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[kosmogrl]

[hollowboobtheory]

have you ever tried meat other than the chicken/turkey/pork/beef/fish big four?

bison

venison

waterfowl (including duck, duck, goose)

another land bird (quail, ostrich, etc)

whale

gator

dog

horse

some kind of exotic seafood (pufferfish, eel, octopus, etc)

insects

multiple/other

no I haven't

Voting ended onFeb 4

I'm curious. I've had bison, venison, ostrich, gator, eel, octopus, and mealworms

[chthonicathenean]

Bison, venison, duck, at least quail egg I think, boar, eel, octopus, crickets, grasshoppers, I think maybe mealworms, frog, and I'm sure there are others I'm forgetting.

[saoili]

I would have thought duck was fairly common. Duck, rabbit, I think venison but I’m not sure, ostrich, almost certainly others that I’ve forgotten

[dogpuppy]

[liquidpaperfoundation1]

My Very Punctual Wife Gets My Night Worm can also be used to remember the order of the planets in the solar system!

[cryptid-on-a-string]

Mercury Venus Pearth Wars Goopiter Maturn Nuranus Weptune

[jay-auris]

The problem: you are Michael Bublé, it is 2011 and you would like to make a Christmas album. Your producers want you to sing the classic Christmas song "Santa, Baby," but if you sing it as intended, it's gonna come off as, like, super gay

The proposed solution: you will rewrite the lyrics to the song to imply a platonic friendship between yourself and the man in red, making Santa a real bro who's gonna help you get laid by some hunnies, with cool, masculine gifts like a steel blue convertible, a yacht and tickets to a Canadian hockey game

The reality: the combination of the eroticism of your voice and the inherently sexual vibes of the song means you create a story about a closeted gay guy desperately repressing his desire to - as the kids say - fuck that old man, no homo'ing your way through asking him to trim your tree, promising you'll be such a good boy if he treats you well, and begging him to slide down your chimney

[questionableyeball]

arguably the funniest genius annotation ever

[mikkeneko]

[saoili]

My teenager, as a result of this choice, refers to him as “the coward Michael Bublé”

[saoili]

Be the chaos you wish to see in the world. Replace all uses of the word 'square' with 'rectangular rhombus'.

[despazito]

girls night

[dragkingandreweldritch]

so I read the article and the story is both less and more insane than it sounds.

basically, there's been an ants' nest near a vent shaft of this abandoned Soviet bunker for decades. the nest spilled over into the bunker itself at some point once it was abandoned and there was no way for the ants to make their way back up to the nest, no queen but a constant supply of new colony members raining down from above, and no source of food in the bunker other than the corpses of their fellow ants.

fast forward to some scientists looking for bats that stumble on what's basically a post-apocalyptic ant society. they go "holy fuck" start studying, and observe that, all things considered, the ants still pretty much act like regular ants doing regular ant things.

fast forward some more, and the scientists feel like they have enough data from observing the colony as-is, so they decide to try an experiment. they put a little walkway between the bunker colony and the og colony in the vent shaft so the bunker colony members have the option of leaving and rejoining the og colony.

spoiler alert: every single ant in the bunker immediately nopes the fuck back to the colony in the vent shaft. within days the bunker is completely empty. the scientists leave the walkway in place so when more ants inevitably fall back down the vent shaft they can just climb back up instead of starting up the cycle anew.

tl;dr it's not "oh noes evil ants are on a rampage", it's "ants forced into a horrible situation to survive get to go home"

[anarchistmemedistro]

everyone in the crab bucket just wants to go home

[vampire-connoisseur]

TIP:

This holiday season, if you know someone who likes house plants,

DON'T

get them a houseplant. DO NOT.

instead, get them a NICE, MEDIUM-LARGE, AESTHETIC, BOTTOM-DRAINING, INDOOR

POT.

that is what they want. that is what they dream of. ok? thats what will be most useful and appreciated. in fact, if you can, get them a CUTE MATCHING SET. OF POTS!!!! NOT PLANTS, POTS!!!!!!!!

they may be more excited initially about the plant. that is true. but a pot is a gift that they will go home and use to upsize one of their already beloved houseplants, and every time they look at it they will remember how much they appreciate you.

HOUSEPLANT:

- they already have so many

- needs to be watered

- takes up window space

- comes in a pot thats already too small, needs to be upsized, costing money

- can die

AESTHETIC POT

- lets them care for an existing plant they own

- they will be grateful every time they see it in their home

- does not take up window space not already occupied by a plant

- can be wrapped without dying or spilling dirt everywhere

[muffinlance]

I HAVE NEVER HIT REBLOG SO FAST

Pro Tip: look at the sizes they currently have, and get ones just slightly larger. Repotting time WOO!

[dragon-in-a-fez]

a billionaire can never be held accountable, therefore a billionaire must never make a management decision

[datasoong47]

[magpie-trove]

[permanenteclipse]

The reason you hate when someone tells you to do something you were already going to do is because you had an opportunity to display responsibility but they needed it to be obedience. So now you feel you're being perceived as lazy and deferential instead of considerate and independent. Btw

[incognitopolls]

If you don't eat cheese or your household doesn't keep cheese stocked, answer for whatever you would consider the "default cheese" in your area/in general.

What would you consider the "default" cheese in your household? Are you from the US?

Cheddar; I'm from the US

Cheddar; I'm NOT from the us

Mozzarella; I'm from the US

Mozzarella; I'm NOT from the us

Parmesan; I'm from the US

Parmesan; I'm NOT from the us

Cottage cheese; I'm from the US

Cottage cheese; I'm NOT from the us

Square of processed orange cheese (e.g. Kraft single); I'm from the US

Square of processed orange cheese (e.g. Kraft single); I'm NOT from the us

Something else; I'm from the US

Something else; I'm NOT from the us

Voting ended onOct 8, 2025

Anon is from the UK and cheddar is the default cheese in most households there, but all of anon's American friends talk about mozzarella like that's the default, and their Turkish friend's default cheese is feta.

Yes, there are many, many more types of cheese that are common enough to be reasonable options here. We can only fit so many. Please share your default cheeses in the tags.

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[saoili]

My (Irish) best friend talks about when she first went to France being baffled that she couldn’t find cheddar in the enormous cheese section in their supermarkets. For her, like me at the time, cheddar and cheese were almost synonymous.

[teaboot]

The only downside to talking to small children like they’re normal people and treating them like normal people (as per my mom) is that as they develop into bigger children they are viscerally aware of every single moment in which they are pandered to like stupid little accessories (as per my dad, my teacher, the special ed aide, every adult in my middle school) and you end up getting a lot of phone calls from people reporting your kid for (checks notes) “undermining authority”, “disrupting the classroom environment”, “disobeying elder peers”, and “unionizing the grade eleven gym class with intent to incite a mutiny” (as per me) and you end up with a Grown Adult who will absolutely encourage and enable other people’s children to fuck the sustem

[saoili]

This is not the only problem if they’re your children. Aiming to treat them like “normal people” can easily become treating them like peers, and treating someone you inherently have power over as a peer can be harmful to them.

[cryptid-sighting]

Sinking Giant Concrete Orbs to the Bottom of the Ocean Could Store Massive Amounts of Renewable Energy

These underwater batteries could potentially store hundreds of thousands of gigawatt-hours.

I'm not going to bother reading the article to find out if this actually works or if anyone is actually trying it. I'm just happy we as a society are showing proper reverence for Orbs.

[communist-hatsunemiku]

this is so freakin cool. the article goes on to say it has been successfully tested on a small scale in a german lake, and they're scaling it up in trials off the california coast!

[foone]

The power is stored in the balls

[nick-nonya]

[gaygunsmoke]

[saoili]

That is a sharp knife. That would already work.

[woman-becomer]

eat an entire can of sweetened condensed milk. you deserve it.

[platter-o-teeth-deactivated2025]

(sigh) okay... (CRUUEEENNNCH....) (SCREEEEEENCH...) owie.. (CRUUEEENCH)

[woman-becomer]

this is one of the most rewarding things about posting self care tips on this site. witnessing people's lives getting better in real time. this is why I post

[hagiomoto]

Don’t feel sad about the last Neanderthals.

The last Neanderthal man died while watching his mixed grandchildren play in the meadows with the sheeps. He was glad he no longer had to travel so far; there was enough food for everyone. The air was good, and it wasn’t very cold anymore.

[maidthings]

[homunculus-argument]

I come from a culture that has no nudity taboo - nudity is not considered inherently sexual, or somehow traumatising to witness. What that means in practice is that there is a clearly drawn line between sexual and non-sexual nudity. There is nothing wrong or inappropriate about nudity in a sexual context, and nothing wrong or inappropriate about nudity in a non-sexual context. However, it is 100% inappropriate to be nude in a situation where it is not obvious from context whether this is sexual or not.

I've seen random kids who briefly escaped from their parents bolt across a public park buck-ass naked after they were playing in the water fountain and their parents were in the middle of changing their kid from wet clothes to dry clothes when the small nudist escaped. Changing your small kid's clothes right there in public is ok because there is obviously nothing sexual about a child whose clothes got wet. But although people will have baby pictures of their kids in the bath or just running around the house like that because sometimes little apes hate clothes for some reason, it's considered common sense to not share those pictures on facebook mom groups and such, because you have no way of knowing who's seeing them, and that blurs the line of context.

It all boils down to the clearly defined context. Bathing nude in the same sauna with five of your co-workers at the office christmas party? Clearly nonsexual, therefore completely fine. Your friend-with-benefits inviting you to come over and opening the door in nothing but a doggy collar and the most porn-scented perfume? Clearly sexual, therefore completely fine. A woman checking her breasts for lumps in the gym lockers just before or after a shower? Clearly non-sexual, therefore completely fine.

But if you went to the bank today and there's some guy who walks in and immediately strips naked, doing his banking business wearing nothing but a deep smile and being clearly very content with this situation, you have no way of telling whether he's getting kicks out of this or not. There is no contextual reason for him to be nude. Therefore, that is inappropriate.

Then you go home and post on tumblr - as one does - going like "there was some dude completely fucking buck-ass naked in the bank today. That was fucking weird and I wish he had not done that." And someone immediately swoops into inform you that actually nudity is not inherently sexual or inappropriate, and there are cultures out there that have no nudity taboo. It's not fair to call somebody a freak for something like that, maybe that guy was just finnish.