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Throw It On The Pile

@throwitonthepile

All these used to be tabs, I'm trying to break that habit.
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"Isn't it weird that [thing humans commonly eat] is poisonous to literally every domesticated animal" I mean, there's a pretty good chance that [thing humans commonly eat] is at least mildly poisonous to humans, too. One of our quirks as a species is that we think our food is bland if it doesn't have enough poison in it.

Humans have a really weird mix of mundane superpowers.

We're not fast and don't have a lot of natural weaponry but we're bizarrely tolerant to a broad range of toxins to the point that one toxin is considered a morning necessity for some to perform at work. Gotta love us.

The pepper one is not quite true.

Capsaicin acts as an antifungal agent in four primary ways. First, capsaicin  inhibits the metabolic rate of the cells that make up the fungal biofilm.[77] This inhibits the area and growth rate of the fungus, since the biofilm creates an area where a fungus can grow and adhere to the chili in which capsaicin is present.[78] Capsaicin also inhibits fungal hyphae formation, which impacts the amount of nutrients that the rest of the fungal body can receive.[79] Thirdly, capsaicin disrupts the structure[80] of fungal cells and the fungal cell membranes. This has consequential negative impacts on the integrity of fungal cells and their ability to survive and proliferate. Additionally, the ergosterol synthesis of growing fungi decreases in relation to the amount of capsaicin present in the growth area. This impacts the fungal cell membrane, and how it is able to reproduce and adapt to stressors in its environment.[81]

Posting my little sea rovin' banana boater, Captain J. Gibbin

Alternative Title: Sea Monkey Or Is This A Jojo’s Bizarre Adventure Reference? (not a joke: there was an orangutan who had the magic power of A Boat And Control Of Everything On It)

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Twitter LGBTs are so sanitized it’s embarrassing

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Why are they like this

this was a prophecy

i can’t believe the puritans kept the policy (comical levels of chastity) but just changed the justification (God Said No Hanky-Panky Before Marriage -> Male Sex Drive, Even If Not Acted On, Is Anti-Feminist)

"i cant watch shows about fantasy kingdoms without thinking about how they should be abolishing the monarchy" that my friend sounds like a skill issue

if im watching the lord of the rings extended edition i am a monarchist for 682 minutes

That quote about how loving your country must automatically lead to a hatred of other countries is so bloody stupid it's not about any form of supremacy it's about the comfort of home. Dingus.

Just because you love your own home doesn’t mean you’ll start throwing rocks at the neighbor’s house. 

just because i love my parents does not mean i am blind to their flaws or feel anything about other people’s parents

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Imagine being so brain dead, that you not only implement a pilot project for alcohol to be allowed in Public parks, but you take the complaints from residents about said alcohol in parks to not be about the alcohol but the signs explaining how it's allowed.

Imagine that, you complain about people getting drunk 6 feet away from a playground and the city goes "guess we gotta make the signs smaller."

Fucking loathe Toronto.

Canada is run by little monkey's in suits and top hats, aren't they?

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Feels like it.

Yeah you're right. It WOULD be pretty fucked up if you were a swan but you were raised by ducks and you grew up never seeing another swan or even knowing that such a thing as a swan even existed so you just thought you were a duck with something super wrong with it.

Legit cabinet being sold at a Habitat for Humanity. Either $10 or $70

Talked with some friends familiar with stuff like this… can’t be verified of authenticity… but there’s also high skepticism.

Talked with my STEM friends. Range of reactions across various fields.

Construction: Osha violation for sale

Enviromental scientist: wonder what was in there

Me a chemist: Samples were not kept to standards.

Engineer: Light it on fire to see if it explodes.