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But you can lick yourself and others for… other purposes?

https://apnews.com/article/hippos-animals-personhood-pablo-escobar-e89daf05efb37efd3d35e6dabce56726

The “cocaine hippos” are descendants of animals that Escobar illegally imported to his Colombian ranch in the 1980s when he reigned over the country’s drug trade. After his death in a 1993 shootout with authorities, the hippos were abandoned at the estate and left to thrive with no natural predators — their numbers have increased in the last eight years from 35 to somewhere between 65 and 80.

A group of scientists has warned that the hippos pose a major threat to the area’s biodiversity and could lead to deadly encounters with humans. They are advocating for some of the animals to be killed. A government agency has started sterilizing some of the hippos, but there is a debate on what are the safest methods.

“Legal personhood is just the ability to have your interest heard and represented in court,” Berry said. “It’s about enforcing rights they already have under animal cruelty laws and other protection laws.”

This is adorable.

I think it could be replaced with cookies and non alcoholic hot apple cider, but it might not be as sociable without everyone being a bit tipsy.

Sirens of Titan by Kurt Vonnegut touches on this subject. It’s a fun read.

Finding the right therapist is somewhere between doing job interviews and going on tinder dates with the intention of an LTR. It's hard work and it sucks and most people will not be the right person. I think people get the idea that therapists are this magical authority figure who represents "therapy" as a whole. There are so many styles of therapy to choose from and people with in those styles. They are humans with a skill to share, you need the right human with the right skill.

Hey man, there’s still bird flu!

Yes, he did do that.

https://thehill.com/policy/technology/5133777-elon-musk-threatens-republican-senators/

It was already sitting on the stairs though?

Was pretty hilarious (tragic and awful) to hear senators from very low gdp states on the news talking about how they were going to “cut funding to California” after the L.A. fires until we leaned our lesson and stopped having fires. We’re number one and we have number two beat by over a trillion.

Yeah, but they were $8.99 before the shenanigans started.

There was another one where kindergarteners rated attractive teachers as smarter and easier to get along with than unattractive ones. Both “teachers” just read them a story and left.

It's also the student loan racket.

Lemmings don't jump off cliffs and they are not stupid. A sociopath employed by Disney threw a few dozen off a cliff for documentary in the 50s, for.. reasons..? The story stuck. They're just normal little rodents, tougher than most, as they can survive brutal winters on bleak landscapes.

https://www.adfg.alaska.gov/index.cfm?adfg=wildlifenews.view_article&articles_id=56

That’s really interesting. I wish they explained how they “restored” the glycocalyx in the aging mice.

It’s not the same, but I’ve been having fun with spoonflower.com. Thousands of independent designers with hundreds of prints each, available to be printed on any of their 20ish fabric types . You can order a box of fabric samples to see what each type feels like and how the ink looks on each one.

But chatting with the crafty ladies in line, getting all nosey with my shopping basket is irreplaceable 😭

So many things come in pill form…

Those aren't really a thing right now. https://www.ftc.gov/news-events/news/press-releases/2024/04/ftc-announces-rule-banning-noncompetes

With media, you get a lot of straight, white (usually young) men bitching about “forced diversity” if the main characters aren’t their idea of “standard human” which is, of course, a straight, white, neurotypical, cisgender man. He can have a British accent if he’s fancy or an Australian one if he’s rowdy. Otherwise American all the way, baby.

Dan Savage, the romantic advice columnist, says you should not move in together until you have been farting in front of each other for six months.