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Cake day: July 28th, 2023

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  • To clarify on the other poster, separate instances of selective breeding. Dogs as a whole were bred for domesticity and smaller size than wolves over thousands of years. Then much more recently, people began selectively breeding them for extremely small/large qualities, deviating from the relatively stable genetic code under much more intense selection pressure. Resulting in dogs that are either much smaller or much larger than the ‘normal’ dog having health problems. Big dogs today didn’t go in a straight line from being wolf-size to big dog size. They went from wolf size to normal dog size over a long time period, and then went from normal dog size to ‘big’ dog size over a much smaller time period which is where the problems arise.


  • Ouch. Some egg memes make me feel really seen and validated but this just one just kinda hits way too hard and makes me sad. Still whatever (cis I guess) though, but despite lots of introspection and the realization that maybe changing something would improve my situation, age and lack of a current friend group/support system, years of depression, and the costs associated with a whole new wardrobe, the mental burden of learning to fit in in an entirely different way, and the difficulty of finding someone I can even speak to about these things makes everything feel so out of reach that I just feel even more despair. Idk thanks for your memes and presence here, I recognize the username and you’re a beautiful presence. Idk why I’m even writing this comment except I’ve had a couple drinks.



  • Interesting. I wasn’t aware of the controversy around that assertion. The 2021 study doesn’t necessarily seem entirely definitive either in my opinion, the total absence of ticks in the stomach contents despite the presence of many other insects seems suspicious, and they only examined 32 possums from a single area. Nonetheless you’re right, the other study doesn’t seem to have had the best methodology. I’d like to see more information but a search really only turns up those two studies and a bunch of shitty articles on them.









  • Human singing is also communication, and people also talk to themselves for no reason when noone else is around. I just saw a post the other day about an ornithologist who pointed a microphone at a bird on a wire that was totally alone, and he picked up the bird softly singing to himself at a near imperceptible level, so it definitely isn’t JUST for communication.