Tim Whatley

My single, “My single is dropping,” is dropping.

I don’t care what anyone says, Zach Woods as Gabe Lewis and James Spader as Robert California (aka The Lizard King) were fantastic.

And the single best cold open was from Season 8, when Erin faked Andy’s mother’s death to impress a client.

One day blinding stew

Conductor threw up on my kid

That’s kinda the thesis of the whole article.

Stories about rich people where their wealth is part of the plot are getting tired, but more insidiously, stories not involving wealth are still defaulting to very well-off people with expensive homes/furnishings/clothes/style/cars.

It’s True Wagner. He does flyers like this and they are pretty funny.

Obvious Plant puts products on shelves, and True Wagner puts flyers up.

He’s the same guy who did “one day blinding stew” and “conductor of this train threw up on my kid,” both instant classics.

The developers of the Lemmy software are the admins of the lemmy.ml instance and are problematic. The complaint is that the software itself can’t be separated from the priorities of the .ml instance.

Piefed doesn’t have the same issue, even if the flagship instance federates with .ml

It’s a California Kong, which is two California kings tied together with gorilla leather.

FitnessGram Pacer Tests, obviously

I think the parent comment is talking about piefed the software, compared to Lemmy the software, not the specific piefed.social instance they’re posting from.

slightly niche

Sports is like the most mainstream of interests, and lemmy still doesn’t have a critical mass of sports discussion in general, much less specific sports/leagues, specific teams, specific games/matches, or specific players.

So I keep my reddit sports account.

I also keep an account for my local city subreddit, and one for my career field, because Lemmy doesn’t have those either.

Cats keep rodents under control so that our stored grain isn’t destroyed or contaminated.

This study analyzes historical results of three different man versus horse races (in Wales, in Virginia, and in California). The data shows that human performance decreases with temperature, but less so than horses, so that 30°C is approximately where the best humans can start outperforming the best horses that year.

I would think that even with 15 minutes of intermittent pauses/checks, that time is still productive for cooling the animal and would add less than 15 minutes to the theoretical total if they were allowed to run the whole time.

In order to make a firearm from scratch you must first create the universe.

All of us who learned Spanish in the U.S. also know “¿Dónde está la biblioteca?”

Just a bunch of canned phrases like that kicking around in our brains.

A lot of young people don’t realize just how difficult post-school dating was before online dating. Once we exhausted the pool of 5-10 single people who were friends of friends, that was basically it. We’d have to go find strangers at the bar.

That conditioned everyone to be slightly more willing to settle for less perfect matches, knowing that there wasn’t necessarily a replacement available. That could be a good thing (people more likely to have the patience to let a spark develop) or a bad thing (a higher percentage of couples who just resented each other).

I can see an argument that things were better before online dating for some subset of people. But having lived that period, I can say from experience that it wasn’t easy then, either. And for someone like me, who is a better writer than I am a speaker, especially over the phone, the rise of text-based communication was helpful for navigating the early stages of relationships when that became the norm.

This is a Wendy’s.

Oh my God we’re having a fire…sale

I didn’t even know he was sick!

It’s a few things that stem from bipedalism:

• We can run and breathe entirely separately. Most quadrupeds lack the ability to run and take breaths independently of the pace of each step. Watching cheetahs sprint, for example, show that they have no choice but to exhale every time their legs come together and inhale every time their legs push apart.
• Running on our hind legs only frees up our hands to be able to use tools and weapons, maybe even water containers for drinking on the go.
• We can see further by standing up, and can make tactical decisions based on terrain, while still running pretty much full speed.

Combined with our unusual ability to cool ourselves by sweating, this gives us an advantage over pretty much any animal in the heat. Wolves and horses can still outrun humans in the cold, but lack the cooling mechanisms to maintain pace in the same heat that we can.