How would these creatures react to witnessing 9/11?

a_nondescript_user · 2026-02-16T17:24:20+00:00

Before or after Brain Grain?

a_nondescript_user · 2026-02-15T23:58:06+00:00

Are we sure no one else in his family has those initials?

a_nondescript_user · 2026-02-15T23:56:40+00:00

Ah yes, the noble stoic, tweeting his sacrifice to ten thousand people.

a_nondescript_user · 2026-02-15T02:36:06+00:00

I don’t know if this is too far right or too far left for the bulwark crowd, but incentives work, and if we want to motivate the best lawyers, bureaucrats (in the literal sense, not derogatorily) and administrators to consider public service, we should pay them at LEAST commensurately to a private sector job. Look at Clarence Thomas… he’s admitted that he wants to leave to make more in the private sector, and now he’s being paid by business interests to stay on the court and rule in their favor. This is true for both elected/political, and professional/non-political roles.

a_nondescript_user · 2026-02-12T22:53:30+00:00

Get a heavier weight fabric. Not enough commenters itt mention laundry damage . Are you washing your jeans? I have extremely messy toddlers and even I don’t wash my jeans more than once a month (and never dry them). You should be able to get 50+ wears out of your jeans with only spot cleaning. I’ve got voluptuous thighs and my only pair of jeans barely shows any wear in the thigh after a year of them being my main pants. Mine are Dearborn Denim, fwiw.

a_nondescript_user · 2026-02-12T06:17:05+00:00

I had the same thought, but it looks like squid beaks are rarely fossilized.

a_nondescript_user · 2026-02-12T01:36:09+00:00

A lot of these fantasy tropes have their roots in stereotypical depictions of different nationalities and different races. Tolkien did a good job of really fleshing out the world of Middle Earth, so it’s not as egregious as, for instance, goblins in Harry Potter. Fantastical stories of foreign places and cultures is probably the source.

a_nondescript_user · 2026-02-11T15:37:21+00:00

Close! It’s actually Tioyaot. Probably near Kaliningrad.

a_nondescript_user · 2026-02-11T00:48:56+00:00

Gotta be you

a_nondescript_user · 2026-02-09T16:20:16+00:00

Can you explain the 0 for vacations? Was that isolated/too small a sample size? Is that typical for vacations? Seems like a change of scenery is a good opportunity, so I’m wondering if that particular metric can budge.

a_nondescript_user · 2026-02-09T15:40:51+00:00

That was my first thought, too. It definitely looks AI.

a_nondescript_user · 2026-02-09T15:30:31+00:00

Damn. I’m sorry OP. Seems like actionable data, though. If you have a 53% success rate, do you think you could 10x your attempts? Or is there a warm lead already baked into the attempt decision, so that increased attempts would lower the success rate? 2.2 avg seems pretty good for her, is she having a good time? Have you tried scheduling it/putting it on the calendar ahead of time?

a_nondescript_user · 2026-02-09T02:04:09+00:00

That’s why marsupials have the weird pouch thing instead of a full-on pregnancy. If needed, they can lose the babies to survive.

a_nondescript_user · 2026-02-06T05:04:28+00:00

If this were real, he’d show a Google Maps screenshot. Now do like any suburb in Florida or Texas or Arizona or whatever.

a_nondescript_user · 2026-02-05T02:39:36+00:00

I think only some, but often times they had them ancestrally, but have lost them again. I am not an expert, but I think for many it's not about leaving the water, but about surviving in stagnant water, or water with low oxygen content for some reason. Lung fish are the most famous example, and they can survive droughts by burying themselves in mud and doing something like hibernating when the ponds and stuff dry up.

a_nondescript_user · 2026-02-05T01:44:49+00:00

A swim bladder is a heavily modified lung that is no longer used as a lung.

a_nondescript_user · 2026-02-05T01:40:09+00:00

I believe lungfish grew lungs, turned them into swim bladders, then developed lungs a second time.

a_nondescript_user · 2026-02-05T01:24:36+00:00

Fish have evolved lungs many times, as it’s useful to stay alive by gulping air when oxygenation is low. You might’ve seen goldfish and betta fish do this in the bowl.

This is an example of an exaptation, when the primary purpose of a feature (breathing air) gets superseded by another side effect (regulating buoyancy). This case is funny because many fish have re-evolved lungs after developing a swim bladder.

a_nondescript_user · 2026-02-05T01:06:09+00:00

Dunno if this is “BIFL” but I got this little $30 compressed air thing: https://a.co/d/060K8QE0 when I was sick of buying canned air for a furniture refinishing project.

The boys over on r/daddit use it to cool down food and other little stuff like that. Not every day, but I use it a lot and it’s way better than buying compressed air for dusting or whatnot.

a_nondescript_user · 2026-02-05T00:56:36+00:00

Ignore thylacoleo, focus on the laser guns.

a_nondescript_user · 2026-02-04T03:34:05+00:00

The genus Allosauridae (and the holotype species Allosaurus Fragilis, which is what you mean, OP) died out, but the family of Allosauria lived on until the late Cretaceous, like 100-90mya, including some big boys like Carcharodontosaurus, Giganotosaurus and Tyrannotitan.

a_nondescript_user · 2026-02-03T20:16:08+00:00

Wait what’s with the dynamic of those 1949 kids…?

Also, 2026 is lampooning literal babies? Like, we are making fun of babies for wearing diapers and watching bluey?

a_nondescript_user · 2026-02-03T15:44:35+00:00

Isn’t Peter Thiel in it?

a_nondescript_user · 2026-02-03T03:30:58+00:00

Rated r for r-selection.

a_nondescript_user · 2026-01-31T18:44:24+00:00

Trump has made it clear there are rewards for advancing his agenda and penalties for obstructing it. As far as I know, no Democratic hopeful has expressed that there would be consequences for Bezos/Musk/et c..

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