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- Comment on Grieve with me 1 week ago:
Might consider how you’re storing it, too - used to keep my phone upside-down in my pocket (so the charging port was pointing up), because that angled it so it would be upright when I pulled it out. Also let all the gunk fall in and stay in - seems like it takes a lot longer before this happens now that I pocket it with the port facing down!
- Comment on Disney wolves 3 weeks ago:
Eyelashes!
- Comment on Choose a number, 1-5! 4 weeks ago:
Everyone is busily selecting a fork, and I’m trying to figure out if the apostrophe was an intentional troll …
- Comment on Dolphins Communicate with ‘Fountains of Pee’ 4 weeks ago:
Sharks are supposed to be able to smell blood from a mile or more away - that’s why throwing chum in the water is a good way to draw them in.
I hadn’t thought about dolphins smelling though - I wonder if it’s closer to tasting, maybe?
- Comment on Give us your craziest ocean facts. 🦑 1 month ago:
Nah, it makes sense, and ice heard this phrasing before - just always wondered if they meant the poor whale couldn’t breathe, or basically just had indigestion!
- Comment on Give us your craziest ocean facts. 🦑 1 month ago:
Wow, I had no idea these were a thing… and it’s so funky how the surface of the brine pool interacts with the surrounding seawater!
- Comment on Give us your craziest ocean facts. 🦑 1 month ago:
Bonus bonus: a blue whale’s throat is so small it could choke to death on a grapefruit.
I’m sure their throat can be blocked that way; but if they can’t breathe through their mouth anyway, is it actually choking? Or just terminally blocked?
- Comment on Why do people insist on not answering ALL the questions in an email or text message? 1 month ago:
I’ve also found it helps to, if you have just a few questions that aren’t really related, break them into separate messages. And space them out a bit, if you’ve got time.
- Comment on At least Quark had some integrity. 1 month ago:
When we’re driving, my wife often acts as navigatrix
- Comment on cherry pickers 2 months ago:
This sounds like sarcasm, but the joke legitimately didn’t click for me until I scanned the title again.
- Comment on Lightning bugs!! 2 months ago:
Remember when you needed a bug shield to drive on the highway?
- Comment on Billionaires shouldn't exist 2 months ago:
They do have something special that the rest of us don’t have. They have money.
That’s what I mean when I say they have room to try again. They don’t go broke when their business fails, so they can try more than once. Most of us don’t have the time or resources to have another go without some serious recovery time.
- Comment on Billionaires shouldn't exist 2 months ago:
Goddamn, victim blame much? Most of them are trying to survive!
- Comment on Billionaires shouldn't exist 2 months ago:
Great! Most new businesses fail, which makes sense given the people starting them are new at this. Billionaires often have had several failed attempts. The difference is, they have room to fail and try again.
How do we give others that chance, if not by keeping billionaires from hoovering up all the resources?
- Comment on Billionaires shouldn't exist 2 months ago:
What billionaire didn’t start out with a healthy infusion of cash? Sure, some turned millions into billions, but I don’t know of any that didn’t start with a line on several millions of investment available.
- Comment on fireflies 2 months ago:
See some still in Kansas. My grandparents in Wichita used to have tons of them about 35 years ago; not as many now.
- Comment on I'll care when I work for a co-op that is equally owned by all the workers. 2 months ago:
I generally sympathize with OP, but someone in your position is the exception.
I’m sorry your job sucks (especially now); and thank you for putting in so much effort!
- Comment on Gottem. :) 3 months ago:
The moon is just a few light-seconds away from earth; that’s why they could have conversations with ground control during the moon landings. Moon will go dark a few seconds after the sun.
- Comment on Gottem. :) 3 months ago:
And even if you’re not connected at the moment, the moon will go dark.
- Comment on listen 3 months ago:
I prefer to think of Chase as what a cop should be. As a strong contrast to the cops the kids will later become familiar with; so they can understand that we could do better.
At least, that’s how I felt before he got all the spy gear…
- Comment on On Wednesdays we wear pink. 5 months ago:
Man, that’s bizarre enough I was pretty confident you were just carrying the meme along - but I’m seeing it referenced all over the place!
- Comment on Just a little guy 5 months ago:
You might want to Google the blue-ringed octopus…
- Comment on Just a little guy 5 months ago:
Wouldn’t any joke from that account be an effing joke?
- Comment on Venom vs Poison 8 months ago:
Nah, if I remember right, those arrows use the poison from a tree frog, not something like a snake’s venom. So still poison!
- Comment on I'm just a kid and life is nightmare... I know its not fair 8 months ago:
I don’t think it’s bullying, because bullying involves tormenting them - finding what they react negatively to, and pushing on that. Here, you’re letting them know that there’s something you need them to do before you’re comfortable playing with them. You might think of it as modelling how to protect your own bodily autonomy!
For me, when my kids were going through that, I’d say something like “Ack! Don’t touch me with poo hands! Go wash first, then you can climb on me!” It’d generally get a giggle, then they’d go finish washing up. You’ll want to pay attention to their reaction whatever you do, but if you make it clear they’re still welcome to play, I don’t see how it could be bullying.
- Comment on Stained Glass 8 months ago:
…I would be very interested in seeing how you describe your hummingbirds!
- Comment on Oh, the humanity! 9 months ago:
As they burned, it hurt because
- Comment on Basically a van 9 months ago:
so many fuckin Worfs
…so it’s a party van!
- Comment on I will not be taking questions. 11 months ago:
And my toddlers both just turned it back around!
- Comment on Metroid Prime 4: Beyond – Announcement Trailer 11 months ago:
I’m actually still trying to get one to work… might need to step back and make sure I can get base Dolphin to run it first!