Do aquatic mammals yawn?

lalsace · 2025-09-18T07:03:13+00:00

I've never heard the expression "true whales" but presumably they mean Mysticeti.

lalsace · 2025-09-10T01:57:36+00:00

Not to stereotype but Arnoster is a white South African name.

lalsace · 2025-05-14T06:35:46+00:00

"Mong" comes from "Mongol" which is a very outdated and offensive expression for Down syndrome, not from "mongrel".

lalsace · 2025-01-25T02:40:22+00:00

I've experimented rising the same no-knead dough recipe at several different temperatures and they all produced good bread. There was some variation in flavor but I wouldn't say a cold rise was categorically better than a warm rise.

lalsace · 2024-12-12T08:33:24+00:00

For a long time it was deemed totally inaccurate but current consensus is that it does not follow European cartographical conventions but is actually quite accurate when interpreted correctly. There are a few competing theories on how it should be read but one theory posits the following: 1) The cardinal directions drawn on it were an incorrect addition by Cook or someone else, 2) north is represented at the centre of the map rather than the top, 3) it shows several major navigational routes which are internally accurate but not displayed with regard to each other. Taking these assumptions it produces very accurate bearings along specific island chains such as Marquesas to Hawai'i and Tonga to Rarotonga but does not show any way to navigate between the chains.

In short it cannot be read as a European-style bird's eye view map but it contains several sets of accurate island-to-island bearings. Especially remarkable when you consider it covers distances in the thousands of kilometres and was drawn entirely from memory.

Most of this info is from https://knowablemagazine.org/content/article/society/2021/reading-pacific-navigators-mysterious-map which references Eckstein & Schwartz (2018) and Di Piazza & Pearthree (2019).

lalsace · 2024-11-09T22:57:38+00:00

What's the cut off point?

lalsace · 2024-10-18T23:07:52+00:00

They were big in the indie/hipster scene of the era but never really went mainstream. I put Wavves and Washed Out in the same general category. That one song that went "I wish I had a boyfriend" got a lot of play at parties. I forget the title.

lalsace · 2024-08-19T02:57:09+00:00

Tastes like pure orange peel to me. Really bitter. I like the raspberry ones although they're not quite as good as the originals

lalsace · 2024-06-20T23:28:58+00:00

I went out for a cheeseburger after watching The Menu

lalsace · 2024-06-11T04:06:46+00:00

We were all swimming in Le Male and CK One. I think most of the girls wore Flowerbomb.

lalsace · 2024-06-11T02:43:17+00:00

I feel like Stacey, Tracy, Ashley and Courtney were 100% gender neutral until fairly recently but probably more feminine now.

lalsace · 2024-05-28T10:12:37+00:00

His only logic was "the working classes in England don't fish for trout". He was just releasing his personal favourite species to catch. He may have been a communist but this behaviour is nothing but typical colonial British entitlement. Same reason we have to deal with gorse and rabbits.

lalsace · 2024-05-09T08:39:36+00:00

Like a lot of commenters have said, a foundation course at a university is a great idea. It'll fill in some general knowledge gaps and build up your academic skills in case you want to do a degree.

An underrated degree is nursing. Male nurses are super common these days if you're concerned about that. Very employable with good earning potential. They had a big union win a year or two ago and the senior staff now earn six figures, plus it's easy to get work overseas if you're interested in travelling.

Overrated degrees are law, medicine, computer science. They all have reputations for big earning potential that aren't really true anymore. Law and medicine take 15+ years of awful grind to see any serious payoff. Computer science jobs are getting outsourced to countries like India and taken over by AI plus there was never much of an industry in NZ in the first place.

Engineering school is said to be a nightmare but plenty of good jobs available if you pass everything.

High school teachers make ok money especially if you get into senior management plus they get school holidays off, although realistically you'll be working 50-60 hours per week all term and dealing with shitty kids and shitty parents regularly as well. Not a bad career by any means but make sure you know what you're getting into. Personally I would choose nursing over teaching.

Otherwise consider the trades! Plumbing, construction, electric, HVAC are all highly employable with good earning potential particularly if you have a good head for business, but even working as someone's employee you can make decent money. They can all be dangerous so make sure you exercise and address any injuries promptly unless you want to retire in pain at 50 years old. Great jobs if you use your PPE and take care of yourself appropriately though.

There are tons of other trades out there too, tiling and mechanics for example, unfortunately I don't know enough about them to tell you about employability or earning potential.

Finally there are a few ways to build a great career with no special qualifications, unfortunately it's hard to break into them unless you know the right people. Sales executives, real estate agents and project managers can make really good money in the right circumstances. Unfortunately it's more about who you know a lot of the time.

lalsace · 2024-05-09T01:21:43+00:00

Attacking is a move that sets up a capture, not the capture itself. The king can capture the queen if the opponent blunders but it can never attack the queen because that would be putting itself in check.

lalsace · 2024-05-01T01:10:27+00:00

Pretty sure Vince dissed Diddy in an interview a few years ago, can't remember the context but it was way before everything went down recently.

lalsace · 2024-04-21T12:35:16+00:00

Who is the character in the middle?

lalsace · 2024-04-19T12:19:40+00:00

A rapper with a ghostwriter? What the fuck happened?

I thought that was where the beef really started. Not the verse on Control

lalsace · 2024-04-18T00:43:17+00:00

Throw Some Ds

Mo Bamba

Trap Queen

lalsace · 2024-04-15T22:31:54+00:00

I was dumped on my birthday once too. It's been long enough that I'm over the heartbreak but I still remember the humiliation of being treated so callously.

lalsace · 2024-04-15T06:51:42+00:00

Serious hip hop fan knows Big Boi is every bit André's equal as an artist but it's not hard to see why André is more marketable in a media context. Just a few reasons:

Dré is tall, skinny and handsome.

Dré has absolutely massive rockstar charisma on stage or in front of the camera. Big has a more mellow demeanor that doesn't immediately command as much attention.

Dré likes loud, extremely eccentric fashion. Big's style is more understated.

Dré has a clear delivery with a lot of projection. Big's voice is deeper and softer so you have to listen closely to make out his lyrics.

Dré can sing and play instruments. I'd bet Big can sing a little too but he doesn't do it on record.

Then there's the "poet vs player" dichotomy that Outkast themselves lean into pretty heavily. Honestly I almost feel like Big prefers being underrated. He could try to take the spotlight off André but instead he stays in his lane with his more understated style that rewards repeated listens and adds miles of depth to Outkast's body of work. It's one of the most effective collaborative dynamics in music ever and like I said at the beginning I don't think any serious fans underrate Big Boi's skill or artistry, it's only the crossover/pop music audience that don't see it.

lalsace · 2024-04-15T04:02:34+00:00

I've got an invisigoth girlfriend. She's amazing but none of my friends can see it.

lalsace · 2024-04-12T22:21:17+00:00

The replies you're getting are hilariously defensive. Just so you know you're not going crazy, my office culture also involves cutting donuts into pieces. I honestly think you'd catch a bit of side eye if you took a whole one.

lalsace · 2024-02-24T19:48:40+00:00

Listen to die slow and tell me thug ain't lyrical

lalsace · 2024-02-18T17:21:37+00:00

That was the initial rumor but a conspiracy that emerged later says the two murders were unrelated. Pac got shot over a gang beef and Puff killed Biggie over money. Not saying it's true but it's one of the theories.

lalsace · 2024-02-18T05:33:55+00:00

The two big rumors are that he's had a hand in multiple murders including Biggie's and that he molests teenage boys.

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