Additionally, a lot of them borrowed from heraldry or livery, hence the popularity of the Red Lion, the White Hart, the Crown, the Kings Arms, etc.

They absolutely are, in that the species from America got shortened from “opossum” to “possum” (with both versions still in use), and then the similar-looking Australasian animals were given the same abbreviated name.

My abilities? Well, in all honesty they all come through the amulet I wear. I found it one day after killing a whole nest of gazulibirds (now long extinct). I put the thing on and suddenly my hair grew down to my waist!

Looks like your best bet is to raid every bird nest you can find until you find a Ying and Yang amulet.

Edit: ironic since they’re called Peta.

The “metro station” looks a bit like someone lifted one platform of the Greenwich DLR station and dropped it on a car park.

The rental cars I’ve used in Europe in the last few years are absolutely relentless with their warnings; it just becomes noise that you ignore.

It thinks you’re not watching the road, it thinks the speed limit is 30kph when the signs say 80, it doesn’t like that you’ve crossed into another lane to pass a cyclist, it’s warm outside, it’s cold outside, the person who just got into the car hasn’t finished putting their seatbelt on, the bag on the back seat hasn’t put its seatbelt on, your parking spot is within a meter of another car, the tires are 32 PSI instead of 33.

Alarm fatigue sets in really fast.

This is funny, but I really wish more comic artists would ask themselves if they need the last panel. It’s so often superfluous.

Oh, wow! I guess you’ve already checked if the pipe is obstructed?

I do the same. If it took 19 minutes from cold, I suspect this version will probably over-extract in any case, but starting with hot water will definitely help.

Is everyone on this platform off their fucking meds?

The first piece of advice I’d give to anyone new to Lemmy or Piefed is that the “block” functionality is essential. Don’t hesitate to block users, communities, and even whole instances. It significantly improves the experience.

The gamble is whether people jump ship, and given that the next Xbox won’t have a disc drive, it’s probably a safe bet for Sony overall.

Ceasing disc production eliminates the substantial second-hand market, and resultantly also massively reduces the pressure to reduce prices on older games to compete with that market, especially for AAA titles.

The loss of customers will probably be negligible compared to the amount of money they’ll rake in. It’s totally contemptuous in terms of the consumer, but it makes sense for them economically – and they would have done it years ago if they thought they could get away with it.

Sphinx of the black quartz judge my vow.

Sorry, you probably don’t care! I always figure if I’ve looked it up myself (out of curiosity) then I might as well share what I found.

Origin appears to be an 1880 mosaic by the Venice & Murano stained glass company in Venice, depicting the Last Supper. It’s a little over a meter across, and was bought by a Melbourne gallery in 1888.

Tidal pay artists more than most platforms, and over four times as much per stream as Spotify. That’s not to say it’s not still part of a broken system, but most other platforms are worse.

I don’t know about elsewhere, but in the UK they’re normally a bit more expensive and marketed as “takeaway style”. They’re generally superior, but they need a stone or tray, a hotter oven, and more time to cook.

Just got to check if it needs a baking tray or not.

You can normally tell by sight if it’s raw dough or if the base has already been baked, but opening your oven to find your pizza doing an impression of the terminator from T2 down through your wire shelf is a sad experience.

I think it’s a screenshot of something like Instagram or Twitter, where the original image is part of a carousel, and you’re seeing the little indicator that shows we’re on image 2/2.

The exact same image is used on the Game Rant socials, without the marker.

If a chicken coop didn’t have a lockable door, was on an island or raft in a body of water, and housed ducks instead of chickens, yeah.

That’s the exact point OP is making. Humans do primate things because they’re primates.

The other catarrhine monkeys don’t have umbrellas, though, so we’re clearly superior.