Honestly was just the first example I could come up with, but the fact remains that a lot of things do consider ants to be harmless because they aren’t, like, hunting those things. Especially other small arthropods.
I’m sure there are some hunting ant species (like the 200 army ant species), but most of them aren’t.
Consider: the goal isn’t for predators to be fooled, but prey.
Lots of things consider ants totally harmless, like aphids that gets farmed and stuff. Perhaps it’s an adaptation to throw those things off.
Arthropods, man. They have two ideals and everything goes toward them.
When I was working on my degree (science communication; half science, half linguistics and communications courses), I had the choice between making it a B.S. or B.A.
I went for a B.S. Guess I chose wrong. I figured it was all BS anyway…
This is the second reference to elbows I’ve seen related to this topic, and I really don’t understand. Would you mind providing context?
I use “my mother” for the same effect, but she died when I was in my early 20s.
I sometimes wonder if we could have made things work, or if I could have figured out stuff for both of us (we know I had adhd from my dad, but I’m pretty sure the autism came from her, and that was a post-death discovery)
But then I remember how hard she was to live with and that I probably wouldn’t have grown the way I did… so maybe I wouldn’t even know I’m autistic at ~40…? Idk, I wouldn’t be who I am today if she was still around though, that’s a certainty.
She never wanted kids. When I was 16 she told me all about how my sister was the product of marital rape and I was the planned companion for the rape baby she didn’t want… cool… my life in context.
Well my sister fucking hates me and always has (because she was the golden child, first born to a woman in her 30s, hallelujah!), so that worked super well. We haven’t spoken in almost 20 years now, my sister and I. Born 11 months apart. Wish she’d just had an only child, tbh.
I got one good thing from her though: perspective. She clearly didn’t want kids and I know how that turned out when she had them, and I also don’t want kids, so whenever anyone pushed back on my choice to get my tubes tied in my mid 20s, I was like nope. “What if I regret not having them? Fine I regret lots of things I’ve chosen to do or not do, but what if I’m like my mom and regret having them? There’s no solution to that… And I know how it turns out…”
I assume you are on android? I believe voyager is available on android, and I can see the gif in it at least on iOS.
They are also testing piefed support, I’m on a test flight version for that now, so that’s pretty swanky.
I just had this experience again with one of the obnoxious moe communities. NSFW/porn-adjacent stuff is most of what I have blocked because I don’t like it. I don’t want questionable pseudo-porn in my feed at all, and it’s really hard to avoid (though real porn was easy enough to block).
I had them all blocked, but a new one got rolled up (I assume that dude keeps rolling them up to get around the plethora of blocks those communities have) and I hadn’t encountered it yet. It shared a gross post I’d otherwise never have had the displeasure of seeing.
Perhaps a toggle setting to either block those cross posts or not, so people who are trying to block the content can, while those trying to block the places but not the content can also do that.
Honestly that caught me too.
I’d have to guess his family suspected/knew he was a piece of shit and wanted proof. Maybe he was also abusive? I don’t imagine someone like that would be like… super kind otherwise, you know?
You also can’t ride the cart through the parking lot if you park too close. Then you just look silly kicking it up to speed for just a short ride.
(I’m almost 40 and still do this every time I have to go shopping, like a reward for completing the draining task)
Does baby oil not take everything off anymore?
This is a legit question; I have not worn makeup since 2000 or so so I’m outdated on makeup tech, but baby oil was good enough to remove everything without being painful, I assume it’s bad for your eyes in some way, or something like that…
Marching lockstep is something that takes years to stop doing after getting out, though. Band kids have a similar problem. And even then you catch it sometimes, a desire to do it…
It bothers you for years when you walk hand in hand with your partner. Because you can’t hold hands and walk lockstep… you have to perfectly time the opposite step, so you can perfectly hold their hand.
It only takes one refresher, and you go back to it.
If it helps, doctor who isn’t sci-fi, it’s “sci-fantasy”. None of the tech is ever explained in any way other than sort of the sonic screwdriver, kinda sorta, it just works or doesn’t based on what the show needs.
There’s some vague sci-fi elements to it, but overall it’s pure fantasy. So if that’s not what you are looking for, totally understandable that it wouldn’t be your bag.
I’m a huge fan of shows that just have a title splash screen and play the intro credits unobtrusively over the first 1/3 of the show.
I always skip intros, if I can, mostly because I binge stuff and those intros can be minutes long, serving absolutely no purpose. I especially hate when they are 10+ minutes into the episode, and I have to wake my keyboard up to skip them.
Lactose intolerance is rough.
If they wanted me to do the main story first they wouldn’t have made side quests and collectibles to pad out the play time immediately available.
This has backfired big time from time to time, for example horizon forbidden west, all that side shit is much easier if you actually do most of the main story asap…
But typically it just means the end boss is easier and that’s ok.
I don’t know this company but fiber came into my area (central WI) a few years ago and I couldn’t be happier.
Prior to that the infrastructure I was on for cable internet was old and would have frequent problems.
The brand new infrastructure is figuratively worth its weight in gold, imho, even if the company itself is just as crap and your price ends up the same.
Even better, the fiber cables run underground, so other than having them severed when digging, they won’t go out unless there is a major widespread outage. No random branch taking out your service in a wind storm or whatever nonsense.
Excellent, thanks for the feedback, I’ll give it a go :)
Awesome thanks, I’ll do that.
I’m not really into vampire stuff but it came up when looking for comedy type stuff (because sci-fi has gotten overall quite depressing and I need something that isn’t), so I nabbed it and there it sits.
But I’ll give it a shot with the movie at least. :)
That gave me a good chortle. Thanks for making my dumb thought funnier 😊