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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨A Woodpecker’s tongue is so long that it wraps around its skull⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Sweet, thanks for the info!

  I was unsure of the effect of the dead-blow, since “minimizing damage” and “same driving force” sound contradictory to me. The latter makes it sound as if both would drive a nail to the same depth, and I was thinking the beak is effectively a nail. I’m glad the paper mentions concussions, and I’ll give em that bird and primate brains are probably similar enough in that respect.

  Odd that the tongue wraps around though. I’d figure it would just slide down the neck, since that seems closer to what we have.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨A Woodpecker’s tongue is so long that it wraps around its skull⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Your link says the page does not exist.

  By my thinking, the damage to the brain could outweigh the better foraging. Then I thought that the brain mooshing into the front of the skull later in the peck would turn the head into a dead-blow hammer, which are still quite effective hammers.

  “A dead-blow hammer delivers the momentum over a longer period, resulting in less peak force, but similar total driving effect for the same head weight.”

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Gog Promotional E-Mail Containing Nazi Symbols Goes Out to Subscribers⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Like, if Starbucks put a swastika on their cups, and the symbol came out 45° rotated on some of them (as the third reich did), and they just decided not to ship those ones to Germany, it’d be pretty hard to defend.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What's going on with Borderlands 2? Steam is giving it for free, but the game has 23% positive recent reviews.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Fun fact, it’s called a parliament! I regret that I am not an owl.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The Faculty, any day⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Heh. Core concepts. That one hits deep.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The Faculty, any day⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Did you mean… twice as long?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How to hold onto a subway pole⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  If she farted, would it make a ringing sound?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨American Truck Simulator is adding a road trip mode where you drive different vehicles, 'say, a powerful pickup or even a sports car'⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  I was disappointed when I saw that there are few roads in the game (my expectations were far too high). I was hoping for, idk, 70% of roads? Really, some sort of driving game using google maps data would be pretty awesome, if a nightmare to process all the images. Hmm, data storage would be an issue too… streaming would be too slow (I think).

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨John Mulaney skit - Podcast Set⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  This guy is the best!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Jagex Announces New Open World Survival Game: RuneScape: Dragonwilds⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Hey, I’ll give it a shot. With how many hours I’ve poured into Runescape over the last… 17 years? Damn, it’s been a while. Anyway, with all that time, even if this game was 1/10 the level of fun, it’ll still be a great time for me.