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You wouldn’t think that flamingoes are extremophiles just from looking at them. It’s like somebody tried to build the vertebrate equivalent of that fungus that lives inside nuclear reactors, and ended up with a gangly pink dinosaur with a spoon for a face.

….. Didn’t know most of that

Huh… so that’s why zoos don’t put them somewhere warm during winter.

Some species of flamingo actually subsist almost entirely on a diet of bacteria! In other words, there is a species of dinosaur that eats only bacteria and lives in lakes so toxic they would kill almost anything else—and it is best known to the average person as a kitschy lawn decoration.

let’s be real the pressure to use AI as an adult is exactly what they said the pressure the do drugs as a teenager would be like but the people that told us that caved immediately for the AI and definitely did not just say no

Personally, the two most annoying things about AI are 1. I know otherwise intelligent people who use it for really basic shit and 2. It made me agree with the pope

One of the funniest things about Mormonism is that I’m sure Joseph Smith never believed any of the bullshit he said. There are some religions and cults where you have faith the original prophet actually thought they were talking to angels or believed the set of principles they laid out for their followers were for the greater good. Joseph Smith was a dumbass but like PT Barnum he realized a sucker was born every day and he was one step above the average 1830s sucker. He went from making people pay him to look at a rock in a top hat and ‘locate buried treasure’ to receiving lost bits of scripture, through the rock and top hat method. His wife caught him cheating and he said an angel visited him and told him men should be allowed multiple wives and not obeying that would send her to hell. I’m fairly convinced that dude was an atheist. He was on that hustler grindset. Brigham Young might have actually believed some of the shit he said but I don’t think Joseph Smith genuinely had faith in Mormonism or gave a fuck about humanity in the slightest.

You rang?

"all you ever do is complain" that's not true. I also resent.

*trying to pitch public transportation to Americans* it’s like a legal form of texting while driving

Public transit: focus on your phone, not the road

they're hiring me at the extra virgin olive oil factory as the oathsworn knight who protects the chastity of the olives

many dishonourable knaves in the notes of this post

I don't defeat an oathsworn knight and seduce away the virtue of olives for the thrill or pleasure of it. I do these things so that the laments of knights and olives remember me for eternity. I will attain immortality, one way or another.

Something tells me that cis male incels focus on things like height and phrenology because height and skull shape can't be changed without a shit ton of money (plus I don't think the "break your legs to increase your height" thing adds more than a couple of inches anyways). A big part of it, I suspect, is being unwilling to do the boring work (or even know where to start, possibly) to change the things within their control, so when they get sucked into the incel shit they think they can get away with blaming everyone else.

I really wish more horror movies (and movies in general) were this bright and colorful.

Kidnapping teenage girls seems kind of worse than being stupid and uncultured, in the grand scheme of things.

Fun how the bystander effect was coined to cover up how cops are bigoted cowards who let a queer person die and stockholm syndrome was coined to cover that the cops handled a hostage situation so badly the hostages trusted their captors more than the cops.

Looks like someone was just ordained in the Roman Catolic Church!

Thanks for hanging out today!