Hope everyone is having a chill day. Apologies to comrade @BurningVIP who was scheduled to do the mega, but cannot be located at this time. Burning, you're welcome to take a future slot, or message me and I can update this thread with your mega topic. I hope you're doing ok, and just missed it because you're so dang relaxed.
Anyway, moving on, in the spirit of joy and relaxation, today's mega topic is otter facts!
- Otters hold hands when they sleep!
- Sea otters have the thickest fur of any animal. Their fur contains between 600,000 to 1,000,000 hair follicles per square inch. Unlike most other marine mammals, otters lack a blubber layer. Instead, they depend on their dense, water-resistant fur to provide insulation. To keep warm, sea otters spend a large portion of their days grooming and conditioning their fur. This traps air and heat next to their skin.
- Sea otters eat 25 percent of their body weight in food every day. Sea otters’ diets include sea urchins, crabs, mussels, and clams, which they’re known to crack open with a rock and eat while floating in the water. To find food, sea otters may occasionally dive as deep as 250 feet and will use their sensitive whiskers to locate small prey inside crevices or their strong forepaws to dig for clams.
- Sea otters can have a favorite rock and they'll keep their favorite rock in a pouch. They use the rocks as tools, and they are one of a very small number of animal species that are known to use tools.
- Otters exhibit play behaviors, including juggling rocks for fun!
- A group of resting otters is called a raft. Otters love to rest in groups. Researchers have seen concentrations of over 1,000 otters floating together. In addition to holding hands, to keep from drifting away from each other, sea otters will wrap themselves up in seaweed, forming something that resembles a raft.
- Thirteen different species exist around the globe. River otters are much smaller — averaging 10-30 pounds — with a cylindrical body and small head. Sea otters weigh more — around 45-90 pounds — with large, furry faces.
- 90% of the world's sea otters live in and around Alaska
- Otters are polygamous, and mating seems to involve a lot of nose biting. We don't know why.
- As with most wild animals, otter populations are threatened. Our animal comrades join us in wishing capitalism a speedy death.
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Just now getting to the WTYP episode where they had Adam Something on. First there was just what seemed like a little bit of Marxist vs. non-Marxist leftist squabbling. But then...
"The Enlightenment stopped about halfway through Ukraine, between Kyiv and Kharkov. ...Russians, not receiving Enlightenment thought, end up recreating the tsars in the Soviet era and also after communism."
Holy fuck that is the most racist, chauvinistic, Eurocentric, and reductionist thing I've heard all month. You can say Stalin sucked, you can say the USSR was a failure, but if you say the cause of Soviet shortcomings was not being philosophically guided by the innovative and superior Western European thinkers... eat a barn of shit, lib man.
what's funny is like, Catherine the Great was seen as one of the huge autocratic modernisers key to the Absolutist European enlightenment, alongside Frederick the Great she might be one of the most iconic European enlightenment rulers
She was also German, like most of Russian royalty.
Their monarchs were from Europe, their language is related to European languages, their dominant religion is European, their ancestry is European, their customs are closely-related to everyone else's in Europe, they even see themselves as the successor to Rome, for bog's sake! Inasmuch as Europe is a thing, Russia is European. Other cultures nested inside it aren't a discount to that any more than the Basques or the Saami or the Balkan Turkic peoples are.
those god damn Basques and their non Indo European heritage is a STAIN on the proud Evropean land. they think they're so much better than us for not having migrated from the central steppes
The central steppes have a magic ethnicity generator at their core which spits one out in a random direction every 50-100 years.
The Basques were like a jump shot in billiards.
The Adam Something episode will be the albatross around the neck of WTYP for a good while. They have atoned a bit (calling him a revisionist in later episodes and admitting to regretting having him on), but it is still good to dunk on them for putting out that podcast with that guest.
happy 4/20 you dorks
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On this weed day, let us remember that song Iron Maiden did in the early 90s when Bruce Dickenson had briefly quit the band and was replaced by a man who went by Blaze as a first name. This song is called Man on the Edge, the lyrics summarize the plot to Joel Schumacher's film Falling Down and the chorus is just the name of the movie. That song is trash
Lmao what the fuck, there were 3 videos made for this song and one was filmed in Israel
If it was up to me I’d make the thread about dandelions. It’s a type of weed, right?
The only way he could have saved us once and for all was driving the tanks on London, Washington, Paris, and Madrid
You know what I’m really fucking sick and tired of? Conservatives whining about the state of things. Motherfuckers you got everything you wanted! Congratulations, we’re not caring about covid anymore! No more mask requirements!
So please, for the love of god, at least shut the fuck up about it!
Thinking about the scene in House of Cards where the journalist guy is in prison and burly prison men are paying him to ad lib narrate sex scenes for them to jack off to. Does anyone remember that? It feels like a fever dream but I swear it was a plot point.
Communism is when...
Went into the M&S shop at the train station in Paris and thought I'd been transported to a Soviet error shop. They only had a few bottles of wine and ~5 prepacked sandwiches. I didn't get anything, as I wanted a Pepsi.
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lol the 40k people who's debt is being forgiven are those who already qualified for debt forgiveness because they'd been working in the public sector while making payments for 10 years. the Biden admin is trying to pretend this is what they promised.
have fun torching some libs with that.
3 weeks into ramadan and the afternoon caffeine withdrawal headaches have finally stopped :yes-honey-left:
