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- Comment on I this a firm and polite way to tell an opinionated coworker to stop pushing his agenda I don't care about? 12 hours ago:
Does have to be ancient life, you could also tell them about:
Farming techniques in the middle ages centering around Southern France in comparison to Manchuria.
Your favorite clothes buttons of the Victorian era.
The nuances of tardigrade body language.
The evolution of footwear prior to hard soles.
The fascinating history of rivets.
How women in the early 1900s are responsible for how unhealthy fast food is today and why the government can’t do anything right.
All about the history of houndstooth as it relates to fashion and feudalism.
Why they should bring back lawn darts for the betterment of our schools.
And so many more conversations that will allow you to work in peace.
- Comment on I this a firm and polite way to tell an opinionated coworker to stop pushing his agenda I don't care about? 20 hours ago:
Not of every time they start up you start talking about fossil species.
“You see what they are up to now?”
“That’s a good question. Personally I am a fan of Cambrian, but who can deny how good the Permian was. Sure, the Jurassic had all the dinosaurs, but stuff Radiodonts and Hallucigenia are just so cool.”
- Comment on Lesbian incest is morally okay 1 day ago:
Well it is basically masturbation, so long as we are talking identical.
- Comment on EA are thinking about inserting adverts into games - but don’t worry, it’ll be “very thoughtful” 2 days ago:
A “simple” mod would probably work, but we know how bad things are getting with game devs so I would expect them to do everything they can to prevent circumventing their ad revenue. Streaming games will also make anti-ad measures far more difficult and publishers are going to try and make all games streaming for “security and product quality”. In 20 years the older gamers are going to be fuming at all the BS compared to how things were.
- Comment on EA are thinking about inserting adverts into games - but don’t worry, it’ll be “very thoughtful” 2 days ago:
With the steadily increasing processing power available, refining AI video generation, and internet connections being ever more mandatory the end result will be AI generated ads inserted into false loading screens.
There have been games with ad space that could be changed, billboards and posters, there will be more of that in the future. You won’t see fake products put in the game to flesh out the environment, you will see real products put in the game as marketing.
The amount of advertising and marketing we are exposed to in the real world will be mirrored, if not exceeded, in videogames and that makes me sick.
Marketing departments are just behind corporate lawyers, corporate consultants, and executives in the line to hell.
- Comment on Parrot and the word "No" 6 days ago:
Actually no, I’ve never been one for Halloween and taking him outside the house or giving him the potential to explore outside freely without my consent would be irresponsible.
Also judging how he felt that most hats were trying to harm me, resulting in him unleashing his tiny fury upon the hat and my head/face, I doubt a tricorn would have been well received. I took a pretty vicious bite to the lip when I wore a bucket hat around him; I took his harsh fashion critique seriously and never wore one again around him.
Birds can have weird hatreds of things based on early traumas in life. I’d love to know why he hated hats and why my current bird hates gallon jugs of water with the anger of a thousand suns compressed into a feathery missile of rage.
- Comment on Parrot and the word "No" 6 days ago:
All of grammar, and punctuation really; it would be easier if I wasnt so Stoopid?
- Comment on Parrot and the word "No" 6 days ago:
I used to work at a pet store.
Being someone who loves animals, I tried to make sure the parrots(conures) got plenty of socializing to help make them better pets and to meet their social needs to prevent them from developing bad behaviour and mental issues. Luckily our location didn’t sell many, probably because we made sure people understood that they are toddlers with a nutcracker for a face and how much of a responsibility they are, so I could spend a lot of time with them.
The bird I ended up taking home had a great personality and was fairly well behaved. While he was still merchandise, I would have him out for 50% of my shift. He wasn’t a fan of most women and didn’t really spend much time with the other dude working there, so I was his best friend.
We wore polos and my hair was long at the time so he would love to crawl under my hair and sleep between my collar and my neck. The only indication that he was there was his crimson red tail sticking out a couple inches from behind my head. His preferred resting place was not a problem because he was secure and I could still do all of my work responsibilities without having to consider him.
When he was all rested he would crawl out from my hair and socialize. His napping place was quite the surprise when I was talking to a customer and a bird would appear out of nowhere and say “Hi!” with an upwards inflection.
He also liked to sit in the crotch of the open button fly of my shirt with his back to my chest. I think he just liked to see what was going on and that spot was more warm and secure than my shoulder. He would sometimes crawl out from under my hair and then slip into my collar and pop his head and chest out to get into his observation post.
Imagine talking to the guy at the pet store and a suprise bird slithering out from behind his head and into his shirt, coming halfway back out and greeting you. More than a few customers would pause mid sentence or lose focus on what I was saying when he did that, derailing the conversation about everything else so the bird became the topic.
As you can imagine, he was very attached to me. He was so acclimated to the store environment and felt so safe with me that he wouldn’t fly off in fear no matter what noises he heard. I could grab him off my shoulder and throw him in a direction, he would fly right back to me like a boomerang. I would let him stand on counters and when I would walk away he would fly right to my shoulder.
He wasn’t happy when I shaved my head and made sure to express his loss of hiding spot by getting all poofed up and babbling angrily when I took him out that day. He pretty much only stayed in my shirt after that.
I eventually took him home. I got him for half off by abusing the hell out of my employee discount and coupons, still spending half of my meager paycheck on him and the rest of my check on a small cage, supplies, and an assortment of toys for him to destroy. On the car ride home he got carsick and shook his head violently, spraying bird vomit all over the side of my head and speckled about my car’s interior. It wasn’t a great start to our cohabitation, but it was how it started.
I was a young man and that bird learned to curse after I took him home. While my current bird shows my maturation by telling me to “shaddap” when I am too loud after his bedtime, that first bird would tell me to “Shat tha fuck up!” with a clear tone of agitation. Being cursed out by a bird because I laughed too loud after bedtime humbles a man like a parent yelling at you for waking them up when they have work tomorrow during your summer break.
He eventually died after $2,100 in bird specialist vet bills and weeks of unknown illness, we had 12 years of good times and incessant snuggles.
- Comment on Parrot and the word "No" 6 days ago:
Words are hard man.
- Comment on Parrot and the word "No" 6 days ago:
He unfortunately is paranoid, skittish, and believes a phone can steal his soul; so recording him doing cute stuff is neigh impossible. If I can catch him in the act and remember, you’ll get delivery.
- Comment on Parrot and the word "No" 6 days ago:
Their logistics prowess is limited but hilarious.
My bird knows probably a dozen or more human vocalizations and their rough usage. He has maracas that he likes to fiddle with and sometimes he will tap it against his head, which makes it rattle, and he will say “stahp eht”(stop it). He has a hatred of things that rattle or jingle and he loves to destroy things to make them stop. He is trying to tell the maracas to stop making noise that he causes. He will approach a toy that rattles and will say “stahp eht”, and then pick it up or knock it about as if telling it to not make noise will make it not make noise; entirely absent is the concept that he is causing it to make noise.
It is quite funny to be told by a 63g bird to “shaddap” when the TV is too loud for him to sleep in his covered cage at night.
I do wish he would use “bed tyme” more appropriately for when he wants to be put to bed and not just whenever he wants to take one of his 6-10 naps a day. Close enough for an Amazonian Hitler pigeon with a final solution to the rattle and jingle question, I guess.
- Comment on 2x2 lumber at Home Depot is now 1.28x1.28. Nominal size is supposed to be 1.5 1 week ago:
I can accept the poor quality tools that might be off by a few hundredths, but using imperial on precision measurement devices is unforgivable.
- Comment on 2x2 lumber at Home Depot is now 1.28x1.28. Nominal size is supposed to be 1.5 1 week ago:
In the Garden of Gethsemane, the only sin he saw that gave Jesus second thoughts of dying for our sins was socks and sandals.
- Comment on The way my daughter's middle school health class classifies drugs is insane. 1 week ago:
Used corn oil, tortillas, and a hint of a taste like new car air conditioning smells with an aftertaste of a little bit of brake fluid. Yeah, I can kind of see how that would be off-putting but you won’t mind it and you can just swallow it with a liter of black current juice and spend some quality time with machine elves instead of vaping it.
The taste aspect of DMT is like a partner who is 10/10 that will blow your mind in every way but who has farts that smell like a rotting dumpster of seafood and offal on fire outside of a wastewater treatment facility. You can’t just write them off because of one manageable issue.
- Comment on The way my daughter's middle school health class classifies drugs is insane. 1 week ago:
GHB and rufies are used recreationally, not just for date rape.
The purpose of drug education programs in schools is to scare kids, not to genuinely educate kids so they can make informed decisions in their own lives. They also can’t cover everything because the education system is fucked and drugs would require a semester to teach to an appropriate degree and serve harm reduction. They also need to not tell kids enough because it could backfire and make drugs seem interesting to try. Try making DMT not sound awesome.
- Comment on histories mysteries 2 weeks ago:
By the looks of it, the Romans were size queens and kings. The frescos and mosaics of Pompeii support that theory.
- Comment on Fact check: Biden repeats his claim that he ‘got arrested’ defending civil rights. There’s still no evidence for it | CNN Politics 2 weeks ago:
You can be a racist and still be arrested at a civil rights protest, you don’t have to be there to support a protest. From there political spin can make a rainy day seem like a day in the sun.
Also a man will find himself doing things he never would have done because a girl is involved. Liberal cuties have beguiled many a conservative man, for some strange reason liberal women are often drawn to conservative men.
- Comment on Fact check: Biden repeats his claim that he ‘got arrested’ defending civil rights. There’s still no evidence for it | CNN Politics 2 weeks ago:
He says he did, evidence says he didn’t.
Option A: He didn’t and is telling a lie or he has a false memory.
Option B: He did and his arrest didn’t result in a charge or conviction, or it was swept under the rug thanks to his father’s money, power, and influence.
Knowing how rich families operate and knowing Biden was planning on a political career early on in his life, Option B seems the most likely to me.
- Comment on What do companies get out of rewards programs 2 weeks ago:
You sign up for the card because you already shop there enough for you to justify having the card. You wouldn’t sign up for the card of a store you never go to unless there is some financial incentive, like sale price for members.
They want your data for marketing a resale.
- Comment on [deleted] 3 weeks ago:
I am a fan of large aquaria, but hatching a cannibalistic manatee egg case in one sounds like a terrible way to become the guy in the math problem with a cart full of X cabbages and Y heads of lettuce if I bought an equal amount of each and spent $154.26 with an 8% tax if cabbages cost $2.23 and lettuce cost $3.98.
- Comment on [deleted] 3 weeks ago:
They are so cannibalistic. I once hatched an egg case in a terrarium and they ate their brothers and sisters almost immediately after hatching. There were baby crickets in there and they did not care for them in the slightest as the mantid population fell like a cobalt state sanctioned murder cube falls on a head.
- Comment on [deleted] 3 weeks ago:
You count the most, using your fingers and toes.
- Comment on Ain't no one around to hate in the basement. Just me and my jug. 4 weeks ago:
The darker the swill, the darker the seas you sail. Hate yourself better and fight the Kraken with your face.
- Comment on Ain't no one around to hate in the basement. Just me and my jug. 4 weeks ago:
Those are right next to plastic vodka jug.
Pabst is ironic self-hatred.
- Comment on Ain't no one around to hate in the basement. Just me and my jug. 4 weeks ago:
American pilsner is definitely higher on “hatred for others” than others.
- Comment on tremendous 4 weeks ago:
How was your Operation game? I’m guessing you won a lot.
- Comment on How does the day-to-day work of not wearing shoes in the house? 5 weeks ago:
I have house moccasins by Softmock. Swap footwear by the door. If I am putting my feet up on the couch or whatever the mocs stay on the floor. If I have to go outside, shoes go on. I have outside mocs(the old worn pair of house mocs) that I swap to for quick outside excursions for trash, mail, dog. I used to have an old pair of converse low tops with the backs folded down, but I don’t wear chucks anymore.
- Comment on This is a Test 5 weeks ago:
It’s a free gun without a paper trail, why would you not tuck that shit. You do homie a favor and you get a nice drop piece to fold some clothes later.
- Comment on This is a Test 5 weeks ago:
I don’t mind the blood, but the unsaveable dying women and children plus the poop and infected smells is why I never went into medicine. Also my bedside manner is more House than Mr. Rodgers, so I would be sued so fast, like career ending speed run fast.
- Comment on Caption this. 5 weeks ago:
How to tell if she spiked your drink.
Identifying sports related head injuries.
The competitive advantage of ketamine: Is it the ultimate performance enhancing drug and how publicly funded research grants are often wasteful.
Visualizing the field: How Brenden Aaronson understands playing in the league.