I About Peed
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life becomes so beautiful when you start cooking rice in liquids other than water
put that basmati rice in the cooker with coconut cream and chicken stock and an entire onion that you’ve diced and sauteed with garlic until transparent. and some salt and pepper. Trust me
Mountnain Dew
My guy is out here opening his fourth eye and aligning the crown chakra’s crown chakra.
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this is the funniest shit ive ever seen in my life
Johnny Appleseed: America’s Forgotten Ronin
“Cowboys were an itinerant warrior class from meiji era texas”
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seeing people casually talking about spending $30,000 on a wedding makes me feel a special kind of nauseous when every single person i know has to debate if $40 on ordering pizza is worth it
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Y’all in the American SW and west Mexico better check the national hurricane center and your weather for this weekend and next week.
Hurricane Hilary is about to make landfall and that whole desert area is supposed to get a years worth of rain or more. Death Valley is supposed to get twice the annual rainfall. Severe winds, massive flooding, and landslides are all strong possibilities.
This is gonna get ugly. Please spread the word. This is a majorly anomalous event and people may be unaware of the threat headed their way.
Flash floods are definitely gonna kill people, so here’s your regularly scheduled PSA:
Desert soil does not absorb a significant amount of water. It reaches maximum saturation very very quickly, and all the rest of the water rushes downhill. Even if you can’t tell that the ground is not perfectly flat, the water can. And it will move. Quickly. No, faster than that. Nope, still faster. If you try to cross moving floodwater, you will get swept downstream and probably die.
Do not try to wade in/cross flood water that is any deeper than the thickness of the sole of an average athletic shoe, no I am not kidding, the water will get deeper literally while you’re standing in it.
This goes for cars, too. I’ve seen entire vehicles getting swept downstream in flash floods because the driver thought they could cross the “puddle” and Found Out.
Stay safe, y’all.
also if you’re going into water intentionally (cleanup, obviously as things RECEDE), PROTECT YOUR EYES. Flood water is NASTY AS HELL and you will be getting a tetanus booster right off the bat if you end up in the ER for any reason.
Part of climate change is that Southern California is starting to get the summer monsoons that used to only happen in Arizona and Nevada. Los Angeles was not a desert until the last 15 years — it was a Mediterranean climate. Summer monsoons = desert.
Also of note:
If you’re entering receding waters for cleanup, WEAR RUBBER WADERS!!!
Rattlesnakes can swim and will get in the water to get out of the heat. Rattlesnakes also rather notoriously are chill as fuck until you scare them. And imagine how terrifying the floods and noise of a hurricane must be to a rattlesnake.
Rattlers don’t “want to hurt you.” But they will defend themselves if they think they need to, and they’re going to think they need to. So protect yourself and them, and wear gear they can’t bite. Should you spot a rattler before it attempts to scare you off, just back away slowly and come back later. If you can’t back away, try to give it a wide berth, or angle your approach so you appear to be heading away rather than coming head on.
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this isn’t a new or hot take or anything but the current trend of people just recording strangers in public is so fucking annoying and low key terrifying. the fact that someone can decide that i’m moving weird at the grocery store and record a video of me and get it reposted by barstool sports or whatever on tiktok makes me want to maul someone
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i like it too :)
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Common Dinosaur Mistakes
- you know the “bunny hands” pose everyone does to indicate t. rex? with the hands folded down, palms facing the chest? yeah. almost no dinosaurs could do that. it would break their wrists. only one unique group evolved to do that, which doesn’t include any of the Jurassic Park dinosaurs. the term for this is “pronation” and actually the vast majority of land vertebrates can’t do it. mammals can. mammals are weird.
- not a single dinosaur has claws on their fourth or fifth fingers. not a single one. not even if they’re quadrupedal.
- most dinosaurs have very stiff tails and can’t wiggle them around like a lizard tail. the tails were stiff for balance.
- the “tongue flick” thing that lizards do is a lizard thing. dinosaurs wouldn’t have done that. they don’t do that today (birds, birds don’t do that)
- “nonavian” dinosaurs with feathered wings had them like birds. they covered the hands. and attached to the hands. stop giving Velociraptor hands. it had wings. and very big ones, too, based on Zhenyuanlong.
- dinosaurs with scales don’t have lizard scales. lizard scales are a derived trait found only in lizards. they had scutes similar to those of living birds, but much smaller compared to body size, and often in crazy shapes and patterns. dinosaur scales are super weird tbh
- sauropods don’t have elephant feet. they handled the problem of size in a much weirder way: instead of spreading out the weight, they turned their feet into columns. like pillars. some of the biggest species didn’t have any fingers, their front limbs just. end. for maximum column support.
- dinosaurs were chonky. you could not see the bones like a silhouette under the skin. some might have been skinnier and some of the features of the bones would be somewhat like with skinny bird legs, but most of the time? no. so stop making the holes in their skulls visible on the outside like damn. jurassic park/world is the biggest offender for this one.
- the whole unique feature of dinosaurs is having their legs DIRECTLY under their bodies. they do not sprawl. I can’t believe I have to say that, but I do.
- hadrosaur (duck-billed dinosaur) front feet were hooves. like, seriously, hooves. not little flippers. not three fingered hands. hooves.
I reserve the right to add more to this post as I think of things.
other people can too, but just research before you do.
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Trying to get people to realize birds are full on actual no holds barred dinosaurs on the internet is like playing a constant game of whack-a-mole
The game never ends there’s just another mole to whack
whack whack whack
I understand that you guys aren’t being totally serious, but birds are categorically NOT dinosaurs. They’re BIRDS. Being descended from and very similar to an animal does not make them literally the same.
Bats are mammals. If every mammal except for bats went extinct, bats would still be mammals. This is what happened with birds. They’re a type of dinosaur that evolved within the dinosaur evolutionary tree, and existed alongside other types of dinosaurs until all those other types of dinosaurs were wiped out. Surviving when the other dinosaurs went extinct doesn’t mean they stopped being dinosaurs at any point.
@arctic-nimbus I am not joking, I am being serious. Birds are living dinosaurs.
Dinosaurs are defined as the most recent common ancestor of [Theropods] + [Sauropodomorphs] + [Ornithischians], and ALL OF THAT ANCESTOR’S DESCENDANTS
hence, because birds descend from that ancestor, ALL BIRDS ARE DINOSAURS THE END.
I am a paleontologist and this has been known since 1996 please stop making me play whack a mole. this is googleable. this is on wikipedia. this is in most paleontological sources. this is in the literature. this is in books. this is in jurassic park. this is on this blog in many places. this is on other people’s blogs in many places.
this is, or should be, common. knowledge.
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Okay, your condescending reply aside, you haven’t addressed the elephant in the room which is what I brought up in the other thread. I’m descended from a fish. That doesn’t mean I am a fish. You telling me that birds are living dinosaurs doesn’t make any difference to me because you haven’t made a convincing argument why I should categorize them that way as oppose to another way.
Where do you draw the line between them being living dinosaurs and them being something else?
there ISNT A LINE
and YES, WE ARE SARCOPTERYGIIANS AKA LOBE FINNED FISH
I don’t care that I’m being condescending. This is like telling an astronomer that pluto is a planet.
stop.
So if there isn’t a line, then what you’re saying is gibberish because there’s no actual definition of anything. We miswell call birds lobe finned fish as well. So why doesn’t your post say that?
yeah, they are!
it’s a description of family groups!
relationships!
the end!
Welcome to biology…
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forget about touching grass, i need to touch THE SEA I NEED TO GO INTO THE WATER I NEED TO DIVE INTO THE SEA!!!!!!!!!!!!
I NEED TO GO IN THERE ⬇️⬇️⬇️‼️‼️‼️
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