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as opposed to a wild penguin.
The Zoo is animal prison.
I got to feed endangered African penguins once at an aviary! They just swallow whole fish (whether in the water or tossed to them though the air), no need for prep or plating.
Fun fact, they secrete all that fish oil right onto their feathers (it helps them glide though the water), but that makes them little stink monsters! Seriously, penguins smell rather terrible haha.
That must have been really fun! The Toronto zoo has an awards plaque for “Nice Penguin of the Month” and “Naughty Penguin of the Month” which leads me to believe that they must be characters
Added fun facts: they have teeth in their throats to haul the fish down, and the fish oil secretions are stored in a gland near their tails!
Wow, that's... kind of disgustingly intriguing of evolution...
Weird that they keep flightless birds in aviary, but penguins are my spirit animal so I'm jealous.
Idk how this is a science meme but this meme is hilarious lmaooo
Biology? Idk some of the memes posted here are a bit of a stretch to fit the theme.
Marine biology.
Favorite pasta sauce: orange.
Like how Gatorade is blue.
Gatorade is yellow-green, you heathen. Anything other than lemon-lime Gatorade require the qualifier.
He must have given her the shiniest pebble on the planet because that looks fucking delicious ngl
I thought that was otters. Do penguins gift too?
And as a fellow seafood lover, I want some of what you're smoking.
I mean what the hell is going on in the top and bottom right quadrants? What's with that bright orange, Kraft-colored noodle slop? And I can't even begin to describe what the other thing is supposed to be. Also, no cocktail sauce for the shrimp? No butter for the surimi? The shrimp doesn't even appear to be deveined! IDK about you, but I don't want to eat a bottom feeder's digestive tract along with all the nasties inside of it!
u right
Different cultures, different eating habits.
I want some of what you're smoking.
Is the pun intended?
see: Smoked seafood, smoked salmon
Bottom right Mushroom wild rice, top right is wasbi mayo. I think the fish are smelts. The imitation crab and shrimp im not sure about.But the rest of the plate I can say is indigenous cuisine and native to my area. Very delicious for the most part epsiecally the wild rice.
Doesn’t mushroom wild rice have rice in it? Zoom in on that image.
I think i see it. If you over cook it. It likes melts abit.
It often does because even commercial wild rice is expensive and cutting it with regular white rice makes for a much cheaper dish. And the bland white rice offers no extra flavor to the dish.
But there are those of us who have access to real wild rice that has been hand harvested and hand parched over an open wood fire. That's God tier wild rice. And I would never disrespect that wild rice in such a fashion.
That sounds delicious. But I don’t see any rice in the the picture above, wild or otherwise.
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Nothing wrong with Ubuntu if you just wanna get stuff done and don't have a genuine interest in (or time to spend on) tweaking your OS.
I use Ubuntu btw.
I agree
I use Arch btw
What about snaps though?
Honestly asking since I've never actually used them
Oh yeah I forgot about those, I think I actually disabled the snap service, or maybe I have a couple of things via snap but only small gui utilities. I use apt and dpkg for everything else, but it was annoying that they made Firefox snap only since 22.04 unless you add the extra apt repository. Easy enough to work around it and move on though.
Fuck snaps.
There is lots wrong with Canonical imho, but this isn't the place for it.
Debian here. IMO "btw" is reserved for a particular distribution and you know which one it is.
I do CrossFit btw.
When I have even the smallest bit of time and headspace to dedicate to it, I will switch back to Debian as it was always my favourite but really can't deal with it at the moment.
Linux Mint Debian Edition is just great for that case. If I were not so much into fedora's rpm-ostree I would be using that, or MX Linux.
If I were not so much into fedora's rpm-ostree
Dude, right? I've thought about switching to cachy or something, but every time I just can't bring myself to give up ostree.
I like Debian, it is boring in the best way.
I really did not like the process of upgrading from one stable version of Debian to the next. It went OK, but i remember being anxious the whole time, compared to Ubuntu's gui workflow, and failing that, the one-command cli version that i always have to look up
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Yo, can I be a zoo penguin, please?
At least I’ll die happy
"I wanna be someone's penguin" sounds kinky, not gonna lie
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