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  • And I’m saying “probably not”. If you step out into direct sunlight, you feel warmer because you’re absorbing heat from said sunlight.

    You don’t generally feel warmer because you’re in a well lit room. (Though you do feel warmer if the colors in that room are warmer reds and oranges compared to cooler colors like blues and greens.)

    If there’s enough light on you to feel warmer, it’s likely because the lights are warming you up (like stage lighting for news anchors.) rather than an illusion or placebo or whatever you want to call it.










  • If your city has some form of animal control as a public service, they likely would have the contact info for rescues.

    But it should be fine. That website had a tip for moving them safely… use a somewhat thin (but long) stick and tuck it in their feet. Unless you know where mum is, but given the age, I can’t really imagine they’re not injured from a fall.

    in any case, bats are way cooler than humans typically give them credit for, so thanks for being a good human :P


  • FuglyDuck@lemmy.worldtoBats@lemmy.worldShould i do something?
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    is it alive?

    May want to put it in a box to help keep it safe from predators, possibly call a rescue if you have one near you. I’m not sure it’s capable of find it’s own way back, but the rescue peeps might have a better idea.

    handle it with gloves and wash your hands very well immediately, either way. (leather gardener’s gloves. when washing your hands, make sure to catch your thumb and go up your arms.)

    edit: may be able find a rescue here





  • It’s impossible for the average American to be that well informed.

    Let’s do a little exercise. List the legal status of abortion in every state. Weed? Gas leaf blowers? Healthcare.

    I can’t. I doubt there’s many who can.

    Further, “Switzerland does it” is * not* a very good argument. On the practicality side of it, the US is far, far more comparable to the entire EU in population and land area than we are to any given member state.

    In the US, it would become a tool for special interests to advance unpopular agendas by bypassing normal representation, relying on the inability of normal Americans to actually read everything.

    This is why we have representatives in the first place.



  • the R. Pi is kinda that. it’s not really a phone, but Raspbian is a fork of debian. Plenty you can do with it if you want.

    The problem is that “full desktop OSes” expect full desktop peripherals (key board and mouse) and get clunky if you try to have something like a touch screen instead. Which is a large part of why win 8 was as bad as it was- they wanted a “seamless” OS for their phones and what they found was… NOPE.

    Sure laptops frequently now have touch-screen monitors, but you still have the KBM input too.


  • I kinda disagree. The biggest problem here is that there are far too many special interests that would submit shit nobody else agrees with, but might get passed because nobody has the time to keep up on all the potential things and look into what they actually mean.

    Imagine if you will some evangelical group trying to ban apple pies because a bunch of their kids managed to get their hands on a copy of american pie. Give the referendum some bland name like “protecting our kids”… then lie about what’s in the bill.

    Okay, it’s a silly premise, but imagine all the special interests groups suddenly crafting law, lying about what the laws would be, flooding the zone with their bullshit and seeing what sticks.