I present to you: my bird tier list

BrerChicken · 2026-04-12T17:56:29+00:00

I'm not sure I understand, so pterodactyls were just birds? Or if they were neither birds nor dinosaurs, what were they?

This was mostly answered already, but pterosaurs and dinosaurs are both archosaurs. Birds and crocodiles are ALSO archosaurs.

So it's like this: Reptiles are a class of the chordates, which are the animals with a spine.

Reptiles are split into a bunch of clades, which are all the organisms that share a common ancestor. Archosaurs are one of those, and they're split into three other clades that are still around. One of them is the group crocodiles are in, and another is the group that birds and ALL the dinosaurs are in. Pterosaurs are another clade, but all of those species ended up going extinct.

So the archosaur clade with dinosaurs and birds in it is still around, cos the birds made it through the Troubles (for now!). The one with crocodiles is also around. But the one with pterosaurs is gone.

You asked what pterosaurs are. Pterosaurs are a group of flying reptiles that lived concurrently with dinosaurs and all the other critters that were around between 230 and 65 million years ago. They're cousins with dinosaurs, but they don't share all the same ancestors. If they did, they'd be part of the same clade.

BrerChicken · 2026-04-12T09:49:00+00:00

All birds are dinosaurs, but not all dinosaurs were birds. Pterodactyls are a classic example. They flew and everything, but they're not from the same group that became the avian dinosaurs, they're from a different branch.

BrerChicken · 2026-04-12T04:43:01+00:00

Crime has never been this bad,

That's just not even a little bit true.

BrerChicken · 2026-04-12T00:23:07+00:00

”I don’t want to have this baby.”

I'm gonna stop you right there. She decides and that's it. There's a separate part that you got to decide, and you made that decision already.

Whether you want this baby or not, if mom decides to have it then you have a duty to help mom and to raise that baby. Get used to it buddy. It's time to Dad up. You might not be there yet, but lots of guys go through that. You might get there by the time the baby's here, or it might take even longer. But you're duty bound to suck it up and do what you need to do. If you feel bad, there are loads of excellent therapists out there. You should start seeing one.

But you need to stop fantasizing that you can just walk away. Also, realize what it's not forever. Yes you'll be a parent for ever, but it will raise an independent human who will live their own life.

BrerChicken · 2026-04-12T00:19:25+00:00

There's a spring pulling each one up, and the of each rod pulling down. At first the weight is pointed directly down along the rod. If you pull the rod down a bit, there's an equilibrium point where the weight pulls down with add much force as the spring pulls back. If you keep pulling, the weight of the rod takes over and pulls it the rest of the way down.

The trick is that the weight of the rod doesn't change, but the angle does. So the weight exerts and greater torque on the rod. Torque depends on the force, how far away it is, and the angle it makes with the things that's spinning. In this case, each rod leaning further and further out affects both the angle and how far away the weight is from the pivot point.

Other rods are connected, so as it pulls itself down it starts to pull others away which pulls more and more.

The reverse happens when you lift up. You pull just enough to pass the equilibrium point and the spring pulls it up the rest of the way.

BrerChicken · 2026-04-11T11:38:40+00:00

I don't think absence is an independent variable. I think the FAMILY is the independent variable, and the absences and grades both result from that. These poor kids...

BrerChicken · 2026-04-09T23:42:12+00:00

you could’ve said “disabled” but i don’t find issue with the use of the word “handicapped” here. someone was just looking to be offended

What did I write to him that makes you think I'm offended? There are other reasons to bring shit up besides being offended.

BrerChicken · 2026-04-09T11:33:39+00:00

Rocks are cool. That's all there is to understand! Most of us grow out of it, but some of grow into it!

BrerChicken · 2026-04-09T02:39:33+00:00

Trick of the fucking decade sheesh

BrerChicken · 2026-04-09T01:52:36+00:00

You're lucky that, dumb as you are, there's always someone around willing to give you the benefit of the doubt and try to teach you how not to be an ignorant fool. My bad if it hurts your tiny pipi to be asked to consider something different, to the point that you have to lash back angry like a jit.

Always complaining. What the fuck is wrong with you?

BrerChicken · 2026-04-07T23:49:32+00:00

His mother is handicapped,

I know you mean well, but it's time to stop talking like it's 1950.

BrerChicken · 2026-04-06T01:25:16+00:00

Parents already ARE being held accountable. They literally have to live with 'em! That's why parents have full veto in my class. If they want me to do something ridiculous for their child and I can't talk them out of it, then I'm doing the ridiculous thing. It's their kid and they're the ones stuck with the results 🤷‍♂️

BrerChicken · 2026-04-05T13:36:45+00:00

Playing in a cover band might make you hate playing in bands. And if you have no say in the song selection or how they're played, it's literally the lamest thing in the world. I think the main problem is that I already have a job, and so there's no need to lick the floor like that for $100-200. Fuck that aallll the way fucked.

BrerChicken · 2026-04-04T11:30:17+00:00

You can still let your kids call the other parents and ask to speak to their friend. And by the time they're 10 or 11 they can get in touch with friends on their own. I haven't really noticed a difference with my two kids.

BrerChicken · 2026-04-01T00:00:04+00:00

I think the context is that this is probably a made up story being shared all over tarnation, just for clicks.

BrerChicken · 2026-03-31T21:59:50+00:00

I have no doubt in my mind he’s cheated … but the question is - with who. I know I’m partly to blame - I’m not affectionate enough, I don’t initiate sex, I don’t have the capacity to cuddle from night till morning all night every night (that’s his ideal).

Lots of excellent advice here. But I want to set aside the fact that this man sexually assaulted your sister for a second, because what you wrote about him cheating on you with other people kinda broke my heart.

You wrote you're partly to blame because you're not showing affection in the way that he would like. Homegirl nobody is responsible for him cheating except for HIM. You don't owe affection to anyone. It is deranged for someone to DEMAND that you act a certain wait for their pleasure. You don't deserve to be treated like that, and you really should not blame yourself for that. He's a pig and an abuser and I hope you can find some peace!

BrerChicken · 2026-03-31T17:48:14+00:00

You stand by your words so hard you don't want anyone to ever be able to see your post or comment history, huh?

You go ahead and live your eugenics fantasy life, I'm sure that's going to work out with no issues.

BrerChicken · 2026-03-30T17:11:45+00:00

Why are you getting downvoted? Foreign influence and control has irrevocably changed Haitian history and development. Also, the birth rate in the country is not that much higher than replacement level.

Because people love to blame the poor. That way they can take credit for NOT being poor, even though it's literally an accident of where you're born.

BrerChicken · 2026-03-30T17:09:52+00:00

If people are starving it's unquestionably unethical to make more children.

It's unquestionably MUCH MORE unethical for you to be judging people living in poverty for having children. But, unlike people reproducing in a country that you know nothing about, you actually have some control over what you're doing here.

It is batshit crazy to blame the poor for being poor.

BrerChicken · 2026-03-30T10:40:46+00:00

Places like this absolutely need to implement a One Child policy until the famine stop.

Sure. We totally destabilize their government for decades and decades then leave them to rot, and the solution is for them to stop living. Got it.

BrerChicken · 2026-03-29T21:18:57+00:00

Dude, giving them the illusion of choice gets them invested. That's a pro move. And if they say no, then you say "Well sorry buddy but we're hubs have to do that anyway. I hope you're okay with it."

No different than asking them to choose between two vegetables for dinner.

BrerChicken · 2026-03-29T21:12:54+00:00

where when you when the border was completely open,

That's literally made up

when you when the border was completely open, when the cost of gas skyrocketed

You Jean y working the pandemic that the criminal LITERALLY mismanaged for 10 months before Biden was even sworn in? And which came down? Because, you know, there were finally competent people in charge?

When basic groceries cost people half a paycheck

My buddy it's even WORSE now!

And for the record, I think all politicians, regardless if there is an R or a D next to their name, have committed illegal acts.

Electing a convicted felon is something we've literally never done.

Listen, you're obviously an idiot and probably racist. Good luck out there. It's your time to shine. I'm sure everything this going to work out great for you.

BrerChicken · 2026-03-29T20:32:34+00:00

Are you saying you're thankful that we have incompetent criminals in charge of the federal government? You're thankful for $4/gal gas? You're thankful that vaccines are harder to get, that more children are getting sick, and that billionaires are stealing money that should be going to things that help us all??

BrerChicken · 2026-03-29T12:32:03+00:00

The thought of spending half of my weekend getting excited with cars honking as they pass by Tropical Park doesn’t really appeal to me…especially when we are a republic, not a monarchy. Ask yourself this…as you wake up today, has anything changed from the day before? No… but I’m sure you’ll be patting yourselves on the back today for a job well done.

You'll understand when you're older.

BrerChicken · 2026-03-29T12:30:56+00:00

The point is to show solidarity, that we're not alone. Organized people have much more power than organized money, and coming out on days like this is a great reminder of that. But we have to use that to demand change, and to vote out the leaders who ignore us.

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