I don’t even like his music all that much, but Avicii. Learning of the circumstances- he knew his mental health was not in a place where he could tour. He told his managers. They said “lol, sorry, tix are sold, no backing out now.” He died on the tour.

His music is so hopeful and encouraging and beautiful, it breaks my heart when any of his songs come on.

Not personal, but I have 100% personified the mars rovers…

https://science.nasa.gov/mission/mars-2020-perseverance/science-updates/

https://science.nasa.gov/mission/msl-curiosity/science-updates/

*Yoke

My cat chose to move in with me after being feral. She still spends the day outdoors, comes home for dinner, couch sleeping and breakfast.

She is taken to the vet against her will for vaccinations etc, but that’s really the only loss of autonomy she has.

Ready for a bit of the old ultra violence…

People will think you’re Mormon

Yes, I was referring to the phenomenon where us old people (Millennials) perpetually think that the 70s were 30 years ago, then have a small existential crisis when we realize.

“That songs not from 30 years ago, clearly they were talking about Bowie…oh… oh no…”

We can, but I suspect we don’t because the disclosure requirements would hurt sales. Without massive public education campaigns to convince people that it’s not as stupid as letting kids play with Xray machines every time they went to the shoe store up until the 1970s, people will be unsure. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shoe-fitting_fluoroscope

Since ionizing radiation from medical procedures, nuclear weapons and reactors is a known cause of cancer [ www.cancer.gov/about-cancer/causes-prevention/risk/radiation ], it would be quite a project to get the entire US public to believe that exposing your food to the process is different than exposing your body to it.

https://www.fsis.usda.gov/food-safety/safe-food-handling-and-preparation/food-safety-basics/irradiation-and-food-safety-faq

Irradiated foods can be recognized by the presence of the international symbol for irradiation on the packaging along with the words “Treated with Radiation,” or “Treated by Irradiation.”

I’m in California too. Every year I forget it’s Cinco and think “Damn, Mexicans are feeling super patriotic! There’s two meter Mexican flags attached to half the vehicles on the road today! Oh… it is the 5th of May isn’t it…” Not one this year.

Tomatoes and peppers are fruits.

Onion is a root vegetable.

About a century, actually. Marketing began in the US after WWII when we suddenly had the ability to create more products than people needed. People needed to be convinced to buy shit they didn’t need, and thus marketing was invented.

The first notable marketing campaign was cigarettes for ladies in 1929. Cigarette companies were missing a whole section of consumers because women weren’t supposed to smoke, especially in public. A group of beautiful young models were hired to smoke cigarettes at a big important parade that was going to get lots of coverage in the newspaper. A reporter was paid to “report” on their “carefree” and “liberated” manner as they smoked “torches of freedom” out at the festivities. Equality, feminism, yay!

Associating male virility with vehicle choice was next. Both were brain children of Sigmund Freud’s nephew, Edward Bernays, who was very interested in his uncle’s ideas about people’s actions being influenced by their subconscious mind, before it was popular in America.

This is a four hour documentary about the social manipulation of the last century, including the above, getting young progressives to vote for Regan in the 80s and much more. Century of the Self (BBC 2002)

Orange blossoms. Everything “Orange blossom” scented just smells like perfumey oranges, nothing like actual orange blossoms. You can only smell them on the tree, this time of year.

I’m in the Bay Area and we still have them in high and low end grocery stores. At Safeway they even still play the fun little thunder sounds before it starts.

For us it was just finger guns and swear words.

What country are you in? If USA, you must be able to fill out an I-9. It’s pretty cut and dry. If there is a recruiter involved, they are required to have the potential employee complete one before they refer them.

I’m on Mlem (Mobile) through lemmy.world and you post looks like this:

Everyone else’s in this thread looks fine though.