It could be worse

Wait, another comment said it’s because it’s high in fibre. Seems like it’s a meme that nobody actually knows why, or even experiences it?

Watched this so many times back in the day, it was sooo cool

On a similar vein, this is why I like the Dymaxion map so much; it shows more clearly how the landmasses are connected and better illustrates how early people migrated and settled where they did.

I like to think they’re saying 'possum so there’s no confusion when written

First thought: “why are they holding their baby like that?”

After scrolling down: “oh”

That’s a crane fly. They have lots of nicknames and folk identities so it’s super common to call them something else. I’ve heard them called “mosquito hawks” (they don’t hunt mosquitoes) but male mosquitoes is a new one to me. You could add it to the Wikipedia page lol

So I’d consider myself a very amateur entomologist so am very open to being wrong here, but that’s not a thing to my knowledge; if anything, the males tend to be smaller. You might be seeing two different species, or are misidentifying another insect for a male mosquito.

Crane flies are significantly larger than mosquitoes and don’t swarm. Swarms near a lake are very typical of midges who look superficially like mosquitoes.

No, the feathery antennae is a way to tell males and females apart, not species. Male mosquitoes have feathery antennae, and so do males of many other fly and even other insect species.

So all passengers in any vehicle can’t use their phones? That’ll be wildly unpopular.

Nah, the general public doesn’t have the time or patience to properly research this stuff or consult the experts. They’ll just vote on vibes and we’ll just be trading one kind of bad for another.

Keep representatives, just don’t elect them. Sortition is the best of both worlds; you still get a sample of the population, but with people who take the responsibility seriously and actually have the time to do the research/due diligence.

Sorry, I was talking about them

It probably needs to be if they have any hope of recouping what they’ve spent

Who gets to vote on what’s a protected class?

Miles Morales is an interesting example of the trope though, as the other spider-heroes don’t have the electrical powers while he does.

On Spider-Man, Electro isn’t black in the comics but was in Amazing Spider-Man which is also maybe a hint of the trope.

Wait, the CBT I was supposed to be doing for my bad back stands for Cognitive Behavioral Therapy? Well as soon as I’m done sitting on this ice pack, I have some calls to make.

Knee-chee

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I’m fine with descriptivism on theory, but it sure seems wrong in the cases where the word changes meaning due to people misunderstanding/misusing the word. That’s not a a word gaining a new meaning, it’s losing meaning.

The other one I need a replacement for is “begs the question” since so many people have misused that one too.