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- Comment on Boyfriend replacement tips and considerations 1 day ago:
Be great for getting things off the top shelf ;)
- Comment on How do Americans win their country back? 1 week ago:
I would imagine (if they’re savvy, and the people running Project 2025 definitely are) they’d be more likely to keep him around as long as he was a useful distraction, then have him assassinated at a key point, and blame a liberal.
That would not only get him out of the way so the real work could begin, it would do double-duty of riling up his murderous base and giving them a ‘legitimate’ excuse to start sending the military after blue states and political rivals.
- Comment on How do Americans win their country back? 1 week ago:
Isn’t just the aging ones sadly. Lots of young people, especially young men, went for Trump. Andrew Tate has taught them well.
- Comment on Business execs just said the quiet part out loud on RTO mandates — A quarter admit forcing staff back into the office was meant to make them quit 3 weeks ago:
Yes, but those are the ones that get paid more. So you get rid of a big financial drain, and then you can hire cheaper people and dump more work onto them.
It works great, unfortunately.
Remember, the C-Suites of today don’t give two fucks about the company they’re ‘running’. They want line to go up so their pay goes up, and so they can use line-go-up to golden parachute to the next company where they repeat the process.
- Comment on hard to argue with 3 weeks ago:
Not in this post, true, but in pretty much all her other ones.
- Comment on Fruit Flies 4 weeks ago:
But they do? Along with any other animal that happens to be nearby.
That is the one insect I will go out of my way to kill.
- Comment on Cheeky 5 weeks ago:
I always thought the fact that turning our heads too fast can give us strokes was rather inconvenient.
- Comment on Cheeky 5 weeks ago:
Yeah, but at least most of those still have multiple toes to spread the weight around. Horses decided to get rid of that completely.
- Comment on How is anime and manga more popular than comics and western cartoons? 5 weeks ago:
Like others here, I was drawn to anime and manga for the varied storylines that had arcs that mattered, and an ending, and then stopped. And wrote something totally new.
Whereas comics would reboot the same story, and reboot it, and reboot it… Or they’d have a big arc that dramatically changed things… and two issues later suddenly its status quo all over again.
All of this made it hard to really get invested in their characters or stories. Why even do a story if you’re going to erase it all in the next storyline? Why care if so-and-so died if they’ll just be back in next week’s issue?
The other reason was strong female protagonists that weren’t all sexualized to the wazoo. In western comics it was all tight spandex and butt-boob shots and shots framed by women’s thighs… and most of the non-super women were just plot points to be stuffed in a fridge.
Meanwhile there were piles of strong, well-rounded, independent women of all different ages in manga and anime. Even the sexy women were developed characters first and sexy second. With western comics it definitely felt the other way around.
I grew up on Magic Knight Rayearth and Slayers and Iria and Cowboy Bebop. Watching those was like a breath of fresh air compared to Batman Reboot #242 or whatever.
And I really liked the varied art styles. Western comics were pretty much all of a muchness, the same style or close to it. Manga, meanwhile, had everything from Clamp’s super-detailed art to Dragonball’s more simplistic style. It gave them a much more unique feel.
- Comment on Favoirte indepth youtube channels? 1 month ago:
If you’re into cooking, history, or both, Tasting History with Max Miller is great. Lots of wonderful history, from the common to the obscure. He works hard to find primary sources for every story he shares, as well as calling out fake stories. He also corrects himself when he gets something wrong. And the recipes are fascinating!
Been getting into Bonsai Mirai lately. Very educational, in-depth videos about how to do Bonsai, with tips for everyone from a beginner to an expert. Also very relaxing to watch.
- Comment on Rip 2 months ago:
Or just walk through an old graveyard. There’s a pioneer cemetery near my old place with so many children’s graves. One family gravesite has the mother’s name, the father’s name, a couple of their kids, some young, some adults… and one is just titled ‘babies’.
Like, so many babies died for that mother and father they just put them all in one grave, not even names to remember them by…
- Comment on Curse of Knowledge 2 months ago:
Did you feel left out not getting one?
- Comment on Predators 3 months ago:
You know, you’re always welcome to post your own, not-reposted content.
- Comment on obesity 3 months ago:
It is, though—women having children later in life are at higher risk for complications for both themselves and the baby. It also has a higher risk of birth defects.
- Comment on [deleted] 3 months ago:
Probably because it used to be that being ostracized from our towns/clans/whathaveyou was basically a death sentence.
Getting criticized for something could potentially lead to the town/your family driving you out. Either through the people listening to the complaints deciding you weren’t ‘good’ for the town, or others dogpiling on with their own complaints, real or imagined.
You have to remember, there were bandits, wild animals, and deadly weather outside the protection of our small groups. And that’s assuming you got to survive the ostracizing in the first place.
The Bible gives a rather chilling example: if your kid is disobedient or troublesome, drag them to the front of the town and loudly criticize their behavior. Then, it is the moral imperative of the town to assist you in stoning your kid to death.
With things like that being a social norm, is it any wonder we developed a fear of criticism?
- Comment on Hats 3 months ago:
I love him rocking four hats at once!
- Comment on Hats 3 months ago:
Very dapper gentleman in the top right pic
- Comment on Palms 3 months ago:
It’s the lack of lignin (bamboo uses silica as a strengthener) that sets it apart.
But bamboo is a grass, anyways.
- Comment on Google Maps tests new pop-up ads that give you an unnecessary detour 4 months ago:
We actually have our own map system, although of course you can use Google Maps too.
- Comment on Does anyone else feel like fireworks are a complete waste of money and a ridiculous amount of unnecessary Pollution? 4 months ago:
Honest question: have you considered getting him desensitized to the sound? It’s totally doable; hunters teach their dogs to not be afraid of the bang from their guns after all.
- Comment on Tripping 4 months ago:
There was a book like that, but this illustration is from a calendar James Gurney did.
- Comment on Millionaire Investment Banker Jonathan Kaye caught punching, and breaking an unarmed woman's nose during Brooklyn Pride Festival 5 months ago:
Ignoring bigots makes them bolder. And throwing a drink does not excuse a punch.
- Comment on Venus Fly Traps 5 months ago:
By any chance did you drop an /s?
- Comment on Ya feel me? 5 months ago:
And that is why I love having AAA.
- Comment on Another Provocative Flag Was Flown at Another Alito Home: his beach house displayed an “Appeal to Heaven” flag, a symbol carried on Jan. 6 and associated with a push for Christian-minded government 5 months ago:
He’s ’Christian’. The people in power want more of this kind of thing, not less. The fact that they can pay him to rule in their favor whenever is just icing on the cake.
- Comment on Chicken vs Egg 5 months ago:
That depends on what you mean.
Did a giraffe stretch its neck longer and longer, and then pass that long-necked gene onto its kids? No.
Can an embryo that gets a random mutation while developing in the egg/womb pass it on to their children? Yes.
This gets a bit more complicated if you really dig into it, though. Environment does change the expression of genes, and that particular sequence of genes that have been activated/shut-off/whatever can be passed on to children too.
Hence why children who were born to two shorter parents will often grow much taller than them if given much better nutrition. Or why obesity often shows up chronically in families that were poor or had limited access to healthier foods in other ways; their bodies had adapted to grab and store every extra calorie they could to guard against starvation, and unfortunately shutting that gene expression off naturally takes multiple generations.
- Comment on How come liberals dont hate conservatives the way conservatives hate liberals 6 months ago:
- Comment on Come on, science! 6 months ago:
The reason birds are going extinct is humans. Hunting, habitat loss, and climate change are far, far more impactful than cats. As much as they kill, cats shouldn’t even be making a dent in bird populations in most of the world (yes, there are islands and a few microbiomes where they have an outsized impact, and that is an issue that needs to be addressed).
Cats only have such a big impact because we drove those species of birds to the edge of extinction already.
- Comment on Infected blood scandal: Children were used as 'guinea pigs' in clinical trials 6 months ago:
One was only an infant. What the ever-loving holy fuck.
- Comment on happy spring :) 7 months ago:
Bunnies! I need me some bunny seeds