best performances

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fireweed @lemmy.world 2w ago

Strangely, in the next season (s4e3) when Data finally meets his dying creator, he never thinks to mention Lal, despite the many dialogue lead-ins about procreation and disappointment over Data's joining Starfleet instead of following in Noonien Soong's cyberneticist footsteps.

2w ago

What is your favorite media villain?

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fireweed @lemmy.world 2w ago

Silco from Arcane.

I often struggle with media villains, finding them unrealistic or unconvincing, but Silco is just so well-rounded and well-written, he elevates the quality of every other character he interacts with. In a series full of near- and actually-superpowered people, this weak, middle-aged man is the most terrifying and influential of them all.

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His absence from season two is one of the reasons why it flops compared to season one; Ambessa and Viktor are good characters, but weak villains.

2w ago

Do Americans really only shit once a week?

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fireweed @lemmy.world 2w ago

American here. I've always heard that you should see a doctor (or at least try upping your fiber intake) if you don't poop at least once a day on average.

As mentioned in other comments, the United States' climate ranges from tropical to arctic depending on location, so your teacher's explanation is nonsensical. Either your teacher was an idiot, a jokester, or you misinterpreted/misremembered what she said.

2w ago

Movies

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fireweed @lemmy.world 2w ago

How many more versions of Tron do we need?

2w ago

My son job lowered their hiring wage instead of raising it.

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fireweed @lemmy.world 2w ago

For reference, the highest state* minimum wage in the US is Washington State at $17.13 (in Seattle it's $21.30).

*not counting Washington DC

Wage laws across the US are all over the place. Meanwhile the federal minimum wage has been stuck at $7.25 since 2009.

2w ago

Alright new mod here coming from c/askhistorians which a buddy and mine are trying to build. Is there anything myself and mod mate of OOTL. Anything you want to see changed?

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fireweed @lemmy.world 2w ago

I feel like I had what wasn't quite a stroke, but perhaps a minor brain bleed while reading that.

2w ago

Disney Is Encouraging and Exploiting the Rise of “Kidults”

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fireweed @lemmy.world 2w ago

I'd like someone to call out for once how most media "for adults" nowadays is, by default, extremely violent and sexually explicit... call it the GoT phenomenon.

To be clear, I'm glad that media is no longer bound by the puritanical and often hypocritical FCC standards, and that subscription cable like HBO and streaming networks like Netflix have freedom of expression. But now everything aimed at adults, it seems, is also rated for adults. Where are the emotionally/intellectually mature stories that are also fun and joyous? That there are adults singing along to KPop DH in theaters as the article mentions shows that there's clearly an untapped market here (imagine a similarly bright and flashy movie with catchy music but also a decent plot? How popular could that become!). The article also calls out cozy games and other "childish" things... How much of this is because of arrested development vs a desire to engage with entertainment that isn't a deluge of blood, sex, and misery?

I'm sure some of these people genuinely enjoy their childish media because it's childish, but many are just trying to engage with something bright, cheery, fun, and not reminiscent of the nightmare that is reality.