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im sorry but when you grow up and interact with people irl youre gonna have friends where you dont fw their tastes. sometimes youre gonna meet someone chill whos also a hazbin hotel fan or have a really nice coworker that likes taylor swift and youre gonna need to mind your business and shut the fuck up or youre gonna be real lonely
Nothing gets past them
Please everyone, wait your turn
Today’s Friday, though.
More women
Thank god they decided to make more
But In doing so…she created her biggest enemy…Jolene
new tarot card "fuck your entire life" and its a guy being attacked by devils and flaming skulls and wild animals and screaming and fire everywhere
Dolev Elron
On one of the routes I sometimes drive home, I see this be-leggéd fellow. He is extremely tall, excessively tall, and every time I sit in traffic contemplating him, I think, @elodieunderglass would appreciate a look at those legs.
I really do. Thank you.
I think it's a common misconception that domesticating animals is somewhat like enslaving them. It really is more of a symbiotic relationship. No wild animal would have willingly put up with early humans if they didn't get something out of it. Wolves wouldn't have stayed with us and become dogs if they weren't getting food and safety out of it. Many large herbivores that are now domesticated could and would have easily trampled their early human captors or broken their enclosures open if they didn't have a reason to stay. Sometimes individual animals still do if we don't give them what they need.
The animals that have stayed with us for thousands of years have evolved to cooperate with us better. Dogs have additional facial muscles around their eyes that wolves lack in order to mimic human facial expressions. Sheep grow their wool perpetually while their wild counterparts don't because a bigger fleece means they're more likely to be allowed to breed and be kept around. Domestic dairy cows produce much more milk than wild bovine species and domestic hens lay more eggs. Do you know how energy costly producing eggs or milk is for an animal? It's pretty intense! They wouldn't be able to do that if we hadn't given them the food and safety from predators and the elements to.
And we really need to show these animals respect and gratitude for what they give us by taking excellent care of them. They gave up a lot to be with us, often including the means to take care of themselves in the wild. That's a huge reason why I'm not against using animal products, but I hate factory farming. They are still living, breathing creatures with needs and feelings. They deserve a comfortable life and, when the time comes, a humane death.
Silkworm moths are and INCREDIBLY good example of domestication.
Here's a wild silk moth, their ancestors.
It's a pretty standard moth. It spends most of its life as a caterpillar eating leaves, then turns into a moth, breeds and dies.
These are domestic silkworm moths.
They're much larger, especially the females, because they never have to taste absence in their lives, and can sustain a greater body mass.
They're leiucistic- they don't need camoflague anymore, so they don't bother with it.
They're flightless- the only reason moths fly is to evade predators, find mates and find places to lay eggs, and neither they nor their countless generations of ancestors have ever had to run away from anything, or struggle for anything. They don't bother wasting calories growing wings that can hold them up. Flying is the single most energy burning type of movement there is, so why would they, when everything they could ever want is within arm's reach?
They vastly overproduce silk, so they end up with these huge cocoons.
Now, you might go "but don't we exploit them??? Isn't it bad??"
So let me explain.
Traditionally, many caterpillars are boiled in their cocoons, killing them instantly. The caterpillars are then used as food (because they are edible and delicious) and the cocoons unwrapped to make silk thread.
Does that sound bad?
Okay, let me explain further.
A silk moth, once emerged, slowly starves to death.
Moths live basically their whole lives as caterpillars. They have, what, four or five days as a moth? Maybe a week. They can't eat. They can't defend themselves. They breed, and then die.
Most silkworms die far, far before they ever become a moth. And most moths die before they get to breed.
So how silkworm farming goes, once you understand it all, is like this:
More caterpillars than would ever survive from their eggs in the wild are born. From the moment of their birth humans provide them with a perfectly safe, perfect temperature habitat with their whole families, where they never run out of carefully picked mulberry leaves (they don't have to eat mulberry but it is their favourite) for their whole lives. They want for nothing, and the rate of their survival goes from one in a hundred or so to basically ninety nine out of a hundred. They live happily, make their cocoons, and then more of them survive past that stage than ever would in the wild. The rest are eaten, far less painfully and than they would in the wild. The many survivors have big orgies and then die of old age, knowing their children will live equally safe, idyllic lives.
And also all the waste product they make in the process that they DO NOT CARE ABOUT becomes one of the most valuable and useful natural materials in existence that until plastic started fucking the world up was very happily used for any fabric that needed to be light and strong.
The VAST majority of animal "exploitation" in farming is the same story. An animal, who by the way does not have a concept of a soul and does not care about what happens to them when they die, lives a life of unthinkable peace and bliss, lives longer than it normally would ever imagine, has some of something it normally produces anyway taken as compensation for the promise of this kind of life continuing basically for the rest of its life, and dies pretty contently, after which its body is usually used much the way it would be in the wild- eaten, which literally none of them mind because that's literally normal and what always happens to dead things.
That's it!
i love the phrase "which could mean nothing" i think its my favorite thing to come out of the internet ever i love saying it. it could mean nothing but we all know better. we know the truth.
excuse me, no I wasn't???
congratulations to today’s lucky 10000
Could i please get a small mammal cursed bio fact if u have one
the grasshopper mouse of the southwestern United States looks like a standard house mouse but is almost entirely carnivorous and is known to kill and consume everything from less homicidal mice to goddamn rattlesnakes, which they kill by jumping onto the snake’s back and gnawing through its spine
behold…. a Bastard
How could U fail to mention that this fool marks territory by howling? Yunno. Like a wolf
Oh. Oh I am in love with this bastard wolf mouse.
that little guy is locked in an evolutionary arms race (my favourite thing) with bark scorpions (he loves to eat those guys) - he’s not only immune to their venom, but he’s evolved such that that venom acts as an analgesic; he barely even feels the sting because the scorpion’s own venom blocks the pain of it. this effect is strong enough that they don’t really notice even when the scorpion is stinging them repeatedly in the face.
“Why would you want to make a game for the original Nintendo?? No one is going to buy that”
Jokes on you! I sold 1 copy!!!
LOOK AT THAT BEAUTIFUL GRAPH! THATS A SALE BAAAABY
^Me rn
Holy shit yall. I just woke up to 21 sales! The game has officially recouped the cost of all the software I used to make it!!! IM PROFITABLE?!
...What's the game, how did you make it, and how are you selling it?
It’s called Undercover Shot! It’s a 2 player social deduction game for the original Nintendo Entertainment System!
I’m taking pre orders for physical copies here https://www.homebrew-factory.com/home/138-undercover-shot.html
And selling digital ROM versions for a dollar here: https://pirateprincessjess.itch.io/undercover-shot-nes
A week ago I was losing my mind over 1 sale, now I’ve sold 81 digital copies and 52 physical ones.
Over 100 people bought my game!!!!????? This is mind blowing. I don’t even know how to process this. I am so grateful. I would not have sold nearly this many without yall sharing this post as much as you did. I love you all so much. Thank you for making this happen. You all made my childhood dream come true in a bigger way than I thought possible.
Achievement Unlocked:
Sell a new title for the fucking Nintendo Family Computer in the year 2025 AD.
I love how ppl just do this sometimes to their potential ancestors. In the 25th century my descendants are gonna dive into old records and find a selfie of me, photoshop cybernetics onto me, and say I had the perfect face for being annoying about how it felt uploading my brain to the SolarNet while wearing stolen techpriest robes
