Currently there are about 8.2 billion people on earth. When I was born it was just under 3 billion.
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leadore@lemmy.worldto News@lemmy.world•Disney Didn't Expect What Happened After Jimmy Kimmel's Cancellation - & Is Scrambling To Fix It66·1 day agoOh, I’m sure they expected backlash, but they had a choice between the public’s wrath and trump’s wrath, and like good little cowardly capitulators, they chose pleasing trump over standing up for their (and all of our) first amendment rights.
leadore@lemmy.worldto News@lemmy.world•Eric Adams says many Gen Z voters who back his NYC mayoral rival Mamdani are ‘nasty, radicalized and hate our country’15·2 days agoAh yes, great move. This tactic of insulting your opponent’s supporters has been tested and proven effective in many political campaigns. Proven to guarantee you lose, that is.
You can spread them out on a cookie sheet (lined with parchment paper) and bake 30-40 min at 350°F, stirring every 10 minutes.
leadore@lemmy.worldto Science Memes@mander.xyz•IF YOU TAKE ENOUGH YOU CAN SEE *THE PATTERN* BROEnglish2·7 days agoComments all seem to refer to an article and this post doesn’t link to any article. ? (edit: never mind, I looked up the name and I don’t need to see anything more).
leadore@lemmy.worldto News@lemmy.world•Postal traffic to US drops more than 80% after trade exemption rule ends, UN agency says9·15 days agoI don’t know if the tariffs were designed to do that, but I’m sure the plan has been to privatize the USPS and many of the functions of the agencies that have been gutted–the goal is to either eliminate or privatize as much of government services as can be done.
Yes, me too. Cursive is easier and faster to write. Though I usually print the capital letters.
I have never purchased a smartphone and don’t want one. I still prefer to use a flip phone. Their quality has improved over the years so I haven’t been forced to switch yet.
leadore@lemmy.worldto News@lemmy.world•RFK Jr. Report Will Link Autism To Tylenol Use During Pregnancy, Report Says4·17 days agoMaybe the ones who died young would have turned worse and worse over time if they’d had a chance?
leadore@lemmy.worldto News@lemmy.world•Scarborough: Pritzker should ‘partner up’ with Trump to fight Chicago crime16·20 days agoWhat would be radical is if someone with some power stands up to trump instead of capitulating. Looks like Pritzer may actually do something (as opposed to Newsom’s campaign performances). Fingers crossed.
leadore@lemmy.worldto News@lemmy.world•Trump administration has backup plan if Supreme Court rules tariffs are illegal, Bessent says7·21 days agoThere’s something so Uncanny Valley about that face.
leadore@lemmy.worldto Ask Lemmy@lemmy.world•Do you hold your breath during underwater scenes in movies?13·22 days agoYes, but just until I realize I’m doing it then I breathe.
leadore@lemmy.worldto Showerthoughts@lemmy.world•If conditions on earth are perfect for life to form shouldn't have happened more than once?7·25 days agoWere perfect. The conditions on earth back when life first appeared were very very different than they are now.
As for how many times it may have happened, there’s no way to know, only that it happened at least once (edit: unless it happened elsewhere and came here somehow).
leadore@lemmy.worldto Comic Strips@lemmy.world•J. Michael Springman- UNCLE SAM AND FRIENDS574·26 days agoObvious Russian agitprop, you can immediately tell by how they put Ukraine as dog poop and by all the replies to it from Russians laughing specifically at that part, but the other stuff is obvious as well.
leadore@lemmy.worldto News@lemmy.world•Report: RFK Jr. and Trump to Pull Covid-19 Vaccines 'Within Months'4·27 days agofucking fat bags of filthy fascist shit 😡
leadore@lemmy.worldto News@lemmy.world•Trump mobilizing up to 1,700 National Guards troops in 19 states in crime crackdown7·1 month agoThis is all part of was planned to be done all along, regardless of the Epstein files.
leadore@lemmy.worldto Ask Lemmy@lemmy.world•What's a process where you prefer the old way of doing things instead of how it's done now?10·1 month agoPhysically possessing the music that you bought, having the actual vinyl records (or later, CDs and DVDs of shows). That you don’t have to keep renewing subscriptions for to continue being able to listen to (or watch), that you can lend out or pass down to your kids or sell to a used record store, where you can buy the ones someone else sold to them. Those were the days.
Oh OK yeah I guess that was the joke. whoosh! on me.
I did my part! No kids.