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- Comment on A new twist on an old classic 2 weeks ago:
- Comment on Evolution 2 weeks ago:
- Comment on Evolution 2 weeks ago:
And dinosaurs existed for ~160 million years before grasses. runs to cross-reference all my illustrated childhood books’ dinosaur species extinction timelines and the presence of grass!!
- Comment on Medieval Bulbasaur 2 weeks ago:
Real life Bulbasaurus did it first (except the name)
Bulbasaurus was ostensibly not directly named after the Pokémon Bulbasaur, but rather after its nasal bosses, which are unusually bulbous among geikiids; however, the describers noted that the similarity in name “may not be entirely coincidental.” Additionally, the specific name of the type species means “leaf razor”, which is most directly a reference to its keratin-covered jaws.
- Comment on Anon is Arthur Schopenhauer 2 weeks ago:
Excessive noise is bad, violence is worse. Moral licensing for escalating is a hell of a drug.
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- Comment on Ancient Proton Calendar prophesies End of World in 2038 3 weeks ago:
Speakimg of 8-bit: a good website for the original NES would’ve been fami.com
- Comment on Ancient Proton Calendar prophesies End of World in 2038 3 weeks ago:
Agreed, we just have to move universe escape to the top of our priorities. Then immortality. Then dementia (getting dementia, that is).
- Comment on Y'all ever have intrusive thoughts about accidentally dropping stuff in storm drains? (particulary when you have your phone out) And like if that happens, wtf is someone supposed to do? 3 weeks ago:
Yes and: I was mostly thinking of 1930s style cartoons.
- Comment on What was even his intention? 3 weeks ago:
I’d argue Epstein’s best friend is the owner of the hand in the bottom-right corner.
- Comment on He's a doctor. 3 weeks ago:
Grab him by the forehead. When you’re a convicted sexual predator, he lets you do it. You can do anything.
- Comment on When your store has lots of traffic but few sales 3 weeks ago:
High traffic, low sales? She clearly inspired the internet advertising business model.
- Comment on It does look cooler than a cross 3 weeks ago:
One must imagine Sisyphus is making a pen15 joke.
- Comment on me genius 3 weeks ago:
I’d argue US + Eh would be a border species.
- Comment on Interesting shirt 3 weeks ago:
***Haute couture by Georgia O’Keeffe. ***
- Comment on It's how you want to quit but you know you shouldn't 3 weeks ago:
Until I saw the bottom I thought the top perforations followed a curve, which was unexpectedly very exciting.
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- Comment on Y'all ever have intrusive thoughts about accidentally dropping stuff in storm drains? (particulary when you have your phone out) And like if that happens, wtf is someone supposed to do? 3 weeks ago:
I just stretch my tubular arms real long until they’re super thin. Simple.
- Comment on 🤡🤡🤡🤡🤡🤡 3 weeks ago:
Was using the real definition to generate my definition.
- Comment on 🤡🤡🤡🤡🤡🤡 3 weeks ago:
Poe’s Law: originating from the term "Poorly Constrained* (cf: Poe Ly) which is a technical term used in physics, engineering, and mathematics for a system where there are more variables than available data points, making a single definitive solution impossible. 😏
- Comment on Purge home alone night 3 weeks ago:
Not their finest work: the clip.
- Comment on 3 weeks ago:
Rich people don’t run their own social media btw.
And counter-example: eskimo kisses (w/ eyelashes) checkmate!
- Comment on Anon runs into his boss 3 weeks ago:
Yeah, unfortunately you can get a DWI for pulling over and napping in your car on the side of the road because you didn’t feel safe driving. Because they argue how else did you get there if not by driving. And I suppose no one sober would choose to start drinking on the side of the road in a car.
A good challenge to this might be to use an acceptable BAC testing model right out of the box to record your BAC of 0.00, driving to the side of a road police travel by, retesting BAC of 0.00, removing alcohol from trunk, drinking and testing your BAC until an officer arrests you, then using the video and data for visual aids in the jury trial in your defense.
You’ll likely still get some fine for being considered to have wasted the states’ time & money, and may even lose if you’re unattractive and/or arbitrarily considered a public nuissance. But you’d likely be among the most cited case law for cases involving the dumbest college kids (e.g. me, based on how much time I’ve spent on this).
- Comment on Target acquired 4 weeks ago:
Have you ever seen a birdhouse with a toilet? ~a bird
- Comment on English has too many words for animals 4 weeks ago:
Apes evolved from dry-nosed monkeys, so despite the popular wisdom, according to monophyly we are monkeys. Similarly humans are fish. The confusion arises because most people still group species by common characteristics (a grade) rather than common descent (a clade). Also known as Linnean vs phylogenetics.
- Comment on Huge if true 4 weeks ago:
I’ve used nicotine products intended to wean people off cigs, like the patches or lozenges when caffeine’s not cutting it. But cigs, and even vaping for that matter, really do require an RFK Jr level of health understanding.
- Comment on Huge if true 4 weeks ago:
Who still smokes cigs in 2026? Woof
- Comment on Thoughts and prayers 4 weeks ago:
This is just the central European/German chin.
- Comment on Me too, bro, me too... 4 weeks ago:
First pass, I could’ve sworn I’d read: “I’m freakin’ typing!”
