Em Adespoton

Vegan pets are being denied food?

I had kids so that others don’t have to.

I like my kids, but I don’t like most other people’s kids. So yay, DINKs!

I get 4 weeks, plus sick days, plus parental leave, various types of training days and charitable days, plus a 2 week carry-over and I’m neither American nor European.

It’s not. But being an apex predator, there weren’t a lot even when their range covered most of Africa, Europe and the Middle East.

Your scale is off; imagine an Olympic sized swimming pool filled with ants with a lion in there somewhere.

Now imagine 39,000 of those pools, each with its own lion and ants.

Humans. Because the lions would be overwhelmed in short order after which the ants would kill each other off.

There are roughly 39,000 lions left in the world, none of which eat insects.

There are roughly 20 quadrillion ants on earth, a significant portion of which will eat live mammals, and almost all of which will kill any ant not from their own colony.

Except for places with access cards and pin pads. You need to have both hands fully occupied and some sort of a clipped on badge for those.

The problem is that stupid is an individual attribute. Natural selection doesn’t seem to care about it in the short term.

To be fair, if someone believes in a flat earth, they probably also believe in an infinite atmosphere….

Back in 2016 I was driving along a highway just after a wildfire had swept through the area; was one of the first cars let through.

We had to slow to a crawl because sections of the highway had melted away. Some closed off sections were still bubbling.

Some fence posts at the side of the highway were burned away at the bottom but still present at the top, held up by the fence wire.

Crews were at the side of the road with picks, shovels and rototillers extinguishing the last of the flames, while dark smoke still rose as far as the eye could see before and behind that stretch of highway.

That fire was caused by a stray cigarette. The result was apocalyptic.

Here’s a deadnaming example that should resonate with conservative women…

You get married and take your husband’s name, but your parents insist on continuing to call you by your maiden name.

Everything I’d want replaced by my insurance goes in a LibreOffice spreadsheet.

Never needed to file a claim using it, but it doubles as the place where I record warranty expiration dates, which has come in handy a few times.

It’s also been useful when buying replacements to see how much I paid in the past.

I love that phrase. Because it lets me decide what’s needful. Sometimes it’s my lunch or catching up on the news.

The fork lift is just doing its job….

Great… Trump endorses Harris too! Maybe he can get the MAGA crowd to vote for her as well….

How many fingers do the dogs have?

It’s the sleeping dogs that lie….

It obviously was never going to be a long-term relationship then.

TIL acetaminophen isn’t a worldwide thing :)

The whole Tylenol thing is because they’re the ones who originally patented it. Same for Advil and ibuprofen.

Nope. Bill left MS in 2008 and Windows 7 came out in 2009.

Also the joke left out Windows 10x, AKA 11.

And for some reason, it includes NT and Win2k, but leaves out all the other Server versions (2003 through 23H2).