I wasn’t ready to open comms just yet, but unfortunately due to immigration and emergency plumbing costs I have to post this now.
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Did you know researchers tested crows’ memories and found they can recall activities from 17 years earlier?
If you have a 3D printer, you can print flock camera bird feeders in only 4 pieces at printables.com. Crows love unsalted peanuts and pet kibble btw.
Well come and well met, my brave little spark
How long you've wandered, burned bright as a star
Oh, I have awaited you patiently all this time
I dedicated this illustration to the Endwalker storyline because I still love it so much
“We do not have trade schools,” he said. “We are not investing in educating a next generation of people like my grandfather who had nothing, who built a middle-class life and a future for his family.”
Buddy - your grandfather was probably able to find a job that would teach him what he needed to know in order to do the job.
If FoMoCo offered Promising Earnest Young Persons $120K/year - or even a lot less than that! - to be mechanics, with the promise that you'd provide the needed training, I have very little doubt that you'd fill all your vacancies pretty much immediately.
I'm sorry that society hasn't socialized the cost of providing you with an educated specialist labor force, but, y'know, I keep hearing all these great things about the free market.
Every single time there's one of these articles about big salaries in the trades, they invariably include the phrase "up to". Welders make up to $150K, Ford will pay mechanics up to 6 figures.
That's nice; now tell me what the actual salary for the entry-level position is, how many years of training I need to get licensed and/or join the union, and whether anybody is making your quoted salaries who doesn't outright own a local firm.
retracing ur steps to remember what u were about to say/do is so funny like yeah let me go stand next to the microwave for a second i think i dropped my thought over there. & then it works
hate when i get a password wrong and the browser goes "heyyyy :) do you want me to save those credentials you entered :)" like i am already humiliated why must you rub salt into that wound firefox
was at a bar and a 50+ year old drunk white woman complimented me and my friend's outfits, told us there was a campsite up in northern maryland where a lot of gay bears go to have sex in the woods. we asked her how she knew about this and she very aggressively said "because i'm a FAG HAG!!! but i'm not allowed to say that anymore I GUESS!!!"
Folks misunderstand lots of things. You get told “DNA is basically a Blueprint of an Organism.” It makes sense, you can imagine that. Maybe you’ve seen a Blueprint in real life. Maybe not. But you can understand the concept: it’s information. It’s a, a, you know, the layout. Where stuff goes.
But DNA isn’t a Blueprint; it’s DNA. No matter what context you put a Blueprint in, it won’t do certain things. It won’t spontaneously duplicate itself; DNA will. A Blueprint isn’t gonna curl up into a ball and roll away on you. A Blueprint can’t fragment in half and become a rogue construction firm cranking out half-formed cabinets. DNA can and will do these and stranger things. DNA is alive
Anyway a lot of “viruses” are just. Chunks of more complex living things that broke free. Also big chunks of our own genome are just “viruses” that. got stuck. Kinda. It’s not bad! Our Immune System uses those bits for target practice and wargaming. Pretty neat actually. Humans are very advanced under the hood as it turns out.
Where was I going with this.
What fucks me up is that you could theoretically lose all of your dna and stay alive for a couple of hours. You could even still walk around and do things and maybe barely even notice, until you then very rapidly collapse. But the point is you could be a dna-less molecule sock puppet. A thing made by dna but now a walking shell. How can that even be
Hey so there’s a poison that kills you by shutting down the apparatus that prints proteins off your DNA and it’s made by a popular ornamental plant isn’t life neat
Best word for Vagina in the context of fanfiction
Vagina (classic, elegant)
Pussy (vintage but also nouveau)
Fanny (cw British)
Clunge (I threw up a little bit)
CUNT (it requires caps)
Clam (are we lost at sea?)
Walls (backrooms pussy)
Flowery Descriptor (‘soft pink petals’. Baby they’re not all pink…)
feel free to riff and choose your own in the tags
Do the AI people know that the rest of us who never got on the bandwagon are still doing everything the same way we always have
The AI boom has changed literally nothing about my day to day life except I now have to work harder to get access to reliable information, all the important admin work is being done wrong, and I keep getting DMs letting me know the perfectly ordinary and plausible photo I liked was actually a fake image generated by a fascist to generate views and churn out ad money for the purpose of funding their tree-powered puppy-flushing toilet
"But how are you living life WITHOUT Doctor Leroy's Magically Invigorating Nerve Tonic? I can't imagine getting anything done without it!" <- old-timey 1800s guy who has been drinking crank and goat piss daily for the price of a shiny nickel
Sometimes you cautiously crack open the door for a second and watch alien conspiracy theorists talk and they’re like “this ancient drawing is a diagram of DNA” and then they show the drawing and it’s of two snakes fucking
There’s drawings all over the world of snakes doing a fuck because fertility symbolism and whatnot and a spiral makes for a good design but alien obsessed grandpas who have never seen snakes having sex before in their lives will point very hard at the snake sex and say it’s a double helix or whatever it must be aliens.
No my friend. You just need to get out more. Maybe you’ll see some snakes in the wild making some sweet twisty snake love and get some perspective on the world.
Twisty twisty it is not a DNA strand
brb me and the guys playing clash of clans on one of these bad boys
