Living life on the fast(brained) track

The 16 gal used to house my betta but I can't manage to keep them alive for long so for now it's just a growout tank for shrimp and one juvenile bristlenose pleco.

I'd like to upgrade my big tank to 150l exclusively to fit more plants lol

Jesus Christ what a flex I’m so jealous. I assume these are CO2? I want to shrink down real small and go snorkeling in them.

My tank isn't a pretty as Nienn's but I do have a lot of val! Val Nana and Val Erecta as it's a native Australian walstad tank. It's 283L, I admire Nienn's ability to manage water quality in such small tanks.

This is my little 7l filterless bowl with 2 male cherry shrimp and a couple ramshorn snails

The 16 gal used to house my betta but I can't manage to keep them alive for long so for now it's just a growout tank for shrimp and one juvenile bristlenose pleco.

I'd like to upgrade my big tank to 150l exclusively to fit more plants lol

Jesus Christ what a flex I’m so jealous. I assume these are CO2? I want to shrink down real small and go snorkeling in them.

Huge val tanks are so cool. I have a lil patch of spiral val that came w one of the tanks, but the limnophilia is outcompeting it pretty strongly. I'd love to have a huge jungle tank full of tiny rasboras one day.

Remember when Lil Nas X beautifully explored his sexuality, seduced and killed the devil to the banger of all time, and instead of cheering on this openly gay and proud Black artist for his artistry and fighting back against respectability politics, suddenly said respectability politics was all the Queerest Place on the Internet cared about? Hm. Wonder what happened there.

And in the United States, this starts young. I've seen teachers tell a Kazakhstani parent that she should tell her kid to speak English INSTEAD. The kid was 2 and a half. A friend's five year old told him "Dad this is America we dont speak Chinese". If you don't teach your kid your native language this country will wrest all pride and heritage from them by force. An occasional visit or two to the home country will not stop the bleeding.

We should all know how that works. The weight rests on the 'toes', the bones which parallel our ankle joints are positioned higher and act as locomotive joints as opposed to weight-bearing joints, and the knee/hip are similar to ours. Okay, so here's Pluto:

Pluto puts his weight on his ankle, and his knee is the main locomotive joint. He's plantigrade. I'm actually finding it impossible to grab examples of him walking in a such way that doesn't suggest that he and Goofy have extremely similar anatomical structures, (minus Goofy doesn't have a tail and Pluto has less digits* - but those can be chalked up to individual variation.) *Sometimes Pluto summons a thumb out of nowhere in order to complete a gag so who knows.

Walking comfortably as a quadruped is not evidence of him being a different species; some humans can do that. He can otherwise emote as well as Goofy, shows as complex an emotional range as Goofy, is as much a character as Goofy is. Rarely we get Pluto's internal monologue, and it is complex and very human. The only reason he is considered less anthropomorphic is because he acts less anthropomorphic. And doesn't wear clothes; lots of cartoon animals don't wear clothes, though. But, I mean, Goofy can talk. Pluto can't talk. Right? - Pluto Can Talk Pluto only speaks in barks and some maybe human-sounding interjections (huh, yeah, woah), but his earliest incarnations delivered some dialogue. He could, once upon a time, speak some english and communicate with Mickey. His lines were brief, and his character's ability to talk was phased out pretty early.

It may be worth noting that 75% of his spoken dialogue was racist enough that The Walt Disney Company went back and redubbed those few lines with barking. So, I mean. That might explain why they don't let him talk anymore.