Liana

I think they were using the technique of adding periods for emphasis:

AS. IN. THE. CASE. OF. NORMAL. SENTENCES.

They must have missed that that’s not the way you’d emphasize a word by spelling it, and should instead have typed Z-E-R-O.

Sweet, thanks for the info!

I was unsure of the effect of the dead-blow, since “minimizing damage” and “same driving force” sound contradictory to me. The latter makes it sound as if both would drive a nail to the same depth, and I was thinking the beak is effectively a nail. I’m glad the paper mentions concussions, and I’ll give em that bird and primate brains are probably similar enough in that respect.

Odd that the tongue wraps around though. I’d figure it would just slide down the neck, since that seems closer to what we have.

Your link says the page does not exist.

By my thinking, the damage to the brain could outweigh the better foraging. Then I thought that the brain mooshing into the front of the skull later in the peck would turn the head into a dead-blow hammer, which are still quite effective hammers.

“A dead-blow hammer delivers the momentum over a longer period, resulting in less peak force, but similar total driving effect for the same head weight.”

And permanently exhausted from all the sugar added to food that politicians get lobbied into doing nothing against. Hell, going into a Mexican grocery store, you’ll see stop-sign shaped warnings that say “Excessive sucre” or something like that. Like, we’ve got the warnings on cigarettes, but that’s about it. The US doesn’t care about public health except when it’s to shill more products :/

Woah, don’t bring other star systems into our BS!

Mmph, I could go for the cleansing flames of a phoenix right now.

I’d think it more likely that they wouldn’t admit to doing a false flag. It seems like they think they’re in the right. I haven’t heard about that, though.

Explore that wooden bridge and take pictures of anything that looks interesting to show us weirdos :D

That was my first thought, then I remembered that ‘v’ was originally the symbol for ‘u’ (which is where we get ‘w’, double-u from). This is the only example in which over-the-top censorship gets a pass from me, though there’s very little chance OP knew that, I think.

Maybe… “Unfortunately, we aren’t going to hire you”? People are having tough times finding jobs, so that’s my guess. Though that would indicate OP is the one writing it, so I don’t know.

Yeah, that sounds all in good fun. I bet he’d say it with a sly smile.

I learned a few good lessons from him. Most apropo one nowadays is “The man who least wants to lead is the only one fit to do so.”

In fact, hold the bread.

That reminds me, I got a tip once to use butter as coffee creamer. I didn’t enjoy it, so I decided to try bacon grease to see if it would make it worse.

It did.

All manual, alphabetized to speed up the process (to around 16 hours; totally worth it). Man I want more maps!

Oh jeez, there’s smaller ones? Yeah, I bet that’d help! Still, it was a lot better use of time than doomscrolling. Almost meditative, since I was following a mental flowchart. Thanks for the post! :)

Like, if Starbucks put a swastika on their cups, and the symbol came out 45° rotated on some of them (as the third reich did), and they just decided not to ship those ones to Germany, it’d be pretty hard to defend.

You either die a Netscape Navigator, or you live long enough to become a… any of em, really.

They’ll probably hold to it for that exact product. If they rebrand it and add it back, that’s no longer the same thing you paid for ;)

It makes it a little better. I appreciate the analysis. It’s always good to get in something like “This too, shall pass.”

Omg, did you know that the word dumb has a ‘b’ in it!? It’s like watching Reading Rainbow again! /s