Hmm, just spitballing here, but what could you point to on an elephant that’s unique (and/or in the public thoughts of elephants)? Memory, size, trunks, large ears, grey skin, tusks, fear of mice, (name of them?) pachyderm?

For memory - Because they’re the only animal that can remember how to score a strike?

Trunks - Because their trunks have room to spare?

Size - Because even the lions aren’t willing to tell them they crossed the line.

Mice thing - Because they always beat the mice’s half ounce balls.

Or maybe it’s something to do with bowling? Turkeys, lanes, (heavy/big balls), spares, lines, shoes…

Shoes - Because they can finally borrow shoes that fit?

Turkeys - Even elephants love getting turkeys?

Spares - I dunno

People you know online know your address or you know their address? Freaky as shit. My IRL friends barely know my address.

I remember when Amazon first started there were good deals on good quality items

I remember when the primary use of amazon was buying secondhand items. The deals on used discs for PS2 or gamecube were amazing. It was ebay without bidding.

It’s really obvious if I say it, and I don’t want to connect her or myself to any online account.

Hmm, let me see if I can let you know (if you already know) that you know it. It was her nickname, then similar to a name of a casino.

It’s amusing how things you never expect to be seen by others suddenly go intercontinental because your company likes them. I have a friend who retired from her corporate job about 15 years ago. She had an excel document (that I guess became some sort of super document, I dunno, I’m not into that sort of stuff), and it worked so well for her work that it became the company standard for a gigantic multinational corporation (they’re one of the ones you always hear involved in US wars), and whatever she did couldn’t be changed once she left.

That means she occasionally still gets contacted about her mildly suggestive name for the file. It references testicles and corporate greed in one go round.

I know I’m probably getting the political landscape of vermont and new hampshire mixed up, but isn’t vermont pretty red? Similar to the way new york is pretty red once you get out of the big city? That’s probably going to be a nightmare if anything happened.

I see you already have a ton of recommendations, but I’ll throw in the Zowie/BenQ mice. I’ve had mine for I think 6-8 years and it’s still going strong. The only thing it doesn’t have is the left/right wheel function. It looks like they’ve gone a little heavy on the ‘gaming’ focus in their branding, but the designs haven’t changed much in the time since I bought mine.

Mouth. Water goes in the mouth, across some cool counterflowing blood veins, and exits the gills.

It’s double-speak, right here 41 years later for your aural pleasure.

Nice. I just started replaying after I got mods working in linux (side note, why the fuck are there now three or four editions, and each one has its own finickiness on linux?!?! Gorrammit), and I do wonder what the vampires are thinking as I chomp through 40 different ingredients to see if any of the side effects helps me out.

You do realize that a great many folks have had their mouths ‘washed out’ by soap? When I tell you it tastes like soap, I’m not joking.

Um, hi, I’m an adult!

… and don’t call me Surely. /insert_say_the_line_meme

Buttercup was just the concrete operations goth. Blossom was the badass. Unless you’re just saying she had a bad ass, in which case, bro, why are you staring at the ass of a kindergartner?

I’m just thinking about how warm it would be. That much air space from the pockets would create a great resistance in conditions without strong winds.

Humorously, the only animal I know off the top of my head that is like us is the horse, and the only reason I know that is because of one stallion that liked to horsey style masturbate whenever I’d clean his stall.

That’s the way it is in the several company videos I’ve had to watch. In a cynical manner, it’s all about denying as many targets to the shooter as possible. If everyone is in the hall running, that’s a lot of easily accessible targets, and it’s harder to miss. If they all hide in locations, it makes it take longer per victim, as the shooter has to seek and find targets.

‘Cold-blooded’ is a term that’s a little outdated, because of the confusion it creates around this very concept. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cold-blooded has some information on it, and even says it’s an informal term. Generally speaking, if we refer to something as cold-blooded, it’s more reliant on or affected by the external temperature, while warm-blooded creatures will ‘deal with’ the external temperature.

It’s not about fungi making cheese. We know that bacteria are the largest component of the microbial community making cheese. The point is that aliens traveling through the enormous, barren-of-everything wastes would likely know how to use biotechnology, such as fungi and bacteria, to replicate the life cycles found on their homeworld. In ours, it’s fungi breaking down organic matter, bacteria turning nitrogen into nitrates/nitrites, cyanobacteria turning carbon dioxide into reduced organic (carbon) compounds, etc., etc. In theirs, it could be strange silicon/phosporus/sulfur forms (unlikely, due to a bunch of esoteric but important rules about the chemistry of those elements) being processed by microbial life. After all, do you think a single celled microbe, or a relatively giant multi-cellular organism will arise first? If life there is anything like here, the single-celled organisms will be the foundation of any multi-cellular organism’s environment, each contribution of the microbes shaping the biochemical pathways that the larger organisms will use merely by providing building blocks and affecting the environment, ala the sudden explosion of atmospheric, gaseous oxygen when microbes began to explore the pathways of photosynthesis.

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