YSK that there is no such thing as an "alpha wolf"
...so he can have a total meltdown over an internet stranger again? =P
Personally, I like the "alpha as in new software" approach: Alpha version = unstable, missing important features, filled with flaws, prone to breakdown and not fit for the public.
Exactly this. Put any one species into a tiny depressing enclosure with way too many strangers and way too little food, and they will fight and establish a pecking order eventually. This has nothing to do with how the same species would behave in the wild and with enough resources to live comfortably, and the author realized that mistake years ago and is since trying to correct it.
But I guess the entire "alpha male" thing is just too popular with certain people ... ahem.
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We had chickens when I was a teen. They regularily hunted, killed and ate small rodents, lizards/snakes and sometimes even small birds like young sparrows whenever they could catch them - everything that fits into a chicken's beak is fair game. And it wasn't exactly a pretty sight. Imagine a single panicked field mouse being chased by sixteen feathered mini velociraptors, all trying to kill the mouse first, and then all fighting each other FOR the (hopefully) dead prey, as noone ever wanted to share their kill.
Funnily enough, the rooster was was a cuddly little idiot. (he got beaten up by the hens occasionally)
And just t add some proof for some of the points above, here's a video of a single hen killing a hawk (warning, it is kinda graphic). They don't even need great numbers to shred their wannabe predators - one really p*ssed off chicken and an opportunity to strike back, that's all it takes.
It's a thing in Hesse, too ;) you can also say "Ist mir Schnuppe" or "Ist mir schnurz", which essentially mean the same thing ("I don't care") but the literal translation is different. "Schnuppe" is the burnt end if a candle wick, but I have seriously no idea what "schnurz" is supposed to be, lol.
Germany, Hesse. We have some ... interesting regional idioms Examples:
- Furz mit Krücken (a fart with crutches) - a really stupid idea that's bound to fail
- Eine Gardinenpredigt halten (to hold a curtain preach) - to rant / tell someone off in a loud and angry way
- Das macht den Bock auch nicht fett (that doesn't fatten up the billy goat either) - somehing doesn't matter anymore
- Das Kind ist in den Brunnen gefallen (the child fell into the well) - something bad has already happened, intervening isn't possible anymore, the only option is to deal with the consequences.
- Besser als in die hohle Hand geschissen (better than shitting into your hollow hand) - better than nothing
- Auf dem Zahnfleisch kriechen (to crawl on your gums) - to be totally exhausted
- Klappe zu, Affe tot (hatch closed, monkey dead) - this is the end of the discussion
- Passt wie die Faust aufs Auge (like a fist fits the eye) - a perfect match. Another variant is "Passt wie Arsch auf Eimer" (fits like a butt on a bucket)
- Eine Laus über die Leber gelaufen (A louse walked across your liver) - to be annoyed and failing to hide it
- Einen Besen fressen (to eat a broom) - exclamation of disbelief ("If that is really true, I'm going to eat a broom")
- Der hat Haare auf den Zähnen (he has hair on his teeth) - he is stubborn and loud about it
- Das Leben ist wie's ist, wer nen scheppen Arsch hat, hat nen scheppen Schiss. (Life is life, a person with a sideways arse poops sideways turds) - stop complaining about stuff you can't change. "Schepp" is "schief", but said with a dialect.
- Wie der Och's wenns blitzt (like an ox when lightning strikes) - to stare dumbfounded into space, usually because you don't understand something / are surprised
- Einbildung ist auch eine Bildung (delusion is also a form of education) - when someone is dumb but so full of themselves that they don't realize HOW dumb they are. "Einbildung" and "eine Bildung" sound very similar.
- Wer im Glashaus sitzt, soll nicht mit Steinen werfen (if you sit in a glass house, don't throw stones) - don't gossip about others when you're also guilty of the thing you want to gossip about
- Am Arsch die Waldfee (by the butt of the forest fairy) - "This is ridiculous and I refuse to believe it" Another variant is "Am Arsch die Räuber" (by the butts of the robbers)
- Himmel, Arsch und Zwirn! (heaven, ass and twine!) - for fuck's sake!
- Herr, schmeiss Hirn vom Himmel! (Lord, throw a brain down from the Heavens!) - when you're frustrated with someone really stupid. Another variant is "Herr, schmeiss Hirn vom Himmel - oder Steine, Hauptsache du triffst!" (Lord, throw a brain down from the Heavens - or rocks, as long as you hit your mark!)
- Nicht mein Affe, nicht mein Zirkus (not my monkey, not my circus) - This is not my responsibility, go ask someone else
- Wie ein Affe auf einem Schleifstein (like a monkey sitting on a grindstone) - you're sitting weird
- Das gleiche in Grün (the same, but green) - two things are essentially the same
- Zum Mäusemelken (like milking mice) - something is complicated and frustrating
- Ich hab schon Pferde vor der Apotheke kotzen sehen (I've seen horses barf in front of a pharmacy) - I've seen weirder things in my life
Diddy Kong's Quest for the SNES. I always got stuck in K.Rool's Keep, got frustrated, took a break, forgot the game existed for a couple of weeks/months, and then started over from scratch when I realized that I wasn't used to the controls anymore.
Reminds me of a certain PlagueOfGripes video ... "Get used to eating eggs for breakfast!" (NSFW)
Don't bother, it's a troll anyway. Just look at their comment history.
Sorry if this is the wrong place to ask for this, please let me know where I should post instead!
It is the right place, don't worry ;) it may just take a bit for a supporter to react, and IIRC there is a side-wide update due today that may cause the supporters to have their hands full for a while, but they'll eventually come back to you.
Movie night. I asked one of my friends to bring cocporn.
(It was meant to be popcorn)
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sustained level of activity over the last ~3 months
Gee, I wonder what happened roughly 3 months ago that might have led to them picking this exact time frame ...
Significant as in "useful for everyday life"? Zero.
.. or as in "useful for anything else"? Then maybe 20% or so. I'm an avid roleplayer and sometimes, a particular dream can be the inspiration for a plot, character or story.
But mostly I feel that dreams are the IRL equivalent of animated screensavers. They don't have to make sense as long as there is something on the screen while the CPU is idle.
More users would be nice, but Rome reddit wasn't built in a day either, so I'm hopeful that we'll get there eventually.
As for actual features, I'm missing the ability to upload videos directly to the site, but I can totally understand why it isn't a feature as it would eat up a lot more resources than just text and pictures.
I have occasionally checked my former favorite sub since leaving - the stats are still the same (~900k users) but the content has gone downhill in a very obvious way. Each time I checked, the sub was filled to the brim with lazy, unfunny shitposts, extremely obvious t-shirt scammers and repost bots, offtopic content, conterfeit merch and sometimes an actually interesting post with like 12 upvotes or so, and you would have to dig quite deep to reach it.
And the sub creator seems to have abandoned it entirely. The description still says that the sub has gone private due to spez' decisions and that you need to use discord instead (the sub has been public again since the initial protest, just the description was never updated) and they haven't touched their own sub in 3+ months.
PS: I just checked again and they have a 2 day old screenshot of a dead frog with 2k upvotes as the current top post.
Maybe not "reserved" but eaten less frequent? Let's say a poor peasant during that time owned 10 guinea pigs and had the choice to either slaughter one of the little guys for one single meal, or sell some to the higher-ups and buy less expensive food that will last for a week or two, then it would make sense if the peasants ate less of them than nobility even if it wasn't explicitly forbidden.
Fun Fact; they're called "Meerschweinchen" ("little pigs of the sea") in German as they were imported by Spanish sailors (as food, not as pets). I know they have been used as lifestock in South America way before that, but the sailors were basically the first ever time Germans heard about those animals.
The only thing I find a little weird about this picture is that it isn't skinned. You can buy frozen whole rabbits in Germany, but they're always skinned. Is this a hairless breed or did they somehow remove the fur?
When the former boss had to quit due to health reasons, we got a two-faced lying PITA instead. He was an overall unpleasant employer in the first place, but the final nail in the coffin for the cashiers was that he demanded from them that they have to make sure customers stay 6 feet apart from each other during Covid.
- If we didn't pester everyone in line to keep their distance, we got shouted at in front of the customers for "not doing our job". Customers that didn't want to obey the rules after being asked nicely were automatically our fault.
- If we DID try to enforce the policy, a lot of customers went to the front desk to complain about it, he did a 180° turn every time, apologized to the customers and handed out coupons. The more drama they caused, the bigger they were rewarded for it, and the cashier was chewed out for doing what HE wanted them to do.
If you have the choice between "wrong" and "worse" and you WILL get shouted at for both, there is no room left for morale.
No idea when I started it, but I have a little anecdote about a friend. Quiet, calm girl, a bit shy, always nice to everyone, tried to avoid conflict whenever possible. She loved to watch her boyfriend play videogames but had zero interest in trying it out herself - she always just wanted to watch and said it felt like an interactive movie to her.
Me and her boyfriend were taking turns playing FF12 and you can kinda pre-program the behaviour of the characters with "gambits" - if done right, you can just waltz up to an enemy and watch your party go ham on it without the need to manually attack. Total no-brainer. He eventually gave her the controller and said it was her turn now, and that she doens't need to worry about memorizing button inputs and the like, just walk around and have fun, it's totally easy ...
It took all of five minutes until she was cussing like a drunken sailor, totally immersed in the game, cheering on her party, insulting the monsters. One sentence in particular almost made me choke: "Ich schlag dir den Arsch voll bis du Schätze scheisst!" (we're all German BTW) which roughly translates to something like "I'll whoop your booty until you poop loot!" (assonance included).
They're married now. ;)
The sad part is that a no small amount of prisons (especially "for profit" prisons) don't have the end goal of rehabiliting the inmates in the first place. It's all about cheap labor. They don't want to change anything into a positive direction.