Naked mole rats are considered an example of a truly “eusocial” mammal analogue to ants. More evidence for the idea that social behavior/societal grouping, once established in a species, characterizes it more potently than just about anything else in its genetic history. Chimps might be our closest genetic relatives, but the way we live and think is probably much more similar to these guys.

my theory is that one of humor’s main uses is as a way to compartmentalize things like horror and sorrow, and if you spend a lot of time becoming acutely aware of how much misery there is out there your sense of humor gets a lot of practice to compensate

EDIT: long way to say we are a little twisted around here, a bunch of jokers even, clowns who find the prospect of doing crime…humorous

If I wanted to think I wouldn’t be posting

There’s a little chunk missing from the meat of my shin and I think it’s from a brown recluse bite. What the FUCK, I go out of my way to even put these venomous fuckers outside instead of killing them and this is how they repay my respect

Hearing (iirc) about how the Puritans didn’t officially name their children until their 10th birthday

It isn’t a real walkthrough if the first line isn’t an ASCII art version of the game’s logo

Yeah the real issue in a way is that there’s just so much evidence of evolution happening that it’s hard to find a single shared pattern to study

Look at least I think all the age groups can agree that the GBA SP was a masterpiece of tech, look at that beautiful folding, backlit, rechargable marvel

Thank you, she was a great dog. I have a couple rescue cats to keep the grief from stinging too much but I lost one of them a few months ago too. And I miss the hell out of my lizard who died a little over a year ago, at least she was a normal age for it. I like to think it’s helping me develop grieving as a skill.

A few weeks ago I posted about my 8 year old dog dying suddenly, and unfortunately even after a necropsy I have very little closure. Apparently it was likely some kind of IMHA, essentially sudden onset anemia that may have been brought on by a relapse of tickborne ehrlichiosis she got before I rescued her. And when the symptoms begin as suddenly as hers did, the prognosis gets exponentially worse.

is really all I have for it. “There is no subtlety in death, it’s like a hurricane”

Ohhhhhhhhh shiiittttttt thanks for that

I’ve been waiting to play this for when it is comes out of early access but every screenshot makes me want to break the seal and try it out early

It’s why I see Noid as a long Nietzsche reference, down to fascists cynically adopting his own “hardcore aesthetic.” He calls Dolores and Humanism “part of a long term strategy” in a way that mirrors what Nietzsche wrote about slave/master morality too iirc, good stuff.

I vibed so hard with the stuff Noid had to say about Dolores Dei, sorry ZA/UM but the Hardcore Aesthetic is NOT JUST DRUGS (only mostly)

nexus mods withers be like

The blunt rotation always has one of them it’s true

Man why do libertarians have to have a modicum of relevance and senatorial presence in America, they could just be like the political equivalent of village idiots who delight us with their harmless stupidity

If you can somehow make your internal monologue into a friend of yours everything gets easier.

Understand that zoologists, especially in the field, spend a lot of time very bored, and that’s a recipe for making the dumbest dirtbaggiest jokes you can. What starts as “that bird looks like it’s got a dick on its head dude” later becomes in scientific literature “phallocephalus”

If you’ve ever heard of the classic mating dynamic of “males who creep into the harem to mate while the alpha isn’t looking,” you have probably heard of them described as “sneaky males.” This is a change from the original designation the field biologists who first studied this behavior gave it, “sneaky fuckers”