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I got into a car wreck last night so. My main source of income (uber) is gone for now. I get one shift a week at my retail job and I can't pay my rent right now.
$147/$300
Paypal: technicalaversion@gmail.com
Cashapp: $strwbrrykng
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Thank you everyone for your help!!! I was able to get the storage bil taken care of for the month- Hopefully by next month I'll be working again so I won't need to ask anymore.
Will you guys tell me if he's not wearing a hat
(excluding roxas and xion)
"a trip to the alps could cost twice as much as it did 3 years ago"
"porsche raising prices by 20% in response to tariffs, what this means for you"
"how local man rebalanced his budget when his stock portfolio lost $10k last Wednesday"
people are absolutely EVIL about the boundaries of “picky eaters”. no, they do not have to try it. yes, they can know they don’t like it without having eaten it before. no, they probably have not suddenly grown a taste for the food they’ve said they hate. no, they probably are not going to like it in the Special Way This One Place Cooks It. yes, you are being a bad friend if you try to “trick” them into eating it anyway
Things that actually help picky eaters try new things:
And most importantly, build trust with that person by listening to them, showing that you take their concerns into account, and being cool if the answer is no. No is always an option. This isn’t something you do once, it’s a pattern you have to stick to if you want to establish that you are a safe person when it comes to food stuff
Basically: offer the food, explain what’s in it and why you think it’s worth trying, and then be cool with the answer you get. No pressure, no trickery, just be straight up with people
unavoidable that you will be the villain in someone else's story. You will be painted in an unfavorable light. You will be the irredeemable one. and all of this will happen despite how nice you might usually be or how kind or how respectful or how warm. and you will just have to move on.
For some people, all that's required for being the villain in their story is that you don't let them walk all over you.
sound off everyone what’s the worst texture. just in anything. for me it’s ground beef not even a question
naruto fails utterly as a political allegory because it does not even come close to recognizing WHY shinobi are motivated to do battle in the first place - economics!!! it’s not just that there’s hatred between clans; it’s manufactured hatred designed to keep the shinobi subservient to their feudal lords, while maximizing the feudal lords’ own power, land, personal wealth, etc. and once hashirama and madara throw a wrench in that plan the daimyos quickly realize they can recover by simply continuing to increase the scale of these fights until it’s nation fighting nation, rather than just family fighting family. this is why madara and hashirama’s falling out makes NO sense in canon. madara going into despair after learning that humans continually fight each other because moon fruit is insulting tbh and you would think that the uchiha leader would have recognized that the root of the problem was the feudal lords meddling in shinobi business for profit. but no, kishi had no intention of tackling the economic exploitation of shinobi past the land of waves arc apparently
ive been in my labs conducting nefarious research. [all models from KH2—most are from JP final mix but xaldin and larxene are from the original. wasnt able to find higher-poly models for them]
primarily i made this image to compare xigbar's ass to the rest of the organization (my conclusion being: damn good for you) but holy shit i had gotten so wrapped up in "xigbar is canonically 6'8" that i had somehow not realized "xigbar is smaller than the majority of the adult org members"
I love when fanfic authors are freakishly unhinged. "Yes, hello, I am here to write a heart wrenching story about relationships and mortality. My medium is Ducktales (2017)"
I’m watching Splash (1984) which is a romcom about a guy who falls in love with a mermaid, and when she chooses a human name she chooses Madison and guy says “that’s not a real name, but alright” which seems to imply that Madison was not a name until at least the 80’s and all girls named Madison are actually named after the mermaid. thought you should know
I think...you might be right
what the fuck
Creating the dire wolves called for making just 20 edits in 14 genes in the common gray wolf, but those tweaks gave rise to a host of differences, including Romulus’ and Remus’ white coat, larger size, more powerful shoulders, wider head, larger teeth and jaws, more-muscular legs, and characteristic vocalizations, especially howling and whining.
Colossal’s dire wolf work took a less invasive approach, isolating cells not from a tissue sample of a donor gray wolf, but from its blood. The cells they selected are known as endothelial progenitor cells (EPCs), which form the lining of blood vessels. The scientists then rewrote the 14 key genes in the cell’s nucleus to match those of the dire wolf; no ancient dire wolf DNA was actually spliced into the gray wolf’s genome. The edited nucleus was then transferred into a denucleated ovum. The scientists produced 45 engineered ova, which were allowed to develop into embryos in the lab. Those embryos were inserted into the wombs of two surrogate hound mixes, chosen mostly for their overall health and, not insignificantly, their size, since they’d be giving birth to large pups. In each mother, one embryo took hold and proceeded to a full-term pregnancy. (No dogs experienced a miscarriage or stillbirth.) On Oct. 1, 2024, the surrogates birthed Romulus and Remus. A few months later, Colossal repeated the procedure with another clutch of embryos and another surrogate mother. On Jan. 30, 2025, that dog gave birth to Khaleesi.
These sound more like transgenic wolves to me than true dire wolves, but it’s super interesting nonetheless.
This is a catastrophe for conservation biology.
First off, these are just weird dogs. Dire wolves (Aenocyon dirus) are a completely different genome and just changing the expression of some genes that they thought would make it look like a dire wolf (its literally that superficial) accomplishes absolutely nothing.
Second, the are talking about reintroductions?? Even if they were actually genetically true dire wolves, which they're not, they're just dogs, where would they put them?? Where are these thousand-year-extinct animals' natural habitat that is missing them so? Their niche doesn't exist anymore, their environment or their habitat.
These animals are nothing more than a product to attract investors and are bringing up an extremely dangerous rhetoric.
What these types of projects are doing is diverting funding and efforts away from actual conservation of TODAY's struggling species. Creating a rhetoric where if a species that goes extinct can somehow be brought back reduces the value of the lives of the currently living organisms that are so desperately battling anthopogenic impacts. We don't need "de-extinction", we need conservation biology and sustainability.
