I’m going to assume you’re being wilfully ignorant but not trying to be an ass. “Gay” is more often used of men than women, and it’s perhaps more common for people to use “lesbian” for gay women, but it just means homosexual (or sometimes more generally not heterosexual), regardless of sex or gender.

Cambridge: “sexually or romantically attracted to people of the same gender or sex”

Merriam-Webster: “of, relating to, or characterized by sexual or romantic attraction to people of one’s same sex”

Oxford: “sexually or romantically attracted to people of the same sex”

Brittanica: “sexually or romantically attracted to someone who is the same sex”

Wiktionary: “Possessing sexual and/or romantic attraction towards people one perceives to be the same sex or gender as oneself.”

We’re excited to announce the new Sony WH1000XM6 headphones, enhanced by the power of spanners!

I don’t see why my headphones need a sp-

Conveniently built in to your headset, you can use the spanner to adjust bolt tightness on-the-go!

Okay, but that’s not wh-

We’re proud to be leading the market in spanner-augmented products to bring a new level of convenience to your life.

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Spanner may sometimes only appear to tighten bolts. Please don’t ask us the energy cost of manufacturing the spanner.

I’m weeping at the damage to those floorboards. Could they not have been lifted first?

There’s no safe way to answer this without giving away plot points, I don’t think. Most important thing is that it’s sci-fi, not a drama about developers in the way you might expect.

I loved Season 1, but I felt it became bogged down after that - almost a soap opera.

Yes, but not deliberately - I think it depends on the species, but they’ll eat decomposing plant matter, faecal matter, carrion, soil, fungi. They’re not too picky. If the bird guano contains tiny flatworm eggs, bad news for the snail.

The larvae (possibly not quite the right word) eaten by the birds lodge in the intestinal tract near the cloaca. The eggs they produce are passed out, and snails eat the eggs.

~This comment is best read with Hans Zimmer’s “The Circle of Life” playing in the background.~

Give him all the fowl language you like, he won’t quack easily.

Don’t tell anyone, but I am not a trained duckologist.

Seriously! They’re the biggest land carnivores bar none. If you’re 5’ - 5’6" a bigger polar bear will be able to look you levelly in the eye while on all fours* and on its hind legs, it’ll be more than half your height again.

*survivability of said staring contest is low

The cost to move to America is quite steep, though, and there are significant drawbacks.

The only real issue with OpenStreetMaps is that the quality varies significantly town-to-town depending on how much love it’s had by local, knowledgable contributors. Road directions are one of the more complex things to configure in OSM, especially with complex multi-lane junctions, and so densely-populated areas and major roads are likely to be quite good, whereas more rural areas can be hit-and-miss.

Rules 1 and 5 apply here - please don’t just use this as a place to rant.