Third’s the one with the hairy chest!

I’m surprised they have it in the US!

I knew they said it in Australia and Canada, though - I don’t know, I guess I just assumed it was a commonwealth thing. It’s got that specific flavour of daftness to it.

I probably get a month, possibly two, out of them between washes. I work from home though, so they don’t really get that dirty.

You can call me et al

Psychology.

• Feeding people bad news makes them scared.
• Scared people want to be kept updated, so tune into the news.
• Repeat.

Also:

• Scared people look for authority to guide them.
• Lots of money/power to be gained by having crowds of people who trust you.

Presenting people with scary news keeps them coming back to you and offers opportunities for the stakeholders to profit.

Exactly the same reason social media presents awful stuff all the time now. Social media does it because ragebait is more profitable than nice stuff.

I think some people genuinely like the taste, but I’m with you - they just taste kind of ‘meh’. Certainly not as nice as most other things.

They are extremely healthy, though - they’re considered a top-tier superfood.

You’re asking if head trauma can cause brain damage in animals?

Dogs do have thicker skulls than humans, wrapped in more muscle than humans. Both of these make the skull better at absorbing shocks, so much less force should transfer through to the brain.

As long as your dog isn’t regularly running headfirst straight into the corners of tables, I wouldn’t worry too much.

She has to defend her Masters thesis? Over here in the UK, you only have to formally defend Doctorate level theses.

Kenya’s system must be a bit more rigorous than ours.

I read an interview with an actress who was asked why there’s so much step-family porn.

She explained that it’s an easy niche to make content for - it’s literally just two people having sex. The kink is entirely in the dialogue.

That’s why there’s so much of it around. Not because it’s super popular, but because it’s extremely low hanging fruit.

UK resident here. Absolutely no issues whatsoever - why would there be? People are people at the end of the day.

Funnily enough, the route between my bus stop and my office takes me through Manchester’s Chinatown. Even though I walk through it every week, I still think I’m really lucky - the archway is awesome, the decorations are interesting and the shops sell all kinds of stuff it’s hard to find elsewhere.

I wonder if I’ve got the same kind of thing. I love onions but absolutely hate leeks. They taste like the smell of stale urine.

I’ve never understood it - I know they don’t taste like this to other people. I like the other edible alliums, but leeks taste uniquely awful.

I keep trying them every few years hoping that my tastes have changed, but they haven’t until this point.

In the linked article, MyMiniFactory say that they’ll ultimately be removing AI content from Thingiverse.

I’m in a tricky position here.

I use MyMiniFactory, have backed several frontiers things and am a member of a few tribes.

I also use Thingiverse a lot.

And while I certainly don’t want to pay for AI content, I don’t mind that much if it’s free. There have been times that I’ve looked for something for DnD and the only option was AI generated. And honestly, I’d much rather have that than no model at all.

Taxonomically speaking, birds are dinosaurs.

There isn’t a place to put a line between them - all the things that make birds “birds” also apply to dinosaurs.

A super fun fact is that of the two main types of dinosaur, Saurischia (“lizard-hipped”) and Ornithischia (“bird-hipped”), birds actually evolved from the lizard-hipped group.

I’m guessing “proficient” was the intended word! :)

“Medical coding” covers a huge range of disciplines.

For medical research like protein folding, you’d be best studying Machine Learning.

For medical admin systems, you’d be best studying databases, UX and the like.

I did Computer Visualisation at university. One of our assignments was taking the huge list of numbers generated by a MRI scanner and then creating a program to parse that data into a volumetric model. That kind of thing is yet again another discipline.

None of these skills are particularly medicine-specific. If you work out what it is exactly what you want to do, you’ll more easily find resources for it.

CodeAcademy has a pretty diverse selection of courses - I signed my team up to them and they’ve all found different niches to study.

Amputate a leg?

I thought that was the BPP logo at first! I realised from the context that it’s actually Brave.

(Btw, for clarification, your hexagon looks exactly like the Brave logo. It’s just that the Brave logo looks an awful lot like the BPP logo)

NASA, NATO, Radar, Sonar, Laser, Scuba, AIDS, PIN, SWAT, YOLO, CAD

The rule genuinely is “if it can be said as a word, it might be said as a word”.

They’re called acronyms.

BBC, TV, USSR etc. can’t easily be said as a word - these are just initialisations.

I can’t see the video without an account, but the house in the thumbnail looks really good.

For DnD, my orcs all lived in a Tabletop Scenics Orc Barracks, but now I’m very tempted to try something like this for next time.

Psssh.

It’s clearly a mogwai and nest of wild otamatones