wren

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[–] wren@feddit.uk 2 points 9 months ago

the only Oasis song I know is the one people play to be deliberately annoying. I'd much rather be rickrolled

[–] wren@feddit.uk 3 points 9 months ago

Where I live, in December, it's already night by 4pm, whereas in July, 4pm isn't even the peak of heat yet. But if someone said "good evening" to me at 4pm in either of them, I'd prob accept it either way, and I'm a meteorologist

Also: In the UK and the US, the typical meteorological standard is just to split seasons by month (DJF MAM JJA SON) for easy stats reasons, but other countries have entirely different standards based on climate. Different people have different definitions and it's completely fine

[–] wren@feddit.uk 1 points 9 months ago

Oh no sorry, that 35 years was if you're planting 10 trees for every 1 you cut down (have a look at the calculator!)

[–] wren@feddit.uk 2 points 9 months ago

I had to google this (because I'm not from the US) and I'd be super surprised if their tagline became "cooler than trousers but still covers your arse"

[–] wren@feddit.uk 2 points 9 months ago

sorry, my mistake, I totally meant to say I value "community" not "communism" ;)

(also, I'm not North American!)

[–] wren@feddit.uk 23 points 9 months ago (7 children)

even if this is true, there are other, much cooler types of clothing than trousers that still cover your arse

[–] wren@feddit.uk 56 points 9 months ago (13 children)

when talking to my parents, if I say "community" instead of "communism," or "nobody deserves to starve" instead of "free food", and "help vulnerable people" instead of "benefits" and "everyone deserves to feel safe from harm" instead of XYZ - everyone wholeheartedly agrees!

But if I let them go off on a tangent without guiding them, then they're "anti woke" even though they don't know what woke means

[–] wren@feddit.uk 4 points 9 months ago (2 children)

The ecosystem of a mature tree is vastly different to that of a sapling.

Bristol Trees have a very cool calculator that illustrates the impact of replacing mature trees with saplings on CO2 - it takes about 35 years to get back to the same amount of CO2 loss. CO2 isn't the only thing that matters to the environment either, but you'd hope councils were aware of that too

[–] wren@feddit.uk 5 points 9 months ago

I can imagine they had so much fun with this one

[–] wren@feddit.uk 2 points 9 months ago

it's about a drug sniffer dog who bites off the balls of a mafia boss, runs away from witness protection, and gets adopted by a mailman.

It's definitely a stupid antics movie: at one point, a woman gets farted on by a zebra whilst holding a lit match

[–] wren@feddit.uk 2 points 9 months ago

that makes a lot of sense! I'm very grateful to be part of an academic community that seems to value open access, as well of part of a university that pays for access and submission to most of the journals I need to use

[–] wren@feddit.uk 6 points 9 months ago (2 children)

we had See Spot Run (23% on rotten tomatoes) but it got taped over by another movie "accidentally" when I was 7 and I haven't seen it since...

having read the plot on Wikipedia, it features a lot more references to testicles than I remember

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