I’m 5’6. Yeah. So much. I was rejected like crazy for my height in my teens and early twenties, but I lived in a particularly shitty part of the United States, so I’m not surprised in retrospect. I also dated a ton, so there was a lot of opportunity for rejection. I even remember a woman I was not interested in and had shown absolutely no interest in going out of her way to tell me she would date me if I wasn’t so short.

I relocated to a much more progressive part of the country and it hasn’t come up once in nearly a decade.

Edit: I should mention it was only an issue with women, I never heard anything about it from men.

Regardless of if the stats are accurate, I can assure you the education is terrible.

Instant micro plastics: just add seawater!

Haha, I did what I could. Thanks!

Ohhhh shit, you’re right! They’re… Uh… Fruit predators, stalking the wild papaya.

Don’t forget the mammalian predator fruit predator the wrinkle faced bat, a creature so ugly its face has a foreskin.

Edit: oops. They’re frugivores!

Goddamn, we’re at around $4.10-4.20 per gallon here. Same as Hawaii, 33% more than NYC. Gotta love the PNW.

To be fair, there’s a portion of Trump voters that just believe him because they’re idiots who don’t pay attention to any news and lack even the most basic critical thinking skills. I know from firsthand experience as several of my family members are in this category.

They’re not red hat wearers but voted for him because they’re poor and he said he’d make things cheaper. They’re surprisingly not racist, but their stupidity supports racism.

They mock us now, but they’ll be at our doors, begging us to share our sweet, sweet memes after the internet falls.

Well, TIL! Thank you!

My coworker had a virtual NFT gallery full of Marvel NFTs, all laid out like a showroom. He literally spent thousands, now it’s worth close to nothing.

I really miss ten years ago, when I had a faint glimmer of hope that he might not be a complete piece of shit. He really showed his character with the “pedo guy” debacle and has been on a steep downward trajectory since.

Of course! I’m a biologist, I try to use my powers for good.

Functional changes in coloration are much “easier” (read: more likely) to develop through random mutation than functional changes to complex mechanical structures like bone structure or musculature. Given their predecessors were already under selective pressure by predation for millions of years prior, it’s reasonable to assume they’d developed countershading (light bottom, dark top). Plus current agnathans are usually pretty dull.

Edit: oh geez, I misunderstood your message. It totally could have been a rainbow party blimp. That mostly depends on what their habitat was like.

Definitely. The minimum infective dose is around 10-100 million CFUs.

I got laid off in January, still looking! Zero interview so far. I’m sorry to hear others are having a rough time too, although it’s a bit of a relief to know I’m not just super toxic or something.

I just had a guy in his early thirties gush at great length about making AI “art” and “music”, literally right after talking about how he highly values artistic creation. It was gross.

Aloha e @clay_pidgin@sh.itjust.works. Pehea ʻoe?