this isn't even about 'letting others talk'. it's just nice to have moments where folk can simply be in each other's company and not be required to converse

i like using big words as an excuse to teach them!

bougie birds

Ive been considering getting one of these honestly. as an introvert there are just some days where I really don't want to talk to people but retail doesn't care about that and I need money. at least having some kind of gague seems better than just glowering and hoping i don't have to deal with small talk

more like eating more processed food. and I mean like 'gone through a cooking process' kind of way. We do a lot more now than just burn our meat and eat veggies raw to get nutrients. we simply just don't need to work our jaws so hard to get what we need

if only my wisdom teeth got the memo :+:

fuck the draft, make everyone spend a year or two in the service industry after high school

oo I have an answer of sorts! Humans are endurance predators, not ambush ones. We're meant to be moving often for hunts, standing still for long periods of time isn't what our body's good at.

I feel like a lot of modern society does whatever it can to ignore the fact that we're animals too

My favorite thing I learned while researching for writing was that hunter-gatherers worked less hours than the modern human 🙃

iirc the article stated 'work' as when they hunted, not for stuff like cooking and crafting

Ah yes, hearing loss. So cool.

I wish capes were socially acceptable to wear again

temtem screwed up by adding micro transactions. and a paid battle pass. like, I've already bought the game and now you want me to spend more money like it's a f2p piece of junk?

cats are carnivores. no diet will ever change that. feed your cats meat.