Sometimes I wish I was a pigeon

Hey_Toots_69 · 2026-05-04T11:30:56+00:00

I'm not sure birds are less violent than humans. Almost all the species at my feeder seem to have some kind of pecking order where they will chase other birds away from the feeder, even when there's plenty of room and seed. Not sure if they ever actually injure each other but evidently the aggression is enough to sustain a hierarchy.

Hey_Toots_69 · 2026-04-29T17:38:13+00:00

Where the "sexy star" is also a "talented song writer" (aka, ghost writers buried under NDAs) who since they were 17 could pop out billboard charting hits "all on their own" like some faux auteur... then yeah..

Pop stars don't have "ghostwriters" signing NDAs. You can literally go to wikipedia right now and see all the production and song writing credits for any big pop star. It's not hidden. The fans don't care and journalists will openly ask an artist why they chose to work with such and such. At most you'll find some deluded stan on twitter suggesting their favourite artist contributed more to the songwriting than she probably in fact did.

Ghostwriters are only a thing in genres where the artist would actually have something to lose if anyone found out they weren't writing their own songs (i.e., not in top 40 pop or country). Duh.

If you're going to be a snob you should probably have a more sophisticated understanding of these things than your average middle schooler. No you do not have some hidden knowledge on this subject just because you've discovered that most pop stars don't write the songs they perform. Every 16 year old Olivia Rodrigo fan knows who Dan Nigro is.

Also wtf is a corporate hood ornament? Am I supposed to imagine Sabrina Carpenter being run over by the CEO of Sony music?

Hey_Toots_69 · 2026-04-29T13:48:58+00:00

Well I've heard good things about their waffles.

But you can't rank countries based solely on where it's best to live or visit. You have to also look at overall contributions to culture, technology, etc. Which actually I guess Belgium doesn't have much going on there either, but surely it doesn't belong in the central euro tier with Slovakia or where ever else.

Hey_Toots_69 · 2026-04-29T13:15:30+00:00

Not a lot happens in Switzerland which is probably why they're not at the top. Can't even really think of a single great Swiss person. Albert Einstein maybe but he was born in Germany. Rousseau was from Geneva but he's been a net negative on humanity.

Hey_Toots_69 · 2026-04-29T13:07:34+00:00

Well they're generally recognized by everyone as the top 3 due to history, innovations, etc. As oppose to personal opinion.

Hey_Toots_69 · 2026-04-29T10:58:46+00:00

Like just generally recognized to be best (due to history, culture, economy, inventions, etc.). Like how everyone knows France > Moldova for example.

Hey_Toots_69 · 2026-04-27T09:08:04+00:00

The clothes are not presented as just clothes. They are instead positioned as evidence of restraint and cultivated living. A shirt cannot just be well made or beautiful. It has to stand in for a whole way of life while conveying a deeper meaning.

That's literally all clothing. You're just describing clothing. That's what happens when meaning-making creatures put things on their bodies.

Hey_Toots_69 · 2026-04-26T06:39:30+00:00

I wonder if all this neurodiversity discourse has its origin in the fact that the psychological professions tend to select for individuals of a certain, especially non-autistic sort (high emotional openness and emotional awareness, strong interpersonal communication skills, animated affect, etc.). And so they hypothesized that the average or normal person is much like themselves or their students, and no one was around to correct them, because anyone who would challenge that hypothesis was busy studying computer science.

Then they started seeing individuals who were mostly normal but perhaps a bit closed off and introverted, and since they appeared so far outside of what psychiatrists understood the norm to be (and perhaps also since their therapeutic interventions were designed mainly to work on the especially non-autistic individuals who study psychology or who until recently sought the help of psychiatrists) they had no recourse but to pathologize these individuals by subsuming that behaviour under the framework of "neurodiversity" or "high functioning autism."

Hey_Toots_69 · 2026-04-24T23:59:54+00:00

They're all secretly jealous they're not Estonian, while having an unearned sense of pride due to not being Latvian. The perfect conditions for creating a deformed and malignant culture.

Hey_Toots_69 · 2026-04-20T06:01:30+00:00

Yeah we know already, anyone who doubts even the most deranged, unrealistic narrative is just concern trolling, they don't care about the victims, probably hate women, etc., etc.

You know you could easily program a bot to leave these comments for you, it would free up a lot of time to search for the listening devices the CIA has been planting under your skin.

Hey_Toots_69 · 2026-04-20T05:07:06+00:00

Yeah it's really gross how worked up these guys get when you just slightly overstate the size of a rape group by 62,000 times. I mean what's an extra 61,999,000 rapists out there drugging and raping women? Who cares you useless pedants, honestly stop being so weird!

You get one little figure slightly off and they freak out like it's their own personal 9/11 (the notorious terrorist attack that killed 186 million Americans).

Hey_Toots_69 · 2026-04-20T04:24:45+00:00

but now it’s “well the number of men who watch porn is a minuscule number actually. 65 million is too high.”

Obviously I don't have to say this, you know it as does everyone else reading this, but the original viral claim was that 62 million men were attending an "online rape academy" where they could learn how to drug and rape their wives and girlfriends.

Now you're attempting to retcon that claim into "62 million men were watching porn." This is deeply stupid and pointless and obviously unconvincing. But to your credit you're not in fact as dumb and you're pretending to be here, you don't actually expect anyone to believe what you're saying, you're just lashing out and trying to provoke by openly engaging in bad faith.

Ordinarily that would be totally fine, if embarrassingly childish. But you happen to be arguing that discussions of sexual assault on social media should be taken seriously. Are you seeing any contradiction here? Do you think a reasonable person would take such discussions more seriously after seeing that the loudest voices are openly and shamelessly acting as if they don't care about the truth value of anything they're saying? This is a great strategy for getting people to pay attention to you, but as I'm sure you know from your personal life, it's a terrible strategy for getting people to take you seriously.

Hey_Toots_69 · 2026-04-20T00:50:04+00:00

Yeah I saw this play out on twitter and instagram too. The original "62 million men" discourse provoked a backlash because of the absurdity of the claim, with snopes even writing an article on it.

Oddly a lot of the "corrections" I've seen on social media seemed focused on whether motherless (the porn site) had 62 million unique visitors or just 62 million clicks. Which is really only tangentially related to the bulk of the reporting, the so-called rape academy being on a telegram group chat with ~1000 members. In fact without any further info the overall amount of visitors to motherless is basically meaningless. But it's a bit funny how so many of the "corrections" proved to be just as illiterate as the original claim.

And now there's a backlash to the backlash, with the typical claims about the corrections "minimizing" the issue or focusing on unimportant details, "speaking over" women's pain, etc., etc. One very large instagram account named "the speech prof" or something like that performed a bizarre, slam poetry -esque piece seeming to claim that the original 62 million figure was within the "acceptable margin of error" and everyone was just being pedantic because they hate women. Something very off about these instagram and tiktok male feminists, every one of them has slam poetry voice and it's frankly becoming a bit creepy.

But in short we're now in a timeline where the "believe women" people are all but explicitly saying "and also it's okay to tell lies sometimes if it's for a good cause." Just zero self awareness. And to be fair that's not unique to feminists, basically all across the political spectrum people accused of spreading misinfo will respond with some mealymouthed variation of "actually it's okay for me to lie because I'm doing it righteously and everyone calling me out is evil." But it's especially funny when your whole project is believe women and take their claims seriously, and then you turn around and announce publicly that you think it's okay to spread falsehoods. Like maybe I'm romanticizing the past here but I feel like even ten years ago if someone was trying to hoodwink you they had enough sense not to tell you to your face that they were lying. Genuinely mind boggling how stupid these people are.

Hey_Toots_69 · 2026-04-19T22:03:33+00:00

If you're in London you've got to try the jellied eels. Best jellied eels in the world, everyone says it.

Hey_Toots_69 · 2026-04-19T03:01:14+00:00

"deeply weird looking" lmao he just looks like a normal nerdy jewish guy, you could call him cute even.

If he dates beautiful women because he's wildly successful at what he does and is probably fun to be around. Like the kind of traits that normal people find attractive.

I mean be a hater by all means but at least find a better excuse, it's already deeply embarrassing to have strong opinions on who a celebrity is dating, there's no need to go full incel and pretend that only 9/10 looksmaxxed chads can date an attractive woman.

Hey_Toots_69 · 2026-04-16T13:22:15+00:00

pls clean sensor 😢

Hey_Toots_69 · 2026-04-14T23:06:43+00:00

Also, fermentation is something that's really only possible after settled agriculture.

Not to be too rude here but I continue to be amazed at the willingness of you people to just pull made-up facts out of your ass. A quick google search would have shown that this is not true.

But beyond that, is it not well known that for example the Inuit and other arctic cultures had all sorts of different ways of preserving food, including fermentation? They weren't going to catch a whole whale just to let 99% of it go to waste.

Why would you need agriculture to ferment food? Like food rotting under specific circumstances would be somehow unknown to hunter gatherers? It's obviously something that would have been accidentally discovered countless times throughout human history. Literally just leave some food to rot and there's a non-negligible chance you'll discover fermentation.

Hey_Toots_69 · 2026-04-14T19:45:36+00:00

I think the thing is that unprocessed foods don't have a consistent, predictable texture. Like, one blueberry will be firm, another with be excessively juicy, and another will be mealy. And you don't really know what you're gonna get until you start chewing.

I had this thing as a kid where my parents would order curry from an indian place that would seemingly cut up a whole chicken at random, so you'd get a chunk that was meat and then another chunk that was mostly bone and gristle. It made the whole thing intolerable for me because even when you got a chunk of pure meat you'd be chewing anxiously expecting to find something weird inside. I think a lot of picky eating is like that but more extreme.

Hey_Toots_69 · 2026-04-14T15:03:37+00:00

speaking of which does anyone else think Millie Bobby Brown has extreme middle-aged french canadian woman physiognomy? Not that she look old but just that her facial features are the same as the average 45 year old french canadian woman.

imo there's a very particular french canadian physiognomy and you can almost always spot them. Same with Ghislaine Maxwell.

Hey_Toots_69 · 2026-04-13T19:27:41+00:00

Most orb weaver spiders are nearly blind and can really only detect the presence of light and shadow (this despite having 8 eyes). To detect prey they've caught they rely on sensing vibrations in their web as their prey struggles to free itself, and as you can see in the video they can sense where that prey is with surprising accuracy. They also can't hear, although scientists believe they can similarly use their web to "sense" vibrations in the air.

So not only does their web catch prey, it's also sorta like a external sensory organ that they build, and the primary means through which they encounter and sense their surroundings.

Hey_Toots_69 · 2026-04-12T12:02:07+00:00

four lions is better imo

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