Mouselemming

@Mouselemming@sh.itjust.works

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The Fate of the Reptiles of the Leningrad Zoo⁩ ⁨⁨18⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:

  Star tortoise lifespan is 35 to 80 years, better care longer life, and the fact it handled the cold and deprivation so well suggests it was an adult to begin with. So it probably lived awhile longer and then died a natural death, and some nuance shifted in the translation.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨women⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:

  I didn’t read the linked article but from skimming the intro, it seems they found that unprovoked men are more likely to be violent but hell hath no fury like a provoked woman?

  I initially connected your previous sentence, so I incorrectly thought it was the victim statistics that evened out, and the disparity was because the male victims were provoking, i.e. asking for it.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Pls respond⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Fortunately they’re allatime swishing with salt water

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Fat labrador topilogy⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Given it also has a mouth-to-anus tube, is there a name for a double torus? Genus-2 torus I guess

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨You trying to give me a heart attack? I have warrants for chrissakes!⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  All songs with sirens should start with an advisory, like in the lyrics by the lead singer, with the opening chords, so it plays every time.

  “Yo, motherfuckers, we got sirens comin’ up in this bitch, so crack a window in case the popo sneak up on your ass during the chorus.”

  (Hello fellow kids do we still say popo?)

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Would you arrange your bromo bricks to form circles or just go wackadoodle?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The people who believe "progressiveness is just a fad that one grows out of" are the same people that grew up getting brainwashed into regressive politics. The belief is only true for them.⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  As an oldster who becomes more progressive (and shorter) every year I have to disagree.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨xkcd #3212: Little Red Dots⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  RELEASE THE CATEN!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Also, in my state, all the drivers are the worst⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Arizona is not on the West Coast

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨5,000-year-old bureaucracy: Over 7,000 prehistoric seal impressions uncovered in western Iran⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Damn, I guess those pinnipeds were large and in charge

  (If this is a no jokes place give me a bunch of down votes and I’ll delete it. But that is how my lazy brain read “seal impressions,” like fossilized tracks or toothmarks or bones)

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Meryl Streep movie, she could save only one child from the Nazis (or they’d have killed both, the cruelty was the point) and the guilt and trauma stays with her throughout her life.

  I was implying that if your mom had to give up one twin for adoption it might still be a painful thing she doesn’t want to talk about.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Your mom said the doctor told her the ultrasound showed “two babies” but I had an ultrasound at 5 weeks and they looked at the tiny embryonic speck and said, “there’s the baby!” In fact no babies are shown in ultrasounds, only fetuses. But my point was, they may have seen one 7-month fetus and one little shriveled thing and said “there’s two babies.”

  I guess it’s also possible she brought two babies to term, made a “Sophie’s Choice” to give one up for adoption, and didn’t want you to be heartbroken or afraid of being given away too. And since other people had heard about her being pregnant with twins, she gave you a story you could accept as a child.

  And another possibility is that the doctor gave her anesthesia or rohypnol or something and took the twin to put up for adoption, telling her it was absorbed. She’d know she had given birth but not remember it was twice. It’s terrible but not unheard of.

  You could ask her, if you feel you’re both adult enough now to handle the emotional implications of all the possible explanations. Remember that you can still trust her love no matter what, but she might not know the whole truth and/or might be ashamed to admit it.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨We're just scanning for the bear...⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  I hope you’ve started scanning the dark periphery like we do. Not because you deserved anything that happened to you! And I’m not assuming you weren’t already. But because I can’t do anything to protect you from over here on the Internet and I don’t want that to happen to you anymore. It’s when we’re near home that we tend to let our guard down.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I have no idea how to do my laundry⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  If you have lingerie marked “hand wash only” you can use a clean sink and a little liquid hand soap if you don’t have liquid laundry detergent. Do just a few at a time. Plug the sink, wet the clothes but don’t fill the sink. Put a little dab of soap on the crotch and/or pits of the items and rub between your hands, lathering and working the lather into the whole item. Then swish them all in the sink water for a few minutes. Drain the sink and refill it halfway. (A full sink will splash all over the floor when you swish.) Give the clothes some squeezes and swishes to get most of the soap out. Drain and rinse one more time. Remove each item and squeeze out the water, but don’t wring them hard like you would a rag. Hang them up where they can drip dry.

  Or get a mesh bag and put them in the washing machine in cold water, gentle cycle. Hang to dry.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨We're just scanning for the bear...⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  As a woman, imagining situations like those: I can see the brightly lit center is empty, that’s all I need to know about it. The stairs require several glances especially if I’m in heels or other unstable shoes. But those dark corners need checking and rechecking the whole time I’m walking, to be sure no tiny changes betray a lurker. Who is probably going to wait until they’re at my back to make a move.

  My mental image of the guys scanning the same image: “Yeah that’s where I’m going, that’s obviously where I’m looking.” Sure, they could get mugged but it’s less likely, and physical threat isn’t on their mind.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Littering 🚯⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Ingestion of lead ammunition is the primary reason California Condors almost became extinct, are still endangered, and aren’t having the greatest success with being reintroduced.

  As for bald eagles, they’re lazy smart, if they see takeout just sitting there, they’re not gonna make dinner from scratch.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The purpose of many company emails is not to inform the reader, but to protect the writer.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  When you find it necessary do this, be sure the conversation is also getting bcc’d to a home email

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I don't know the reason why.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  You could always add red food coloring if you have some old bottles from before they took out the toxic

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I don't know the reason why.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Good question, no and it confused me as a child in the 60s

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I don't know the reason why.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  We over-60s remember when pistachios were red, airplane security was non-existent and everywhere smelled like cigarettes.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Always there, just waiting.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  I can’t stand the graininess just under the skin. And the rest of the flesh is too bland. Unripe, they’re woody and sometimes stringy. Maybe if you took a perfectly ripe one, peeled and cored and cut it up, and then squeezed half a lemon over it, I would try it. Otherwise, miss me with those nasty things.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Judge scolds Mark Zuckerberg's team for wearing Meta glasses to social media trial⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Isn’t it usual procedure that everyone else enters the courtroom and takes their places before the judge walks in? So the team would have had ample opportunity to film, record and facially-recognize the jury before Judge Kuhl made them take off the spyglasses.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨X's Algorithm Pushes Users to Lean More Conservative, Researchers Find⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Indoctrinates users into radical patrio-fascism

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨ancient hyperfixations⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  It takes a village to survive. Some to remember the exact differences between safe, fun, and deadly mushrooms and others to turn predators into prey.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨ancient hyperfixations⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Ancient people had to remember/memorize a lot more things just to get through their days, before writing existed.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨deez nutz save lives⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  They don’t, not enough sodium for one thing. I guess you first use the clean juice to make them stop dying long enough so you can stitch what’s left of them together, and if they wake up you could tuck a salt pill under their tongue.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨deez nutz save lives⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  A lot of WWII was fought on Pacific islands.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨European Glow Worms⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  You could pull them off without staining them if you drape them neatly over a clean chair. But then you’d be standing there trouserless (pants means undies over there) with Margot and Charlie…

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨My father the tween literary critic⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Hey, Sideways Stories From Wayside School is great! And weird, but good weird. Twilight was the first thing I thought of when the COVID toilet paper crisis hit.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How do you cut a cucumber so that the round slices don't roll all over and off of your cutting board?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  For your carrot problem, get the really fat bulk carrots, which (at my grocery store anyway) are not woody and very tasty. Peel it as usual, noticing you only have to peel one or two. You’re now perfectly set for your first cucumber solution, cutting it in half lengthwise, or maybe even quarters because carrots are a firmer bite. Personally I start cutting off the fat end and work towards the tip, because you have more to grip for better control on the harder slices, and if your last ones are a little thicker they’re also small.