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  • Manga challenge: drawing a female character without a visible thigh gap (difficulty level: impossible, apparently)

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  • Dagashi Kashi has some questionable thigh gaps, but this one from ch 60 is so bad I was compelled to drop everything and post it. I’m still pondering the physics and anatomy necessary to maintain a thigh gap in this sitting position.

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    Anime challenge: drawing a female character without a visible thigh gap (difficulty level: impossible, apparently)

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  • Dagashi Kashi has some questionable thigh gaps, but this one from ch 60 is so bad I was compelled to drop everything and post it. I'm still pondering the physics and anatomy necessary to maintain a thigh gap in this sitting position.

  • Peanut Allergies Have Plummeted in Children, Study Shows

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  • adolescence

    I assume you meant infancy?

  • [META] What actually constitutes "mildly infuriating" content?

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  • I would consider this mildly infuriating, yes.

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    Why is bicycle riding so controversial in America?

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  • You can thank the vehicular cycling movement of the 1970s for selling the idea that bicycles should operate like cars on American roadways.

    (To anyone at all interested in this topic, I highly recommend reading the linked article for more context. Or watching the Not Just Bikes video in Boomer Humor Doomergod's comment if that's more your speed.)

  • We Can Now Track Individual Monarch Butterflies. It’s a Revelation.

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  • The "some monarch butterflies migrate over the open ocean from Florida to Mexico" hypothesis has always seemed pretty bonkers, so it's fascinating that we're finally getting evidence. Also of great interest: whether the Western and Eastern populations mix, and if so how, for its implications on population stabilization west of the continental divide. As mentioned in the article, all monarchs are struggling, but the Western monarch is on the brink of extinction.

  • [META] What actually constitutes "mildly infuriating" content?

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  • You may have seen my "I’m gonna repost this comment every time I see this type of submission in this community" comments recently. They received positive responses, but after realizing that this type of content is most of the community, I decided a full post would be more productive to the conversation and feel less passive-aggressive.

  • Also the day that the world found out that Hitler had a micropenis.

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  • What are some topics you think people should know more or less about?

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  • Everybody should know less about celebrities. Give those poor people some privacy (and stop feeding the attention-seekers).

  • fragile masculinity

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  • Like most unnecessarily-gendered things, this thinking falls apart under the slightest hint of logical scrutiny...

  • fragile masculinity

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  • Jalapenos have become victims of their own success.

    They're so popular and mainstream now that buyers (especially food processors) have started demanding high levels of consistency in terms of spice; Tostitos and the like want to ensure that every batch of salsa and such they mass produce is going to have the same spice level, which is understandable. Unfortunately this drive for increased consistency has led to an overall weakening of flavor, similar to what happened to produce like tomatoes and apples once industrialized farming and food processing created demands for longer shelf lives, consistency in appearance, etc., and like tomatoes and apples, the jalapenos you buy at most stores nowadays are going to be much weaker in flavor than they were in the past.

    Jalapenos not sourced from these industrial-oriented seed companies are going to vary much more in terms of spice level based on growing conditions, like temperature and rainfall. There even exists nowadays the "nadapeno," which has jalapeno flavor but minimal spice. You can also remove the seeds and veins of the pepper before eating it, which makes a huge difference in reducing spice levels. Picking them earlier and growing them in "ideal" conditions for lessened spice is trickier, but can also help.

  • fragile masculinity

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  • That privilege is heavily dependent on your maintaining a strong garlic harvest. The first year that slips (or your basil/oregano perform too well) you're getting downgraded to nonbinary. Then there's a three year grace period before you're sent straight to full-blown woman. So make sure to fertilize your alliums well!

  • fragile masculinity

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  • Which is too bad, because including flowers in your garden (even if it's only in the form of bolted vegetables) helps attract critters that will pollinate your "productive" plants as well as those that will help protect them from pest infestations. A balanced ecosystem lifts all boats, to mix my metaphors.

  • fragile masculinity

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  • Traditionally it's been similar to cooking:

    Farmer/chef? That's a man's work.

    Gardener/home cook? That's a woman's work.

    Fortunately we've got shows like the Great British Bake Off and a myriad of popular YouTube gardening and home cooking channels featuring men to help shake this up, but sadly it's still something that's seen as gendered by way too many folks. Still, if spicy peppers and cacti (and on the cooking side dishes like pizza) help get insecure men in the door, that's great. But I'm with TTF: it may not be a strong stereotype, but I've also observed it.

  • I grew up in the South, can confirm.

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  • Not last night, they saw the Aurora down in fucking Florida!

    Also >:( for AI image

  • Jeffrey Epstein, in newly released email, says Trump ‘knew about the girls’

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  • Epstein asked Wolff what he thought an ideal response from Trump would be. “I think you should let him hang himself,” Wolff responded.

    And the ironic statement of the decade award goes to ...

  • Elon Musk Reportedly Obsessed With AI Girlfriend

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  • Article buries the lede:

    Even worse, xAI has demanded employees’ intimate data to train avatars including Ani. In recording of a meeting obtained by the WSJ, xAI legal counsel Lily Lim informed a group of employees that the startup was developing avatars for users to engage with and told them they were required to provide biometric data. Before the meeting, employees were provided a form to sign granting xAI “a perpetual, worldwide, non-exclusive, sub-licensable, royalty-free license” for the use, reproduction and distribution of their faces and voices.

    Not sure I have a problem with anyone working to build AI having to put their biometric data where their mouth is.

  • Online porn showing choking to be made illegal, government says

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  • In this thread: a lot of chocking

  • What to do with green tomatoes?

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