Don’t forget meth; it brings a certain sparkle to all rural areas of the country.

Here’s $10 from me.

I’m looking at them now and realizing I may need to go to a store to try them out.

Sploosh, adding to cart now.

Well, don’t just tease! Does the fucking pillow work? If yes, what’s the brand?

I think I tried the soft ones but I am not 100% sure? Basically, one eye was fine and the other would NOT go in.

TL;DR: Would rather deepthroat.

learning to put in contacts was kinda similar to learning to deepthroat.

I’m 💀.

I think contacts are harder though cause I still can’t put them in.

Can confirm, have a bowl of pennies in my house that never gets used. I don’t even know why at this point.

If you like this, you should join us at !bats@lemmy.world for more adorable bat pics!

100%. The bipolar meds help too though.

I’m a former gifted child, and I can honestly say I somewhat redeemed myself. Wasted my 20s with undiagnosed ADHD and bipolar, spent my 30s getting diagnosed and medicated, and changing my hated career by going to grad school, and now in my 40s I own a business in an industry I truly enjoy. Most importantly, I’m happy.

Moral of the story: sometimes things get better with age, and it’s never too late to start.

Why is this so true?

Used to be a night owl, now I go to bed at 10:30. But I haven’t turned into a morning person.

This is really good to know, and it looks like they have a family plan, which is what I need.

Study in question: https://news.emory.edu/stories/2022/08/esc_testosterone_animal_study_15-08-2022/story.html

I should mention that this is by Michigan Lakes in Colorado. Nice minimalist cabins there.

We had fire restrictions in CO at the time because of dry and windy weather, otherwise we would have because that’s delicious. I think we could have used coals in the grill you see behind us, but we didn’t want to risk it.

They don’t do that anymore, sadly. She now has her own exhibit but you can’t hold her.

Some other pics:

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Humans’ invention of zero was crucial for modern mathematics and science, but we’re not the only species to consider “nothing” a number. Parrots and monkeys understand the concept of zero, and now bees have joined the club, too.

Honey bees are known to have some numerical skills such as the capacity to count to four, which may come in handy when keeping track of landmarks in their environment. To see whether these abilities extended to understanding zero, researchers trained 10 bees to identify the smaller of two numbers. Across a series of trials, they showed the insects two different pictures displaying a few black shapes on a white background. If the bees flew to the picture with the smaller number of shapes, they were given delicious sugar water, but if they flew toward the larger number, they were punished with bitter-tasting quinine.

Once the bees had learned to consistently make the correct choice, the researchers gave them a new option: a white background containing no shapes at all. Even though the bees had never seen an empty picture before, 64% of the time they chose this option rather than a picture containing two or three shapes, the authors report today in Science. This suggests that the insects understood that “zero” is less than two or three. And they weren’t just going for the empty picture because it was new and interesting: Another group of bees trained to always choose the larger number tended to pick the nonzero image in this test.

In further experiments, the researchers showed that bees’ understanding of zero was even more sophisticated: For example, they were able to distinguish between one and zero—a challenge even for some other members of the zero club. Advanced numerical abilities like this could give animals an evolutionary advantage, helping them keep track of predators and food sources. And if an insect can display such a thorough grasp of the number zero, write the researchers, then this ability may be more common in the animal kingdom than we think.

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