This animation isn’t just sped up, it’s also simplified. In reality they don’t take steady, purposeful steps. They spaz out with random vibrations (Brownian motion) until the “foot” clicks into place by random chance, then the other one releases and the process repeats. It’s like shaking a container filled with legos until they assemble themselves. The proteins are just shaped in such a way that “walking” is the most probable outcome.

Weed reduces the quality of your sleep by shortening the length of REM sleep. If you regularly use weed to help you sleep you may be getting more sleep but you’ll still be tired.

I hate to break it to you but that is pretty typical for politics throughout most of history.

This is a good thing, don’t get me wrong, but reading this is exhausting. Framing it as Israel “failing to prevent a humanitarian disaster” rather than actively committing genocide is such weasely bullshit.

“Terrorism is when you attempt to deliver food to starving children.”

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This is not the first time I’ve come across evidence that such an industry exists in Japan, I already knew this was a thing. It’s not my intention to judge Japan unfairly, there’s plenty to judge other nations for and plenty of ways that Japanese culture is better as well, but this is a specific area in which Japanese culture is uniquely messed up. Pedophilia is normalized there to a greater extent than anywhere else I’m aware of.

So we’re at the stage where AI generated images are completely indistinguishable from real ones so long as you add a bit of graininess to it. Lovely, wonder how long that’s been the case…

The fact that an entire industry of child sex dolls is able to operate with impunity in Japan is an indictment of Japanese society.

Given the state of the world right now it does not shock me in the slightest that there’s an entire community dedicated to hating context.

Turn up the volume on your fake sci-fi engine sound composed by Hans Zimmer.

It has the same vibe as referring to one person as “diverse,” as if that is a quality that an individual can have and not something that only makes sense for a group of people.

Our immune system is trained how to differentiate between what is supposed to be there and what isn’t only on things floating around in the blood. Certain parts of the human body - like the liquids inside our eyes - are permanently isolated from the bloodstream, and so our immune system will never have encountered anything like it. That’s why if it ever enters the bloodstream it can trigger an immune response.

If our eyes can absorb oxygen from tears then they can certainly do so when submerged provided the water is sufficiently oxygenated.

Only reason it’s so jarring is the context has people parsing the whole list as language and they weren’t expecting to have to abruptly parse a mathematical expression.

My dog is very cat-like in that she enjoys her personal space. She also enjoys your personal space, and will abruptly invade it when she feels like, just don’t think that gives you permission to do the same to her lol.

Chill with the fedposting. You know you’re not actually anonymous here, right? You’re putting yourself at risk. People have had the FBI knocking on their door for less.

We’re all criminals one way or another, some of us get away with it and others don’t. If I were a corrupt cop fishing for a reason to throw you in a cell I’d find one in short order.

I did this after my first girlfriend broke up with me… in middle school. This is insecure adolescent boy behavior, anyone doing this kind of thing as an adult is maladjusted.

Well, it is a story about God flooding the entire earth and sparing only one family because humanity was too sinful. A bit less Disney and a bit more brothers’ Grimm.

What is he forcing? Are you forced to read his comments, engage with his posts? Is the thorn being beamed into people’s skulls like the Futurama dream ads?

Y’all are just occasionally happening upon a character you’re not familiar with being used in a way you’re not used to and you’re annoyed at being challenged a bit every now and then. He’s not “forcing” anything.

Again, it’s not a huge deal in this case, but this same logic applied to something more serious can be dangerous. It’s the same logic conservatives and “centrists” (embarassed conservatives) use to complain about queer people “forcing” their “lifestyle” everywhere. They’re just annoyed at having to acknowledge their existence.