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Ever notice mammals never seem to come in green?
  • This is an interesting question but I don't think it is restricted to green. Isn't the same true of purple, blue and red? I'm not talking about just reddish like human hair or a red panda but truly bright red like a cardinal. I would imagine it has something to do with our evolutionary history. Complete speculation here but laced with a few facts I picked up. I hear the common ancestor of mammals emerged around the time the dinosaurs became extinct and was basically a tiny rodent like a shrew. I wonder if as a small animal that can't fly or swim it had to hide a lot and basically just came in shades of brown. So maybe any genes for other colors were lost before that common mammalian ancestor emerged and although mammals have lots of patterns they don't have many colors.

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    Ever notice mammals never seem to come in green?
  • Best I've got is sloths. And they're only green because algae grows on them. And I know it sounds like cheating because they aren't intrinsically green but before you completely discount it there are animals that wouldn't be the color they are in a different environment. For instance, flamingos are only pink because of the seafood they eat. If fed a different diet they can be almost white.

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    Shouldn't most religious people in theory be excited to die because then they get to experience the afterlife?
  • Shouldn't athletes expecting to medal just want to skip the competition and go straight to the podium? I mean, that's the reward, right? It is pretty easy to come up with many other analogs where there is a reward/goal that would feel hollow without whatever experience precedes it.

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    Heart Pump Is Linked to 49 Deaths, the F.D.A. Warns
  • I misread it as heat pump, was sure I was wrong, read it again and got it wrong again. So... I guess I'm glad you wrote this comment to get me to read it a third time.

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    Turns out Altman is a lab-leak covid truther, calls virus 'synthetic' according to Spectator piece on AI risk.
  • In the absence of any actual evidence, it does make it less true. Believing otherwise means ignoring all the obvious (but admittedly circumstantial) evidence that racism is super-fucking-popular. So Occam's Razor says if two theories have equal levels of zero evidence and one is inherently appealing to lizard brain, that one will gain prevalence so if you want to correct for that bias you have to bias in the opposite direction. How hard? Roll dice.

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    Undiscovered country music
  • I like that name a ton and also "Paranoid Android" is a Radiohead song from the album OK Computer. Now I'm realizing there is no comma in that title. I always thought it was "OK, Computer" because the speaker is addressing the computer. Nope, it is "OK Computer" like a label at an antique shop letting you know the computer is not Poor or Excellent but just OK.

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    A 57-year-old UPS driver in Texas died after collapsing in the heat while making deliveries
  • Let us know if you come up with a citation. Absent that I've read a bunch of articles regarding this topic and it seems highly implausible so I'm going to assume you're remembering wrong.

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    This campaign will be smooth and meticulously planned out
  • Here's what I love best: pretend the positions of the characters also line up between the two photos as well. Some of them work pretty well, and some work too well:

    Zhaan/Crusher
    Chiana/Troi - Yeah, I know you thought Zhaan should be with Troi but the neckline and also there's probably no one in TNG crew you could make chaotic good but if you had to pick, it'd be Troi.
    Crais/Riker - Facial hair, of course.
    D'Argo/Worf - No, you're wrong! It is actually Sun/Worf. She is clearly chief of security.
    D'Argo/Data - Yes, good. I'm sure D'Argo loves cats.
    Scorpius/Geordi - Biohackers.
    Rygel/Picard - Most definitely in charge and acting like it. Don't let anybody tell you different.
    Crichton/Yar - You... you can't see Tasha Yar in the TNG photo? She's right there in the... weird. I mean she was in the show from the first episode to the last one and she held the whole group together. She flies the shuttle. That's like... that's Crichton's whole thing. I don't see how you can't... you really can't see her?

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    Looking for games with strong female leads for my daughter (even just to watch as I play). Came across this link, but they're a bit age-inappropriate. Any suggestions from the community?
  • Some of these might be a little more like 8 than 5 because they have storybook-scary but still mentioning for you to have a look and decide.

    Lost Words - Beyond the Page
    Unpacking
    Epistory - Typing Chronicles
    One Step from Eden
    Wargroove
    Tsioque

    Technically not female lead but kinda close and definitely age-appropriate:

    Chicory - From creators on Wandersong + Celeste. Not positive your character is canonically female but let's just call it very plausible and you are filling in for the titular character who is called "she".
    Donut County (technically the male racoon is the main character but the only human and next-most important character is female)
    Journey (likely canonically no specific gender but great game, no dialog and could easily interpret as female if you choose)

    Not what you asked for but maybe consider:

    Beglitched - No human characters other than the player, puzzle game with pink and purple hacker aesthetic.
    Lovers in a Dangerous Spacetime - Androgynous animals and humans pilot a wacky ship in 4 player co-op lots of hearts.

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