I was wondering where the animal abuse charges were in all this.

I didn’t know palm trees could grow in Syracuse

Woah, you’ve really improved over the last year! Nice work

Or simply use a Ziploc bag. Or a reusable resealable bag. Or a chip clip. Or a piece of tape.

Hover flies are so cute, and are just the chillest little garden visitors. It’s unfair how they get overshadowed by butterflies and bees. Maybe it’s because they’re on the smaller side and are easy to overlook.

Who is Carl and why does he suck so bad?

I mean, if my partner waltzed in one day and announced they’d gotten a job with ICE, “ashamed” wouldn’t even begin to cover it.

It’s the leopards eating faces problem. We tell people that the leopards are going to eat their face and they don’t listen. Then when the leopard eats their face they realize the leopards are bad after all and cry about how horrible having their face eaten was, but then keep voting for (or in this case, living with) the leopards anyway.

If red states saw the type of brain drain and corporate disinvestment that their harmful policies would normally realize in a sane society, we wouldn’t be in this fucking mess. But instead we have normalized living in, working in, and paying taxes to states with ineffective and cruel government policies. Let’s also remember that thanks to the electoral college, every person who lives in a solid red state contributes to the Republican party vote, regardless of what they actually put on their ballot.

It’s hard enough living in a world full of people who have to learn things the hard way, but it’s even worse when they don’t even learn things the hard way.

Accidental downvoting (esp on mobile) is pretty easy, plus some users downvote posts that are in competition for visibility with their own posts (loser behavior, but it happens).

4 downvotes on a post with 163 upvotes is basically just noise.

So move them to a blue state too? Like damn, it’s pretty clear by now no one is actually safe living there.

Sure I know how to play dodgeball, and I’ve had many, many gym classes worth of practice, but I was always absolute shit at it. Similarly, you can teach composition (or color theory or whatever other art technique you want), and have your students practice it, but most are never going to be more than just okay at creating art. “People just need to be taught the arts and then they won’t be seduced by the siren song of AI!” assumes that education can overcome innate limitations. I will never be a good athlete, just as most people will never be good artists/musicians/writers. Meanwhile here’s a tool that will produce (what AI users think is) an impressive facsimile of the real thing, and at a fraction of the effort with almost no barrier to entry.

There’s “skills,” and then there’s innate talent, and then there’s practice. Anyone who embraces AI art clearly doesn’t have the innate talent to recognize it’s crap, and their rabid eagerness to jump on the latest trend implies they probably doesn’t have the patience required for practice either.

Not that music and art classes and exposure aren’t important, but 12 years of mandatory gym classes definitely didn’t turn me into an athlete (if anything, it made me hate physical activity. Maybe if we had gone on hikes instead of playing dodgeball…)

who now lives in South Dakota with three sons

After that ordeal she moved to a redder state??? Honey. Sweetie. Get yourself to an Illinois-level state or better.

Besides the fact that this exact story had been posted multiple times when it was actually breaking…?

How did you miss the Great Salt Lake / Dead Sea parallels???

Oh wow, what an amazing and beautiful photo! Possibly the most flattering photo any opossum anywhere has ever taken.

Seriously, I was wondering why we’re all focusing on the antenna whisker when DAT NOSE

Without having told me this was a drag strip I’d have assumed this was an abstract piece, but with the context it’s an “okay, I see it now” situation.

I tried rewatching How I Met Your Mother and couldn’t get more than a few episodes in because I was so bored. I’m sure my getting older is partly to blame (not as engaged by the unrealistic exploits of some mid 20-somethings), but also Friends-style comedy feels outdated now.