It's so gumbly round these parts

Bigot: "But if trans women are allowed in women's sports, they'll win all the time!" -> Liberal: "They've done studies and trans women don't win that much!" -> Giving in to the assumption that transfems winning is bad and unacceptable. We can be there only if we aren't exceptional.

Bigot: "But if a trans woman comes home with me and I find out she has a penis that's basically rape!" -> Liberal: "No trans woman wants to deal with someone else's surprise! That would never happen!" -> Giving in to the assumption that our transness and genitals being unknown is rape-y and wrong.

I had to turn this off, but it's something that allows Windows and anyone using your device to generate text/images.

Both come from the Latin "burgus", meaning castle or fortified town. A burglar being someone who bypassed the security of fortifications.

Meanwhile burger comes via Hamburg, the burg of Hamma.

> disables a new AI feature that was turned on by default

> opens my email

> disables a new AI feature that was turned on by default

> launches a software

their (live!) young gestate for. wait for it. eight to eighteen (??) YEARS. can have up to 10 at a time. good grief.

longest lifespan of any vertebrate, up to five hundred years

toxic flesh

has giant eyes but is usually blind because of a weird little crustacean that's evolved to live on and eat their eyes. this doesn't seem to bother them much.

lives in deep cold water and has the lowest swim speed and tail-beat frequency for its size across all fish species. just generally lives life in extreme slow motion

largest genome of any shark

eats everything including moose and polar bears

WHY HAVE I SEEN NO ONE TALK ABOUT HOW THE GRACE SCULPTURE LOOKS LIKE THE LITTLE DUDE FROM THIS MEME

It's rude. You're making someone take their time to read something you couldn't bother to write. You're telling them they were so unimportant you couldn't be bothered to actually take the time to say something yourself. And frankly, you're lying about it while you're at it.

step two: in your diffidence, leave many half-drunk glasses of water around your apartment

step three: your cat, who is stupider than any other mammal on earth, living or dead, starts drinking from your many abandoned water cups

step four: the cat now believes these are for her