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idk gay shit
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Multi-fandom
Fandoms:
Teen Wolf
The 100
iZombie
Doctor Who
LotR/Hobbit
Orphan Black
Merlin
and like a billion more.
aren’t gorillas gentle giants or something. i stay out of his way, he doesn’t maul me, we have a nice time picking out clothes together in opposite sides of the mall
Male gorillas are super aggressive and territorial. Also they interpret nearly every human mannerism as a sign of aggression or a challenge. Smiling and eye contact are both things that zookeepers have to be taught to suppress when they’re in the vicinity of gorillas.
Well unless the mall is his native territory I think I’m fine, I wasn’t planning on smiling at him
This is all irrelevant because the obvious answer is five black mambas. I mean, that’s not actually very many snakes, and malls are fucking huge. And unlike a gorilla you can definitely outrun a snake if it does show up. Find an open space in the mall where you can see any snake coming and just hangout out there. Fucking easy.
Misguided! I would much rather have a mallmate I can easily see and hear coming. I’m confident I can stay out of the gorilla’s way, but if I step on a snake or one otherwise gets the jump on me, it’s all over.
It’s not just about the physical danger either, it’s about my mental health. One gorilla, unless he’s actively mad at me, I just keep a healthy distance between us and make sure I never get trapped. With the snakes, it requires a lot more constant vigilance
They should substitute “chimpanzee” for “gorilla” in this hypothetical.
if it was a chimp i’m taking the fucking snakes
Black mambas have a reputation build on being very venomous and very fast. I’m not sure why you would think you could outrun one (or five) in an enclosed space like a mall.
Malls usually have pretty slick floors, and escalators. I’d choose the gorilla simply because I think that would make an more interesting story (and a better-selling autobiography, I Survived the Mall Gorilla) but I think I’d stand a pretty good chance at avoiding the mamba. They’re fast and aggressive and will chase you but unless we started immediately beside each other I think my sneakers would have the terrain advantage over scutes.
this is too good to leave hidden in the replies
fucking enamored with the implication that this gorilla is fully intelligent but is trying to manufacture plausible deniability like the movie barnyard
now this may surprise some of the audience, but the majority of humans have to survive a phase called “being a teenager” and the results are often catastrophic
Tragedy! You set out to read a negative review of a piece of media you dislike, only to find that the critic is being completely unfair to it and making a bunch of bad, unsupportable arguments.
Me: “Disney live action remakes are soulless cash grabs that deny the original writers and artists the credit they deserve” Some fucking chud: “Exactly! They never should have started wokeifying all their movies” Me:
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life actually gets better when you leave the house consistently btw like im serious
if you don’t know where to go, just wander! go to the store and don’t buy anything, go to the library just to sit and do whatever you were going to do at home, go to a park and just walk around/sit outside for a bit (weather permitting, of course)
just put some headphones in and walk around the block a couple times if you really have nothing else to do, just getting a bit of air and change of scenery is so good for you
me the first few weeks of forcing myself to go on daily walks (it gets better tho)
i really need tumblr to learn the concept of “if you physically cannot do this then this post is not talking about you” because jesus christ.
Go
back to the top of this article and reread that transcript of Rep.
Buddy Carter grilling TikTok CEO Shou Zi Chew. Now, Carter is a
dunderhead, but he’s dunderheaded in a way that illuminates just how bad COPPA enforcement is, and has been, for 25 long years.
Carter
thinks that TikTok is using biometric features to enforce COPPA. He
imagines that TikTok is doing some kind of high-tech phrenology to make
sure that every user is over 13 (“I find that [you aren’t capturing
facial images] hard to believe. It is our understanding that they’re
looking at the eyes. How do you determine what age they are then?”).
Chew
corrects the Congressdunderhead from Georgia, explaining that TikTok
uses “age-gating”: “when you ask the user what age they are.”
That
is the industry-wide practice for enforcing COPPA: every user is
presented with a tick-box that says “I am over 13.” If they tick that
box, the company claims it has satisfied the requirement not to spy on kids.
But if COPPA were meaningfully enforced, companies would simply have to stop spying on everyone, because there are no efficient ways to verify the age of users at the scale needed for general operation of a website.
so proud that the country-formerly-known-as-turkey really went and dropped its deadname on the first day of pride month. forget being an ally bitch you’re one of us
to anyone coming in with “actually this country is bad because” I apologize for the actions of a conservative middle eastern government in a historically conflict-and-corruption-riddled region but you see this was a joke post. sadly Türkiye is not actually a transgender icon, I am not a Türkiye fangirl, I don’t actually think Türkiye is a uwu bastion of queer rights, this was you see a quick joke built upon the humorous coincidence that a whole-ass country changed its name on the first day of pride month. tragically there is no such thing (currently) as a transgender government or country, here’s hoping some day we can come together and change that
#people have gotten WAY too comfortable with chastising strangers for not presenting every facet of a nuanced situation
You’re right and you should say it
Y‘all I don’t know what you’re talking about the Wikipedia article says it right here, Türkiye 100% trans icon confirmed🏳️⚧️🏳️⚧️🏳️⚧️ /j
took me a hot minute to remember it’s transcontinental