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Kent. 31. (he/they) Regrets are for horseshoes and handbags

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[teabree-shark]

You may think these are all overwhelming wins, but if you started with 100 people, there would only be 66 left at this point. And since they only ever ask once for "Yes," you rapidly get diminishing remainders.

They are a corporation. They have time and money that none of us individually do. They can wait out 10, 20, 700 attempts at asking. The only way to win this is to either always have everybody answer no, or stop rewarding companies that blatantly don't care about consent at all.

No permanent negative option means they understand, and refuse to practice, consent.

See you in three days.

[starshipheartofg-erti]

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shout out to everyone who participated in the january-february mass depressive episode

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Thank you everyone for another great turnout to the january-february mass depressive episode

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[slitherpunk]

is it even ethical to flavor blast a goldfish

[galahadwilder]

A sudden, terrifying thought

When you see an animal with its eyes set to the front, like wolves, or humans, that’s usually a predator animal.

If you see an animal with its eyes set farther back, though—to the side—that animal is prey.

Now look at this dragon.

See those eyes?

They’re to the SIDE.

This raises an interesting—and terrifying—question.

What in the name of Lovecraft led evolution to consider DRAGONS…

As PREY?

[dorito-and-pinetree]

I know this isn’t part of my blogs theme but like this is interesting

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[kappagecko]

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[perfectlygenericblog]

The eyes-in-the-front thing (usually) only applies to mammals. Crocodiles, arguably the inspiration for dragons, have eyes that look to the sides despite being a predator.

[pyrrhiccomedy]

hey what up I’m about to be That Asshole

This isn’t a mammalian thing. When people talk about ‘eyes on the front’ or ‘eyes on the side,’ they’re really talking about binocular vision vs monocular vision. Binocular vision is more advantageous for predators because it’s what gives you depth perception; i.e, the distance you need to leap, lunge, or swipe to take out the fast-moving thing in front of you. Any animal that can position its eyes in a way that it has overlapping fields of vision has binocular vision. That includes a lot of predatory reptiles, including komodo dragons, monitor lizards, and chameleons.

(The eyes-in-front = predator / eyes-on-sides = prey thing holds true far more regularly for birds than it does for mammals. Consider owls, hawks, and falcons vs parrots, sparrows, and doves.)

But it’s not like binocular vision is inherently “better” than monocular vision. It’s a trade-off: you get better at leap-strike-kill, but your field of vision is commensurately restricted, meaning you see less stuff. Sometimes, the evolutionary benefit of binocular vision just doesn’t outweigh the benefit of seeing the other guy coming. Very few forms of aquatic life have binocular vision unless they have eye stalks, predator or not, because if you live underwater, the threat could be coming from literally any direction, so you want as wide a field of view as you can get. If you see a predator working monocular vision, it’s a pretty safe assumption that there is something else out there dangerous enough that their survival is aided more by knowing where it is than reliably getting food inside their mouths.

For example, if you are a crocodile, there is a decent chance that a hippo will cruise up your shit and bite you in half. I’d say that makes monocular vision worthwhile.

Which brings us back to OP’s point. Why would dragon evolution favor field of view over depth perception?

A lot of the stories I’ve read painted the biggest threats to dragons (until knights with little shiny sticks came along) as other dragons. Dragons fight each other, dragons have wars. And like fish, a dragon would need to worry about another dragon coming in from any angle. That’s a major point in favor of monocular vision. Moreover, you don’t need depth perception in order to hunt if you can breathe fucking fire. A flamethrower is not a precision weapon. If you can torch everything in front of you, who cares if your prey is 5 feet away or 20? Burn it all and sift among the rubble for meat once everything stops moving.

Really, why would dragons have eyes on the front of their heads? Seems like they’ve got the right idea to me.

[spookcataloger]

Worthwhile cryptozoological discourse

[hollypunkers]

god in hell, before chatgpt people used to have some class. when we needed info we’d ask narnia blogs

[balkansoul-deactivated20220924]

love how tumblr staff has time to censor words like “paint mixing” and “my face” and yet they can’t get rid of ssexsophie8127 thats been liking my posts from 2017

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fuck you

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i won

[gamechangershow]

Can Jordan correctly identify three of their friends' breast milk? Let's find out... 🤔🍼

Watch the full episode on Dropout

[wizardarchetypes]

being the local slut is so funny 2 me every time someone tries to somehow criticize me. someone recently said to me in an obvious attempt to make me feel shame “it’s like you just think sex is some random activity to do” and i was like yeah. i’m autistic and asexual and i love fun. you are correct.

[wizardarchetypes]

i’ve had the same very strange conversation several times over the years wherein someone finds out i went to catholic school & i had to unlearn a lot of deeply internalized shame in adulthood, and they’re glad to hear it until i mention overcoming sexual shame and you can tell they literally think like i should’ve kept that one specifically actually

[thescaryjokes]

woah dude you hit your head pretty hard. 2025? president donald trump? "labubu"? haha no clue what youre talking about dude its roughly 1pm august 8th 2004 and we're about to take a chicago boat tour and i heard dave matthews band is in town and

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[wizard-email]

For people mad in the notes, this is obviously not a mass-produced product

[mozukumi]

The full interview with the creators is really interesting. Of note (emphasis mine):

Xun started vaping last year, she said, as a way to begin the process of quitting cigarettes. She also has a "bunch of friends who vape," many of whom "are very attached to their vapes." But she's not naive about vaping's well-documented risks, and began to wonder if "gamifying" her nicotine use might help her disincentivize it. In the first iteration of the project, hitting the vape would actually murder the digital pet, and thus would ideally work to guilt-trip the user into not inhaling. "There's a big trend of parental locking yourself," Camacho added. "I'm locked out of certain apps behind a password that Rebecca knows, so I don't scroll Instagram too much. It would be cool if you could have that for nicotine." But then, explained Xun, Camacho "found this Stupid Hackathon. And we were like, it'd be kind of funnier to be evil."

[ospreyonthemoon]

Ok that IS kind of funnier. Good for them

[orcboxer]

"gender critical" is such a funny term for people who base their whole identity around unquestioningly enforcing the gender binary they were raised with. the patriarchy set up a binary and you're like "I will defend the sanctity of this social construct in the name of feminism" Absolute clown shoes. Imagine a tradcath calling themself "religion critical"

[rrdiner]

bat at hornets nest maybe but "there is no ethical consumption under capitalism" refers to low income communities needing to choose between survival vs being eco friendly. not you continuing to watch the harry potter movies

[yuri-alexseygaybitch]

See also: death of the author is a form of literary theory and analysis not an excuse to give J.K. Rowling money

[ampersketch-art]

Your friends watching something for the first time and getting to that scene VS you, the knower.

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[identitty-dickruption]

someone on the news claiming that "adhd is fashionable" meanwhile people are still dicks if you forget things easily, need people to give clear instructions, ask someone to repeat themselves, or can't sit still for longer than half an hour at a time. this is like saying "ocd is fashionable" because people like to say they're "a little ocd" when they like things organised

[badassdemonsword-deactivated202]

Favorite Alan Cumming roles?

Do i even need to say it...

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Whats a floop without his fooglies