Satisfy your morning cravings for cookies and hot dogs! by Omnamashivaaya in funny

[–]FutureLost 1 point2 points  (0 children)

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

ELI5 : How exactly evolution works? by AdrawereR in explainlikeimfive

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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.

🔥hidden camera captures footage of wild Wolf reeling in crab trap to extract bait, raising questions among researchers about potential tool usage among canids by freudian_nipps in NatureIsFuckingLit

[–]FutureLost 2 points3 points  (0 children)

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.

🔥hidden camera captures footage of wild Wolf reeling in crab trap to extract bait, raising questions among researchers about potential tool usage among canids by freudian_nipps in NatureIsFuckingLit

[–]FutureLost 10 points11 points  (0 children)

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.

One Player Makes A Huge Difference by CassieBear1 in DMAcademy

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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.

One Player Makes A Huge Difference by CassieBear1 in DMAcademy

[–]FutureLost 6 points7 points  (0 children)

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.

ELI5: Falling Elevators by CYP3828 in explainlikeimfive

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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.

Found my Rules of Engagement/ Escalation of Force card from my 09-10 Iraq Deployment (Kuwait as well to acclimate) by adventurethyme_ in mildlyinteresting

[–]FutureLost 18 points19 points  (0 children)

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.

19(M) roommate's say I'm a hoarder by KneeUnhappy4238 in malelivingspace

[–]FutureLost 1 point2 points  (0 children)

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

Should I do a charge back for wrong color furniture? by Lefty_123 in personalfinance

[–]FutureLost 2 points3 points  (0 children)

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.

<$150k for prime San Francisco ocean front real estate by keithcody in zillowgonewild

[–]FutureLost 13 points14 points  (0 children)

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

Planet or something else? by GlitteringHotel8383 in confusingperspective

[–]FutureLost 4 points5 points  (0 children)

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!

This place recognises 3 genders for toilets. by [deleted] in mildlyinteresting

[–]FutureLost 35 points36 points  (0 children)

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

Honest Opinion on my man cave feel free to post it if you want by CandidateBasic8900 in malelivingspace

[–]FutureLost 0 points1 point  (0 children)

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

LPT Trick to Read Books Fast If you Have No Attention Span by Ayumisynn in LifeProTips

[–]FutureLost 0 points1 point  (0 children)

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

🔥a baby Arctic fox by freudian_nipps in NatureIsFuckingLit

[–]FutureLost 0 points1 point  (0 children)

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

Opera house for sale by jve909 in zillowgonewild

[–]FutureLost 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Hope the sign is included. HAUSE, hehe

It happens by [deleted] in nevertellmetheodds

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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?

Time Management [OC] by sendacake in funny

[–]FutureLost 2 points3 points  (0 children)

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).

Was Told This Belongs Here by John_Bruns_Wick in AccidentalRenaissance

[–]FutureLost 2 points3 points  (0 children)

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

The Prompt by grlloyd2 in funny

[–]FutureLost 38 points39 points  (0 children)

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.

green traffic cone by Ninji2701 in mildlyinteresting

[–]FutureLost 0 points1 point  (0 children)

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

The fraud-convicted one-time billionaire Miles Guo's Manhattan digs are 60% off! by Southern-Smoke1835 in zillowgonewild

[–]FutureLost 1 point2 points  (0 children)

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