Lmao, reminds me of a college bathroom experience where someone entered, used the urinal, used the hand drier, and left.

I was astounded.

Fun fact worth noting: humans and octopodes split back when our shared bodyplan was effectively a worm who just got legs. Octopuses have been shown to be able to learn and memorize letters, patterns, their different keepers (e.g., spitting at one particular keeper they didn’t like), etc., and all the intelligence they’ve been demonstrated to learn evolved separately from humans.

So we’ve actually got two examples of “worm with newly-evolved legs” becoming pretty damn smart on Earth, not just one - which makes my bet more on the “if the biosphere got to worms with legs, there’s a lot of smart stuff there”

Good phrase. Lines up with people using it almost like a slot machine when they get the wrong answer instead of thinking it out.

One Two Three Four

I declare a thumb Woman

I’ve never liked wasabi, which is strange because I’ve loved hot sauce since I was a child. I’ve since figured out that what I actually like is vinegar and the fact that there’s peppers involved is just a pleasant bonus.

wear a gown

Considering you’re the only one who went negative, I think you won at being controversial!

There is no moral way to raise a cat.

Either they live inside and live an entire life in a few thousand square feet at best for 16-20 years, or you let them outside to hunt and they kill tons of wildlife and are exposed to becoming roadkill/coyote food etc.

My personal dodge is to adopt old cats that have already been indoctrinated into inside life and who could never be let out anyway.

Note: if we had started building more plants 20 years ago and pulled a France (mostly nuclear grid), hell yeah, that would be great and we wouldn’t be where we are now. But this last-minute drive is heavily poisoned by coal just trying to stay relevant.

Coal pivoted to pushing for nuclear plants because build-times on nuke plants are ~20 years and they’d be the obvious filler mid-term. That’s why there’s so much pro-nuke rhetoric despite renewables being cheaper and faster to make: it’s their only chance to stay relevant.

Ah yes, the goonopticon

They been Zoomers to me for a decade, why fix what ain’t broke

This is what I would refer to the extra big bags of cereal as when living with a friend and it was his turn to do grocery shopping.

“1x bachelor chow cinnamon crunch, 1x fruity pebbles.”

Great book, I still occasionally use its “glass teletypes” when referring to screens

Also a good time - an egg over easy added to the Mac n cheese. I first heard it described as “trailerpark carbonara.” Would recommend

I had no idea I was attacked as a child. Explains a lot really

Also good on you dude in audience who cheers real loud when they add the ketchup

In Pittsburgh odds are fries would come on the salad with every dinner. Strange tradition, but I don’t mind it.

My friends were very excitedly talking about setting up a corp in this when it was first announced.

They wanted my buy-in, and I asked if I could be head of HR, to which they said “yes”.

So I bought it, created our corp, and performed my ideal goal: set up a corp recruitment posting called “entry-level Star Citizen player” which required 10+ years in Star Citizen.

We’re now at the point where I have to find my log-in and change that to 20+ for the joke to make sense again.

One plus the number of lives she saved each time you save her.

Invertebrates? No. All out

I invite you to meet the awesome jumping spider, whose eyes are very especially needed set up to be forward-facing for depth perception for their jumps, and who hunt other spiders, as well as the wolf spider, who are also a hunting (as opposed to web) spider.

In fact, you can use the chart of spider eye layouts to pretty much identify whether you’re looking at a spider who builds webs and waits or a spider who hunts:

Anyone with two big forward-facing eyes is probably looking around for their next meal; the rest are building a web, trapdoor, or taking some other approach.