• Karyoplasma@discuss.tchncs.de
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    Mammals use boob-juice to raise their offspring. That’s why they are called that.

    As opposed to e.g. birds that don’t use boob-juice and instead elect to vomit in their offspring’s ingestion orifices.

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    In Polish the word for “mammals” is “ssaki” which comes from “ssać” which means “to suck”. So we are all suckers in Polish.

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      That’s interesting that the Polish word is so similar to the English word, since Polish is of Slavic origin and English is Germanic.

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    It’s called the milky way because of Heracles since he bit his mom’s tit so hard the milk sprayed all over the sky.

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      This is what Wikipedia has to say about it:

      In Greek mythology, Zeus places his son born by a mortal woman, the infant Heracles, on Hera’s breast while she is asleep so the baby will drink her divine milk and become immortal. Hera wakes up while breastfeeding and then realizes she is nursing an unknown baby: she pushes the baby away, some of her milk spills, and it produces the band of light known as the Milky Way. In another Greek story, the abandoned Heracles is given by Athena to Hera for feeding, but Heracles’ forcefulness causes Hera to rip him from her breast in pain.

      That Zeus. He’s such a character. Not only does he sleep around on Hera (you know, his sister wife), but then surreptitiously tries to get Hera to breast-feed his bastard son. But I digress…

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      I feel this deserves more attention. Not only is the Milky Way named for literal milk; it is named for specifically for human milk.

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    Well, until very recently anybody who was not born with a desire for milk and sucking tits didn’t last long enough to reproduce.

    So a bit of a tit obcession is understandable.

  • LaLuzDelSol@lemmy.world
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    Ass lovers in absolute shambles right now. I guess they’ll always have <3 (the heart symbol portrays an ass, or so I’ve heard)