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[–] [email protected] 10 points 3 months ago (1 children)

I'm imagining him switching his VP pick to be the dead worm. Do I still need to read the article?

[–] [email protected] 6 points 3 months ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 months ago (1 children)

I probably shouldn't upvote people just because they say the first thought that crossed my mind.

[–] [email protected] 18 points 3 months ago (2 children)

This is an interesting question but I don't think it is restricted to green. Isn't the same true of purple, blue and red? I'm not talking about just reddish like human hair or a red panda but truly bright red like a cardinal. I would imagine it has something to do with our evolutionary history. Complete speculation here but laced with a few facts I picked up. I hear the common ancestor of mammals emerged around the time the dinosaurs became extinct and was basically a tiny rodent like a shrew. I wonder if as a small animal that can't fly or swim it had to hide a lot and basically just came in shades of brown. So maybe any genes for other colors were lost before that common mammalian ancestor emerged and although mammals have lots of patterns they don't have many colors.

[–] [email protected] 16 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Best I've got is sloths. And they're only green because algae grows on them. And I know it sounds like cheating because they aren't intrinsically green but before you completely discount it there are animals that wouldn't be the color they are in a different environment. For instance, flamingos are only pink because of the seafood they eat. If fed a different diet they can be almost white.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 months ago (4 children)

Shouldn't athletes expecting to medal just want to skip the competition and go straight to the podium? I mean, that's the reward, right? It is pretty easy to come up with many other analogs where there is a reward/goal that would feel hollow without whatever experience precedes it.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 4 months ago

I misread it as heat pump, was sure I was wrong, read it again and got it wrong again. So... I guess I'm glad you wrote this comment to get me to read it a third time.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 6 months ago

The branding is very consistent and the about page mentions US Congress funding. You can stop now.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 8 months ago

Don't count on it.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 8 months ago

Bring me everyone.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 9 months ago

I like that name a ton and also "Paranoid Android" is a Radiohead song from the album OK Computer. Now I'm realizing there is no comma in that title. I always thought it was "OK, Computer" because the speaker is addressing the computer. Nope, it is "OK Computer" like a label at an antique shop letting you know the computer is not Poor or Excellent but just OK.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 9 months ago (1 children)

The app is Covenant Eyes. https://slate.com/human-interest/2023/11/mike-johnson-republican-speaker-interview-covenant-eyes.html

It gives you a blurred view of the porn the other person is viewing in a near-realtime feed https://www.covenanteyes.com/how-it-works/#activity-feed

It is exactly as bad as it sounds unless they choose to claim to not be using this feature and we choose to believe them.

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