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keirFox, 5 days ago to random

What is even going on here. What universe did we end up in?

https://www.spencersonline.com/product/feral-and-horny-t-shirt/273802.uts

gray17, 4 days ago

@keirFox there's also this one
https://www.spencersonline.com/product/yiff-around-find-out-t-shirt/272977.uts

Matthew, 5 days ago to random

I’m 20 now

gray17, 4 days ago

@Matthew 20 raccoons will need a bigger trenchcoat

18+ mindpersephone, 5 days ago to random

Cursed by a witch that every time you cum you ejaculate twice as much cum as last time, in the same amount of time.

You've got about 100 orgasms left until you cum an earth sized planet.

Of course that's assuming you survive that long. Around 50 you'll fill a large room with cum. Around 80 you're spraying out a similar volume to the earths atmosphere.

18+ gray17, 4 days ago

@basisbit @mindpersephone The time to ejaculate isn't specified, it could be 20 hours for the first small ejaculation of cum, and for each subsequent ejaculation

gray17, 8 days ago to random

from Bruce Bagemihl PhD, Biological Exuberance: Animal Homosexuality and Natural Diversity (1999)

In fact, the percentage is probably even higher than this, when we consider how easy it is for common behaviors to be missed during even the most detailed of study. A caveat of any scientific endeavor, particularly biology, is that much remains to be learned and observed, and many secrets await discovery—and this is especially true where sexual behavior is concerned. Nocturnal or tree-dwelling habits, elusiveness, habitat inaccessibility, small size, and problems in identifying individual animals are just some of the factors that make field observations of sexuality in many species exceedingly difficult. Consider heterosexual mating, a behavior that is known to occur in all mammals and birds (and most other animals), usually with great regularity. Yet in many species this activity has never been seen: “Despite literally thousands of hours of observations made by biologists over many years in the West Indies, Hawaii, and elsewhere, actual copulation in humpback whales has yet to be observed.” Lucifer hummingbirds, northern rough-winged swallows, black-and-white warblers, red-tailed tropic birds, and several species of cranes (such as wattled and Siberian cranes) are just a handful of the birds in which heterosexual mating has never been recorded. In some cases, opposite-sex mating has been observed, but only a handful of times at most: in magnificent hummingbirds and black-headed grosbeaks,
in magnificent hummingbirds and black-headed grosbeaks, for example—the latter a common North American bird—copulation between males and females has only been seen once during the entire history of the scientific study of these species. Heterosexual copulation in Victoria’s Riflebirds was not documented until the mid-1990s (and then only several times), even though the species has been known to Western science for nearly a century and a half. During a ten-year study of Cheetahs, no opposite-sex matings were seen over the course of 5,000 hours of observation, and copulation has only been observed a total of five times in the wild during the entire scientific study of this animal. Similar patterns are characteristic of other species: in the akepa (a Hawaiian finch), only five copulations were witnessed during five years of study, only five heterosexual matings were seen in a four-year study of Spotted Hyenas, and only three matings in a three-year study of Agile Wallabies. Nests and eggs of many birds such as swallows and birds of paradise have yet to be discovered, while the first nest of the marbled murrelet was found in 1959, more than 170 years after discovery of the species by Western science.
...new revelations about heterosexual behavior are being made all the time: female initiation of mating activity in Orang-utans ... was not documented until 1980 in spite of nearly 22,000 hours of observation over the preceding 20 years (and prior extensive field studies often failed to report any heterosexual copulations). As recently as 1996, the existence of polygamous trios in the tanga’eo or Mangaia kingfisher (of the Cook Islands near New Zealand) were uncovered for the first time, and the full extent of heterosexual mating by Common Chimpanzees with animals outside their group was not understood until 1997. Multiple heterosexual matings by female Harbor Seals were not verified until 1998; even then, the behavior was never directly observed during three years of study (including continuous, 24-hour videotape surveillance of captive animals over an entire breeding season), and had to be verified indirectly through DNA testing. If direct observation by scientists were used as the sole criterion for the existence of a behavior, we would have to conclude that many species never engage in heterosexuality (or in certain forms of heterosexuality)—yet we know this cannot be true. So the fact that homosexuality has not been seen in many animals does not necessarily mean that it is absent in those species—only that it has yet to be observed. Ironically, many species in which heterosexuality has rarely or never been observed are ones in which homosexual activity has been recorded

gray17, 7 days ago

more from Bruce Bagemihl PhD, Biological Exuberance: Animal Homosexuality and Natural Diversity (1999)

gray17, 8 days ago to random

I wonder how many of the "I might not vote for him now" are less, "I wasn't sure before, but now it seems like he really is a criminal", and more, "voting for a felon is embarrassing (but I might do it anyway (and having a felon for a president is embarrassing, but when he does regain the throne, we can beat up anyone that laughs at me)), I mean, of course I won't vote for him"

gray17, 8 days ago

@ricebox yeah, those are the ones who answer the survey, "yes I'm still voting for him despite the conviction". I'm wondering about those who for some reason needed the conviction to change their mind (or claim to change their mind, in a survey)

18+ Matthew, 9 days ago to random

can someone please explain to me what donald trump getting convict actually does? can he still run for president?

18+ gray17, 9 days ago

@Matthew He gets to appeal the ruling, and he probably will. He'll be sentenced on July 11, possibly to a jail term. A few days later he'll probably win the Republican nomination. He's not allowed to vote in his home state Florida. He can still become president, even from jail.

18+ gray17, 9 days ago

@Matthew (the appeal probably won't work, but it's hard to predict. no idea how quickly that will happen. there are also other lawsuits in progress that might get a verdict before the election, and some that are unlikely to resolve until after. if we do elect an incarcerated Trump, it'll be terrifyingly hilarious.)

tvaziri, 10 days ago to random

I’d like to see this iPhone in the lineup:

iPhone G-Shock*

• iPhone mini screen (5.4” screen)
• iPhone mini height/width (5.18” x 2.53”)
• fucking thick as hell, maybe 1/2” thick

key features:

• reinforced edges for ruggedness
• gigantic battery
• for people who use their phones for work but need it to be rugged as hell and last all day no matter what
• no need for fancy features like periscope camera

*who cares what they call it (but you knew exactly what I meant when I said G-Shock)

gray17, 10 days ago

@tvaziri I feel like thin slippery phones are a fad, like flat design, and we're due for some disruptor to make chonky technology the new sexy

JorgeStolfi, 10 days ago to random

When I become dictator of the universe, I will decree that words with opposite meanings -- like "in" and "out", "first" and "last", "next" and "previous" -- or words in closed finite sets, like colors, month names, and days of the week -- in any language, shall always be spelled with the same number of letters.

The current spellings make aligning commands and comments in programs a pain and a sore to the eyes. This is just unacceptable.

gray17, 10 days ago

@JorgeStolfi funny, I'm going to decree the exact opposite. When you have a list of values, it's helpful if opposite values are visually distinct, and different length is much easier to notice than different letters

gray17, 19 days ago to random

Bye!

gray17, 14 days ago

Same model on the return flight, of course. Flight attendant ended the obligatory speech with "Blah blah blah, blah blah."

gray17, 14 days ago

@jhwgh1968 yeah, literally. Southwest likes their flight attendants to make the speeches goofy. She had a bunch of other bits that made passengers laugh

TodePond, 21 days ago to random

tired of writing console.log?

gray17, 20 days ago

@TodePond
Why type 2 chars foo.d when you can type one char +foo

{  
 const orig = Object.prototype.valueOf;  
 Object.prototype.valueOf = function() { console.log(this); orig.call(this) };  
}  
const obj = { hello: "world" };  
+obj;  

doesn't work for strings or numbers, unfortunately

diana, 23 days ago to random

@yvonnezlam Made famous in the NewCrafts closing keynote … was a perfect moment set up by other talks here.

gray17, 21 days ago

@diana @yvonnezlam the thing that never made sense to me about "tech debt" is that "debt" implies you can have the opposite, a surplus. Where's the jar of tech saved for a rainy day that we can use to pay off a friend's tech debt immediately?

It's a C-suite level view of the problem, where inconvenient details are abstracted into fungible units that can be solved with fungible headcount

Matthew, 23 days ago to gamedev

after releasing my first game on steam, i should collect all of my games on itch.io, and make them as a collection with maybe a little more polish and with a selector menu to go between them and then sell that collection.

#gamedev

gray17, 22 days ago

@Matthew selection menu controlled by using a skateboarding raccoon to launch soda cans to bounce off the edge of the screen and then collide with the menu's pointer

Redfuchs, 23 days ago to random

The furry milestone of carefully browsing through your gifs/stickers making VERY sure not to misclick on a nsfw within the minefield.

gray17, 22 days ago

@Redfuchs I have a scratch channel with just myself for playing around and things like that