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- Comment on Nice horsie! 🐎 1 day ago:
I’m not sure why you’ve been downvoted because you absolutely could domesticate them given sufficient time and consistent selective breeding. You could turn them into crabs if you wanted to. The trouble is that they don’t have a very social disposition, so no one is motivated to dedicating their entire bloodline to the project. Most domestication happened kind of on accident as we developed symbiotic or exploitative relationships with various species.
- Comment on A succulent meal 3 days ago:
Wheat grain is strictly a vegetable, being an edible plant part. But people usually use the word to refer to a socially-constructed category which is completely feels-based. Membership tends to be determined by flavor profile, nutrition content, and whether the given part falls into another popular sub-category (such as fruit or nuts). This is why fruits like the tomato and pumpkin are usually sorted as vegetables separately from fruits with generally sweeter flavors like the banana or orange.
Vegetables like grains, legumes, and certain tubers will often be grouped together as “carbs” due to their high carbohydrate content which distinguishes them from low-calorie, high-fiber vegetables like spinach or broccoli.
- Comment on 3 days ago:
There are people young enough to be my children who I naturally think of as grown-ups, unlike myself. It has to do with multiple factors like wearing business attire, driving a car, not playing with toys or watching cartoons, etc. The kind of classic adult feel. I can’t even really cosplay being an adult like that.
- Comment on Beyond fucked up 4 days ago:
Lately I’ve been considering the idea that people under a certain age (16? 18?) should be banned from television and cinema altogether. My thinking is that it’s a form of child labor, and that they’re not able to consent to fame.
- Comment on 5 weeks ago:
If you have a problem with unfinished works, don’t ingest them until they’re finished. The artist doesn’t owe you anything.
- Comment on Great Mug 5 weeks ago:
The placebo effect would like a word.
- Comment on Anon and Rusty 5 weeks ago:
I think maybe most people don’t understand cats’ body language. Like they dont jump on you and wag their tail, so they must not love you.
- Comment on haha wow u got me 1 month ago:
Easily the best dating sim ever made.
- Comment on haha wow u got me 1 month ago:
Usually with birds the answer is sexual selection. As a group they seem to have a general preference for bright, colorful things.
- Comment on I am definitely a bird me personally 1 month ago:
To add, it’s distinct from regular rock climbing in that you don’t use a rope and have to climb back down.
- Comment on Off the Rails 1 month ago:
How so? (I’m assuming OOP is using the common definition of “animal” to exclude humans.)
- Comment on but like seriously do try it 1 month ago:
Thank you very much!
- Comment on but like seriously do try it 1 month ago:
My immediate assumption is that any observations made by me are meaningless noise and that I should avoid making them unless I see something really weird. But that could also be a problem because then it looks like shiny Caterpie is really common in this area while the regular one is rare. Do you know what behavior the creators of the app prefer?
- Comment on but like seriously do try it 1 month ago:
What does it mean that this bird is “likely in 4 today”?
- Comment on but like seriously do try it 1 month ago:
That is the correct spelling in this context.
- Comment on How about the digestive system? 1 month ago:
This is Crohn’s erasure.
- Comment on We wouldn't listen, anyway. 1 month ago:
You might like the novel We Are All Completely Beside Ourselves by Karen Joy Fowler. I personally prefer to go into books without knowing much about them, so I will put the premise in a spoiler tag:
the premise
It’s about a woman who was raised from birth with a chimpanzee as her twin sister, as she tries to figure out why her sister suddenly disappeared from her life when they were young, and where she is now.
It has a fairly comic tone, which is very welcome given all the trauma.
- Comment on Contain them 1 month ago:
No, there are no asterisks in the actual URL.
"removed" appears where a word has been removed.
- Comment on Contain them 1 month ago:
I have to assume it’s in an automod filter, but I can’t imagine why. Is it a joke like how people say “Fr*nch”?
- Comment on Contain them 1 month ago:
*pretends to toss a treat*
- Comment on Contain them 1 month ago:
The written form was neutral until Western influence inspired the creation of a female version, replacing the first radical “person” with “woman”.
- Comment on Contain them 1 month ago:
The haters are the root of the problem, but it’s not like I’m not using it/its because I’m afraid of being scolded or made fun of. It’s unfortunately tied to dehumanization in the sense that not being human is a bad thing, and that makes it fun for bigots to say and uncomfortable for good people to say. I lament the situation, but I also accept the way it is.
- Comment on Contain them 1 month ago:
In my experience (and I’m sure this varies by region) it’s about 50/50 whether someone will call most animals or anthropomorphized objects “he” or “it”. (Cats are a big exception in that they’re usually “she” even from people who know it’s a boy cat.) So for me “it” is just the most natural thing, with male-as-default being second and also problematic in its own way. Maybe someday I’ll like a neopronoun.
- Comment on Contain them 1 month ago:
That’s what I mean about the baggage, yeah. You can’t just make something not be a slur anymore. It’s uncomfortable for people trying to be respectful, and it’s easy for bigots to exploit.
- Comment on Contain them 1 month ago:
What’s not sentient about a squirrel?
Can you give an example of how “it” is confusing? Like “It met its friend for coffee,” sounds fine to me. “It put on a warm jacket since it was cold out,” uses multiple senses of the word, but it still reads fine to me.
“They” is mildly confusing in narratives because it can be hard to distinguish whether one or multiple characters are being described, but it’s not an insurmountable problem.
- Comment on Contain them 1 month ago:
Why did that word get censored?
- Comment on Contain them 1 month ago:
“It” is personally my favorite neutral pronoun, but it has so much cultural baggage attached to it that it doesn’t feel like a viable option. Why does a squirrel or a ficus or a robot get to be called “it” by default, but not a person? It isn’t fair.
- Comment on Anon buys a can of beans 1 month ago:
I’m hoping there’s an arc that proves her wrong in her beliefs about demons
I’m told there is not.
- Comment on Anon buys a can of beans 1 month ago:
Damn, people are real mad you don’t like their elf waifu.
- Comment on Anon buys a can of beans 1 month ago:
I’m not making an argument, but I’m curious whether you feel the same way about demons in Frieren.
