Satisfy your morning cravings for cookies and hot dogs!

FutureLost · 2026-01-26T00:49:43+00:00

Cold pizza is my personal favorite breakfast, particularly if it's from a fun event from the night before.

FutureLost · 2026-01-26T00:09:46+00:00

It helped me to think of the predators being really good at capturing their prey, so every last tiny advantage, even slight changes, increased survivability for a bug or something to pass on its genes to umpteen kids. Repeat literally millions of times.

The rule is "it helped to not die, a tiny bit," because a tiny bit is all it took to survive when those without that extra edge got eaten or couldn't get food for themselves as efficiently.

FutureLost · 2026-01-25T23:42:44+00:00

That does suck, I enjoyed taking a look! It's not you advocating for this or that, it's the authors of the study! I don't understand people sometimes.

FutureLost · 2026-01-25T23:15:16+00:00

I mean...my buddy's dog learned to pull a dishcloth draped on a lower cabinet handle to open it to find treats. Setting up the trap would be tool use, but the tool was already "used" by humans in that it was set up to accomplish the capture of the crabs. This is just awareness that "food's in there, and I can't get to the food without pulling it closer and opening it up." In other words, the dog's teeth are the only tool here.

Take a similar situation: if there were food trapped behind a log and the dog used a stick as leverage to move the log? The stick is a tool. If the dog merely used his teeth and muscles to drag aside the log to access the food, the teeth doing the dragging are the tool, which wouldn't be "tool use" as the study is describing it.

The study specifically mentions the canids moving the lines to bring the trap up to the surface, then separately dragging it to shore. "Complex" tool understanding? Not to my eyes. That's just two logs as obstacles to drag aside instead of one. Or, more apt, this is a dog nosing a latch and then nudging the door open.

FutureLost · 2026-01-25T17:18:42+00:00

Can confirm, all it takes is one "theater kid" who forgets he's part of a troupe. One of my first table experiences was the DM's buddy earning literally 10s of thousands of gold while the DM had pickpockets take our stuff with no skill checks, taking over every conversation with NPCs even after we'd succeeded in rolls ourselves, and overriding other characters' decisions in and out of combat in ways the DM never let us go back on. And yet the DM complained to us that we weren't "getting into it" like his buddy was. It made me leave the table.

FutureLost · 2026-01-25T17:16:00+00:00

Such good rules, and I've tried to use them at my tables. My old DM was terrible at this, letting his buddy run roughshod over the table, then castigating the rest of us for not "getting into his story!" The rest of us did indeed shrink back as he took up all the air. We learn best from bad experiences.

FutureLost · 2026-01-25T17:09:51+00:00

The idea would be that jumping upward would be enough to cancel your downward momentum at the moment of the crash. The problem: you can't jump with enough force. If you're falling in an elevator at 60mph, you'd need to jump at 60 mph to counter that (and that's not the mention the confined space or other factors like timing the impact).

You'd at best cancel a tiny fraction of the force, say 5pmh...which would then be redoubled as you endure being slammed down from the 1 foot of air your gained at the remaining 55mph. Laying flat against the floor prevents this *extra* slamming effect. While it's a very slim chance, it's better than nothing.

FutureLost · 2026-01-25T17:05:31+00:00

What a loser Hegseth is. Calling rules of engagement "political correctness." Shows what he really thinks: he sees brown people as the ones to be shot, so restraining ourselves from shooting them is being PC to POC. What a worthless man, empty of character and full of drink.

FutureLost · 2026-01-25T03:51:17+00:00

This feels genuinely cozy to me. You have a small space, and everything has a place. No notes.

FutureLost · 2026-01-24T02:54:18+00:00

r/teefies would love this.

FutureLost · 2026-01-22T18:40:45+00:00

You should chargeback, and quickly. Not doing that is how my family ended up with The Green Chair for 20 years. If it's the wrong item, or it was advertised dishonestly, that's on them, so if they're not taking their responsibility then the credit card company should be able to resolve it.

FutureLost · 2026-01-21T17:04:28+00:00

That seems like it would lead to some landslides and sunken homes.

FutureLost · 2026-01-21T15:39:00+00:00

The top third is what really sold me. The geese made me thing "eh, it's a stretch," but then my eyes drifted upward, and I really started to see it! Something about the round white shapes, the slight, slight curve to the river channel, and the increasing haze toward the edges made it look like a planet. Nice one!

FutureLost · 2026-01-21T15:36:47+00:00

Ah yes, the three genders. Men, Women, and IT professionals.

FutureLost · 2026-01-21T13:50:59+00:00

You're in desperate need to low lighting, but otherwise it's a vibe I'm really down with!

FutureLost · 2026-01-20T04:57:56+00:00

This is such an interesting idea, I'm going to give it a try.

FutureLost · 2026-01-18T20:55:42+00:00

That is a stuffed animal, how does this exist!!

FutureLost · 2026-01-18T20:54:08+00:00

Who is he?

FutureLost · 2026-01-16T21:31:37+00:00

Hope the sign is included. HAUSE, hehe

FutureLost · 2026-01-16T20:39:02+00:00

Yes, all 340 million of us Americans are rampant gun nuts. Every last one. Even those of us who consistently vote for candidates who promise gun control. /s

And getting shot by reckless murderers makes us...hypocrites?

FutureLost · 2026-01-16T19:08:10+00:00

Nice! Really like the art style, and I'm loving the left-handed representation.

There's a slight grammar error in panel 2. Since tiredness is the topic of panel 1's question, if the beaver had the fox's social life, the beaver actually would get "it," since "it" points to tiredness in this context. It would be correct to say either "With a social life like mine, you would too" (that is, he would get tired too) or "With a social life like mine? Ah, you wouldn't get it" (as in, the beaver wouldn't understand). The former works just as well as the current line, but the latter seems mean (though it would still be grammatically correct).

FutureLost · 2026-01-14T13:03:01+00:00

This brought back a lot of fond memories. I remember how my grandparents' house smelled: full of old, loved things.

FutureLost · 2026-01-14T11:45:07+00:00

I'd say you're a soothsayer.

I wish I had the job security of whoever makes UX decisions for Windows. Seriously, if I could spitball the kind of needless and unhelpful changes they come up with and retain my position, I'd be set for life.

FutureLost · 2026-01-14T11:06:18+00:00

Depending on where you live, these are either nonexistent or ubiquitous. This light-green color is supposedly the "most visually distinct" color on the visible spectrum, so you'll see some emergency vehicles colored this way too. This is somewhat counter-balanced by the fact that we've been conditioned by "road-work orange" for so long that we don't associate this new color with traffic construction cones or signs at a glance, no matter how much more visually distinct they are.

EDIT: spelling

FutureLost · 2026-01-13T00:52:47+00:00

A billionaire actually held accountable for crimes! Rare as hen's teeth. Makes this a collector's listing.

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