There was a short while when everyone had computers at home, and we became skilled with them because we grew up with them. But those computers were pretty quickly replaced with tablets and phones, leaving the majority of younger generations with much less computer experience.

Because of the locked-down nature and simplified UI design of mobile platforms, they weren’t able to learn skills like navigating file systems or the many tools in document and art programs they would have found on PC.

Rather than being an edutainment tool, mobile devices have offered cheap dopamine hits and predatory monetization. The fact that we know this and do nothing to correct it is incredibly sad.

Nonverbal people are free to make up their own mind how they feel about it, but calling it “cringe” when people choose to come together over a shared identity and experience is extremely insulting.

Puffin

Cormorant

Arctic tern

Common eider

King eider

White-tailed eagle

Kittiwake

Fulmar

Snow bunting

Northern gannet

Sanderling

Black guillemot

Brünnich’s guillemot

Little auk

Arctic skua

Long-tailed skua

Ptarmigan

Great northern diver

Red-throated diver

Glaucous gull

Lesser black-backed gull

Great black-backed gull

Ivory gull

Red phalarope (grey phalarope)

Pink-footed goose

Barnacle goose

Brant goose

Razorbill

Turnstone

https://oceanwide-expeditions.com/blog/22-enchanting-arctic-birds-and-their-most-fascinating-facts

The website has pictures.

Obviously autism can vary between people, but it’s not something that’s wrong with me, and I wouldn’t want to cure it. I’m different than what’s widely considered normal, but in a way that I think is fine. It’s like having red hair or being transgender.

Yeah, that’s what I figured they were like and why I was content to let them be if they didn’t want to sit on me. We just kept having these moments where they clearly wanted to snuggle, but seemed to be afraid I would crumble beneath them and shatter their tiny paws to dust. We’re getting to a point now where I can even adjust my position underneath them, but only sometimes.

Y’all in this thread need to get yourselves automatic feeders and start putting out wet food during awake times and not the crack of dawn.

That’s kneading. Kittens will knead at their mother’s stomach while nursing, and adult cats usually continue the behavior to a lesser or greater degree. Some do it subtly and gently, and others are made of knives.

I was surprised my cats weren’t sitting on my lap, so when they were close to two years old I started holding them captive for very short periods while petting them how they like, and now I can’t keep them off me. It seemed like the only reason they weren’t sitting on humans before is that they didn’t think it was safe.

Apparently Greek was considered the thing to be doing at the time, like how we used to use Latin and French for all our fancy learnings.

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41559-024-02461-1

https://archive.ph/cE2x7

imgdetector.ai says it’s AI. I guess it’s good OOP has all those extra fingers to compensate for the way they use a knife.

“Sushi” refers to the sour rice, not the fish. You can have completely vegan sushi.

Aha! And just how do you know what the inside of a fish is like, fish-murderer?

That one I don’t mind so much, but you’re right that it should be considered when judging the danger of being reliant on China.

Archive copy: https://archive.ph/gOFqZ

Thank you! I was searching for things China has done to the EU, and it had just not occurred to me to consider what they’ve done to others.

Archive links to the articles: https://archive.ph/zoj4M https://archive.ph/d1HmE https://archive.ph/0iRPt

China is increasingly weaponizing economic ties for political gains

Does anyone have info/examples of said weaponization?

Well, it taught me that berries have a strict botanical meaning rather than just being and cute little fruit on a bush, and that there can be multiple meanings for a word based on context. There’s nothing wrong with calling a strawberry a berry even while understanding it’s not really a berry. Correctness is important in formal discussions, but we can have fun being intentionally wrong in everyday speech where poetry and history hold more value.

From there one asks, “What is a berry? What about a banana makes it a berry? And what is a strawberry if not a berry?” And so one reads and one learns. “What about a raspberry? What about grapes?” The internet is as forthcoming with answers as one’s brain is with questions.

We don’t really know where the phrase came from. My guess is that they’re things from nature that alliterate, which makes it sound cute and innocent.

vast energies

Yeah, I’m definitely not scrombled.

Oh, that’s easy. Just jam something in the little door slots so it thinks it’s closed. Perfectly safe.