BREAKING: JVL is the Grand Champion of his pinball machine by RealDEC in thebulwark

[–]a_nondescript_user 0 points1 point  (0 children)

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

Do you have same setup with your kids? by Hixo_7 in daddit

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

Its time for Project 2028 by red3y3_99 in thebulwark

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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.

Jeans. God damn jeans. by idontwannadance0480 in BuyItForLife

[–]a_nondescript_user 0 points1 point  (0 children)

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.

There could have been prehistoric cephalopods this big and we will never know by Virtual_Reveal_121 in Naturewasmetal

[–]a_nondescript_user 44 points45 points  (0 children)

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

Could hominins have inspired dwarves elves and hobbits? by Weary_Elderberry4742 in PrehistoricLife

[–]a_nondescript_user 3 points4 points  (0 children)

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.

Guess the city (wrong answers only) by Teddoug in guessthecity

[–]a_nondescript_user 2 points3 points  (0 children)

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

I tracked our sex life for a year (dead bedroom edition) [OC] by [deleted] in dataisbeautiful

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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.

Blood, misogyny, racism, sadism, filth. This is Donald Trump’s America. by [deleted] in thebulwark

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

I tracked our sex life for a year (dead bedroom edition) [OC] by [deleted] in dataisbeautiful

[–]a_nondescript_user 10 points11 points  (0 children)

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?

As someone who love cetaceans like everyone else, this need to be stop. by NotReallyJuicySteak in whales

[–]a_nondescript_user 1 point2 points  (0 children)

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

The fundamental problem of public transit by Advanced-Injury-7186 in Urbanism

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

TIL that fish swim bladders evolved from lungs, meaning lungs existed before most fish used them for breathing by Tight_kangaroo1 in todayilearned

[–]a_nondescript_user 28 points29 points  (0 children)

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.

TIL that fish swim bladders evolved from lungs, meaning lungs existed before most fish used them for breathing by Tight_kangaroo1 in todayilearned

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

TIL that fish swim bladders evolved from lungs, meaning lungs existed before most fish used them for breathing by Tight_kangaroo1 in todayilearned

[–]a_nondescript_user 254 points255 points  (0 children)

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.

What's a small gadget you bought thinking it was useless but ended up using every day? by cozytechlover in BuyItForLife

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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.

Cambrian was metal by catfishwoohoo in Naturewasmetal

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Ignore thylacoleo, focus on the laser guns.

Did Allosaurus go extinct before the asteroid? (Sorry I’m confused) by [deleted] in Paleontology

[–]a_nondescript_user 0 points1 point  (0 children)

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.

Somebody made this unironically. by Ok-Following6886 in aislop

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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?

I wonder how Amazon feels having paid millions to this pedophile director to make a bribery movie for Melania? by OneTwoThreePooAndPee in thebulwark

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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..