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PetDinosaurs Nov 1, 2023

People who want to stay on daylight savings time all year round, why?

People who want to stay on daylight savings time all year round, why? - Lemmy.World

I feel like I’m in such a minority of people who think DST is great. No. I don’t like spring forward, but fall back gets me a nice boost as when suddenly the sun comes up an 8 am rather than 9. It’s winter. The sun is going to set at either four or five (where I live, it’s certainly worse other places and better others). You’re not getting daylight after work.

PetDinosaurs Oct 31, 2023

my wife is the only person in the world who likes almond joy/mounds.

https://lemmy.world/post/7606907

my wife is the only person in the world who likes almond joy/mounds. - Lemmy.World

Am I obligated to put her out of her misery? She’s making the trick or treaters suffer.

PetDinosaurs Oct 22, 2023

It's getting to be soup season. What are your favorite soups?

https://lemmy.world/post/7190563

It's getting to be soup season. What are your favorite soups? - Lemmy.World

It’s split pea or ham and potato for me. In my mind, soup is just a technique that’s really about the stock. This is just me suggesting that you all should adopt traditional French cooking technique. For me, it’s saving old chicken scraps and certain veggies and then cooking them until they are mush in water. Grocery store rotisserie chicken skin, bones, and juice; carrots, onions, celery, garlic. Anything getting past it’s prime. No brassicas though. I’ll throw a t bone in there, but while really good beef broth is amazing, good beef bones cost as much as real beef. Clam juice or shrimp/crab/lobster shells sauteed in butter with water (or the aforementioned stock…) Is also awesome. Once you’ve got that, just put anything in it. That’s good soup. Make sure that you put the correct amount of salt in it. If there’s no salt, stock tastes terrible.

PetDinosaurs Oct 10, 2023

"Fair" coin flips appear to not be all that fair

https://lemmy.world/post/6614893

"Fair" coin flips appear to not be all that fair - Lemmy.world

The paper shows some significant evidence that human coin flips are not as fair as I would have expected (plus probably a bunch of people). There’s always some probability that this happened by chance, but this is pretty low. Of course, we should be able to build a really accurate coin flipping machine, but I never would have expected such a bias for human flippers. This is why science is awesome and challenging your ideas is important.

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PetDinosaurs Oct 1, 2023

It’s actually the best when the ducks find one of these.

They eat plenty of earth worms, but when the find one of these it fights back, wriggling all down into the crop.

Then the others catch on and try to steal it. Chase ensues. So much fun that a visitor who witnessed it commented.

Anyway, if your chicken says “vegetarian fed”, remember that chickens are not vegetarians.

They are tiny dinosaur monsters.

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PetDinosaurs Oct 1, 2023

Reverse. Grass seed in mouth for scale.

PetDinosaurs Oct 1, 2023

(Presumed) Mummified worm snake

https://lemmy.world/post/6120147

(Presumed) Mummified worm snake - Lemmy.world

Found this in the remnants of a bag a grass seed from last year. It seems completely desiccated. My best guess is that this is what we call a worm snake. I can’t imagine how it got there unless it came with the bag. It’s been in my garage since I bought it. We’ve got a lot of these worm snakes on my property. They’re smaller than a lot of earthworms I find (that’s engineering paper, 5 squares per inch).

PetDinosaurs Sep 29, 2023

Can you just tackle them like puppies? or what?

https://lemmy.world/post/5931178

Can you just tackle them like puppies? or what? - Lemmy.world

Pet dinosaurs FTW.

PetDinosaurs Sep 25, 2023

This is one of the many reasons I want let dinosaurs

https://lemmy.world/post/5724583

This is one of the many reasons I want let dinosaurs - Lemmy.world

I’ve got ducks. They are cute and hilarious and lay the most delicious eggs, but they aren’t this kind of fun-monster. Still technically dinosaurs.

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PetDinosaurs Sep 24, 2023

Oh. And the stock radio chatter that is in every episode and sim city 2000.

I’m showing my age.